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A Thousand Years of Solitude

With the appearance of Quirks, suddenly what made someone a normal human crumbled away. With just that, laws lost their meaning, and the progress of civilization stopped. It was literal decay.

"If superpowers never existed, then humans would be taking interstellar holidays by now." Someone important said that in the past.

That sounds lame, so lets change that.

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And you gain a customer for a lifetime

My mother found the money I hid under the bed.

Technically, it was not my mother, but the maids who cleaned up my room. They found the pile of money and then reported it to my mother.

It's not like I forgot or something. It's just that after returning from Switzerland, I was in a hurry to prepare for school. I had no time to hide it in Gate of Babylon in the morning, so I thought I would do it later.

So, on the topic of Gate of Babylon.

My power came with two abilities, Include and Install. Include let me materialize a weapon or Noble Phantasm of a certain Servant. Saber Include would give me the Excalibur sword. Archer (EMIYA) Include would give me a black bow. I felt it can do more, but I did not test that.

On the other hand, Install granted me the power of a Servant in full, using my body as conduit.

So, when I install Archer (Gilgamesh), I gained all his abilities, his golden armor, and the Gate of Babylon full of original Noble Phantasm. Using this, I took out Vimana, a flying vehicle able to move very fast, and set out for Switzerland.

The question was, what would come out if I Include Gilgamesh? With all the Noble Phantasm he had, which one would materialize?

It turned out that only Gate of Babylon and Enkidu: Chain of Heaven came out.

I did a little experiment, and yes, I can put something inside the Gate of Babylon. Even after I release Install or Include, the object didn't disappear and I can take it out when I Include Gilgamesh again. That ultimately made it a very convenient item box. Or dimensional storage. Just like in isekai stories.

I can't take out any other Noble Phantasm from the Gate of Babylon. Only the things I put in myself can be taken out when I use Include.

Chain of Heaven needed little explanation. I can use it to attack or capture someone. The chain came out from the Gate of Babylon and I can control where the Gate opens, so I can attack from an enemy's blind spot.

So why didn't I put the mountain of paper money under my bed to Gate of Babylon? As I said before, I was in a rush because I cut it close when I returned. But maybe my mental state also had some problems. I wondered why at that time I didn't feel worried at all about the money.

Oh, yeah! I forgot to mention one important thing. When I used the Install ability, my eyes turned red, and my hair turned silver-white. Just like the color of my eyes and hair in my previous life.

Why? I didn't know. I guessed it was some kind of bug. Maybe the goddess from back then made a mistake?

Well, if I wanted to hide the change, I could use magecraft to cover them in illusion.

I was shocked when I looked at myself in the mirror after installing Gilgamesh. Why didn't I realize it when I installed Assassin? Maybe because I was wearing a hood and mask at that time.

Anyway, after that.

My mother suspected that I stockpiled all the pocket money I got for five years under my bed, and scolded me for that. She was wrong though, and she would realize it soon if she checked a little. But maybe she didn't expect her ten year old daughter to have any other source of income.

I used a part of my pocket money to purchase some things. For example, a game console, personal computer, another game console, games, and some other trivial things. I also used a forged identity to buy land with good leylines, a house for my future secret magus workshop, a house to use as a safe house, gems and diamonds, historical artifacts to summon Servants just in case, and all other usual things an Einzbern magus would buy. Except for homunculus building materials, that would be too suspicious.

My mother was angry, saying that I should store the money in the bank if I didn't use it. She wanted to confiscate it and put it in a bank, but I disagreed. That led to arguments, and so here was I.

I was now face to face with my father in his study. Beside me was the mound of paper money I got from villains' hideouts. I was alone in the room with my father, my mother was not here because father wanted to talk to me alone.

Just like the rest of the house, his study was a traditional Japanese room with tatami and wooden paper door. It was influenced by western styles of study rooms, such as the big bookshelves on the wall or the big desk at one side of the room, but almost all the decorations were Japanese.

I was seated in the front of that big desk, and my father was sitting behind that desk.

"So," my father looked at me straight and asked, "Where do you got this money?"

"I found it," I replied without hesitation, meeting his eyes.

My father raised his eyebrows. "Where exactly?"

"Here and there."

My father sighed. "I know it's not your pocket money, unlike what your mother said. I also know that you got it recently, because our maids clean up your room daily and this is the first time they found that." He nodded at the mound of money. "The only thing that happened recently around you is the villain attack at your school, which ended up badly for them."

As expected from a man who was chosen to be my father in this world. He had a gentle look and a kind face, but beneath that exterior was a formidable man.

"And added to the fact that a police officer came to our house yesterday," he continued, "but I only have vague memories about that meeting, despite it just happening yesterday. The only conclusion is that this money is related to the villains that attacked your school."

Shoot! I knew that I did the memory manipulation in a hurry, but to think that my father's mind was so extraordinary, he was able to realize his memory had been tampered with. He also had a great deduction ability, too bad it was used against me in this situation.

"You don't want to say anything?" My father asked. I kept my silence, maintaining eye contact with him. I kept my face neutral, not openly defying but also not admitting anything.

Now what would you do when you found out that your daughter was responsible for several villains' deaths? Would you hand her to the police? Would you protect her? I silently waited his decision.

I fear nothing. If my family abandoned me, then I would abandon them.

I guessed that it would be sad to let go of my new mother, but it couldn't be helped. It was also a pity that I would leave my new friends. I had fun. But my life from now on would be as fugitive.

Good thing I had prepared safe houses.

My father looked at the silent me and sighed. "Miyu, I already know that you're special. But you hide too many secrets."

I tilted my head, confused. He had not made a decision yet? Still, I activated my mage circuit just in case.

My father's frown deepened.

"You want to erase my memory again?"

Na? He can feel that I activated my circuit?

My face must have shown my surprise. He chuckled, "The power is strong in you. Our family has known about this power for a long time. But it seems you can use it better than any of us."

I blinked. Sometimes I forgot that my family knew about supernatural things. Well, this house had a type of weak bounded field, and I was raised inside a special bounded field for my first seven years of life. Indeed, I had expected that my new family was a magus family. But contrary to my expectation, they were not magus.

They enacted certain types of special ritual and fengshui to achieve Mystery. They were not magus, because they didn't really understand the principles behind the Mystery. And the only Mystery they can achieve was something related to health and prosperity of family members.

Why did I know about this? Because I secretly read the family secret manuals and records. They thought it was secure since they made a bounded field around the storeroom, but I effortlessly sneaked in.

I didn't know where they got the knowledge, but they had been maintaining and protecting this brand of Magic-but-not-magecraft for a long time. To ensure that they can always achieve a Mystery, my family ensured that their bodies would always be suitable to channel prana. They didn't have magic circuits, but something else magical, enough to perform their magic.

I had always been curious, but it's not like I can dissect one of my family members to take a look. So, I didn't know how they can channel prana. As far as I know, they didn't channel prana consciously, but only in a certain state of mind. That's why the ritual used several methods to bring one's mind into trance.

Seeing that I didn't answer, my father gestured to the pile of money. "So, what do you want to do with this. If this money came from the ransom money, I think we should return it."

"Wait a minute!" I said. "What about me?"

"What about you?"

"Well… you are not reporting me to the police?" I asked, a little timid at the end.

My father laughed. "Of course not. You are my daughter. Let me teach you the principle of Sakatsuki Family. We don't betray our family, no matter what."

"Really?"

"Yes, really. And I will not give up my daughter because she punished some villain scum."

I relaxed a bit. It looked like my earlier worry was for nothing.

My father was still dissatisfied though because I was still wary. He said, "If I don't take action even when you buy empty houses or questionable historical artifacts for an unknown purpose, what makes you think that I will do something now?"

Eeeh? He knew about it? I thought I hid it well. Did my private assistants betray me? Well, technically he's their boss.

"But still," My father said. "The money." He pointed again to the money on the table.

"Why should we return it?" I said. "The family who owned it before is rich, they will not worry over a small amount of money. And we don't even have all the money because Red Lion Gang had used some of it. Returning only part of the money is improper, it's better not to return it at all."

"But taking money away from the villain and using it for self-interest is unethical. I don't want my daughter to develop a bad habit of looting bad guys."

"Who said about self-interest?" I refuted. "We can use this money for good deeds."

"Like giving it to charity?"

"No," I replied. "Give a man a basket of fish, you fed him for a day and the next day he is hungry again."

My father put his elbow on the table, joining his fingers together in front of his mouth. Gendou pose. "So, you will give fishing rods and teach him how to catch fish, and the man will be fed for the rest of his life?"

"No, that's stupid," I replied.

My father blinked in surprise, not expecting my answer. "Hm? So what will you do?"

"I will buy all the fishing rods in the market and then rent them to many people. Also, I will teach them how to catch fish for free."

The look on my father face. I could only describe it as a shock, and then pride. He was proud of me.

"Hahahahaha!" He laughed boisterously. Putting a palm to his forehead, his tears coming out. "Brilliant concept! How do you want to do this?"

I relaxed more seeing my father genuinely laughing. Maybe because we were family, I felt that I could trust him a little.

"Archer Include."

And then I took out a notebook from Gate of Babylon. This notebook had several doodles and designs that I made when I was bored.

My father stopped smiling when he saw a golden ripple and a notebook that came from inside it. "My daughter, you keep too many secrets…"

Secrets? Did he refer to my previous life? Or maybe it's about that time when I sneaked into a casino and obtained a sack of money? Or is it about commissioning a prototype of the Ironman suit from Black Support Company?

I put those thoughts on the back burner and gave the notebook to my father. He opened it and read the contents. I pointed out several designs that I thought were feasible and explained it to him.

"Is this… Really possible?" My father asked, flabbergasted with the information.

"As long as the designs are followed, and I am there to arrange it, it can be done," I confidently replied.

"No, but, even just building the prototype for testing is… It will cost a lot." My father stared hard at the notebook, drilling holes in it with his gaze.

I pointed the money at the table beside us. "Use that."

"It will not be enough." Now he was gazing at the ceiling, performing mental calculations. "For several of your designs, we need more. But our family will object to investing money in a project with… such a ridiculous concept. This is beyond common sense."

"Ok. Let's add more then." I took out three big briefcases from Gate of Babylon. These were taken from the villains' safety deposit boxes in Switzerland.

I opened a briefcase and showed its content to Father. Gold bars filled the briefcase, dyeing the room with yellow shine, and even my father's eyes glittered with that golden color.

"That's enough… I guess." My father finally said. "But I want you to directly supervise this. If I understand this right, the design must be perfect without any deviation."

In the stories where the protagonist was transferred to another world, the protagonist usually tried to make things from the modern world. A knowledge of more advanced technology could revolutionize the world. I intended to do the same. It might not be qualified for 'Pioneer of the Stars', but it sure can make me rich!

"Oh." My father remembered something. "That means your gaming time must be cut."

Noooo! Why didn't you cut the piano lesson! Or the etiquette lesson! Or the flower arrangement lesson!

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Top Secret - For Sakatsuki Elders and Executives Only

Concept Paper - The Alchemical Revolution

By Sakatsuki Miyu, September 2214.

More than 200 years ago, humankind first walked on the surface of the moon. But despite the long period after that, currently, we still used fossil fuel as our primary source of energy. The quest for renewable energy had halted since the Quirk Upheaval.

This can not continue. Oil reserves around the world dried up, and we would run out of oil eventually, with the most optimistic projection estimating around one hundred years. Global warming continued to be a problem, and there was no signs of success in taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The use of fossil fuels must stop, or the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere must be absorbed, humankind must choose between the two.

Acidification of seawater, caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, threatened the sea's ecosystems, and in turn the fish supplies for our consumption. Plastic garbage littered the Earth with no solutions in sight. Countries with underdeveloped technology continued to fill trash disposal sites with garbage, but they would soon run out of space.

Population growth continued to increase, and the once depleted human numbers caused by the quirk riots and wars now had returned to their pre-quirk levels. This population growth resulted in more houses being built, and in turn, took up more lands from the traditional farming areas. The food production around the world decreased, while the number of mouths needed to be fed increased.

Biofuel could solve the energy problem, but that would take up space for food farming. And the price of biofuel was still more expensive.

All these problems were caused by three atoms: Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Carbon.

Carbon dioxide, the primary cause for global warming, is essentially just carbon and oxygen.

Plastic is essentially just carbon and hydrogen, in a certain arrangement.

Oil, especially gasoline, is a hydrocarbon, and just another hydrogen-carbon combined in a certain way.

Carbohydrate, and all its variants, are just another carbon - hydrogen - oxygen.

If only humankind could take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and combine it with sea water, creating gasoline.

If only plastic waste can be converted into oil.

And while we're at it, convert them into carbohydrates too.

Then four or more problems would be solved in one go. Energy, food, global warming, and environmental pollution.

Yes, methods to do these things already existed, but they were always too costly, too inefficient, too time-consuming, or taking up too much energy.

If we could just make gasoline at the same price as other conventional oil industries, in one hundred years we would be the sole supplier of gasoline. And the released carbon emissions from pollution can be absorbed again to create more gasoline. Thus, solving global warming, but also maintaining a perpetual cycle.

Excess carbon atoms can be further processed into bricks, building blocks, carbon fiber, diamonds, graphene, and other carbon-based products. We can even make a bio-degradable plastic bag.

And the raw materials were cheap. All the mountains of trash in the world were free to be taken!

Now, I will describe Alchemy and how it can be used to transmute one material to another with cheap costs…

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Headline News year 2214 - 2217

Waste Processing Plants Across the Country Stopped Operating, No Garbage Available

~ Akogare Shimbun

Sakatsuki Family Bring Storm to the Oil Industry

~ The Wall Street Review

USA Accused Japan of Trade Dumping in Oil Prices

~ International Watcher Tribune

First Artificial Organ Transplant Succeeded, Patient Stable

~ The Seoul Post

Indonesia to Send 5 Tons of Garbage to Japan, Paid for by the Indonesian Government.

~ Compass News

African Nations to give Honorary Titles to Sakatsuki Miyu

~ The North China Paper

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Chronos magazine Person of The Year

Sakatsuki Miyu

Heavenly Talented Heiress

For solving several global problems in the span of three years, for introducing breakthroughs in medical science, and to show the world that Quirks are not everything there is, Sakatsuki Miyu is Chronos' 2217 Person of the Year.

Cover Photo: Sakatsuki Miyu close-up photo on her 13th birthday party.

Runner-up: All Might, David Shield, Selena Merkel, Kirigaya Yui

Editorial Foreword

There is no contention that Sakatsuki Miyu is the hottest person this year. From the London Accord to Wallstreet 2215 Rush Day, from Congo Declaration to UN Resolution 11491, all can be traced back to this girl, barely 13 years of age.

However, despite the world's attention and the media request for an interview, the girl herself has remained out of reach. All requests for interviews had been rebuffed. The photos available to us are the ones taken from official publications, public records, or from paparazzi long distance shots. Beside few public appearances, she hasn't done anything else other than going to school and competing in amateur boardgame tournaments.

That's why for this Person of the Year edition, we can only give you so much about the person herself, and more about her family and her impact on the world at large.

Table of Contents

A Brief History of Sakatsuki Family….xxx

The Reverse Moon….xxx

The Heaven's Cup….xxx

Reigning as new Champion in three boardgames...….xxx

Runner-Up, All Might…..xxx

Runner-Up, David Shield….xxx

Runner-Up, Selena Merkel….xxx

Runner-Up, Kirigaya Yui…..xxx

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Profile

Name: Sakatsuki Miyu

Age: 13 years old

Birth Date: July 20, 2204.

Occupation: 2nd-year middle school at Suiran Academy

Father: Sakatsuki Yuzuru (current head of Sakatsuki family)

Mother: Sakatsuki Kanade (formerly Tachibana Kanade, daughter of Tachibana Arima, owner of Tachibana Heavy Industries)

Official Title: Winner of 2216 Amateur Dragon King Shogi Tournament, Winner of 2216 Amateur National Chess Tournament, Winner of 2217 World Amateur Go Championship.

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A Brief History of Sakatsuki Family

Photo: Department Store displaying merchandise with Sakatsuki Brand, Billboard advertisement of Sakatsuki products, Sakatsuki Holding Company Main Office

Today, nobody in Japan doesn't know about the name Sakatsuki. From instant ramen to computer parts, this family owns various businesses in many fields. This short article will tell the history of Sakatsuki Family, their rise to power, and how they were poised to reveal recent world-shaking innovations.

Photo: black and white photo of a town, a black and white photo of a Japanese mansion.

The Sakatsuki Family originated from a small town of Fuyuki, in Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Island. They have lived in their ancestral land for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

They were landowners of that area. Naturally, their main income came from leasing the land and agricultural products. This didn't change for a very long time. Emperors changed, Shoguns changed, the government system changed, but the Sakatsuki always stayed in Fuyuki, cultivating their land.

When the system favored the Samurai Clan as ruling class, the Sakatsuki Family also changed into a Samurai Clan. When the daimyo changed, they also changed their allegiance. There were records about them sending troops to the local daimyo in the Warring States era, but that was the limit of their participation in the affairs outside of Fuyuki.

Somehow, during the chaos of history, they always picked the winning side and survived.

However, in the period after the World War II, Sakatsuki Seiya, one of the family head sons, borrowed family money to make a new business. He made a new product: instant ramen. The new business initially used raw materials from the family agricultural product.

The instant ramen was a huge success, and soon Seiya made new factories, expanded the distribution area, recruited more workers, and so on. It became a national phenomenon and even spread overseas.

Photo: The first instant ramen commercials

Seiya didn't stop at instant ramen. He also made various snacks and other processed foods, drinks, and so on. For the purpose of managing them, he created more companies.

Photo: Old photo of Sakatsuki Seiya and his parents and siblings.

Narrator: He appointed his siblings to serve as directors for his newly created companies. The reason for this was not clear. Some said that it was normal to trust his own family.

As his business empire grew, more and more members of Sakatsuki Family were recruited to the high-ranking positions in his companies.

In any other families, this practice was a recipe for disaster. Incompetent family members that got in through nepotism might bring negative influence. Abuse of power because of perceived class superiority was also frequent.

Not with the Sakatsuki. All members of the family proved to be capable managers, independently advancing their companies without any assistance from Seiya. They were also loyal to the family, and nobody ever heard of internal disputes or infighting.

In the 1980s, the eldest son of Seiya, Sakatsuki Kimimaro, created the Sakatsuki Holding Company to bring all their businesses under one roof.

Photo: Portrait of Kimimaro and the rest of executives.

This period also marked the first time they ventured into another field of business, such as electronics and automobiles.

In the early 2000s, Sakatsuki Kaiba, the then family head of Sakatsuki Family, took a controversial decision to leave their ancestral land in Fuyuki.

Photo: photo of the new Sakatsuki Mansion in the middle of construction.

They purchased a large plot of land near Tokyo and build a brand-new mansion there. They still retained the mansion and land in Fuyuki, but the family decided to move to the center of the country, to be more efficient in managing their various interests.

In the upheaval of the early era of quirk manifestation, many rich families either disappeared or fell from grace. Conversely, an unknown normal family might use their new ability to make money, becoming the new wealthy.

Photo: Yaoyorozu Family using their quirk

The Sakatsuki Family was one of the rich families who managed to survive the upheaval and even came out richer than before. Implementing a new policy regarding quirks, they instead benefited from it.

Photo: An employee at one of Sakatsuki owned factory, using his quirk for his job.

At the beginning of the current golden era of heroes, the Sakatsuki Family had already become an economic giant. Members of the family were scattered among the list of Japan's 100 richest.

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Shadow in the dark

"This is your next target." The man with long blonde hair and sunken cheek tossed a copy of Chronos magazine to the table. "She must be captured alive, no permanent harm."

A middle-aged man sitting on a sofa put the cigarette he was smoking on the ashtray on the table and picked up the magazine. The man was of a mixed race of middle eastern and Asian race. He had messy black hair, stubble beard, and sharp eyes.

His name was Gauron. He was a mercenary who fought for the one paying him. He had been to battlefields around the world.

"What's this?" He looked at the cover of the magazine, featuring a young Japanese girl wearing traditional kimono. "Isn't she the one everyone talked about lately?"

"Yeah." The blonde man said. This blonde man was named Gates. He was his contact to Ten Rings, the organization that currently employed Gauron. "Listen, this girl is a literal gold mine. This is not like other targets. When I say no harm done, I really mean it."

"Hey, those were accidents," Gauron said in faux remorse. "You know that can happen a lot in our line of work."

"Tch," Gates said with disgust. "Dropping a hostage from thirty thousand feet is an accident? Stop your nonsense and get to work. I want you to devise a plan to capture this girl, alive." And with that, he walked out of the room.

Gauron smiled when he watched the man closed the door. He speculated that the man would go around the streets of Hong Kong again, and when night came, he would take a prostitute or two and enjoy himself the whole night.

Their current hideout, a standard cheap apartment room, was located on the 30th floor of the building. Just like many other apartment buildings in Hong Kong, the rooms were small and couldn't be differentiated with many others. Because of the population density, the only option for accommodating the ever increasing demand for housing was to build up. The result was vast, hyper-functional architecture that pushed urban density to its limits.

And that made it a perfect place for hiding. No one can look for one ant in an anthill. The only worry was if a superpowered battle happened nearby, someone with a gigantification quirk could topple the apartment building and make him a literal paste. But that was a risk everybody had in this age.

Gauron flipped the magazine and read. He was familiar with the girl's exploits, who wasn't? But the details were unknown to him and he would fix that, first by reading this magazine.

He read about Reverse Moon company, the first company made to pursue Miyu Sakatsuki's goals. Staring at the wall of text, he sighed and took up the cigarette, bringing it to his mouth. This was going to be a long read.

In the beginning, the company made a weird campaign to buy all the plastic bag waste from the people of Japan. This was thought to be philanthropic activity, or a marketing gimmick, something admirable but common for new companies.

However, soon people noticed that it was too aggressive in collecting plastic garbage. It mobilized the homeless people to gather trash. Its employees steal (technically not, since nobody own trash) from garbage bin reserved for plastic waste, and even from trash collection sites. And eventually, to the horror of Japanese citizens, it imported garbage from developing countries.

Soon after that, the company announced that they sell gasoline, with a price lower than the standard market price. Without having any oil mines or buying oil from somewhere else, it started selling gasoline. It's as if it created gasoline from thin air.

No need for a genius to guess where the oil came from. Reverse Moon company had succeeded in converting plastic waste to gasoline in a very cost-efficient method.

To shorten the supply-distribution chain and placate Japanese citizens, Reverse Moon built factories in developing countries, selling their gasoline directly to the foreign market.

The new company became an overnight sensation. Many specialists and experts were confused about the technology used. Converting plastic to oil was possible in theory. But the process required significant energy consumption. The result was also still contaminated and needed further refining. After calculating the cost, the end product should have a more expensive price than the normal oil from industrial extraction methods.

But the Reverse Moon sold refined gasoline with a price below the standard market price. How? And they even reported a profit in their tax declaration.

Copycat companies cropped up, trying to emulate its success, but they all eventually gave up and closed down. The cost was just too high.

After it built a reputation, it stopped importing garbage from developing countries. It declared that it had other oil producing methods, so these foreign governments should send their garbage by their own choice, using their own expenses. It declared that it would stop paying for garbage.

Despite that, many countries simply acquiesced to the demand and covered shipping fees as a garbage processing expense. There were many countries who didn't have garbage processing facilities, and the mountain of trash had already become a problem. These countries gladly shipped their garbage out of their countries. In other words, the company got raw materials for free.

At roughly the same time, the Sakatsuki family applied for a permit to build a factory on the sea. This was speculated to be the alternative method they declared. And it turned out to be true because when it was completed, it shipped out gasoline.

The weird thing was, while it certainly wasn't an offshore rig for drilling oil, there was no material shipped in. But somehow this offshore factory could produce oil, seemingly from nothing. People tried to solve the mystery, but their effort was fruitless. The employees were so tight-lipped because they had signed a non-disclosure agreement. People joked that the NDA was magical because none of them could speak about what's inside.

No one was able to enter the factory other than the official employees. That was until the USA – Japan Trade Dispute related to oil trade. The USA had accused Japan of trade dumping in oil after Reverse Moon company started exporting their product. So, the Japanese Government really needed to know how Reverse Moon made gasoline, to justify the low price. Otherwise, Japan would get trade sanctions.

That's how the Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and his staff were finally allowed to inspect the factory and speak to the public about what they found there. He revealed that the factory mined seawater and carbon from the atmosphere, and turned it into oil. The excess oxygen was released back to the atmosphere.

Obviously, capturing carbon from the air was very inefficient. Normally the time and energy cost for such a thing would be astronomical, and not worth the investment. However, Reverse Moon managed to earn huge profit. It even stated that it constantly monitored carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in the atmosphere, taking care not to deplete an element too much and create an imbalance.

When the news broke out, people were amazed and praised them, saying that finally somebody did something about the global warming problem. The planet's atmosphere had accumulated carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases for a while now. Global warming was still an unresolved problem from even before the quirk era. Industries and factories still produced carbon emissions. The world still had no effective way to mitigate global warming, and suddenly one company solved it singlehandedly.

With public support increasing, the Reverse Moon quickly built more offshore factories around the world. Nobody seemed to care that the oil burned would release more carbon to the air. If it happened, Reverse Moon could just absorb it again, right?

Meanwhile, Reverse Moon company also created artificial carbohydrates. It released a product named Ricebun, a white round disk the size of a palm, white and solid, made from concentrated carbohydrates. It was similar to uncooked rice, and Reverse Moon stated that the company created it just for an experiment, to see if it could create synthetic, edible carbohydrates.

Again, it's chemically possible, but to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrate was not that easy. Experts all around the globe were scratching their heads.

This rice bun could be steamed or boiled, and would result in a soft cake full of carbohydrates the size of a plate. It could fill the stomachs of two people. It was a little salty because the salt from seawater was sprinkled into the mixture. The Reverse Moon company sent these rice buns to poor countries, or to regions struck by famine for free! It's as if they wanted to solve humanity's problems one by one.

Gauron whistled while reading the estimated net profit the Reverse Moon company had earned so far. Crushing its competitors one by one, it was on the road to becoming the sole supplier of gasoline in the world. There was a rumor that it was researching methods to improve nuclear reactors, making them safer and more efficient.

Just by this company alone, the Sakatsuki Family had shaken the world. But as if it wasn't satisfied, they made another company, the Heaven's Cup.

What did it do? It's making breakthroughs in medical science one by one, and then sold the products based on those technologies. The most popular products were artificial organs and limbs, made from synthetic material, that didn't trigger rejection from the recipient's body. Kidneys, hearts, legs, arms, eyeballs, lungs and livers were the organs available, designed in various sizes. It also accepted custom orders for a specific patient.

Hard to believe that all of these technologies came from the mind of a single girl.

The fact that Sakatsuki Miyu was the one behind the Sakatsuki Family's recent activities was firmly kept in secret. But a secret couldn't be kept forever, especially when it involved too many people and too much large-scale operation.

Corporate spies and investigators from many factions had intensely pursued the source of these technologies, one that was labelled with the codename: The Alchemist. The title appeared again and again in the secret documents of the Sakatsuki. And finally, the secret was leaked, the Alchemist was the daughter of Sakatsuki Family Head, a thirteen year old girl just starting middle school.

The information passed hands until it fell to the lap of mainstream media, who published the news without any hesitation. After the news exploded, Sakatsuki Family saw no point of hiding her anymore and admitted the truth. The girl became a celebrity overnight.

Still, how would Gauron kidnap her? She was guarded 24/7 in her house. He had an option of attacking the school, but there were too much chaos and uncertainty in attacking in public. He needed an opportunity to catch her in a secluded place.

Gauron flipped the magazine again, looking at the profile. He noted the name of the school. He needed to know about the school's schedule, usually, the students would have out-of-campus activities, such as field trip or study tour. If he could strike outside the school, the security would be lower than normal.

Gauron tossed the magazine to the table and threw his cigarette butt into the ashtray. He admired the girl for solving the world's problems, but his client now wants her. Maybe to ask her to create technology for them, and then make money. Well, he was a professional mercenary, he would kidnap a saint if he was paid.

But first, he needed to contact his information broker. Maybe he needed to commission a request to find out a certain school academic schedule.

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AN

1. Do you ever wonder about what will you do if you can do alchemy? Maybe you have your own suggestion?

2. Despite Izuku being 9th holder of OFA, and family tree showing quirk genetic for 6 generations or more, the level of technology shown in MHA didn't differ much from our time.

The year number is purely speculation. 200 years is enough for 8 generation of OFA. And it's round number, so it's easy to remember. We can assume MHA canon will start in year 2218.