"So, that is the base of Humarise." All for One said, sitting atop a hill. They had to ditch the car and proceed on foot after a while, once even the dirt road disappeared. As Beros had explained, there were hidden underground rail tracks that were used to carry stuff in and out of the base, so the roads didn't reach there directly.

"Yes, my lord. The only way to approach it is from the ground on foot, the rails underground, or the sky with a Quirk or a parachute. Bar those, there is no access." Beros replied, "They are likely on high alert, after they failed that attack on the highway."

"Good." The Symbol of Evil said, cracking his neck. An enemy with a proper battle plan? Yes please. An enemy with a proper base? Even better. "Tell me everything you know about Humarise best fighters."

"Yes sir. Uhm, first of all we have, of course, Flect Turn. He is the glorious leader of the battle against the Singularity. His Quirk is Reflect. Anything that tries to come into contact with him is pushed away with the same strength. Unfortunately, the Quirk is always active, so he never got to feel the touch of another person, something that made him despise his own Quirk."

"Anything that comes into contact?" Rody asked.

"Yes, anything."

"… So does he walk around naked?"

"What, no?!"

"But… His clothes are 'coming into contact' with him, right? Also, how does he eat? Can he touch anything?"

"Ah well, you see, it's because…" Beros started, then she frowned, "Uhm… I think…" Her eyes suddenly went wide, "Oh my god, how does he do those things?"

"Children, please, focus on the now." All for One said. 'Because later I am totally going to ask those questions myself.' If there was something All for One enjoyed researching, it definitely was 'Quirk Bullshit'.

"Yes, sir. So, besides Flect, there is his bodyguard, Leviathan. He is a Trigger junkie that will probably take some the second we walk in." She frowned, "Actually, he probably already took it. Either way, his Quirk is Helical Scythe. He has large rotating tendrils on his head and fingers. It sounds week, but with Trigger it becomes a really strong Quirk. He is also enormous, for normal human standards. I think he is taller than you sir."

"Alright."

"Then there are the Serpentes Twins, Ena and Dio. They joined Humarise out of personal gains, to be safe from the culling." She shook her head, "But they are strong. They have a Quirk called Sword Kill. They can create extendable swords from their arms."

"Both twins have the same Quirk?"

"Yes."

"Fascinating. I really want them alive now. Anyone else?"

"Only Sidero, but you have already seen his Iron Ball Quirk. Everyone else in Humarise is either Quirkless or has a Quirk with worse drawbacks than gains, so they are unlikely to use them."

All for One hummed. "So, the important thing are the guns." He sighed, "I hate those things so much. At least those aren't in the hands of people actually competent at using them."

"The plan was always to use them only to cull the few civilians that didn't die when their Quirks and those around them went into overdrive and that weren't Quirkless…" She looked down, tapping the tips of her index fingers together like a child that had just been found with the hand in the cookie jar, "You don't need a good aim to execute people…"

Rody took a step to the right. "Wow." He said, "You know, I almost forgot you were all in for a genocide."

"Ok, so maybe that was a bit too far-"

"Maybe?"

"A bit?"

"Buuuut it's true that the Singularity will happen! It's not like there is just a miracle drug lying somewhere that can remove Quirks!"

-x-

Overhaul sneezed. Unfortunately, he ended up touching Chronostasis' arm- know what, you know the joke already, let's go back to Beros trying to justify a genocide.

-x-

"Of course, now that I know our Savior exists, this is completely pointless."

"Oh yeah, now it's pointless." Rody sighed, "Ugh, can we just… do this?"

"You seem really eager to do this."

"My dad is somewhere in there."

"Who is your dad?"

"Eddie Soul. You know him- Why are you looking at me like that?" Her eyes had gone wide, and she looked away.

"Uhm, sorry. He is dead."

"… Come again?"

"He tried to betray Flect and the leader didn't take that well." Beros coughed again, "I, uh, picked up the body after Leviathan was done. It wasn't pretty."

All for One hummed, "How bad was it?"

"Ever seen a watermelon dropped from like, the fifth floor of a building?"

He nodded, "Ah, the good old 'crush to a pulp'. A bit juvenile, in my opinion, but I get the appeal as an execution method."

"I mean, I prefer sniping for obvious reasons… Well, they were obvious, now a bit less."

"Sniping is good, but it's more of an assassination method. I'm talking about execution."

"Oh. Well, that's more of a Leviathan thing. Or the Serpentes, sometimes." Beros scratched her chin, thinking, "They usually just stab someone, though."

All for One yawned, "Boring. Sidero?"

"I mean, he crushed a couple of people-"

"… We live in the age of Quirks and you can't come up with anything more inventive? Why, I once gave someone a water-breathing Quirk and then dumped them in a shark tank. Those were two delightful hours."

"Very inventive, my lord."

"Thank you, I-"

"Could you stop discussing execution methods right after I found out my father has died?!" Rody shouted.

All for One paused. Man, that news must have been terrible for Rody if he was forgetting who he was talking to. All for One patted him on the back. "Don't worry, Rody, don't worry. I know what it's like to lose a parent."

"You do?"

"Why, of course, I lost my mother when I was a child, and then my father in my twenties."

"I'm sorry to hear that sir."

"Me too. The woman could have had the decency to survive until I killed her. I got parricide and patricide, but now I'm forever missing matricide. Mighty insensitive of her. I totally get what you are feeling right now."

"Aaaaand I just remembered you are the Symbol of Evil, sir." Rody sighed, "Alright, let's just… let's just do this."

"It should be my call to make, but since you have the 'vengeance' angle, I'll allow it. Now, we need to deal with the grunts, though. Let me just get us some manpower. The Doctor did say he would prepare some Noumus. I'm not sure how many we lost in Tomura's recent move, but I'm sure we have enough."

-x-

"Everything alright out there?" Sidero asked, looking outside the main entrance. Lord Flect Turn had wanted the hidden base's entrance to resemble a temple, including giant pillars and an enormous door. From what he had heard, if the doors were closed, only some of the world's Top Heroes like Star&Stripe or All Might could break through. However, they were always open, normally, since the location itself hid the place a lot more.

"Of course, sir." The Humarise member replied, "But after all, it's the middle of the day, we would spot the enemy coming in. They will probably attack at night."

"I guess, so, I just need to make sure and report ba- the fuck is that?" He stared at a black figure flying toward them at high speed. There were three more people on the back of the creature.

"It's a bird?"

"It's a plane?"

"It's a giant deformed corpse that has been genetically enhanced to contain multiple Quirks and murder us all?"

Everyone turned toward the third guard, who shrugged, "My Quirk is called Guess. It makes me guess random stuff."

"That sounds good."

"No, it means I can never get a surprise. 'Oh, what do you think is in that box'? 'I don't know, a book?' and so on. It gets fucking annoying for everyone around."

There were several nods of understanding. "Yeah, I get it man."

Sidero nodded too. "Pretty bad, ye- Wait, aren't we forgetting something?"

"Like w-" A moment later a three-meter tall… something slammed into the group of guards and murdered several. It had a freakishly long neck, and a face completely covered by overgrown skin that looked like a circular hood. In the darkness within, only shining white teeth and a pair of yellow eyes were visible. "Oh, that."

"Sound the alarms and fire you fucking idiots!" Sidero shouted. He launched a whole hand worth of Iron Balls toward the creature, but the thing punched them and they broke to pieces. The three people on its back had meanwhile jumped down, and he wasn't sure where they were in the crowd, as more guards rushed in, only for them to get mauled by the thing. For its part, that beast seemed to dislike the hail of bullets coming its way, though only a few actually landed. Sidero had told his boss that training his soldiers to not miss nine shots out of ten was worth it, but nooo, there is no need for it Sidero, we are a peaceful genocidal cult, we shouldn't try to teach our followers violence…

'Wait, the fuck am I doing?!' He turned tail and rushed inside the facility. More and more guards were rushing outside as the alarm blared, but he could tell it was useless, since out there the thing was just sending them flying, in one or multiple pieces, and then moving to exterminate the next group.

He pointed to the man manning the gate. "Close it!"

"B-But sir, the orders…"

"Close the fucking gate or I will kill you and do it myself!" He shouted. That seemed to convince him, because the man gulped and slammed his fist on the gate's doors. Other cultists threw themselves outside until the door was completely sealed, but Sidero, of course, didn't. He liked the idea to live. That was why he had joined Humarise in the first place, thank you very much.

For a while, the sound of shouts and gunfire resonated from outside. Then it was replaced by screams and desperate pleas to open the door. Then, dead silence.

The mass of new reinforcements that had rushed to the gates stood in the corridor, guns aimed at the door. There was complete silence, so much that Sidero could hear the low buzzing of the security cams in the background.

Then, a voice from behind the doors.

"Knock knock." The voice said, low and yet somehow audible from beyond the sealed gates. Some sound amplification Quirk, for sure.

Sidero gulped, and looked around, before sighing. "W-Who's there?" He finally asked.

"My."

"My what?"

The doors exploded open, the two iron sides opening so fast the unlucky bastards that got in the way ended up squished against the walls. The man that walked in was wearing an elegant black suit, was over two meters tall, and was missing half of his face. "Your death." He casually said.

Sidero screamed as the monster from before stepped in the way when the Humarise people opened fire – not that they were fucking hitting anything – and then rushed forward. He wasn't sure if the worst part was that he was dying or that his last thought was a fucking knock-knock joke.

-x-

Rody puked again. "Oh god, I think I just stepped into someone…"

"Nah, that's just a generic pool of blood." Beros replied, "Now this one, this one is probably actually someone." She said, pointing at a different pool of blood.

"Wow. Thank you Beros, now I really feel better." He sighed, "Shouldn't you be more concerned? These people were Humarise followers."

"Meh, they didn't surrender to our Savior, and either way were agreeing with committing genocide. Fuck them."

"… You know Beros, you are a funny person, but your moral compass is screwed up." He replied, and Beros just shrugged. Rody sighed and moved forward down the corridor. All for One had said something like 'do what you want, I'm going to find Flect Turn, remember what I said about the recruiting', and then had left with the Noumu. Frankly, Rody would have liked to have one with them, it sounded useful.

Shaking his head, he stepped forward, only for Beros to pull him back. A moment later, a pair of what looked like a mix of a whip and interconnected blades cut through the air in the spot where he was a moment before. From the end of the corridor appeared a duo of identical twins with dark purple hair, their arms extending into large blades. "Serpenters." Beros said.

"Beros." Said the left twin.

"Traitor." Said the right twin.

"Don't you 'traitor' me, you fucks. I found the Savior Humarise has been waiting for, you don't even care about our promised mission!"

The Serpenters looked at each other, then both shrugged, "Yeah, that's true. We just want to live."

"Which means we have to kill you."

"Nothing personal, kids."

They both shot forward, and Rody instinctively extended his hands forwards. Pino flew ahead, between him and the Serpenters, and a barrier appeared in front of him.

"Wha…" He started to ask, then he realized. The pats on the back All for One had given him. Had he… given him two Quirks again?

Uh, was that why he had puked? He had kind of assumed it was because of the gore. He looked up, to see the Serpenters swing futilely at the barrier. He blinked, and then grinned, stepping forward. As it turned out, he could move his hand through the barrier, the screen sort of… molding around his arm like armor. He extended his arm out and started to slap the twins, close as they were to the barrier. His grin grew in size, as he kept just slapping them and making rude gestures until they both stepped back. The shit-eating grin now was all over his face. "So, not so high and mighty anymore, uh?" He asked with a smug look, turning around and stepping away from the barrier, shrugging theatrically, "I guess it's inevitable."

"Rody…" Beros whispered.

"I get it, the great Rody Soul is in your way, of course you are losing."

"Rody…" Beros said.

"But you know, you guys maybe aren't-"

"Rody!"

"What, Beros?! I'm trying to get to the point!"

"The barrier came down."

Rody turned and stared at the Serpentes.

The Serpentes stared back at him, distinctly not on the other side of a barrier.

Pino panted, landing back on his shoulder, completely spent.

"… Uh, no hard feelings?" The Serpentes both hissed and readied Sword Kill again, "Wait wait wait!"

"No."

"Murder."

"Death."

"Horrible death."

"Cruel murder."

Rody gulped. He really didn't like the 'horrible death'. The 'Cruel murder' sounded hardly better. "Uh, Beros, little help?"

"Just tell them!"

"Do you think they will listen?!" He shouted, while running away from the swords.

"I don't know, but fucking try!"

"Serpenters!" Rody shouted, gulping, "You are hired!"

A blade stopped a centimeter from his face, another an instant before impaling his gut. The Serpenters stared at him. "What do you mean?"

"Explain."

"My boss wants to hire you both. He says twins with the same Quirk fascinate him!" Rody replied, shaking head to toe.

"Is your boss the half-face guy?"

"Yes!"

The Serpenters looked at each other, then at Beros, "How is he as a boss?"

"He is great! He took away my Quirk!" Beros chimed in.

"… Is that supposed to be a plus?" They asked in unison.

"Well, he won't take it if you don't want to!" Rody added, pointing at Pino, "My Quirk is still here!" 'Because he didn't like it particularly.' He didn't add.

"Fair point."

"Do we get a good salary?"

"Yes! Uhm, this is his employment offer." Rody shook as he pulled out his phone and showed them the number. The two looked at each other, then grinned.

"We accept."

"Nice to meet you."

"Oh man, we almost killed you."

"Good thing we didn't."

"Nice trick with the barrier."

"Do it again and you are dead."

"But it was pretty funny."

"Yeah it was, just use it on other people."

Rody felt a headache building. Then again, he was still alive. That was progress. And he had recruited the Serpenters, that was a success! Hopefully it meant All for One wouldn't kill him.

"Uhm, hi." A voice called. The four turned to see a guy with an eyepatch step forward. "And you are?" Beros asked.

"Alan Kay. I was wondering what's going on." He said.

"Our boss took exception at Humarise's genocide plans." Rody replied, "And he decided to deal with them."

"I… See…" Alan coughed in his fist, "Uhm, say, if I took you to the labs, do you feel like destroying some Trigger Bombs prototypes and utterly destroying every scrap of information on the gas' components?"

"Do we?!" All four said at once. Rody wasn't sure if it was a good thing he had so readily agreed with the psychos he was surrounded by.

-x-

All for One yawned. One would think that the massacre was entertaining, but according to Garaki only 'little Hood' was ready for testing as a High-End subject, and while Hood was doing well, he was also rather boring. Grab the opponent, crush his neck, throw him aside, punch another guy, turn him into red mist, grab a guy, kill this one too… It kinda got repetitive.

Of course he could add his flavor of death, but that got rather boring rather fast.

"We surrender!" A group of people shouted all at once, and All for One yawned. About three hundred Humarise soldiers had surrendered, so far. He had accepted the surrender on the condition that they offered him their Quirks and their services, and they had agreed immediately.

None of their Quirks were good. Like, some were completely self-harmful. A guy could close his eyes and see through his eyelids, which sounded like torture when trying to sleep under any light. A girl around seventeen gave up a Quirk that made text disappear from anything she touched. Books? Unreadable. Subtitles for foreign programs? Gone. A simple mail? Gone forever if she so much as grazed the object. Smartphones were her worst nightmare.

Yeah, he could sympathize with hating those Quirks. They sounded absolutely great for him, since he could turn them on and off, though. He had great plans for the second one, and the first one sounded like a funny form of torture.

His thoughts were interrupted when a mountain of a man with chalk white skin, a toothy grin and overall inhuman features marched toward them, red appendages on his head and fingers rotating fast. All for One recognized Leviathan from the description.

A good person might have considered leaving Leviathan for Rody to kill. A good learning experience, a first murder to watch and some closure for the guy.

Unfortunately, All for One was in a hurry, so he stepped forward.

Leviathan pierced through his body with three rotating appendages and dragged him close. All for One gasped theatrically as Leviathan dragged him closer. "Oh, woe is me, whatever shall I do now!" He bent forward, pretending to fall.

Then he touched the closest appendage. "Yoink."

All at once, Leviathan shrunk in size, until he was a well-built, two meters tall man that was at least slightly less intimidating than the monster he had been before. The man looked in shock at his hands, then up to All for One.

He shouted in a panic, before trying to attack All for One to… the Symbol of Evil wasn't sure. Maybe just to get back his Quirk? Probably the result of Trigger being still in the body, All for One assumed.

Hood promptly murderized the Quirkless man, and All for One yawned.

'I really hope this Flect Turn is a better opponent.' He thought. His new followers directed him toward Flect's Sancta Sanctorum, and All for One stepped in.

-x-

Flect Turn raised his eyes from the book he was reading, and put it down on the desk, as his enemy walked inside the room. Besides him was someone he assumed was on the verge of overdosing on Trigger, if his appearance and the power he radiated were anything to go by.

"How many have you killed, to get this far?" Flect asked.

"You mean today or in general? The latter requires a bit of guesswork." The man replied. Flect sighed. Another uninspired murderer then, just one a lot stronger than the usual odd assassin some Villains group from Otheon and Kleyd sent his way.

"No matter. You still can't beat me." Flect replied, "No one and nothing can touch me, due to my curse of a Quirk. You would be better off if you… Yes?"

All for One lowered the hand he had previously raised. "Yes, I have several questions on your Quirk, actually. Like 'how come you can wear clothes' to 'you were touching that book, why does that not count'."

"… For real?"

"Yes, it's a legitimate question."

"Ah." Flect sighed. "Well, you see, it's because…" He paused. Wait, why did that stuff not count? What the fuck?

"… You never realized, did you?"

"S-Shut up!" Flect replied, "My Quirk is just weird."

"Evidently." The man sighed, "Shall we do this? I'm All for One, this is Hood, and you are about to die."

Flect sighed, before activating Arachne, the four-mirror system to transmit his rebound energy in different directions, and the mounted gun turrets in the room, that immediately opened fire. Hood got in the way, but All for One didn't move, standing behind and just exhaling loudly, as if he was disappointed in Flect's actions.

Flect rolled his eyes and decided to try and convince the man to risk himself against his Quirk. Taunting usually worked against men like him.

"Oh, you are not approaching me? Instead of fighting, you are just going to stand there?"

"I can beat the shit out of you without getting closer." All for One replied, exhaling again.

'Plan B then.' "Oh ho! Then stay as far away as you like!" And the turrets changed target, aiming at Flect instead of All for One, his Quirk stopping the bullets and the energy building up behind him like a giant spring. Arachne redirected the attack, and Hood was sent flying, landing against the back wall and leaving All for One alone, still sighing.

Then Flect stumbled forward, dizzy. "What the…" He mumbled, before starting to cough. Blood came out of his mouth, and he stared in disbelief, even as his breath grew labored. He looked up to All for One, who just grinned. "What… What did you?"

"Say, have you ever heard of Oxygen Poisoning?" All for One asked.

"No?"

"Then this is gonna be a fun new experience. Note for you, Flect, I have Oxygen Creation and Breath Manipulation, and you still have to breathe if you want to live." All for One's smile was 'horrible cruel grin' levels of mockery, Flect realized.

Unfortunately, he didn't have much time to realize as the room was filled with more and more Oxygen, the air growing heavy as his body was unable to process the gas. "B-But… But…"

"Oh yeah, and by the way, did you know something else cool about Oxygen?"

"Not… really?"

"Oxygen is really, really flammable. And if I'm right, your insides aren't fireproof if it's spread by a gas."

"Can we not test that?" Flect asked.

"I insist." All for One replied.

As he was set on fire from the inside, Flect Turn decided he really should have read a fantasy novel instead.

-x-

"And that is that." All for One concluded, as he, his five hundred new followers, Beros, Rody Soul and the newly acquired Serpenters Twins watched Humarise's base burn. "That was a fun distraction, don't you think Rody?"

"I… Guess? I'm just happy it's gone. No one will have to suffer because of Humarise anymore."

"Indeed. Especially because I'm also murdering all of the other bases around the world."

"You are?" Rody asked.

"Yup. I'm taking a long vacation to go do that. It sounds fun. I'll take my new followers too, and we can have a proper gang war that isn't as one-sided as using Hood." He smiled, "But that's just for me to do. Meanwhile, you, Beros and the Serpenters will go back home and work with my children."

Rody wanted to protest, but then just sighed. Yeah, he had learned something on his road trip. You never disagreed entirely with All for One. You either agreed to do what he asked, or begrudgingly agreed to do what he asked.

Or died, but option C wasn't that fun.

"Sir, if I'm going to Japan…" Rody started, and All for One sighed.

"Yes, yes, we will go pick up your dogs."

"Siblings."

"Whatever they are." All for One replied.

Rody sighed, then frowned. Uh, was someone missing?

-x-

Alan Kay stumbled on the dirt path that led away from Humarise's main facility. He panted, having run all the way there, and then pulled out his phone.

"Alan? What are you doing?! Why are you calling this number?!" The voice on the other side shouted, "If Flect Turn finds out, you will make your whole mission meaningless!"

"Flect Turn is dead." He replied, "And Humarise will be destroyed soon."

The World Heroes Association operative for a moment was too stunned to speak, then he finally did. "What the fuck Alan."

"I know! Look, pass this on to the higher-ups! There is a way bigger fish out there! I have a picture, I'm sending it in."

"… The top Villain now is a disfigured mister Potato?"

"This 'disfigured mister potato' set Flect Turn on fire from the inside and has killed about 9500 men, including Sidero, Rogone and Leviathan."

More stunned silence followed, before there finally was an answer, "Holy shit. Alright, I'll do what I have to. You get out of there."

"Already on it. Turns out Humarise's base is not that far from some town here in Kleyd."

"Would have been good to know before."

"Yup." He sighed, "Yes it would have."

He wondered how the World Heroes Organization would react to the man that called himself All for One. Not well, he imagined.

-x-

Dabi watched Tomura fidget establish as he waited, sitting on a chair in the middle of the bar, rocking back and forth like a child that had just been promised a gift.

Well, he had just been promised a gift, if the message he had received from All for One had to be believed. And one for Himiko too, though the girl was still at school. Frankly, Dabi had no idea of what to expect. Was does the Symbol of Evil send to his son, severed heads? Blackmail to use against his enemies? A new console? Forty cakes? That was as many as four tens, after all.

He hoped they would find out soon, because Hina looked about ready to stab Shigaraki if he didn't stop.

Then, Kurogiri's portal opened, and… a pair of kids marched through. They couldn't be older than six, and they looked around excitedly.

The crowd present in the bar was too confused to say anything, as behind the kids walked in an older teenager with brown hair and a small bird perched on his head.

"Uhm… Hi?" He said in English, before continuing in broken Japanese "My name Rody Soul. This Roro." He patted the boy, "This Lala." He patted the girl. "I work for boss All for One, boss All for One said work for you." He pointed at Shigaraki, "Nice meeting you."

"Please just speak English, man, you are embarrassing yourself." Shigaraki replied in perfect English, everyone staring at him. He clearly noticed, since he looked around, "What? I play online a lot, did you think I only challenged Japanese players?"

"So what, you just learned English to play?" Dabi asked.

"No, I learned English to insult people in voice chat." Tomura replied. Dabi, not for the first time, wondered why his boss had to be a gamer of all things.

"Uhm, anyway…" Rody had managed to regain control of himself, and pointed at the portal as two identical Twins with purple hair walked in, "Those are Ena and Dio Serpenter. They are strong fighters. They now also work for you."

"Sup." The two said in unison.

'Creepy twins, stay away.' Dabi decided.

"And finally we have your sister's gift, a new guardian and confidant… Wait, really, her? Well, good luck with that… Ahem, this is Beros."

The woman that walked in pulled down her hood. She wore a combat suit that extended into a mask of the same color, and had green hair, pointed ears and a quiver. She looked like the fusion of an elf archer and a ninja, Dabi mused.

Then he saw Shigaraki's face.

-x-

We have often discussed Shigaraki's 'homework collection'. While we will not go into detail on six-digit codes or peculiar tags, we will point out one thing.

Shigaraki's favorite waifus were 'elf girl' and 'ninja girl'.

Which explained the fact that his jaw dropped and the fact that his dried, grey heart started to beat faster as he stared at Beros.

Of course, right next to Shigaraki was Hina. Now, Hina had no six-digits code collection. What she had, however, was a several years long dry spell and a penchant for liking athletic women.

-x-

Dabi stared at the two, his brain running a calculation on the possible damage a love triangle that involved them could cause. Then he turned right around, staring back at Rody Soul, the two kids that were looking in awe around the bar, and the twins that were creepily staring at him without blinking.

'Maybe I can drop out and join some other gang.' He thought. 'Maybe the Shie Hassaikai is still recruiting.'

He made for the door when Compress grabbed him by the shoulder. "Hell no, you bastard, you stay and share in the misery." The magician whispered.

He sighed. Could someone have a worse day? He found that unlikely.

-x-

All Might took a sip of his special beer. It was called that, but in actuality it was just some beverage made to taste vaguely like beer but not hurt his damaged stomach. It was… ok, but he wished he could try a real one for a change. Unfortunately, his wounds didn't allow that.

'But you should see the other guy.' He thought with a grin.

He sighed when his phone buzzed. This one was his World Heroes Organization phone, so this had to be important. Checking it, he found two emails. The first one was about the death of a major Villain called Flect Turn, S-Rank, a genocider wannabe. All Might sighed. To think a man would waste his whole life for Villany. A tragedy, for sure. Along with him had died thousands of his followers, including an A-Class Villain and two B-Class.

The second one was about his killer, newly ranked as a high-class Villain, and his accomplices. Rody Soul, S-Rank on the ground of being the Villain's apparent right-hand man, and therefore a prime target for capture considering the amount of information he likely possessed. Beaux Ross, also known as Beros, A-Rank for her suspected involvement in several Humarise political murders, is apparently a turncoat to this other faction. Ena and Dio Serpenters, B-Rank for several counts of murder even before joining Humarise.

And Number One in the World Villains Ranking, newly ranked as an SS-Rank Villain since a simple S-Rank didn't seem enough, considering he had just killed one of those easily, All for-

All Might dropped the phone.

All Might dropped his 'beer'.

All Might also dropped himself, falling to the ground unconscious.

(XX)

Oh hey, look, the reasons why this arc couldn't be a sidestory.

I said it before and I'll say it again, having AfO as a protagonist was fun. The man has no conscience, no pity, no mercy. Just 'kill or subjugate the problem until it leaves'. I'll miss him while he conquers the rest of Humarise.

Meanwhile, we get the true big things from this arc: Beros, Rody and the Serpenters Twins are now in Japan with Shigaraki and All for One is now known around the world.
Including confirming his survival to All Might.
Please don't die, AM, I swear it will be fine.

Honestly the Beros-Hina-Shigaraki love triangle will be fun. Especially because it's Hina and Shigaraki on those two corners that don't touch. And Rody is right in the middle of it. This man can catch no breaks.

Back to Izuku, Himiko and the gang next week. Hope this was fun!