IZUKU SKIRT A WILD WIND
CHAPTER 28
PATRON LIST
$7 TIER: Joseph Morrison
UWABAMI HERO AGENCY
SOUNDPROOF OFFICE
THIRD PERSON POV
To say that Uwabami was incredibly pissed at Ingenium was an understatement to say the very least right now. "HOW COULD YOU BE SUICIDAL ENOUGH TO RISK A FIGHT AGAINST STAIN!" She yelled at him as he sat down on the floor with his hands on his lap as his legs had gone numb by this point. Nezu who was watching this conversation from a laptop in her soundproof office for private or important meetings had kept quiet. "YOU ARE LUCKY YOU DID NOT GET YOURSELF KILLED TRYING TO CHASE DOWN HIS DAUGHTER, APRENTICE, WHOEVER THE HELL THEY WERE!" Uwabami continued to scream at him which was out of character for her under normal circumstances. These however were far from normal circumstances.
"Now, now give him a break. I can understand his panic based off the information he got at the time, we have Eraserhead and Vlad searching the area now." Nezu calmed her down for the elder Ida brother's sake. Going over his notes quickly while Uwabami calmed down with a glass of cold he was less than happy. If Ingenium was right, and Nezu was confident he was, then that meant they needed to pick up the trail fast. Fortunately, it is clear that Itsuka Kendo is alive, so at least they could confidently confirm that. But this event added a whole new layer of complexity and seriously made Nezu reconsider whether he should call off the mission for the three students. Despite all the effort and resources, they had invested into it already.
"I know I screwed up but if I may speak again?" Ingenium spoke up getting the other two attention. But before Uwabami could say something like he did not get a say now after the stunt he pulled Nezu urged him on. "Even though the level of danger has increased we know to expect now for Stain to not be alone. So long as we have Grand Torino and the other heroes in the area to back us up, we should be able to handle it. I mean, can we really risk Stain child or apprentice getting away?" He said not liking he suggested to continue to put the children in danger but knew they had to catch the young girl and Stain now.
Nezu and Uwabami had a hard time trying to think of an argument that let the best chance to catch the hero killer and his sidekick vanish. After all if they did not catch this mystery girl they risked a second Stain being created, and she would only grow stronger over time. Sadly, the man who sold her the food did not get a good look at her face and the cameras he had failed to pick up her face as well. All they knew was that they were likely a girl around the age of their students, and that she likely had a physical enhancement type of quirk like Stain most likely did. And if they were parent and child, she will likely be far stronger than her father in a few years easily once her body reaches it physical prime. "We stay the course and inform the children of the elevated danger but continue to keep the Kendo situation a secret for now." Nezu said making the last part explicitly clear to them.
"But sir, what about her classmates-" Uwabami was about to say before Nezu raised a paw cutting her off.
"Yes, I know they are worried for her and that it is morally wrong to keep her current situation a secret from them." Nezu admitted to her, not liking the fact he had to hide it from her classmates. After all, despite logic telling him it is necessary he could not help but feel bad for his students that he and the other teachers are lying to their faces. "But we cannot risk panic from the public due to an info leak, after all her fight in the sport festival got her well into the public eye. Even now we are taking a considerable risk for information leaks as it is, so her search party cannot be expanded any further." He told them making it clear they were at their limit. Nezu was never one for religion but still found himself silently praying for her safety till they found her.
NORMAL HERO: MANUAL AGENCY
THIRD PERSON POV
Masaki Mizushima also known as the Normal Hero: Manual was never exceptionally strong nor popular when compared to other heroes. The reason he got his title as a hero was because he was to put it simply, average in all areas in terms of being a hero. His water manipulation was useful to putting out small to some medium fires but was practically useless against large flames. In terms of speed, power, and combat technique he was one again… average as a hero. So, he was neither weak like most rescue specific heroes in terms of combat but neither was he up there with the combat specialists. His teamwork was good all things considered with other heroes and even had a few sidekicks himself. However, he rarely worked together with other heroes so his teamwork skills rarely saw use. To sum it all up he was average, in fact he was so average it was painful for him, though things seemed to pick up for him a bit when Ingenium brother accepted his offer.
He had worked with the student brother plenty of times before to catch muggers and a few bank robbers, but Ingenium always ended up grabbing them along with the praise. Now he was by no means resentful he had accepted long ago that he would always be a support hero who assisted others. However, something seemed off to him about the younger Ida brother since he arrived, still he was a hard worker.
Tenya Ida always tried to conduct himself in a manner befitting his family, though he had to admit to himself that he had disgraced his family this time. Instead of choosing them cause he felt like he could learn from them, he chose them cause they were the only one based in Hosu. Hosu was important to him because it was suspected by the heroes, or at least according to his brother notes he peeked at that the heroes suspected Stain was in Hosu. Expecting that the dangerous task his brother said he was not yet ready to help with was that he decided to get as close as possible to help him. The fact that this hero had helped his brother in the past meant that he could help him when the time came to assist them.
But now that he heard from Manual that the heroes in Hosu have been warned of Stain not fighting alone he was even more worried. "The moment you come out of hiding… I am going to be there to help my brother take you down." Tenya Ida told himself making a fist with his right hand as he sat on his hotel bed.
LOV BAR
THIRD PERSON POV
Today was a rather unusual day for the League Of Villains as Tomura had invited a guest for Kurogiri to teleport from a rendezvous point today. The meeting in question pertained to one with the infamous Hero Killer: STAIN who for some reason has gone quiet just after the UA sports festival ended.
"Do you think he paused his game to level up a noob?" Tomura asked his misty butler who has been with him since All For One, his master or sensei as he called them began training him.
Kurogiri took a moment to respond as always making sure to word right due to his young master gamer language he used. "It is possible, though if UA had kicked out a student it would have been on the news by now so I doubt it would be anyone we would know of." Kurogiri told Tomura as doubted any student of UA would be sane enough to side with the hero killer of all people. Though there was a possibility, it could only really exist if a UA student was kicked out. After all what convoluted or disturbed reason would a hero student with a bright future ahead of them have for asking the hero killer to train them. "In any case we will find out soon enough, I believe I am scheduled to meet them at the pickup point in a few minutes." He said seeing a grin on Tomura face that meant something bad would happen.
As Kurogiri said a few minutes later he met Stain and as they expected the person, they expected to be a young apprentice. Though they could tell she was a young girl in her teens based off her figure there was little to nothing else they could discern. For her lower half she was wearing knee high brown leather boots, black thigh high stockings, and dark green shorts that left just a small amount of the stockings left exposed due to their length. From this they could see her leg muscles were well developed so she was probably equal to or faster than Tomura. For her top half she was wearing a tight but stretchable black workout long sleeve shirt, and a dark green paintball jacket with a hood to cover her torso. She also had pair of camouflage-colored gloves with extra grip with the ends of her sleeves being tucked into them. Finally, her face was covered by a bandana, or rather the lower half of her face was covered by it while she had a second bandana covering her forehead and concealing her hair within her hood. The only thing they could be certain of was that she was female, in her teens, fair-skinned, and had green eyes.
"Greetings Stain and… who is this young lady?" Kurogiri asked their guest curious as to her name or whatever nickname she was going by.
With a grunt he responded to the butler. "This is my apprentice; her name is Mordred." He said recognizing their curiosity to the obvious nickname. "So why did you want to talk to me?" Stain asked wondering their purpose for contacting him was.
"Of course, before we get down to business would either of you like a drink before I start?" Tomura asked remembering what Sensei said about starting negotiations. With nods of no from both, he continued. "Very well, currently Izuku Midoriya potential is rotting away under the rot of hero society. Since we intend to show the world what happens when so called 'Justice' gets corrupted we thought to shelter them from any further rot." He said following his sensei advice an using words that his target before would like to hear.
"So how does killing kids remove the rot? Care to explain?" Stain said giving the slightest of sideway glances at Mordred seeing her tense for the briefest of seconds in anger. But his look calmed her down before their guests could notice it as their attention was on him currently.
Tomura was annoyed that he would even feel the need to question why he decided to kill those hero brats being taught by UA. "I tear down what I don't like!" He said continued before Kurogiri could cut him off. "That way I can build it back up the way it should be! Those brats deserved to die for trying to help protect those filthy heroes!" Tomura finished off nearly shouting at Stain before he was attacked.
However, it was not him but his apprentice that leapt forward wanting to attack, granted he did to, but he was trying to retrain himself for her sake. "Watch out his hands!" Stain told her to be safe in case she missed how he was holding onto his glass with four fingers instead of five. Ducking low she dodged his swipe and uppercut him which caused him to jump back, then pulling out a knife she jumped onto his torso. Stabbing him in the shoulder before jumping back to dodge another swipe pulling her knife out, she passed it to Stain. Who at this point had already cut and paralyzed Kurogiri before paralyzing Tomura. "It is clear you lack conviction and are no more than common thugs, take us back to Hosu this instant bartender." Stain said to Kurogiri as Tomura was struggling to move on the floor cursing them both out as they left. Getting back to their temporary hideout in silence Stain waited till she removed her bandana to make his move.
AFO LAIR
ALL FOR ONE POV
Despite being ready to intervene in a moment's notice I was glad that it was not necessary to do so as Stain was oddly enough not interested in any sort of fight today. Rather it seemed to him Stain apprentice was the one that seemed too eager for a fight which odd based from his analysis of them. The way they looked and talked to this Mordred, however… something was wrong. "It is odd that he took on an apprentice seemingly out of nowhere. Is she truly just an apprentice?" I could not help but ask myself out loud as the way they interacted was too odd for me to keep in my head. All I could tell for certain was that they were close as master and student. Yet the way he clearly cared for her seemed to lean more on the paternal side. For a moment when he told her to watch Tomura hands it almost sounded like a parent worried for their child safety.
"There is no record of him having a daughter… then again knowing his ideals I doubt he would ever risk marriage to leave a trail back to his loved ones." I thought aloud trying to rationalize a reason for him having a daughter. "Oh well, it will be interesting to see what Tomura has plan with those Nomu. I doubt he will let Stain live after that humiliation though, a shame but I can use this teach them how to force a dead man to become his ally. We just have to make sure we kill this daughter or apprentice first, which ever she is." I said to myself laughing at the idea of such an unhinged fool coming to reality begging me for mercy to spare the child. Then again, maybe we could keep her around as a personal maid for Izuku Midoriya after we get our hands on him?
HOSU
ABANDONNED BUILDING
THIRD PERSON POV
Slamming her into the wall he held her up using his forearm choking her a bit but not enough to make her pass out. "What the hell was that? You could have died!" Stain asked her, upset that she had ignored his warning to stay in the background. The look she gave him made it clear she was not regretful of her actions in the slightest, so he dropped her. "Well since you don't seem to feel like apologizing, did you learn anything useful from your observations of my meeting?" He asked her curious as to if listening to her insistent request to observe a meeting with a villain was worth it. It was not inherently a bad idea to him, if anything he felt it was better for her growth as a hero to learn how to make deals with villains if she ever has to do undercover work.
Kendo after getting in her lungs at last took a moment of silence to gather her thoughts about his questions. "I… I have learned from observing him that small gestures or actions are important for starting a meeting." She said thinking about how it was odd he was trying to socialize despite clearly forcing himself to, which is what made her realize the importance of such actions. "Though I am sorry, I know it was stupid of to attack him but…" Kendo could not continue as she knew her reason in hindsight was stupid. This stopping of her talking gave way to a wave of tears flooding her eyes as she cried at her own weakness thinking back to what her father told her.
"But what?" Stain pushed for more from her.
"The way he talked… it easily could have been my friends from my class he killed and I…" this time stopping in silence for good she was unable to force down a tears trying to escape the corners of her eyes.
Stain understanding that he had pushed her too far let out a sigh as he patted her head confusing her. "I understand your anger since he made it clear he would not have hesitated to kill your classmates either. And I know you are still a child, but you need to learn to compartmentalize your emotions and force down the emotions caused by your injured comrades when you're in a fight or else you will die. Either by making rash decisions and letting your guard down, or simply freezing up from trying to deal with those emotions on the battlefield. OK?" He told her making sure to take care when explaining this to her. Though a hero she may very well be, she was still in the end a child so expecting her to control herself like an adult like him does would be foolish on his part. Still, that did not mean she was above scolding, if for no other reason than to make sure she learned her lesson properly and does not repeat this mistake anytime soon. 'I wonder if these feelings are what All Might feel since he began teaching at UA?' Stain asked himself internally as he hoped his idol, the man who inspired his crusade to restore hero society would approve of how he is handling her.
That night there was no training as Stain simply listened to her and allowed her to get all of her emotions about her classmates off her chest. This included the guilt she felt from making them and the teachers at UA worry about her safety by not talking to any of them. As much as a rush as he was in to pass on his knowledge to someone who could use it to become a great hero. He knew full well that the moment he began teaching things like this were a part of his responsibilities. And he was a man who never half assed any of his responsibilities, especially one that he knew All Might would approve of.
