Author's note: Remember what i said about people on the server i am who has token to change part of my Story ?
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Chapter 39: Tormenting Tomura is Totally Tempting.
Invisible_Girl: Anyone still alive?
Earjack: … How can someone that kind, can be that cruel when you are studying?!
Gravity: The fuck happened? I mean, I was in the Momo group, and we had a good time. She even brought tea!
Invisible_Girl: Well, those with me for Izuku's session discovered he is really a perfectionist when teaching, and gives a lot of details.
Princess: How much?
Earjack: Too much. I mean, I totally understand now why Katsuki slammed his face in the desk, the first day. He saved us. Half of it was the teaching material, the other half, his own guess. This includes predictions on what should fall at the exam…
Invisible_Girl : And his theory that the legendary Arch-Arsonist might be the Ashen King's ancestor, having somehow managed to escape from jail and have children.
Earjack: Which is scary.
Princess: Don't let Todoroki hear him. He began explaining to me his theory that the Quirk Thief is real, and probably still alive. One of his pieces of evidence was the Egyptian pyramids. I was just asking how his lessons with Nedzu were going!
Invisible_Girl: I am compelled to ask. What.
Princess: Actually, he said there was a white-haired man, seen across the world since the dawn of quirk and there is no proof he died.
Frog_Girl: …Meanwhile, I have managed to make some progress with Maki. He is very cute when he tries to hide his embarrassment. Thanks Tooru for the assist.
Invisible_Girl: Always happy to help, girl!
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Meanwhile, at the new Inhuman Supremacist Party, two people were speaking. One of them was a young mutant, in his early twenties. His villain name was an old reference, advised by his mentor and patron, Terraformars. While for now he wasn't really known, as his ascension basically happened overnight, he was the new leader for the former S.M.A.S.H. Indeed, last night, he challenged Beast for leadership. And to make sure the man would accept to fight and not just laugh at him, Terraformars threw at him some of his children's heads.
The Wolf Lord had been quite angry at the sight. While he didn't care about any of them, the beast man was proud of his pack and didn't tolerate anyone but him hurting them.
As a result, the SS Villain, who once had managed Mizunaka under drugs to a standstill, leaped at the newcomer.
Everyone who watched the fight would confirm later it had been brutal… For Beast.
Terraformars wore his name perfectly as he was a mutant cockroach and looked exactly like the beasts in the manga of the same name. He also had the strength, speed, and durability coming with such a quirk. Sure, he was ugly as fuck, spooking everyone with his wide-open eyes. Sure he was someone who killed people as if they were bugs.
The real issue was his intellect. He wasn't on par with Nedzu as an example, but he was smart and ambitious. He was going to be the new lord of crime in Japan.
"Your protegee, Tomura, destroyed one of my centers, Sensei."
Speaking of that, Terraformars was talking to All For One, his mentor and the one who trained him in warfare, how to establish a crime ring and how to milk it. He was extremely unhappy as a result when he learned someone he was supposed to work with at a later date attacked him and was more a vigilante than a villain.
"I have to ask. Are you sure about your choice of the heir?"
Maybe it was disrespectful, but Terraformars only respected this man. Him and only he had his loyalty, for saving him all these years ago. He wasn't afraid of his freakish appearance and taught him what he needed to be the man he was now.
As a result, he truly cared about All For One's empire and Tomura apparently not being evil.
The silence in front of him made Terraformars he might have overstepped, but when Sensei spoke, it surprised him highly.
"Errare humanum est, perseverate diabolicum." All For One had hints of irritation in his voice, but if the cockroach was correct, it wasn't against him.
"Sensei?" The cockroach dared to hope…
"I want to give Tomura a chance, but you are right. I might have made an error and his League might be counterproductive. As a result… I might do something fun about it."
The ISP leader groaned as he knew that Sensei's humor involved people screaming in pain… And weird references.
"… Sensei, I might throw you off a window, with all respect, if you make a joke about your past."
"Well, I was going to make you, Purify, and Tomura fight to determine who was the Apex Legend among all of you but…"
Terraformars suddenly went to throw his mentor through windows for that joke, but he preferred to stare in disbelief at him.
"So… A battle royal among our three groups, but what does the last one standing win?"
"The heirdom to my empire, of course. All three of you had roughly the same training and hate the hero society as you should." All for One explained, to his protégé's joy. The man with the mask didn't mention that all three of them had their own potential as "extra-life". Terraformars's mutation made him able to survive the implementation of his quirk directly, Purify had a very interesting variation of Erasure, and Tomura had the extra irony of his lineage.
All three were perfectly viable for some hijacking. So, since Tomura was deviating from his initial plan, All For One would make him fight for his position, to make him kill people way more often.
Let's reawaken inside of him the bloodlust he had. That would make corrupt him correctly way more easily.
"…When does the game begin? Also, does that mean we can finally be a bit more overt about our actions? I mean. Gang Orca has been a pain recently and…" Terraformars liked to operate his hate group as a corporation, and honestly, he wanted to deregulate his market from the hero regulations.
"In one week. You can take that time to finish what you have begun."
The new ISP leader knew exactly what he was talking about. Finishing off the Beast Bloodline. Sure, the group wasn't a monarchy, but blood was very important, and letting one escape meant a faction could rise later to challenge him. It was easier to finish off all the remaining kids.
"It is going on quite well. The only missing one is a girl named Suto, but I have faith we will find her soon. And once we find where she is hidden, we will crush her and her hiding place at full strength.
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Re-Destro opened his new center for homeless people in Deika, one specifically opened as a safe space for heteromorphic quirked people. Rikiya was the leader of a centuries long conspiracy and he had time to evolve his ancestor's ideology, with new problems arising. One of them was the heteromorphic mutant. If one wanted to exercise freely its quirk, it also meant mutants deserved to be free to be what they were, without prejudice or discrimination. They needed a safe space to be protected.
Being smart about the ideology and not trusting it blindly. That was his own motto. Because, if you trusted blindly the whole "Let everyone use their quirk freely" you would have quickly crazy fucker like the Ashen King running around. Actually, Rikiya found the event quite relaxing, because he still needed to have another meeting on that subject with his shadow council. Apparently, rumors of an existing cult were proven true, and as a result, needed to be dealt with.
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Unknown to him, a certain wolf girl, named Suto, on the run, decided to hide there for the time being. Deika was such a quiet and nice town. Surely, she would be safe for a moment, right? However, she would need to stay secretive about her identity for now…
Though she knew it was only a matter of time before her father's killer found her. Honestly, she just wanted to get as far as possible from them, and she would be happy if she didn't have to hear about them ever again, but she knew them.
The ISP would never let her live and she was only going to stay here long enough to recover and establish a plan to get the fuck out of the country.
Surely, she wouldn't bring trouble to Deika?
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Meanwhile, at the League of Villains, people gathered around Toga. Well, all except Tomura, who was tired as he tried to be promoted to Platinum on LoL. Considering his yelling about some fucking ADC not doing their job, he didn't succeed.
"How did he manage to meet such a cute one?!" "THAT DAMN NORMIE!" Twice was angry and happy at the same time, somehow. To be fair, both parties agreed Tomura was damn lucky.
"I don't know, but I have to respect the skill. Our fearless leader is more competent than he lets on." Dabi had to admit he clearly didn't believe Tomura was that good but here was their proof. Their proof that a supervillain had somehow a relationship with one of the most promising heroes of the new generation.
"So… Do you think she is the one he wants us to meet this Saturday?" Toga asked, somehow hoping to meet Tamaki at the same time. It was nice to know someone who didn't care about her eating habits. She almost wanted to thank him by drinking his blood… But she was pretty sure that if she did that, her cover would blow up and Seijin would punish her. Bad girl. Stay calm.
Loonie laughed in the background, while she was feeding some rabbits running around in the bar, some discharging electricity, and another creating ice. Dabi liked to have that one on his knees, as its coldness felt nice and eased his burned skin. Truly, one of the best things at the LoV. The goddamn rabbits.
"Nah, Boss plans to make you meet one guy he would love to recruit for his League. However, he is still really useful as a quirk analyst. He is almost on par with Boss for strategy…" Loony liked to prepare her effects for her announcement. "And he is one of the best of U.A. first years!"
Suddenly, Dabi was internally screaming. Because, according to that profile, well… Odds were it was Shouto.
At the mere thought of his brother, Dabi's temperature rose a bit before calming down. Why did he feel the urge to kill? Oh right. Right, his father. It was all his father's fault.
—--
"... What do you mean, you made him saner, darling?"
"Exactly what I mean, Dad. Seriously, AVOID using mind control at all costs. It should be your last resort. Touya Todoroki is an actual psychopath and I made him a working, calmer and saner individual by focusing all his negativity on his dad."
Seijin, despite loving to mindfuck people, was smart about it. She did it like an artist, to control what her painting would become. She didn't like making psycho even more psycho, despite the rumors. She molded them into tools. When Touya first arrived in her lap, she had a lot to unravel, notably the fact the young boy tried once to kill his baby brother before his quirk appeared simply because of his hair.
The more she worked with Touya, the more it mattered to write an article about psychopaths. Hell, she actually wrote one and got a prize for it, because she had a rare young specimen available. However, she needed to warn her dad seriously about it. All For One loved to fuck with people but without caring how it could come back to bite him in the ass later. Thankfully, her dad listened to her in her matters of expertise… Just as much as he listened to his son about dental care (even All For One knew better than to make his dentist angry).
He bought for a high price a perfect tooth quirk for a very good reason.
"Very well. On a side note, do you still come Friday for dinner?"
"No, sorry dad. I might have a date with a nice man. Also, if he mysteriously disappears, I will be angry unless you have a very good reason!"
Seijin knew her dad and All For One liked to do his intimidation act. The issue was he also liked to make disappear any of her potential relationships that weren't up to his standard. So yes, she had to resort to threats sometimes…
As her only answer, Seijin got a hearty laugh from her dad.
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Aizawa sighed, as he graded each student's essay on the Dawn of Quirks. Most of the students brought very nice essays, which were only logical. Sure, some like Kaminari were among the 'idiots' of the class. However, people seemed to often forget that the 'dumbest' of UA still meant being among the best 1% of Japan.
Kaminari, as an example, was an excellent work of memorization and he tried to bring some of his insight into his copy. The issue was he still lacked some ground experience and needed to learn how the world worked, but the ideas were interesting.
Izuku's was a compilation of datasheets and some analysis on the subject Shouta saw once or twice in some scholar's thesis. Excellent but sometimes, too much information killed the purpose.
Bakugou's was simple, concise, and to the point, hence his excellent marks.
No, Aizawa's headache was Shouto's work and honestly… It scared him on some levels. The more he read it, the more he was inspired to make his own conspiracy theory board, and try to connect some links himself.
When he finished grading the work, Shouto had an excellent note, and Aizawa was now split between checking with Nedzu about something or not doing.
Against his better judgment, he decided to ask the mad rat.
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Surprising Nedzu was hard, as the rat seemed to have an intricate intelligence network on par with the Public Safety Bureau or the HPSC. However, Aizawa's question made him stop drinking his tea for a singular second. Aizawa was one of his favorite humans, if only because he was one of the best to nap with.
"Come again, Aizawa?"
"Are you, or not, one of Destro's followers from the Dawn of Quirks Era and responsible for things like the freezing of Harajuku, or Akihabara Great Cleansing?"
Nedzu drank his tea and gave his best reassuring smile to his teacher.
"Of course not, Aizawa! What makes you think such a thing?"
Aizawa sighed, some weight off his shoulder. Yes, of course it was an absurd theory.
"Shouto's work. I don't know if he believes what he writes, but he has learned from his father how to make a convincing case apparently." Because Shouta clearly recognized Endeavor's style in Shouto's thesis on the subject. Probably because Endeavor was forced to do only paperwork after his injury against Muscular?
That and Nedzu's lesson clearly honed Shouto with his father's methodology and his grandpa's craziness. As a result, they had the future king of conspiracy theories.
Both men chuckled a bit, before Aizawa went back to his work, while Nedzu sighed and pulled from his desk an old picture. He was clearly smaller at that time, and he was on the shoulder of a tall-man with a long nose. A very old friend, who had saved his life. Sadly, their view of the world disagreed in the long run, and he had been very sad when his friend got executed. Still, Nedzu had never been an official member of Destro's group.
As for Akihabara, he had no remorse. They had canceled his favorite show before the end.
Good Ol' times.
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On Saturday, Izuku stretched himself to appreciate the sun, as he went down his favorite mall. Tooru had a girl meeting for once, and both of them agreed they still needed their own activities separately. Still, Izuku had a good idea of what Tooru was planning to do that day. Something involving Momo's manor, a lot of laser pistols, and things like that.
When Izuku opened the Den of the Drake's door, he saw the patron smiling at him. After the festival and his epic showdown with Katsuki, Izuku got sponsored by Momo's family, as they owned most of the card industry. Having a card themed hero was good and as a result, Izuku could, up to a certain limit each week, bill them for rare and precious cards. The patron loved when Izuku came, because it meant he would have a lot to research, and it was a good way to have some money.
"Tomura and his friends are waiting for you, Midoriya."
…Tomura? Friends? Something didn't compute for a few seconds until Izuku got in the back of the shop and saw his friend.
"FOR GOD'S SAKE, BURNED SHIT! YOU HAVE TO USE REPUTATION POINTS BEFORE SUMMONING A HERO!"
"THEN EXPLAIN BETTER YOU SHITHEAD!"
"I TEACH WELL ENOUGH! JIN IS PLAYING PERFECTLY FINE!"
Izuku, and the rest of the local dudes were all wondering who was Tomura's friends, between one who had an even worst face than Tomura at his beginning, a genki vampire girl, and a man with a strange mask. Loony, with an actual reward on her head, couldn't come, but she trusted Himiko as her proxy.
"... Tomura, don't kill people here, and don't scare the clients."
"Izuku!"
Dabi clearly relaxed, when he saw that his new Boss' friend wasn't Shouto (why were some parts of him disappointed?). Himiko was already smiling and waving at him, and both Twice nodded, as they played against each other.
Somehow, both were losing.
"Wow, I never thought Tomura truly had any friends besides me, the group, and maybe Ne…"
"Izuku, you are my friend, but don't give them such details." Tomura warned, not knowing Himiko had already spread the news among the group.
"Okay, okay… So… Nice to meet you all. I see someone with a fire quirk and a birth defect, two complex mutant quirks, and someone with a duplication quirk. Damn, they are rare."
"Thank you!" "It is a fucking curse!" Both clones yelled at the same time, making Izuku raise an eyebrow.
Tomura turned toward Izuku, and he explained.
"Jin had an incident with his quirk, and at the moment he doesn't know if he is the real one or just a clone by-product. It is not well on his psyche as you can guess. Don't you have any theories that could prove to him he is the real one or something?"
Tomura knew Izuku was a fucking nerd about it. He probably had already read something on similar cases and…
"Well, of course. According to Mc Allistair's studies, last year, it has been discovered and proved that most creation and duplication quirks don't work when the user is asleep. Also, there is an important difference between duplicating/creating…"
Tomura sighed and snapped his finger.
"Long story short, Izuku. If Jin was a clone, he should have dissolved into goo when he went asleep, that's what you are saying. Right?"
Izuku happily nodded and Twice began to smile, as it seemed to be a light at the end of a very dark tunnel.
"Of course ! I mean, there is only one exception recorded to that rule and it would be very bad luck if he was related to Shin Bubawaigara!"
At that moment, when they saw Twice's face falling, Tomura and the rest knew. Izuku fucked up.
"What?" That needed an explanation, one Izuku was happy to give.
"Well, Shin Bubawaigara was known to have the only permanent duplication living quirk. He had a permanent body double who was him, with his mind and everything. Effectively two bodies and one mind, though he could merge if he wanted."
"... I think it was my grand-father." "WE ARE SURE IT IS HIM! FUCK!" Twice didn't take kindly to the news, until he got hugged by Himiko, who tried to calm him down, while Izuku was racking his brain…
"Well, there goes that theory. The other option would be finding a good card." Izuku said, not one to give up. Tomura quickly understood what he meant, while the LoV were wondering what they were talking about.
"Oh right. If we can find a card that allows us to seek through the illusions, but not dispel it, we can make sure Jin is the real one without dispelling him if he is a clone!"
"Tomura, I think I speak for everyone when I say this. What are you both talking about?" Dabi was wondering what they were talking about after all.
"Izuku, here, can manifest what is written on a card in real life." Tomura explained while the green haired teen smiled and pulled from his bag a big book with a lot of cards from various games.
"Wait, so, I have a Pikachu card…" Himiko asked before Izuku summoned a Pikachu who was promptly hugged tightly by Toga. "OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE BEST QUIRK!"
"Thanks!" Izuku said, before continuing to check on his collection, while the others understood even more their chief choice. Nice guy, without any prejudice and a very strong quirk. Toga smiled and was going to ask something before Tomura added.
"He is already taken, and if you try to make a move on him, you will never see his girlfriend coming."
The fact that every neckbeard in the shop nodded solemnly was strange, but Toga knew when to back down. Meanwhile, Izuku found a card, but he looked very annoyed at Tomura.
"You owe me one, Tomura. This card is extremely rare, and I wanted to use it on my date."
Tomura smiled, as Izuku pulled the Lens of Truth from Ocarina of Time. Nintendo had released in the past some TCG of the famous license, hence why they existed… But also why they cost a hefty penny.
The young man used the lens to look at Twice and…
"It's fine, he is a real guy," Izuku said, without any problems. "I would still recommend seeing a therapist, though."
Tomura and Spinner noted quietly in their mind that all three of their friends had a little reaction, at the word therapist. It was apparently something worth digging a bit…
"Though, I will find a favor later, Tomura. For now I have enough on my mind…" Izuku sighed, as he pulled his deck for their favorite game. "I need to let my mind on other things."
"Pff, as if it can be that hard." Tomura said, laughingly, as everyone watched them play and Dabi was still trying to wonder if he would be in danger if he burned either a smoke or a neckbeard. "I mean, what's the worst on your mind? Exams?"
"Tomura, next week, according to my intel, I will fight one of my hero teachers, so it is actually a good reason to worry. However, the real thing in my mind is something else."
"Oh? Do tell, Izuku." At that moment, Tomura didn't know he would be the one who would have a hard time sleeping.
"I discovered I have a missing cousin, named Tenko Shimura and I have no idea where he might be… Or if he is alive." Izuku explained with a sigh, missing his friend screaming suddenly internally, while Toga connected some dots… And suddenly, I was confronted with a big question. To report or not report?
Because apparently, that was a big thing.
That day, Tomura lost for the first time all afternoon against Izuku, while Twice was seen enjoying a few stuff and being a bit reassured. He was still unsure if Izuku was right, but knowing there was a high percentage of him being the real one made him feel better.
Meanwhile, when alone with Kurogiri, Tomura yelled.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH KUROGIRI, I ALMOST KILLED ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER!?!"
Sweet. Now, he had something to report to his master. But first, let's calm his boy…