Open World: Heroes

by BioQuill

Izuku Midoriya was a quirkless child in a world of super heroes and villains. When his idol, the number one hero, tells him he can not become a hero without a quirk, he finally gives into his own demons, and jumps to take his own life. Fate, however, has other plans, and Izuku will soon learn that quirks are just one way to become a hero, in an endless reality of possibility.

13. Chapter 13: Diffrence Between Dark&Evil

Alright… where is Saw? We're meeting up with The Saint today…

He wasn't at the bar, or the smoke bar, or his new place.

"Seriously, where the hell did Saw disappear to?" I frowned.

I walked through the town, looking around for that Ram-Goat for almost two hours now. Damn it, where is he?!

As I was running through the town again I almost tripped as I forced myself to a halt. I spotted Saw… at a coffee shop. He was sitting at a table across from what looked to be an anthropomorphic dog man, the dog man in question had dirty blonde hair, across his body and head, brown floppy ears, and four arms. The two seemed to be talking and… holy crap is Saw… giving a genuine smile?

He can do that?!

"A miracle has been born on Armageddon apparently." I muttered, walking over to Saw. "Hey Saw."

"Greenie! What do you want…" He said, his smile dropping to a groan as I arrived. "I'm kinda busy here…"

"I couldn't miss out on a genuine miracle of you smiling so genuinely." I answered. "But we're supposed to be meeting up with Saint today."

"Piss off." He huffed.

"Yeah yeah," I said while turning to the big dog. "Hi there, I'm Midoriya, what's your name?" I asked politely.

"Scotch." He replied. "Aren't you the hero who said he'd help out and just got his ass whooped instead?"

Saw laughed and I frowned…

"I'm the one that's letting you all live in my house and away from the Chaos Guilds so yes, I am." I said to the four armed dog. "So if you'll excuse me, I need to drag Saw from his impromptu date to do some important stuff."

"We've been here for the past half hour." Saw said flatly. "And before that we were at Scotch's place."

"And I've been looking for you for over two hours." I frowned. "So are we going or not?"

"Can I wrap up my breakfast date first?" He huffed.

"That would be the nice thing to do." Scotch added. "Plus, you offered this place for us. While I am thankful to be living amongst grass and under a blue sky, it almost went down the drain because you bit off more than you could chew."

"At least I bothered to do something to make your lives easier." I said, losing what bit of patience I had for Saw very quickly. "And you can wrap it up since I'm a kind person." I said simply.

"Well, to be fair no one has ever considered living in a Planet room before." Scotch added, making me raise a brow. "I'll tell you later. Now, what was this about your time in the Nevada Gorgons Saw?"

I let the two finish things while I waited a distance away… no one has considered living in these places before? Why? There's a sun, moon, clean air, space for… a lot of stuff.

Why wouldn't anyone wanna make use of these things like this?

"Alright, so what's so important Greenie?" Saw asked as he walked up to me.

"Strange, maybe it has something to do with the engine? I never really learned what happens when it's turned off or destroyed while people are inside it…" I thought to myself, before shaking my head from my thoughts. "We're meeting The Saint today, remember?" I inquired.

"Oh yeah, 'he who knows everything you don't know, including how to win'. Alright let's go." Saw said, heading for the exit.

This is gonna be a long… day…

"If I have to spar this asshat I swear he will know pain…" I mentally growled and followed after him.

We caught up with Delilah and met back up with The Saint in The Nightmare, outside the lab we raised a few days ago. Well, he and I did and found Saw in.

"I am glad you three made it. I was getting worried I got the date wrong when none of you were here earlier." The Saint said.

"Greenie Interrupted my breakfast date and eventually let me finish it." Saw spoke up.

"Ah. Fair enough. In any case, Saw, I am here to offer you a means of immortality, the same I and Midoriya have. Mortal Sun."

"... Is it as strong as the one David has?" Saw asked.

"No."

"Do you have one that is?"

"I have some that are on par and on different ends of the Immorality Abilities list."

"But Mortal Sun is one of the best of the bunch right?" I inquired.

"Yes, but I can tell Saw doesn't want it just for the immortality. He needs something that can rival David's fire." The Saint said.

"What do ya got?" Saw asked.

"That depends."

"Cause apparently his fire can be seen like a raging wildfire from half the planet away." I brought up.

"Tell me, how does magic work back home, Saw?" The Saint asked.

"There are five base magics. All other magics branch off and cross these five in some way. Light, Dark, Nature, Chaos, and Null." Saw explained.

"I see. I imagine Light and Dark were opposed to one another as was Chaos and Nature?"

"Yeah. And no one is really sure about Null. If it wasn't for that mouse kid David and his group had I'd have never known a human, or, Nokori, could make use of that magic. It's incredibly rare."

"Hmm…what is Null?" I inquired, wanting to know more about the magic they're able to use.

"Well, where I too take a guess, in this reality, we call it Void." The Saint said, making me flinch. "Null is one of it's other names, more commonly used in ancient times."

"Ah. Well in any case, my magic affinity is Chaos. Chaos Magic affinity havers like me are known for two things. Absurdly high magic reserves, and an inability to cast magic properly. Where I to try and cast one spell I could cast something else entirely, nothing would happen or something completely unexpected can happen. Doc said he managed to link my mana to my saw blade production and such. It's why I never run out of them." Saw stated.

"That sounds fair." I nodded. "And Void is…very scary."

"Wuss." I heard Saw cough.

"In that case, I have the perfect ability in mind." The Saint said. He checked his Assistant and pulled out… I'm sorry is that a still beating heart with eyes and teeth?! "The Heart of A Chaos Elemental."

"... That's not gonna fit…" Saw said, grabbing his own chest. That heart was almost twice the size of his chest.

"That's what she said." Delilah said, sharing a quick hi-five with Saw.

It scares me how much they get along…

"So how will that help Saw?" I asked carefully.

"Once he takes the Heart, it will boost his natural Chaos Magic to far greater levels, and also allow him control over it, allowing him to use it to cast spells. As an added bonus, it will grant him the benefits of an immortal. His immortality though will be different from your own or Delilah's."

"How different?" I inquired.

"While you burst in flames to regenerate, Delilah simply vanishes once out of sight and reappears whole, and healed. His regeneration will vary. At times he will just regrow the lost or damaged injuries and limbs, others they will seek to reattach, or he can simply reappear next to the nearest source of chaos in his party."

"So me." Delilah nodded.

"Yes."

"Fair enough." I nodded.

"So how does… that…" Saw asked, pointing at the heart. "Fit in… this…" He motioned to his own body.

"Take it and bite into it. Once you do, it will turn into energy and flow into your body." The Saint said.

"... This world has weird rules for stuff." Saw said as he managed to take the heart and place it before him. With a shrug, he bit into it. The heart poofed into a haze of purple energy that all seemed to flow into Saw. He blinked a few times and felt himself over. "That's it? Kind of… anti climactic…"

"It's what happens after it takes effect that's the more…concerning part." I said honestly.

"Being what?" He asked.

"The test." The Saint said. He snapped his fingers and Saw's head slid off his neck.

"Ouch!" His head screamed. What the?! "Woah… this is freaky… this must be that varying Regen thing you mentioned…" Saw said as his body's arms moved. "Woah, can still move those. Can't feel them though… huh. Weird."

"Hmm…" I hummed. "While your head's off your body…can you still feel this?" I said, using one of the Buzz saw's I can produce and cutting off Saw's arm.

"No, but I think I can do this…" He said, his now severed arm managing to lift itself at the elbow, then flip me off. "Ha! Oh that's gonna be fun."

"Enough you two." Delilah said, picking up Saw's head and arm and putting them back on his body where they immediately reattached. "You can try kill each other and bicker like an old married couple later."

"Well, me being petty was a minor part, as I was curious if he did feel the pain after he lost his head." I said, making me tap my chin in thought. "Though it's a tad strange that you lose your ability to feel pain when your head is cut off, but your still able to control your body…"

"That's Chaos Magic for you." The Saint chuckled. "You'll come to learn it doesn't follow most or even any laws of magic. Now then, onto the lesson for today."

"What's the lesson?" I inquired, knowing Saw having more Chaos magic is just going to give me a bigger headache.

"Firstly, Delilah, Saw, you two will be sent together on a mission to fight and clear out the Catacombs two miles north of here." The Saint stated.

"Kitty and me? I can work with that." Saw shrugged.

"Take care Midoriya." Delilah said, giving me a quick kiss before she and Saw headed north.

Once they were far enough away the Saint spoke again. "Now then, you Midoriya."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Your lesson for today, is to greet your inner Darkness, and meet the half of you that even Jaku would find a vile piece of work." He said, making me gulp.

"Uh…are you sure you don't want me to go and help Saw and Delilah with the Catacombs?" I asked nervously.

"Bring out your keyblade."

I sighed and pulled out my Keyblade.

"Now then, you said you lived with a Time Walker, so, what do you know of them? Keyblades?"

"I'm not sure on the finer details with the weapons, I was given the basics on what they are." I said honestly. "Weapons mostly made out of Pure Light, able to harm all kinds of magical beings, can be used as a sword or as a magical conduit, and can shapeshift if you have a good enough mastery over it." I said honestly.

"That's a rough general summary. First and foremost, Keyblades choose their Masters. Meaning every Keyblade is sentient."

I looked back at Starlight… then… that means… when it broke…

"O-oh…" I muttered in horror. "I…didn't know…" I muttered in growing horror, feeling like I shouldn't even be holding Starlight now with…what I let happen to it.

"Bear in mind," The Saint continued. "There is little a Keyblade Wielder can do to make their Keyblade abandon them. Even in cases of breakings like yours experienced, they will remain until they or their wilder are lifeless. Experienced Key Bearers or Keyblade Masters all describe their Keyblades the same. Loyal. And Starlight here, despite being a placeholder, is loyal to all those who wield a Keyblade."

I looked down to Starlight, and gently squeezed it's handle harder in thanks for still being here with me even after I got it broken. "Thank you." I nodded. "So, how does this help me with my…inner darkness?"

"Keyblades are known as The Weapon of the Heart. They are able to read their welders intentions in fighting. So long as you don't wish to kill, they will inflict damage but never injury onto your opponents." He stated. "As a result, despite the vast majority being made from Light, all can use various magics, and, based on their wielder, attacks infusing the Light and Dark of the heart. The path to Memory Incineration and a bloodless victory first starts with understanding and facing your own Darkness."

"Well…I suppose that makes sense." I nodded. "So…how do I start facing my own Darkness?"

"You are going to take part in what is known as a Dive to the Heart. It's like… a representation of your Heart, your being. You will see a stain glass tower peeking out the darkness, and on this glass will be you, and those who you hold dear and feel close to, and even, those who you will come to be close to. These spots will be blank."

"Oh yeah, I remember seeing that." I said, making the Saint raise an eyebrow. "It was when me and Jaku…fought Izukie in front of the Admin of Hearts." I said honestly.

"I see, then you should have an idea of what to expect. Just be warned, as you change as a person so does your heart, represented by the stain glass. The Station of Awakening. It might be different than you last saw."

"Well…alright." I gulped. "So how do I do this again? I…kind of had help doing it the last time I did it."

"Take hold of your keyblade in both hands, close your eyes and clear your mind. Let the sensation of falling take hold. When you feel you are falling with your whole body, only then will you open your eyes."

I nodded, grabbing Starlight with both hands and closed by eyes, taking a deep breath and trying to clear my mind. "Just…relax, clear my mind and head into my Heart…"

I took long deep breaths. Trying to keep my mind blank and relax. Breathe in, out, in, out…

---

The falling sensation wasn't scary, it was… calming. I opened my eyes, seeing I was surrounded by darkness, and approaching was…

The stained glass was mostly green, an emerald green that held the small headshots of Delilah, Jaku, even Saw, oddly. There were three empty headshot circles. Then there was me. My image was cloaked in a green fire as part of the design, my Hunter Shadow like eye open and looking off somewhere…

What I noticed immediately in this scene was the blank white space right over my chest. Like an erased or missing piece.

I landed on the glass-like floor with a sudden slow fall that let me land on my feet with no sense of harm or even off balance.

"Why are people missing here?" I wondered.

I looked over to the empty spots, then over to the missing piece in my stained glass self's chest.

What happened here?

"Wait…isn't Izukie supposed to be here?" I asked in confusion, finding that especially concerning cause I was sure she was apart of my heart…now sure, technically we fuzed together kind of but…ugh! This Heart stuff is so confusing…

"It's quite irritating isn't it?" I jumped, looking around. That was… my voice? "Over here." I looked around… I swore that came from, "Yes, here at the edge."

I walked over and looked over the edge. "Uh…hello?"

What I saw surprised me. I saw me. Not as I am now, but me when I arrived. My school uniform, my backpack. This other me was paler, their hair fully black rather than black and green, and their eyes were a chilling crimson red. He was standing perfectly straight on the side of this tower. "Hi."

"Uh…hi there." I said carefully. "What are you doing over the edge?"

"Hanging out." He laughed. With a step he was on the platform properly and in front of me. He was even the same age I was back then… "Been waiting to meet you." He said, stepping around me and looking around.

"Sorry it took me so long…just been busy." I said sheepishly. "So…you must be my Darkness?"

"Yeah." He nodded, turning around and looking at me. "Been wanting to tell you something for a while now. I mean, I'm amazed it took this long. All those bursts of anger, snaps, drowning the Phoenix, I'm amazed you didn't realize sooner I was trying to get your attention."

"I'm sorry…I was stressed and tired of people treating me like crap, plus I was in a lot of pain…"

"Oh no, that was all me." He said, making me blink. "What? Did you genuinely believe you of all people could do that without my influence?" He laughed. "Don't sell yourself so highly now."

"What?" I asked in surprise. "But…I was just upset…"

"More than upset, you were enraged." He smirked. "I should know. Where do you think all those years of bottled up anger and resentment, self loathing and self hatred and jealousy, Envy, and Wrath all festered and was kept while you spent so much of your life wearing a mask of paper thin hopes and dreams, trying to hide how broken and alone you really felt." He finished, frowning at me now.

"It should have went to all my training." I frowned.

That made them laugh again. "Oh is that what you think? You think it's just that easy to erase that pain? Erase the memories? The SCARS! The scars we hid from mom all so Kacchan didn't get in trouble!" He shouted, making me flinch. "You really are an idiot." He said, running a hand through his hair. "We're too broken to fix that easily. All you did was glue the pieces of another just as broken as us to form something stable."

Izukie!

"N-no!" I snapped. "I got past that way back when." I stated. "I was mending myself when I first got here, I got past my Scars when I took down Bakugo in that Training sim so handily I saw the fear in his eyes…"

"And it tasted… so good." He smiled again, laughing some more. "That was when I realized, and you ignored… inflicting pain, it's fun. No wonder Kacchan did it all the time to us. You got over your fears, but in its place something far more devious was born. Just imagine all the pain you can cause, it's no wonder you hate Saw so much. He reminds you of Kacchan, and you want to make him hurt."

"Why in Mother's name would I want that!?" I snapped at my Darkness. "I don't like Saw cause he's an ass, not like Kacchan, but I don't want to hurt him…I'm not a monster."

He laughed again. "Yes we are. See, there is a reason I look like this." He said, starting to walk in a circle. "I'm who you'd have become, had we never come to this reality. A fall like that could kill a lesser person, but we aren't a lesser person. And you can't deny that anything I said isn't true, because I exist here, in this place. We all do."

We?

Suddenly from the edges behind him, two more beings climbed up and over the edge of the station. One looked like… Izukie. Heavily scarred and looking mangled and twisted like a corpse… the other looked like a Hunter Shadow, but their eyes glowed a deep green.

"What the hell is happening?" I asked worriedly. "And who are these two?"

"These are my siblings. Your demons." He smiled, motioning to the mangled Izukie body. "Lust." He motioned to the green eyed Hunter Shadow. "Wrath." He then placed his hands over his own chest. "And call me Envy."

"No…you're…the Dark Skill tree…" I said weakly.

"Maybe, but from you we were born. All the Dark Skill Tree did was give us a voice. Give us purpose. Reject us all you want Midoriya, we are part of you. We always have been. It's laughable you're only just now realizing it."

I shook my head. "No…no this can't be right…" I muttered. "Come on…can't anything go right?" I groaned, hating this so goddamn much.

"No. But you never stop trying." Envy said. "That is what makes you you, Deku."

"I'm trying to do all this so you aren't here." I frowned and motioned to the three Sin's I've sadly committed. "Cause if you're here…it means I'm just falling into line with what this world wants…even if I try to fight against it…"

"Ah, he's still so stupid, isn't he?" Envy said, Wrath crossing their arms as Lust seemed to chuckle. "Didn't you ever consider that both are applicable?"

"And what do you mean by that?" I frowned.

"Oh, you'll learn. When you finally let go of your delusions."

"And what's delusional about wanting to be a good person?" I frowned. "What's delusional about not wanting to fall into the same pitfall of 'well, it is what it is' and just turn into another person that stopped caring and just went along with this world's bullshit?"

"Oh, not those delusions Deku." Envy said as he, Lust and Wrath seemed to laugh. Well, Wrath made no sounds but their body made the small movements of laughter. "We should be going now. Your… challenger will be arriving soon." With that, the three of then all turned around and walked towards the edge.

I groaned and rubbed my temples. "I am so not in the mood for more of this nonsense…"

"If you can't even deal with us, then how do you ever expect to be a hero?" Envy said, giving me a smirk before all three of them jumped off the edge.

I ran over, looking down the edge and not seeing them…

Okay… What now-

The entire station shook. I turned around and summoned Starlight.

"And what nonsense do I have to deal with now?" I grumbled, looking around carefully for what caused the rumble.

The ground across from me erupted in a black of dark energy, the ground becoming covered in black on the other side, and rising from that darkness was… I'd recognize that shape and body anywhere. It was a dark… silhouette version of All Might, with two large glowing yellow eyes.

"Oh no…" I muttered in horror. "Why does it have to be you…" I groaned, deciding to throw a fireball at the Dark Might.

They swung an arm, destroying it as they raised their fists at me. "Is that all you got?" Dark Might said, their voice was… distorted, low and mixed with static.

"Not even close." I said readily, firing off more fireballs as I dashed to the side. "Alright, if he's anything like the real thing, then I know everything All Might can do to the tiniest of details." I thought to myself quickly, trying to formulate a plan of attack here.

He swatted them all, quickly dashing around the edge of the station to reach me.

"Crap…" I thought to myself, trying to use Full Cowling to get ahead of the fast dark version of All Might.

….

Why isn't Full Cowling working!? "What the hell! It worked before!" I mentally panicked as I rolled to the side, dodging a powerful swing from Dark Might. "Alright, just take my time, and assess the situation…" I thought, managing to touch Dark Might's leg and tried to activate Overhaul…which…didn't work…"SHIT!"

He used the leg I grabbed to kick me across the ground. I thought I was gonna slide off the edge but instead I slammed into a barrier than seemed to shimmer at my impact but remained invisible. Good, at least falling off this thing isn't an option for me…

I got back up only for Dark Might to already be in front of me, slamming me hard into the barrier with a gut punch and then continuing his assault, hit after hit I felt bruises split and bones crack. Shit, I don't think Mortal Sun is working here either! "I told you… you can't be a hero." Dark Might's voice said as he slammed his knee into my face then threw me across the ground. My body felt like crap… It's barely able to move. "You should have given up on that dream like I told you to."

"N-no." I growled, struggling to get back up. "I…I won't give up…on my Dream." I growled, using Starlight as a crutch to try and get up. "You told me…to face reality…well, this is a new reality, where I can be a hero without Quirks…" I said, managing to get to my feet. "Even if it's dangerous…even if I have to risk my life…" I said, pointing Starlight at Dark Might. "Because I will not fear, because I Am Here!" I snapped.

I blinked, not seeing him then feeling then grip my neck from behind. Crap! Can't breath, can't- "Then you will die here. With your dreams."

Crap! Come on, I can- Shit, arms won't… no.

No.

No.

…

…

…

NO!

I felt a burst of power as I came to, slamming my elbow into Dark Might's head before leaping away and to the other end of the station. I noticed immediately that… I had a dark aura coming off me. This is… darkness?

"Heh… I felt that." Dark Might said.

"Am…am I really about to do what I think I'm going to do?" I thought to myself weakly, seeing the darkness surrounding me…"Alright Dark Might, let's get this over with." I said, raising Starlight and creating another Fireball, seeing Darkness slither into it and fusing with it as I fired it off.

The blast seemed to inflict some damage to them, and in a single leap I was on them, slamming Starlight into them and actually knocking them back.

Woah.

"Huh…" I muttered, honestly surprised at how strong I became because of the darkness. "Well…anything to give me an edge…" I muttered, dodging to the side from one of his fists and slamming Starlight into his gut and knocking him away again.

With the tables turned I went on the aggressive, slamming Starlight across them in rapid combos before I delivered a downward slash where it looked like Starlight was cloaked in an aura of Darkness.

Dark Might took the impact head on, sliding back some before falling to their knees and hands.

"There it is… Your true strength." He said as I began walking up to them.

"Why…" I teared up. "I…I know power doesn't make the person…that it can be used by anyone for good or evil…" I said weakly, even as I put Starlight on Dark Might's shoulder. "Why…why do I have Darkness when…all I wanted to bring was light?" I asked my Inner Darkness.

"Isn't is obvious?" They asked as they looked up at me. "You've denied it for so long, you've forgotten… your heart holds far more darkness than it does light. Look around," He said. I did look, seeing the dark parts of the ground took up maybe a good… sixty percent of the circular ground. "You were born with this darkness, it's part of you, part of your nature. Did living so long in the light make you forget, or have you always been so blind?"

"I…" I looked around…seeing so much darkness…seeing what I never wanted to be in it's depths…I saw what Jaku represented, and I saw the repercussions of it…all of it…"I wanted to be better than this…" I motioned. "I stayed in the light so I wouldn't become a villain, I wouldn't hurt people just because I could…I didn't want to become some monster…"

"What's wrong with Monsters?" I froze, turning as I saw… Katsuki? "Hey kid. Long time no see." She waved… how. "Damn, was hoping I'd be the one to help teach you this stuff. Well, better late to the lesson than never." She shrugged.

"M-mom?" I asked weakly, taking a shaky step towards her. "Wh-what are you doing here?"

"Visiting. I'm busy in the outside world working on… stuff. But I felt your heart was aching so, I came to see what's up." She said, leaning to the side and looking at Dark Might. "Huh. Now why don't you take your real form there." She said.

I looked back over at Dark Might, their body and form seeming to fade and vanish and…

He wore a more black and purple variation of the hero costume I wore in those manga and anime takes on my world I saw here. But the person wearing them… They had the same red eyes, but their hair was a mess of spiky black hair. Bakugo… No… Kacchan. "Not surprised you could see through that Time Walker." They spoke. Their voice wasn't anything like Kacchan. This voice was a lower pitched, not angry, and spoke calmly.

"And…why did they just transform into Kacchan?" I asked.

"That's their true form." Katsuki said.

"He was the person you admire, envied, feared, hated. He was your best friend and tormentor long before you were discovered to be Quirkless." My Darkness said. "Why wouldn't I look just like them?"

"He donned that All Might look probably because it would have been easier on you." Katsuki said with a laugh. "In any case, Midoriya, what's the problem with Monsters?"

"Because…" I tried to gather all my thoughts on this. "Because a Monster is a being that just…hurts people because they can, they have the power, the skills, the knowledge to do whatever they want, whenever they want to whoever or whatever they want with impunity." I said. "And on Armageddon, that tends to be the default for those in power, like all the Chaos Guilds. The Saint believed he had to be a Monster because he believes that there isn't another way to solve things…" I shook my head. "I don't want to be a monster…because if I do, than that'll mean…I just gave up and went along with what this world want's, what others expect and just go along with the same nonsense that's been going on for countless ages."

"Hmm." Katsuki replied. "Well, if that's true then why are you calling your Darkness there a monster?"

"Because he's what I could have been…" I said, looking down and seeing what I could have done back home…watching as cities burn while I laughed, my own knowledge and attention to detail being used against every hero till it was all mine…"Someone that used power for their own personal gain, to harm others I would think lower than me because 'they crossed me'..." I shook my head. "Especially back home…I was smart, and could have abused it so hard…"

"Hm. So you think darkness is nothing but evil then?"

"N-no…well, technically power is power, it depends on who the person is and what they do with it." I said. "But…I mean, given this context, Darkness would be Negative for the most part due to it being fueled by my anger, jealousy, envy and other such negative emotions."

"Maybe, but are you letting it control you?" She asked. "You said it yourself, power is power, and were you back home, you could have abused it, but will you now?"

"No." I shook my head. "I won't abuse it, I can't abuse it…I know I sound like a broken record, and even my own inner demon's laugh at me because of it…but I still want to be a Hero."

She smiled. "Good. You need to stop looking at things as so black and white kid. I mean, do I look like a Monster to you?"

"Not really." I shook my head.

"Heh… Then I guess I should have told you sooner." She said, making me blink. "Because I am a Monster Midoriya." As she said that, an aura of darkness exploded off of her, completely covering my station, blinding me as it felt like an avalanche of darkness that nearly knocked me down. When it ended, everything looked normal. "Do you know what makes Time Walkers so unique? Our hearts are either so dark, or in some cases, pure darkness. In my case, the latter. There isn't any light within me Midoriya."

"Wh-what? Why?" I asked in surprise.

"It's just how I was born. No rhyme or reason." She shrugged. "But, just because I lack light in my heart doesn't make me a bad person. Yes, I've hurt people, yes, I've killed. I've killed many back in the war and even after. But still, I've made friends, raised kids, you. Darkness is part of you, denying it is what makes it feel like it's a bad thing. Accepting it, that takes strength. Controlling it, well, when you can do that, then you're closer to being a hero by just that much. Don't deny these as part of you kid. You'd only be hurting yourself and in moments of weakness, others." She then walked up to me, taking my hand. "I wasn't born with light, so I've never been or felt like I was at odds with myself. But, it's better to make peace with yours and find a middle ground that reject them."

I sighed. "Just…wish things were simpler ya know?" I asked weakly, wishing that at least something could be more bearable. "But…a middle ground with my Darkness…can't be that hard right?"

"It depends. If your heart was Balanced this wouldn't even be an issue, but that's a rare thing to have."

"Yeah…" I sighed, turning to my Darkness. "So…how are we gonna do this?"

"... Admit it."

"Admit what specifically?" I asked. "Cause there's…a lot of therapy that needs to be done here." I said, which was honestly true, I do need a lot of therapy.

"Admit how much this face hurt you." He said. "Admit every tear, every time you wanted to just fight back, every time you looked at a pair of scissors and box cutters and wondered if it would be painless!" He screamed at me. "Admit that you hate this face. Admit that if there ever was a friendship between him and you… it ended after you were found to be quirkless…"

I… didn't expect that… I've bottled so much of that up… can I even take that lid off at this point?

I sighed…"I thought I got past Kacchan when I beat him…so many times I fought and beat him in those sims…" I shook my head. "I guess it wasn't enough…Kacchan and my friendship…ended when I was found quirkless." I admitted with a sigh.

Oddly… saying that out loud felt… good. Like weight had been lifted off me…

"Healing takes longer than you might want." Katsuki said. "You never get over things like this, not fully, but you're working to move past it. It does help to say it out loud."

"I thought I was doing well before…" I sighed.

"Healing isn't easy. It takes time, patience, and yes, there will be set backs… but you seem to have made good friends, you're a dad. Shit, way to make me feel even older." Katsuki laughed. "Next time I see you, it will be in the physical world, okay kid?"

"Alright mom." I said, giving her a quick hug.

"See you around… and hey, Saw isn't Kacchan alright?"

I don't- well… okay there are some similarities I can see but… oh shit you're right… Now I can't stop imagining them as a fluffy goat-ram and now I want to laugh.

---

I woke up standing before the Saint. "So, how did it go?" He asked me.

"It…was enlightening." I said honestly. "I made…some peace with my Darkness…"

"That is good. I was hoping for this result. That will conclude your lesson for today. You can either go home or catch up with Saw and Delilah at the Catacombs."

"I'll head to the Catacombs…I need something to hit to get some stress relief." I said honestly.

The Saint gave me a nod and I headed off.

I should use my Keyblade more. All things considered it is the best weapon for me if it's intention based. As long as I don't want to kill, it won't kill my opponents. Hm, actually, I wonder if I can combine it with my quirks?

"Hmm…well, I'm going to a dungeon so I can at least test it out." I said.

I was rushing through the streets, looking around as I ran through the streets.

As I was nearing what must have been some weird park I swore I could hear… gunfire? Neither Saw nor Delilah have or use guns…

"That's not good…" I muttered, running faster to see what was going on.

As I approached I found a few of the feral large wolf enemies were shot down. I found more and…

I was staring at a large… blue horse? She had wings of a matching blue as her coat, a light blue mane and tail, and a long horn on her head that glowed with a blue magic. In that same blue magic was what looked to be a bolt action rifle, and a knife that was jabbed into one of the wolf's sides.

She stared at me for a while. "...Hi?" She asked.

"Uh…hi there." I said. "Who are you?"

"Luna…" She said. "You're… human… right?"

"Yes, I am human." I nodded. "You wouldn't have happened to see a weird goat ram person and a cute cat girl would you?"

"...No… Uh, where did you come from?"

"That depends on what you mean." I said. "Like in the area or from this reality?"

"The area… I guess? Just uh… you're the first person other than my brothers I've seen in three months so… aside from the monsters we thought we were alone here. I mean, before showing up here we were basically alone and…. Doesn't matter. Point is, where the fuck have you been for the last three months?"

"I…sadly had no idea you existed here, but it sounds like you're an Isekai like me…" I said carefully. "And those three months have been training to get stronger, and helping an entire city." I answered. "I can show you where it is with your brothers."

"Beats hunting for wolf meat and dry grass. Come on, our hideout is this way." She said, pulling the knife out of the wolf's body and began walking towards the buildings.

I followed her towards a large stone building that had heavy fences and thick stone walls. Entering it, I smelled gunpowder and brass.

"I can tell you guys like guns." I said honestly.

"We were Hunters back home. Guns kept us alive." She said simply. "Well, guns, holy water, silver, wooden stakes, rock salt." She listed off.

…What kind of Hunters were they?

"Uh…what kind of Hunters were you?" I inquired.

"We hunted Monsters. Werewolves, Vampires, Ghouls, Ghosts, Demons, Shapeshifters, Changelings. Then… new monsters showed up." She said, bringing me to a makeshift living area where some mattresses and a metal barrel that smelled of ashes and burnt meat. "They were different… normal weapons could hurt them but they were also… stronger. First there was only a few, then more…"

"Then it got out of control?" I inquired.

"Once the numbers and attacks got larger, world governments got involved. They were… over run quickly. Places that were safe fell, one by one, two by two. Was the same all over the world. The new monsters even attacked the regular monsters. At least the normal ones we used to fight either killed or infected people to repopulate or eat to survive… these ones just… killed to kill. We learned they were brought to our planet by some… something called Pain. Before we ended up here, it had been months since we saw another person. Alive at least. Just the new monsters and corpses. We lost… a lot of friends. Family."

"I'm…I'm so sorry to hear that." I said sadly.

"We don't know how we got here. Actually, last thing we remember was looking for supplies… contemplating suicide… then, we woke up here about three miles from here. Found out fast the night is… not fun. Thankfully we found this place and some spare guns."

"Yeah, this is why this area is called 'The Nightmare'." I said honestly. "So, what are your brother's like?"

"Well, Dean is the oldest, loves guns, cars, women, AC-DC and other old rock music… Sam is younger, was in college before joining the 'Family Business'. Mostly because a demon ended up killing his girlfriend…"

"That's awful." I frowned. "But, they both sound like good people."

"They are, and, as brothers do, they annoy me to no end, but I get them back. Though one thing Dean has been missing forever has been something sweet. Sam just wants an actual vegetable. Personally, I'd like fresh hay or a good salad."

"Well, there are all those thing's back at my place." I said honestly. "And it's it's own planet room, so you won't have to deal with any of this nonsense unless you're wanting to come out and hunt things."

"Planet room? What sci-fi crap is that?"

"Alright, so let's start off with one of the rules of this reality. Everything is possible." I said honestly. "But a Planet room is…well, a fancy piece of machinery that turns a room into an entire planet." I said honestly.

"... The most advanced anything back home was my Xbox 360… It was new too…" She frowned.

Xbox… I think I remember that. It was an old console system back before quirks…

"Wow, back in my home world that is an old console." I said honestly. "Pre-Quirk console as a matter of fact."

"... What the fuck is a quirk?"

"Right…uh…do you know X-Men?" I asked. "It's kinda like that."

"Oh yes I love those comics!"

"So Quirk's are like the Mutant abilities, just uh…less nonsense when we get into the 'I can literally grab a space station a galaxy away and pull it towards the planet' and more like the early day powers." I said honestly.

"Oh… that is cool. Dean is gonna get a kick out of that… Sam might have an aneurysm trying to figure out how that's even possible." She chuckled. "Huh… haven't done that in a while."

"This world is full of surprises." I said with a smile. "Also, since you sound like a video game fan, I will immediately tell you, that video games in this reality are both still video games, and real life." I said honestly. "So…if you liked Pokemon, you can get yourself a Pokemon…don't know where we'd find one though…" I said, even though we both looked and saw a Golett just grabbing some stones, but looked at us and waved politely.

"... I think my brain just had a stroke was that real… also where the fuck did it come from if it is?"

"It is very real." I said, picking up a nice looking rock and gently handing it to the golem pokemon, it taking it and nodding. "And where did it come from? No idea. Why is it in Nightmare? Well, it's a Ghost type I'm pretty sure, so it would make sense that they would be in the Victorian eldritch horror land." I said honestly.

"I don't even know that Pokemon… I'm gonna need to… process that…" Luna said, sitting on her bed and using her hooves to rub her temples, her magic vanishing as she dropped her floating knife and gun.

"Sorry." I said sheepishly. "I know it's a lot to process all at once."

"I just uh… I think my brain is uh… I was barely getting used to the changes back home before… watching everyone my brothers and I cared for and loved die… getting used to being in this place then… ugh… Just been through a lot…"

"I know." I sighed. "But…it'll get better, I promise."

"Maybe… Ugh… Times like this I wish uncle Bobby was still here…" She sighed.

I sighed. "I know…having family or friend's you truly trust can always be a good thing…" I shook my head. "Even after all these years…I still miss mom and dad…"

"Did you watch them die in front of you too?" She asked, frowning as she let her hooves drop to the ground.

"They…or mostly my mom, had to support me as I was both physically and mentally tortured for over twelve years by my peers and my teachers." I admitted. "And it started when I was…about four years old when I was diagnosed as Quirkless."

"They consider not having a super power a disability on your world? Heh… that's almost funny." Luna sighed. "I guess for the most part I lucked out. Dad found… well, he and uncle Bobby stole me this enchanted necklace. It made me look human, enough I was able to go to school for some years but… when you live as a Hunter, you can't stay in one place too long. If the monsters don't kill you, you'll be arrested for multiple crimes."

"Why multiple crimes?" I asked sheepishly.

"Well, a lot of monsters still have human identities so… murder is a common one. Illegal arms… illegally disposing of bodies… Theft is another big one… Oh, Credit Card fraud, identity fraud and theft, impersonating multiple state and government officers and police officers. The list goes on but those are all the most common."

"Most common…" I took a deep breath.

"Yeah. Actually, dad knew this one Hunter that was arrested for Tax Evasion of all things. Pst, bright side he lived out his days in a high security prison safe from vengeful monsters. I think he specialized in Werewolf hunting…"

"Don't mess with the IRS, not even season's villain's mess with the IRS." I chuckled.

"Joker being afraid of the IRS was the funniest part of that whole thing." Luna chuckled, but sighed. "I watched that one with Spike…"

"O-oh…" I muttered. "Again…I'm so sorry Luna…"

"It's just… still a lot. Sam, Dean and I haven't really, or wanted to talk about everything. Not memories worth remembering… One perk since we got here, we haven't dreamed anything when we sleep so… no PTSD nightmares."

"Yeah…that's one of the thing's in this world that doesn't make sense." I shook my head. "Nobody can Dream, or go into the Dream world."

"Dream… World…" Luna said, huffing as her horn lit up and a bottle from a nearby box was lifted in her magic and floated over to her. With her magic she took the cork out and immediately began drinking from it.

"Please don't drink that heavily." I said worriedly.

"I've drank far more for far less reasons." She huffed as she put the bottle down. "Besides, this is some cheap whiskey."

"Either way." I said nervously. "So, where are your brothers?"

"Out scavenging. We usually go in pairs but we split up today. Was quiet so we figured we could gather more supplies to have. Since coming here I realized my… teeth are different. I can even eat meat now which is new. I still prefer my old diet but can't exactly say no to food that I can survive off of now. Feels weird. Before, Meat had a nasty taste to me, made me gag, cooked or raw. Now, well, now I know why Dean loves hamburgers at least. Still feels so weird…"

"Yeah, while I can't understand the feeling, I was told that this reality makes everyone omnivores." I said. "You can still keep your diet cause you're still an equine, but meat is now an option."

"The more I learn about this reality the more I feel like Sam and Dean are also gonna need a hard drink. Dean especially…"

"Well, best wait till we get back to my place. There will be better drinks and responsible people to make sure you don't over drink."

"Heh, you've clearly never had good booze before. Uncle Bobby would make his own Moonshine and that stuff was strong enough to probably knock out an elephant." She chuckled. "... Have you ever lost someone?" Luna asked as she took another drink from the bottle.

"Well…technically?" I said with uncertainty. "My life has been…weird since I got to this reality."

"What I mean is… have you ever seen someone die?" She asked, clarifying. "Watched them pass in your arms… bleeding out or sacrificing themselves to save your life. Have you ever seen someone so full of life and hope, killed off in an instant, like the universe played a sick joke at your expense? Have you ever reunited with someone just to lose them a moment later because of the dumbest reasons?"

"No…" I shook my head. "But…I've had something close. I had someone, close enough to be my brother…and I finally saw him after years of wondering if he was okay…only to see him turned into a rabid animal, his mind shattered and replaced with a need for violence…"

"Sounds like what happens when people are infected and turn into Monsters back home. There's an unspoken code amongst Hunters. If you get infected on the job, you have to take your own life, and if you can't, find someone to do it for you."

I sighed. "Things suck at the moment, but it's getting better."

"Maybe… So, you mentioned looking for… a goat…ram person and some cat girl?"

"Yes, they were heading towards some Catacombs in this direction, probably just a random dungeon around here."

"Catacombs? Hmm… Is that the one that's full of… skeletons in the middle of the huge cemetery?"

"I'm pretty sure yes." I nodded.

"I've seen that place. We usually avoid it. Especially after that one thing showed up."

"What 'one thing'?" I asked carefully.

"It looked like a thin corpse, tall and near mummified but it could move. Looks like it stuck within the cemetery but whatever it is, it's fast, loud, and strong. Dean off loaded a shotgun into it and it just looked more pissed. Swore I could hear it muttering something about 'humans' and some nonsense.

I groaned. "I…think I know what it is…" I sighed. "But…you're not going to like it."

"There is a lot I don't like right now. But why does this affect me when it's your friends who went there?"

… Oh shit she's right!

"Uh…shit, you're right." I said worriedly. "I'll be right back." I said, making a mental note of this place with my new Shadow Hunter powers and raced off to help Deleliah and Saw.

I reached the Cemetery the entrance to the Catacombs was at…

There were Saw Blades all over the place. Many broken tombstones and small craters in the ground. As I reached the entrance of the Catacombs I saw it. The body of the Dying God lay riddled with Saw Blades, some missing limbs and a quick scan showed it was indeed dead.

They… they killed it…

I felt relief wash over me. Thank goodness.

"Oh thank Mother…" I sighed in relief, deciding to head into the catacombs to see how they were doing.

As I ran into the Catacombs I found more saws, some crushed and broken monsters and such scattered about.

"Delilah? Saw?" I called out, moving around the place carefully and hoping at least Delilah was okay.

"I dunno, that's a pretty big thing to keep from him." I stopped hearing Saw's voice up ahead.

"I know but I can't let him worry about every little thing." I heard Delilah reply.

What?

"So you don't plan on telling them?"

"No. Knowing Midoriya they'll probably panic or be sad or upset and if it happens again they might try and bench me and… we had to go into hiding because of me initially. I don't want to cause them more stress than they're under now." I heard Delilah sigh. "They work too hard, as is he didn't want me being part of his training."

"Did you two fight?" Saw asked as I creeped closer, hiding around a corner.

"An argument, yeah. You should have seen them… it destroyed me to see them looking like that."

"Well, I'm not gonna tell you what to do. Perks of being gay, that's not an issue I have to consider or worry about with my partners."

"Heh. You're a good listener."

"I try, when I respect the person anyway."

"Pst. Is that why you're such an ass to Midoriya? You don't respect them?"

"Why should I? He's not being honest to himself. Saying you want to make a change and being able to bring the change are two different things. He might be working towards that but frankly even if he gets it, then what? That's a target on his back. Your back… his kids."

I froze… I… will…

"... He can handle it. He has us to help, right?"

"Just hope when it gets to that point we can are enough… otherwise, his dream is gonna get his family killed… or whatever is equivalent or worse on this crazy planet." Saw huffed.

"Equivalent or worse would be… becoming a Serf, Slave or… Breeder…" Delilah said.

"... My time working for gangsters taught me one thing… the ones in power hate when someone comes along to challenge their authority. First comes warning attacks… and if they survive that, then it's war. You said he liberated a town from these guilds… there won't be mercy when or if they find the house."

… What do I do?

"I know that being a hero would have me targetted… so would my family if they know who I am…" I thought to myself, yet again being forced to look at how…I'm not allowed to make change, that I should just stick within the lines…"Why can't anything be simple for once!?" I mentally screamed as I clutched my head with how I keep being told I'm just being an idiot and should just 'get with the program'...

"What about David?" I heard Delilah ask.

"The guy nuked a whole country with his power alone." Saw retorted. "You think Greenie can pull that off with his no kill policy?"

"No, but I know Midoriya. If there is a way, he will work and fight to make that way possible. He doesn't give up, even if it can be unhealthy at times."

"Well, whatever he's trying to do, hope he learns how fast."

I sighed. "At least you have more hope in me than everyone else Delilah…" I said loud enough for the two to hear me.

"You're here!" Delilah said, rushing up to me as I turned the corner and gave me a hug. "Finished your lesson already?"

"Saw the dead god up top?" Saw asked. "That…fucker...was…fast…" He growled.

"Yeah…I finished it…" I said honestly, hugging Delilah weakly and just…so tired of all this…

"You look tired. Do you wanna go home and rest up?"

"If I wanted to rest up I would have just gone home…" I said honestly. "But…I see you two are getting along well."

"I can be friendly." Saw shrugged. "But you do look like you heard bad news, like your puppy just died. Sure you wanna tag along?"

"I can't just say I want change if I can't back it up." I said vaguely.

"Eh. You go scout ahead Delilah. Those scythe welding ones are more your deal anyway." Saw said.

"Sure. Try not to lag behind Midoriya." Delilah said, giving me a smirk before she ran ahead.

Saw stood there for a few seconds before crossing his arms. "Ya know, eavesdropping is rude." He said with a frown.

"And how long did you know I was there?" I inquired.

"Given what you said, last two minutes or so. How much did you hear?"

"It's a pretty big thing to keep from him." I answered.

"Ah. Good, didn't hear anything noteworthy then." Saw nodded.

"Yeah yeah." I started to walk past Saw, as I was not in the mood for his bullshit right now from both hearing Delilah was hiding something really important from me…and just how I keep being told what I'm doing is stupid and should actually be real with what's going on.

"Don't get all pissy just because you didn't think about things before deciding to fight people way stronger than you." Saw huffed as he followed behind.

"It's better than sitting around with my thumb up my ass, but please, remind me again how Mr Buzz Saw man wants to fight someone that can nuke a country by himself? Gee, suddenly smells like hypocrisy don't you think?"

"Difference between you and me, I know this asshole. What he can do. I also know he won't go overkill and use a nuke on me. These chaos guild assholes sound like using a nuke to kill a pest is their go to plan. You don't even know any of the important heads of these people. All you seem to know is they're bad guys and you gotta fight them. Kinda… not a plan."

"It all has to start somewhere, baby steps are steps nonetheless." I stated. "Better to be doing something productive that can help me achieve my goal than doing nothing and admitting that I should just let it all go and 'get with the program'." I frowned.

"If you want to avoid the program then you might wanna consider knowing what the program even is. Then you can ya know, avoid falling into it. Good Intel makes or breaks a job. You can't afford a single failure if you want to keep that town, those people, your girls and your kids safe."

I proceeded to laugh at Saw. "Oh! Oh you're funny!" I said, turning around to look at Saw. "No, I have!" I said, pulling out at least three notebooks filled with sticky notes and extra pages. "You have no idea the depths of my researching, I know what this world wants, I talked to all the people that have been living here, and even talked to Saint as I was training with him for ten years!" I said, my voice getting a manic twinge with how deep I tried to go into this. "The planet want's life to thrive, but it's hard when it's literally every apocalypse ever on one planet, run by people that were pissy about losing a war and ultimately ended up with 'let's just do every single depraved thing we can think of and more'-"

"You done yet?" Saw asked, cutting me off as he snatched my notebooks and began reading them. Seeing that actually gave me pause… no one's ever actually read my notebooks but me before…

"Uh…you threw my groove…" I pouted, my brain having stalled a bit from my tangent being halted.

"It's 'You threw off my groove' if you're gonna make a reference at least get the wording right…" He huffed as he flipped through the pages of the first notebook.

"I'm sorry, I was in the middle of my rant and you cut me off, my brain needed a moment." I huffed. "But at least someone else knows that movie…such an underrated Pre-Quirk movie."

Saw said nothing as he kept reading through the notebook. After a while, he actually finished it. He then closed it and gave it back… then opened the next…

He's actually reading the second book?!

I blinked. "Uh…you're…actually reading my books…?" I asked in honest surprise.

"That was the idea when I took them for you. Also to get you to shut up on that rant." He added, making me frown.

"Rude." I frowned. "And these are just the three I have on hand about the things that are most readily available information and other things…a lot of my other notebooks are at home."

"Uh-huh…" He said, reading through the second book. When he finished it, he handed it back and began the third book.

I stared in awe as he read through the last book, finishing it after a while and handing it to me

"Uh…so…what do you think?" I asked.

"Surprisingly, your penmanship is pretty good. Some of your notes seem to ramble on and add unnecessary details. Also, really, doodles and sketches?"

"Those 'doodles and sketches' help give examples of what I'm talking about, and those 'rambles' are questions and answers that I was able to formulate from all the things I learned." I said honestly.

"Right, but I did notice there was a lack of names, a lack of how the Chaos Guilds are structured, and while there were locations in there, there are no details on what they are or do."

"That's because I needed to do an entire other section of books on the Chaos Guilds cause…there's a lot." I admitted. "Even if the Saint or other's either didn't fully know or want to tell me, I could make enough educated guesses that it needed…a lot more books."

"Don't… don't do that…"

"What? Educated guesses?" I inquired. "Educated guesses are a lot different than 'guesses', I will tell you cause I have had many a bet won because of that."

"You. Bet? I find that hard to believe, but my point is even a well educated guess can be wrong. And when it is, things go south fast. It's better to have concrete facts over even the best of guesses."

"I am capable of doing that, but that's why I always make three guesses, which is where you believe their 'rambles'." I said. "I am very diligent when it comes to analyzing things."

"Yeah… in any case, there is still one thing your notes lack. Experience."

I rolled my eyes. "And when I try to get said experience people tell me it's a bad thing."

"I mean actual recon and scouting. It's clear all these notes do come from second hand sources, you said yourself it's from the town locals and The Saint. You ever been on a job like that to gather data?"

"I started when I saved you." I answered. "Would have liked to do more of it, but Saint wanted me to be strong enough and get used to Mortal Sun."

"Still didn't get that much information out of that place though." Saw shrugged as he walked on. I followed. "Scotch mentioned that the Greed Guild is a neutral party amongst the Chaos Guilds. Meaning it's a safe place to gather information."

"Yes, I have heard a lot about the Greed Guild, it being moreso a Merchant's Guild above all else."

"So, first step should be getting in contact with one of these Greed Guild Merchants."

"Which will happen after this dungeon." I said. "Now…are you going to tell me what you and Delilah were talking about before I got here?"

"That's a conversation for you two, if she ever decided to tell you about it."

I sighed. "What would Delilah want to hide from me? Is she pregnant again? I hope not…we've been so careful and…if she's pregnant during this…"

"Hurry up Greenie!" I looked up, seeing Saw heading down some stairs. "Your cat girl is in the next room!"

"Alright." I called out, already running through my head all the concerning thing's she didn't want me to know about…"I hate this already…" I thought to myself bitterly as I ran off to find Delilah.

I arrived in the room just in time to see Delilah fighting with a giant skeletal amalgamation. It wielded many chipped and sharp sabers as she dodged and leaped around the many blades.

I decided to pull out my Keyblade, not sure if it'll be Starlight or not but I dashed forward to see how strong I became because of my heart dive.

I swung, swatting a sword away. It was still Starlight, and I managed to deflect a few of the blades before backing up and landing next to Delilah. "Hey, what took so long?" She asked.

"Just had a talk and Saw looked over my notes surprisingly." I said honestly. "But…we need to have a talk after this." I said, deciding to test out a previous thought with Quirks and my Keyblade.

I decided to check something, holding Starlight in the right hand I used Half hot-Half cold and the keyblade became cloaked in frost that with each swing shot out a volley of ice spikes. Useful, so it does work with my Quirks. And it doesn't use up MP.

We took it down fairly quickly, Saw went over and was picking up the loot. Mostly it's swords, some rem and such.

"Alright, cool I can use my quirks with my Keyblade." I said with a smile.

"Well, that was neat." Delilah said.

"Yeah." I nodded. "That's one thought experiment down."

"So, you wanted to talk?"

"Yes…we need to talk." I said carefully.

"Okay… are you gonna say what about or?"

"Well, do you have anything to say to me?" I asked, considering Saw was kind of an ass going 'you didn't hear anything important' like what I heard wasn't important to begin with.

"Uh… no. Nothing you need to know."

"Are you sure?" I asked carefully. "Anything important that I need to know so I might not think you're hiding something super important and drive myself crazy over it?"

"... You listened to my conversation with Saw!" She yelled.

"It only started with the 'it's a pretty big thing to keep from him'." I said. "After that…it was just you trying to keep faith in me but Saw reminding me that…well, what I'm doing is dangerous and I shouldn't be doing it."

"Ugh…" She groaned, face palming. "I'm not telling you what it is Midoriya." She said.

"Why not?" I asked, not wanting to start a sudden fight here.

"Because I know you… if I tell you, you'll just blame yourself and get all guilty about it- Like that, that face you're making right now is what I'm trying to avoid!"

"I'm not making a face." I pouted. "And honestly, saying 'I'm not going to tell you cause it'll make you feel guilty' will just make me feel more guilty cause you can't be honest with me for some reason or another…" I sighed.

"Because you'll… Ugh! Because I don't want you forcing me onto the bench when we've finally gotten this far. In training, strength… I don't want this to be something you keep stopping me from helping you because it happens by accident…"

"And…how long have you been thinking about this?" I asked, now kind of…confused, as I don't remember ever thinking about 'benching' Delilah from this before.

"... Look me in the eyes and tell me what you'd tell me to do if I told you I was pregnant." She said, looking me right in the eyes. "And don't lie."

"That was my first thought to!" I thought in rage. "The hell am I? Psychic!?" I had to take a deep breath and control myself. "Are you pregnant?"

"... Not anymore…"

I looked at her. "What…what do you mean by that?"

"I got an abortion in town when I found out." She sighed. "I didn't tell you because… I know you'd take it hard and… or convince me to keep it."

"So…instead of telling me about this…instead of informing me about something this important…you unilaterally decided…aborting our child and continuing to fight is more important than what I think about this?"

"Do I need your permission for my body?" She asked, growling.

"Apparently it's fine when everyone else does things behind my back, but when I do it it's apparently some unforgivable sin!" I snapped. "No, you don't need my permission for your own body, I'm not some slave driver, but the fact that you thought 'well, let's not inform Midoriya that I'm pregnant again cause I want to stay by his side in life threatening situations, I'm sure he'll think it's fine that I hid this important information from him'." I frowned. "When I went off to train with Saint, you got pissy that I was doing it alone and tried to tell me it's not okay to do things alone, but it's magically okay for you to go behind my back with something just as equally important without informing me about it in some way?"

"You think it was an easy choice!? It's not like I don't want another kid, but look around! Our current home isn't exactly safe! And if I told you, then what? Would you have sided with me or convinced me to keep it!?"

"It would have been better if you told me!" I shouted. "BUT NO! Who cares about how I feel! It's not like I'm fighting for a safe home for you and everyone I love and care about! It's not like I'm suffering just so I can see you all be safe and smile knowing that I'm doing a good job! WHO CARES IF DEKU KNOW'S SOMETHING IMPORTANT OR NOT!" I screamed. "You having an abortion is one thing, we would have talked about it as a couple, but no…don't tell important things, don't let me be involved with such an important decision…cause again…who cares what Deku thinks…"

"Oh you are one to talk! In case you forgot I had to argue with you to get you to accept me as part of this party and even then I know you still regret that choice!"

"Because unlike me, you are important! Everyone that I love and care about is important to me and I don't want to hear their screams of agony because of my choices or mistakes! I…." I growled, trying to get my head clear enough to keep this going before it goes into a shouting match.

"And you think going it alone is the best option?! Midoriya, everything you just said, that is how I feel about you! It's how all the others feel about you! We hate seeing you go through this hell, the training like this and the paranoia you've been dealing with! We almost lost you at the town ambush and if it wasn't for the Saint… I don't want to just be stuck in that house and one day you never come home! Too not know why or what happened or if you're even still you! All those fears you have about us, we have for you! I'd rather be out here risking It all with you than somewhere safe wondering if you're coming back!" She heaved, tears flowing down her eyes. "But you're just too fucking stubborn to realize worry is a two way street and we are worried just as much for you!"

Before I could reply, or even think of one, Delilah bolted further into the Catacombs.

"Delilah wait!" I called out, bolting after her as fast as I could. "Come on! Can nothing go right today!?" I thought to myself angrily.

Despite my chase, once she was around the corner, her Schrodinger's Cat Ability kicked in and… she was gone.

I just… fell to the ground. That was… we've had some arguments before but… never…

I heard the sound of hooves walking on stone. In the corner of my vision of me staring blankly at the ground… I could see Saw sat next to me.

"What do you want?" I asked, just…so tired, bitter and furious right now…

He crossed his arms, taking a breath and said… Well, nothing. The Saint gave him an Assistant a while ago and he just… pulled out a flask and offered it to me.

I took it, opened up the flask and decided to take a swig of whatever he offered me.

The taste at first reminded me of a tea I've had before, but stronger and burned as It went down my throat. The taste was… a mix of rye, cinnamon and I think honey, but it was all heavily saturated by the strong alcohol content.

Still, I forced it down.

"Why…why can't just…anything seem to go right today?" I thought to myself. "Also…Delilah feared for my safety and cares about me…and yet just tells me that I shouldn't know she was pregnant? Cares enough to let me hear her screams of pain and suffering, can't be fucked to tell me something as important as her getting pregnant again…"

I sat there in silence for a while, taking a few more swings from the flask. All the while Saw just sat there next to me, not saying a word.

"Thanks for the drink…" I said, closing the flask and handing it back to him.

He took it back, leaning against the wall and sighed. "... You haven't been in a relationship before Delilah came along, have you?" He asked.

"No…" I shook my head. "Only person that wanted to be in a relationship was…also isekai'd…so for the most part my entire life was being treated like a freak and being physically and mentally tortured since I was four by everyone but my mom and my former friends parents…" I answered.

He nodded. "Growing up how I did, getting into a relationship wasn't easy. You always wonder what the catch was or when the check was gonna come. When I worked for the gangs… was even harder. Finding someone okay with my work, and gay on top of that was… not something I ever expected until… I met Zach."

"I…presume Zach was your first boyfriend or something?"

"I'd had lots of boyfriends but Zach was… my first genuine love." He sighed. "Before becoming a Nokori, accepting that deal… Zach was the first person who both didn't give a shit about my work and treated me like a person and not some monster or stain on the world. He had an almost unnatural kindness, and he was the first person I felt I could actually trust and love… and he was."

"I'm…sadly sensing the inevitable 'but' to this…"

"Heh… in my line of work, you make a lot of enemies… and they're always looking for a way to break you. Hurt you… I came home to find Zach… they made it look like a suicide but… I knew who did it and I raised hell. Might not have had fancy powers or shit back then, but I had informants. I had my skills, and I had my buzz saw. In the end, I got them back and then some… two weeks later, the Doc finds me and offers me the Nokori stuff."

"Yeah…that sounds fair." I nodded.

"That's not the point of my question though… the point is, I trusted Zach. Sure, sometimes I wished he'd tell me things, but there was plenty I never told him about my work and such. We were both entitled to our secrets and our privacy despite being a couple."

"That's fine…but there's still just…something's that you have to tell your significant other…and hiding it believing 'it's for the best' tends to not work out…"

Saw said nothing, but gave me a raised brow as he opened the flask and took a swig himself.

… Yeah… I heard it too…

"I didn't hide this." I added. "They knew it, I informed them of it…"

"And you told them everything?" He asked simply.

"And I said 'somethings', not 'everything'." I frowned. "This is an important thing that needed to be talked about…Delilah being pregnant was something important that needed to be talked about but did I get that benefit?"

"Well, if you two had talked, what do you think would have happened?" He asked. "What would you have felt was best at the time, hearing that news?"

"Well we won't know now, cause it's already done…doesn't matter what I had to say or think about it cause Delilah had full right cause it's her body, her choice…she chose it, and believed not telling me was more important that some possibility of 'being benched'."

"... And hypothetically?"

"I would have wanted to talk about it, wanting to know why she wouldn't want our second child together and just…talked about something so important like an actual couple." I answered. "That's what upsets me the most here, Delilah is one of the most vocal about not wanting me to do things alone, wanting to be apart of the dangerous things I'm getting involved with…but then goes behind my back on something just as equally as important because she thinks the training and fighting is more important than…just talking to me about stuff…" I shook my head.

"Well, look at it this way." Saw said, opening his flask. "What would you do in her position?" I gave him a look. "Your body has the equipment, the ability to have a child. Would you put off your training to bear a child? Raise it?"

… What… what would I do? I've known it's a capability I've had since getting this body but… I never considered it something I'd…

I'd be putting off training and…

Not being in the field, training… for nine months plus some time after the birth…

And if Delilah and Saw kept their training up while I was…

…

"Alright, that still ignores the main problem." I said, making Saw give me a look this time. "She didn't bother talking to me about this…she's one of the first people that gets pissed at me about doing crap like this, but when she does it I just have to accept it?"

"... Hurts doesn't it?" He asked, taking a swig. "Think this is how she's felt every time you did this?"

…

"I doubt that was her intention, but you can imagine that. Having the intention be different from what you wanted, because you cared."

…

I leaned my head back against the wall. I'm such a hypocrite-

I blinked, realizing something. "No." I said. "I'm not going to be treated like a hypocrite because the roles are reversed here, I tell my family important things, I do this so that they can be safe, that our home can be a safe place to raise our kids, Delilah didn't tell me this because she didn't want to be fucking benched." I growled, standing up. "That's what especially get's me, let's not tell Midoriya that your pregnant not because I didn't want you to worry, but because I didn't want to halt my training with you, ignoring that maybe I would have understood, that maybe I would have understood and gone along with it, but no! Let's all be hypocrites!"

"You didn't exactly make the best example either."

"So that means everyone can do it? I didn't tell them some things because that would actually be terrible to tell them, like the Violence Labs, that's something they really don't need to know about." I shuddered at remembering how bad that place was. "But I wouldn't withhold information just because I'm scared to be forced to stop training when, ya know, talking thing's out is something that needs to be done…but when I get yelled at about it, it's fine, when everyone else does it I'm not allowed a single fucking complaint!" I growled, slamming my fist into the wall and seeing it crack heavily…a dark aura around my hand…

"... Flashy. So, what are you gonna do about it? Yell at her more?"

"Again…it's too late now." I shook my head. "What's the point in yelling more when it doesn't matter anymore…" I said, walking down the hall to continue more of the dungeon as I just…needed something here…

"Ignoring it won't make it any better." Saw said, making me stop. "Just give it some time, let both of you cool off, then try and talk about it with clearer heads. I got the rundown on that whole Prize Pod thing. Honestly, I think it's stupid but she is her own person… but, she did open for you. Pretty sure wherever she is right now, she feels worse than you do."

"I'll try to talk to her after this dungeon…" I said carefully. "I just…need something to help me calm down…"

"Could get wasted?" Saw offered.

"Drinking doesn't solve shit."

"Good way to pass the time. Besides, now that I'm finally talking to the real you, I wanna get to know them better."

"And you've been doing that the entire time we've met jackoff, what makes right now special?" I growled.

"Because there's something different about you now. The genuine you is finally showing. That mask of hopeful positivity seems cracked… what did you do?"

…

I walked over to Saw…grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up in the air. "Being hopeful and positive is something so fucking anathema to you that you truly believed I was faking it the entire time? Well, it cracked because I'm dealing with a lot of bullshit right now that I'm still trying to register. And while you're not the one I truly hate, having finally admitting it to myself…you still managed to constantly aggravate me to no end….is that what you want to hear?" I asked him bluntly. "Is this what you want? To see that I'm just a broken man trying to do his best instead of letting his own negative emotions take hold and become apart of this giant fucking mess?"

Despite the fact I was holding him by the throat, he smiled, and chuckled. "Nice to finally meet you, Midoriya. Glad to know I'm not the only monster on this team."

I dropped him, backing up… I realized my body was cloaked in a dark aura and…

"So," Saw said, clearing their throat and rubbing it. "Offer still stands. Drinks?"

I looked at my hand… the one that held Saw up and choked him… it was covered in… almost fibers, pitch black with bits of red, blue and purple woven in, and it went up to my elbow, as if part of my skin…

"Why…" I muttered in fear at seeing what was happening…"Everytime one good thing happens…" I teared up as things just kept getting worse after I managed to do something correctly.

To my surprise, Saw took my hand… the one that changed, the one that… choked them… "Come on, sure the church we passed on the way here has wine in it." He said as he pulled me along.

I just… sighed. "Fine…"

Saw brought me to the church he was talking about. I took a seat on one of the many benches, the stand and podium was stained with blood and the crucifix, one hanging now lay on the ground burned to charcoal.

Saw came back with a fair sized box of still corked wine bottles. He opened one, gave it to me, then sat next to me, putting the box of wine between us.

"This fucking sucks…" I grumbled, taking the bottle and starting to drink it.

The taste was strong, a little sour, but more fruity than I expected.

"Pretty sure there's a place somewhere here that sells that on a T-shirt." Saw said, opening his own bottle and taking a swig. "So, that permanent?" He asked, motioning to my still changed arm…

"I…I don't know." I shook my head. "This is new, I don't know why it's happening…" I said, looking at my arm and just…wondering why everything's going to shit…

"... Looks cool at least."

"It's concerning, that's what it is." I frowned. "I don't know what's going on…"

"Welcome to the club. I never know what's going on." Saw said as he took another swig of wine. "Either way, looks like you have a lot of personal issues to work on, or ignore. Your choice." He shrugged.

"I'm working through it and was getting better…than everything decided to fall apart around me cause why not…" I clenched my morphing hand and just…so confused as to why this is happening.

"I feel like that's a common theme to happen on this planet to people." Saw shrugged, partly scooting over to lay down on his side of the bench. "Maybe this planet just hates heroes?"

"I don't know…" I sighed bitterly. "Just more things to question cause I'm not allowed to know things…" I growled, chugging more of the wine.

"Well, whatever it is, you're still not gonna give in are you?"

"I'm not." I answered. "Cause I can't give up…making things better in this world is too important…"

"Well… think if you keep going, more things like… that, will happen to you?" He asked. I didn't need to look to know he was talking about my arm.

"I don't know…" I shook my head. "And I doubt I'll get any answers…"

"Is it weird I want some crazy body modifications?"

"Considering you already went through some crazy body mods, I don't know you'd want more."

"Maybe if I knew what I was getting. Some Nokori had wings and could fly. Wings would be cool." He said, taking another drink from his bottle as I took one from my own. "One thing I'll give David. His wings looks pretty cool, especially when he cloaked them in fire… his tail feathers though… no."

Pst! Tail feathers!?

"Excuse me, but tail feathers?" I laughed at the mental image of how silly that would be.

"I know! I got a look when I hacked apart his suit and I just laughed." Saw chuckled at the memory. "But yeah, I still wouldn't mind wings."

"Well, I'm sure it's possible to gain wings…I mean…hmm, actually, what kind of wings do you want? Cause you might technically be able to make your own wings ."

"If you can… hmm… I guess classic wings but I doubt I could fly with them. Nokori who could it was largely magic that let them fly."

"So…how can you produce your buzz saw's and can you control them after being fired?" I asked.

"It just happens. At first it was random but after some training I learned they're a mix between intention and reaction based. Throwing them is like tossing a frisbee of death, and as much as I wish I could control them, I did not gain Magneto powers. Spinning them while on my body is just activated with wanting them to spin. Speed of their rotations is also dependent on how fast I want them to go." He said.

Huh… almost functions like a quirk…

"And where can you spawn your buzz saws?" I inquired. "Is it localized in your arms or can it be anywhere?"

"Anywhere across my body. And inside my body. I already told you about the date a few really terrible one night stands endured for being pricks."

I winced… right…

"Yeah, I remember that…" I said carefully. "Now, if I can't help you make wings, I can at least help you with mobility, how fine is your control on your saws? Like rpm, the size of the blades and the amount of blades on the actual wheel?"

"RPM I've maxed at a little over fifty thousand, so long as they're still part of my body my control is fine but once they go flying I have to make sure my shots count. Lastly I can have up to four blades in close proximity, each rotating at different speeds and even have some rotate in different directions if I bring them out with the teeth facing opposite directions."

"Right, so you ever seen those cartoons with a runaway buzzsaw machine?" I inquired.

"Yes. Tried it… didn't work cause reality blows…"

"Not in this reality you haven't." I said with a smile "This reality is that anything is possible, just gotta put the time and energy into it." I said. "Especially now that you have an Assistant and skill points."

"I haven't got any skill points yet but I think I see what you're getting at."

I raised an eyebrow. "Mind checking again?" I asked, thinking that if they managed this far then he must have gotten some skills points.

He nodded, tapping it and bringing up his Skill Tree menu on a holo screen. It showed he had zero skill points and only one tree. Magic, with a branch out in Chaos Magic, barely started.

… How?!

"Uh…none of that makes any sense…" I said in confusion.

"Eh. Add that to the list of things I don't know either." Saw shrugged as he poured more wine into his mouth.

"No…your skill tree is supposed to look like this." I said, pulling up my Skill Tree menu and showing it to him, showing off that there's supposed to be a lot more to it, with all sorts of trees and skills. "Does…it have something to do with your Chaos magic or that you're a Nokori?" I wondered.

"Fuck if I know. I've only had this thing for three days." He said.

Hmm… does… are skill points not earned without an Assistant?

"Huh…maybe it's because you didn't have an Assistant before?" I openly said my thoughts. "That's rather interesting."

"Maybe." He shrugged. "I still don't know a lot of how this all works. But that sounds good enough."

"Yeah…it should be good enough of an explanation." I nodded.

"And you already look way calmer and more composed. Ironic given the booze."

…huh… I actually… do feel better…

"I didn't drink that much." I frowned. "And two, it's because I'm distracted from the actual problems…not going to be fun when I get home though…"

"Knowing Delilah she's probably less angry by now and more upset over the argument even happening." I looked at Saw. "What? We talk."

"Yeah, cause that's fun…" I grumbled.

"Look, sometimes it's easier to talk about difficult things to an uninvolved third party than it is to the ones you love. Gods know why but it is. That's all I was in the end on that conversation. An uninvolved third party. Honestly she just needed someone to tell, or vent to about it. She was afraid of telling the others, more afraid of telling you, so she told me. Should she have told you, yes, I'll admit that, and she probably would have, with time. It's not exactly something one easily admits to the other."

… How the fuck is Saw making sense?

"I hate how you're making sense…" I grumbled. "But all this…it's not the abortion that I'm mad about…it's the fact that she decided to hide it from me, not because I would be worried about her and the babies safety…but because she didn't want to stop this…that she wanted to keep up the training and fighting, the thing that every single person in my huge family…especially Delilah, was pissed at me for, that I wouldn't take a break and spend time with them when I had other things to do." I sighed. "That's what gets me the most out of this entire thing…just…" I groaned. "It's like she didn't even care…if that makes any sense…"

"Funny. She vented to me about similar things you did and those were her exact words." Saw said, sitting up. As they did they wobbled a bit before balancing themselves and looking over at me. "You both genuinely cared so much about finding ways to protect and keep one another safe, your actions came off as uncaring. Irony, the cruelest of bitches." He said, leaning back on the bench sitting upright.

Is buzzed Saw a helpful drunk?

"Uh…huh…" I said carefully. "How buzzed are you?"

He looked at the bottle, then shrugged. "I'm not slurring words yet so… I can probably down another one before that happens. This wine is more for taste than getting wasted on, but it's still alcoholic."

"Alright." I nodded. "Well…this dungeon run went to hell…"

"Yeah." He agreed, tossing the wine bottle behind him. It smashing elsewhere out of sight as he put the rest of the bottles in his Assistant. "Should probably get home. Scotch and I were gonna watch some movies together and you need to talk with Delilah."

Right… crap, Luna and her brothers! I gotta fetch them too.

"There's also three other Isekai's I need to grab." I admitted. "Hope they're alright…and not drunk off their ass with how confused they'll be."

"Oh, noobies and drinkers? Hell, I wanna meet these guys."

"They've been here for three months after someone named Pain sent too many monsters and…killed their world." I sighed. "But yes, they are new, and they do drink."

"Sweet."

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It wasn't hard backtracking to find Luna. I was surprised to see her brothers were two humans. Though her being adopted explained that.

Dean was shorter, dark brown almost black hair, wore dirty blue jeans, a black coat with a dirty partly torn shirt. Definitely Caucasian American, him and Sam.

Speaking of, Sam was taller, long brown curlyish hair, wore a tan leather coat, dirty torn jeans. Have to admit, they were an odd trio, but definitely looked like they spent three months here, then all the time prior on their old world surviving a monster apocalypse.

I brought them home, Saw taking them to the Planet room and I went looking for Delilah.

"Where would she be?" I thought to myself, looking around the house first given everyone else might know…plus I have to ask them how long they knew about this.

In my looking I found Sonya doing laundry. "Hi Midoriya." Sonya greeted.

"Hey Sonya, have you seen Delilah around?" I inquired.

"Not since she left with you for training." She said, shaking her head.

"Hey uh…did you know she was pregnant?" I asked carefully.

"N-no. I didn't know she was pregnant." Sonya said, looking confused.

"Did…did she just…not tell anyone?" I thought in surprise. "She…was…" I said carefully. "Do you know someone who might know where Delilah is?"

"No. Usually when Delilah wants to be alone no one can find her. That ability of hers makes that an easy feat." Sonya sighed.

"Crap…" I sighed. "But…how have you been Sonya?" I asked, knowing I do come back and spend time with my family when I'm not training but still want to touch base.

"Doing well. All in all things have managed to feel normal. Usually I spend my time on the farms in the Planet Room helping tend to the fields."

"That's good." I nodded. "Um…how do you feel about…me training under the Saint?"

"Well… There were times when I was worried… and personally, I do not trust The Saint… but, it is what you want, so I will not try and convince you otherwise. I just want you to make sure you keep safe."

I nodded. "I know the Saint can be…weird sometimes….but this training isn't about me…" I shook my head. "It's about making sure you and everyone else is safe, and that we can have this kind of normalcy in our lives."

"But, isn't it also to help you be the hero you want to be to make a difference on Armageddon?" Sonya asked. "With the planet room, we can hide out here in a sense of normalcy and not even need to interact outside in The Nightmare."

"That is also true…not…how Delilah think's of it…" I sighed bitterly.

"Oh, did you two have a fight?"

"We…sadly did…" I sighed. "It's a whole thing and I need to find her…"

"That won't be easy…" Sonya frowned.

"Yes I know…" I started to rub my arm, even though it was covered up I still felt uncomfortable about this new change.

"Maybe check with Rin, she and Delilah are a lot closer."

"And where's Rin?" I inquired, given how big the place is and how many members of our family there are…

"She should be in the Planet room near the new mines. Her Quirk over metal manipulation lets her harvest the ore with little to no impurities."

"Yeah, it would be really useful for mining." I nodded. "Thank you." I nodded before heading out to find Rin.

It took a while but I found the new mine Sonya mentioned. A large hole dug into the side and base of a large hill. Amongst all the people here I saw Rin using her quirk and breaking apart the rocks for the ores and putting them all into bins for smelting later.

"Hey Rin!" I called out, waving an arm to her given I was some distance away to give her room for her work.

"Hey Midoriya!" She said, finishing the work she had fast then walked over to me. "So, what brings you here?"

"Hey, do you know where Delilah is?" I asked. "I've been looking for her and uh…she's kinda hard to find."

"Heh, yeah. When she wants to be alone she gets it." Rin chuckled. "Did something happen?"

"We…got into a fight about some thing's." I said carefully. "Oh and uh…did you know she was pregnant?"

"Oh… You found out…" Rin said.

So, she told Rin at least.

"Yeah…she told you…" I shook my head. "Of course…"

"Come on." Rin said, walking past me and taking a seat on a large rock. I took a seat on the one next to it. "You're upset she didn't want to tell you, right?"

"And the reason behind it." I added.

"Heh, isn't it obvious? She didn't want you to worry. You worry enough about all of us as is. To an unhealthy extent at times… but she wanted to just once take care of something you didn't need to worry about. You have a lot on your plate, she wants to make that easier on you however she can. So, she hid it from you, knowing if you learned about it you'd get upset for one of or several reasons."

"I got that…" I told her. "But here's her reasoning…she didn't want to get benched. She said, to my face, that she did it not because of me worrying about it, or that I could have agreed with her that it might have happened…it's because she wanted to do things that she and the rest of you yell at me about."

Rin chuckled. "You genuinely fell for that? It's called Lying, Midoriya. She'd rather you be mad at her for what seems like a selfish reason rather than admit the truth. Admitting the truth can be… hard. Lying is easier."

"Yeah, lying is easier when I literally yelled at her so much she ran away crying." I frowned. "Gee, that makes me feel even better."

Rin placed a hand on my back. "Relationships aren't all happiness, support, and sex. There are bumpy, rocky roads and sometimes even pitfalls, but when she's ready, you two can talk about it. Getting through these things when they happen is just something that's gonna happen. Especially since you two have spent the most time together out of all of us."

"It just…" I sighed. "Even after everything we've been doing together…all this time…is it wrong that I expected her to be honest with me about that important thing? Sure I keep somethings hidden cause those are things you don't need to know, like the Violence facility…that's something none of you need to know…" I shuddered, even though I'm so used to it it still was terrible how little Violence cared about any form of life.

"Sometimes we just want to keep things secret. Either out of a sense of guilt, worry, or just because we don't tell doesn't mean we kept it as a secret, sometimes it's just because we forgot or didn't think much about it ourselves. You can spend a thousand years with a person and learn something new about them, for better or worse."

"It's still difficult when I'm hearing that Delilah is telling Saw before me…" I said. "That's what also get's me…Delilah telling you, that's fine, I expected that…but…" I sighed, shaking my head.

"She and Saw get along. He's a lot of fun to be around."

"Are we talking about the same Saw?" I asked.

"Goat-Ram, fluffy, dating a four armed dog man, produces buzz saws from their body, gay?"

"How?" I asked. "None of that sounds like Saw at all."

"Have you been around the guy in a bar or at a party?"

"When did you party with him!?"

"Last night. At the bar. I think you were out hunting for blood echoes at that time?"

"Because I had to make sure the Lantern's were all still active to keep certain areas safe for hunting parties and the like." I frowned. "Great…just…whatever…"

"Why do you not like Saw?"

"He's an asshole for starters." I rolled my eyes.

"Oh~, it's because you think if he wasn't so gay he literally sucked off ten guys drunken stupor that we'd want to date him?"

"Wh-what!? I don't think that!" I said quickly…maybe a little too quickly as Rin gave me a flat look.

"Pst. Look, you've only known him for a while. You telling me there wasn't any genuine moments you two had recently?"

… Well, he read my books… took them seriously and even talked the information over… then even after I… he took me for some drinks and helped me… calm down. Hell after Delilah ran off he gave me a flask and just sat there next to me for…

"So he was kind of nice to me before and after my fight with Delilah…but that's literally about it." I admitted. "Everything else was him being a jackass to me cause he thought my 'mask of hope' was bullshit."

"Maybe that's why then." Rin said. "Saw once said he hates people who pretend to be something they aren't or hide things about who they are. Said that you can't trust a person who feels like hiding anything about themselves, no matter how bad, is for the best. You hiding something?"

…

"Nice to finally meet you, Midoriya. Glad to know I'm not the only monster on this team."

… Am… I even who I think I am?

"...I'm tired…" I teared up. "I'm tired of being treated like I'm just faking it…that me being a good person is just some lie…that my hope is just some mask for someone that doesn't care, that would sooner just toss everything away cause it's not worth the effort…" I shook my head. "But no…even my own body is rejecting me…" I said, pulling off a glove and showing Rin what happened to my right arm…

"Woah! You can summon Dark Armor!"

… what?

"Come on Rin, I'm having a moment." I sniffled, but managed a smile at her reaction.

"Sorry, sorry it's just… that is really hard to get. Dark Armor only summons to those with a high enough Darkness Affinity and that's solely based on the Darkness Affinity of their heart. It's so OP…" She said, taking my altered hand and looking it over.

"And…how OP is it?" I asked, while finding it neat that I somehow got an ability that's really strong…it's not helping me that I have so much Darkness that I can just…do this…

"Well, it's armor that scales based on your stats meaning how much damage you can take, is how much damage it can take, it allows you to travel through space like Keyblade Armor, and if you learn how to open DTD's. Doors to Darkness, you can travel across the planet with a snap of your fingers and or travel to the Realm of Darkness. I can't believe you managed to summon a part of it, last I heard there's only like, a few thousand people in existence that can do this! Not even Time Walkers are known to pull this off. Then again if they can I bet they aren't telling…"

"Well…good to know I suppose." I said carefully. "So much darkness in my heart that I can do something that's really rare…that certainly helps my growing identity crises in the making…"

"It's not about how much darkness one has actually. It means The Admin of Hearts has given you a blessing."

… Admin Heart?

"Wait, why would the Floof Noodle themselves give me a Blessing?" I asked in surprise.

"Why does anyone in the Family do anything?" Rin shrugged. "But the ability to use this armor, without a Balanced heart means Admin Heart has given you their blessing. In what or what for, no idea."

"Goodie…" I grumbled. "Yet another thing I will possibly never figure out…that's not annoying at all."

"Either way, don't look at this as something bad." Rin said, gently holding my still armored hand. "This is a good thing. Sometimes… good things don't always look like they're something good. Sometimes it's just all about how you make use of it. So, you have a mostly darkness based heart, so what? Don't use it for bad things, it's not some mandatory thing. Use that darkness for good."

"I'll try…" I said weakly. "Just…going through a lot of things…"

"Take it one at a time. You're just one person at the end of the day, and yes, you need a break every now and then. Now then, I imagine you're wondering where Delilah is most likely right now?"

"Yes, I would really like to know where she is so we can talk about this…" I said, wanting to make this up to her somehow…

"Well, given how upset she must be, she'll probably show up at the bar later once she's done wanting to be alone. She usually wants a drink after she's done feeling upset for a while."

"And what bar does she go to? Cause there's like…five I can think of."

"Were I to imagine, the same one Saw and the others all typically go to. Drunken Abyss." Ah… so that's the name of that bar…

"Right…" I said carefully. "So just hang out at a bar…goodie…"

"You should, it's fun and relaxing." Rin chuckled. "I gotta get back to work, maybe when I'm off I'll catch you at the bar." She said, standing up and giving me a wave goodbye before heading back to the now three times her size pile of ore filled rock.

With that, I got up and headed back into town. I found the bar, Drunken Abyss… wonder where that name came from…

I entered, seeing people were drinking, eating, some music was playing from speakers. It was relaxing I'll admit.

I spotted Scotch, sitting at the table with some food, a beer and a book. Well, guess I did need to talk to him too… might as well while I wait for Delilah.

I walked over to where Scotch was sitting. "Hello." I said to Scotch. "This seat taken?" I inquired about the empty seat at his table, not wanting to be rude if he was waiting for someone.

"No. Surprised you're here." He said as I took my seat. "You wanted to continue what I said earlier today?"

"Yeah, what did you mean by 'people don't normally live in planet rooms'?" I inquired. "Is it the problem of someone shutting it off and people are trapped or is it because Planet rooms are so rare?"

"No, there are built in safety measures to ensure something like that doesn't happen. You can't even remove it from the house so long as there is just one person inside the room. No, it's just that most people use these for their resources, or to garden. Maybe test some weapons or new abilities if they want. But the majority just use them for their resources."

"Alright, cause that's been bugging me for a while." I said honestly. "I know it's used for resources, but considering it's also a built in safe zone, surprised that it's not used more often."

"It's actually not." He said. "This house, this was from off Armageddon, right?" I nodded. "Things like this that are made on Armageddon don't naturally have a built in safe zone barrier. Were I to craft a house like this or even the Planet Room add on, neither would have the safe zone barrier active."

Craft?

"Wait what?" I asked. "You can just…craft a Planet Room?"

"Of course. Planet Rooms, Pocket Dimension Houses like this, and other such things are all craftables. They don't spawn as loot, they have to be made. It's getting the materials that's often the hardest part. Especially for a Planet Room. That requires you to first make a Terraforming Engine, then combine it with a Pocket Dimension Add On for a house like this at a Master level Crafting Bench or have the Craftings Skill Tree maxed out to do it from your Assistant. Both of those also take lots of time and effort to make though. Off Armageddon there's more freedom and resources to go around and mass produce them for cheap, but here on Armageddon anything of value, like mines or the entirety of the Eden Zone are all basically owned by Nexus."

"Ah…that makes sense." I nodded. "I'm still trying to wrap my head around the Skill Trees, there's just…so much to go over with it."

"Navigating them is tricky, especially if you don't know which branch to invest in. Some Abilities only appear in the Cross Branches, when a Skill Tree branch meets another at certain points, both branches have to be a certain ways along for a Cross Branch Ability to even appear as selectable. Then there are Cross Tree Abilities that combine aspects from two or more Skill Trees into one Ability or a whole new Skill Tree even. That's not even taken into account Earned Abilities, Reward Abilities, Imprinted Abilities and Inherited Abilities." Scotch said, still reaching through their book. "Course like I said, a Planet Room is mostly used for resources. Once those are all mined up or harvested you can reset the room and you have a brand new planet to use for resources all over again. Can squeeze more out of it if you customize the planet before generating it or upgrade the room."

… Holy crap…

"Wow…uh…that's actually a lot…" I said in surprise.

"It can be. Not everyone is usually up for that kind of labor though. Even if the machines do all the work, gathering the resources to make them is laborious and often costly. I hear Greed pays their Master Crafters very well. Or so mom told me."

"How does your mom know this?" I inquired, finding the 'mom told me' as an interesting bit.

"She works for Greed. Been a merchant with them since she was sold to them when she was ten."

"Oh…" I said nervously. "That's…at least she's being respected as a co-worker than being seen as a slave…" I said sheepishly.

"Yeah, merchant who purchased her ended up teaching her the ropes and she bought her freedom when she was twenty. After that she became one of the traveling Greed Merchants. Some time later I was born and I settled here, well, the old town, but this new one is nice. By the way should a Greed Merchant that looks like me but with blue fur and six arms show up, that's my mom. I gave her the new location of the town since she's done business here long before I was born."

"Alright." I nodded. "I'll look out for it if given the chance. So, when did you and Saw meet?"

"Here actually. He and that cat girl of yours were talking and drinking. I went to the bathroom, he followed, and after some rather cute drunken flirting a bathroom stall fling ended up turning into a fling in my bedroom, then I guess we just talked over breakfast and… Well, I guess we are dating now. Might be a bit fast but, I like his personality. He says what's on his mind and doesn't give a fuck about what others think of him."

… Well, that's one way to meet someone…

"Well…that's one way to do it.' I said honestly.

Scotch shrugged. "It was unexpected but he is fun to be around. Never really a dull moment." He added with a smirk. "Hopefully it works out long term."

"I'm sure you'll have fun with him." I said honestly. "And I hope it works out as well, need more joy and a sense of home in Armageddon."

"Happiness is worth more than all the money in reality. Never let it be taken from you, and always seek it out." Scotch said. "Mom used to say that to me when I was little."

"Yeah…" I sighed. "It's the most important thing here."

"So, Darkness Armor?" He asked, noticing my arm. "Well, a fragment at least."

"Apparently everyone knows what this is…" I sighed, pulling away the covering that wasn't covered by my shirt and showing it. "Rin said that this is really strong and…it's a blessing from Heart themselves…"

"The Admin of Hearts, yeah. If you can manage to summon the rest of it, that can help you out way more than you think. Plus, might even be able to summon Heartless or Unversed."

"The only Heartless I've seen to my memory is this cute little bell mage thing that does a 'pick the correct one' game." I admitted. "Needed it to get my Keyblade armor improved…so many years ago…"

"Hmm… Whenever my mom shows up I can ask her if she knows any Armor Smiths or even Keyblade Blacksmiths. Hardest part of that job is finding a forge…"

"How hard is it to find a forge if I may ask?" I inquired. "I…only got a more basic run down on Keyblades and all that, haven't really done a deep dive into it and only started learning more about it recently."

"Well, Keyblade forges can be found in level three and four Dungeons and are always guarded by a hidden Secret Boss. Then of course you actually have to know how to use a Keyblade Forge since it's not the same as normal Blacksmithing. There's a lot more magic involved."

"Yeah, Keyblades are extremely magical from what I've been coming to learn." I nodded.

"Only thing that surpasses them are Soul Blades. Those things are… intense." Scotch shrugged.

"What's special about Soul Blades?" I inquired.

"Well, they're forged from a fragment of your soul for one. They also scale in power with the person, like an extension of them. If given to another that person can use all your abilities, and they have a special power that is the summary of all you are as a person. There are actually some very powerful Soul Blades that exist as spawnable Loot that are so rare and powerful, there's only been a few that were supposedly found."

"Huh…that's…interesting." I said, trying to imagine how someone would even be able to forge a piece of their own soul into a weapon.

"They're some of the most powerful weapons one can make, but the ones that spawn as loot are the most powerful. By the way, you don't have your True Keyblade yet right?"

"Not yet…I don't know how to get it, even after doing a real Dive to the Heart…either it's not time yet or something else."

"From what I know, one of the Keyblades that Admin Heart carries within them has yet to select you. Starlight is wielded by newcomers to Keyblade usage. There's also a few Keyblades that are considered… Taboo."

"Uh…why would they be Taboo?" I asked nervously.

"It's more so… controversial. Given some Keyblades have unique or special abilities that… are a bit out there. A prime example is Love Struck. It turns any monster you slay into a Lover Class person upon the fatal impact… you can imagine the types of people that actively use it aren't using it for anything less than harem building…"

"Yeah…I can imagine someone would be horny enough to use it like that…and I'm sure the Admin was horny enough to make such a thing."

"Then there's Second Chance. This Keyblade upon fatal impact reverts the target into a baby. Seriously, and all the person's abilities are locked so they're stuck like that." Scotch chuckled. "It's considered a Joke Keyblade, and thankfully Love Struck and Second Chance are found as loot and not Keyblades that can select a welder."

"Well…so far the Keyblades aren't too bad to be considered controversial…besides Love Struck, but that's just because horny." I admitted.

"Yeah… then there's Void Key…"

"Oh…that…doesn't sound good." I said nervously. "Void is dangerous on it's own…but it being a Keyblade?"

"There's an old legend about it. They say Void Key was once an independent entity back in the War. While in battle, The Family managed to imprison Void Key within it's Keyblade bodies. It's a very powerful, very dangerous weapons. Rumors say it makes whoever has it as powerful as a Void Admin, but minus the Code powers. Still, the entity it once was is still within and some say whoever wields it will become mad by this being until it possesses them."

"That…that sounds horrifying." I said worriedly.

"There's also the rumor that one of the Family used 'Consume', a very powerful Legendary Ability, on Void Key's persona and most of the madness possession stuff is either an Echo of its rage, or just the fact it's made out of pure Void." Scotch also brought up.

"Huh…I'd prefer the second option…" I said sheepishly. "Is there another rumor about it or something?"

"Well, according to the legend about it, should Void Key ever choose a welder, a Twin Keyblade that was created by The Family as a safety precaution, forged from Nothingness, the Antithesis to Void, would also appear to the wielder of Void Key. It would balance out and keep Void Key in check. Since no one has ever seen or knows of Void Key even having a welder though, it's just a legend."

"Quite a safety measure I will admit." I said honestly. "And…is there more in the 'dangerous' side of Keyblades?"

"Lots. But of them all Void Key is the only one people really worry about."

"Alright." I nodded. "So watch out for those three, got it."

"So, anything else you wanna talk about while you're here and I'm waiting for Saw to return?"

"Well…" I thought. "You've…talked to Delilah before right? The cat girl that's sometimes with Saw?"

"Yes. Shared some drinks and stories. She's nice."

"Yeah…she's wonderful." I said with a smile.

"I'm sensing a 'but' in that sentence."

"Just…we got into an argument because she didn't want me to worry about her being pregnant…but then lied about the reason she got an abortion for…some reason…and it all spiraled from there…so I'm currently waiting for her to come here so we can talk."

"Oof. That sounds nasty."

"Yeah…it sucked…" I sighed.

"First argument?"

"I suppose the first big argument." I said. "Cause while some other disagreements could be seen as arguments…well, when it gets so bad Delilah runs away in tears…it's…devastating for me…"

"Ouch. Sounds like she really cares about you. How long have you two been together?"

"Since…maybe a little bit after I got here…" I admitted. "I mean, since I got to this Reality, given that I'm an Isekai." I clarified, remembering that Scotch doesn't know I'm an Isekai.

"Ah. And how long ago was that?"

"Twelve years ago." I answered.

"That is a fairly long time to be together. How did you meet?"

"Prize Pod." I answered. "It was my first dungeon run with my new brother's and…that was only like a week in."

"Oh…oh…" He said, finally closing his book.

"Yes…I'd sooner redo my Mortal Sun training than experience this again…" I said weakly. "It's…it's the worst possible thing…"

"Worse for her…" He muttered, catching my look as he sighed and looked me in the eye now. "How much do you know about Prize Pod People?"

"More than you'd think, less than I should…" I said worriedly.

"Right, but do you know about the Prize Pod Person's Psychology? In this case, Lovers?"

"Uh…that they love the person that opened them a lot?" I asked worriedly, never having really delved into the psychology and just…sadly took the 'face value' explanation about them from so many people…

Two of Scotch's hands covered their face, the other two just gripped the table's edge as he sighed. He gathered all four and crossed them over his torso, the upper two leaning on the table. "Okay. Lesson one. Prize Pod People, specifically Lovers, while yes, come out of the pod loving the one that their pod opens for… They have no memories or past to speak of. You know that much, right?"

"Yes, though…uh, that's also a weird point of contention because I have personal experience where that's…not the case." I said. "Specifically with one of my other Prize Pod Lovers, Shoto Todoroki…she told me about the Sport's Festival and how I won her heart over by also giving her a rousing speech about the 'Half-Hot' part of her quirk was hers, not her fathers…and then more memories sprung up through time…"

"Yes, that is a phenomenon that can happen but it's not constant. For those who don't experience that, their foundation is built more on the present and relationship with their love, you. Let me ask you this, before, was Delilah very… overly clingy, flirtatious and affectionate compared to now where she might seem much more independent and her own person?"

I… don't like where this was going… because that was… scary accurate…

"Am…am I going to lose Delilah?" I asked in fear, already assuming the worst given how…bad things went…"I…you're very correct…"

"No, No! No. This is just one bad argument but since Delilah has no past and the foundation of her life started with… you, an argument of this caliber is… very bad. See, even after becoming more independent, her whole past and life was based around you. You being mad or angry at her was something that likely broke her inside. Right out the pod Prize Pod Lovers only really know who their love is and that they want to make them happy and often they will do anything they can if they can."

"B-but it's been twelve years! I know this is our first big argument but…but it…oh Mother why did this have to happen…" I said as I clutched my head, even though I was glad to hear Delilah wasn't going to abandon me because of my anger…it still hurt to know that she was suffering so much…

"Hey-hey relax." Scotch said, slapping me. Ouch! "She won't leave you… it's very difficult for a Lover Class to… leave, the person they opened for. It happens, but it's rare. But I imagine she's feeling like absolute crap. Look, all you need to know is that, what she did, she did it out of love and nothing else. She didn't want to hurt you, that intent was and never will cross her mind. I can see you care a lot for her too. That's good."

"You didn't need to slap me ya know?" I muttered, rubbing my cheek. "But…it's good that this…isn't as bad as I believe…"

"It's also why it's… so I hear, off Armageddon Lovers are given to some guild called the Match Makers Guild. Prize Pod people have some heavy requirements and… unique psychologies. Servant and Ally classes too. But a lot of people here on Armageddon just… turn them over to Lust."

"Yes, the Match Maker's guild is…rather depressing, when Prize Pods only open for the 'Right Person'..." I sighed. "It's also why I have so many lovers and friends…it's why I was building a town called Candlelight for Prize Pod people to have a life…but that's all destroyed…over a million people…and sending people to Lust is probably the worst thing imaginable…"

"They are the ones who turn people into Breeders so… yeah." He sighed.

"But…I…I just want Delilah to be happy…she's my first girlfriend and…all this just hurts so much…"

"And that's what she and all your Lovers want too. That's all any of them want and since I'm guessing none of them have strength and power like she does, she's shouldering all their desires on herself since she's helping you."

"She's the only one with Scrhodinger's Cat…and while all the other's could become strong…she's literally the only immortal and…I suppose they decided since she was the first she was the 'head' of the harem…"

"That's pretty common. So is your relationship with them just you dating all them or them all dating each other plus you?"

"Given the Ten years…" I sighed. "Well…it's gotten to the 'dating everyone' part…I'm only one man with over ten thousand lovers cause Delilah has a harem fetish." I said honestly. "While they all love me unconditionally and…it's always wonderful to have a date with one or multiple of them at the same time…seeing them together and happy is…just something that can't be beat."

"I'm sure watching them make out or bang is also a plus." Scotch commented, but then laughed as I became a smoke machine for a good bit.

"Sh-shush you!" I whined.

"Awh, making Midoriya blush without me?" I heard Saw said as he walked up, sat next to Scotch and gave them a kiss on the cheek. "Yet another thing I find I like about you~"

I turned to see the three new additions, Sam, Dean and Luna all looking… rather in shock.

"Hey Saw, are those three okay?" Scotch asked.

"Yeah, I think halfway through the tour of the town they collectively had a stroke or something." Saw shrugged.

"I…can imagine." I said, levitating over some chair's and bringing them over. "Have a seat please, we'll order you some good drinks." I said to the three.

"Your…offering to buy us drinks?" Sam asked weakly.

"Yep." I nodded.

"There…there is a god…" Dean said, almost weeping at being told he can drink on someone else's tab.

"And now they speak." Saw chuckled. Scotch caught a server and put in some orders for more food and drinks, for me too.

"Just a lot to process…" Luna said. "We've seen a lot and been through a lot but… This house then… this…room…" The blue alicorn said, putting hooves to her head again. "This whole thing is just… a lot."

"I still can't believe I'm seeing live grass again…" Sam said.

"I can't believe there's a brothel here." Dean said. "And I'm broke…"

Sam and Luna face palmed… well, hooved, in Luna's case.

"I see we have our priorities in order.." I chuckled.

"Damn straight." Dean answered readily, making the other two siblings groan.

"Shame, I'd hit that." Saw said, making Dean nearly fall out of his chair.

"Ditto." Scotch added, finishing Dean off as he fell out his chair.

"... Alright, well I officially like you two." Luna smirked as Sam was badly holding in laughter.

"Well, you are certainly a magnet to something, didn't expect furries of all things." Sam teased as I noticed Dean punch him in the shin.

"Eat me." Dean said, managing to get back on his chair.

"We did technically offer." Scotch said, making Dean slip out of it again.

"Oh you two are a treat." Luna said, snickering as our food and drinks arrived.

"Well, this is going wonderfully." I chuckled, glad to see everyone being happy.

"Any luck finding Delilah?" Saw asked.

I sighed. "Sadly no…but Rin said that she comes here after she is done being alone."

"Ah, so waiting out until she shows up." Saw said, giving me a nod as he took his beer and began to drink. I looked over at Sam, Dean and Luna who were all already halfway done with their mugs.

"Yeah…and…it just sucks with what happened…" I sighed.

"Well, now's your chance to see how bad things are." He said, pointing with his chin.

I turned and saw Delilah, suddenly sitting at the bar on a stool.

"I'll be right back." I said, downing my small mug of sake and heading off to talk to Delilah. "Delilah?" I asked carefully.

"...Hey." She said. I took a seat next to hers.

"Hey…" I said softly. "How are you doing?"

"... I dunno." She shrugged, the barkeep appearing and giving her a tall glass of what looked like whiskey.

I sighed. "I'm sorry Delilah…" I said sadly. "Hey, can I get a bottle of Sake please?" I asked the Barkeep since they were right here.

They nodded, heading over and getting it as Delilah took a sip from her own. "... I love you. You know that, right?"

"I love you to…I hope you still believe that…" I said sadly.

"I do… I just… Feel like you didn't trust me when I didn't tell you about it…"

"Did you need to lie about the reason?" I asked, having Delilah look at me. "Rin told me about that…Delilah, I love you and trust you…but I want to know, why didn't you tell me?" I asked softly, now that we've both calmed down, maybe things can be talked about calmly.

"... And say what? I got an abortion because I care about you?" She asked, looking back down at her drink. "I didn't want to but… we're barely getting by with hunting, the farms are still new… the town had supplies but there's still a limited amount. You work so hard to provide care and safety for everyone… I just want to return it in kind. Because I know you… if left alone you'll overwork, overexert, and torture yourself all because you belive it can make our lives just a little easier…"

I reached over and gently put my hand on hers that wasn't holding the glass. "The abortion part…we would have talked, I would have understood the decision…I trust and love you Delilah, and I'm happy you want to help me." I admitted.

"Sometimes I wonder if you are… It scares me just how… willingly you throw yourself at danger. Like all your self preservation just… out the window. And I know what you'll say 'Saving People as the cost to myself, that's a hero.' But you're more than just a hero to me Midoriya… you're the love of my life, the reason I'm out of that pod, the reason I'm awake and alive and living…"

"I'm sorry…but to what I'll say isn't true…it's that I move without thinking." I admitted. "I just…go, without a second thought…and Delilah…you're also the love of my life." I admitted. "You were my first girlfriend, my first love…you've been with me through thick and thin, and while I love everyone else in our massive harem…you can never be replaced."

"Thanks… I am sorry for- What the fuck happened to your arm?!" She yelped as she looked over at me and finally noticed my arm as I now had my sake.

"Apparently, this is Dark Armor." I said honestly. "No idea why I got it…but I do."

"How did you get it?"

"Ask him to choke you during makeup sex tonight!" I heard Saw yell, making me spit out my drink as laughter erupted from his booth.

"I will shove one of your saw blades up your ass sideways!" I yelled.

"Whoa there, take me out to dinner first before we get to that kinky shit!" Saw replied. Other patrons actually started to laugh at our antics.

"Ugh…" I groaned and hit my head into the bar.

Delilah managed to keep her laughter to small chuckles, but she was smiling now at least. "Looks like you two are finally getting along."

"Magically." I groaned. "But no, me choking Saw didn't cause this…I think."

"... Wanna find out~?" Delilah asked me with that tone.

I looked at Delilah…"We might break a bed this time…" I admitted.

"Finally~ Needed a new one anyway~" She purred.

I grabbed my glass of sake and chugged it, putting it down before scooping up Delilah bridal style and headed off back home. "And I'm going to make sure you know how much I love you Delilah."

"If you need tips just ask!" Saw called as I carried Delilah out the door.