Izuku wished that he could go any extended amount of time without something insane happening. Or at the very least the insane things could have the decency to not overlap.

Having the Fuhai resurrection event so close to the concert ninja trap event was NOT good for his health.

Seriously, what IS my life? Izuku sighed, rubbing his temples as he laid back in his bed.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.

"Come in," Izuku said, sitting up to face whoever was coming in.

"Hi, Dad," Yami said as he entered, Sakio by his side. "Can I break some laws?"

Now, any normal parent would answer "no" and then thoroughly admonish the child.

But Izuku was not a normal parent, nor was he in any position to admonish someone for breaking the law. "Which ones and why?"

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"You know, I think I should have noticed you digging this," Izuku said, as he stared into the abyss.

The Grimm Lake that Yami had made to make Sakio, had been made far deeper. So deep that Izuku couldn't see the bottom. And since it wasn't full of Grimm goop, it was currently just a massive hole in the ground.

PLAP!

Although it appeared that wouldn't be the case for very long.

Up above, a bird flew over the hole, before spitting out Grimm goop into the abyss.

The bird then flew down towards them, before landing right in front of Izuku.

Then the bird's form suddenly changed, turning into something like a Grimm pelican, with a Mind Weaver on its head.

"These are Couriers," Yami explained. "They can gather negative emotion, turn it into goop like me, and then spit it out."

"I can also use the negative energy they use, to increase my own power during battle," Sakio explained. "Father wishes to scatter these birds across the city, to gather negativity instead of using those crystals."

"Mind Weaver's make them look like normal birds, so no one notices." Yami continued. "And if someone finds out."

POMMF!

Suddenly the Courier exploded, before turning into black smoke.

"No proof." Yami finished.

"I see. You've thought this through." Izuku said, thinking about the notion. Of course, doing something like this would be illegal…but it's not like anyone could prove anything. "Alright. I'll allow it. Although I'd like you to keep the amount of these you send out very limited. Make sure not too many of them are in the same place. Understood?"

"Yes, dad/grandpa." Said both of them.

"By the way, what do you intend to do with this much negative energy?" Izuku asked as he stared back into the abyss.

Yami shrugged. "Make Grim. Gather energy. In case of emergency."

"Fair enough. We'll never know when we might need it." Izuku said. Now that I think about it. These things would also take energy away from Syn. So all around, nothing but benefits.

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"Have you ever wondered how you traveled through time?" Ji asked.

"Not really, also why are you in my room?" Le asked as he looked up from his tablet.

"Well when you think about it, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever." Ji pointed out. "You can barely shoot really big lasers without collapsing, and yet you were able to jump not just from one country to another, but hundreds of years into the future. And you survived. Sure you WERE going to die had we not helped you, but the fact that you survived long enough for us to help you, or rather the fact that you didn't instantly die, heck, the fact that your body held up long enough to do that at all, just doesn't make any sense. Even taking the chaos emerald into account, your body simply shouldn't have been able to do that."

"Is there a point to this?" Le asked, rolling his eyes.

"Yes. I believe I understand how you did it." Ji said excitedly,. "You see, I was reading about how when moving at different speeds, can alter the flow of time. And I found it very interesting how one can exist in a flow of time separate from the norm. Then I thought of you. Do you recall your ability to quote on quote "slow down time"?"

"Yeah. Why?" Le asked, getting a tiny bit more interested.

"Well again, that ability doesn't make any sense." Ji pointed out. "Your body shouldn't be able to handle that much power. However, what if you weren't actually slowing down time. But altering your personal flow of time. Altering the very space you exist in, so for everyone else, it looks like you're moving faster, and for you, it looks like everyone else is slower."

"...Can you say that in less words?" Le asked.

"You altered space to make yourself move through time faster." Ji summarized.

"Oh…wouldn't that also need a crazy amount of power to work?" Le asked.

"Yes, which is why you couldn't keep it up for long," Ji explained. "But altering space for just you would use MUCH less energy than slowing down time everywhere in the universe."

"I guess. But what does that have to do with how we time traveled?" Le inquired.

"My theory is that instead of catapulting yourself through time, you simply moved you and Maria into some kind of different dimension or space. Where time moved very differently." Ji mused. "Basically, less than a second in that place was hundreds of years in our time. And the only reason you got out was because our chaos emerald pulled you out."

"...Okay I'm gonna need you to simplify that again," Le told her bluntly.

Ji sighed, pulled out a journal, and started drawing. "Okay, imagine time in our world as a river. Moving forward at a certain speed. You managed to move to a different river that was next to this one, that was moving much, much faster. Then after moving forward enough, our chaos emerald contacted yours, and got it to move you back to our river. For you, it was less than a second, but because that river was traveling so much faster, by the time you got back to this river you were much further down the stream."

"...Nope. Still don't get it." Le said honestly.

Ji rubbed the bridge of her nose in frustration. "Imagine there is a room, where time moves differently. Spending one second in that room, and hundreds of years will have passed in the rest of the world. When you used your power, you went into that room, and the two chaos emeralds pulled you out."

"...Alright, I think I get it," Le said after thinking about it for a while. "Kinda. Does that mean I can go into a room that makes time go backward?"

"While I can't say that's impossible, it is highly unlikely," Ji answered. "Time in our world only flows forward, and while bending space can change how fast it moves, there's never been any way to make it move backward. But take all of this with a grain of salt. I'm not a scientist, yet, and all of this is just a theory. I would suggest we visit the lab and have this theory tested. It might increase your proficiency with time-space manipulation."

"Hmmm. Sure. Why not." Le said, as he finally got up from his bed, and grabbed her hand. "To the lab then."

SCHOOP!

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"So…what do you think about the whole clone thing?" Nise asked.

She managed to catch Fu in the cafeteria just finishing a meal and took the opportunity to sate her curiosity.

"Trying not to," Fu said as he gulped down his last bit of meat. "But I guess I can't do that forever, honestly, I don't know what to think about. Half of my memories are fake, or don't belong to me, or whatever, but I…what would I be without those memories? Would I be the same person? Completely different? Because I'm already really different, but would I be more different? What does this make me?"

"So…you don't know what to think of it." Nise sighed, looking a bit crestfallen.

"Why are you so disappoint-oh." Fu realized what was going on here. "...You do realize you're not a clone right?"

"Yeah, but I'm not…the real me either," Nise said, looking down at herself. "But I feel real? And the real me was a murderer? So…how am I supposed to take that? What do I do-"

And then Nise's eyes glazed over.

"Oh. It's you again." Fu recognized, as suddenly Nise's expression turned sharp. "Hello, Kira."

"Yes. Hi. Can you do me a favor and get that whinging little shit to stop complaining." Kira said, sounding intensely annoyed.

"Yeah, how dare she be upset that she doesn't know who she is and she's stuck in the same body as a former assassin," Fu said, rolling his eyes. "Honest the nerve of that girl. Also, the fact that you can take over her body at any time is pretty concerning."

Kira rolled her own eyes in response. "I have no intention of taking over the body unless I have to. This is the exception, and it's only because she won't stop complaining."

"And why is that?" Fu asked. "If you can take over at any point, why are you almost never around? Why let Nise take control, at all?"

"Have you ever thought that maybe I don't WANT to be in control?" Kira glared. "I just want to fall asleep, and never wake up. Nise can have the body, so long as she doesn't put us in danger, and doesn't waste our life doing stupid crap that makes no one happy! So could you just tell her to stop caring about our stupid past!"

"That's not gonna work." Fu pointed out. "She needs closure. And that's something the two of you need to work on. Also, I'm pretty sure that just trying to vanish into your own mind is a bit unhealthy."

"Ugh! You just don't get it." Kira facepalmed. "Why do I even bother?"

Then Kira froze for a second, before her expression changed, becoming confused, and then panicked. "Oh no! Did she take control!? Did she kill anyone?!"

"Nah she doesn't seem to do that anymore," Fu said. "And even if she wanted to the only person around here is me. And we both know how that went."

SPLOOSH!

And then Fu's head exploded.

"Ah! I-I didn't do that!" Nise stuttered.

I wonder if she realizes she's only making things worse. Fu thought as he regrew his head.

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