Chapter 9: Party in the USJ (Part 2)

The mind of a human was very similar to the mind of a bug, at least the bugs of Hallownest. Thoughts rolled past her, riding along the synapses of the brain. Unlike the bugs of Hallownest, however, the base savagery was fully unlocked. The bugs she had infected were protected by the Pale Light, the gift of higher thought was their shield. All she had to do was strip away that shield and the bugs returned to their base, savage, state. There was no such shield in the mind of a human. Rather, the savagery had been tamed and collared. The dichotomy was interesting; if the bugs of Hallownest were given time would they develop higher thought naturally? The Radiance did not believe so, for the humans learned cooperation and unity. Hallownest and its surrounding territories were and forever would be a kingdom of competition. But debating 'could haves' was not the reason she was here… No; her purpose was far more grizzly.

Myla plucked an errant memory from its home and forcefully observed it. A celebration of sorts, five smiling humans around a large cake of some sort adorned with writing and candles. It wasn't what she was looking for, and so she cast it away. The memory fizzled and disintegrated until it vanished entirely. She plucked another memory from the stream; a classroom full of people. It too was discarded, and now she had a baseline for her search. The villain's mind recoiled from pain as Myla bulldozed her way through his memories, frying synapses and casting aside any memory that wasn't of relevance. The human brain was only suited to carry a single mind, a human mind. Due to her nature Myla could join that mind without consequence, but she had to be especially careful in doing so. Unfortunately for the pest, she had neither the time nor liberty to be careful and cautious. The brain brought forth its defenses but she simply burned them away, causing even more damage. By the time she found what she was looking for, the pest's brain was in a sorry state. She plucked the last few memories she needed and the full picture was revealed to her.

Their target was All Might, and somehow they had been able to gather inside information about Class 1A's schedule and the teachers that were going to oversee them. The League of Villains had brought numbers, but those were simply meant to deal with her class and to act as cannon fodder for the teachers. Their true player was the giant beaked brute and the villain that had warped her to the forest. It was bioengineered, artificial. Her mind involuntarily called forth the Soul Master and his pitiful attempts to contain her. The mistakes were similar; living creatures experimented on and turned into monsters. Whatever the abomination was, it certainly wasn't human anymore. That simplified things. In her previous engagement she was hard-pressed not to kill anyone, not due to any reluctance on her part, but because if she resorted to lethal force as her first option… Heroes in this society saved people. Senseless killing would all but oust herself even if the people she killed had no value to society, and it would make fitting into Class 1A exceptionally difficult.

With a thought she left the villain's mind entirely, watching dispassionately as he slumped to the ground like a gutted fish. His eyes that were once filled with hate were suddenly vacant, slowly dispelling the sickly tangerine hue they had just had. Essence leaked from his nose, eyes, and ears in steady amounts along with a concerning amount of gray-matter. He was breathing, thankfully, but he might as well have been dead. The Essence would disappear in an hour or so, having lost its connection to her, but she would have to think of a suitable cover as to why one of the villains had been turned into an invalid. As she left the battlefield behind bile rose in her throat, a thoroughly unpleasant sensation that she forced down with what little guilt she had left. Her Will… Using it in that way left a hollow feeling inside of her, and it was only the fact that she had seen his crimes that she didn't empty her stomach. The pest was a horrible creature. Assault, rape, murder, and a whole list of crimes that could fill a tome. As far as she was concerned she had delivered just punishment, as was her right as a Higher Being. It was just… Any link to what she had turned into always left a sour taste in her mouth.

A wave of pain, killing intent, and joy slammed into her with enough force to send her back a step. Her mind expanded instantly and her heart turned to ice. Mr. Aizawa was in pain, so, so much pain! Three familiar motes of light watched in muted horror as their teacher was dispatched like a maggot, and all the while the source of the bloodlust laughed in joy. All at once she was just like before, but instead of a battle-lust she was just furious. Her cloak flared like a pair of wings and her eyes turned to a molten gold, and in a flash of glyphs she teleported. But it wasn't a normal teleport.

Midoriya, Tsu, and Mineta watched in horror as their teacher, a pro-hero, was soundly and easily defeated. His head was slammed into the ground with enough force to crack it, blood pooling from his skull and from his shattered arm. The villain had called the creature a Nomu, and it looked like it was as strong as All Might. There wasn't anything they could do, and all the while the villain with the hands all over him gloated. But then something in the air changed. A pressure washed over them, and a golden halo appeared above all of them, raining glyphs and something akin to glittering feathers. Then the entire plaza was blanketed by a blinding golden light.

Myla appeared near the fountain, hovering in mid-air, surrounded by a corona of golden light and two radiant moth wings. Her fury released as a physical presence, sending shockwaves imbued with light in all directions. Everyone nearby, including the abomination were rooted in place by the sheer presence she was exuding. The ground shook and cracked from the epicenter of the wave. Such was the power of The Radiance, that sound was carried by those shockwaves; a mix of a horrible scratch and tolling bells that echoed in their ears and minds in equal measures. Any nearby villains that Aizawa had missed or that recovered were sent to the ground in pain, the closest falling unconscious and the remainder holding their ears as they bled. Myla turned her gaze on the source of the bloodlust, and roared.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!"

She thrusted her hands forward and a barrage of human-sized swords hurled towards the abomination, impaling it and launching it away from Aizawa. She didn't give it time to respond, holding her hands out and firing a scatter of eight beams of essence strong enough to turn the ground to glass. She did it once, twice, and three times before calling down the biggest pillar of essence she had formed since coming here. She couldn't even see the abomination, and was physically pushed back from the force of the attack. She ignored the pain her own attack caused her, ignored how long cracks formed from her hands and spiderwebbed up her arms to her shoulders. Covered as they were, the glow was visible through her costume. After a full thirty seconds she relented, falling to the ground next to their teacher.

Aizawa had felt the wave of pressure even if he couldn't see the source, and after the scream came the heat. The voice he recognized as Myla's, which angered and worried him to no end. He didn't stand a chance against the Nomu, what chance would a hero-in-training have?! Then for a moment everything went silent and he was rolled onto his back. When he saw the state Myla was in he felt his heart sink. The girl stared at him with tear-stained eyes, but what caught his attention was that her tears were orange. Her eyes were glowing a molten gold with those glyphs of hers following the tears before disappearing, and there were cracks forming in the corners of her eyes. Her skin was already sweaty and pale, and he could see the cracks lining her arms. He knew the Quirks of every student in his class, their strengths, and their weaknesses. Myla Grimm had a unique Quirk that actively harmed her if she went beyond her limits. She was definitely beyond her limits, whatever she had done had been an "alpha-strike." She intended to end the fight as quickly as possible by doing an overwhelming amount of damage as fast as she humanly could. Now she was one wrong move away from crippling herself. Fury, sadness, relief, and worry crossed over her face. All tried to gain control and none of them succeeded.

Her gaze flipped up as low level villains watched her warily, some assuming that she was already out of the fight. Without even lifting her hands glyphs formed all around her and started firing beams of Essence, sending their targets to the ground or knocking them unconscious with hits directly to the face. He wanted to tell her to stop, the more power she used the more damage she was doing to herself at this point.

"Well this is annoying, you brats have an optional boss, what a pain!" The villain with the hands all over him scratched his neck in annoyance, glowering at Myla hatefully.

Myla looked up at him, still cradling Aizawa. "There are no words that can describe the hell I will put you through if you hurt anyone else…" she growled.

"So annoying," he whined. "Nomu, break her!" The ground rumbled and Myla whirled around with a look of shock before Aizawa's vision went bright. It felt like his entire body had pulled itself apart and put itself back together again, and for some strange reason it looked like they were in the clouds. Moments later they both tumbled to the ground with Myla flipping onto her feet, tossing him as gently as possible away from the confrontation. A barrier formed in front of her and instantly shattered as the Nomu punched it, sending her flying back. By some grace the thing was ignoring him, focusing entirely on Myla. He could only watch in helplessness as she leapt, flew, dashed, and teleported out of the way of the Nomu's monstrously quick attacks. Any attacks she couldn't dodge she tanked using her barriers, but those were becoming more and more frequent. Every chance she got she fired off one of her beams or impaled it with a sword, but nothing she did slowed it down. Every ability used, every shield, was one more nail in the coffin. Aizawa noticed the purple mass from before appear next to the leader.

"Tomura Shigaraki."

"Kurogiri," the now-named villain greeted back. "Did you manage to kill Thirteen?" What blood was left in the Erasure Hero's body went cold, his heart beating erratically.

"The rescue hero is out of commission, but there were students that I wasn't able to disperse. One of them got out of the facility." The change was immediate.

Shigaraki scratched his neck non-committedly but then his other hand joined the first. He was growling at that point. "Kurogiri… You fool… If you weren't our warp gate I'd tear apart every last atom in your body!" One of his nails broke the skin and a single rivulet of blood ran down his neck. Rage abated, he sighed irritably. "There's no way we can win if dozens of pros show up to stop us, it's game over… Back to the title screen, and I was hoping to finish this today. Damn it," his gaze shifted ever so slightly. "Let's go home."

"Oh, before we leave, let's make sure the Symbol of Peace is broken." Shigaraki turned his gaze to the lake, towards three frozen students, bloody eyes filled with glee. "Let's wreck his pride!" And the villain moved. Despite the pain Aizawa activated his Quirk.

Myla Grimm… had miscalculated…

Damn the human body!

The Radiance leapt into the air with a faux beat of her wings, swinging her two-handed blade in an arc that nearly took off the abomination's arm. Her head was pounding, Essence leaked from her lips with every ragged breath, and her vision was starting to go blurry. Her body was physically shutting down, organs were beginning to fail, blood was being replaced with the accursed liquid, oxygen wasn't binding with what it needed to. And the most sickening part? If Grimm's glyph hadn't been capping her ability she'd probably be dead right now! Myla formed a platform underneath her and stood on it shakily. She watched in fury and horror as the abomination stitched itself together, removing any evidence that there had been only sinew holding its arm in place moments before. She hadn't anticipated this, she had assumed regenerative abilities were a thing of the past. It hadn't healed fully of course, the places from her initial attack hadn't healed at all, but that was because she had incinerated the cells. But even then her Essence wasn't doing nearly as much damage as it should've, it was like it was burning and flowing off of him. She was in a battle of attrition that she couldn't win, not against an opponent that could heal. Oh how she wished to copy her opponents! The Pale Light healed itself, the Hollow Knight healed itself, the damnable vessel healed itself using Soul whenever it managed to attack her, and now this!

With a growl five glyphs formed behind her and fired explosive orbs of Essence. The creature didn't even move, it just tanked the explosions before jumping at her. The platform underneath her disappeared and gravity took hold of her, ducking just below his attack before flying backwards again. Another four waves of panic and fear slammed into her, and for a single moment she was distracted. A moment like that was a mistake, as a massive fist closed around her and squeezed. All she had time to do was form a barrier to the contours of her body and hold. The pressure was nearly unbearable. Already it was creaking and shaking, one large crack forming before spreading across the rest of it. A multitude of different strategies ran through her head. The brain was exposed, it might buy her time but who was to say that it wouldn't regenerate as well? One massive concentrated beam to spear through it? It was an abomination and hadn't reacted to any of her attacks, and who was to say it needed its organs to survive?

Another crack formed.

Could she fry its mind? A quick invasion of its mind repelled her. It was mindless, it's only thoughts being a confirmation and follow through of orders. Any massive attacks she could release were just as liable to injure her now as well, the first major attack had been her gambit and it had failed. As her entire barrier cracked and began faltering a sickening feeling spread throughout her gut.

I can't win…

She wasn't in her prime, her human body had limitations she had underestimated, and she had recklessly leapt into battle. She didn't know anything about her opponent other than what she learned by fighting him. A foolish idea borne of her old life and her shadow, because she was a Higher Being, and before that meant a world of difference. Despite it all she smiled ruefully, it was funny! How twisted was that? She made a vow to do better, to learn from her mistakes in the past, and when she was confronted with a major challenge she fell right back into her habits! She hadn't changed at all, and now it was going to mean her "death." Then the abomination was gone, moving so fast it genuinely shocked her. The barrier dispelled and she choked on Essence. Rolling onto her hands and knees she dry-heaved, clearing her airways of a mixture of red and sickly orange. It took nearly all of her energy to do that. More fluid dropped down and she furrowed her brow. Her vision was blurry… Was she crying? Her face remained stunned before she began laughing, throat beginning to constrict.

"The Radiance… The G-Great Scourge, the Despoiler of… Hallownest… Is that all I have? How pathetic have I become?" She croaked to herself, voice scratchy. She wouldn't break down, she couldn't let herself. It was one aspect she was thankful of, that despite having a human form her mentality remained the same. Another wave of panic hit her and her breath froze. Shigaraki was trying to grab Tsuyu, Midoriya was trying to hit Shigaraki, and the abomination was reaching for Midoriya. Aizawa was seemingly canceling their Quirks but he was losing consciousness. She herself was not far behind him, her heart was already slowing down and if she didn't do anything soon her organs would fail. She was spent, completely and utterly. A goddess and both heroes were out of the fight, so the children would have to save them. No… if that was the case then people were going to die here. And the situation was made exponentially worse when what was left of the petty villains started surrounding her. They wanted vengeance from her attacks earlier?

So be it…

A small glyph formed in front of her, a lethal blade peeking out of it. She tunnel-visioned on Shigaraki, staring at his chest through her blurry eyes. At a sufficient speed it would pierce all the way through the abomination and keep its momentum. If the rest of her class was forced to fight the leader and the abomination they'd die, so she'd deprive it of orders for good and when the villains killed Myla she'd fry their brains. Hopefully it wouldn't act at all if its commander was dead. She knew that she could fire the blade faster than the villains could kill her. The spike exited the glyph and hovered in front of it. Gathering the rest of her meager power she began to close her fist—

BOOM!

The entire building froze as dust and debris exploded from the USJ's door. Footsteps began echoing from the dust, and as a large shape gradually came into view the panic and fear was replaced by hope.

All Might had arrived.

He wasn't wearing his uniform, but rather a yellow office suit and blue tie. And then it all clicked into place. The abomination; it was a weapon purposely made to kill All Might. Oh the Irony! She thought to herself. All Might had no idea what he was walking into, the man couldn't regenerate. Normally he'd be able to match it blow for blow but Myla knew otherwise. The villains around her all stared in awe as well, forgetting her.

"Woah… it's All Might!"

"I didn't expect him to be so huge…"

"This is no time to talk, you idiots! First we'll finish the small fry here, then—" And then she saw All Might move.

Every villain surrounding her was knocked out faster than she could blink, and then her world turned into a blur as both she and Aizawa were hoisted into his arms. "I'm sorry… I should've been here."

"A-All… Might…" she tried saying. She needed to warn him! He was their best chance at winning but it was a trap! Then her world turned into a blur again and she was deposited gently next to Aizawa.

"Everybody back to the entrance. Take Aizawa and Myla with you, they don't have much time!"

"Y-Yes sir!"

"Ribbit!" Myla felt something two arms lift her as something long wrapped around her midsection.

"All Might, you can't! That brain villain took One For—" Midoriya caught himself, something that Myla did not miss. "I-I smashed him and didn't break my arm this time, but he wasn't fazed at all! He's too strong!"

"Young Midoriya!" All Might interrupted, smiling, and flashing a peace sign. "I got this!" She felt Midoriya's resolve harden and her own hope wavered.

"N… n-no…" she tried, only coming out as a whisper.

"D-Don't worry Myla, we'll get you both out of here!" He tried to reassure her. She wanted to argue, but a harsh wheeze was all that escaped her throat. She wanted to scream at them but they turned and carried her away from the battle. She wasn't even strong enough to break from Tsuyu's grip!

"Maybe we were worried about those bad guys for nothing, All Might's unstoppable." Tsuyu commented. Myla grimaced in anger, in humiliation. Then her face turned to horror when new feelings hit her. GLEE. WORRY. PAIN.

Enough of this! With the last of her strength she twisted out of the frog-girl's grip, bringing the three of them to a stop. She looked at Midoriya and delved into his mind.

"W-woah hey!"

"Myla, what are you?—"

'Midoriya!' She screamed into his mind. The boy recoiled, looking around until she gripped his chin and dragged his eyes to her own. 'All Might's in danger! The abomination can regenerate!' She could feel every emotion going through his mind. Confusion at her voice, turning to shock at the prospect of mental communication. Then what she said clicked and terror took over. He could focus on the important bits, good.

Before the other two students could intrude on the seemingly awkward exchange the dust cleared and all of them froze. All Might was separated into two, his suplex having delivered him straight into the waiting arms of the warp villain. They were going to cut him in half!

"Asui, can you and Mineta carry Myla and Aizawa for me?"

"Sure, but what are you going to do?" The girl didn't get an answer, and Myla could only watch in anger as the boy stupidly charged ahead.

'What are you doing?!' She yelled into his mind. He ignored her though, his mind was entirely focused on saving All Might. Fool.

The purple portal closed around All Might, squeezing his arms flush against his body. A thousand thoughts ran through her mind; plans, ideas, ways she could save him, ways she could keep Midoriya from getting himself killed. None of them bore any fruit… In her recklessness to save her teacher she had rendered herself completely useless. Any small uses of her power would worsen her condition and any major abilities had an uncomfortable chance of killing her. Essence it would seem, was as much a power as it was a punishment. Two people she found interest in were about to die, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. She hated the feeling it gave her, it made her sick to her stomach, though that could've been the Essence poisoning as well. With a realization, she put the feeling into place. It was helplessness… She, The Radiance, one of the most powerful Higher Beings, was so utterly helpless. This was a feeling she had only felt twice before, and both of those instances involved her 'death.' Yet somehow this instance was indescribably worse, and she didn't know why… Because of Midoriya? All Might? Her classmates? They were amicable, but they were ultimately a means to an end, people to tolerate as "equals" until their paths separated. And yet… Her helplessness stemmed from the fact that it wasn't her that was in danger, but rather those very same classmates that she saw as tools to further her own motives. Was this her human brain making that choice? Or was it that when she was "made whole" she forgot what it truly meant to be herself? She couldn't follow that train of thought, it would lead her to an existential dread she may not be able to return from.

Explosions and more noise drew her attention. Different sets of hands laid her down and a pink face full of worry invaded her vision. Words were being said but everything was starting to blend together. Her adrenaline rush was wearing off it seemed, and the full scope of her injuries were starting to hit her. Agony was an old friend, but that didn't mean it was a pleasant experience for her. Her eyes closed and Myla Grimm fell unconscious due to Quirk Exhaustion and self-inflicted injuries. The Radiance looked at her options. Two beings, one in the same. The Radiance gave her body a passing glance as the students fussed over her and their two teachers, trying whatever they could to heal them or improve their conditions. Mina was nearly in hysterics, and the goddess genuinely felt bad. The girl had been nothing but nice, she didn't deserve to worry like this. An invisible moth-shaped mote of light flew back to the fountain and… reflected as she observed the battle.

Todoroki, Bakugo, Kirishima, Midoriya, and All Might stood across from the warp villain, the Nomu, and Shigaraki. Two of them in particular stood out to her in detail. Bakugo reminded her so much of herself when she was a shadow, all of that rage built up inside of her, the utter disdain for everyone around her, her complete superiority complex. It truly was like looking into a mirror, and as shaken as she was it made her… uncomfortable. And a look to the ringleader, Shigaraki, filled her with a well of confusing emotions. She hated him. He was the instrument of her humiliation, the one who harmed one of the few humans she enjoyed, but most of all Shigaraki was another mirror into her past. If Bakugo was her anger and rage, then Shigaraki was her madness. For it wasn't just rage that led her to her death, but the total collapse of her mind. Those red eyes that found joy in harming others, not for vengeance but simply the act of causing pain? They belonged to her, she wore them like no other. She reveled in breaking apart the minds of the Pale Light's subjects, found pleasure in watching those bugs kill or infect their loved ones. It was that madness that led to the way she toyed with the "Pure" Vessel. Looking back, she very well could've just broken through its mind. The seals gave her the most trouble, after all. No… She broke down the Hollow Knight, ripped apart everything that made it whole, shattered its hope, revealed its darkest fears, brought its true nature into light. She enjoyed torturing it, the same way that Shigaraki found joy in killing children. Those eyes… When she saw them it made her call back on the pleasure of hurting others, and it was only the recollection of what she did to the Hollow Knight that broke her out of that trance.

It was a stalemate with both sides waiting for the other to make their move, and she had arrived at the perfect time. Power flared like a nova inside of All Might, eight unique and similar lights blazed so bright it rivaled her, and in the next second both he and the abomination were charging each other. It was hard for her to keep up with their fight, and it was only due to her non-corporeal nature that she wasn't immediately blown away by the gale-force winds being generated from the power of their punches. It irked her, stabbed at her pride, learning once and for all that she wasn't the strongest anymore. A leftover part of her pride perhaps, her status as a Higher Being, but the events of their trip to the USJ… changed something in her. Her gaze burned onto the abomination, furious that she had been so soundly defeated, furious that she had been reduced to a state of helplessness by beings lesser than her. It was a humiliation that she would exact tenfold. One ill deed befitted another, and even if the beast was mindless she would at least make this fight easier.

With a soundless snarl, The Radiance formed a spearhead and burrowed into the Nomu's mind, shattering the layer that had repelled her. As soon as she was inside, however, an all encompassing familiarity beset her…

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And moments later she began screaming…

It felt the flare of power in that moment. The Light was here, it had escaped from its prison. A roar of deafening silence shook the concrete room and it pulled on the reinforced chains holding it suspended in the air. It moved its cracked mask to the door as it opened, glaring its empty glare at the two strange bugs. One lacked the fuzz on the top of its head but had it under its nasal cavity, and two large lenses covered its eyes. The other was the one that had defeated it before, glaring back at it.

"You know, this thing killed seven of my guys the last time it broke out. I'm increasing the price; eight million for my services." The Hollow Knight had heard the screams from beyond its chamber, young, small. Others were trapped here the same as it, for what purposes though it knew not.

"Done. This specimen is worth the price, the substance we've gathered from it is unlike anything I've ever seen! It takes anything we give it and adds it to the whole, utterly consuming it. But I know genetic tailoring, what we're gathering is altered. It seems like the purpose is to contain—"

"Yeah yeah, I'm sure whatever you're talking about is super interesting and whatever, but in my opinion this thing's more trouble than it's worth. It's a rabid animal that can swing pipes, who cares what it's made of." The full empty gaze hadn't moved from the second man the entire time, willing him to die on the spot.

The new bug laughed, it was a dangerous laugh that reminded it of the Soul master. It was cruel. "So ignorant, look at the way it's staring at you. Animals can't hate." The Hollow Knight's gaze shifted to the new bug. "Look at it now, it's analyzing me! It's judging me, seeing if I'm a threat or not. What an amazing creature, a beautiful example of genetic engineering. What it must've been like in its prime!" The way this bug spoke about it made its hackles rise, its sole remaining hand was twitching for a nail that it would never see again. The bug that had defeated it was skilled and cruel, but whoever this bug was far more dangerous by far. The fact that it was experimenting with Void was enough to classify him as a target. After the two bugs left it twitched, judging the strength of the chains. They were strong, the strongest that it had encountered since being sealed in the Black Egg Temple. Not strong enough. There was one leak link, a sole crack had formed due to some reason or another, and it would be the crumbling foundation of its prison. Its empty gaze found the link and a tendril slithered out of the stump that used to be its arm. It glowed a faint white and slashed through the link, and with just that little bit of chain gone the Hollow Knight thrashed until another link snapped. Then a chain was ripped from its base, and the rest soon followed. It dropped to the ground unsteadily and eyed the door. Holding out its remaining arm it formed a dagger made of pale light and cut through it, breaking through the wall and into the hallway. Immediately the lights turned red.

[SECURITY BREACH, REPEAT; SECURITY BREACH]

Well that ending certainly got out of hand. One more chapter and we're out of here, though if I'm being honest the next chapter will be dealing with the fallout more than anything. This one was a bit on the shorter side, but the next one will make up for it. I've got a few things cooked up, some revelations, and answers that only bring more questions. Pride truly is a vice, and overconfidence kills~

Thus begins the journey of our goddesses' self-reflection, though it'll be a long time before she truly humbles herself. A series of events has just been set into motion that will last far longer than you'll expect, with repercussions that'll build for chapters upon chapters~ One of you asked me about sticking to MHA's story, and I can say that this is officially the start of where things diverge. One of them is already apparent, though I'll let you guys speculate what~

Once again my inferiority complex rears its ugly head, as I'm not great at fight scenes. The only way to do better is to… well, do them. And no, this is not the start of The Radiance getting her ass kicked by everyone, she is still leagues above her classmates. But she's only human, funny as that is to think about.

Now for reviews!

NightmareKnight1: I'm flattered, and I always enjoy going back and forth with everyone who reviews. If you want to, feel free to shoot me a DM, but I am infamous for not checking my inbox XD. The purity of THK will actually play a pretty large role soon, though it won't take place for a while even with the hint we saw this chapter. When he does though, antagonist, enemy, or friend can't describe their "reunion." All I can say is that it will be… intense~ There's implications about what's been happening there in this chapter, and there will be definite answers in the next chapter.

Clagann: Glad to be back!

Death of Snipers: Learning about her powers? Yeah that ship just left the harbor when Myla talked in Midoriya's head. Her mental breakdown was due to a madness relapse, and there may or may not be more of those. And a nail master? I'm not positive who else I'm bringing in, if any.

Zerkil: Glad to be back, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

James is bored: Glad you're liking it!

Anyways, we got one more until our schedule resumed itself! Next in the rotation is Absolute Radiance!

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