3-In-1 Instant Quirks 2 (My Hero Academia, Villain SI)

"Hwaaaa…*yawn*..."

Mmm, what time is it? Why can't I see the clock or the time displayed on my phone?

Oh, right.

[360 Degrees Perception] must have turned off in my sleep, bummer, I thought I finally managed to keep it active while unconscious just like with my [Shapeshifting] Quirk.

I slowly crawled out of my bed and turned off my 'acquired' smartphone's mainstream K-Pop alarm music.

Eh, 10 am? Nice! Finally got some decent sleep. Wow, I feel refreshed already.

At least I can think straight now. The past two days have been so hectic that I haven't been able to slow down and take stock of my situation beyond getting ready for the next fight.

The sheer amount of idiots I needed to dispose of was ridiculous!

Taking possession of the apartment 'owned' by the first mugger I found without doing any further psychometric checks into his financial background came back to bite me in the ass.

Instead of having a nice place to crash for a few days I ended up needing to tear my way through the local branch of some big name gang when some goons came barging in with the intention to kill me (disguised as the mugger I killed) for racking up a horrendous debt!

After I harvested their Quirks I then had to kill the reinforcements that came pouring in when they realized their friends were missing. After that, those guys sent out some distress signals and got their upper management involved. Soon after I had to fight the boss and the rest of his goons before they started to kill everyone in the neighborhood just to get me!

"Urgh, just remembering it makes me want to facepalm."

I could scarcely believe my eyes when they started killing everyone in the way. How could they be willing to kill so many innocent people in cold blood just to get at me?

They almost denied me thousands of fresh undamaged Quirks! Good thing I stopped them before the fighting got too destructive, saving thousands of lives that I might selectively kill later on. After that, I assisted with the clean up while under the effects of my [Invisibility] Quirk, saving some civilians and stealing the Quirks off the deceased innocents while I was at it.

"Pft! And they call me a monster… At least I don't go around depopulating a healthy district for no good reason. Gods, everyone was acting like I killed their mother or best friend."

Well, considering how gangs work, I probably did kill a lot of best friends. Huh… guess that's why they kept coming after me, you know, that whole cycle of hate thingy-majig from Naruto.

And the reason why I got caught up in all these problems is because I had to kill someone to defend myself.

Get held up by terrorists and kill them? Forced to defend myself classified as hostile by both the government and terrorists.

Killed a career mugger and took on his appearance just to get a place to crash in? End up running into trouble with a huge gang that wants their money bag and get stuck killing everyone.

What's next? Kick a puppy and end up having to fend off an entire family of bizarre Quirk users for the rest of my soon-to-be immortal life?

I slapped my cheeks, "Get it together Peter. Today's a brand new day, let's get this show on the road."

My smile in the bathroom was not particularly indicative of my optimistic mood when it turned out to be stained with bits of flesh and bone fragments.

No wonder my breath smelled terrible… I forgot to brush my teeth last night!

I rinsed my mouth twice before reaching for the toothbrush and paste. I started to sing (mumble) a song I remembered from my childhood days as I brushed my teeth.

"When I'm feeling lonely, sad as I can be, all by myself on an uncharted island in an endless sea~"

Ow, that triangular bone fragment poked my gums… my [Regeneration] quickly sealed off the cut. I looked for some dental floss but found none. Aww…

Looks like I have to make do with slowly pushing it down and out of the gap between my teeth.

"What makes me happy, fills me up with glee, those bones in my JAW! That don't have a flaw- My Shiny Teeth and ME!"

I have got to make a Quirk that lets me eat and digest people from other parts of my body 'Vore-style' (swallowing whole) or this will end up as a recurring problem.

Anyways, back to my regularly scheduled program… Serious Series: Serious Brushing!

"My shiny teeth that twinkle! Just like the stars in space~ My shiny teeth that sparkle, addin' beauty to my face~"

My toothbrush was totally ruined afterwards.

Wait a second, I have a Quirk for this! Or at least, I will soon…

I run a quick search through the hundreds of Quirks stored in my library. There were a lot of object manipulation type Quirks just sitting there, which was unsurprising, considering that I mostly focused on combining new body defense Quirks so that I can maintain the image of only having a single but powerful 'Body Manipulation' Quirk throughout my battles.

As I learnt from the cool immortal hero Zombieman, sometimes the best offense is just a strong defense (be it high regeneration or straight up indestructibility) and a really sharp object (my transformable arms and legs).

Tool Repair + Maintenance + Recycling = [Object Restoration]

A snap of my finger transmutes my abused toothbrush back to its optimal state.

There were so many awesome parts of my Quirk. One of my favorite aspects is how it eliminates most of the 'arbitrary' conditions and limits of the component Quirks while maximizing their effectiveness.

One of the component Quirks, [Recycling], originally requires a large amount of what the user considers to be 'trash' available in order to fix a single item of a variable mass. The other two component Quirks also require odd conditions to activate, but when I combine my Quirks together the end result is an upgraded Quirk that can just break reality over its spine with a pinch of will and stamina.

However, not all my Quirks were made that simple, some in fact do retain certain activation protocols and oddly specific limits of its component Quirks, but they were thankfully streamlined for ease of use and had a low mastery ceiling.

My [Hyper Mental Processing] Quirk was a prime example of Quirks being weird as heck. Having been created out of a combination of synthesized mental Quirks made it a very powerful A-Rank Quirk with a lot of passive benefits that defended my mind and improved my reflexes, but most of its intelligence and memory boosting effects were locked behind the need to drink a cup of coffee beforehand. The boost only lasted for a couple of minutes and depended on the 'quality' of the coffee, with said time limit increasing with every cup I drank as if the Quirk was improving with every use.

Come to think of it… I was either a genius at using Quirks or my powers made Quirks that were tailored specifically for my use. The second theory seemed to be the most probably.

If anything, my variation of All For One was more powerful and versatile seeing as I had no trouble keeping dozens of defensive Quirks active, am capable of taking Quirks from the dead at range, being able to detect and identify aspects of Quirks like some sort of 'Quirk-Sense', really detailed understanding of Quirks possessed, seemingly unlimited storage space in my head for Quirks, synthesization of new and powerful Quirks while having great control over the process… now that I think about it, I'm so broken that it isn't even funny anymore.

Unfortunately, being really OP hasn't made life any simpler. I mean, from a certain point of view, all I have to do is keep killing anyone that gets in my way, eat them and then move on to attempt to live my life in peace while trying to become the ultimate being… but that kind of life feels really empty.

I'm too far gone to try my hand at heroism at this point, that and the fact my Quirk has obviously fucked my head up to the point where I see other Quirk users as little more than walking breeding superpowered food.

At the same time, I don't want to be an overly edgy destructive and sadistic villain. I didn't have any ideologies that I wanted to pursue, especially with regards to the many ideals that belonged to the Hero Vs Villains dynamic. I felt nothing but a tinge of regret from killing all those that opposed me, but neither did I feel any real satisfaction from doing so other than from surviving the ordeal.

The only thing that really felt 'real' to me was my day-to-day struggles and making new Quirk combinations for my personal amusement. Surviving and becoming more powerful brought my a sense of pride and accomplishment, but like anything purchased from EA, I quickly came to regret how I achieved such things in quick order.

My current guess was that most of my regret stemmed from the increasing escalation (hassle) that arose from my violent actions. But perhaps there was something more to that? I wasn't quite sure. I think I need to take a break from this cycle of violence so that I can discover what is really important to me.

"...Yeah! That sounds like a great idea! I need a break from all this crap, like… I could sit in a cafe, drink some good coffee and seriously reflect on my values."

I noted that I was still talking to myself in front of the bathroom mirror.

Thank goodness no one saw me behaving this way.

A quick shower later, an alteration to my appearance and a change of clothes made me look like a respected member of the Korean Boy Band Society.

Feeling a bit thirsty, I filled a pot with tap water and stared at the pot until it glowed red hot.

As the great hero Karna once said "true heroes kill with their eyes".

And if heroes can kill with their eyes I don't see why villains like myself can't either!

All it took was a bit of focus and three seemingly useless Quirks to make a power that allowed me to heat up and blow up things with a glance.

A Quirk that made one's eyes sparkly was used for its bioelectricity generation and storage functions, another Quirk that estimated the size of an object within one's range of vision was utilized for its data and energy transmission properties and finally, an 'innocent' Quirk that shared one's body heat with another person to keep them warmed gave me the heat transmitting effect that I needed.

Voila! I can now heat up something to explosive levels with but a focused look!

Hmm?

I traced my fingers over the edge of my mouth.

This is… a smile on my face.

I think this confirms it. I do enjoy making Quirk combinations! If only because it makes me feel awesome for taking broken, useless Quirks and turning them into something awesome!

I feel as if I enjoy using them as well. But not to the same extent.

The thought of my power coming at a cost of an absurd waste of good life suddenly soured my mood. How curious. I don't regret the act of taking a life, but I regret the waste of life… or rather, a waste of potential.

Mmm, I need to reflect on this further.

The entire neighborhood was surrounded by police and local heroes.

Turns out that you can't just turn the area into a bloody warzone and expect people to ignore it.

On the bright side of things, I had apparently managed to keep the fighting on the edge of a large area, such that the centre of the area I was defended (the mugger's apartment) was barely affected by any fighting.

Since most of the battles took place at night, most people didn't even know something was wrong until the next morning! I was rather confused on how that happened until I recalled my use of an electric wave jammer type Quirk that had cut the civilians off from standard communication methods while I was focused on disabling any video cameras.

The police just assumed that I was some poor dumb NEET and let me out of the area while they kept looking for the culprits of the immense gang war against a single man.

They were probably looking for the perpetrator of the carnage. I felt bad that they would never find the culprit… seeing that I already killed the gang boss and his lieutenants. It saddens me that they will waste their time trying to find some smidgen of justice from this horrible waste of life, only for most of the terrible events to end up involved in a cover up since the previous days' debacles displayed the authorities incompetence.

I leisurely drank a nice cup of black coffee in the comforts of a fancy cafe as I read the news on my smartphone.

The uproar was a lot louder than I thought. Apparently, I took out one of the five government-allied Villain gangs, that were in charge of organized crime within certain limits.

The system seemed to be a Shichibukai rip-off and was immensely corrupt since a few of the Chaebol and government higher-ups were involved in its creation.

Oh… oh my, it looks like the government just placed a bounty for 'The Demon' for all the government sponsored 'Pro-Heroes', bounty hunters *cough* international heroics license holders, the other government-allied Villains and other villains alike.

I suppose it's as good a time as any to leave Korea.

Mmm… maybe after I visit the biggest cemeteries and burial sites to see if I can get some nice, conflict-free, Quirk components.

Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

It's better than my initial plan of looking up Korea's equivalent of LinkedIn and finding some government official, kill him, then turn into slime form and shapeshift to fit his skin while using [Object Restoration] to keep my meatsuit fresh. While it would have allowed me to evade certain intelligence Quirks and shapeshifter contingencies, ultimately, the plan was highly inefficient and I wouldn't be able to get a copy of the country's Quirk Registry due to government S.O.P.'s preventing me from just getting the data into a flashdrive.

I didn't have any powerful technopathy Quirks either so that wouldn't have worked out anyways.

Leaving the cafe, I walked about the streets and looked for a supermarket. While I was there, I bought several bottles of coffee powder to power my Quirk and chugged down a spoon of concentrated caffeine stuff, allowing me to power up my intelligence Quirk and memorize all the key locations within the country.

My stealth and speed Quirks were the MVP in my quest to harvest damaged Quirks from corpses in a completely, non-violent and conflict-free manner.

I swear to all the Korean gods that I did not tempt fate even once.

I never even thought of anything resembling "there's no way I'm getting dragged into a conflict with a plan like this" or "nothing could possibly go wrong!"

Yet I still ended up ambushed by hundreds of Pro-Heroes, thousands of gang members, their intimidating looking bosses and a couple of no-names looking for a quick buck.

Apparently, law enforcement and organized crime were hyper-competent in Korea, as all sides seemed to have tracking and warping Quirks.

They were all behaving like flanderized Skyrim NPC's after I killed a chicken.

I didn't even kill anybody today! This was getting ridiculous. What did I do to deserve such bullshit? I hate Korea! I fucking hate this country.

Hoo boy… okay Peter, just keep calm and keep killing.

I could probably have just blasted them all with my [Plasma Cannon] Quirk but I had panicked and accidentally defaulted to my "hide the esoteric Quirks and make it look like body manipulation" act.

I had decided to use my special Hardening Quirk to harden my skin into a metallic shell and just stood there with the rest of my defensive Quirks active, making their attempts to capture and destroy me fail by being unable to affect me in any way. With the time bought by my defensive measures, I combined a lot of Quirks, then inverted and enlarged my rib cage until it bursted out of my reinforced back and then plunged them into the ground.

With various flesh, bone and blood related Quirks I managed to grow and spread my bones, blood vessels and flesh through the ground like a gigantic root network. And [Hyper Absorption] used through that, I managed collect enough nutrients and energy through the entire area to launch a devastating attack while I was turtling like a fucking pussy.

They never saw it coming.

Countless murderously sharp, steel-like bones arose from the ground in an instant, impaling everyone in the battlefield from below.

Well over a thousand Quirks flowed into me easily now that their owners were dead. As they were freshly dead most of the Quirks were completely undamaged.

It took me about a minute to absorb so many Quirks, however, and when I came to I found a few survivors escaping the battlefield!

Some of them had survived due to having their Gigantification type Quirks turned on while a larger group of survivors had flight capabilities. I spent a couple of minutes hunting them down to make sure they didn't get word of the fight out there.

After that, I used my newly gained electricity Quirks to create an EMP Quirk, allowing me to fry everything in the city and potentially erasing any records of surveillance equipment.

Even if I failed in my attempt to protect my identity, I could at least cause enough trouble so that they wouldn't be able to track me down easily. With [Hyper Absorption] I easily broke down the graveyard of bone and blood back into energy to carry on with my plans. Having cleaned up after my little mess I decided to skedaddle out of the country.

My Villain life will probably be a lot less eventful from now on.

A few years later…

"Dear Peter Grill, blah blah blah...Though you passed the initial exam yadda yadda… your drawing skills were "unsatisfactory"?! What the fuck!? My art is fantastic! And what kind of fine arts school even needs drawing skills nowadays, did Quirks cause the arts to devolve backwards or something!? They're supposed to teach me that stuff!"

I was so sure of my success. My failure as a result of my portfolio not qualifying me to get through the graduate admissions process was… it was just… inconceivable to me! I didn't use my many Quirks during the exam because I didn't want to cheat, I knew I could draw like that madman Murata but how was that not enough?

"Can you… not break that desk? I paid for that."

I glared at my hacker associate and temporary landlord, whose services I had paid in gold (literally, yay Transmutation) for, in utmost annoyance.

"Shut it Friedrich."

"It's Heinrich."

That blonde Aryan git looked like a Friedrich to me.

A few months ago I saved Friedrich from being arrested by a couple of pro-heroes and paid for a lot of his services. He's been helping me out on making my many fake identities a lot more air-tight while keeping an eye out on the situation in Japan for me. While I wouldn't call him a friend I would like to think we had a fun and simple working relationship.

"Whatever. You don't know what it feels like! I never failed an exam before, never! My parents would be ashamed of me…"

"You mean your real parents or the ones on your forged transcripts?"

"Both. Any parents of mine, fake or real, should actually have expectations for their child."

The German information dealer and hacker for hire rolled his eyes before returning back to work on his expensive setup.

Which I paid for, by the way…. In gold, like, lots of gold.

"Can't you comfort me or something?"

"First of all, I'm straight."

"Not that way."

"Secondly, you haven't paid me for that."

"I gifted you a solid gold toothbrush!"

"There's a fine line between gifts and actual payment."

"You should be lucky I let you live."

"You are literally the least threatening Villain I have ever met."

I did not pout. I frowned in a snooty manner.

It can't be helped. I decided to try out living a quiet life as a rich retired young Villain, after all.

After two years of accidentally ending up in the middle of massive conflicts I decided to take the plunge and discard my usual MO of faking a powerful [Body Manipulation] Quirk. 'The Demon' had already gotten involved in political conflicts in various failed states, depopulated several poor countries and all sorts of atrocities that I never actually really wanted to get involved in.

I had absolutely terrible luck. Every attempt to harvest a specific Quirk ended up in me getting caught up with massive villain, hero and national army fights.

I mean, it was a great way to get more Quirks, but I never actually got the chance to… you know, do All For One like things when everyone keeps pestering me until I leave the country.

Having gotten so sick of it, I worked with a power-hungry dictator of a failed state to eliminate their 'democratic' opponents, waited for the inevitable betrayal, killed the president and impersonated him so that I could present a fake, heavily decayed body (of my own making while lacking my DNA) to the international community while claiming credit for the ridding the world of such an evil.

I ran the country for a couple of months, eliminated all armed conflict (by killing everyone myself), revived the economy, then arranged my own death and escaped for a new, peaceful life in Europe. The president I impersonated was unironically hailed as a beloved leader afterwards.

I can't imagine how they'll react if they find out a supervillain ran their country better than all their 'democratically elected' leaders had done so across two fucking centuries.

Nowadays I only visit the terminally ill and retirement homes to get new Quirks. I switch identities and profiles at a drop of the hat as my bad luck attracts villains and heroes to me like a moth to a flame. Sometimes I feel as if I got hit by the Xianxia curse and I get another 10 guys coming after me for every one person I kill.

Mmm… I feel as if I was forgetting something. Where's my coffee?

Ah that hits the spot… oh fuck! I forgot to reflect on my values!

Specifically when it came to killing.

I got so caught up with becoming the best artist to ever grace Germany that I forgot to go through necessary villainous character development!

Such misfortune!

"Uuuuuuurgh!"

Friedrich kept banging his head on the table as I groaned, then stopped suddenly and beckoned me over to his setup.

"Hey, Peter, I think this is the 'catastrophic battle' you've been looking for."

I dropped whatever I was ruminating on immediately.

The satellite imagery didn't show it in detail but the landscape and weather changes were on such a scale that it had to be All Might and All For One's epic grudge match.

"Also, the government is covering up some events related to All Might-"

"Yahoo! I can finally visit Japan without getting my face punched into mush!"

"Isn't All Might too nice for that?"

"Oh you sweet summer child…"

All Might would probably assume that I'm All For One's secret lovechild the moment he confirms that I can use multiple Quirks.

"I don't understand that reference. Anyways… I guess it's time for our mutually beneficial arrangement to end then."

"Mmm, I guess so."

I told him that I would leave to visit Japan if certain occurrences were to come to pass. And when that time comes I would give him a parting gift of gold in return for one last service.

Friedrich handed me a box containing print-outs of all the 'best girls' that I named and requested information on. He didn't want to know what I had intended for them and just found the information I wanted. Smart lad.

"Thanks Friedrich. Enjoy your day!"

"It's - ah, nevermind!"

I packed up my stuff and stored them in my [Spatial Pocket], ran to a deserted part of the country and warped my way to Japan using some map coordinates.

"Now then… should I start with Miruko? She's still a sidekick at this point I think? Ryukyu is the same age but… those legs though. How about Midnight? Mmm, I should save her for when she gets some nice students and do them in one go."

Maybe I should start with someone younger? It's probably more fun to let those heroines build up their reputations before I brainwash them and drag them down for maximum degradation.

I browsed through my files and found myself smiling at the cheerful looking girl with purple… wait, periwinkle hair? Is that really a color? Nevermind. This soon-to-be middle schooler is adorable and will probably be a pleasant project.

… I feel as if I'm forgetting something again. Bah, I'll probably remember to do it once I get some more coffee. Or not. Well, it probably wasn't that important if I keep on forgetting it.