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"Hello" – People Talking
"Cool" – People Thinking
- *Hello* - Talking through the radio
"I am here" - All Might/Machine/Dark Shadow Speaking.
"He is the one" – All Might/Dark Shadow Thinking.
Chapter 75.
Idols and fans.
(AN: As you already know, all the battles started at the same time, therefore this chapter takes place a little bit before the arrival of Hiro)
Stain remains calm, with his eyes closed and sword in hand, there seems to be nothing around him, just him in an empty room.
Suddenly Spinner attacks him from behind, but Stain blocks Spinner's sword attack with his own sword, Spinner charges again and attacks Stain but he blocks all of his attacks again.
– "I still don't understand it... why?"- Spinner said while continuing attacking Stain.
- "What don't you understand?"- Stain asked while blocking all of Spinner attacks.
- "Why are you with him?"- Spinner asked. - "Why are you siding with that idiot?!"-
- "Do you mean the kid?"- Stain said. – "Well... at first it's not that I have much of a choice... but if I had to give a reason..."- Stain disarms Spinner when he tries to attack him. – "It is the duty of a sensei to support his apprentice."-
- "So it is true... You trained him."- Spinner said.
- "I taught him how to fight and the basics of being in a fight, you know, staying calm, always having your guard up, among other things."- Stain said. – "The rest was on his own."-
- "I see... but still..."- Spinner said as he pulls out another sword and charges at Stain. – "I can't accept it!" –
Stain blocks Spinner's attacks which are increasingly more aggressive. – "What's wrong with you?"- Stain asked.
- "You can't be that guy's sensei! He doesn't follow your ideals... he doesn't follow your methods... he's not you!"- Spinner said as he continues to attack Stain. – "Therefore you are not the real Stain!"-
Stain manages to block Spinner's sword with his own, then disarms him and kicks Spinner, drawing blood thanks to his spiked boots. – "Why do you care so much about that?" – Stain asked, confused by Spinner's attitude. – "The kid said something about you want to be like me." –
- "You don't understand... he doesn't understand!"- Spinner said while standing up. – "I... you... you were what I wanted to become! Since you appeared, I adopted your methods... your ideals... your clothing... everything to be like you... You are..." –
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- "You were my idol!"-
Lady Nagant is confused by the words of the unknown person in front of her. – "What do you mean?"- She asked.
The person in front of her is a man in his 20s, he has long blonde hair that reaches his shoulders but several strands of his hair are dyed indigo and pink, in addition to the gold guard suit, he also has a long scouter over his right eye, shaped like a lightning bolt.
- "You were my inspiration to become a hero... I even inspired my hero name from yours... Mr. Nagant."- The man said. – "But... but... You were also the one who left me lost in life!"-
The man makes a finger gun, and points his middle and index fingers at Lady Nagant, suddenly a pair of bones shoot out from his fingers which transformed into the muzzle of a gun.
Member of the Gold Guard, Raido Kurosaki.
Quirk: Finger Gun.
This quirk allows Raido to turn his hands into a gun by making a finger gun with his hands, Raido fires his finger's bones which are shaped like a bullet, Raido has to wait a couple of seconds between each shot while his bullet bones grow back.
Lady Nagant begins to run to avoid Raido's shots, who doesn't stop shooting. – "I don't understand you, how is it my fault that you got lost in life?!"- She said while hiding behind a concrete pillar.
- "I still remember the first time I saw you in action... it was what inspired me to be a hero, I even managed to enter a hero school."- Raido said. – "I chose my hero name and my hero outfit in honor of you... all to be like you..."-
- "That sounds like an obsession more than fanaticism..."- Lady Nagant said as she tried to see Raido but she quickly hides behind the pillar again as Raido shot her again. – "Even so... I still don't understand what you're getting at."-
- "It was during my last year at hero school... that's when I found out about what you did... overnight, the hero Lady Nagant was branded as a murderer and put on the list of the most wanted people..."- Raido said. – "My whole world collapsed when that news reached my ears... I never attended any more hero classes and never graduated... If my biggest idol was nothing more than a dirty villain... what would become of me... of my dream?" –
- "There are things that not even you understand, you don't know the reasons why I did what I did..."- Lady Nagant said.
- "I don't care… Nothing you say will change anything..."- Raido said. – "The disappointment... I was left aimless... I didn't know what to do... Until I met Hiro a few years ago."-
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Flashback.
Raido is walking on the street at night, the rain is light, Raido is returning to his apartment after shopping, Raido continues on his way, people pass by him, he ignores them as if people did not exist. – "What's the point of all this?"- He thought.
Since he left hero school and his life stopped making sense, Raido has managed to survive with the bare minimum, having a job that pays him the minimum necessary to live, living in a small apartment with just the bare minimum.
Raido continues with his everyday routine, returning to his apartment, before turning on the light he notices that there is someone inside. – "If you're the landlord, it's not payday yet, so wait."- Raido said while turning on the lights, at that point he notices that the person inside is not the landlord, it is Hiro who is accompanied by Yuki. – "Or if you come to steal... well there is nothing of value here." –
- "Thieves? Do you think thieves would dress like us?"- Hiro asked.
- "Whatever…"- Raido said. – "Are you looking for something? If not, do me the favor of leaving."-
- "In fact, yes, I'm looking for you."- Hiro said.
- "Me? What's so interesting about someone like me?"- Raido asked. – "I'm nobody interesting."-
- "On the contrary... you are someone who caught my attention."- Hiro said as Yuki hands him a folder with several documents. – "Raido Kurosaki, a student at a hero school in Minato, the best in his class but during his last year he stopped attending classes and disappeared for a while."-
- "I see you know about that... I still don't care."- Raido said as he sits on the floor and leans against the wall, then he takes out a drink from his shopping bag and starts drinking it.
- "I'm just interested in knowing why someone with the potential you had abandoned his hero studies when he was less than a year away from graduating... Maybe it has something to do with a certain hero who became a criminal."- Hiro said.
Hearing Hiro's words, Raido puts down his drink and looks at Hiro with a serious look. – "Do you know about that?"- He asked.
- "Just some rumors."- Hiro said.
- "I see… What do you want then?"- Raido asked.
- "I want to know… why you abandoned everything? Why are you in this situation?"- Hiro asked. – "You had a promising future and you threw it away."-
- "You already said it, it's all thanks to her... Lady Nagant."- Raido said. – "She was my inspiration to be a hero... but she turned out to be a criminal... if she is like that... then what about the others?"-
- "I see... it must have been a disappointment."- Hiro said.
- "My whole world... everything I believed... everything fell apart that day when I found out…"- Raido said. – "Now everything doesn't matter to me..."-
- "I see…"- Hiro said. – "What would you think if I had a proposal for you?"-
- "I don't care... I don't care at all."- Raido said. – "Tell me what you want and then get out of my house."-
- "You lost your direction; you don't know where to go, what to do... you lost your inspiration..."- Hiro said. – "But I can help you."-
Raido looks at Hiro. – "You? Help me? I see it unlikely."- Raido said.
- "Work for me, you will have a better place to live and you will be able to find your own path while you do it."- Hiro said.
- "Okay...let's do it."- Raido said as he gets up from the ground but without having any kind of encouragement at all.
- "That simple?" – Hiro asked.
- "I already said it, I don't care at all, but I'm not stupid either, if I can have a better place to live then perfect for me."- Raido said.
- "Perfect, in that case let's get out of here."- Hiro said as he leaves the apartment being followed by Yuki, Raido remains silent for a few seconds and then proceeds to follow Hiro.
Flashback end.
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- "Now I finally have a goal... when I find out who I would face..."- Raido said. – "I will face Lady Nagant herself!" –
- "I see... but there are things that you still don't understand!"- Lady Nagant said as she comes out of her cover, Raido quickly shoots her but she dodges it and prepares her weapon. – "There is a reload time between each shot of yours... don't think I dodged your shots because you had me cornered."-
Nagant points his gun at Raido who gets scared, seeing Raido's scared face she remembers all those times that the hero commission forced her to kill.
Lady Nagant shoots but to her surprise she misses the shot which grazes Raido's cheek. – "I failed..."- Lady Nagant said and then received a shot from Raido, the shot hitting her right abdomen. – "Why? I never failed before…"-
- "How disappointing..."- Raido said and with his other hand shoots other bullet against Lady Nagant chest, luckily that shot didn't damage any organ. – "Once again you disappoint me..."-
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Stain vs Spinner.
Stain knocks Spinner down again while looking at him disappointed. – "To want to be like me... you are too weak..."- Stain said. – "Your attacks are very predictable and you let yourself be carried away by your emotions a lot." –
- "No... it's not true... I trained a lot to be like Stain..."- Spinner said. – "A fake like you can't beat me!" –
- "Why are you working for this guy anyway?" – Stain asked. – "This guy prefers to use people instead of getting his hands dirty, it's pathetic."-
- "Because he gave me a new opportunity to get revenge on the person who humiliated me."- Spinner said. – "That "apprentice" of yours."-
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Flashback.
After the invasion of the camp.
- "The other villains escaped, but we managed to arrest four of them, Muscular, Mustard, Moonfish and Spinner."- A police officer said. – "We will send Moonfish and Muscular to Tartarus, Mustar is a minor so he will go to a juvenile prison, finally Spinner will be sent to the prison in Mikuzu."-
- "Yes sir."- The police officers get into their respective trucks carrying their respective villains.
Spinner is sitting inside one of those trucks, he has a straitjacket with ankle cuffs, he is still somewhat injured after his "fight" against Yamikumo in which he was totally humiliated.
And to make matters worse, he said that phrase again, "You think you're just like him, but you're just a cheap imitation."
- "That bastard... if I ever get out of prison, I will definitely take revenge for the humiliations."- Spinner thought, that's when he hears how the van stops and the drivers are attacked, gunshots and cheetah roars are heard outside. – "What's going on?"-
Suddenly ice covers the doors of the truck and they open, Hiro and Yuki enter the truck. – "So you're Spinner, huh."- Hiro said.
- "Yes, that's me... who the hell are you and what's going on?!"- Spinner asked.
- "I... I'm nobody interesting, my name is Hiro and you caught my attention."- Hiro said. – "Next to me is the powerful Yuki-onna."-
- "I've never heard of any of you."- Spinner said.
- "That means I've done a good job then."- Hiro said. – "You see... I used to have an empire... an empire that was destroyed by some people..."-
- "And how does that concern me?"- Spinner asked.
- "I have a proposal for you, the same proposal that I have made to others." – Hiro said so that then two people got into the front seats of the truck and started driving.
- "Who are you?"- Spinner asked.
- "I can't tell you that, at least not now."- Hiro said. – "You see... my proposal is that you work for me."-
- "Work for you? What do I win with this? What if I refuse?"- Spinner asked.
- "If you accept and work for me, you will basically have to do the tasks and jobs that I tell you, all for the benefit of my projects of course."- Hiro said. – "If you refuse... well we will kill you, we can't let anyone know about us, at least not for now."-
- "It doesn't seem like I have a choice..."- Spinner said.
- "Of course you have it, the bad thing is what will happen if you reject the offer."- Hiro said.
- "Okay... let's say I accept... what do I get out of this? Besides getting me out of here, of course."- Spinner said.
- "The same thing I offer to others who accept my offer... the possibility of achieving your personal goal or whatever you have yet to do."- Hiro said. – "For example, Yuki here wants to take revenge on the entire Himura family for what they did to her."-
- "There are only a few pure-blood Himura left, Hiro has provided me with the information necessary to find them, there are only less than ten of them alive."- Yuki said.
- "As you can see, I keep my promises as long as you do your job and keep your end of the deal."- Hiro said.
- "Hmm... there is someone who has humiliated me several times... I want revenge."- Spinner said. – "After that I will become the true heir of Stain!"-
- "I see... you want revenge on that boy with green hair and scars on his face, don't you?"- Hiro asked.
- "You know him?"- Spinner asked.
- "Yes, and you're lucky, he is one of my targets, so our goals benefit each other!"- Hiro said. – "So, what do you say? Do you accept?"-
- "As if I had to think about it... I accept!"- Spinner said.
- "Perfect!"- Hiro said. – "Yuki, would you mind?"-
Yuki doesn't say anything and approaches Spinner, with her quirk she freezes Spinner's ankle cuffs and breaks them, just like with the straitjacket, freeing him.
- "Very well, finally, with you... the gold guard is complete." – Hiro said.
Flashback end.
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- "The third time... the third time will be the charm!"- Spinner said before charging against Stain. – "I won't let myself be humiliated again!"-
Without difficulty, Stain dodges Spinner's attack and manages to cut off his arm with his sword. – "Your mind is clouded by your emotions..."- Stain said. – "That way you will never win anything."-
Spinner falls to his knees to the ground; his right arm having been severed. – "No... not again..."- Spinner thinks as he takes a syringe out of his jacket. – "I won't allow it..."-
Stain turns around and begins to walk away from Spinner, however a sound makes him look back and suddenly Spinner is in front of him, with his regenerated arm. – "What the…"- Stain does not finish processing what happens as he is suddenly stabbed in the abdomen with a sword.
- "When this is all over I will be the only one to judge!"- Spinner said.
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Lady Nagant tries to get up from the ground but receives a couple of shots in the legs that make her fall to the ground, adding to that, the wound in her chest, although not fatal, makes it difficult for her to move.
- "I... I thought you were better... but you were always a fraud..."- Raido said. – "Why the hell do I always end up disappointed?"-
Lady Nagant tries to use her quirk to shoot Raido but the pain prevents her from doing so, she cannot concentrate. - "I can't even aim…"- She thought. – "Why... why do you say that I have always been a fraud? You don't even know why I did what I did!"-
- "So tell me why?!"- Raido said and then kicked Lady Nagant to the ground. – "Why did it have to be you?! Why did you have to be the hero that I was inspired by?! Why did you ruin everything I believed in?! Why was it you?!"-
- "Because... you weren't the only one whose entire world was destroyed..."- Lady Nagant said. – "I also saw heroes with admiration... until I found out about all the disgusting things behind that..."-
- "Disgusting?"- Raido asked.
- "Do you know what it feels like to be used as a mere tool of the government? Do you know what it feels like to have your dream turned into a nightmare?"- Lady Nagant asked. – "The government only used me as their tool to get rid of their problems... I killed countless people, both criminals and simple innocents... my hands are stained with more blood than even villains... All at the simple whim of the hero commission."-
- "I... I didn't knew that..."- Raido said.
- "My world became a nightmare with each passing day, I became someone without a soul... I couldn't take it anymore... that's why I killed the president of the commission..."- Lady Nagant said. – "Like you, there were many children who admired me... I couldn't see their faces... not after all the atrocities I was forced to do... I'm sorry... I'm sorry for making you suffer... I'm sorry for being the one to you admired... I don't deserve anyone's admiration… Do what you have to do... that's what I deserve..."-
Lady Nagant closed her eyes waiting for the final shot... but it never came, when she looked up she could look at Raido with tears in her eyes. – "And to think that I hate you for nothing... I hated you when you were suffering... I'm the worst fan in the world... I hated you when I should have been admiring you for everything you went through and yet you smiled at people..."- Raido points his gun at his own head.
- "What are you doing?!"- Lady Nagant asked with horror.
- "What I should do..."- Raido said with a smile. – "Thank you for allowing me to meet you..."-
- "No!"- Lady Nagant tried to prevent Raido from shooting himself but it was too late, with one shot Raido ended his own life, his lifeless body falling to the ground, Lady Nagant watches him in horror.
Lady Nagant tries to get closer to the body but the pain prevents her from doing so and causes her to fall to the ground. – "Raido... I promise you that if I survive this..."- Lady Nagant slowly loses consciousness. – "I promise that I will change this whole rotten government system..."- With this last thought, Lady Nagant falls unconscious.
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Back with Stain and Spinner.
- "I will be the one who judges from now on!"- Spinner said. – "I will be the judge and executioner of heroes!"-
- "How did he recover so quickly?"- Stain wonders as he bleeds profusely from his abdomen, just then he notices the syringe on the floor. – "I see... Trigger... I thought that thing didn't exist anymore..."-
- "You're old and outdated... it's time for things to change!"- Spinner said. – "I will be the killer of the hero killer! And I will judge those who are worthy of the mantle of hero!"-
Spinner charges at Stain, ready to kill him, but he stops suddenly. – "What the… I can't move my body!"- He thought.
- "And you continue to be a victim of your emotions and you are increasingly irrational..."- Stain said while licking the blood off his sword. – "And I hoped I wouldn't use my quirk against you... it would have ended too quickly..."-
Stain gets up from the ground. – "The new judge and executioner... don't make me laugh... you're just a man without any direction!"- With astonishing speed and with a simple movement of his sword, Stain cuts off Spinner's head. – "To be like me you must have the ambition!"-
Spinner's body falls to the floor and Stain sits up leaning against the wall while holding the wound in his abdomen. – "Damn... and to think it would end like this... this wound is fatal..."- Stain thought. – "And I thought that All Might would be the one to kill me... at least I know that the future of heroes will be safe in the kid's hands."- After that, Stain closes his eyes, letting unconsciousness consume him.
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To be continued.
So yeah. Here we are.
Another chapter finished and… Finally!
You have no idea how much it cost me to finish this chapter!
You don't know... I spent months without being able to finish this chapter, that's why it took me a long time to update this story, but I finally did it!
Well nothing, another chapter finished and two of the golden guard fall, only Hiro and Cheetah remain... or maybe not...
I don't have much to say this time, I just want to get over with this chapter!
The next chapter will be the first part of Hiro's fight against Yamikumo.
Now... before I say goodbye... I want to say a few words...
My Hero Academia has ended... yes, as you hear... the manga is over... I don't know how to feel, the truth is... it's my favorite manga and seeing it end is... sad and at the same time I feel like a cycle ended...
Contrary to what many say, I don't think the ending was bad... incomplete would be the word I would use to define it, many things were left in the air and almost no doubt was resolved...
Still I want to say... Thank you for everything Horikoshi!
Thank you for giving us this manga and thank you very much Izuku Midoriya and company, for being part of my life.
It would be strange to no longer wait week after week for new chapters, it would be strange not to get angry every time Horikoshi took his weeks off, it would be strange not to read anything new of this world again.
But like everything, it must come to an end, and you don't know how glad I am that there is no Deku Next Generations, seriously, thank you Horikoshi.
Well nothing, all that remains is to say, thank you My Hero Academia and thank you Horikoshi and good luck with your future projects Horikoshi-sensei!
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Bye Bye.