AN: I'm alive but I'm busy now. I finally got a job...and its killing me with the hours. 9hrs work, 4 hrs travel and its all for minimum wage and I need to spend 1 third of the paycheck just to travel...adulthood is not fun. But I've got some time now, so here you go.

Also Special thanks to my friend Savior on discord for making this new cover for the story. If you want to contact them for more, just head to my server.


"Izuku." The herrscher softly called. The boy stared at her, dumbfounded by her sudden appearance, almost dropping the spoon he was eating his breakfast with.

"Void," He greeted happily. "You're here?"

"I'm always here," She answered.

"Oh...right," Izuku sheepishly responded. "Look...I just want to say. I'm sorry." He started but the Herrscher had raised a hand.

"Don't..." She interrupted. "As pleasing as it is to hear. You were not entirely at fault for what happened." She admitted as she floated down and sat herself on the chair opposite to her host.

"No...I was." Izuku insisted. "I should have never pushed you like that. I should have respected your choices to not involve yourself." He admitted.

"You're naive to a fault." Void chuckled as she took in his words. "You didn't force me to do anything I didn't want to do." She responded.

"Void..."

"Look Izuku...did you mean to shut off my powers?" Void asked.

"No...I don't even know how." He explained.

"I know...I know." She sighed. "I lied... a lot." Void sheepishly responded.

"Come again," Izuku asked.

"We are linked," Void explained. "Your body houses the core that holds my consciousness and power." She added. "In some ways..." She paused as she chose her next few words carefully.

"You also have some access to my power." She explained.

"What?" Izuku gasped. "What do you mean I can access your power?"

"I mean exactly as I said," Void told him. "The Void core can respond to your emotions and in turn, it can act on your... impulses." She explained.

"My emotions."

"Your desires to be a hero. The urge to rush to help others." Void listed off. "These are powerful feelings of yours that hold the same weight as my desire for revenge," Void explained. "You just never knew about it, because I pretended that it was my own change of whim."

"Huh…you mean….I was unconsciously affecting you." Izuku repeated. He thought about her words for a moment. A frown formed on his face. "Void I'm so sorry." He told her.

"You're unbelievable." Void sighed. "I try to take over your body, to use it as my own, threaten you, and yet you still find it in your heart to apologize to me," Void notes.

"You stealing my body was never something I liked. Quite frankly I would much rather you have your own. Also, while I must admit I was and probably still am terrified of you, there are instances where I'm glad for your company." Izuku admitted.

"I've unintentionally learned more about being a hero from you, than I have from anywhere else, whether it was intended or not, and I've also learned just what it means to be a hero and what kind of hero I want to be," Izuku told her.

"Still…I never expected my desire to be a hero was so strong." Izuku mused. "I…I don't know if I should be happy or worried." He pondered.

"Why would you be worried?" Void asked her brows furrowed. "The way I see it, you should be thrilled. Your righteous desire has the potential to turn a weapon of humanity into a tool for its benefit. Not to mention…for the first time in your life….you actually have power now." Void elaborated.

"I think in another life. I probably would have." Izuku answered. "I can finally have the power to be a hero…but…."

"But…."

"I don't want it," Izuku told her. "I don't want to take your power," Izuku explained.

"You don't…want it. All these years of suffering because of not having a 'quirk' and when you finally get a power that surpasses all quirks. You don't want it." Void chuckled. "Let me guess…is it because… it's tainted with the evil of the honkai, the corruption that tries to wipe out humanity." Void wondered.

"While a part of me does think so…it's also because of you," Izuku admitted.

"Me?"

"You've told me your story, Void, and I've seen your memories," Izuku explained. "I know how you got this power; I know what you went through before getting it. The power you wield wasn't some birthright, nor was it something you could simply 'get' through normal means. Even if I still disagree with you, the power you wield is something that I believe belongs to you and only you." Izuku told her. "To take it away…it doesn't feel right to me." He confessed.

Void looked at him with a dumbfounded expression. For a moment Izuku was worried he had offended the Herrscher even more, by making it seem like he pitied her. He sincerely hoped she didn't misconstrue his reasoning.

"Heheh….Hahahaha…" Void burst into laughter as she rocked back in the chair opposite to Izuku. "Oh brother….that is funny." Void hollered in between breaths.

"What's so funny?" Izuku questioned.

"The whole reason I lied in the first place, was because I thought you'd jump at the chance to steal my power, but you don't even want it." Void chuckled. "Oh brother…it turns out I was worried for nothing." She admitted.

"You…you thought I'd try to steal your power?" Izuku questioned.

"I mean…yeah…I did." Void told him. "It is the perfect situation. You beat a 'villain', save her future victims by taking her power, and then use said powers as your own to help more people in the future. That's what my last host did." Void told him.

"Kiana and I fought, she won and as such all the power I had previously wielded went to her…in fact, I dare say it chose her over me." Void confessed. "When I met you, I thought it would be the same deal."

"Hmmm…I won't lie…I probably would have considered it once," Izuku told her. "To say I wouldn't be tempted would be a lie…but…. it's different now." Izuku explained.

"It's your power, not mine, if it should be used for humanity's sake, it should be your choice to make," Izuku explained. He took a deep breath as he recalled his previous conversation with his mom.

"I've always believed that those with power and even those without, have a responsibility to help others to the best of their ability, but after seeing your memories…seeing….how people took that to such a horrifying extreme." He clenched his fists. "It feels…wrong to impose that responsibility on others if they don't want it. Just because anyone can be a hero, doesn't mean everyone wants to be a hero."

"Yeah," Void agreed not unsure what to say. "So about Babylon," Void tried to change the subject.

Izuku shivered as he heard the name, Even if it never happened to him, the memories…the memories were now ingrained in his very psyche. It was a strange experience having these memories from someone else living in his head. "Yeah," Izuku answered softly. "I saw it. I saw the whole thing." He explained.

"It's….its….awful," Izuku explained. "Never in my life did I think such a place could have existed, yet it did."

"Then you understand…the source of my rage and my hatred," Void explained.

"Yeah…I understand it….but…." Izuku trailed off.

"But?"

"But I still don't support it…" Izuku admitted.

"I should have figured." Void sighed. "Even my other half refused to support my desire despite witnessing our shared past and origin."

"I understand your rage but the actions and justifications you try to make." Izuku trailed off. "It's one thing that you want revenge for all those who were wronged but hurting innocent people won't change what happened, nor will it make things better," Izuku argued.

"I'd beg to differ. The only reason we suffered was because of the greater good for humanity, no humanity no more need for suffering." Void explained, summing up her entire belief in one sentence.

"It wasn't humanity who decided to hurt you," Izuku retorted. "It was those villains wearing lab coats who used humanity as an excuse. I'm sure that if others had known they'd help."

"Perhaps," Void mused as she thought about a few individuals. "Cecilia might have been one such individual but even then she and her husband would have still been in Schiskal's grasp. As it stands no one came, not until after the Honkai answered."

"Left alone in a cell with everyone she knew dead, my past life prayed for strength, prayed for the power to punish those vile villains, and the Honkai answered. With her new powers, she made sure to punish them, slaughtering every scientist in the building and freeing all the kids." Void explained.

"But that wasn't the end of the story, Schiskal sent its 'heroes', the Valkyries and the Knights, and even the robots from AE, all to hunt my past life down. No one knew of those tortured kids, till the Honkai chose a herald amongst them, nobody even knew they existed, till the humans in charge were all killed in an attempt of freedom. When they did hear about it, they didn't come with the expectations of freeing those children, they came with the expectations of just moving them to another facility and either turning them into soldiers or continuing said experiments." Void explained.

"In my world, the heroes we were supposed to look up to were truly the villains," Void said. "They would do whatever crime they see necessary for humanity. If humanity required such sacrifices then it should exist in the first place." Void whispered.

"That's your world," Izuku argued. "In my world it's different," He reasoned.

"Is it?" Void asked. "In your world heroism is treated as a business, and heroes are nothing but a job for people to earn money and prestige," Void argued.

"Perhaps but there are still good people who choose to do good and help others," Izuku explained. "Whether you want to believe it or not, there are heroes like All Might and Wash and many others who choose to help people because they can," Izuku answered.

"Are you sure about that?" Void asked. "How can you guarantee that right now, right as we speak, that there isn't a child locked away in some lab to be experimented on?" Void questioned. "I've seen your world, see how varied some powers are. Power is coveted wherever it exists. I'm sure that in the 200 years, quirks have been active, there must have been at least a hundred, no, maybe a thousand instances and counting of people experimenting on quirk users, either trying to harness their power for themselves or in an attempt to cure the world." Void noted.

"I won't deny it's a possibility," Izuku answered. The fact Babylon could happen in a place so remote was terrifying enough, but the reminder that similar events could be happening right now set chills up his spine. "Yet I'm sure there are many who would try to help or even chose to help if they could."

"If what you say is true. If a kid is out there crying for help, hoping for someone to come save them," Izuku trailed off. "I'm sure somewhere, somehow there is also a chance that good people know, that perhaps some heroes are rescuing people right now," Izuku said optimistically.

"And what if no one is?" Void asked. "What if while you and I sit here talking, there is another girl out there, another 'Sirin' who going through hell but no one knows or cares to save her," Void elaborated.

Izuku didn't respond right away. He didn't have a good answer. He wasn't going to make some false promise, some faux proclamation that he would save this other 'Sirin'.

"If I knew some like her exists….I'd try my best to save her, to find her, hopefully before it's too late." Izuku answered. "But you can't expect people to be able to act if they know nothing. Many people aren't omnipotent and all-knowing. I will feel regretful that I can't help, I will feel guilty that I was incapable of acting, but even I know that if I lack any way of knowing then I can't do anything."

"I see." Void scoffed as she leaned back. "I should have expected as much." She sighed.

"What about you?" Izuku questioned. "What would you do if you found another girl in that situation, another 'Sirin'?" Izuku questioned.

"If such a cruel act were to be repeated….I'd save her as well," Void answered truthfully. "I'd save her and then I'd burn this cruel world down till not even ashes remain," Void announced.

"If you did, you'd know I would try to stop you, right?" Izuku asked.

"I would expect nothing else," Void chuckled. "You are one of the few people I truly consider heroic when you aren't being a spineless wimp."

"I'll take that as a compliment," Izuku told the Herrscher.

"It was," Void told him. "It's the truth after all."


"Alright I think I have it narrowed down," Principal Nezu exclaimed as he showed All Might and Recovery Girl his map. "I believe the Herrscher has made her home base in this region."

"How did you come to that conclusion? I mean she is a teleporter; she could be warping from somewhere else and just using that area as a diversion," All Might notes.

"I must admit that I thought so as well, but given how personal some of her attacks are and how territorial she has become, I'm inclined to believe otherwise." Nezu countered. "You said it yourself she was in civilian clothes, ordering food late at night at a restaurant."

"That doesn't really prove much," All Might pointed out. "I asked around, it was her first time attending that restaurant."

"True but the mere fact she was comfortable enough to just around public shows a familiarity with the place. She has the power to teleport, turn intangible, and fly, there is literally nothing to stop her from just phasing into a kitchen of any food establishment, grabbing a meal, and then leaving." Nezu pointed out. "I'd argue it's also a waste of time warping to red herring for something as menial as ordering food."

"To say nothing of all the other clues," Nezu noted. "All her appearances have rarely left the city and as far as we know her only one appearance of doing so has had her fly out of the city rather than teleporting. Any non-provoked appearances have also been against people or institutes in this area." Nezu explained, to say nothing of her provoked appearances. I highly doubt she would just warp from a remote location to get caught in the crossfire and make a scene. I suspect most of those villain attacks had her present beforehand." Nezu reasoned.

"So should we canvas the area then?" All Might questioned. "I can inform some other pros and the police."

"That will alert her," Nezu noted. "As we established earlier, there is very little that can stop or contain her right now. She can go where she pleases. If we make it known we're on to her, then she will just disappear into the wind." Nezu noted.

"If we need to scope out the area, we need to be subtle, go by foot, just the three of us." Nezu pointed out.

"Are you sure?" All Might questioned. "That could take ages," He argued.

"Actually, it wouldn't." Recover girl finally interjected after being silent for most of the meeting. "I've been surveying that area for quite some time." She explained.

"You have?" Both Nezu and All Might said in disbelief.

"Of course, my intention had never been to search for the Herrscher, rather I was trying to see just what the corruption she left behind did to people in a normal setting," Recovery girl explained. "There are many individuals who are convinced they don't need or can afford medical attention and underestimate the dire consequences of it."

"While I appreciate the sentiments, that is unbelievably dangerous, suppose you had gotten infected," Nezu scolded.

"Well, I haven't." Recovery girl answered. "and from the looks of it, neither have a lot of people, at least, not in this area." Recovery girl noted as she marked a region inside Nezu's area.

"Hmmm…"

"What's this?" Nezu noted.

"I'm calling it a safe space," Recovery girl noted. "All the areas around it have had moderate outbreaks of Honkai infection, but the area inside is far sparser. Now this wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't for the several hot spots for Honkai activity surrounding it." She pointed out.

"So you're theorizing that the Herrscher resides here because there is less Honkai, how would that make sense?" All Might questioned.

"It wouldn't," Nezu noted. "By all accounts, the area the Herrscher resides should actually be the place that's overflowing with Honkai…unless….

"Unless she's absorbing it," All Might realized. "It empowers her, it makes sense why she wouldn't let it just leak out constantly." He thought back to Vlad, who had a blood quirk, while it was useful to manipulate it outside the body it would be detrimental to him if it just flowed out continuously.

"How long will it take till the Shields finish their Honkai detector?" Nezu asked.

"I'm not sure." All Might answered.

"Well regardless tell them to try testing it on this area for the time being," Nezu pointed out. "If what we theorize might be true, then we could get a more precise location to start our search,"

"I'll make sure to inform them," All Might added.

"Is there anything else you discovered Recovery Girl?" Nezu asked.

"There is one more detail," Chiyo noted. "Quirk users experience more pain and damage than quirkless individuals." She explained. "I'm not sure whether its relevant or not but regardless prolonged exposure still turns them into those zombies if it doesn't kill them.

"Hmm….how many quirkless reside in this area?" Nezu wondered.

"From what I've checked, only a handful," Recovery Girl explained. "However…when I was checking the records, I noticed that a boy by the name of Izuku Midoriya also lives within the area. I've met him once or twice but he hasn't shown any signs of infection." She explained. "He mentioned to me he was training to apply for UA."

"Wait…Young Midoriya lives there?" All Might realized.

"You know him?" Recovery Girl wondered.

"He is one of our current candidates for One For All, not to mention he was present when the Herrscher made her second appearance," Nezu noted.

"Oh,"

"I also met him the day the Herrscher arrived, in fact, he actually learned my weak spot a few hours before I actually fought the Herrscher." All Might realized.

"You think?"

"No, we don't have any proof, and I would rather not jump to assumptions," All Might dismissed. "Izuku's a good kid, and he passed Truman's lie detection test." All Might thought.

"Still a potential lead," Nezu noted as he put a pin on the map, right where Izuku lived. "Alright, change of plans. We'll go and ask around the area surrounding Izuku's address."

"Just to keep it simple, we'll ask about this version of the Herrscher," Nezu explained as he held up an image of the disguised Herrscher. Keep in mind, we don't mention this girl as being the Herrscher. Let's just see if she's a frequent visitor of the area first, then we'll move from there," Nezu explained and with that, the trio was off on their hunt for the Herrscher.