Chapter 10: Aftermath


After the whole debacle and the villains are all arrested, both me and Midoriya along with All Might are taken to the nurse's office for treatment by Recovery Girl. Both Aizawa and Thirteen have grave wounds that need surgery so they are sent to the hospital immediately.

The trip back to school is… really tense.

I still can't believe how dumb I was to not figure out that I got involved in the plot since the start of the semester. I mean, the two protagonists of the series are my classmates for god's sake! How did I even miss that!

Other than that, I have noticed both All Might and Midoriya's stares towards me. I shouldn't have said the quirk's name out loud. They are this world's greatest secret, after all. Just knowing their names must have sent warnings that I know a lot more than I let on, which to be fair, I didn't remember until just hours ago.

But if that's the case, then the plot has proceeded as normal.

All Might fought the Nomu and won, if just barely. Things will go back to normal with the sports festival and then the workplace training-oh god!

Workplace Training, where Iida's brother suffered an attack from Stain and is left paralyzed from the waist down. Which then leads to Iida going full-sasuke and seek vengeance against him.

All of that would happen a few weeks down the line.

What I do?! I want to help, but what if doing that changes the plot to a point that it made things worse? What if just by doing such a thing, Iida didn't learn from his mistake and choose not to help in the whole rescue Bakugo thing? Without his help, they would have an even smaller chance of even rescuing him or even surviving, considering that it was Iida that has stopped Midoriya from rushing to his death! But should I just leave a potential victim for the sake of a future good that will end up doing? Is that what a hero should do…?

God, I wish I have remained ignorant about the whole thing. At least I've no need to fuss over this dilemma…


Once we reach the nurse's office, Recovery Girl went to work healing and bandaging up the injured parties. I was the last one to get patch up considering the severity of my wound is mostly due to bleeding and infection, something that take a less priority than broken limps and cracked ribs.

"Your wrist should be fine. You managed to apply first aid in time." She tells me as she handed me a few wrapped candies after bandaging up my wrist properly, "Luckily, it only affected the skin, so your nerves are unharmed for the most part. But if you feel any numbness, please come to me immediately."

"Yes, ma am." I muttered as I unwrapped one of them and pop it into my mouth. Huh, cherry. Was expecting a different flavor…

"…Now about you two." She turns to face All Might and Midoriya, both of them laying on the beds with bandages wrapped around their respective wounds, "Due to the situation, I can't exactly scold you guys this time. But you still shouldn't have overdone it, All Might."

"I know." He stated with a morbid look on his skeleton-looking face. Still can't believe that this is All Might, the same Hero with that enormous frame and hopeful smile. "I think I may have shortened my time limit gain… I'll be lucky if I can get even an hour per day now."

"A-All Might…!" His fan/successor muttered in anguish.

"What are you going to do?" All Might states as he gets up from the bed, "Bad things happen. And speaking of bad things." He turns to me and I flinched on the stool I am sitting on. "Tatsuya-shoujo. I take it that you have a lot of questions."

"…a lot is a bit of an understatement…" I muttered out.

"But before I can answer that, please answer me this." He stares at me as he asked, "Why do you know about One-For-All?"

I freeze on the spot, no idea on what I should say. What should I even say? That I read all your life's story in a manga in another world where I am a normal quirkless person and that I'm actually a reincarnated person from that world and I know every thing that is about to happen in the next few months and that you have only until summer before you have to retire from the no.1 spot and that your greatest enemy will no doubt cause that retirement and your ex-sidekick that you have unintentionally abandoned is going to die by fall?

…Thinking about all that, if I've said all of that out loud, they are going to think I am crazy…

I mean, I think I am crazy!

Why can't I just DON'T remember any of that and just live out my life as the hero-in-training Tatsuya Genko?! Why do I have to remember all of this now?!

"Tatsuya-san…?" I can feel Midoriya's innocent-looking gaze at me as I struggle to come up with something. Come on… anything… just give him an answer!

"I…Well… I…This is…"

The door sliding open became my saving grace as everyone's attention went off me to the person entering the room. It's a tall Japanese man in a brown trench coat pardoning himself from entering while taking off his brown fedora, his features are for the most normal-looking, an average Japanese male's face with the standard black hair and dark eyes.

"Long time no see, All Might!"

"Tsukauchi?!" The blonde skeleton stated in shock, "I didn't know you were here!"

"Ah! All Might, is… uh, is this okay?!" I hear my classmate cried out in surprise, "I mean, you're…"

"Relax, it's fine! Why, you ask? Because this is my favorite detective on the force, good old Naomasa Tsukauchi!"

"Haha, thanks for that weird intro." The detective laughed, "Not to rush you or anything, but I'd like to ask about these Villains that attacked you-"

"Wait, before that. Are the students all right?" The Hero asked, "And Aizawa… what of Eraserhead? And Thirteen?"

"…You never change, do you?" Tsukauchi let out a sigh, his expression never changing, "Besides your two kids over there, the students got nothing more than a few bumps and bruises. And the two teachers all got out fine. It is thanks to you three Heroes for putting your lives on the line for them that they made it out unscathed."

"I see… that's good to hear…" All Might sighed in relief, "But you got one thing wrong, Tsukauchi. In this fight, all the students have put their lives on the line too! To be thrown into a real battle so young and early in their education, and survived. Now these first years know how scary the big bad world can be. Have you ever heard of such a class?!"

"These foolish Villains picked the WRONG fight! For thanks to this experience, the members of Class 1-A will grow to become some of the mightiest Heroes! I'm going to make sure of that."

I… honestly wasn't sure what to make of it. To be compliment by the No.1 Hero like this, for him to state his faith in our growth like that? It's an honor beyond believed. Almost made me forget that the world is going to be facing a large shift in the near future.

"…I see. Good to know." The detective nodded, "Great speech and all, but I would really need to be getting those statements from you, if that's not too much to ask."

"Oh! No! Of…Of course not!" Midoriya stated out nervously, "A-Ask away!"

"I think I'll start with the least injured in the room." He chuckles, "Tatsuya Genko-san? Please come with me."

"Oh…OH! Of course!" I got up from my stool before following the detective out of the room.

"Tatsuya-shoujo." I flinched at the no.1 Hero's voice, "Please keep my condition a secret from everyone. You mustn't tell anyone about this. Okay?"

"…Of course…" I nodded before continuing out of the room with Tsukauchi in the lead. Wouldn't tell anyone even if I'm paid to speak…

The world depends on it, after all…


The questioning didn't go for very long. The detective mostly asked about the sequence of events from my perspective, what happened and why did I do it, the standard witness testimony. And I answered truthfully and tries to explain everything to the best of my ability.

After answering them all, he thanked me and then gave me a small lecture on the law on the use of quirks in self-defense before letting me go.

The very moment I left the room, I was met with two very worried faces in the corridor.

"Genko! Are you okay?!" Taikou cried as he shook my shoulders violently, "When I heard what happened-!"

"T-Taikou s-stop!" I stuttered out as I manage to pull away from his grip, "I'm fine. A little injured wrist, is all." I raise my bandaged wrist for them to see.

Shinsou let out a sigh of relief, "That's good news… So, what happened?"

"Villains attacked the USJ-"

"You went to the USJ for training?!" Taikou cried out in shock, "So lucky! Damn it, I wanted to go there since we were ten…!"

"No, no! Not the theme park!" I corrected him. Thirteen really need to change that name… "It's a training facility that has the same letters! But it would be awesome to go there, though…"

"Genko."

"Oh! R-Right!" I let myself wander off tangent for a bit there… got to stop doing that… "There is this large portal guy that teleported like a hundred baddies with their leader. Aizawa-sensei went to stall them to let us escape, but then the portal guy appears in front of the door stopping us. Bakugou and Kirishima went to try and stop him, but then he teleports all of us away. I ended up in the water with Midoriya and Tsuyu, where there are Villains waiting for us. The next part is a bit long so I'll keep it short. We manage to beat the bad guys, try to get to the stairs but then stopped when this hulk-looking dude wrecks Aizawa-sensei. Then the leader attack us, All Might shows up, bam-bam-boom, Heroes win, Villain run, and then I'm here."

"…I think you missed out the best parts…" Taikou pointed out.

"Hey, when All Might arrives, the Heroes always win." I noted, before mentally dreading what I just said. Thinking back, the idea of All Might being able to save everyone is really ingrained into our society's subconscious. Once he is gone…

"And your wrist?" Shinsou asked.

"The leader has the quirk that disintegrates anything he touches. Got my wrist, but luckily the nerves seem to be intact." I demonstrate by giving him a peace sign on my injured hand.

"Ho…"

"Hey, Genko…" Taikou suddenly asked, "Are you REALLY doing fine?"

"Yeah! I'm a-okay!" I grinned for him, "It's a bit scary, but it's learning experience! Just you wait, I'll be a Hero faster than any of you!" If the plot doesn't try to kill me later down the line… Remind myself to find a hotline for the faculty office later…

"…Alright. If you say so." He nodded with a smile. Oh, Taikou. If only you knew about the amount of problems that I would be going to get myself into in the near future…

"Ah! Tatsuya-kun." A voice calls out as Cementoss walks up to us, "Glad to catch you before you left school. Principal Nezu wishes to speak with you."

"The principal?" Shinsou asked curiously, "Why? Is she in trouble?"

"I'm afraid I can't say too much."

"…I got it." I nodded as I walk towards him with the teacher leading, "You guys go back without me."

"Genko."

"It'll be fine." I told Shinsou, "Nothing to worry about."


As Genko walks away with teacher in the lead, Shinsou turns to his friend, Taikou having a worried expression on his face.

"She's doing it again." The brown-haired teen tells him.

"Again?"

"Every time she is troubled, she always just smiles and tell me it is fine." He explained, "That hasn't changed since we were in kindergarten."

"You think that something happened in the USJ troubles her?" Shinsou asked.

"Yeah." He nodded, "But I doubt she'll tell us the truth if we asked."


On our way to the principal's office, I couldn't help feeling like a culprit about to be outed for my crimes.

All Might, or at least Recovery Girl must have told him about what I muttered out back in USJ. And knowing that Nezu is quite a smart fellow… I can't help but fear my future here in this school. How am I going to explain myself? I mean, knowledge of One-For-All is strictly a secret for various reasons, and for me, an average high school girl happening to find out about it? I doubt there's little I can do to hide the truth from them.

But would they even believe the truth?

That I am a reincarnation from another world that happens to have this world's greatest story told in a manga book? How is anyone is going to think if I said that?

"We're here." Cementoss tells me as we stand in front of a door with the words [Principal Office] written clearly on the plaque over it. The concrete hero knocks on the door, pardoning himself before opening the door.

The office is a large room with a few cabinets on the side that houses several files and books with a few photo frames decorating the walls along with a large lone clock ticking in on the wall in the corner. At the end of the room lies a large wooden desk where Nezu is sitting, his eyes unchanging as usual but I get a sense that he is observing me for some reason…

"Ah, Tatsuya-kun." He greeted, "Come in, come in." I entered the room as Cementoss closes the door behind me, "Please, take a seat." I walk up to the desk and sat down on chair offered, "I believe you know why I asked of you."

"Is it about All Might?" I asked worriedly.

"Yes, yes, that one." He nodded, "But before that, would you like some tea?" He pushes a teacup towards me, the scent of freshly brew green tea teases my nostrils.

"Oh. Um… thank you." I pick up the cup and sips a little. This is definitely not the instant kind. The warm feeling of hot tea in my stomach somewhat calms down the butterflies in my guy, my nerves slowly and steadily ease off.

"Tatsuya-kun." Nezu speaks at me with a somewhat benevolent tone, "I can assure you that as a principal of Yuuei, I would do no harm to any student of our lovely campus. Whatever you may say, it will be of the privacy in this room. Nothing will leave this room unless I say so."

I place my cup back on the table as I processed what he just said. So, he's assuring me that I won't be punished too badly? That this is not an interrogation? Is that what the tea is about? But despite his kind demeanor, I can't help but remember that scene where he is playing around with Kaminari and Ashido during their end-of-term exams.

Under all that, lies a dangerously smart individual. Cute, but dangerous.

"With that being said." He crosses his hands… paws? "May I ask how do you know about One-For-All?"

There it is. The question that I am fearing.

Dozens of possible replies races through my mind as I try to come up with an excuse as to how I know such thing. But no matter what I came up with, I can't help fearing that Nezu will just see right through it regardless, that I would be cornered all the same. How can I not? Nezu is considered one of the smartest people of this world, proven fact with countless of articles about him that I found out due to curiosity.

And if all options of lying are deemed impossible… then the only option left is…

"…Are you familiar with the term… [Reincarnation]?"

"Reincarnation? You mean the cycle of rebirth that is so prevalent in Buddhism and Hinduism?" He asked, "Yes, I am quite familiar with that concept. Why?"

"Well…"

I blurted out everything. My situation as a reincarnated human that somehow reborn into this world with the memories of my past life mostly intact, to the fact that this world was nothing but fiction from my previous life's world. The entire truth is laid out in front of him, no lies and no half-truths.

After everything is said and done, I took a sip of my tea as I await the verdict nervously. What's going to happen now…?

"…Is everything you said, true?"

"Yes." I nodded, "Well, not all of it. There are things that have changed due to me being born here. Like Mineta being in Class 1-B instead of 1-A, or the fact that Taikou is even in the school to begin with."

"I… see…" He nods in response, "Then in just a few short months… The Symbol of Peace will…" He looked at me, his eyes seem to reflect some signs of understanding and a bit of pity, "You can be assured that nothing you said will leave this room."

"Will you tell All Might about this?" I asked worriedly.

"That's up to me to worry about, Tatsuya-kun." He smiled as he glanced at the clock on the wall, "I've took up too much of your time already. Why don't you head on home? Classes are cancelled for tomorrow so take the time to get some well-deserved rest."

"Thank you, sir." I bowed politely to him before I made my way to the door.

"Tatsuya-kun." His voice stopped me just as I had my hand on the handle, "I'm proud of you with what you did today. You may not be there yet, but I can see the great heroine you'll become in the future. Keep up your studies and work hard!"

I turned to him, bowed once more before leaving the room behind me.


The moment I reach my room, I didn't even bother changing out of my uniform as I tosses my bag to one side and plopped face-first right onto my bed. I am exhausted, mentally and physically. The whole debacle with the USJ has suck everything out of me, and the thing about me realizing that I unknowingly got suck into the plot despite the signs of it screaming right in my face. Again, why did I have to remember it?! I rather be ignorant of the entire thing than worry about the eventual downfall of the Era of All Might! Or even the fact the re-emergence of All-For-One!

That guy creeps me out…

…Hah… nonetheless, I know remember the whole plot now… better write things down to plan for future trouble…

With that thought in mind, I hesitantly got up and dug into my drawer for a spare sketchbook to chart out the whole plot.

Let's see… the latest chapter I've read ended with the whole Endeavor trying to make up for his past sins to his family so once that has passed, I'm running blind… Now for the next few events…

The Sports Festival will come regardless of what I do, so I'll just leave it be and have fun in it. That reminds me, I better start sparring with Taikou and Shinsou again. Need to keep in shape for the tournament if I'm going to make any impression. I need to find a substitute way to gain charge beside using a battery…

After that is… the Workplace Training with the fight against Stain…

Stain has always been a favorite Villain for the fans since his introduction, from his anti-hero work for his own idealistic version of Heroes, to his undying resolve to carry out his ideal to the end, there is a lot to like about him. Heck, if I have to do a top 10 villains in anime, Stain is probably be one of the candidates!

But now it's different… Stain isn't some fictional character anymore. He's a living person and a major threat that need to be stopped. It is thanks to him that Iida's brother got paralyzed which then lead our class rep to track him down for revenge Uchiha-style.

But even if I hate it, I can't really do anything.

I'm just some high school girl. A super-powered high school girl, but a high school girl still. There are things that I can't do. This isn't the world of Naruto, where kids can become adult far earlier than they should. So then… what SHOULD I do?

…Nothing, I suppose…

If it goes according to the plot, everything will work out eventually. Sure, there will be some bumps in the road, but no one would actually DIE, at least not during that arc…

But… Can I live with myself if I let it all happen? That with a price of a Hero's career, and proper Hero nonetheless, this great evil will be taken down? That for the events that lead up to Stain's capture to occur, the sacrifice of a lone Hero is necessary…?

"For the price of the few, the many will be saved…" I quoted one 'Hero of Justice'. Is this the cruel reality that I have to face? That I would have to make this choice?

…No.

There was never a choice to begin with.

If I can't even save one person, what kind of Hero will I be?!

I know this path is filled with hardships the moment I chose to become a Hero. Even so, I've chose to walk on it. I won't quit, not when I just left the starting line. If I can't make it pass this hurdle, then I have no right to become a Hero!

I will save him! I have to! It's my duty to do so!

To be continued…


Omake

Tetsu screwed in the last bolt in place before taking a few steps back. "There! Done! What do you think?"

"It's a bit tight around the chest…" His middle-school sister answers, she wearing a large harness that covers the entire body with two metallic bracers around her wrists that has two small gas cylinders connected to it and has wires trailing up her arm to the metallic backpack, along with a motorcycle helmet covering her entire head, "Is it supposed to be like this?"

"Must have grown…" He mutters to himself before turning back to her, "Does it hurt anywhere else?"

"…Hm, not really."

"Then it'll be fine." He turns to his 'assistants', "Camera, ready?" Taikou raises the device and gives him a thumbs-up. "Emergency call on speed-dial?" Shinsou shows his phone with the ambulance number already dialled in, "Okay. Now, Genko, if you are feeling any discomfort or pain, please let us know."

"Got it!"

"Right." He took a look around their test site. An abandoned warehouse that his technical college owned for testing purposes with several mattresses lying about. "Ready to record in…" He raises his finger up and counts down, "Three… two…" He closed his fist as Taikou presses the record button, "This is Movement-Harness Prototype: Test 15 of the pull test! I've lowered the speed of the motor for the pulley system since the previous test ended up with a little… complication."

"I was shot through the roof!" Shinsou voices out angrily.

"Regardless." He ignores him as he continues, "I believe that with this test, we may have finally fixed the problem."

"You say that the last fourteen times, too." Taikou added in.

"Hey! Who's the inventor here?" Tetsu asked rather angrily, "Now, beginning test. Gen-chan, you ready?"

"Ready!" She aimed towards one of the warehouse's pillars a good distance away, her thumb gliding over the button on the bracer closest to it, "Shooting in three… two…" She presses down, something shoots out of the top of it and latches into the concrete pillar, "Hook's set! Starting reeling sequence!"

"You know, you don't have to say it like that." Taikou commented.

"But it's more fun that way!" She noted as she lets go of the button, the line starts reeling back in and pulling her forward with it. At first, it seems okay. But then she starts to speed up and up till she overshoots the pillar, pulling out the hook in the process and she is sent flying while screaming. A second later, a loud crash can be heard as Genko lands face first into the cushioned wall in front of her.

"Gen-chan/Genko!" The three guys rush towards her as she slides off the wall and collapses on the mattress below. "You okay?!" Her brother asked worriedly.

"Guess it still needs more adjustments, huh?" Shinsou noted.

"You don't say." Tetsu commented dryly.

"Look at all the birdies~"


There! Done! I was having trouble with this chapter since I'm not sure how to write Nezu at all! Originally, I wanted to follow the genius route with him already figured it out, but it would feel awkward considering that he never once did anything that may suggest this so I ended up with this.

So yes, Genko now knows about the plot again. This is once again a SI fic! And she is busy fussing over it! Should she save Ingenium and possibly prevent Iida from suffering a loss? Only time will answer it!

Now that I'm closing in to the Sport Festival Arc, I wanted to ask you guys a favour for this.

I want you guys to help me pick a Hero for Genko's Workplace Training. It can be anyone in canon, or it could be an OC of your own. Anyone is possible, just tell me in the review if it's one of the many canon characters or PM me if it's an OC. Either way works.

Call me lazy for asking you guys, but I like the idea of the readers contributing to the story. Sorry if that sounds arrogant of me for this little fic of mine.

With that, I thank you for reading this!