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Chapter 9 - Intelligence
Int, or Intelligence, is the manifestation of your ability to learn and create new ideas. This stat helps with the effects of spells and the effectiveness of certain skills. Increasing this stat helps with general easiness in life, and makes skills perform generally easier.
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Written in margin of page-
Most spells require Int, always worth increasing. Emitter quirks also tend to use Mana.
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[Genetic Rewrite Complete!]
[Gamer's Body enabled! Gamer's Mind enabled!]
[You are currently in an Xp debt. You currently owe 503,000 xp. Until this is paid no xp maybe earned and new levels cannot be reached.
Your stats have been restored to their previous values, but please note you will not gain bonus stat points from training until the debt is paid back.]
[New Quirk Permanently Added!
Heliokinesis Lvl: 1 (Born) U-Tier Quirk
You are a star in the dark, a beacon of light and a force of cosmic power. Are you a descendant of Amaterasu or a new freak of nature?
Powers Manifested:
Gyrokinesis
Pyrokinesis]
[Your born quirk is unlike any other quirk you have or will have access too. As you now have access to it, you have unlocked a new upgrade menu! Say Heliokinesis Upgrades to learn more!]
'Oh my..'
'Are you okay? We're on our way.'
He was fine but the last tick of percent, hurt, a lot. The pain instantly went away once both Gamer's Body and Mind activated again. But holy. Dad's and Mom's quirks combined, and they made something ridiculous. He had no idea what he was capable of, but he was more than ready to explore the possibilities.
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
The door opened, letting Mandalay, and RagDoll through.
"RagDoll says you had a sharp pain and everything went away all at once. I guess your powers are back?"
He nodded and smiled, "Yup."
RagDoll smiled and tilted her head, "What did you get?"
"Something called Heliokinesis, pretty much gravity and fire in one."
"Cooool."
'Any limitations on it?"
Shaking his head, "No, just need to use them a lot like my super strength and quirk borrowing."
She smirked, 'Get ready then kid, you have to get it to a usable point to use it effectively.'
RagDoll cheered, "Time to train!"
'Oh no.'
'Lots of blue. Why are you worried? It's not like you can get tired.'
Oh yeah. "Let's do this!"
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"Kid this is kind of sad, reminds me of a toddler first using its powers."
Tiger was really laying it on thick, but she couldn't deny he was right. It was kind sad to see a kid who can level one of Pixie's golems to rubble in a single hit, and could wield lightning, doing almost squat with a new power. His fire barely lasted a second before going out, and his telekinesis could barely pick up a pebble.
'Blue.' Looking over at RagDoll, she took in the look of worry. 'He okay?'
"Yes and no. Physically he's almost perfect, but every time he uses his fire, his body slowly unravels molecularly. It's kind of like burning away a log. His telekinesis is draining his reserves pretty rapidly, he might get knocked out here soon."
Hmmm. 'Can you tell at what rate?'
She made a motion with her hand, "50/50. It seems to depend on the amount of fire and the strength. His gravity is a bit harder, he would have a better understanding of that one."
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'My mana is dropping like a stone.' He could feel the headache building as the small pebbles slowly moved toward him. From what he could tell Gyrokinesis didn't allow him to repel objects, just attract them. He could also cause them to circle around him, but that was more draining than bringing stuff to him.
He stopped as soon as his mana hit the 300s and the pebbles he was controlling dropped.
[A properties of Heliokinesis have leveled up!
Open Heliokinesis Upgrades to view more!]
That reminded him, he needed to check out that menu. Mandalay and RagDoll had dragged him out to train immediately and didn't give him a chance to check.
"You done for now kid?"
He nodded at Tiger and sat down on the ground. "Yeah my mental pool is almost out and I feel kind of funny, when I use my fire now."
'You're slowly burning like a log in a fire.'
He looked at Mandalay with a raised eyebrow.
She shrugged at him, 'RagDoll has been monitoring you since you started.'
"Huh. So I'll wither away if I use it for too long and too much." He looked at his hands, and quietly talked to himself, "That's not terrifying at all."
"You just need to learn to harness it and control your output." Tiger kneeled next to a tiny scorch mark made by one of the flickers of fire he made. "Can you tell at what rate you're burning up?"
"Let me check." Using thought he opened up the new menu.
[Quirk Menu -
Here you can view and determine statics about your born quirk, along with any others, and find ways to gain new upgrades. Gamer will provide very little information about your quirk, but will assist you in small ways to improve it. Your quirk is for you to explore.]
[Heliokinesis
One for All
Transfer
Gamer]
Selecting Heliokinesis, a new window popped up. 'I'll have to check the other windows later.'
[Select from the following menu:
Hints
Moves
Powers]
'Powers.'
[Pyrokinesis - Lvl: 3 Xp: 32%
Create and control fire.
Damage - (Unknown)
Speed - (Unknown)
Size - (Unknown)
Cost - (Unknown)]
'Hmmm. Not much help. According to RagDoll I'm burning away like a log in a fire, my body feels like it is wilting somewhat.' Taking a peek at his HP gauge, it hadn't gone down, but his max HP number had gone down quite a bit. So keeping an eye on his HP was top priority in a fight.
[A cost of your pyrokinesis has been discovered.]
'Well it's my HP.'
"From what I can tell, it uses a small percentage of my health. The amount of health used goes down if I make the flame smaller than the max I can use."
Tiger grinned, "Mandalay?"
She grinned, "I can work with that, I'll special order the stuff tomorrow."
'Get some rest and reset your health to max. You're going to have a hard day tomorrow, maybe.'
Pixie yawned and walked back in after giving him a grin. RagDoll was writing stuff in a notebook, and Tiger, after helping him up, walked inside with a stretch. Mandalay walked off to the dorm area with her phone out and proceeded to place an order for something.
'Guess I'm on my own.'
He continued to go through the power menu.
[Gyrokinesis - Lvl: 5 Xp: 12%
Allows the ability to attract objects and create your own gravitational pull.
Max Weight - (Unknown)
Max Speed - (Unknown)
Max Objects - (Unknown)
Cost - (Unknown)]
'Dang no more help than the last one.' Shaking himself of the annoyed thoughts, he opened his moves menu.
[Heliokinesis Moves-
Pyrokinesis -
Fire bolt- summon and control balls of fire.
Gyrokinesis -
Gravity Pull - cause an object to come to you.
Orbit - cause objects to orbit around you.]
'At least I don't have to remember every move I'll ever do.' Closing that menu, he opened the hints menu.
[Heliokinesis Hints - Only 5 hints will be displayed at a time.
Water
Cancer
Blackout
Apollo
Death]
"That's not ominous." He'd have to think on the hints, none of them rang a bell right now, and he was pretty sure he could ask Aki and Sei once he got a chance. Closing all the menus, he made his way to the house and started to think of a hero name.
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The next day.
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"What about Sun Shaper?"
'Makes it sound like he can literally shape the sun, doesn't make sense.'
"Sun son?" Pixie received a smack from RagDoll for that one.
'Star Bright?'
"Do you want him to look like a magical girl?"
Three of the four pussycats looked at him, causing him to blush slightly. There was no way he could do it.
'Nah, his muscles would make frills look weird.'
He had asked them to help with naming and they more than eagerly accepted the task. Most of the names he didn't agree with, a few had potential, but the majority of them had just been bad puns from Pixie. Tiger had pulled out his cellphone and started browsing the internet for names. He had yet to say a name out loud, so Izuku was hopeful.
"What about just SunLight?"
Pixie groaned, "Not cool enough, also it sounds a bit girly."
"Solar Flare?"
'That sounds like a signature move, not a name.'
RagDoll whined, "I can't think of anything else!" She slumped forward into her knees. Pixie patted her back sympathetically.
"How did you guys get your names?", asked Izuku.
An image of four young people who dressed more flashy, appeared in his mind. 'We formed our team before choosing our names. So when we had to think of them, we just chose breeds of cats.'
Pixie held up a peace sign and her tongue out, "Yep. We weren't very imaginative."
Izuku deadpanned, 'Wish I knew that beforehand.' He got smacked on the back of his head by Mandalay.
'Watch it buster. We're still in charge of you.'
RagDoll snickered, "So mean."
Mandalay sent her a glare, and the snickering stopped. Tiger got up, patted himself off, and beckoned for Izuku to follow. As he did so the rest of the team followed.
"Tiger did you have any ideas?"
Tiger looked at him, and shrugged, "No, I'm not one for names."
'Take my quirk.' Mandalay poked him, and Izuku obliged.
[Quirk Transferred!]
'Yeah?'
'Don't ask Tiger about names. Something happened a few years ago that ruined the experience for him.'
'Oh, okay.'
'Did you figure out the cost of your gravity?'
'No. I just know it cost a tiny bit of my mental pool and the smaller the item, the less of the pool it cost.'
'Think you can pick up a couple of candles?'
'Candles? If they were small enough yeah. Why?'
'That's what we're going to be doing.'
'What?'
'Don't worry about it. You do fine.'
[Quirk Expired]
They made it out the house and into a part of the clearing away from any wooden structure. Tiger picked him up by the scruff of the shirt and set him down in the middle of a metal ring.
"The ring is for later, don't worry about it. For now pick up these candles." He along with Pixie spread out multiple small candles, which judging by the color, were birthday candles. "Now pick them up."
Calling on his quirk, which felt like an invisible wind, he aimed for the candles. They were extremely light, and were being pulled toward him. "Make them circle you." Causing them to orbit was harder, but manageable if he aimed the wind correctly. They slowly stopped and began to circle him. "Now light them all at once then snuff them out. Repeat that until you can't."
'Alrighty then.' When he used his fire, it felt like a ball of fire was building inside of him, like a mini sun. Whenever he used the fire though, it would diminish the size of it by a fraction. It made him feel warm and gave him the sensation of laying in an open field taking in the sun. Calling out small balls of fire, he sent each out to a candle.
"Good. Now extinguish then and do it again, and again and again."
'Uhhh.' "Sure."
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The exercise continued for about a half hour when he was almost out of Mana. As soon as it hit the 100s he was about to stop when Tiger, from behind, yelled, "Keep going till you hit zero and go beyond that."
'Wait. That's their plan?' While he couldn't fault them for it, he knew he couldn't do that. Going past 0 health would kill him and if he ran out of mana, he'd end up like Aki toward the end of the Knight fight. "You guys, I can't go past a certain point in my mental pool. My health is also getting super low…"
"No back talking!" Tiger made him jump. "Just do what we say!"
"Yes sir!" Izuku shut up and kept the candles lit and floating. He watched as his Mana hit the 30s and had a single thought. 'This is going to hurt.' He shut his eyes and braced for the pain. 'Aki seemed like her head split in two, so it can't be much worse than the genetic rewrite at the start right?'
Ping
'What the?' Peeking open an eye, a new box appeared.
[New Quality has been added!
Hero's Will - Lvl: Max
You are a hero through and through. Fight to the very end, never giving up a fight for the ones who can't defend themselves!
Trade your highest gauge in place of your normal quirk costs. This can be very dangerous, you have been warned!]
'Woah.' His Mana was locked at 1 and his HP was nearing the 100s now. His stamina was at a decent level but was ticking steadily downward. 'Maybe I should stop.'
Tiger a lot quieter than normal, "Go ahead and stop kid."
'Your body is almost to the point you're ready to crumble with a flick and your synapses are going hyper speed or not going off at all.'
That did it. He let the fires extinguish and the candles fall. "What do you mean crumble!?" He turned to the girls.
"Don't worry Izuku." It was RagDoll. "You'll be fine after you rest."
"I know that! I could have died if I wasn't paying attention though!"
Pixie jumped in front of him. "Kid, do you honestly think we wouldn't have stopped you?"
As she was about to flick his nose, RagDoll pounced, "No flicking!". They were both sent flying away from him in a jumble of limbs.
'Well RagDoll likes you.'
He smiled and scratched his cheek, "I guess."
'Wait.' He just realized, he'd never used [Observe] on any of them. Turning to Mandalay, who was giving him a weird look, he tried it.
[Name: Shino Sosaki
Hero Name: Mandalay
Age: 30
Level: ?
(Note: You have…)]
'No surprise there.' Looking over at Tiger and Pixie, he repeated it and got the same result.
[Name: Ryuko Tsuchikawa
Hero Name: Pixie-Bob
Age: 30
Level: ?]
[Name: Yawara Chatora
Hero Name: Tiger
Age: 30
Level: ?]
It was RagDoll that gave him some actual information.
[Name: Tomoko Shiretoko
Hero Name: RagDoll
Age: 30
Level: 28
Quirks: Search
Hp:
Mana:
Stamina:
Str: 197
Con: 143
Dex: 213
Agi: 256
Int: 276
Wis: 264
Cha: 92
Res: 132
Looking, searching, finding the lost and forgotten.]
'Huh. RagDoll is weaker than me physically, but possesses more mental stats than I do.' Seiren had told him that the average pro was around the 400s if he remembered correctly. 'She's much lower than that though.'
'Why are you staring at RagDoll oozing purple?'
That scared him out of his thoughts. 'Umm.' He turned to her, "I just noticed that RagDoll is not much stronger than me is she?"
He took her offered hand, and stood up, 'RagDoll is trained as a search and rescue pro, not a combat specialist. She can put up a fight against small fries but wouldn't last very long against villains All Might would normally face. That's why we formed a team in the first place. Each one of us has the ability to work in tandem with any one of each other.'
'I need to get more XP.' Paying back the deficit was top priority now. Training is worth nothing but XP now to him, so he'd need to maximize his XP profits. "I'm going to sleep and regain my strength."
'Go ahead. Tomorrow we should have time to spar, but we'll need to get ready for hero work again. You'll be training your quirk on your own during that.'
"Sounds good. Good night." He waved at the rest of the team and went to bed.
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Two Weeks Later
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Akito: So can I know what quirk you got? I know you want to surprise Sei, but I want to hold it over her please?
Izuku: Help me with leveling spells and quirks?
Akito: Only has to ask. :)
Izuku: It's called Heliokinesis. Fire and gravity as far as I can tell.
Akito: That's ridiculous. Right? Doesn't your mom have super weak telekinesis? What was your dad's quirk?
Izuku: He could breathe fire. I think my mom's quirk is super weak because she never trained it. As for dad's I have no clue.
Akito: Hmm. Do you know her tier?
Izuku: A
Akito: What tier is Helio?
Izuku: U
Akito: U? According to mom the only tiers are D, C, B, A, and S. S are rare in the first place, as they require a precise genetic combination. Transference was born from the combination of a book copy quirk and a mimicry quirk.
Izuku: So what does it mean that Helio is a U?
Akito: No clue. :)
Izuku: Would your Sis know?
Akito: Maybe? If I asked her she would probably have a guess. Can I tell her?
Izuku: Go ahead.
Akito: Kk
Izuku: Any tips for training?
Akito: Spells are easy. What's the cost of your quirk?
Izuku: HP and Mana.
Akito: HP is a bit harder but Mana is easy. Do you know how to Meditate?
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Izuku was currently sitting in the middle of a floating metal ring, with a handful of candles. The flames were going, but instead of extinguishing them, he was flaring them. With every inhale the flames grew and every exhale diminished them. His mana was going down a lot slower thanks to [Meditate], Akito had explained how to do it via messaging and told him to practice the skill in conjunction with casting spells or using gravity.
Ping.
Opening his eyes, he read the pop up.
[Skill Maxed! Meditation has reached max level and now provides an added bonus.
Meditation Lvl: 10 (Max)
Calming your mind, and concentrating on tranquility, you are able to take a small step toward enlightenment.
While still provides a 250% increase to your Mana regen.
Max Bonus: Increases Max Mana by 50%.]
'That's good.' He looked at his gauges.
[HP:
Mana:
Stamina: ]
'Not too shabby.' He lowered the ring and candles, letting the fires go out. He had asked Aki about her quality Lost Chapter, but she was playing coy and dodging the question. He had asked Sei but she said Aki had always dodged the question. Apparently she had gotten it during an expedition with their mom. So that was out. But he was more than happy with the results of her version of training. Most of his spells had reached Lvl: 10 or higher, and his quirk had reached Lvl: 6 with Pyrokinesis and Lvl: 10 with Gyrokinesis.
While he could still barely control his quirk better than an elementary student. He was making pretty decent progress toward catching up with students his own age. Speaking of, today was the day he was supposed to head back to the city for the weekend, and Mandalay was late. 'Guess this is a habit of hers.' Walking back toward the house, he decided to watch TV while waiting.
Kota, every single time they were alone, ignored him and disappeared into the forest. He had panicked one day when Kota didn't return at nightfall and tracked him to a cave, where he found a small campsite set up. Clearly Kota didn't like to be near him, and Izuku wasn't told to do anything about it, so out of respect for the kid, he left him alone. He had asked Mandalay about Kota, and was told about the kid's parents dying to save civilians from a mass murderer. Izuku hadn't lost a parent or anyone close to him in such a way, so he had no idea what the kid was going through.
Distracting himself, he turned the channel to a news network. They were doing piece on the Top Ten Heroes of Japan, they were going over each of the heroes' heroics since the last special. All Might's were still mysterious and super quick as they had been in the last few years. Knowing about his limit made it all make so much more sense. Most theories on his quick fights lead to the simple fact that he was off doing other hero work that didn't reach the media. The amount of chaos he could create if he could tell the truth would flip hero nerds, like himself, on their heads. This made him chuckle to himself.
'Red with black streaks, dark thought?'
Turning to the front door, Mandalay walked in, still in her hero outfit. He smiled at her, "Just a joke."
She smirked at him, 'Didn't take you for a dark humor type. Mind telling me the joke?'
"I'm not, and I can't. Sorry."
She shrugged, 'You ready?'
Nodding, he switched off the TV and picked up his bag. "Ready."
'Know where Kota is? We have to take him with us.'
"Uh." He tried to think. "Last I saw him he disappeared into the woods, probably to his small campsite."
'I'll shout for him.'
A quick second passed as she said, 'He should be making his way here now. How has your training gone?'
"Pretty good, I easily pick the ring up, but if I'm not meditating, it gets a lot harder."
'By Monday, we should have a few more things for you to do. Mind showing me how your other quirks are coming along?' She looked at him with a mad gleam in her eye.
"Like spar?"
She smirked, 'If you can call you losing a spar, then sure.'
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Kota walked through the woods, back toward their house. His crazy aunt and the idiot were waiting for him. The older idiot wasn't all that bad, he didn't dote on him like his aunts or anyone else that heard about his parents. He made a pretty decent Katsudon, and didn't try to be overly nice.
As he broke the brush close to the house he heard the sound of fire and lightning going off. 'Another spar. Aren't we late?'
'Don't worry I'm almost done with him.' His aunt, from what he could keep up with, was fighting with a smile, and treating the idiot like what he was.
After dodging a spear made of ice flung at her, she dropped to all fours and pulled his legs out from under him. She then pinned down his arms and legs. "I win."
The idiot sighed, "How are you dodging my attacks so easily?"
"Easy. You're predictable." She blew a raspberry at him and stood up.
After standing up himself, "How does one become unpredictable?"
She must have said something via quirks cause he made a face and looked at his hands.
"Can we go now?"
His aunt turned to look at him, "Yup!"
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"You know he won't notice right?"
"Says who?"
"Says anyone that's seen the way he looks at you. He sees you as a little sister."
"I'll have to change his image of me then."
Sei snorted, "Good luck. Izuku has access to every detail of person at his fingertips but he's still dense as a rock." A pillow was flung at her head.
"Don't be mean. It's not like he has a manual on how to use the quirk."
"But he's too dense to realize he could ask us anything."
She was about to make a retort when she realized she was right. Instead she huffed and turned back to the mirror. Applying the last bit of eyeliner, she received a prompt.
[Skill leveled up! Disguise (Makeup) Lvl: 49 - 50
Gain +50% to Cha and all Cha based skills.
For reaching a milestone in a skill, you have received the following:
Mask of Many Lvl: 1 Affinity: 20%
Grants the ability to switch between makeup at the snap of your fingers.
Max masks: 2
Cooldown: 1 hour]
She let out a small cheer.
"Finally?"
She nodded, "Only took a month of nonstop grinding."
Sei laughed, "Month not well spent then, you could have been training your combat skills but no, catching someone's eye is more important. Don't you want to get into a combat school?"
Sighing she answered, "Yes?"
"Can't answer a question with a question. Yes or no."
"I do, but mom didn't go to one, so why does it matter?"
"Dad?"
"Besides his threat?"
Sei thought for a second, "Because you'd finish what mom wanted in the first place? She didn't want to be a vigilante but needed to be."
She crossed her arms, "Why is it up to me? You're her daughter too."
Her sister smirked, "Because this dimension can't contain me, and I refuse to be tied down."
"Only takes the right guy."
She groaned, "Don't use mom's words."
Sticking her tongue out at her sister, "She's right though, you haven't really tried to make friends, or meet people since mom taught you how to travel."
Her older sister whined, "Hey. I have met people."
Raising an eyebrow, "Do any of them know you're a dimension hopping vagabond?"
"No. Do you even know what that word means?"
"Could you call any of them friends? People that you can rely on?"
"I have made friends, sis. Any yes, I know a few I could…."
"People mom didn't introduce you too?"
Sei stopped mid-sentence.
"Thought so." Sei was about to say something, "Izuku doesn't count, mom told us about him. Neither do the triplets, they were mom's friends' kids."
She slumped into her chair, "Fine. What do you suggest, o great sage of makeup?"
"Don't dimension hop for a month, and go to school for once. You always leave for months at a time in between classes."
Her OLDER sister actually started pouting at her, "But all the people at school are lame."
"Ask dad to transfer schools? I'm pretty sure that nice policeman would help if we asked."
"I'll see." Sei looked at her phone. "He's late by the way. Should we message him?"
Shaking her head, "No. he said he would message when he got to the meeting point. It's not like we'll be late, anyway."
She groaned again, "Why do you have to be so mature?"
"One of us has to be." She turned back to her vanity.
"Why do you act so much younger when you're around Izuku anyway? I'm pretty sure that doesn't help with your image."
She couldn't suppress the annoyance at herself and accidentally squeezed the tube of lip gloss she was applying. "Damn it."
"Swear jar."
As she cleaned up the giant glob of opaque strawberry flavored lip gloss off her lip, she answered, "I can't help it, Mom and Dad always treated me like I was older. When mom died though, Dad started treating me like a kid again. I don't mind it, because look at me." She gestured to herself, "I look like a six year old, but gets on my nerves when he treats me like I'm fragile."
Sei nodded, "I've seen you forcing yourself to calm down around him. That still doesn't answer the question though."
She waved her hand, "I was getting to that. You treat me like an equal, which I love, but Izuku just treats me like someone his own age and sees me as a peer. It makes me giddy and I can't help it."
"Awww the little sister is in love."
Akito couldn't help the blush that formed on her cheeks and tried to bury it in fake anger, "Shut up!" She tossed another pillow aided by a spell. Sei dodged out of the way, and the pillow plowed into the chair sending it flying backward. It scrapped against the floor and crashed into the wall with a bang.
"Girls! What was that?" It was their father.
"Sei is being mean!"
"She used a spell in the house!"
"Sei leave your sister alone. Akito use another spell and I'm leaving Worg to watch over you for the next week!"
"Fine!" Their father's shadow was a manifestation of his will and had its own consciousness. And unlike father who acted like a man child when it suited him, Worg was goody two shoes, and acted a super strict parent.
[Ping]
"It's Izuku. He says they're almost there."
She couldn't help the bounce, "Are you ready?
Seiren threw on her oversized black T-shirt, which was in stark contrast against her frilly sundress. "Yeah. Let's get your man."
She tossed another pillow, unpowered, "Don't call him that."
"Fine." She opened a portal, "I'll call him that after you win him over."
Akito sighed, "Whatever."
—
"So who are the people picking you up?"
"They're friends that I met because of their mom."
"Your mom's friend?"
He shook his head, "No it was a lady I met a few years ago, but didn't know anything about until recently."
"Was?"
"She died in a fight against a villain." He saw her glance in the backseat. 'Probably checking your make sure Kota was still asleep.'
"Hero I assume?"
"Nope. Vigilante, you probably saw the news about Absorbent Girl dying?"
"I did. You knew her?"
"Not really. Just in passing."
"Why do you know her kids then?"
"She said something to me a long time ago and I was wondering if they knew what it meant. They didn't but we kept in touch and eventually just hung out a lot."
"That's neat. Meeting friends in weird ways usually means they last for a long time."
In the calm silence that followed Izuku sent a message to the girls and listened to the music that played over the radio. In about four minutes they made it outside UA, and were greeted by All Might, in his skinny form, and Nezu, sitting on his shoulder.
'Who's the walking skeleton?'
Izuku snorted, "He's All Might's manager."
She whistled both mentally and verbally, it made for a weird feeling. 'Damn kid, I knew you were important when Nezu called me, but All Might is backing you?'
"He's the one that introduced me to Nezu. He also helped me discover my quirk in the first place."
'You are one lucky kid.'
The car was stopped and Izuku got out to greet his teacher.
"Izuku, my boy, how has it been? You learn a bit?"
Izuku nodded, "Amazingly actually. I got a new quirk."
All Might's eyebrows raised, "The one you said was locked?"
Izuku nodded again with a large smile.
"That's amazing!" All Might's involuntarily poofed into muscle form without thinking.
'Holy shit.'
"Language Mrs. Sosaki."
All Might went completely still, while Izuku facepalmed. 'He needs to work on that.'
"Maybe we should have a seat." Nezu patted All Might on the head. All Might went back to his skeleton form, and just turned around back to the school and walked in. "Come along, and don't forget the kid."
Mandalay rushed back to the car and woke up Kota, who had started to stir after his aunt's loud mental shout. "What's?"
'Izuku is going to look after you for a while. Do you mind walking him around?' The question was aimed at him.
"Sure?"
'Great.' She handed Kota to him, who was slightly shocked and just watched his aunt walk into the main building.
It only took a second for Kota to squirm out of Izuku's hands. "What happened?" He looked at him expectantly. Izuku tried to come up with a decent excuse but was saved by a portal opening up. What he didn't see was the second portal opening above him.
While is Str was pretty decent, it didn't help him holding seventy pounds of weight with his head, thus he was sent to the ground. "Hi Aki."
The girl landed on all four on top of him, beamed a smile at him, "Hello, Izuku."
"Can I get up?"
"K."
She did a small roll and popped up onto her feet. Izuku stood himself up and looked at the sisters. Sei was dressed like she didn't want to leave home, while Aki was wearing a dress that was probably not ideal given how windy it was today.
"Who are you two?"
Seiren leaned forward toward Kota, "Friends. Who are you?" She squinted her eyes going for an intimidating presence.
"Kota." He held his ground with a glare.
And just like that, Seiren stopped her own glare. "Seiren, or you can call Sei."
Akito hopped up next to her sister, "Akito. Hydrokinesis Huh? That's not super common."
Kota's eyes widened. "How do you know that?"
Akito grinned and reached out for Kota, but was immediately thrown back by Seiren. "Aki it's not okay to borrow people's quirk without permission."
She whined into the air, "I've never used a water quirk before though!"
"Borrow?" The confusion was plastered on Kota's face.
Izuku spoke up, "She can borrow people's quirks like I can, but at a much higher level."
Kota immediately took a step back glaring daggers at Akito who was standing up, "Stay away from me you creep."
"Problem child what are you doing here still? What's Mandalay's nephew doing here?" Eraserhead turned to the girls, "Who are you two?"
Akito bowed, "My name is Akito. I'm a friend of Izuku's."
Sei bowed as well, albeit a little bit more loosely, "Seiren. I help train Izuku."
Eraser stared at them for a second before turning to Izuku. "Did you at least learn something?"
"Yes sir."
"Good." He turned toward the main building and walked away.
"He seems nice." Izuku raised an eyebrow at Seiren. "What?"
"You call that nice?"
"He didn't yell at you or treat you like a bug, did he?"
'That's nice?' "I guess?"
Akito bounces up to him, "Can we see your quirk?" Her eyes shone with an unnatural light.
"Um, what's up with your eyes?"
She seemed offended for a second, before she realized, "Oh, Sei and I went on vacation. We found a really cool crystal that gave off this weird light. I absorbed some of the energy and it's making my eyes glow."
Izuku smiled with excitement, "Where did you go? Did the crystal give you anything else?"
"No clue, there were weird people speaking in a super weird language, and they all went to this massive tower."
"Ok kids calm down. Quirk first and then when we have time we'll tell you about our vacation. Izuku, where's the gym?"
Izuku shrunk in on himself a bit, his excitement still got out of control occasionally. "I don't think we can use it. Principal Nezu said it was only open on Sunday."
"We can at least check."
"I guess."
"Sis you see it right?"
Akito nodded her head, "What do you think it means?"
"I honestly don't know. We need to talk to him about it though."
"Should we?" She looked at Aki with a raised eyebrow. "I mean he already has so much on his plate. Do we really want to add even more onto it?"
She thought about it for a second. 'It wouldn't be right to hide it from him, but should we add even more on to him?' She looked at his stats again.
[Name: Izuku Midoriya
Age: 14
Level: 20 (1)
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While his stats had jumped up a bit, they weren't much higher than last time. The issue was the warning message at the bottom.
[Coming from the ranks of Amaterasu, Apollo, and Ra. A new cosmic power has been born. Beware all who cross their path into divinity.]
Even mom's warning message wasn't as ominous.
[A being of great potential and destruction is not easily controlled. Fear their wrath and hate.]
They still hadn't found out who killed Mom, but anyone able to take her down was a scary person to mess with.
"Hide it for now until everything settles down."
Aki nodded her head, "We'll tell him once he finishes his first year of school."
Chapter 9 Done!
I hope you like his quirk. Also yes, he will still be balanced out enough to make fights difficult. Quirks are super difficult to level up with the system I have written out. While the system will be tuned and changed over the course of the story, it will generally be the same. Someone like Bakugo, who I assume, trains his quirk non-stop from when he was younger, will always have an advantage over Izuku in terms of raw power. Izuku's strengths will lie in his versatility, and out thinking his opponents.