Chapter 3: The Shield Hero's sidekick.

It had been a week since Bakugou had been labeled as a rapist by the King's court and it had been a rough one, hardly any person would look at him with a straight face and are unwilling to talk to him.

He has mostly stayed out of civilization and spent most of his time finding any monsters to kill and finding any abandoned dungeon to gain and learn new skills and shields. He had been mostly self-sufficient. With the health potions he can make as well as his healing shields he can fix any injuries he had and restore his hp, with a leather sleeping bag he bought he can sleep out in the woods, he can make his own food from the corpses of monsters he's killed, can make himself clean water with a purifying spell he learned from a former church member, and he can create fire with his quirk.

The only time he went back to town was to sell off any loot he had. Many of the merchants attempted to rip Bakugou off by either increasing the price of their items or decrease the value of anything he was trying to sell.

Unfortunately for each and every one of those merchants they were manhandled by Bakugou and would threaten them that he would burn their stores down before any guards would help them if they wouldn't barter fair. With his scary-looking face and finally firing off his explosion quirk in front of them to show he's not bluffing, none wanted to face the wrath of the shield devil so they were always forced to pay him a fair price in every deal.

The only other shop owners that are willing to be more cooperative were the herbalist, the magic shop keeper, and the blacksmith. But Bakugou hasn't needed their services since the day of his accusation so he never bothered with them.

A short fancy-looking slave-dealer had also come up to him one night to offer his stock, but Bakugou quickly rejected his business deals as soon as he saw what he was selling, Bakugou never wants to get involved in slavery no matter what situation he was in. The only reason he would ever buy slaves would be to free them and once he has the money to do so he will do it.

Bakugou had already grind up to level 15 and he continued to go deeper and deeper into the forests to find bigger and harder monsters to kill. He has also started to use his various new shield skills in combat. As much as he hated the shield, he couldn't ignore it's usefulness in battle while using his quirk on the other arm allowing him to fight close encounters with the monsters and not just from a distance.

It seemed like Bakugou was destined to fight alone in this world with no champions or friends. Just the lone hero. But that all changed in one day.

It was another day in the woods as Bakugou blows up some more giant large dog-sized spiders. After killing all of them he inserts of what's left of them in the storage in the shield which it said, *Spider web shield unlocked, passive resistance to venom increased by 10%* after that Bakugou stores up the spider corpses and rips off there big webs, their silk will be very valuable to the clothing merchants and perhaps the armor merchant as well hearing rumors that it can be melded with armor.

Bakugou brings up his shield map and was about to fast travel back to the Capital until he heard a voice, "Help! Somebody help me please!" it sounded feminine and it was close by.

Bakugou's hero instincts came back to him, he may hate this world but he was still determined to be the hero of it and couldn't just ignore it so he followed the voice.

"Rope shield!" He yelled to launch at a branch of a tree and used his quirk to launch himself up to the top. He continues to jump across the branches toward the call for help. He was being cautious as it could be a trap set up by bandits so he would remain up until he sees something.

After some more gliding across the trees, he heard the cry for help again. And saw something running through the woods, it looked blue but Bakugou couldn't see it properly.

He finally stops and activates his binoculars shield to get a closer look from afar and saw the blue figure, it was a young woman barely over 18 years old wearing blue robes but after a close look, he sees that the girl's skin was completely blue as well.

And behind her was a group of bandits chasing her, about 14 of them all who were taunting the girl as they chase after her.

The young woman eventually tripped over on her own robes and fell on the ground. The bandits quickly surround the girl as they all proceed to mock her, "Well well, it looks like the clumsy pretty blue demi has finally tripped on herself. You should've known better than to walk into the woods like this. You might encounter some, predators out here." the head bandit creepily talks to the young woman with the rest of the group laughing with him.

The frightened girl attempts to reason with them, "What do you want from me? I..I don't have anything of value on me, my.. my currency is worthless out here I tried everywhere to buy something with it but no one would accept it."

The group just continues to laugh at the girl with the leader getting closer toward her with a knife, "Who says we are after your worthless coin. A pretty demi-human like yourself would be valuable to any horny nobleman. Haha, we will make huge money with you." the Bandit mocks her, with her eyes widening knowing full well what these bandits intend to do with her.

But another bandit had another idea with her, "Why waste a good piece of ass to some inbred noble? Why don't we keep her as a toy for ourselves?" many in the bandit group were shaking their heads in agreement starting a small arguement frightening the girl even more.

The bandit leader decided to set this out, "Alright boys, Alright. Why don't we have a vote? Those in favor of selling her off to slavery say aye?" No one answered, "Alright those in favor of keeping her to ourselves say aye?" and the whole group unanimously yelled aye.

While they were distracted the girl attempted to make a run for it again, but she was stopped by a katana blade right on her throat, "Where do you think you're going?" the blade holder bandit mocks her with other bandits now gathering around her.

Bakugou was disgusted in what he saw and knew he had to do something, the girl looked way to genuinely frightened to be some actor for a trap, Bakugou knew this was the real deal. So in secret, he dropped down from the tree and was ready to start an ass beating.

The bandit leader moves up toward the girl with his knife, "Looks like your going to be with us for now on blue girl. I think it's appropriate we get this stupid robe off of you to be more... In style of your new position as our new sex toy." the Bandit moves his knife right at the girl.

"Please! Please no! Somebody help me!" the girl shouts out hoping someone will come.

The group just laughs with the leader being the loudest, "Keep screaming all you like but there no guards coming out to help anyone, let alone a demi, so let me help you out of your robes and I'll... Ahhhh!" the bandit screams after a blunt metal object hits him in the head with everyone including the girl was confused about who it was as they turn toward a figure coming out of the trees.

"You perverts better back off! Or I'm going to be doing some castrating here!" Coming out of the trees was Bakugou with his shield reforming right back on him.

After finally getting a good look and realizing who it is, the bandit group just smiles and laughs at Bakugou, "Hahahaha, well well look what we have here, it's the dreaded shield devil." the bandit leader said in a mocking tone.

"Dreaded ha, what's a stupid shield going to do with us?" another bandit mocked Bakugou who continued to stand there with an angry look on his face.

"I mean it bastards I'm going to break every one of your damn nuts." Bakugou threatens the group who are not taking him seriously.

"That's a lot coming from you, the so-called hero who attempted to rape a princess." the bandit leader mocks as he gets closer to Bakugou not feeling threatened at all as his other men stayed close to the girl until he is right up toward Bakugou's face, "Now how about before I chop your balls off boy, why don't you get lost while we have our fun." he threatens Bakugou who continued his angry stare not saying a word

The bandit decided he had enough as he raises his large knife, "Ok you stubborn brat, how about I cut open that cheek and see how much you cry!" and after some built up he swipes right toward Bakugou's cheek.

But Bakugou grabs hold of the leader's wrist and stopped the swipe, surprising everyone including the leader. Bakugou smiles sinisterly as he grips on the leader's wrist harder and harder turning the bandit leader from looking confused to afraid of him instantly, Bakugou finally spoked, "What did you call me before? Shield Devil huh? Well, it looks like it's time to punish some sinners then!" and with his other hand, Bakugou blasted a small but painful explosion on the guy's crotch.

The guy falls over in agony with the rest of the group horrified, but the bandit leader in pain and agony still had the strength to order his group, " Ahhh, You idiots don't stand there! Kill this brat! Ahhhh"

And with that, the whole bandit group went after Bakugou at once even forgetting about the girl who ran and hid behind some trees to watch.

The group with different weapons and armor all attempted to gang up on Bakugou trying to smash him or cut him up. But not only are Bakugou's reflexes far faster for them to get close, but he was also able to beat all of their asses in hand to hand combat. He made good use of his explosion quirk and shield combo, the bandits would try to hit Bakugou only for him to block it and would in return give them a good explosion in the face. His physical combat would involve breaking various bones on the bandit's arms and legs, he may still do only 1 point in damage without the use of his quirk but he can still cause great pain all the same and the bandits feel it, especially in the private areas.

He also used some of his other shields on the bandits, in one instance he yelled "Balloon shield" and out came the balloon shield when a bandit with a large hammer tries to smash his skull only for his shield to bounce back and hit himself in the face. 3 bandits attempt to attack at the same time with their long swords, only for Bakugou to shout, "Spider web shield!" and his new shield turns into a hexagonal spider web, once in contact the 3 bandits swords were now stuck on the sticky web. They try to pull them off but it was useless as they stare in horror as Bakugou gives them his sadistic smile. Bakugou quickly blasts them away into a bunch of trees, hurting them badly and knocking them out of the fight.

After those 3, it all seemed over as the group of 13 bandits we're taken out with them all on the ground in deep pain and groaning. The girl hiding in the trees was amazed by that fight and was going to congratulate her savior, "By the gods thank you for..."

"Shhh... Quiet! Stand still!" Bakugou interrupted and ordered her.

The girl stopped but was confused, "Wha..what are you?"

"Shush! There is one more out there still. And I know he's watching us." Bakugou warns the girl again and she remained silent.

It was quiet for a minute with just a breeze passing by, but out of nowhere the last bandit with the Katana attempts to strike behind Bakugou, only for the prepared hero to stop it with his shield. With the two now locking eyes with each other, "You may have beaten my friends easily, but I'm more than a match for you useless shielder.", he mocks Bakugou.

This only enraged the hero, "I'll show you useless, you rapist bastard!" Bakugou attempts to blast him away with his quirk but the Katana welder vanishes quickly. Bakugou continued to look around for the guy, he was no pushover like the rest of the bandits, according to his status magic he was at level 30 over twice the level of Bakugou.

Bakugou continued to remain silent as he waits for the guy to strike again. The bandit finally attacks this time upfront now dual-wielding katana blades. With quick speeds, he swipes and attempts to stab or cut Bakugou, but he continues to hold out with his shield as the guy continues to attack as fast as possible while also dodging Bakugou's blasts.

The battle was quick and deadly as the two jump and dodge all over the place, with both fighters holding out as much as possible, but Bakugou has noticed that as the battle went on his opponent was starting to breathe heavier than before, he knew what was going on and he finally found his strategy, "What's the matter bitch face, can't beat a useless shielder who is levels below you?!" Bakugou insults the man enraging him even more and goes to attack Bakugou again as he continued blocking the katana swipes.

The katana wielder continued on and on, but he was noticeably getting slower and slower as he was growing tired by how drawn out the fight has become as he uses up his MP. Bakugou was finally able to get some blasts off the guy damaging him and thrown him into some trees. The Bandit was determined to win and pressed on, but Bakugou was now dodging the blade without even using his shield and had repeatedly punched, kicked, and bash the guy with his shield, only doing 1 damage but was still inflicting great pain on him.

The bandit was about done, he had no mana left to magically increase his speed and had used up whatever stamina he had left as he begins to collapse on the ground in pain and was even coughing up blood. Bakugou just smiles standing above him, "You're probably used to finishing fights quickly, you never learned to be more conservative of your energy or realize your enemy could take a hit. I expected a better challenge, you're absolutely pathetic." he insults the bandit.

But the bandit had it with Bakugou, "I WILL SHOW YOU WHO'S PATHETIC!" and with the last of his energy, he attempts to strike at Bakugou regardless of no plan or strategy. He goes for the kill with a blade aimed at his heart with the other for his neck.

But Bakugou not only stopped the one blade from hitting his neck by grabbing on to the guy's wrist, but he also placed his shield in front of the other blade and it snaps in half.

The bandit now looked completely horrified as he looks at his broken blade, and looks back at Bakugou as he continues to grip his wrist so hard he was forced to drop his other sword, "Wha... What... What the hell are you!?" the horrified bandit asked.

Bakugou smiles sinisterly as he moves his hand right up to his face, "I'm the number 1 hero, Katsuki Bakugou." Bakugou releases a blast right at the guy's face sending him flying into a tree finally knocking him out. All the bandits were finally defeated with Bakugou standing victoriously, he then turns back to the girl hiding, "You can finally come out now."

The blue girl comes out of hiding again, she couldn't believe what she just saw, she never encountered someone with such strength and power before and without a real weapon. She stands near him at awe, "What the hell are you looking at?" Bakugou asked her.

"Oh uh, ahem, I just wanted to say thank you hero for rescuing me like that, you basically saved my life. All by yourself no less. And well I never saw that kind of magic before with all the smoke and fire." she continues to talk to him, she wasn't so sure what else to ask him but as Bakugou was looting all of the bandit's armor, weapons, and anything of value. He asked her some questions as well.

"Yeah that's none of your damn business, how the hell did someone like you get into the woods like this to meet creeps like that?" he demanded from her.

"Well you see I was just looking for food to eat since I've been unable to buy my own, and well these criminals found me, and I ran away from them further into the woods to lose them. But had you not come along... Oh gods who knew what they were planning to do with me." she answers Bakugou

"Well, whatever the hell you are here for. Just tell me where you are from and I might as well escort you back if your willing to pay once we get back of course." Bakugou answers as he finally starts taking off the bandits clothes other then there underwear, he's figuring that taking her home will at least mean a new town with new merchants, new monsters, new quests, and fewer people that might know of his false crime.

But the girl seemed too timid to answer Bakugou as she taps her fingers together nervously, "Uh... well, it's kind of complicated... I ...I really don't live anywhere right now, and I don't have much to my name to begin with other than my clothes and my money that is kind of worthless out here."

Bakugou was mad by this girl now seeing her as completely worthless to him, but rather than exploding at her, he is still trying to rectify his last mistake of insulting and shouting those he's supposed to rescue in the first place from the provisional exam, he just sighs in disappointment after he finished looting the bodies, "Fine whatever, I'll just escort you to the nearest town and you can just get lost from there. Let me take care of these creeps first." he says as he moves all the unconscious bodies together, he then raises his arm and shouts, "Rope shield!" which turns his shield into a series of ropes and proceeds to tie the group together.

After a minute later, many of the bandits finally wake up and are horrified to see that they were all tied up together in thick rope in only their underwear, "What the hell is going on here!?" their leader shouted.

Bakugou looks down at them and smugly answers, "I tied up you bastards. I would blast out your brains, but I'm in a good mood today so call yourself lucky."

One of the bandits decided to mock Bakugou, "Aw so the shield devil has a heart after all. So what are you going to do then? Turn us in to the authorities?" the bandit's figure that if Bakugou did that, they would tell them the shield devil did this and would most likely believe them and set them all free.

"I don't think so." Bakugou quickly answers

This startled the group, "What!? Wait what are you going to do then?"

Bakugou grins, "Basically nothing, you idiots are going to have to get out on your own. And you better do it fast before nightfall, lots of nasty monsters like to come out at night hungry for easy prey."

This frightens the entire crew especially since he took all of their weapons and armor, they desperately tried to break out of the rope but it was no good, "Oh yeah that rope is magically bonded so without your weapons you won't have the strength to break out of it and you will break your teeth before you can chew out of it. The only way to break out of it is with this seal." Bakugou says as he shows off a small circular object the size of a small coin.

"All you have to do now is find it.", He then turns and with the help of his quirk throws the seal far away into the dark woods to the bandit's horror, "So good luck." Bakugou finally says to them and walks away back to civilization with the girl following him, though just before they were out of sight of them the girl gives the crew the middle finger as she walks away with him. The horrified bandit group was now struggling to even move around together as they are desperate to find that seal before they are eaten by the monsters at pitch-black night.

Bakugou and the girl were walking for a few minutes both silent, with Bakugou not interested in talking and the girl nervously having no idea what to say to him. He was her savior after all and she was just some useless helpless girl. She wanted to ask some big questions to him but she was too nervous to even say anything.

After some tapping on her fingers, she finally had the courage to finally say something to him, "So um... hero. Where are we going again?" she asked

"Are you deaf or what? I said we're going to the closest city which is the capital where I will drop you off and you can get lost," he answers rudely to her, the girl can tell that Bakugou wasn't like any other hero her people would describe, but it didn't matter to her as regardless of his attitude he still saved her life so she was willing to be open with him.

"Well I.. I also noticed your alone without a group, do you have any champions?" she asked.

"No, everyone hates me in this damn world, and I hate them back, so I don't need any help from those idiots. Why do you even care?" Bakugou answers and asked back.

The girl was somewhat unsure what to ask him, she too was hated from where she came from. She could barely take care of herself and yet here is her savior beating a group of bandits without trouble.

She had to finally say what she wanted to ask, "Well actually hero I have something I wanted to ask you."

"Stop calling me just hero! The names Katsuki Bakugou the shield hero, but just call me Bakugou." he corrects her not caring too much what this girl is saying.

"Oh um... sorry, Sir Bakugou. Well, I... I just wanted to ask... that uh... I could...I could... uh..."

"Will you spit it out already your annoying me!" Bakugou yells at the girl.

"Please Sir Bakugou could I join your party?" she finally says out loud making Bakugou stop. He turns around and looks unamused by her with his arms crossed.

"Your actually serious?" he asked her.

"Yes yes Sir, I would like to follow you and be of any help," she responds to him getting excited thinking he was interested.

Unfortunately for her Bakugou had the opposite feelings, "Sorry kid I don't run a babysitting business. You can whore yourself to some other loser to help you." he turns back and begins walking away.

But the girl knew she couldn't give up that easily, "But wait! Sir Bakugou, I... I can be of use to you."

"Like what?" Bakugou asked as he continues to walk ignoring her.

"Well... well I can cook for you, clean your armor, and maybe taste test your food for poison."

"I don't need a damn maid, if you keep bringing up nonsense then you can screw off to find town by yourself." he bluntly answered her

"Well if you need help with combat I could be of your assistance," she suggested

"Well, I didn't see any combat out of you considering you couldn't even put up a fight with a bunch of low life rapists."

"Yeah, but they were over a dozen of them and they were way higher in level than me, I didn't have a chance."

"Your damn level or enemy numbers shouldn't matter idiot. Your own confidence in your skill and tactics should have made you pull through. If you can't see through that then I shouldn't give a rats ass about you."

"Then... then maybe you can train me. Train me to be a better fighter like you," she suggested

Bakugou just laughed, "Ha, you think I'm going to waste my time with your useless ass. I got better things to do like to show those other cardinal idiots whose number 1 here than helping a lost cause. Go back to whatever people you are from and beat it."

"Please Sir Bakugou I just want to..."

"I SAID NO!" Bakugou's explodes at her making the girl trip and fall on her butt.

"I need to become the number 1 hero and save this world from hell beasts. I don't have the time to waste on a weakling like you. So screw off!" Bakugou yells no longer caring if the girl was following him or not.

The girl looked depressed thinking she failed again with yet another person seeing her as useless, unknown to him she had been called similar things where she grew up in for not just her people but her own family to. It seemed like her chance to improve herself has now passed her, she was now all by herself, all alone again.

But she couldn't stop no matter how much he rejected her. After finding her inner courage she finally runs up in front of him and stops Bakugou and shouts, "Sir hero please!"

"I told you its Bakug... huh?" he yells but then stops when the girl had kneeled down with her face on the ground as she bowed before him with her hands clamped together

"Please, please sir hero. I have nothing, I have no titles, no property, no real money, no purpose, and nowhere to go. My own people didn't want me around, I was banished from my home, I have no one to go to. My money is worthless out here and I can't fight for crap. I have nowhere to go and nothing to go to. You may not be the most pleasant person on the planet. But despite that you saved my life and you risked yourself to fight people you could've just avoided, you're a real hero sir Bakugou. You can help give me the means to feed myself, you can give me something to fight for, you can give me a purpose in my horrible life right now. I know we just met but... but... but... I feel like your the missing piece of my life, but not from love or anything like that, but a piece to fill up my soul, to give me a purpose in life that is worth living for, one that I can prove my own strength. So please Sir Katsuki Bakugou the great hero with the shield, help me to have a purpose in my pathetic life." the girl finishes and begs at Bakugou.

Unable to say anything immediately Bakugou turns around and starts acting angry to himself with his conflicted mind, 'Damn it! What the hell am I supposed to say now, I don't need some useless item carrier around to be a distraction nor do I need some stupid harem. And no way in hell am I going to train her worthless ass, she is going to accomplish nothin...' but after he thinks of that he looks back and remembers his old childhood quirkless friend Izuku, who he eventually nicknamed Deku, a name meaning unable to accomplish anything.

He thinks more deeply into this, 'Deku was just some quirkless crybaby for most of his pathetic life until... until he met All Might. He took up that worthless loser and turned him into his successor to his own quirk One for All, even if I fucking hate to admit it Deku has become a worthy rival to me not from just in strength but also to be a real hero if he could pass his provisional license and I couldn't."

Bakugou then thinks more into it, 'Hmm, what if I can myself turn this worthless crybaby and make her an actual competent hero? No even better, I can make her one of the best heroes in this world that will make spineless pale face, bow bitch, and ponytail slut look like incompetent idiots in comparison. I intend to be number 1 one day and I'm going to have some sidekicks eventually, if I'm going to have sidekicks they will be the best in this whole damn planet. And if All Might can change worthless Deku, then I can change this loser as well. It will definitely be a worthy challenge.'

Bakugou continues to think about this with the girl still bowing waiting for an answer.

Bakugou finally turns around for his response, "All right fine you can be in my party."

The girl couldn't believe what she just heard and her tears of sadness turned into tears of joy when she heard it, "You mean it? Oh, thank you sir Bakugou thank..."

"LET ME FINISH YOU IDIOT!" he shouts at her not liking to be interrupted quickly alerting the girl.

"Yes yes, sorry sir Bakugou I won't say anything else until you say so," she says as she bows and then stood straight up.

Bakugou speaks again, "Alright listen here. I will allow you to be in my party, you will be my very first sidekick."

"Uh... what's a side..." the girl interrupts nervously but she stops when Bakugou looks at her with an angry look for interrupting again, "So..sorry continue," she says quietly.

Bakugou continues, "You're going to be my sidekick for now on, I'll buy and make your food and won't charge you with anything. But listen here and listen closely! I don't expect you to lay around on your ass all day, you're going to be my active combat party member. You will fight with me and kick whoever's asses I want you to kick. You will also always remember that I am in charge here and that I'm the best, you will do everything I say and to do it well. And I don't want to hear anymore bitching, complaining, or crying. If you're going to be a hero you are going to have to act like one. I'm going to be straight with you, you're a worthless piece of trash now, but if you care about having a purpose in life then I'm going to give you one. I'm going to make you the second-best hero in all of this world, and I will make sure they will say your name along with mine. So tell me now are you willing to do the work to be a hero?"

The girl was quiet but inside she couldn't be anymore happier, she would no longer have to savage in the woods and sleep on the dirt, she now had a place in this new world, "Tha.. thank you Sir Bakugou, I accept your offer. I'll do what you need of me, and I'm willing to do anything to be a hero like you. I will be your new apprentice and I will do all I can to make you proud sir."

The girl was bowing again but this time not to beg but to show respect to her new master. Bakugou just smirks happily that he now has someone in this world that will genuinely respect him and was ready for the challenge ahead to turn this weakling into a badass hero like him.

After some button pressing on the status screen, Bakugou officially made the girl into his party member and a champion, according to the screen her name was Neia Varon and she was only at level 3 with weak statuses to Bakugou's displeasure, but he knew it won't be easy and was ready to change this quickly.

He turns back to the girl and says, "Alright since you're in team Bakugou now, I might as well just fast travel to the capital and get you properly dressed up." And quickly Bakugou pulls his map shield and the two vanish as they both teleport back to Melromarc's capital.

Bakugou and Neia appear back at the marketplace of Melromarc's capital, for Bakugou to properly set up his new sidekick.

For the first thing of business, Bakugou and Neia headed off to the blacksmith shop to get her properly equipped.

They both went inside the shop where the smith was making swords on his anvil, "Welcome to my... Oh, it's you, and... Oh, who is the lovely lady behind you." the smith says once he sees Bakugou and Neia nervously behind him.

Bakugou was blunt to the point, "This pathetic wimp is my new sidekick and I need her in actual armor so she won't die instantly, so you're going to show me what you got."

"Sounds good, I don't know what a sidekick is, but I can get her the best armor I can find." the smith enthusiastically says.

"Make sure it's light armor, nothing too heavy." Bakugou requested

Though Neia was a little confused, "Why not heavy armor Sir Bakugou? Shouldn't I be wearing the armor with the best defense?"

"Heavy armor is going to slow you down. I need your ass to keep up with me since your going to be my main attacker. Besides I'm going to be your main defense, as long as you follow orders and don't have a thick skull you're not going to need any thick armor with it." Bakugou rudely answers her.

The blacksmith then showed off multiple sets of light armor for her size, Bakugou wasn't impressed by most of it finding their stats inadequate

After looking through multiple sets Bakugou finally just brought out the spider silk to the smith, "Say I'm curious, will this stuff help make her strong light armor? Bakugou asked the smith.

"Spider silk? Yes definitely, light and strong as steel perfect for light armor especially if I add some magic to it, for it to be custom made though it might take about an hour or so, but I can use this and forge strong but light armor for your girlfriend."

"SHE IS NOT MY DAMN GIRLFRIEND IDIOT! SHES MY SIDEKICK!" Bakugou yells at him.

"Ok Ok sorry. Now let me get this armor made already before I lose my sense of hearing." he jokes as he rubs his ears and goes toward the back to make the armor.

While the smith was busy Bakugou and Neia went to sell off all of his loot to the various merchants, the monster corpses, and the bandit's weapons, armor, and regular clothing.

None of the merchants would argue against Bakugou after he threatened them before and wouldn't go against him now.

As they were walking Neia tries to strike a conversation with Bakugou, "Um so... I guess I should at least give you my name if we're going to be partners together. I am..."

"Neia, I know already, my status magic showed me. And we are not "partners" here that would mean you are my equal which you're not even remotely close, your pathetic right now, but I'm going make you into something soon enough." Bakugou says to her.

"Well ok, but It's still nice of you to train me Sir Bakogou, actually giving me a chance. My family never had much fate in me, saw me as a dead end."

Despite not being a person for small talk Bakugou figure he might as well learn more of this world from the girl, "So blue face, how much do you know about the area around here?"

"Well Sir Bakugou to be completely honest with you, I have absolutely no clue, I'm new to the surf... this country, I don't know much about the magic or technology of it either."

"Great so you are a lot more useless then I expected," Bakugou says out loud, he wasn't sure how one person who's been in this world for most of her life could know hardly anything in it.

Neia tries to think of something, "Well I'm not completely useless. I... I can breathe underwater without any equipment, that's something right?"

"Sure, if I decided to throw you into a lake, you would be useful for once." Bakugou sarcastically says to Neia mocking her.

But as she continues to act nervously around Bakugou afraid of saying the wrong thing to him, she lowered her hood down to scratch the back of her head. Bakugou finally got a good look at her and something caught his attention.

Neia definitely wasn't human, but she didn't resemble any demi-human either, nothing remotely looks animal about her nor did she resemble any animal species like a dog, cat, raccoon or anything. She had completely light blue skin with some black tattoo pattern marks not resembling anything and had long black hair. What was the biggest eye-grabber though was her ears, they were pointy and knife-shaped. From all of the fantasy stuff Bakugou had watched or played he knew what she resembled, an elf.

It sparked Bakugou's curiosity, despite all of the fantasy tropes this world has he noticed it lacked any elf's, no regular citizens, no nation, no tribe, no civilization, no rival empire, or anything from what the locals had told him on his second day here and what he looked around in this world.

Bakugou wanted to know more now, "Let me get this over with kid, are you an elf?" Bakugou asked her to get straight to the point.

Neia looked nervous to say anything but eventually spoke, "Well... Uh... yes, yes I am. My people are the Aquileia Eilva or translated into your language the water elves."

He asked a more personal question to her, "So where are they at and why exactly were you exiled by them? You hardly seem like a threat to anyone."

"Neia twirled her fingers around nervously, "I... I really don't want to talk about it, let's just say I've done something to make everyone very mad at me and leave it like that. And to where my people are at, well... well... let's just say it's not marked on any map." she answers

"Can you be more specific?" Bakugou demanded

"Well we were driven off the continent by the humans and demi-humans long ago over a thousand years, but we still exist, we are just in a... different ecosystem right now away from the mainlands or islands surrounding the continent. We are pretty isolated." Neia answers, he could tell she was clearly holding more information then she was letting on, but Bakugou decided to not press it further not caring about irrelevant information.

Bakugou just shrugs it off, "Whatever, as long you're not some psychopath serial killer I don't give a rats ass what you did before, who you are, or where you are from before, from here on out I'm going to mold you into who I want you to be."

Neia was happy to hear that, despite all of the insults Bakugou throws at her, he was one of the only people who actually gave her a chance and was honored by him.

After selling off the loot for 500 silver about an hour passed Bakugou and Neia went back to the smith's shop.

Bakugou went up to the counter to yell, "Hey baldy where's my damn armor!?"

"Hold on hold on, hold your horses I've just finished it up." the smith says as he drops off the armor on the table, "Here you go, your custom-made spider silk light armor. Should fit the lady perfectly fine."

"Alright, blue put the armor on." Bakugou orders.

Neia nods and proceeds to undo her robe.

"NOT HERE IDIOT! In a damn changing room!" he yells at her.

"Sorry Sir Bakugou, I just took your order literally," she says as she grabs the armor and runs into a changing room.

Bakugou just sighs to himself, "This is going to be harder than I thought."

The smith decided to have some small talk with Bakugou while Neia changed, "So where did you get your girl at?"

"Saved her from a bunch of rapists in the woods, though I don't see how that's any of your business baldy." Bakugou rudely answers

"I have a name you know, its Erhard." the smith says to him.

"Whatever baldy, though I guess I might as well ask you this, do you know anything about elves?" Bakugou asked if he can get any more information out of this.

"Elves? I don't know much about their culture and stuff, but I knew they use to be a thing over a thousand years ago, heard they excelled greatly in magical technology." Erhard answered

"What do you mean "use to be" a thing?" Bakugou asked

Erhard gives his answer, "I don't know the exact details or the politics behind it but I knew they were wiped out to extinction after a big war with us humans and demi-humans at that time ago. Hey wait a minute don't tell me that girl, is she..."

But Bakugou interrupts him, "Forget it, it doesn't matter who she is. I just want a second-hand source on it." Bakugou answers, at least he knew now that the girl wasn't lying with Erhard's claim matching up with hers with some stuff meddled in their histories. There's more to this then neither of them were letting on, but Bakugou will have to figure it out some other time, right now all that matter was to make her a competent hero.

"Alright I won't bring it up to her, I just hope you're not being too harsh on the poor girl, sounds like she's been through a lot," A concern Erhard says to Bakugou which he remained silent, he knew what he was doing was harsh, but he's helping her to know the reality of things and the only way she will get anything out this world is if she learns that she has to harden herself to get anywhere.

After a minute passes Neia finally comes out in her new armor, it is green and leathery-looking, with a spiderweb-like pattern decorating the armor with the lower half looking somewhat like a skirt. Now out of the robes it gave Bakugou and the smith Erhard a clearer look at her. Neia had bright purplish-blue eyes, her skin was indeed completely blue it also showed off some of her black tattoo markings over her arms and neck, with her elf ears more on display, "So what do you all think?" she asked.

"I say you're a fine warrior, perfect armor for a hero. Don't you think so Shield Hero?" the smith compliments her.

Bakugou uses his status screen to overlook the girl's default stats before and after the armor, before the armor she was pretty pathetic in everything but in attack that was four times as high as Bakugou's to his displeasure, though 4 times 1 is nothing to brag home about. But thankfully the new armor has also boosted all her stats times three so it was amazing armor but Bakugou still has a lot to do to make her be even remotely competent, "It'll do, let's just buy it already." he bluntly says with her walking back toward him with her old clothes as well.

Erhard quickly spoke up, "So I'm guessing she's going to need a weapon to go with that armor?"

"No, I've already got her one. She can use this." Bakugou responds and gives Neia the bag with the weapon since Bakugou can't hold it himself. Neia takes it out and it was a Katana blade.

"Where did you get this Sir Bakugou?" she asked

"It was the best weapon those bandits had; they aren't going to need it anymore so you might as well use it. And don't you break that thing or I'm going to make you work for it." Bakugou answers, specifically it was the other katana that their most powerful bandit had with the other breaking by his shield.

"Alright then for a heroes discount and a warm welcome to our elven friend it will cost you about 700 silvers." the smith says.

"Seems pricey, how about..."

"Don't give that crap again! It's 700 silver period, no more or less." Erhard interrupts Bakugou not wanting to haggle again.

"Ok fine." Bakugou shrugs and paid the armor, he had at least 1,400 silver left including the money from the loot he sold so he's hoping this girl will be worth the investment.

After that, Bakugou teleported them to a different part of the forest to rest for the night, Bakugou was ready to start his pet project as soon as dawn breaks so they both needed as much rest as possible.

Bakugou started a fire and he and Neia had dinner from some of the corpses Bakugou killed. Afterward they head off for bed with the fire kept on to drive away any monsters for the night.

Neia goes inside her sleeping bag Bakugou had to buy for her as she attempts to sleep, it didn't seem much for the young elf, but it was better than sleeping on the dirt ground.

Though Neia still had so much to say, "Sir Bakugou, not that I'm complaining but why do we have to sleep out here in the woods rather than just at an inn?"

"Inn's cost money, and besides you need to learn how to survive out in the wilderness on your own, there won't always be a cozy inn to sleep at all the time, so you need to learn to adapt. Now just go to sleep already." Bakugou explains as he turns his body away from the bright campfire.

But Neia had more to say, "Sir Bakugou, I just want to thank you again for taking me in. Everyone has always written me off and expect nothing out of me. But you have given me a chance to prove myself, you may not act like it but you are still a kind man Sir Bakugou regardless of what some people might say." She thanks Bakugou who was just tired.

"Yeah yeah, whatever just go to sleep already." Bakugou yawns

But Neia continued, "Well I don't know about you but I'm excited for tomorrow being able to fight monsters and to save lives as you did for me and so much more."

"Uhhh... Would you shut it already!?" An increasingly frustrated Bakugou demanded.

"Well it's just amazing, I don't think I would ever have this kind of day where fate gave me mercy and to be so much more then I could ever..."

"WILL YOU GOD DAMN GO TO BED ALREADY!" Bakugou yells as he moves further away from the fire and covers his ears.

Neia finally stopped and went to bed herself to soon start her first day of hero training.

"Alright! Get up now!" Bakugou shouts right above his sleeping sidekick

Neia barely woke up, "Sir Bakugou the sun is barely out don't you think it's a little..."

"I told you no complaining! Stand up straight maggot!" Bakugou orders Neia.

She immediately jumped out and stood straight up now alive and alert as the shield hero wanted, "Sorry sir Bakugou I just...

"I don't give any damns who you are sorry for! Today is the beginning of me training you to be something because right now you're a weak baby! For now on from dawn to dusk I will train you until your throwing up! Like I told you before you will do as I say and do it well, you got that!?" Bakugou barks at Neia like an army commander making her nervously sweat.

" Of...Of course Sir Bak..."

"I don't want that crap! I want you to refer to me just as Sir for now on, so you will answer me sir yes sir! Got it!?" Bakugou interrupts.

"Uh... Sir yes Sir!" Neia quickly responded

Bakugou then smirks, "Good! Now give me 100 push-ups!" he ordered.

This surprised Neia, "A hundred!? Sir but that..."

"I TOLD YOU I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY COMPLAINTS! If you can't endure 100 push-ups, how in the hell are you going to endure a monster attack, so do me a hundred or no breakfast!" Bakugou orders her.

"Sir yes Sir!" Neia responded and went to do her hundred push-ups though it wasn't pretty, her form was sloppy and she was already getting exhausted by only the 20th push-up.

"We will be doing this two times a day every day until your use to it, as well as adding another 25 each time," Bakugou says.

"25 extra! But Sir..."

"I TOLD YOU NO COMPLAINING! THAT'S ANOTHER 50 RIGHT THERE!" Bakugou yells at her. Not saying another word she continues her 150 push-ups.

After that and breakfast Bakugou continued to make her do more various exercises which involved more physical activities including 5 mile long runs around an open meadow, eventually along the way they came across a wide but shallow river that had a couple of rock platforms across it.

"Are we going around it Sir?" Neia asked.

"There isn't going to be an easy way out of every situation maggot, to cross." Bakugou says but before he could finished he starts jumping across the many rocks without touching the water without using his quirk until he was on the other side, "Your going to have to work to get there." Bakugou finished.

Neia was slowly moving on some of the rocks as she tries to be careful not to fall, but Bakugou had low patience, "Faster! Faster idiot faster monsters are not going to wait for you to be careful you need to act now!" he yells at her putting a lot of pressure as she struggles to get across some of the smaller rocks.

But she eventually trips and falls into the shallow water.

Bakugou just shook his head and told her, "Let's just keep going.", Neia was sad and disappointed thinking she failed her masters first test, but she gets out of the water now wet and continued following him with their long jog.

They eventually went near a wooden part of the area with a lot of large fallen trees where Bakugou casually jumps over them quickly and without effort, but Neia struggled to climb over one as Bakugou waited for her to go over the dozen fallen trees and refused to let her go around, "You need to be more flexible with your obstacles or you're going to be slaughtered! Go over faster!" he barked at her.

After that the last obstacle he had her do was to run up and climb a steep 15-foot tall hill cliff with rocks sticking out to climb up, Bakugou of course showed her and done it without his quirk.

And as before Neia struggled to get herself up and even fell off the cliff hill a few times with Bakugou laying on a shaded part of a tree on top of the hill as he waits for her.

After many more tries, Neia finally got up, tired and exhausted from all of the exercises and running for so long.

Bakugou had been giving her a bunch of stamina potions for her to keep up, so no matter how tired she got Bakugou would force her to take another restore non-addictive stamina potion he crafted himself to keep her going.

Bakugou then sets her up another exercise, "Ok this will be simple for you since your going to be dealing with a weapon for now on, I want you to get used to it. So I want you to swing your blade 1000 times, 500 times one-handed, 500 times two-handed, got that?"

Neia was still breathing heavily but she was glad to have what seemed like a simple task, "Yes sir." she answered as she brings out her sword to swing it, "one two three four five six."

And while she has been doing this exercise Bakugou sits down and attempts to learn this world's written language starting with learning their alphabet for him to be able to read the books he's acquired.

After a long period of time Neia eventually finishes swinging nearly out of breath, "996, 997, 998, 999, 1000...uhhhhhhhgggggg" she finishes counting as she falls back to the ground exhausted.

Bakugou noticed and starts his next lesson with her, "Now it's time for you to fight a moving target. Queen balloon shield!" Bakugou shouts with his shield now resembling a face of a balloon monster with a large mouth open. When he activates it, the mouth spits out a real living balloon monster. Neia witnesses it as she gets herself back up thinking she's ready for action.

Bakugou speaks up again, "Ok wimp listen up, you're going to be fighting this thing and you're going to do everything you can to kill it and do it as fast as possible. Now go!" Bakugou orders as he throws the balloon towards her.

Neia held her sword confidently thinking it was going to be easy, but it turned out it wasn't as the balloon jumps around all over the place with her clumsily missing it by swinging wildly at it. It eventually attacked and bit on her hip, Neia panics as she punches at the balloon, "Ahhhh, Sir! Sir! Help! Get it off! Get it off!" she screams.

"Relax your armor prevents you from feeling any damage from its low attack. Just kill the damn thing already." Bakugou casually says as he continues to study the writing of this world.

After a few minutes, Neia continues to lunge and swing around to kill the balloon but it was hard for her at her state. But eventually, she finally hits and kills the thing, "Yes yes I did it! Sir I finally killed it!" Neia cheers thinking she accomplished something big.

"Pathetic." Bakugou bluntly says ruining Neia's cheering, "Do you think that's going to make you into a great hero? If it takes you that god damn long to kill a thing that low level, then you have no chance in surviving against actual threats. I expect you to kill these things without any trouble. Not only did it take you 5 damn minutes to kill one, but you also allowed yourself to get bitten by it multiple times. If it was a real enemy, you would be dead and I'm not going to have you be a liability."

Bakugou continues giving her more instructions, "For now on if you fail to kill the monster in less than 5 seconds you're going to have to do another thousand swings with your sword to get used to your swinging and if you get bitten even once by it you're going to have to run the 5-mile lap again that we did before to increase your endurance and flexibility, this includes going through the river, the logs, and this cliff again. And if both happen you're doing both exercises. Got it?"

Neia was horrified to hear that, "Both!? But Sir..."

"DON'T YOU DARE BUT ME! Do you want me to double it!" Bakugou yells at her as she shakes her head without saying a word, "THEN GET GOING!" he orders with Neia doing her 5-mile run again and afterward her 1000 swings to try to kill the balloon again.

Bakugou now had her on a routine so now all he had to do while she trains was to sit down and study and learn more skills under that tree while occasionally checking on her if she tries to take short cuts or to slack off.

This went on for the rest of the day all with Neia doing her running and swinging excersizes, then she fights a balloon again afterward, but she would always fail to not get hit or kill it quickly she be forced to do the exercises again and again. It was hard on the girl especially since she can't even collapse from exhaustion with Bakugou's stamina potions. It was extremely hard, anyone else would've quitted a while ago, but despite Bakugou's harshness she knew deep down he is doing what is best for her, and she knew she wasn't going to fail herself again and pressed on harder and harder than before.

With each failure she got better and better, being able to run faster, skip across the river more easily and not fall as much, jump over the logs with more ease and quicker, and having less struggle in climbing up the cliff. She had been able to kill a balloon faster than before and dodging their attacks more often. After many hours of intense exercise and training, she was finally able to not only kill a balloon in less than five seconds but to do it without getting bitten by it, "I did it, I did it Sir, I killed it in 5 seconds."

Bakugou noticed and smirked, "Good, now do it again but this time with 10 at the same time and in 15 seconds." he orders immediately ruining Neia's mood.

"Te..ten?" she says with Bakugou's shield spitting out 10 more balloon monsters for her to train.

"And if you fail, this time you're still going to do 1000 swings and run the same 5 miles, but this time you will have 50-pound weights on you." Bakugou orders horrifying Neia as she pouts and falls in exhaustion.

This continued for the rest of the day until it was pitch black at night. After her evening push-ups, Neia immediately went to bed from all the exercise that day.

Bakugou finally finished memorizing the alphabet and knowing a few words, he now understands how the writing works. For an experiment he wrote his first and last name in this worlds written language on a piece of paper and soon after puts it in his shield which glows and reads *Language translated: gain passive ability to read this language. *

Bakugou activates his grimoire shield and after looking at the pages, the language magically transformed into Japanese kanji, Bakugou can now read from it and any other book or sign for now on. He spent a large amount of the night reading the book before he finally had enough and went to bed.

A large amount of the next 6 days was the same as before, Neia had to do her morning push-ups and then had to do her test with the ten balloons and exercise in her failure to do so. And at the meantime, Bakugou was learning more about magic and has already experimented on some of his new spells and abilities he learned from it. For curiosity's sake, he uses his crystal ball shield to see what magic potential Neia has. According to the magic ball, she has affinities for water and electricity magic as well as some minor healing potential.

Bakugou was also testing out his quirk, he wasn't 100% sure why but it seemed like the more he has used it out here the more different it felt. It seemed like the more he leveled up the less drawback and pressure he gets from firing a blast from the giant explosions he makes. It's not remotely a bad thing, it means that he can use his quirk more often then he could before, though he still found it weird to get used to, but as long as his quirk still fires that is all that mattered to Bakugou and he's saving a few big ones once he gets his chance to see the King, Motoyasu, Itsuki, Ren, and especially Malty again.

As Neia continued to do Bakugou's harsh training, he also spent his time learning more mundane but useful things that could be used for later. After a lot of experimenting, he started to learn how to create regular medicine from his shield after inserting some medical plants and with his medical shields and some tips from the herbalist, while Bakugou already learned how to craft various potions including HP and stamina ones, he can now craft regular medicine for normal Illnesses, while useful he originally wanted to learn it just so he can use it as mouthwash to kill off Bacteria in his mouth since toothpaste is none existent in this world and he had no intention of coming back to his homeworld with cavities.

By the morning of the 7th day, Neia despite her original state was now able to do Bakugou's exercises without any problem even with weights, she was used to her sword by now one and two-handed, she can run 5 miles with weight without resting, she can skip across the river like nothing, jump over the logs with ease, and can climb the cliff in only a few seconds. And finally, she can now kill 10 balloons in just 15 seconds and not get hit by them.

This quite surprised Bakugou. He knew his training would bring in results, but for the girl to do it in about than a week somewhat gave him pride that he now had his own Deku. From some of the shields he looked over, he has read the status effects on all of them and it seemed that some of the magic of shields he had unlocked had help Neia build-up being able to get months' worth of training in a week, the constant use of stamina potions also helped out.

Her body also got a little more muscular then before with thicker arms and legs developed from her muscles, with even some minor abs developing. Exactly like how Deku changed from his months of training.

Bakugou knew she still had a lot to go, but he had enough of sitting around and just learning things, she now was ready to fight and it was time for her and him to level up again.

Bakugou turns toward her after her final victory, "Good, it looks like your ass is not completely useless anymore. But playtime is over now, it's time we fight real monsters, and have you become a real hero."

He announces to her as she bows in gratitude, "Thank you so much Sir. Thank you so much for giving me a chance."

Bakugou grins with pride, "Alright then it's time we get off our asses and get you to level up finally. There are some caves nearby with good monsters to kill. And remember, follow my every order."

"Yes Sir!" she responded as they head out.

After 4 days things were starting to pick up, with Neia following Bakugou's orders, she started to fight bigger and stronger monsters. No longer did she struggle with fighting balloons. She can now kill mad badgers, rabid wolves, giant spiders, and even killer mushrooms without much struggle.

Bakugou still barked orders at her and criticize anything she did wrong but Neia continued to remain obedient to Bakugou and followed any order he gave. In just four days she had reached level 20, with Bakugou at level 33 now.

At day they were grinding monsters, at night she and Bakigou were studying from various training books. Bakugou's shield also gave a passive ability for his partners to read the language of this world as well. So he gave her a sword move and ability book he found in one dungeon for her to study and train and he made sure she read it or he would explode at her if she tries to skim through any of it.

Bakugou had also helped her learn some magic, though so far the only thing she has been able to learn was an electric shock ability in which when she is in contact with something she can release a huge electric charge to not only partially damage her opponent but can possibly stun them as well at the expense of almost all of her MP. It reminded him of Kaminari's quirk back at U.A only this wouldn't make her lose what intelligence she had when she uses it.

Bakugou had also gained new shield abilities including something called an airstrike shield which makes a large green energy shield appear in anyplace he sees both for defense and to jump on as a platform.

The only contention with Bakugou toward Neia is her being unable to act near giant opponents, no matter how much he yelled at her or barked orders whenever there is an enemy larger than anything then herself she startles and panics.

Like in one instance they were fighting a group of mad knee high sized forest rats with disease-ridden bites. Both Bakugou and Neia took care of them easily with Neia hardly having any problem with them, but as they were fighting them a giant cat-like monster comes out of the trees to attack them.

It was far bigger than the rats over 3 times bigger than a tiger in Bakugou's world with razor sharp claws and teeth.

Bakugou yells out, "Blue, jump over that fat cat and stab it in the back!"

Neia heard what Bakugou said, but she was too terrified of the beast to even get close to it. She instantly forgot what she was supposed to do and just ran away from it with it now chasing her.

Bakugou face palms himself and used his quirk to catch up with the two.

When Neia trips the cat pounced toward her only for Bakugou to shout "Airstrike shield!", creating a green shield right above Neia with the cat landing on it as the monster attempts to scratch at the shield.

But Bakugou finally gets on top of the cat and as it tries to shake him off, Bakugou finally placed his hand on the monster's neck and blasted right through it killing it instantly.

He collected the pieces of the giant rats and the cat, first, he gained *Wood Rat shield passive increase resistance to disease by 15%.* and then *Bandersnatch shield passive increase resistance to bleed out by 5%*

Neia gets back up as she looks at an angry Bakugou, "What the hell did I say to you about following orders!?" he raises his voice to her.

"But sir I just..."

"Don't give me excuses! I expect discipline from you! Drop and give me 300 push-ups! Now!"

"Yes Sir!" and Neia without question proceeds to do what Bakugou ordered.

He may have hardened her a bit, but she was still a young woman in a mostly alien world to her. So she had a long way to go.

Bakugou knew that this kind of cowardliness couldn't go on forever if he wants her to not stagnate and hold him back, he needed her to fight bigger monsters more often.

He remembers from his investigation on his second day here that there was a building that provided different quests for a variety of things and gain rewards from doing them. He may be hated by the entire city, but they couldn't stop him from taking any quests and he knew a few of them had to involve fighting giant monsters.

It seemed perfect for him, he can gain both extra money and prestige for completing these quests and he can get Neia to train her better to not be afraid of fighting larger monsters.

He can kill two birds with one stone and after thinking about it some more he was now fully committed to the idea.

He looks down at his sidekick, "Listen here baby, we are going to be for now on be doing quests and these quests will involve fighting giant monsters. I didn't train you for nothing, so you better get used to fighting those bigger than you." Bakugou then sinisterly smiles, "Or they're going to chew you up into bones." he finishes

Neia knew now that her master was pulling no more punches and had her committed to be an active member of these quests, whether she was ready for them or not.

The day after that, Bakugou finally began to apply for quests. Most of the quests were just to kill specific monsters for certain clients but it was all he could apply for since no one wanted any other help from a supposed rapist.

Bakugou and Neia would do the quests to kill the specific monsters and get rewarded for it. Though it continued to be a mix bag for Neia while she continues to kill the small or medium size fodder, she can't hold the courage to go after anything a little bit taller than her.

No matter how many times Bakugou would punish her with a hard exercise her fear was greater than her pride.

Bakugou just continues to sigh as the two do this for two days.

By the 3rd day, Bakugou had signed up for a big quest. From what he read from the flyer and the quest giver when he met up with him, the situation is that the quest giver is a wealthy general store owner but also a sheep farmer who's store and farm were currently a bit away from a small town called Lute, but lately many of his sheep had gone missing, some assumed they just got lost but it was eventually found out that a small group of 10-foot tall trolls had been kidnapping the sheep early in the morning and take them away to a local swamp. They aren't sure what the trolls were doing with them and anyone who had gone to follow the trolls never came back, but the farmer didn't care why he just wanted them killed off and to save whatever sheep is left for 500 silver.

Bakugou and Neia travel into the swamp following the giant footprints to their targets.

Neia was getting nervous by all of this, "Are you sure we are up to this Sir, I mean to fight something this big. Don't you think..."

"Quit your damn whining! I didn't train you to have you cower away from danger, you need to suck it up and don't allow size or level numbers affect your state of mind." Bakugou barks to Neia.

Neia twirls her fingers nervous around feeling that she has been disappointing Bakugou lately and feared that he might've had enough of her and would throw her away just like her people had done before, she tried to talk to him, "Sir, I just wanted to say..."

"Shhhh... be quiet and crouch down," Bakugou whispered to her as she quickly followed suit, they both hear some noise that sounded like chanting and from the sound of it some drums playing.

The two slowly walked through the wet swampy ground as they move toward a large bush where they peak over to see what it was.

Turns out the noise is from the giant trolls that were there after all. They were giant 10-foot tall greenish gray monsters with big red eyes, large pointy ears, rough dirty skin that looked hard as stone, had a foul odor around them, and they were wearing what resembled Native American tribal clothing with one beating on two large drums.

There were 8 of them, it looked like they were dancing around doing some sort of ceremony. They were next to a large lake and by its shore was a pen of the stolen sheep.

Neia was curious of it, "What do you think they are doing Bakugou?"

"Who the hell cares what these ugly bastards are doing, they will be dead soon anyway," Bakugou answers as well as thinking up a plan to kill off the trolls.

But as he was thinking they both saw some bubbles coming out of the lake with the trolls getting more excited as they chant louder than before with the one with the drums playing even harder.

Whatever was down there finally came up. It was a giant bluish-green water serpent with some small red frills on the top of its head that towered over the trolls over 30ft tall with the rest of its body still in the water as the lake monster looks down at the sheep.

The serpent lowers its head down to smell the sheep with its tongue showing off rows of sharp teeth. A helpless sheep just stand there in the pen knowing it can do nothing, the serpent finally launches its snake tongue around the sheep threw it up in the air and ate it whole. The trolls cheered and continued their dance of celebration as the serpent continues to eat the many other sheep in the pen one by one.

Neia was growing more and more nervous not knowing what she would be able to do against giant trolls, let alone a giant serpent that the trolls seem to be worshiping.

But Bakugou finally had a plan, "Ok blue listen closely, I'll use airstrike shield and jump attack the fat bastard with the drums, this will shock and surprise the rest of the ugly bastards, while they are distracted and are looking toward me you will attack the closest one from behind and kill it. Go for the head, their skin doesn't look as thick up there so one good stab there should do it. After that the six left will try to attack me, I'll keep the majority distracted while you continue to kill them off one by one from behind until they are all dead. Hopefully, that giant snake thing will be to occupied by eating sheep, but once the trolls are dealt with, I'll get the giant snake thing to attack me while you get to its side and use your shock attack on its neck and while it's disabled I'll blow that slippery bastard's head up. You got that?"

Neia didn't say a word but just shakes her head yes in agreement.

Bakugou grins and sets himself up, "Good, in a count of three, we'll strike now. Ok, one... Two... THREE!" and Bakugou rushes out and uses his airstrike shield to jump on then with quick precision he emits a big explosion right on the drum playing troll, blowing his head off killing it instantly that got the others attention.

Neia knew that was her cue and goes to attack the closest distracted troll from behind. But as she was running towards it, she stopped as she looks horrified by how big the troll was up close and lost sight of Bakugou's plan. Things go array when the troll turns its head noticing her from behind and attempts to smash her with a giant club.

Neia didn't know what to do anymore but to run from it while Bakugou had the other six following him trying to smash him, "What the hell are you doing idiot!? Kill the fat bastard already!" he yells at her as he used his shield to block the trolls strong attacks as well as using his quirk to blast at them, but their torso skin was so thick that their HP barely went down from the blasts. He knew he needed to aim for their heads to kill them quickly. He managed to kill one that got too close, but the others were keeping their distance to attempt to kill Bakugou.

Neia continues to run and dodge away from her troll not having the courage to attack it despite Bakugou's orders.

She became so distracted from her fear of the troll another one left Bakugou's group and runs up to Neia and backhands her with the force of it sending Neia into the sheep pen right in front of the serpent.

While initially shocking the serpent as she lands on top of the sheep. The giant slimy monster lowered itself down to smell her, and quickly saw her as something good to eat. It quickly attempts to chomp at her, but she managed to quickly dodge away as it smashes it's face on the ground. Neia got up and runs to safety as the serpent immediately tried to lunge at her again but Bakugou activates his air strike shield behind her in time to save Neia.

Bakugou was getting pissed off of how badly this plan had failed; he finally used his airstrike again to jump away from the troll group and along the way he blasts one troll's head off from the air killing it instantly.

He sprints toward Neia as she runs away in fear of the two trolls going after her again, Bakugou jumps up with his quirk and got on top one of the distracted trolls as he blasts it through the neck quickly killing it.

The other troll had cornered Neia and was ready to smash her with his club, only for his head to suddenly explode. As it falls forward dead Bakugou was up standing on its back, he looks toward Neia with her seeing Bakugou's extremely angry face with him not even saying a word to her.

The three trolls that were left started running up toward Bakugou and Neia until he launches a magic attack, the spell creates a hole in the ground with the two of the three trolls falling into it. Stuck and unable to get out of it, Bakugou runs up and quickly blasts at the two helpless trolls in the head leaving only one left.

The last one was the biggest troll most likely the chief as he tried to hold his ground, it was smarter than the other ones, so it didn't blindly attack Bakugou with him ready to make his move with the monster.

The troll chief swings his club at Bakugou as he uses his shield to block every attack as the troll tried its best to tire out Bakugou, but he wasn't at all getting tired from this as he uses his explosions near the troll to damage its health.

The troll finally lost his patience and finally charged at Bakugou but suddenly,

*Chomp!*

the Serpent finally lunged down chopped on the giant troll and proceeded to swallow it whole.

It then set its eyes on Bakugou, seeing him as a meal as well. Bakugou readies his shield, and the serpent lunges at him with Bakugou using his quirk to jump away and landed on the large monsters neck, the serpent turns to attempt to bite Bakugou but his use of the airstrike shield stopped the monster as he jumps off.

The serpent finally used its long-range attack, poison acid that it spits and sprays at Bakugou. Despite blocking most of it with the shield, some of the acid was getting on and burning him a bit, but thankfully his defense makes it manageable as he continues to dodge around and block the beast's attacks.

Bakugou finally came up with a risky but sound plan. After some more acrobatic jumping and blocking he finally just stops and stands there with the serpent waiting for something to happen, but Bakugou continued to stand there as he was waiting to collect sweat in his palms.

The serpent finally attacks again without Bakugou moving and with all the sweat he collected he blasted a big explosion right inside the serpent's mouth completely blowing its head up.

The headless serpent after some squirming finally falls to the ground now dead. Though Bakugou found something weird. Despite clearly killing it, he received no experience points from it, despite getting a bunch from the trolls.

But that was the last thing on his mind right now as he looks back at his sidekick who just came back out from hiding.

Bakugou was extremely mad at her as he grits his teeth. He finally stumps his way to her.

Neia attempts to calm him down, "Look Sir I..."

"Don't you god damn Sir me! I gave you an order! I told you about the plan! And all you did was be a liability to me! I wasted a damn week of my time to get you active! And this is what I get out of you!? A DAMN COWARD CRYBABY!" he yells at her, though this was more than typical Bakugou yelling, this was yelling coming from his personal disappointment of her.

Neia could barely hold back her tears as she tries to talk, "I'm... I'm sorry, it's just... it's just... I'm not like you sir, I just... I can't embrace danger like you. I didn't want to die. I tried and tried again but I can't be a real hero like you, I... I just can't. I'm... I'm sorry." and with that she starts crying in front of Bakugou letting all of her emotions out.

Bakugou was still mad at her, he finally looked away and spoke again, "I knew you were hopeless. Just go back to that fat farmer, and... and... Just go to him already!" he yells as he turns away toward the dead trolls and to free the sheep and collect whatever the trolls had.

Neia was unable to say another word as she was in tears. She turns and slowly walks away in shame. She was given a new chance of shaping her life with the man that saved hers and she completely blew it by not having the courage to fight with her master. She thinks that once he gets back to the quest giver, he would truly kick her off his party and abandon her or worst sell her off to slavery to make up the wasted money he spent on her. But she knew inside that Bakugou would never do that, however it seemed hopeless for her, she figures she was never meant to be a hero and she doesn't deserve to ever be treated like one.

Back with Bakugou he moved toward the troll corpses and inserted a part of them into his shield which says, *Skill unlocked: swamp troll shield, passive acid resistance increased by 10%* he then looked back at Neia and sees her in shame.

But as he was walking to free the sheep, he talks to himself trying to justify his actions despite feeling a little upset over it, "What the hell is wrong with me!? Why am I feeling guilty over this!? That baby refused to fight and if she can't keep up with me then I don't see why I should even bother with her anymore?"

But as he thinks deeper into this all he could think of is Deku and All Might. He knew Deku was always a baby and he imagined he cried multiple times with All Might during his training. But despite that, All Might never gave up on him and he turned that very baby to his true rival in U.A., "How am I supposed to be a better hero then All might if I can't even be a proper trainer like him. DAMN IT!" he shouts as he lets out a large explosion near the lake that frightened the sheep.

As he opens the pen the sheep run out knowing the way back to their own farm. Bakugou looks back at Neia one more time as she finally stopped walking and started to cry next to a tree. Bakugou's guilt continues to rise as he sees himself more of a failure than his own sidekick. In a way who's more to blame, the student or the master that didn't have the patience for his student. Bakugou just sits down as he rubs his head thinking.

After some time, he just sighs to himself, "This is stupid, but I'm going to have to just talk with the stupid cry baby and see if I can..."

But Bakugou is interrupted when he sees bubbles coming out of the water making him get up and walk away from the lake. Suddenly a new identical serpent came out of the water, but it wasn't by itself as yet another identical Serpent came out next to it.

"Great! You damn slimy asses ruined the damn moment! I'll be giving you the same treatment as your headless corpse of a friend!" he yells at the serpents.

The serpents then both shoot acid at Bakugou, "Swamp troll shield!" he yells and his shield turns into a large rock solid shield that resembles a troll face with it taking the full force of the acid, it seemed the trolls we're able to tolerate the acid blasts from these things that got inherited into his shield.

The serpents then tried to repeatedly lunge and strike at Bakugou attempting to chew him up, but the young heroes quirk allowed him to dodge every attack as well as giving them a good strike near their eyes keeping his distance away from their reach.

The serpents became more aggressive as they smash their heads on the ground attempting to squish their prey.

But Bakugou knew how to easily kill them as he did with the other serpent.

He baits one head into lunging its head to the ground letting it get stuck for a few seconds and allows the other serpent to attempt to eat him whole, but just as before Bakugou emits a huge explosion right inside the monster blowing its head up killing it like he did the other one.

When the other serpent gets its teeth out of the ground it lunges at Bakugou but the hero jumps out of the way and lands on top of its head. As the monster tries to shake him off Bakugou puts both of his hands on the lower part of its neck and after another explosion completely blows the head off its neck.

The dead monster squirms and then falls flat on the ground.

Bakugou felt pumped up after the exciting battle, but he then quickly noticed something off again. He earned no XP from the kills just like the other serpent, "What the hell is this bullcrap! How do none of these things provide no..."

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWRRRRRR!" A loud screech comes out of nowhere interrupting Bakugou and alerting Neia as she looks behind from a tree. They both turned to the source of it, underwater in the lake.

And to his horrid surprise it was even more serpents just as the ones he fought before, but this time there were six of them as they arise out one by one out of the water.

Bakugou jumps back out of there reach, "What the hell is this!? Is this some monster family picnic or something!" Bakugou yells as he ready himself again. But then he heard a strange noise from his sides and to his surprise quickly sees that the three dead headless serpents we're now moving again, and they soon rose toward the other alive ones. The severed necks then split into two by themselves and by the looks of it they were regenerating themselves back up as two separate necks.

Neither Bakugou nor Neia from afar knew what was happening at first, but the answer became clear once they saw a large clawed reptilian foot coming out of the lake shore.

As another clawed foot comes out, it became apparent what this really was. As a giant body rises out of the lake it turned out that these are not separate creatures, but they were all heads attached to a giant reptilian body with a long tail.

As the giant monster comes out of the water, those separate headless necks had finally fully regrown back as regular heads again with not just the ones that Bakugou killed before also from the new necks. What started as a beast with 9 heads had now become one with 12 heads.

Bakugou in horror knew what he had unleashed, "These... These are not serpents! It's... it's a God damn Hydra!"

"RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRR!", the giant monster finally shrieks loudly across the swamp,

Bakugou had heard of such a monster from playing games about Greek mythology in middle school. He knew that cutting off one head would only make two more grow back and his actions had just given the monster more heads to deal with, "Why the hell didn't I think of this through?! How could've I not notice why these things we're completely submerged or why I was getting no XP from the kills! IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT!" He yells and hits himself in anger.

But he had to refocus himself as the Hydra was finally ready to attack. All at once the twelve heads lunges at Bakugou, "Airstrike shield!" he creates in front of him as the twelve heads bash into it stopping them but breaking the energy shield, the force of it pushes Bakugou away a bit, Bakugou stood his ground but the Hydra began to stomp its way at him.

Many adventurers would've just made a run for it. But Bakugou was too stubborn to just run away and he knew that with its food source gone, it will be only a matter of time before this monster will leave the swamp to terrorize and eat people to feed itself. So he knew he had to kill this thing now or more people will die because of him. But the monster was relentless, its heads start striking Bakugou at different angles as well as spitting acids on him at the same time.

Bakugou knew he couldn't just blast their heads like before since that will only make things worse, so he struggles to find a way to kill the thing as they continued to strike at him over and over in every direction. It was hard for Bakugou to concentrate with so many heads attacking him at once he continues to use his shield to block the heads lunging at and spitting acid at him. He repeatedly uses his quirk to blast near at a heads eye to stun them, but it wasn't enough as the hero was becoming overwhelmed by the multiple headed monster. The HP on the thing was ridiculously high and was at level 70 and the attacks on the heads weren't counting to anything. It seemed hopeless for Bakugou.

Neia watches in horror in the background as she sees Bakugou barely holding out on the monster. She knew it was only a matter of time before he couldn't take it anymore, "Sir Bakugou, please, please just run away, you know you can't beat it so why are you fighting it?" she says to herself, putting in her guilt in as she continues to coward away while her master was fighting the 12 headed monster by himself, "Why... Why was I born so weak, why... why can't I lift my sword to fight?"

She kneels down in tears as she didn't know what to do. She remembers what her family has called her since she was a child, a waste of the bloodline, a disgrace, a pathetic weakling. It was all coming back to her.

But as she remembers those voices, she remembered one other, Sir Bakugou's. He said similar things to her as well, but rather than completely dismissing her, he was willing to help her. He wasted so much time to train her and she went from a weak girl who could barely hold a sword into one who can now wipe the floor of small monsters, "I... I did have the power in me, Sir Bakugou showed me that and I failed to show him back what I could really do." she says as she starts to grip her sword, "I think... I think it's time for me to finally show him what he had helped created."

She finally comes out of hiding, she stares at the monster battle, Bakugou the only person to have ever helped her, now she was the only one here to help him, "I... I don't want to be a coward anymore." she then starts to walk toward the hydra, "I want to have a place in this world, I want to be a hero to help other people like me, I want... I want... I want..." She grips her sword harder and harder and finally with all of her newfound courage she holds the sword with both hands in combat position, "I want to save my master!"

She then charges toward at the tail of the Hydra yelling out loud.

Back with Bakugou, he continues to struggle with the hydra as he was growing tired and overwhelmed by the dozen heads attacking him in different ways. Some heads bash their way at Bakugou, others spit acid, and a few tried biting him.

Dodging or blocking every attack had prevented Bakugou from thinking of some way of killing it without destroying more heads. But eventually, Bakugou was overwhelmed and became cornered by a large swamp tree. He was tired and outmatched by the giant monster as 10 heads above look down on him with 2 other heads on his sides to prevent him from escaping.

Despite the hopeless situation Bakugou wasn't going to go out without a fight, "Come and get me you multi-headed bastards! I'll blow all of your damn heads off if I have to!" he yells at them.

The 10 heads all spit acid at once at Bakugou, they continued and continued to spray hoping to finally kill there prey but Bakugou's strength kept going as he holds up his troll shield above him unwilling to allow the acid to kill him.

They eventually stopped as Bakugou lowers his shield, "Is that the best you got! Bring it on!" he yells again.

The Hydra heads had enough and were about ready to all attack at once to rip Bakugou apart and kill him for good.

Just as they were all about to lunge, the monster screams in pain all the sudden. The heads looked behind them and saw that their tail was cut off, it was Neia who had just sliced a good chunk of it off.

Neia then jumped on the Hydra's back and stood on it as she looks up at the Hydra with an angry and confident face, "I might be scared out of my mind right now, but I'm no coward! Come at me you ugly bastards!" she yells at the monster heads.

Bakugou witnesses this from afar and was genuinely surprised to see his prodigy was finally standing up top of a high-level monster, "I be damned, the blue baby finally got it." he says to himself.

The 10 very angry heads attempt to lunge at Neia only for Bakugou to yell, "Airstrike shield!" with them smacking into the green shield it allowed Neia to jump out of the way.

The two heads that were beside Bakugou finally decided to strike him with open mouths until the shield hero jumps up away with his quirk from the two as they bite into each other instead.

Bakugou makes a run from the hydra to get some distance from it as the majority of heads refocuses back at Bakugou to kill him.

Neia remained under the Hydra as two of its heads attempt to bite at her with the young elf slicing at the monster's heads to keep their distance but not killing them so they wouldn't grow more. Neia then quickly puts both of her hands on the monster's belly and after saying the magic enchantment shouts, "Electric shock!"

Neia emits a large surge of electricity, zapping the Hydra like mad as it roars in pain with the heads swinging out of control. It used almost all of her magic MP but the monster was now temporarily stunned as she runs back to Bakugou as he drinks a health and stamina potion.

"Are you ok Sir?" she asked him

After throwing her one he finally spoke, "Yeah I'm fine whatever. We'll save the sweet talk for later, right now we need to find a way to kill this thing before it goes out to find an alternative food source." While still acting harshly deep inside he's somewhat happy that his sidekick came back and Neia knew it.

"Should we try cutting all of their heads off at once?" she suggested.

"You idiot, cutting off its heads will only make it worse and I doubt doing it at the same time is going to matter."

"Maybe it has a weak spot or some special organ that could kill it instantly?" she also suggested.

"Don't be stupid what monster like that could have such a vita... hey wait a minute?!" Bakugou pauses as she gave him an idea, he activates his magnifying shield and used it to detect heat on the hydra, he quickly found the largest source of the heat a little bit below the neck ends of the Hydra heads. Bakugou knew what this had to be, the Hydra's heart.

Bakugou turns back to Neia, "Ok listen blue, I doubt this bastard's heart can multiply like its heads, so I need to just do one big blast on it and this giant slimy bastard will fall dead along with its heads. But for it to work I need you on my side this time so if you cower away again, we will both die?"

Neia stood up with her hand on her heart, "I'll be brave this time Sir. I promise." she answers him.

"Good, I'll engage it to attract the attention of most of the heads. Wait for the right time and hold back until I say so, and once I yell, you will jump and cut this monster right on the top of its chest with the sword even if you have to chop off some heads along the way. Got it?" he explains to her.

"Yes Sir!" she answers quickly to Bakugou.

After Bakugou smirks in pride they both noticed that the Hydra got itself back up no longer stunned, now more enrage then ever it starts to run toward Bakugou extremely angry.

Neia runs out as she waits for her signal out of Bakugou's way. Bakugou launches himself up to the trees with the rope shield and his quirk.

While on the branches the Hydra heads started to attack him up above, forcing Bakugou to jump across from tree to tree as the Hydra tears apart the branches. Bakugou continues to run across the branch lines as the giant monster attempts to eat him while knocking over trees completely down.

It was until he got himself on a very large and thick tree that he was cornered at before. It was too strong for the Hydra to just tip over.

The monster stands on its hind legs with the front legs laying on the tree, for its heads to reach him.

Most of the heads were engaged on Bakugou though two others were looking behind itself to protect itself from another sneak attack.

Neia continues to stand her ground as she waits for Bakugou's signal getting nervous again from the shear size of the monster like before.

After getting himself higher the Hydra moved its body even further up finally leaving its entire lower body completely exposed. Bakugou knew this was it and yells "BLUE! CUT IT UP NOW!" he yells

Neia knew this was her cue and runs toward the Hydra. Her brain was telling her to run away but her heart refused to as she continued to run. The heads looking behind itself engages Neia with her dodging every attack at the two heads. When she had the opportunity, she used her powered-up sword to slice the monster's heads off while it will give it more heads, Bakugou and Neia were determined that the plan will work so neither cared.

After dealing with the heads with Neia's new-found courage she was finally near the base of the tree, Bakugou then shouts as he distracts the other heads, "Airstrike shield!" right in the air between the tree and the Hydra's stomach. Neia using her super jump ability from her training and magic had got herself up on the shield platform ready to make her move. Two newly grown heads attempt to lunge at her, but she quickly jumps off the energy platform toward the Hydras chest and finally stabs deep into it right below the necks.

It causes great pain to the monster as Neia slides down with her sword creating a big opening gap on the monster until she finally falls to the ground and runs toward a safe distance

The big cut didn't kill the monster, but it cut its HP in half and was suffering from great pain as some of its intestines came out with one of its clawed hands trying to hold it in.

Bakugou jumps off using his quirk as he dodges the heads in the air as they miss or bite into each other.

Bakugou finally lands and regroups with Neia while the Hydra remains in deep pain, "So Sir what now?" she asked.

"I need that bastard to get its big hand off of its chest. I'm going to need you to stab it on the arm covering its chest, then I will come in to do the big boom on the bastard's heart. I don't care how many heads you have to cut off, just make sure you get it to move its hand." he asked and ordered with Neia nodding in agreement. If her master wasn't afraid then she shouldn't be afraid herself.

The monster turns back at the two and starts to limp toward them enrage. With Bakugou and Neia finally running to engage it themselves with Bakugou taking the lead blocking any attack that came in the two's way and Neia slicing away at any resistance.

Bakugou was avoiding using his explosions as he builds up sweat in his palms ready for his ultimate move.

Neia did what Bakugou told her and chopped off as many heads as she can, no matter how many would come back.

When they got close enough to the monster Bakugou gave his order, "Stab the leg, NOW!"

Neia splits off and runs toward its left leg with the newly grown heads trying to lunge at her, but Bakugou releases one more Airstrike shield to block them. Neia finally engages with her charged up katana and without fear stabs the Hydras leg forcing it to let go of its chest. It then tired to smash her with it as she dodges out of the way.

Bakugou finally jumps up with his quirk as he blasted himself up toward the opening as the Hydra heads lunge at him, but he continues to jump on top of their heads as they try all they can to stop him, but finally, he makes the final move as he jumps off the last Hydra heads as he twirls his body around with his sweat until finally, "HOWITZER IMPACT!" he shouts out and once he was right next to the opening where the Hydras heart was at,

Boom!

Bakugou lets out a giant explosion that blew right through the monster's body completely destroying its heart and other internal organs.

"RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRRRrrrrrrrr..."The monster screams in agony as it gives out the last of its life until it finally collapses on the ground along with its many heads, the Hydra was finally dead.

Both Bakugou and Neia kneeled from exhaustion after that huge fight. They knew it was 100% dead now as they finally got XP from it. Over 10,000 bumping their levels to 36 and 25 respectively. Bakugou didn't pay much mind to it, but Neia couldn't feel any prouder of herself. She helped defeat a monster of nightmares that even grand knights would fear it. She a weakling discarded by her people had help slay a mighty monster with someone who gave her a chance.

After some time catching his breath and drinking some healing potions from all of the acid he had to deal with Bakugou got himself up and ripped off a part of one Hydras dead heads and absorbed it inside his shield revealing, *Shield unlocked: Hydra shield, passive defense against acid increased up to 50%*

Neia took up the courage to talk to her master again to talk to him about her behavior earlier, "Sir, I'm sorry for what I did back at the trolls earlier, I knew what to do but, I didn't had the strength in me to kill something so big. I thought it was hopeless, but after seeing you fight that Hydra despite it being levels higher and had you outnumbered you still persist and continued fighting it, not showing any fear. It.. it inspired me to get back in to help you as you did for me with the bandits." she then kneels before Bakugou, "I'm truly grateful of what you have done for me, I'm now willing to fight with you in any battle for now on as your sidekick, no matter the situation or how great the threat is." she says with Bakugou who just stares down at the girl.

He then turns around, "Yeah whatever, just don't run off again like a baby and were cool." Bakugou said bluntly still trying to act tough, Neia wasn't upset, she understood that for her master standards that was a great forgiveness to her as she gets herself back up.

"You still got a lot to learn kid, but I will still train you however I can to make you into a competent hero. But despite that, even though I'm not much to give praises to anyone, I think I can at least say this. Good job out there." he says to her giving her a small smile with her releasing a tear from such kindness from hard as stone Bakugou.

"Thank you, master," Neia says to Bakugou. She then looks back at the giant dead Hydra, "So what are we going to do with this giant smelly body Sir?" she asked.

"You will cut out as much meat as possible, I'll blow as much of it away as possible of what's left. It'll fetch a price and should feed us for a few weeks," he answers her.

Neia agrees as she proceeds to cut up the monsters for its meat as Bakugou blows up the inedible parts.

Once they finished off the Hydra corpse Bakugou and Neia got back to the quest giver at the general store he owned for their reward, "Ok shield hero 500 silvers as promised now unless you're buying anything get lost." the quest giver rudely said to him reluctant to be talking to the so-called shield devil as he gives him his reward.

But Bakugou wasn't done with him yet, "We deserve far more than this. You didn't tell us we were dealing with a damn Hydra out there!" he raises his voice at the quest giver who just laughed.

"Ha, a Hydra, like you would even be still alive from one. How about you buzz off before I call the guards, I paid you already for killing the trolls and my sheep's return so don't try to scam me with your silly Hydra stories." the quest giver said.

But Bakugou then placed his shield arm on the shopkeeper desk and shouts, "Hydra shield!", and with that his shield transformed and forms a shield with a small but long and living Hydra head coming out of it.

The shopkeeper was frightened as hell from the head and falls on the ground with the long head looking down on him while it licks its mouth.

Bakugou grins and says, "You better compensate us more or I might lose control. It could even spit acid."

The shopkeeper panicked as he got himself back up, "No no no no no no no! Alright alright I'll give you another 500 silver for your trouble for the Hydra, does that sound fair?" the keeper begs with Bakugou who was smirking even more.

"Good, this monster didn't go down easily and even had to get my sidekick to help me with it," he says with the Hydra head disappearing with Bakugou transforming it back to his regular shield and the keeper gives him another 500 silver.

Bakugou continued to talk to him, "Oh yeah, and how much would you buy say a pound of Hydra meat?"

"Oh uh, about 3 silvers per pound." the shopkeeper quickly answered.

"Good cause I need to sell at least 500 pounds of this stuff or it will overstuff my inventory," Bakugou says with the shopkeeper just sighing to himself for all the money he has to dish out to the shield hero, at least he would make a good return by reselling the Hydra meat later.

As Bakugou hands him the packets of meat Neia spoke up, "Sir, why didn't you just shown him the Hydra meat first to prove you killed it rather than scaring him like that?"

"Because it's more fun that way, oh yeah you can stop calling me just sir now, I'm actually getting sick of it, you can say Sir Bakugou again.

Neia was happy to hear such words from Bakugou and nods to him with approval.

After finally giving the 500 pounds of the Hydra meat and the shopkeeper giving him 1500 silvers for it, as Bakugou turns away from the shopkeeper Neia speaks up, "So where to now Sir Bakugou?" she asked

"We need to visit other towns, there are probably more quests and new skills to learn out there and I'm not going to let those damn nerds get ahead of me first, so we need to get going. And I still have to train you more to be of use to me." Bakugou answers to Neia who nods in agreement now feeling she has a place with him as they head for the door.

But as they were near the door a man comes running through in a hurry to the general store owner, he was breathing heavily when he got to the counter, "Do... Do you sell any medicine here, any kind for curing high fevers?"

The shop keeper shook his head, "Sorry pal, we ran out two weeks ago. After the first wave hit the guards had began buying and stockpiling it at the capital, you may be better off finding it in a different town out in the woods. I have plenty of Hydra meat though if you're interested" he answered.

"Please I've already asked for something from my town's local doctor and the church and they were out of the same thing, my mothers old and extremely ill and if I don't get this medicine to her soon, I... I don't know if she could hold out any longer." the desperate man asked.

But the shopkeeper just shook his head again, he didn't have much else to offer to him and he no longer had that product that he would've been willing to sell to him. Bakugou and Neia were listening in and drove their attention.

"Damn it, I'll have to find medicine in another town then, please mother hold on a little longer," he says to himself as he runs toward the door.

But before he could get to it Neia jumps in the way, "Excuse me sir but your needing of some fever-related medicine is that correct?" she asked

"Yes, my elder mother is sick, so unless you can help me can you please get out of my way before it's too late?" the man says to her.

"Well good news to you, my master here knows how to make high quality medicine for you without much effort." she pitches Bakugou to him.

"Hey! I'm the one in charge here! Don't be telling others what I'm capable of unless I say so!" Bakugou shouts at Neia who didn't react much as she was getting used to his yelling by now.

The man immediately turned to Bakugou, "Are you serious Sir Shield Hero? Please tell me you can make quality medicine right?" he asked not caring if he was asking help from the so-called Shield Devil at this point.

"Yeah but I don't just do my services for free so you got anything to offer for it?" Bakugou demanded.

"Yes, but I only have about 20 silvers with me right now, I might be able to give you more if I get back home quick enough." the man says.

Bakugou turned toward the shopkeeper, "Hey cheapskate how much does the medicine usually cost?" He asked

"Oh, uh... about 20 silvers when in very high demand." the keeper nervously answered him not wanting to anger the shield hero again.

Bakugou looks back at the desperate man and answers, "Alright how about this, take us to wherever your sick mom is at and later on tell us what you know about your town, some shops, the locals as well as other nearby towns and I'll heal your mom, free of charge." Bakugou answers him.

"Free? Are you serious?" the man asked.

"Yes now make up your mind before I change mine," Bakugou says to him.

"Thank you, brave hero, bless you and your partner." the man thanks Bakugou.

The three then head off to the man's hometown not to far away from Lute village with Bakugou feeling a bit prideful for finally getting recognized as the hero he is. He could've charged the man, but he wasn't the type that would stoop to levels of some corrupt heroes who would charge for basic help. And they were not scrapping for cash right now, so he didn't need the money anyway.

Neia was also quite happy by this from both being recognized by someone as Bakugou's partner a hero, but also for Bakugou's kindness to the man, "I knew you had a soft spot in that hard exterior somewhere." she compliments him.

"HEY, I'M NOT BEING SOFT BLUE! This is just a way for us to find out more quests and new skills. Now thinking about it though we could pretty much start up our own traveling health care service to give us an excuse to travel around and show who are the real heroes in this world and not a bunch of damn nerds." Bakugou talks back trying to deny Neia's compliment.

Neia just smiles as they walk with the man to his village especially when he said heroes rather than just hero, he was also talking about her as well, "Well Sir Bakugou, I guess you can say we both have ways to go to be better heroes and I will help you along the way." Neia finally says to him

Bakugou just smiles as he looks up toward the sunset thinking to himself. He felt just like All Might now, he was turning this nobody into a great hero just like him. He can see why All Might was always willing to smile for helping people and being the hero he is.

Authors note: I've debated if I should've divided this into two chapters or not considering how long this chapter went on, but I finally decided to keep it one chapter as I feel like it flows better with the larger story, but if enough people think this is too long I can fix it by easily splitting it into two chapters, but if you guys don't care about how long a chapter is then I will just get on with the story.

I also figure I might as well address this now before anyone speculate's or make assumptions. Don't worry about Neia becoming a love interest of Bakugou nor do I intend to turn this group into a harem, there will be other males in this group other then Bakugou. I don't intend Bakugou to have any sort of love interest straight, gay, or otherwise in this story. It would be extremely out of character for Bakugou to be just chasing girls or fall in love as he's of yet to show any romantic affection with anyone in canon. He's basically married to his job so everything involving his teammates is strictly platonic and nothing else. So unless the author of MHA announces something about Bakugou's love life I won't get involved in it.

And again don't worry about Raphtalia, she will be alive in this story and will be a character, I have an arc for her along with another OC character based on stuff from the light novel but that will be a long way down the road so be patient, and thank you for reading.