The boys of the Hero Course were currently enjoying a hot spring bath out in the open air.
"We may only be getting treated for a meal today, but we're being given free use of this bath during the evening once training is done," Denki said.
"I must say, you have some decent muscle on you, Koda-Kun." N complimented the shy animal lover, who bashfully blushed.
"If the sun were out right now, Kazuya would be showing up everyone." Makoto chuckled as he and his brothers lounged together.
"You know maybe it's a good thing Monoma left, he probably would have had a heart attack seeing this, or would have pissed one of you guys off enough to kill him by now." Hitoshi joked.
Sen wheezed. "After what we went through to get here, PLEASE don't make me laugh right now."
(Mrotrax: You can throw in a funny scene of Minoru with Yamato and the fact that Minoru is doing his best to respect Yamato's gender association and also remind himself that he and Nimona are dating now.)
Ben was washing his hair near the border that separated the boy and girl's sides when he heard a knock to the rhythm of 'Shave and a Haircut'. He then finished with two knocks of his own before hearing a familiar melodious giggle.
"How are you doing?" Penny spoke on the other side.
"I'm doing fine. How about you? Kinda surprised you can take baths."
"Well, Father wanted me to be as human as possible. It only makes sense my body can bathe itself."
On the girl's side, the Hero Course girls all giggled and cooed at how close Ben and Penny were.
"Man, this is nice." Setsuna sighed as she relaxed in the water.
"Yeah if today was any indication of what we're in for these are going to be a godsend," Momo said
"Thank goodness for the size of the hot springs! Otherwise, it wouldn't fit all of us!" Hilda joked as she slapped her belly, letting it ripple in the water.
Mina was letting herself float on the water, though her massive dome of a gut resembled an island. She seemed to be having the time of her life whilst she used her fattened hands to rub at her belly.
"Wish I could have Chikara lay on this big squishy mattress of a tummy~"
The sound of blood squirting from the boy's side was heard. Apparently, Chikara had heard that as Mina giggled.
"I can't believe this is my life now..." Kyouka sighed, looking over her own fat body.
"Don't feel ashamed of what you look like. As long as you manage to keep being a Hero and helping others, that's all that matters." Bakara reassured.
"Say, huh, we never really got yer story...how come your daddy's Dracule Mihawk but you got the last name Toga?" Ellie asked Himiko, who flinched.
"It's...it's kind of a long story..."
The blonde vampire didn't really like reliving that part of her life. But with the friends she had and loved, she could at least trust them with it...
*FLASHBACK*
"I was running: I'd just attacked Saito, this boy I had a crush on. I hadn't meant to; my birth parents refused to give me blood and my cravings got the best of me. I was tired, dirty and hungry when I collapsed."
The little girl tripped and began to cry; not from the pain of the fall but for how badly she had crewed up.
"Are you alright, little one?"
Himiko looked up to see someone glancing down at her: A tall man with sharp eyes wearing an open jacket with a conquistor style hat and with a large sword on his back
"I was kind of scared of him at first."
Himiko's stomach grumbled and the man offered her a hand.
"Come along. Let us get you something to eat and clean you up."
She didn't grab the hand offered right away, fearing she might hurt this man. Sighing, he picked her up and carried her all the way to a gothic looking home, where at the door…
"Where exactly have you been?!" a beautiful woman pouted at the door.
"…Hello, Perona."
"Don't you 'Hello, Perona' me, Mihawk!" Perona snapped. "I've been maintaining the house and cooking all…"
She stopped when she saw Himiko.
"Oh, you poor thing!"
She then swiped the little girl away and hurried her to the bath, cleaning her gently and sneaking her little bits of fruits and meat to eat. Once she had Toga cleaned, perona returned to see Mihawk having set the table of a veritable feast, all freshly warmed.
Several beings, who looked like horror based teddies, served Toga heaping helpings of food, which she quickly devoured, tears in her eyes.
"…This might sound crazy, but it had been so long since I was just treated nicely and fed good food? I cried. And then, I ended up telling them everything."
Without a word, Mihawk tucked Himiko into bed and gave a silent nod to Perona, who grimly returned the gesture as she gave the blonde child a kiss on the forehead goodnight.
"I didn't exactly see it myself, but Papa went to my parent's house and..."
The Legendary Swordsman strode with purpose to the front door of the Toga estate. Despite his neutral look, a raging storm was hiding underneath the surface, waiting to be unleashed.
He knocks, once, twice, three times. Exactly seventy-four seconds later, the door opens, revealing a sleazy-looking man in an equally sleazy suit, poorly fitting beneath the various pins and cuff links.
"Dracule Mihawk? The World's Greatest Swordsman?" The man asked in surprise. "To what does a man of your busy stature wish here?"
"I am here to speak with you regarding your daughter."
Mr. Toga rolled his eyes. "That thing is no daughter of mine. Come in, come in!"
Mihawk calmly came inside. This man truly was an idiot to just let him inside without seeing any of the signs of what was to come.
"I can't imagine what went wrong with her," Mr. Toga continues, leading Mihawk down the hall towards a sitting room. "We were so careful to ensure we had a proper child, not that… demon."
"So you didn't feed her any blood?"
"Heavens no! We wanted a child, not some blood-crazed hellspawn. Disgusting wretch. She should've listened when I told her to throw the thing out, or better yet smother her, prevented this whole mess."
"I see..." Mihawk calmly said. "Do not worry, you won't have to be troubled by her much longer..."
Mr. Toga smiled, believing Mihawk had done a service, and put down that 'she-devil', only for the next words of the swordsman to confuse him.
"...Because you won't be around any longer."
Before Mr. Toga could ask what he meant, he screamed as he felt the tendons in his ankles torn off, leaving him to fall to the floor and crawl as he saw Mihawk brandishing a small knife in the shape of a holy cross.
"W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Simple...I am cleaning up the filth that plagues this world. All I saw was a scared child whose parents had refused her basic rights. You are not a father...you are an animal in need of being put down."
"Darling what's all the noise?" A woman cried out as she descended the stairs.
"RUUUUUN!" Her husband managed before the knife cut off the tip of his tongue. Mihawk then flicked the knife, created a sword blade of air that cut the woman's hair off…along with the wall.
She naturally screamed and ran, only for her ankles to suffer the fate of her hair. Her husband rushed to her side….then realizing Mihawk had let him.
"…W-where did he…?"
CREAK!
The swordsman was now atop the stairs Mrs. Toga had come from, the slightest hints of a smirk across his face: When had he last ENJOYED a hunt?
Three Hours later!
"Please…! Pleeeeeaease….!" The Toga's begged. They both had small cuts all over their bodies and their house was not little more than rubble. Despite knowing better, they hid behind some debirs, ratherly pathetically.
Mihawk had played with them: He'd cut, then vanish, reappearing in the least unlikely place. He cut the landline and destroyed their Wifi so they couldn't call for help.
He even left them JUST ENOUGH bandages to keep them alive…all with his stopic face betraying no emotion.
"Have mercy….!"
"Mercy is not reserved for the likes of you," Mihawk said icily. "You should pray to whatever deities you believe in that they are forgiving of your transgressions...because from where I see it? The fiery pits of Hell await both of you."
What followed was something out of a butcher movie, the Togas screaming and begging, even desperately trying to apologize for their treatment of their daughter...but Mihawk showed no mercy. As he said, mercy was not reserved for those who would hurt their own children...
*END FLASHBACK*
"Damn..." Setsuna whistled. "And the law just let him get away with it?"
"Daddy...he's not really bound by the law," Himiko explained. "I think the governments just let him wander the world because they are afraid that nothing they could throw at him would stop him."
"Himiko-Chan already told us this..." Kobeni explained, referring to herself, Nia, Mipha, Bakara, and Lilique. "To be honest, I think Mihawk did a good thing."
"The Togas should have faced proper justice for what they did to Himiko," Melissa said sternly. "But...I guess I can't really blame him."
"Say, I wonder where that fat tub of lard is..." Mount Lady noted.
"You mean Midnight? Kinda ironic considering how fat you are." Miruko snarked. "And to be honest...I have no idea."
Off to the side, Midnight had Pixie-Bob bound and gagged in her lap as she used her crop for it's older and 'true' purpose, each word being followed by a whack:
"I! WILL! NOT! ATTEMPT! TO! SEDUCE! MY! SENPAI'S! UNDER! AGE! STUDENTS! AND! SON! JUST! BECAUSE! I'M! DESPERATE!"
Suffice to say? Pixie-Bob would behave herself from now on….and not sit for a month.
DEVIL
All three Hero Course classes were up and ready at 5:30 in the morning.
"Why can't I ever get any beauty sleep..." Ben groaned tiredly.
"Because you'd sleep the whole day away otherwise." Marco chuckled before stifling a yawn.
"Good morning, I hope you're all prepared because today we will begin a training camp to increase your strength," Aizawa said as he, Vlad King, and Midnight stood in front of everyone. "The goal is for each of you to increase your strength exponentially so you can earn a probationary license. This will allow you to face the dangers that fester in the darkness."
"Look alive, Bakugou!" Midnight said as she tossed a softball over to the explosive blonde. "At the start of the school year, your score was 705.2 meters. See if anything has changed since then."
"Oh, I'm gonna do something much different, teach!" Katsuki smirked as he threw his ball high into the air, stuffed his hands in his pockets, and then delivered a flashy spinning roundhouse kick that connected right with the ball as it came down.
A brief moment of pause passed before a massive burst of wind indicated the ball rocketing off into the stratosphere, shaking the nearby trees in the process. Katsuki chuckled as Aizawa showed his distance was 712.3 meters.
"Pretty small improvement, but anything works, huh?" Koby noted.
Katsuki clicked his tongue. "Not good enough for me."
He tried again. And again. And yet again. For several hours.
"You've had a whole semester to improve, but it's only been mental. Now that you have the sound mind, it's time to make sure you have the sound body." Vlad King declared. "You must steel yourselves! For this will be literal hell on earth for you zygotes!"
"But by the end of it... You'll feel as strong as a real pro hero." Midnight smirked.
"Oh man, are we screwed?" Rin asked with a whimper.
"Yeah, I think you are." Shun said bluntly.
"…You're not?"
"My siblings and Marco are, to quote the pop culture vernacular: 'buily different.'"
"Well...in for a penny, in for a pound..." Melissa sighed.
"Indeed...brace yourselves, folks! THIS IS GONNA SUCK!" Ben called out.
DEVIL
"Mmmm, you're looking quite handsome~"
These were the words purred by Garie Tuman of the Autoscorers as she admired Tomura's new outfit. He still had his black shirt, slacks, and red boots but he now had a long overcoat with red straps on the back, crimson, scraggly, and sinister. He also had done away with the hands of his dead family members but kept two of them as makeshift shoulder pauldrons and the rest stashed securely inside the inner pockets of his coat.
"I still haven't found out what sort of villain identity I want, but for now I'm starting to feel renewed. Did the supplies arrive as intended?"
"Indeed, I scouted out the Training Camp myself," Laffitte smirked. "The Vanguard Action Squad will be making their move by the end of the week."
"Honestly, we don't even need All For One's mole anymore. Laffitte and I make a great team!" Tobi proudly declared. "Oh, I hope Deidara does well!"
"Time to send a warning shot to the world. This time the League of Villains is serious." Tomura grinned.
"Indeed...let's give them a flashy wake-up call!" Phara Suyuf declared, holding bronze coins between her fingers.
Knightmare Lord A/N:
Just kind of wanted to let everyone know how Mihawk adopted Himiko. Also, next chapter will just be an exhibition to show everyone in 1-A, 1-B, and Izuku's Crew training to their absolute limit. The chapter after will be the Vanguard Action Squad making their move.
Anything you'd like to say, Mrotrax?
Mrottrax A/N:
Horror is sadly not really my thing, so I decided to leave it to viewers to imagine how Mihawk killing the Togas went.
And yes, I DID take inspiration from Sonic 3 in how Midnight displicned Pixie-Bob.
Until we meet again? Stay safe!