Wow... it's been almost 3 weeks since I updated.
I am extremely sorry about that everyone! Honestly, it was more because I needed a break as well as to fully digest the Endwalker story and see if I could adapt the ending to the start of Bearer of the Light.
Funnily enough, I can... so Endwalker is canon to the story! Woo! albeit with some slight narrative changes (like in the case with Hydaelyn w;) But this also means that we will be getting Reaper and Sage for Izuku in the future!
So after the holiday's I should be back up to a week a chapter once again, outside of personal things like work and that coming up, so if a week is missed, just assume it's because of work or something personal in my life until I mention something otherwise. :)
Anyway! I've also restarted my first fic, calling it "Phantasia: Errated", so if you like your D&D and Warhammers being tossed into the universe of MHA with shenanigans's involving an insectoid-like boy who's friends with Izuku, or just like Izuku/Tsuyu. Check it out :D
Regardless, Merry Christmas to all and happy holidays to others as we do the reviews!
curlyboy01: More like get more PTSD XD
silverjack20: Oh trust me, as much as I would like that, Izuku is too forgiving at times... although Fray may convince him otherwise.
Silvanium: that would hurt Toshi more I think, getting reprimanded by his pupil's daughter XD
SuperShadic2002: Reaper is a very fun class, and honestly a much better one than Dragoon... THERE I SAID IT!
fallendemon248: Lotta shit happened since you posted that message, but thank you regardless :)
the metaphysical god of heroes: He DED SON
Drax152: ... I need an image of All Might's head superimposed over Ralph's now.
ANUBIS the god king: thank you for the compliment! as to your request though, I barely remember much about Naruto and honestly don't see how I could incorporate most of the Jobs from FFXIV against the various Ninjutsu's. D:
Lucifer-Satani: You almost feel bad... ALMOST.
Jclounts: I'm glad you did and hope you enjoy this latest chapter!
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Chapter 46
Moments of a Day
A gentle moan slipped past Himiko Toga's lips as she stirred from underneath the old and tattered blankets she currently had over her body. Her golden eyes slowly began to open and focus as she took in the relatively familiar surroundings she and her… well… "roommate", for the lack of a better term, had holed up in since they had made it to Hosu a few days prior.
To think of the utter jackpot that it was to meet with the weirdly dressed young man down that alleyway more than a week ago, and to say that when she had tried to cut him and how he overpowered her like it was nothing made Himiko stop dead in her tracks from the glare Deku was giving her as he shoved her against a wall and held her at bay.
She remembers how he looked at her, his deep magenta or pink eyes (she never could tell the difference) looking deeply into her own as if he was analyzing her or something until he spoke softly, though with a bit of edge and for the first time since she could even remember, he had asked her two simple questions:
"Are you alright? And how can I help?"
Himiko smiled at the memory that had led the pair to where they were currently, though they had moved about the city in the shadows, luring those that would prey on the weak only for them to become the prey themselves had been very fulfilling in Himiko's mind.
And not just fulfilling in the way of her getting blood her quirk needed.
It was odd for the golden cat-eyed young woman, acting as a vigilante of sorts. Usually, she would just kill her targets and drain them dry. But with Deku? That had all changed.
Sure, the force he used could be excessive at times, but it was done to make sure they could get what they wanted or needed and then make a quick escape, leaving the bad people for the police to pick up afterward.
Besides, Deku was helping her regain some of her sanity by providing her with so much blood, there were times where he would just be staring out of the window, always on guard, and a fresh cup of coffee, a muffin, and a blood bag was waiting for her on whatever table was there in their little hideouts when she awoke. She never did ask where he got the blood bags, but they always had enough for her needs at the very least. However, they tasted often stale compared to when she would feed off of him.
Speaking of, Himiko slowly turned her head towards the semi-covered window, showing that it was just breaking dawn. The vampire groaned gently as she slowly pushed herself off of the old bed she had crashed on the night before, holding the blanket close to her bare body as she slowly walked towards the door leading out to what was once considered a living room in the dusty abandoned apartment they were squatting in.
Himiko shivered slightly as her delicate footsteps caused the floors underneath her to creak, moving a hand from the blanket she held against her to re-adjust a strap of her panties as she took notice of a convenience store bag placed just outside of her door. Raising an eyebrow, she bent down to pick up the bag, only for her to hear the gruff voice of Deku call out to her from his lookout spot in the living room.
"Morning, Toga, your breakfast and blood pack is on the island; I also picked you up something since you were making a fuss over it yesterday."
Himiko looked at him quizzically, wondering what he was referring to as she looked into the bag, only for her to suddenly blush a crimson red along her cheeks and close the plastic bag before scurrying back into her "bedroom".
Deku merely smirked softly to himself as he continued to look out the window of the rundown apartment, his smirk fading as he squinted his eyes watching some pickpocket dash past an elderly woman and snatch her purse, only to see a hero stop in front of the criminal a few mere moments afterward and stopped them. Deku continued to watch as the hero posed for many cameras, taking in the glory and what little fame they would get; all the while, the victim was left out, the hero failing to check up on them and instead choosing the masses.
Deku's arms tightened against his bare chest, having taken off the upper parts of his darkened armor due to Himiko finding it challenging to feed off of him with it on, and the dark manifestation knew the vampire woman's thirst for blood would need to be sated before going out on another hunt and to look for clues as to possibly where Stain could appear next in Hosu.
The touch of slender arms wrapping around his chiseled midsection and the warmth of a body pressing against his back snapped Deku out of thoughts when the, admittedly, adorable giggles of Himiko could be heard from behind him. Deku turned his head around and, in his ordinarily emotionless tone of voice, spoke to her, "I trust they fit well?"
"Yep! You picked out the right size!" Himiko chirped as she backed away from her "knight" and spun herself to show off the new pair of panties he had got for her. Although fairly basic, given it was a sort of "emergency" pair purchased at a convenience store, it fit rather snuggly and accented the curves of Himiko's backside perfectly. She smiled up at him, still only wearing the panties and her above average and perky breasts squished together by her arms as she hugged herself, "Even if they aren't a cute pair, I never expected you to get something like this for me."
She could see that the larger boy's eyes were transfixed on her, staring at her body for the briefest of moments with a slight blush to his cheeks before Deku snapped out of trance, which only made the vampire smile more with her own blush. He cleared his throat and moved past her towards the lone couch in the dilapidated apartment and began to remove the dusty blanket coverings, "...You should eat, and then have some blood before we go out and look for clues… it's going to be a long day."
Himiko nodded with gusto before rushing towards the island in the kitchen area to feast upon her morning muffin and coffee. A happy cry of "You got me pomegranate!" echoed out before the loud munching and slurping of food and drink replaced it, causing Deku to shake his head with a deep chuckle before sitting himself down and waiting for his blonde companion to feast upon the blood he had "filtered" within his own blood from the previous day's hunt.
Deku sighed gently, resting his head back and looking up at the decaying ceiling while thinking of his plans for now. The first step was to locate Stain and help Himiko drink his blood; while he didn't fully understand the reason for the girl to be so adamant about 'becoming' him, Deku felt like this could be a way of helping her in the long run. The second step was to get back to UA and deal with his weaker self, possibly ambushing him and showing the green-haired fool what happens when you literally push him down into the deepest parts of his mind and forget about him.
At this point, Himiko had finished her breakfast and was wiping away some of the jelly that was inside of the muffin from the corner of her lip, sauntering her way to the couch to see that Deku was in one of his "deep thoughts" sort of states. She paused for a few moments, wondering if she should wait for him before drinking the blood within his body, before immediately tossing that idea out the window since she could have some fun with this.
Slowly walking towards him, her hips swaying ever so slightly, calling out to him in a soft tone of voice that sounded more like purring as she began to climb up onto his lap, pressing her bare chest against his and smiling widely with his exposed neck before her, while her arms moved to rest on top of his broad shoulders.
"De~ku~..." Himiko sang softly as she further pressed her breasts against him, "I'm going to feast now~."
She didn't get an immediate reaction to this, but Himiko figured that would be the case as when Deku got into these sort of states of deep thoughts, it was often hard to get him to do anything. So with a shrug of her shoulders and a smile spread across her lips with her sharp canines glistening, she carefully moved towards his neck, kissing his cold flesh before sinking her teeth deep and began to drink the precious red nectar flowing out of the wound.
Himiko closed her eyes as her arms moved up to wrap around him tightly as if clinging to him for dear life as she feasted upon the rather tasty meal. Only for her to gasp when she felt one of the muscular arms of Deku move around her lower back, holding her closer to his body.
In her mind, Himiko was smiling, moaning gently in both pleasures of drinking blood and from the pressure and comfort given to her by the one person that truly understood her.
Her Knight in shining armor.
"...Eighteen… Nineteen… Twenty! Good job, Ashido!" called out the pro heroine, "Jivin' Beats," who was standing off to the side of a rather impressive dance studio where one Mina Ashido had been doing some calf stretches to limber up before the early morning exercises that were planned out by the dancing pro hero.
Besides the pink-skinned student, also stretching out her calf muscles, was one Kinoko Komari, who had also chosen to come to this particular pro hero for some rather, at least to her friends back in Class 1-B, obvious reasons. Mina turned her gaze to see a somewhat struggling Kinoko barely able to reach her toes; although the mushroom-style haircut she sported was covering her eyes, Mina could see how red her cheeks were and the grit of the shorter girl's teeth.
"Now, now Komori, no need to overdo it." The older woman squatted down beside her intern with a kind smile, "Some people aren't as flexible as others, or they have trained themselves overtime to get to where they are today, which I'm sure you'll be able to do as well, you just need time."
"Y-Yes, ma'am." Kinoko blushed, gently folding in on herself, which got a soft chuckle from the pro before Jivin' Beats pulled herself up from the squat, looking at the both of them.
"Ashido, can you help Komori with one more stretch before we get started? I need to step out and take care of some paperwork before we get started anyway."
"Sure thing, boss," Mina said with a smile and saluted Beats, who groaned as she was using the lingo her sidekicks would call her. As the pro heroine walked away with a sway to her hips, Mina looked down to see a dejected Kinoko looking down to the mat, "She's right, you know, I wasn't flexible at all when I was younger and had to work hard to get where I am today."
Mina watched as her 1-B counterpart was shifting in her spot, allowing the pink-skinned to take in the curvy body of Kinoko Komori. Mina smiled as she could see her new "intern-buddy" seem to grow more embarrassed as her golden irises had kept their gaze on her, "But you don't have to be flexible to dance!"
"I-I know… T-the types of dance moves I want to learn are more i-idol based ones as I want to be an idol h-h-hero." Kinoko stuttered gently and was turning her head slightly at times as if to see if Mina was still looking at her, the blush on her cheeks brightening up as she continued, "W-while I do want to limber up a shroom more… it's not the main reason."
"Oh? Sounds like juicy girl talk! Which I am totally down for!" Mina said with a big grin and quickly grabbed the mushroom girl's wrist and yanked her up to head towards a more secluded part of the dance studio, "Alright, just place your feet against mine and grab my hands! This should limber the both of us up nicely for whatever Beats has in store for us while you tell me what the deal is!"
Kinoko gently nodded her head, seeing no other option or way to escape the alien girl's curiosity… Well, Setsuna had warned her about that particular detail when it came to Mina Ashido.
As the two of them began to do their stretches, it took a somewhat decent amount of time and stretches before Kinoko finally decided to talk, every stretch forward allowing to see the brown shiitake-like irises she sported, which caused Mina to smile more in anticipation, "S-so... um… oh mushrooms, this is h-hard to say."
"Oh? How come?" Mina asked with a raised eyebrow before they shifted into a frown and a scowl, "It's not because of the whole 1-A/1-B rivalry thing, is it?"
"N-n-n-no! Nothing like that! Only that shroom-head Monoma cares about that silliness!" Kinoko stuttered out, and some of her blush returned in full force, "I-Its because it involves a certain person in 1-A and… oooh this is so hard!" the mushroom girl sighed heavily.
Mina blinked and stopped the stretches, looking at her with a concerned look, "Hey, hey… if it's too hard to talk about, we can chat about something else."
"No." Kinoko said, her hands resting on her hips, "No, I should talk about it… get it off my chest and focus on the rest of this internship." She looked up to Mina, who waited with bated breath as she could see the determined look in the mushroom girl's eyes, "T-the reason why I want to be more limber is… is…."
"Yea?"
"I want to impress… a boy…." Kinoko said, wincing slightly from the tiny little squeal coming from the girl opposite of her.
"Oh my god! That's so cute! Who is he? Wait! Let me guess, it's Ojiro?"
"Wh-what?! N-n-n-no, it's not Ojiro!"
"Hmm… a guy who likes limber girls… Shoji?"
"I-i-i-it's not him either. Besides, Yui already claimed him-oop!" Kinoko quickly covered her mouth, blushing mad, considering she just let it spill of Yui's crush/claim on the multi-limbed to the very well-known gossip that was Mina Ashido.
"Please don't tell anyone…."
"No promises, now spill, cutie! Who is the lucky guy?"
Putting the fact that someone called her a cutie to the back of her mind for the moment, Kinoko shifted her body once again, tapping the tips of her index fingers together and drawing out the silence for a few moments more before one of her eyes peeked out from behind her bangs, "...P–p-promise not to be mad?"
Mina blinked when she was asked the question, "Mad? Why would I be ma-... Oh."
Kinoko bowed her head to the alien girl, clenching her eyes tight which caused her not to see the tiny little smile slowly creeping across Mina's face, "I-I-I-I'm sorry! I know you and the others are dating him right now! I-It's just he's so shrooming handsome and how he takes care of that little girl of his so well and all the nice things Setsuna said about him and the rest of you andthewayyoutwodancedduringthesportsfestivalmademyheartskipashroomand-"
"Kinoko! Kinoko, it's alright! Just breathe slowly!" Mina said with a gentle chuckle, placing her hand onto the muttering intern's shoulder, causing her to stop, "So… you don't need to say anything, just nod or shake your head, got it?"
Kinoko nodded, still taking deep breaths and slowly starting to calm herself down as Mina moved herself to sit crossed legged in front of the 1-B student, "Now, I'm am going to say first off that I am not going to be mad at you for admitting to this, but the boy you're trying to impress is Izuku, right?"
A slow nod came from Kinoko before looking back down to the floor in which Mina took to thinking that the mushroom girl was ashamed of crushing on someone's boyfriend, "Yeah, kinda figured that one out during that study session a while back."
Kinoko's head shot up with that blush returning once again to her cheeks, as well as several small mushrooms beginning to grow on her shoulders, causing Mina to giggle a little, "Sorry there, cutie… but it was pretty obvious to the girls and me back then. So, next question, if you want to date Izuku or at least have the chance to, then it's all or nothing… you gotta date all of us or nothin'. Are you okay with that?"
Kinoko's brought her knees close to her chest now, her arms wrapped around her legs and hiding her face, thinking to herself that this may be what prevents her from having her wishes come true, "I-I've never dated girls before or anyone for that matter…so I don't know if I like girls in that way."
"Oh! That's perfectly fine, hun!" Mina beamed a smile as Kinoko slowly looked up through her hair bangs, "Tsuyu is the only one in our group right now that doesn't "love" any of us, but she cares about us that she will go on… I think she said a "mutual outing" to build up a stronger connection. Truthfully, I wouldn't mind seeing what Tsuyu can do if she and I could possibly tag-team our green bean."
That comment caused Kinoko to sprout more mushrooms, making Mina quickly try to calm the girl down before she filled the entire studio with the fungi.
"Okay, moving from that…." Mina said with a clearing of her throat and staring hard at Kinoko, as if trying to pierce through her hair shield, "This is another big question, and I can honestly say without a doubt this could be a deal-breaker for some. But, being a part of this relationship is also taking on the responsibility of helping to raise Eri."
Kinoko moved her head up and allowed for a single eye to appear as Mina continued, "Do you think you are up for that, helping to raise a traumatized child?"
Mina would watch as Kinoko slowly lowered her head down, thinking deeply for a few moments and looking past her bangs to stare into the alien girl's golden orbs, "I-It's going to be an adjustment, but Eri is so precious, like a cute little Podoserpula Miranda!"
"A 'Podoserpula Mir-whazza'?"
"O-oh! Sorry… um… it's a mushroom that looks like a pink lily! But y-yes, I fully understand that I would need to step up and help raise Eri."
Kinoko slowly began to smile gently, looking at her knees as she continued to speak, "Truth be told, one of the reasons why I want to be an idol hero is to make people smile with my singing and personality while I per-shroom on stage!" The mushroom-focused girl's cheeks began to turn rosy once more as she shifted around while Mina smiled on, "A-and one day when I've retired from idol life… I want to become a mom, raising my own little sporelings with a man who would love me, shrooms and all."
Mina shifted herself to sit beside Kinoko, wrapping an arm around her while also avoiding the few mushrooms that sprouted on the shorter girl's shoulders from before, "Oh, I hear ya… One day, Me and Izuku are going to have a few kids of our own… could you imagine a bunch of little ones with my skin tone and his fluffy green hair! So cute!"
Kinoko giggled at the image of a few children with that same sort of coloration, either being a hyper mess like Mina or possibly as soft-spoken as Izuku… though those thoughts soon turned to green-haired mushroom styled little ones dancing and singing with these "possible" siblings of the future, which got Kinoko to blush madly once again.
Mina giggled as she soon stretched her arms up in the air, a gentle pop coming from her back, "Well, that was the important questions out of the way; I am going to have to let the girls know you want to join this little polycule of ours." The pink young adult smiled at Kinoko, "But something I wanna know is… why do you think you need to limber up to impress Izuku?"
Kinoko, though Mina couldn't see, blinked at the question before going red once again and curling up with a few more mushrooms sprouting from her knees this time, "W-Well… I could never find a chance to talk with him, at l-least introduce myself fully to him… and watching you and him dance during the sports festival as well as seeing Jiro and Tsuyu move during the first and second rounds… I-I thought Izuku preferred women who were more "flexible"."
Mina stared at the mushroom girl for a few moments before suddenly bursting out cackling, causing Kinoko to gasp and puff her cheeks up in indignation at the fact that Mina was laughing at her. Once the alien girl had calmed down a bit, she was somewhat giggling still as she spoke, "Hehehe… Oh no, no, no, no… Trust me, Izuku doesn't have a preference for something like that! I mean, sure, Tsuyu and I are more the most flexible of our group, but Kyoka is in about the same place as you are, and don't get me started on Momo… poor woman."
"Honestly, you don't need to impress Izuku at all, Kinoko. I can tell you are a truly awesome young woman who knows what she wants, and I'd suggest letting Izuku see you for your true self… because, damn, you are fun to be around, and I know you two would be cute together and get along discussing your quirks."
Kinoko tilted her head gently at Mina, her singular eye peeking through her hair with what looked like hope, "Y-you really think so?"
"Mhmm! And should you join our little group…" Mina began to speak, leaning in close to Kinoko's ear and, with a sultry tone to her voice, "I already know you'll be a hit with not only Izuku but myself as well…."
Kinoko was blushing, her mouth going dry as she spoke quietly, "O-Oh? Why is that?"
Mina, with a devious smirk across her lips as well as a mischievous glint in her eyes, moved a hand to gently grasp Kinoko's chin and turn her head slightly to stare face to face with the alien woman, "Because, I love women with a little 'meat' on her bones…" slowly moving close to Kinoko's nose and gently bit the air right in front of her with a playful teasing wink to follow right afterward.
It took Mina, Kinoko, Jivin' Beats, and her sidekicks until lunchtime to clear out all the mushrooms that covered everything in the dance studio after that lil "admission".
Izuku grunted as he tumbled to the grassy earth from the kick to the head he took from Gran Torino, who was zipping around the small field where Izuku was practicing his reactions while being "kit-less".
The green-haired boy groaned, rolling over onto his back and panting heavily as he had been training with the old-timer since lunchtime, where he was constantly getting beaten up by his current mentor. His topless body soaking in the mid-afternoon rays as Torino now stood on top of a large piece of fallen debris from the apartment building, "C'mon, ya Zygote! If I can't properly teach ya how to use the full extent of 'you-know-what,' at the very least, I will train up your reaction time! There are far more bad guys quicker than me that won't let ya shift!"
All the old man could get was a groan from the boy, causing him to sigh heavily and jump off the debris and walk towards his intern, "Alright, kid, you've been distracted since lunch, what's the problem?" asked Gran Torino with a stern look in his eyes.
Izuku was staring up at the clouds, breathing heavily as some bruises had begun to form along his bare chest and arms, "It's… it's Eri, sir."
"Eri? Oh right, the munchkin you decided to become a dad too." With the scratching of his beard, Gran Torino said when he was thinking of where he heard the name before, "Something happened?"
"She was starting her own quirk training with Aizawa today; they were using a lizard who lost its tail due to a predator attack, but a loud explosion from one of the gyms surprised her, and she used more of her quirk than she should have." Izuku said with a somber tone to his voice, "Aizawa couldn't react fast enough, and Eri was left holding an egg instead of the lizard… so she was very upset about it, and I couldn't do anything to help her but give her some words of encouragement over the phone."
"I know taking on the responsibility of raising her was going to be hard, but not being there when she needs me most?... It hurts, Gran Torino." Izuku said with a scowl to his face and slamming the earth beneath him with a fist and baring his teeth up to the sky as if to threaten it.
The older man listened and watched the tiny bit of earth dent in from the impact as he sighed heavily and sat himself down on the grass close to his pupil, sitting somewhat cross-legged as he spoke gently, "It's funny, you know… that two welders have a kid and they are doing the exact opposite of one another."
"Wait…" Izuku lifted his head up slightly, his scowl gone and now replaced by a look of curiosity, "There was a previous person that had a kid?"
"Yep, my friend and All Might's predecessor… she had a little brat of her own by the time she was given the powers that be, but after the bastard killed her hubby… Nana gave up the child for adoption, hoping that by keeping herself away from him, it would protect her son."
Gran Torino turned his head towards Izuku, seeing the fear in his eyes at the implications of what All for One could possible due to his little family, "Don't start wondering about that now, kid. That blonde dummy should have told you about "you know who" BEFORE offering you the damned thing."
"B-but what if he goes after Eri? Or Momo, or Kyoka or-"
"That bastard won't go after them so long as they are at UA and under Nezu's eye I feel. Plus, he probably hasn't figured out who the oaf passed the powers onto as of yet, let alone know it is you." Gran said with a sigh as Izuku slowly lowered himself back down onto the grass, staring up once again to the clouds, "While I can't say I know what to do when it comes to child-rearing, what I can tell ya is that, unlike Nana, you have the people there to help support and raise the munchkin when you're making sure that this peace that Toshi has given us remains as such, not just for the common folk, but for her as well."
Izuku's eyes turned towards the old pro, who was staring out towards the street from where he was sitting, "... it doesn't get easier, does it?"
"What? Parenting or hero work?"
Izuku chuckled softly, looking back up, "Both, I guess?"
Gran looked towards the youngster, a soft smirk on his lips, and lightly tapped the green-haired boy's forehead with the top of his walking cane, "Like I said, don't know shit when it comes to raising kids, but for hero work? Like any profession, it comes and goes; you, you will have your good days and bad… it's more who else it will affect when it's the bad days."
As both mentor and pupil looked up at the sky in quiet contemplation, Izuku's brow furrowed as he slowly pushed himself off of the ground with a grunt, stretching gently and looking towards Gran Torino, "Mr. Torino… can I ask you a question?"
"Can it be asked while we are sparring, Zygote?" replied the older man with a devious smirk at first before it morphed into a more severe scowl, noticing the similar look on Izuku's face, "Alright, I guess not, what's up, brat?"
"You've been a pro hero for a long time, and you may have more experience judging how someone is going to act…." Izuku said, his eyes moving to his open palm and flexing it by opening and closing his fists, "If a villain hurt someone you deeply cared about, would you go after them in revenge?"
"Kid…"
"Oh!" Izuku looked up from his hand, seeing the hurt on his mentor's face from being asked such a question, but before Izuku could apologize, Torino raised a hand up and shook his head.
"It's fine; I have a feeling you are asking this because something happened recently, and you need advice, right?"
Izuku nodded his head, still looking down for asking the rather rude question, given Gran Torino's past with the previous two One for All wielders. And after a few moments, he gathered all his thoughts and nodded gently in response to the old pro's question.
"It's about my friend, Tenya Iida…."
Nabriales perched himself on top of a water tower as the red and orange lightning of dusk fell over the relatively small area known to the humans as "Hosu". He had been in the area for quite some time now, following the carnage of a being that had caught his attention.
Stain.
Now, while the "hero-killer" wasn't really someone worthy to typically gain the attention of the Ascian, similarly to most of the populace on this miserable dustball, he did have to tip his hood to the villain for all the fear and chaos Stain had caused.
Aside from All for One, Nabriales had never seen someone utilize the raw emotion of terror like the hero-killer did, leaving ordinarily and supposed "fearless" heroes to nothing but the squirming worms that they were before gutting them like the useless sacks of meat that they were.
What struck odd for the Ascian was the motivation for the man, as any whelp worth their salt could put the fear of the gods into people and kill them. Stain, however, was not like the common rabble.
The man had a goal and a methodology to his craft, and the heroes he took down were just as rotten to the core as the villains they had captured. Was this Stain merely weeding out those he deemed unworthy? And if so, who was the ideal "hero" to the psychopath?
Still, as he mused this in his mind, he watched as the shadowy being known to him as Kurogiri had approached the killer, speaking for but a few moments before both of them walked into the shadow's portals and disappeared.
The Ascian sighed heavily, standing up from his perch, already knowing the outcome of this apparent recruitment to the humorously named "League of Villains". If Stain doesn't kill the fledgling of All for One, then he supposed he could move his own plans forward.
He smirked as he reached into a small void-like portal, pulling out a greyish sphere-like object and smirked down at it, "Soon, all the pieces will fall together, and I will get what I deserve and crave for… just like you did all those years ago."
"Isn't that right, Zenos?"