AnimeFan13579: Oh, Tokoyami's having a great time with the knowledge and he'll brag it on Kuroiro.
Reader20448: Thank you, and yes, Aizawa is cooked.
stream187: Thanks, and yes, I watch the anime. I've even read the manhwa till the end, so I know what you're referring to, and no, I won't even consider that idea. I'm gonna make it very clear, I have implied that Izuku's story will share similarities but won't be a carbon copy of Sung's entire journey, so your idea is a no for this fic. Also, I'm okay. I was with my family due to the Chinese New Year.
LevelUp4U: Thanks, and please don't do anything with the dog.
Whitemare: I need to plan more regarding your idea of Arsha. I didn't read SL: R web novel due to shitty translations and the pay-to-read shits in apps, so I had no idea regarding Arsha or a majority of Monarch's successors, but regardless, it's a good idea. But, still, anything related to the Monarch's successors will not be touched until future sagas. Also, please refrain from mentioning Lion King, I haven't recovered from dealing with the massacre Disney pulled on my childhood.
kadynbaugh4: Yes, Ei will be the future Beast Monarch. I have discussed it when replying to my reviews and stated in chapter 55. For Igris, he will mostly speak when he's out of battle because to him, speaking during a fight is nothing but a waste of time and breath. And as for Gang Orca, in this fic, he is the Brightest Fragment of Brilliant Light itself, Alphaeus (Not a canon name, by the way) who reincarnated as human and regained his memories after Awakening.
Pogs21: I think it was obvious what would happen to Esil and her Radish Clan the moment I introduced Shadow Alliance in Chapter 64, but let me make it clear for everyone. Yes, Esil and the Radish Clan will join Izuku in the human world and Esil will play a huge role like in SL: R, and what role is that? if you know, you know.
Daemon of Wrath: Given how everything that you know was nothing but lies made by humanity just to understand shits, it's very obvious people will start questioning their existence. As for Aizawa, oh you will see something like that in the future.
The Next Day
?, Deika City
A short old man with a bald head and a short grey mustache can be seen frantically running through the lab, his face shows nothing but utter horror and panic. He feels his old heart beating up like a drum, his legs' muscles burning like hellfire, sweat dripping from his forehead like showers, lungs feeling like a burning furnace, anxiety and fear squeezing his entire body like All Might uses 100% of his strength to turn him into a ball. This old man is the Kyudai Garaki himself.
He can't stop thinking about how everything happened. It was one of his casual days experimenting, bioengineering a dead body with a multitude of quirks and turning it into an obedient puppet. Then, suddenly, things went wrong. His Johnny had somehow disappeared, leaving only a cord looking like it was forcefully ripped from it. He didn't think much about it, but the disappearance of one of his main transportation had made him anxious.
Then, he receives news from All For One that Shigaraki, his successor, has been captured along with Kurogiri. This made Garaki cursed, unable to believe how All For One's successor had fumbled so badly. He can't help but think why All For One chose him in the first place before the anxiety he felt earlier hit him with full force, especially when AFO asks to teleport them back.
After admitting how Johnny got ripped away from the lab and verbal abuse from his boss, he went back to recreate Johnny with his test subjects as fast as possible, but due to how rare the warping quirk is, Garaki was unable to recreate it. But, it doesn't make Garaki lose the anxious feeling in his chest. In the end, he chooses to ignore it.
He had gone through multiple possibilities of the heroes gaining Johnny, and every scenario he could've thought of logically didn't worry him. If the heroes found Johnny, they would probably lock them in jail. And even if the HPSC managed to gain possession of Johnny, they can't do anything about it due to how the nature of Nomu works. Its genetic make-up was very unstable, so attempting to reverse-engineer the creature would lead to absolute failure.
And then, there's magic, one term that Garaki had heard in the underground. He scoffed at the existence of magic, denied it, and believed it was merely an unknown cosmic energy that is very harmful toward humans with quirks and the 'magic monsters' were merely aliens. He had once attempted to research it, but the energy itself almost led to the disappearance of the original AFO he had stored inside while causing his master immense pain. He decided to against it and avoid it at any cost as he believed due to AFO's stockpiled stolen quirks, made him unable to use that cosmic energy.
So, yeah, he has nothing to worry about regarding the heroes. Or so he believed.
Out of nowhere, a bunch of heroes appear and approach Garaki with an arrest warrant, leading the man to run off in fear. He can't help but wonder how the heroes even know about him and his deeds. There's no way they're able to get Johnny on their side, it was simply physically and scientifically impossible, and the Stars and Stripes remain in the United States!
His thoughts stopped when Mirko burst out from the entrance and landed on the ceiling with a manic grin, her eyes glowed bright yellow. Garaki screams in fear before running off, pulling out his phone, and pressing buttons. The chambers open and release hundreds of Nomus he has made. Most of it was the prototype for the perfect Nomu, but surely it would be enough to keep Mirko at bay-!
Garaki's thoughts were halted when Mirko was suddenly covered in bright yellow electricity and turned into a blur as she tore every Nomu on her way like a certain tenrec from a famous kids' media. Garaki's eyes widen in shock as he wasn't expecting that at all. Since when did Mirko have an electricity quirk!?
"Gotcha!" Mirko grins as she grabs Garaki by his throat and applies pressure on the grip, causing Garaki to gasp for air. "To think a scum like you exists in this world, hiding in plain sight….I'm gonna enjoy crushing you, old man."
"H-hiiii!" Garaki panicked as tears and snot comically came out of his eyes and nose respectively, making Mirko squint in disgust.
"Geez, you're pathetic, old man." Then, out of nowhere, multiple Nomus burst from under the ground and tried to tackle Mirko, but she simply summoned electricity and shaped it into spikes before piercing every Nomus. She made sure that each of the wounds left cauterized wounds to prevent them from regenerating.
"Seriously, is that all you've got, Old Man?" Mirko clicks her tongue in disappointment, her face shows nothing but displeasure. "I was hoping for a more interesting fight. I mean, you did create one and lent it to that brat of a villain, hoping it could fight All Might in his current strength."
"H-how…" Garaki asks shakily. "How…..how…."
"How, what?" Mirko asks with a raised eyebrow.
"EVERYTHING! HOW DID YOU DO IT!? HOW DID YOU KNOW!?" Garaki was on a mental breakdown as he gripped Mirko tightly out of desperation.
"Now, why do I have to tell everything to a villain like you, doc?" Mirko merely gives the man a manic grin, causing him to pale. Then, she electrocuted the doctor to unconscious.
"…if I know it would be this boring, then I would decline the invitation," Mirko mutters. "The others would be able to do this without me." Mirko sighs before carrying the unconscious Garaki like a sack of potatoes and turning around, only to see more and more Nomus emerge, crowding her.
"Oh, good," Mirko says with a savage grin. "I could use more warm-ups." She covers herself in electricity again and charges towards the Nomus, ignoring the fact that she's giving Garaki violent shock therapy.
With Gang Orca
Kamino, Japan
"A warehouse…." A blonde-haired man with an unusually long neck wearing a denim waistcoat and jeans can be seen looking at an old warehouse. Besides him, Gang Orca is standing while adjusting his tie and the shadow cat can be seen standing on his shoulder, attracting everyone's attention. "Are you sure it's here, Sakamata-san?"
"Yes, and if you don't believe me, you can go in and check it yourself." Gang Orca grunts as he tries not to react to everyone looking at the cat.
"Forgive me for being skeptical, but having all of us gathered for a raid in one night. You may have given us a lot of details, but you never told us where or who did you get that information from." The man says.
"Well, I can't disclose to you about the information. The person requests their identity to remain anonymous. But, I can assure you, the information is trustworthy." Gang Orca says before looking at a girl with emerald hair wearing a yellow sleeveless top and skirt along with a comm device resembling a pair of cat ears and a pair of cat paws. "Ragdoll, would you like to confirm my claim using your quirk on the building?"
"Sure," The woman nodded before activating her quirk, her eyes glowing rainbow. After a few seconds, the woman deactivates it and starts to empty her stomach, looking pale. "O-oh….oh, god. Gang Orca understates everything…." This is enough to convince the heroes before they all relent. Not that they won't agree with Gang Orca but they didn't want to make a mistake as acting on false information could lead to disaster that no heroes want to happen.
"Well, then. Let me start the raid." Gang Orca's eyes turn bright gold before he extends his hand forward as a golden aura coats his hand and the doors. With a swing, Gang Orca telekinetically detaches the door and sends it flying which shocks everyone as they have never seen him pull a telekinesis before.
The moment the door is open, the chambers in the warehouse automatically open and let out multiple Nomus. Before the heroes could jump into action. Gang Orca caught the entire Nomu with his telekinesis before squeezing. The space around the Nomu shift before they all suck in, causing blood and flesh bursts from the Nomu.
The heroes pale witnessing the scene as Gang Orca squeezes every Nomu and turns it into a giant meatball. Letting go, the meatball causes a tremor upon impact with the ground. Letting out a huff, he gets into the warehouse. All of the heroes present there stood there dumbfounded, unable to process what just happened until one of them broke the silence.
"Why did he even need us here in the first place again!?" Unknowingly, everyone merely nods in agreement.
Meanwhile,
Midoriya Residence
"Mmmm…." Izuku opened his eyes as he looked at the ceiling of his room, rubbing his eyes before blinking as he felt someone lying on his chest. He takes a look and immediately, his face turns scarlet.
'W-w-why is she in my room, sleeping on top of me!?' Izuku thought frantically as Ochako could be seen sleeping while cuddling him, her arms hugging sleeping Leo.
'Congratulations, master!'/'You have truly passed the trial of adulthood!'/'Well….done..!'/'You have come so far, my lord.' Izuku was bombarded with his shadows cheering for him, causing his face to turn even redder.
'Stop it, you all!' Izuku exclaims desperately before thinking of a way to get out of there, but it is too late as Ochako wakes up and looks straight at Izuku. Both of them made eye contact for a few moments before Ochako's face turned into a similar shade of red.
"AH!" Ochako jumps back while holding Leo a bit too tightly, causing the poor spirit to choke. "W-W-what!? Why are you in-!?" Ochako pauses before looking around. "… This isn't my room."
"It's….my room," Izuku says while rubbing his head.
"… Why am I in your room?" Ochako asks.
"Remember last night? We went all out with our date until midnight. You fell asleep and I brought you here…and apparently, I was too tired as well, so I ended up bringing you to my apartment…." Izuku says while scratching his cheek. He remembers how the date led him to 100 fatigue for the first time. It's one thing that confused him, how is he getting tired from a date but he's fine when fighting monsters?
"Oh…" Ochako mutters before looking around. "….where's the shopping bags?" Ah, now Izuku remember why. He has overdone it by buying her gifts so that he carries everything by himself, not caring that he still has a fatigue meter as it slowly accumulates the fatigue from carrying all of the gifts.
"….I think I put them in the living room," Izuku rubs his head while groaning. The fatigue from doing all of that stuff messed with his body. Summoning a shop, he purchased multiple Mythical Restoration Potions before chugging the entire thing down. He can feel the burning muscles in his body slowly disappear, his head doesn't feel like splitting into two, his lungs feel lighter, his heart no longer beating like drummer in a rock concert, his ears stop ringing, and his nose doesn't feel like being stabbed by hundreds of needles.
'If this is how 100 fatigue feels like, then I would rather not feel it ever again.' Izuku thought grumpily. He still can't believe he got fatigued just from having a date instead of from a fight. It feels like a stab in his pride.
"You're okay, Izuku?" Ochako asks in concern. "You rarely drink potions…."
"Sorry," Izuku wipes some of the potion from his mouth. "The fatigue meter is a bitch."
"… How are you able to get fatigued from a date but not from a monster fight?" Ochako asks incredulously.
"The System is being a fucking troll," Izuku says as Ochako merely nods before they awkwardly walk out of Izuku's room. To their utter horror, Inko is in front of the door while holding Eri, frozen in shock as she looks at Izuku and Ochako. Inko was attempting to ask about the massive amount of shopping bags in the living room but was greeted with an unexpected scene.
"…..come on, Eri. Let's leave Big Brother Izuku alone and do adult stuff." Inko mutters quietly as she walks away with Eri merely nods, causing the duo to be petrified. "My baby boy has truly grown into an adult…I have never been so proud, happy, sad, and ecstatic in my entire life…"
"I-IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!" The two of them yell as they try to explain what is going on, but it falls on deaf ears as Inko deliberately ignores the two of them.
Later
Musutafu, Japan
"PFFFFTTT, BAHAHAHAHA!"
Izuku and Ochako cover their faces with their respective hoodie while Eijirou laughs his ass off, the three of them walking beside each other.
"O-oh, my fucking god!" Eijirou wheezes. "This is the most hilarious shit I ever heard! What kind of second date leads to the two of you ending up in a bedroom together!?"
"O-oh, shut it!" Ochako uses her staff to bash Eijirou's head, but due to his insanely high durability, he shrugs it off while continuing to laugh.
"I regret ever telling you about it," Izuku mutters while pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Oh, you sure do, buddy," Eijirou says with a shit-eating grin before ducking from Izuku's attack and laughing it off, much to Izuku's and Ochako's annoyance. "Anyways, what do you guys wanna do? I mean, the school's canceled due to the raid on those labs with your shadow cat."
"He has a name, and it's Yoru," Izuku says while scratching his head. "As for your question, not sure. I wasn't exactly planning anything for today…"
"Me neither…" Ochako mutters, putting her staff away. "We're both too focused on the date…."
"Speaking of date, how was it? Besides you know…" Eijirou says while grinning at the last part before dodging an incoming swing from Izuku and Ochako.
"It's great," Ochako grumbles, clenching her fist.
"Indeed, we have so much fun," Izuku says while gritting his teeth.
"You….guys didn't look like you do," Eijirou sweatdrops before the two of them grab Eijirou and finally unleash their pent-up frustration, a sinister face plastered on both faces. "Okay, I stand corrected…." Just like that, Eijirou receives a proper beating from the couple while the bystanders choose to ignore them.
Later
"Ah, that hit the spot." Eijirou sips his hot coffee, his eyes now sport bruises, and his nose is clogged with tissues due to a nosebleed. Izuku and Ochako, both drinking iced coffee, give the boy a narrowed look which causes Eijirou to pout. "…come on, guys. I was merely joking…"
"Sorry…" Izuku says while rubbing his forehead. "But, I would rather if you refrain from teasing us for the entire day. I had enough of the misunderstanding between myself and Mom and Eri."
"Speaking of Eri, how was she?" Eijirou asks curiously.
"She's…fine," Izuku says while scratching his cheeks. "I….didn't get to hang out with her that much due to everything that happened. Mom did her best to deal with her issues and she's still too scared to even go outside. So, what about Kousuke?"
"….I…try to avoid him ever since the start of my nightmare…." Eijirou admits, surprising Izuku and Ochako. "Every time I wake up from my nightmares, I constantly unleash wind blades and destroy the concretes. I….rather not did it on Kousuke by accident."
"But, you did at least try to hang out with him more, right?" Ochako asks. "Speaking of him, where is he?"
"He's been…hanging out with his new friend, he says that his name is Kota and he's been going to his friend's house for a while," Eijirou says while scratching his cheeks. "….I feel like there's a rift forming between us."
"You could bring him along with us, like the old times," Izuku says while sipping his iced coffee.
"Yeah, that's a good idea," Eijirou says with a smile.
"Oh, hello there, handsome," Izuku froze as he heard a voice from the back and turned around to see a girl with white hair, light blue eyes, and pale skin. The girl leans closer with a seductive smirk on her face. "What a handsome-looking guy. Would you like to go for a coffee, just the two of us?"
"Sorry, but I already had a girlfriend," Izuku says in an even tone, but both Ochako and Eijirou can sense a hint of anger in his tone. Did Izuku know this girl? What was their history? And if that's true, why is the girl didn't recognize Izuku?
"Is that so? Then, why don't you simply ditch her and go on a date with me? I promise you, I'll give one amazing experience for a handsome man like you," Eijirou had to restrain Ochako from murdering the bitch who was trying to seduce Izuku.
"….I see you still haven't changed much, Hikari," Izuku says while letting out a sigh, surprising the girl.
"I'm….pretty sure I never told you my name," The girl, Hikari, says in a confused tone.
"… You didn't remember at all, do you?" Izuku says in a cold tone. "February 14, 2 years ago in Aldera Junior High."
"….Deku?" The girl asks as she looks at Izuku in surprise. "No…you can't be him, you look nothing like him…."
"Then, perhaps you need to get your eyes checked, I mean hundreds of former Aldera Junior High students could recognize me now," Izuku says harshly.
"…Deku never had the backbone to speak in that tone," Hikari scowls.
"Well, people change, Hikari. I suppose you wouldn't know since you're still a slutty bitch that won't stop sweet-talking every boy on the street so you could get into their pants and ditch them afterward." Izuku says in a mocking tone, which makes Hikari instinctively slap Izuku, but it ends up breaking her wrist as bones stick out of her skin.
"AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!" Hikari screams as she holds her bloodied wrists. "Y-you quirkless bastard!"
"Oh, go read a goddamn dictionary. That insult is getting more and more stale. But, I supposed given how much you spent on getting fucked by every boy, you never learn shit from that hellhole. Or perhaps that counts as a blessing since I have no idea what that junkyard anything that's remotely useful." Izuku says while rolling his eyes. Hikari snarls before trying to hit him again but ends up breaking her other wrists as she screams in pain. "Oof, all the dinosaurs feared the T-Rex."
"Bro…" Izuku blinks as he looks at Eijirou. "I think that's enough, she's already down…"
"What? I didn't do anything, she hurt herself." Izuku exclaims.
"That's….not what I meant…." Eijirou sweatdrops as he is referring to the verbal assault Izuku keeps unleashing. Izuku looks at him before tilting his head in confusion. Meanwhile, Ochako is laughing her ass off in the background like she had just witnessed a true comedic gold.
Later
After calling 119 and getting the girl to the ambulance, Izuku and his friends left the café, each of them holding a bag of bagels.
"So….who's that bitch?" Ochako asks. "From how you two interact, you two seem to have a history with each other."
"She's….my fake Valentine's Day Secret Admirer," Izuku says while scratching his cheeks. "It happened two years ago when I spent most of my school life alone, but suddenly, I got a letter in my locker. Upon reading it, I felt like it was too good to be true, but my desire for friendship made me….a total idiot and I fell for it. So, when I met her, she…. humiliated me in front of everyone with all the verbal assaults."
"… That explains the verbal assaults," Eijirou mutters, feeling slightly guilty for trying to stop his friends from returning the 'favor'.
"Aren't you…angry?" Ochako asks.
"….well, like with all the former Aldera bullies, I would've been pissed if I encounter them before any therapy. My lack of reactions towards killing and bottled-up anger would lead them to their demise…." Izuku admits. "But, nah. I've you guys with me, those shits better left in the past. Why would I even care about them when I have my brother-in-arm and my beautiful girlfriend to care about?"
"Bro…" Eijirou starts to tear up before pulling him into a hug. Izuku couldn't help but laugh while Ochako leaned in and kissed his cheeks, smiling at him as Izuku's face turned slightly red. The three of them walk together as they talk and laugh, enjoying their day as much as possible.
[To Be Continued]