Here it is, the 144th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks released on time as always. After what just happened there really isn't much to say about what is to come and so it is time to answer the massive cliffhanger from the last chapter as the Paranormal Liberation War enters its final moments. That is all the administrative stuff that I have for you, however, and there are no guest reviews to respond to or questions to answer so I will end this note here. Do keep the reviews coming as I enjoy hearing from y'all. That is all I have for this pre chapter note so that means that it is time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the 144th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks.

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Chapter 144: Awakening for One's Love

Marinette had been fighting the Nomu off and protecting Best Jeanist when Spinner managed to wake up Shigaraki and the Radio Wave attack happened. Mr. Compress had already freed his compatriots and it looked like they might flee so Togata had charged in to stop it and take down Mr. Compress before that could happen. Alas he'd failed to prevent Spinner from waking Shigaraki which is what had led to said Radio Wave attack that had rocked them.

At the time Marinette had been on one of the fiber cables having landed there after taking care of an airborne Nomu but the attack caused her to fall to the ground and land on her back though she wasn't injured when she hit it thanks to her costume. As she'd been getting up, katana in her hand she'd been able to take stock of the situation and it had been as she panned that she saw the flash of black from the corner of her eye and turned in time to see Adrien with his arms out standing a few feet in front of Midoriya who was lying on his chest on the ground clearly unable to move.

That wasn't the bad thing. No, that was reserved for the fact that there were 5 black, jagged, tendrils with red lines in them that had pierced Adrien in the chest and erupted out his back. As they disintegrated due to Cataclysm, which showed that they were inorganic, Marinette tracked them back to see that they'd come from Shigaraki who was supported by Spinner but he quickly fell back as lines appeared on his body.

That was immaterial to Marinette as she turned her eyes wide to see Adrien, blood pouring from his mouth and his costume darker than normal begin to fall back having said something to Midoriya before he did. That was when it all hit Marinette and she screamed.

"No! Adrien!"

At that everything else faded away and Marinette rushed towards her boyfriend, the love of her life, and the only person other than Tikki from her past life who was still with her as he collapsed to the ground the katana still in her right hand and fear wracking her body. This couldn't be happening, it couldn't.

Sure they knew the risks of being heroes in this new era they'd ended up in and accepted them but still Marinette couldn't that it would happen so early in their tenure as heroes. It couldn't and she kept that in her mind as she rushed to his side as he hit the ground ripping off her mask in the process as it was getting in the way of the tears that were streaming down her face as she ran.

"Adrien, no, please, you can't die, you can't leave me all alone in this life after we lost everything! Please, not so soon at least." Marinette begged. "Why? Why'd you have to do that my love? Please, stay with me Adrien."

In her sorrow causing her to default to French as she reached him and fell to her knees by his side and dropping the katana next to her as one hand going to his blood soaked chest the other to the back of his head as she cradled him. She could see the 5 puncture on his chest and knew that both his lungs had been hit along with his guts and likely his liver though hopefully not his heart. Regardless, they were severe wounds and well beyond her ability to tend to them as the blood pooled around Adrien.

"Mari, Marinette." Adrien coughed out, blood spraying from his mouth and hitting her face as his eyes fluttered open briefly so that he could see her crying face above his though it was now speckled with his blood. "You're here m'lady. Thank you."

Despite the situation Adrien smiled. He was glad that Marinette's face would be the last thing he saw as he felt his life ebb away as she held him, her tears falling down and onto his face to mingle with his own one. Alas this would be it he felt as while the tendrils Shigaraki had sent at him may have missed his heart but there was no question that the wounds were fatal. Still, he had the strength for one final moment with his love and he fell into French as well as he spoke.

"I'm sorry, I had to do it." Adrien said softly. "Deku, you know that he's the future here, he's the only hope of winning this war, he is the hope of this era and Shigaraki was going to kill him. I had to stop it no matter the cost."

"I, I know but still." Marinette said through her tears. "After all we've been through, all that we lost thanks to Hawk Moth, and all that we've rebuilt in this new era we ended up in, I, I can't lose you as well, I can't…"

"You can bugaboo." Adrien said his voice weak now and getting weaker but he smiled through the blood burbling out of his mouth as his tears flowed down the side of his face. "I know you can because you're Ladybug, the great hero of Paris, you can do anything. Be strong for me and live on my love. Help Deku make this world a better place and I'll see you in the afterlife, I'll be waiting there for you with all our friends who went before us, I can't wait to see them again and soon I will."

"Don't speak like that Adrien." Marinette said as she cried her voice pleading as everything going on around them was lost in the moment. "I, I'm sure…"

"There is no time bugaboo so please, let me say my peace before the end." Adrien said weakly and Marinette quieted down to let him though her tears flowed harder now. "I, I'm glad I got to live this second life with you after the incident and learn that you were Ladybug and that my feelings for you were reciprocated even if it took being sent to the future to resolve our love square. This last year has been the happiest of my life despite everything because I have been able to spend it with you so I will go in peace with that. I love you Marinette."

As Adrien had been speaking he'd been forcing the words out and he was fading fast from the blood loss but he got to the end and as he told Marinette that he loved her he found his peace and closed his eyes still gazing at her face as he breathed out his last. It had been a good life and while the incident had caused a lot of pain he'd been able to live through it because he had had his love by his side and had died in her arms after making sure that the next hero the world needed lived so it was a good way to go. Naturally it was one that Marinette refused to accept.

"No, I will not accept this Adrien, you will live, I don't care how I will correct this damage, I will…" Marinette said as her grief and sorrow at seeing her love die before her and holding him as he did was well beyond the needed emotional state needed.

Not that Marinette realized it at the time as she was now frantic to save Adrien and looking around her as she spoke which is when she saw the katana and a last, desperate hope filled her mind and body as she trailed off at seeing it. As soon as it was in her mind she looked up at a shocked Midoriya who was staring teary eyed at the scene before him and switched to Japanese.

"Was it a Quirk that did this to Adrien?"

"Huh?" Izuku asked taken aback by the ferocity and desperation in Dupain-Cheng's voice, he'd never heard it like that before given how calm and confident she usually was. "What…"

"A Quirk Deku." Marinette said even more desperately as she glared at him which snapped Izuku out of having just watch his good friend and classmate die in front of him as the girl Adrien loved held him speaking their native language. "Did Adrien get hit by a Quirk?"

"Y, yes." Izuku stuttered out. "It was…"

"That's all I need to know; I hope to all the gods out there that this works." Marinette said her desire to save Adrien from death and emotional state at a fever pitch as she grabbed the katana's handle and tossed it into the air with all her strength before yelling as it hit its apex. "Miraculous Ladybug!"

Izuku had no idea what to expect as he could barely process what was going on other than that Agreste had sacrificed himself for him which didn't feel right even if that was the essence of what it meant to be a hero, especially seeing Dupain-Cheng's reaction. He knew they were a couple and clearly in love but seeing the raw emotions and pain on the girl's face, a girl he deeply respected as she was very much the kind of hero that he'd hoped to be one day, was hard to watch. It drove home a lot of the realities of the situation and why he couldn't fail, why he couldn't let Agreste's sacrifice be in vain.

At least until Dupain-Cheng had asked about if it had been a Quirk that had hit him. That had surprised Izuku but he'd answered in the affirmative that it had been and she'd proceeded to throw that katana in the air and yell out what sounded like an ultimate move though she used French not Japanese for it. Izuku had no idea what that could be but he could only watch the katana and then stare in utter shock as it exploded at Dupain-Cheng's words but rather than a typical explosion it burst into what looked like a swarm of countless ladybugs for some reason.

The swarm swirled in the air for a moment before it spiraled directly down in a whirling vortex that surrounded Dupain-Cheng and Agreste where they were completely obscuring them for a moment before they exploded out and vanished as if they hadn't been there at all. All Izuku could do was stare and gape, all fighting going on around them completely ignored as a now fully in control All for One dealt with the other heroes trying to stop him while on Gigantomachia's back, at the scene before him because it was frankly unbelievable.

A moment ago Agreste had been on his back on the rubble floor an expanding pool of blood around him and now he was still on his back with Dupain-Cheng over him only there was no blood on the ground or him, no visible holes in his suit, and oddly the ground where the ladybugs had been was a clean floor that likely was in the lab before it was destroyed by Shigaraki's Decay. It was as if any damage caused by Quirks had been removed and returned to what it had been before and all by those strange ladybugs that had burst from Dupain-Cheng's Lucky Charm.

Izuku was beyond stunned at what he'd witnessed. He'd known that Lucky Charm was a top tier Quirk, easily one of the strongest out there besides One for All and All for One given the precise nature of what it could do and the way Dupain-Cheng used it only made it stronger but for it to have this power as well, that was unreal.

The first question was how? The second was that if this was part of Dupain-Cheng's power then it put her Quirk on a whole new level, potentially on the level of One for All because if Izuku was right she'd literally just brought Agreste back to life by removing the damage as if it had never been there in the first place.

As if to confirm this Agreste coughed and spluttered on the ground before he opened his eyes shocked at what was going on. One moment he'd been sure he was dying and he'd even seen what had to be the River Styx, the next he was yanked back from it and all the pain and blood was gone. Hell, his Quirk seemed to have been recharged though he was so emotionally and mentally drained that it didn't matter.

What did was that Adrien was whole again and he had no idea why but as he opened his eyes and coughed he saw Marinette over him smile, relief in her eyes as tears streamed down her face. However, that wasn't the only thing he saw and when he did his own eyes went wide in horror.

Marinette was deathly pale and blood was running down her face from her eyes, nose and mouth but she still smiled as she looked into Adrien's green eyes that she loved so much. She knew that what she'd done, that while it had burnt all her remaining energy and then some hence the blood and the fact that she'd be out for a while, that it wasn't fatal.

It was as if her body knew to not go that far though she'd certainly gone past her limit and then some with what she'd done but it had saved Adrien and brought him back from certain death so she couldn't help but smile. She managed to get two words out before it all hit her and she pitched forward unconscious and completely out of the fight and it would take her a while to remember what actually happened.

"It's back."

That was all Marinette got before her eyes rolled up and she fell forward to lie across Adrien's chest out cold as her blood smeared onto it. It was all he needed to know though because there was only one thing that could have saved him and gotten that response out of Marinette. Well, it looked like it was now going to work on Quirks though how and why it was back now of all times was confusing. Still, Adrien didn't mind, they were both alive again and while it clearly took a lot out of Marinette she didn't die from it which was good.

"Er, what just happened?" Izuku asked trying to process everything. "Those ladybugs, did they really clear away the damage caused by Quirks? Also what does she mean by it's back?"

"The full extent of her power, that is what is back." Adrien said with a smile his voice strong again though now that he was over his surprise at what had happened and worry for Marinette was over the effects of the sudden healing started to take its toll on him. "Izuku, when this is over you, me and Marinette are going to have a long chat. There are things we need to explain and it's time you learned them. It's time you learned the secret we've hidden, the truth of how we ended up in Japan and this era to begin with. You deserve to know it."

"Yeah I'm totally lost." Izuku said not sure how to address Adrien's ramblings especially in the context of everything that was going on. "Are you saying that there's more to you two than I know?"

"We'll explain everything when we've recovered because this mission has to be coming to an end soon but for now, I'm out of this fight that healing was too much for me." Adrien said as he closed his eyes. "You may want to pay attention though, I don't think this is over until Shigaraki has either escaped or been captured. Use this chance, you've got this Deku."

With that Adrien passed out and left only Izuku conscious for the moment. He was still utterly confused but as Agreste passed out the sounds of battle returned and he realized that the other boy was right, he needed to focus on the battle going on around him and so with a lot of effort and pain Izuku raised his head to get a stock of the situation but just as he did that he got a sharp stabbing pain in his head that he knew was Danger Sense and a cold fear washed over him at the sensation.

Danger Sense allowed Izuku to sense someone's intention and negative emotions which when dealing with humans meant it got triggered by intentions of threat or malice that would affect him. Right now it was the later that Izuku was feeling as he looked up at Gigantomachia his eyes wide.

While he couldn't see the person, the sense was enough, it was the sense he'd felt when All for One had fought All Might in Kamino, the pure malice that was his presence. However, it seemed that unlike before when he'd been in One for All's mindscape and facing off against Shigaraki and All for One as they tried to steal One for All from him, this time All for One was somehow in control of Shigaraki's body.

That didn't make much sense to Izuku but he really couldn't dwell on that now given how bad it was. All for One was somehow controlling Shigaraki and all the Quirks he had, Quirks All for One almost certainly knew better than Shigaraki knew them and that could be bad. While Izuku was sure that the attack that had hit Agreste had been from Shigaraki it had likely been the last of his will and now All for One was the one in command of Shigaraki's body.

This was made really clear when Izuku realized that the Nomus were no longer fighting around them but heading straight for Gigantomachia's back without a second glance at the heroes. Izuku couldn't do much as he tried to formulate a plan as he watched the Nomus actively avoid the students and Best Jeanist and instead going to where Shigaraki was no doubt holed up. Izuku wanted to stop them so as to prevent Shigaraki from escaping but he couldn't. Thankfully Best Jeanist still had some fight left in him and sent some fiber cables to try and intercept the Nomus.

"Everyone, don't give up." Best Jeanist said as he tried to hold the Nomus that were attempting to reach Shigaraki blood running down his face from his now red eyes showing the extreme strain the number 3 pro was under. "We must fight until the very end."

Izuku was trying to do just that and while he was on the verge of passing out himself from all the injuries he'd suffered he still had enough strength in him to manage it. He wasn't the only one as he noticed Togata, Ida, Todoroki, and Hado all trying to aid as well though Kacchan had finally succumb to his wounds and passed out just like Agreste and Dupain-Cheng had.

There weren't many left on the battlefield so Izuku knew that this was it, this was where they either won and ended the war now right when it began or failed and Shigaraki escaped which would allow him to recover and prolong the conflict. The good news was that they seemed to have Gigantomachia and Mr. Compress, the later of whom Togata had taken off the former after he'd been knocked out while Shigaraki was trying to kill Izuku, and now they just had to finish it. Thankfully they had a shot at it as the Nomu broke free.

"Follow the Nomu, they're no doubt going to where Shigaraki is." Best Jeanist called out using them now that they were free and the students still fighting all moved. "Dabi's got to be there as well, along with the other villains who we've seen so far, we cannot let them escape! We must end this now!"

At that Todoroki blasted off the ground with his fire, Togata used Permeation to try and get close and evade attacks like the black tendrils that Shigaraki had, Hado sent out a 100% attack after the Nomu and Ida activated Recipro Turbo to get there as fast as he possibly could. They were all that was left in this fight and they were all going to make the final push to end it for the heroes as a win today and the arrests of Shigaraki, Dabi, and the other member of the League would likely end this threat once and for all.

Alas that wasn't to be the case and while Izuku couldn't see it, his friends and classmates were falling one by one. First it was Togata who was stabbed in the back by Rivet Stab using misdirection to get past his Permeation Quirk causing him to fall flat only feet from All for One as All for One commented on why he didn't like facing a Quirk like Permeation. Then it was Ida and Todoroki's turn as they closed in from two sides only to be blasted back at the last minute by All for one though they still believed they were facing Shigaraki. This one Izuku saw as they were blasted back by a more concentrated version of that Radio Waves Quirk though he didn't see where they fell or that they'd been knocked out by it.

At the same time Hado fell unconscious from the air following her last attack and landed on her side on Gigantomachia's back. She was still suffering from the burn that she'd taken from Dabi and was about to pass out as she'd used a full charge and Surge was her own vitality converted into energy which she'd overused while injured.

Lastly, one of the few remaining Nomus that was being held by a fiber cable broke free of Best Jeanist's binding and he coughed up blood, as more blood ran down his face, his power taxed to the limit but he still made one final attempt as the Nomus reached Shigaraki and Spinner, the others weren't present so they had to be in Mr. Compress's Quirk, and grab them before they could escape for good. Alas Best Jeanist couldn't reach them and they got away and began to flee on the backs of the Nomus that were still active.

Izuku felt that he was the only one left now and he couldn't lie here, his friends were falling one by one and he was just lying there on the ground. He couldn't let the chance that Agreste had bought him go to waste, nor could he let the efforts of all his friends and the pros be for nothing, as he fought hard to stand and fight villains and with that mentality he blasted Blackwhip out of his mouth again to get off the ground and activate Float.

From there he used Blackwhip to move himself through the air and towards the fleeing Shigaraki and Float to fly after them now that he had the altitude which got All for One's attention. To add to that Izuku shouted at them but All for One was now looking at him as he approached.

"I'll give it to you, that tenacity of yours is just like All Might." All for One's voice said from Shigaraki's body as he held up his right hand and sent out 4 tendrils of Rivet Stab at Izuku with the sound of his voice told Izuku that it was indeed All For One who was in control right now. "A fitting successor just as Tomura is for me only I will take over this body when it's fully recovered and the process is completed. All you heroes did is buy yourself a little time by attacking before the transfer was finished."

Izuku heard this but he was too focused on avoiding the attack to care. He was pushing himself past his limits but that was nothing compared to what his friends had done so he kept pushing as he close in on the fleeing villains and with one more effort he shot Blackwhip out Froppy Style and grabbed Shigaraki or All for One, he couldn't really think on what the person was to try and stop him even if the attempt was desperate.

"Useless Izuku Midoriya, this will not prevent my retreat and regroup from this loss but do accept the gifts I've left, you earned the captures you will get today." All for One called out as they Nomus continued to take him away with Izuku Midoriya hanging on. "We should meet again when this body's complete and you're healed up once more. Then our fateful, final, clash will occur."

"Keep your mouth shut, All for One!" Izuku shouted around the Blackwhip tendril coming from his mouth. "I'll…"

"We will see each other soon, boy." All for One said as he kept his hand up only this time he blasted out a condensed Radio Wave that slammed into Izuku and tossed him back, dissipating Blackwhip and allowing the possessed Shigaraki to escape on the Nomu. "This is far from over. Until we meet again Izuku Midoriya."

Still, as Izuku fell to the ground to land on his back, his strength gone and consciousness fading from him he couldn't help but think of the day's events, of Shigaraki and all the people he'd killed with that Decay wave, the pain that he'd caused everyone. There was no way that he could forgive someone like that.

Despite that, Izuku recalled what he'd seen in his mindscape when All for One was taking over Shigaraki clearly, it was the look of someone who wanted to be saved. Shigaraki couldn't be forgiven for his crimes, he had to pay for all that he'd done, but he could still be saved and that was on Izuku's mind as he hit the ground and All for One got away.

As Izuku hit the ground things were wrapping up in the area around him. Heroes still able to move like Rock Lock, Manual, Burnin, and Present Mic were running to help now that the likes of Aizawa, Gran Torino, Mirko, and Ryukyu who'd suffered bad injuries were on their way to hospital having been stabilized and patched up.

Meanwhile the final holdout in the battle with Gigantomachia passed out as Best Jeanist toppled back and off a fiber cable onto the ground below with a thump. He no longer had the strength to hold on now that Shigaraki was gone and he'd fallen with those all around him no better. Only Endeavor regained consciousness as he pushed himself to his hands and knees with blood dripping from his mouth his eyes wide at the scene before him and all the fallen students who'd put everything on the line to try and defeat Shigaraki.

Bakugo was on his back out cold and bleeding out in need of immediate medical attention. Togata lay on his side on the ground knocked out by the precise strikes of Rivet Stab that he'd taken and then blasted off Gigantomachia's body by the Radio Wave that had taken down Todoroki and Ida. Todoroki himself was slumped in a sitting position against a protrusion on Gigantomachia's back knocked out and burned but not too badly injured while Ida was on his chest nearby also out cold and Hado lay unconscious elsewhere on the monstrosity's back.

Lastly, right where Izuku had been, Adrien was in the best shape having been healed by Marinette but that had drained him while Marinette lay over him blood still leaking from her mouth, eyes, and nose as she lay there. Both of them were out cold from what they'd been through and what Marinette had done but they were the lucky ones and the bodies of heroes were everywhere while the coordinated effort to get to them and save them if possible began.


It wasn't just here where the efforts were being made, in and around the villa the results were just as clear. Hawks, Fei, and Kaminari were all in the field medical center having received first aid the moment they got there, on top of any they'd received beforehand, but were not waking up. Elsewhere in the surrounding forest Mt. Lady and Kamui Woods were out cold while a good distance away Beth was buried in some mountain likewise unconscious. Finally Fat Gum and Amajiki lay unconscious in the path caused by Gigantomachia having tried to stop him after Majestic got Creati to safety.

They were the lucky ones though, others weren't. Majestic's mangled remains was near Amajiki and Fat Gum but it was clear he was dead, killed by Gigantomachia as he saved Momo. Worst though, for the students and in time Momo, Kirishima, Mina, and Sato in particular as they would be the ones to find her, was Midnight who lay dead in the forest having been murdered by the Meta Liberation Army grunts that had tracked gotten clear of the villa and taken advantage of her injured state thanks to Mr. Compress to end the life of the R-Rated hero.

That would be traumatizing for them though thankfully they'd not see what happened to the murderers who were nowhere to be found and not in the final accounting of arrests when all was said and done, not that it was clear who of the villains that escaped capture had been responsible for Midnight's death. To any who'd been around though it was as if they'd vanished right after they'd murdered Midnight and in a sense they had. That was because unknown to all at the time, and which only a select few would ever know about, the grunts who'd murdered Midnight been whisked away to be dealt with, permanently.

As the day came to an end a lone figure in a long lilac cloak with the hood pulled over his head hiding his face stood on a deep sea platform in international waters far to the east of Japan as the winds whipped it around him and waves of the Pacific Ocean crashed into the platform. Before the man were a half dozen bodies, blood pooling from them where the man had cut them down, where he'd executed them for the murder that they'd committed in the forests near the Gunga Mountain Villa.

They'd killed a hero who's death would deeply affect many and as they were nothing by grunts the man had been allowed to exact justice upon them and the justice he'd decided for them had been death. He'd slaughtered them without hesitation after revealing his nature to them when he took them here though they had the chance to fight back but they were no match for him. Now their blood slowly dripping from the blades extended from the man's gauntlets as he stood there fists clenched and looking at his handywork. This was all he could do today and it felt so little compared to all that had befallen humanity.


All this was happening as Izuku lay there where he'd fallen after his final attempt to stop All for One had failed. As he began to fade into unconsciousness Izuku thought of all that had just transpired, the losses that they'd suffered, the injuries inflicted upon heroes and society as a whole, the implications of the raids and what had been revealed by Dabi, and the uncertainty going forward as he lay on his back in the remains of Jaku.

It had not gone as expected and Izuku had no idea what was to come as he finally succumbed to his injuries and lost consciousness, slipping into a coma that would finally allow Izuku the meeting he needed to decide what the future held for him. With that, the last of the major players on the side of the heroes was out and thus the Paranormal Liberation War finally came to an end.

For the first time in a while there's no cliffhanger as at long last the Paranormal Liberation War has at long last come to an end and what an end to it as I'm sure y'all know what just happened to Marinette. I've been waiting for this moment for a long time, all part of my grand plan and to those who put up with 143 full chapters and over 1.26 million words to see it return I thank you for your patience and it is finally here, the Miraculous cure is back. I always planned for Marinette to get it back and for it to work on Quirks I just needed the right situation and theory for it to happen and at long last all the needed convergences have occurred for it to return. That's not all that happened in this chapter of course as there were a lot of other things that capped off the war including something that some of you may have guessed back when the war was about to start though I only showed the aftermath of it. Naturally all that has happened will be discussed, confirmed, and dealt with in the coming chapters as we move into the post war recovery arc and all that that has in store for our heroes leading up to a moment I'm sure many of you are eager to see so there is plenty to look forward to but for now that is all that I have for y'all so I will leave this chapter off here. As always, if you like it or have any questions please let me know in reviews or PMs, I will try to answer them as best I could and post any questions asked between uploads at the start of the next chapter and do follow and favorite this, so you are alerted to future uploads. Do keep the reviews coming as I like hearing from y'all as you enjoy my work, it motivates me to keep producing the best work I can for y'all to enjoy. Until next time.

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