Boku no Hero: Royal


Hello there people, I hope you are good and well, I return with another chapter of this story, again, this is the english version, I'm still kinda stuck in the spanish version, but I hope to continue to keep this story afloat. We will be soon entering my personal favorite arc of the sotry, so I hope you like this chapters until we arrive to it, let's start, Shall we?

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Boku no Hero: Royal

Chapter 10: The Fly of Gluttony


Mirko's Agency

The rabbit hero and the wolf hero trained in the gym, they were ready for what they're going to face, the Metaverse proved to be something completely different than what either of them had ever faced, but they would make sure to bring Kaneshiro to justice. They sparred briefly. Mirko kicked with speed, but Kree successfully covered himself, the Austrian jumped to kick the heroine, but she arched, jumping back to get away.

Mirko runs towards Kree and punches him quickly, Kree dodges his punches until one hit him, the impact caused him to spin, which he took advantage of to use that momentum to kick the heroine, but he didn't measure the force and Mirko fell to the ground holding his cheek which was where he received the kick.

"S-sorry, I overstepped," Kree apologizes, worried about the blow.

He didn't see Mirko's kick coming, followed by another lock using his legs to leave him without air, Kree couldn't resist any longer and tap out.

"You hesitated… Don't stop when the enemy seems defeated," comments Mirko smiling at his pupil.

"*Cough* Understood, Lady Mirko," the Austrian answers, standing up.

"Okay, take a break, I'll be right back," the woman leaves the gym while Kree goes to get his water bottle.

"I swear I put it here," says the boy looking for his drink "I think I left it in the bedroom," after saying that he leaves the gym.

He went back to the dorms looking for his water bottle and found it under his bed, what an idiot, he quickly grabbed his water bottle but saw something a little further away, a piece of paper, he was afraid that his teacher would punish him for not picking up the trash so he decided to do it, when he took the paper he noticed that it wasn't just any old paper, it was a photo, somewhat old, and you could see a young Mirko next to another older woman, both of them had their respective hero outfits, from the look on that Mirko's face, it seemed that she was just starting her career as a hero.

"I didn't know Lady Mirko had a teacher," Kree told himself "I'll ask her about her later," Kree takes his water bottle and goes to Mirko.

Upon arriving, he sees how the heroine seemed to be looking for something in her backpack, in fact, she turned the entire backpack over without caring that the contents fell out.

"Where is it? I put it here," Mirko said, searching.

"Lady Mirko, what is it?" asks Kree.

"I just can't find something in my backpack, I could have sworn I put it here," the heroine sees Kree with the photo in his hands "Where did you get that?" asks the white-haired girl with a slightly annoyed tone of voice.

"I… I found it in the bedroom, I was looking for my water bottle and I… I found it on the floor," the heroine snatches the photo from Kree.

"You didn't see anything," Mirko replies dryly.

"I didn't know she had a teacher," says Kree.

"She wasn't my teacher," Mirko answers.

"So, who is it?" Kree asks.

"It's none of your business, go back to training,"

"O-okay," judging by the tone of voice, Kree decides not to ask any more and goes back to training.

Mirko looks at the nostalgic photo. If she lost that photo, she wouldn't know what to do. She remembered that photo, when she met the woman who inspired her to be a heroine. When she found out about her death, she felt like something inside her was breaking down. That was the only day in a long time that Mirko cried out of sadness.

Back to the current situation, she never wanted to belong to a team, she believed that only cowards did that, part of her did not feel comfortable with the idea of teaming up with a group of Vigilantes, but in order to defeat that bastard Kaneshiro , she was willing to get out of her comfort zone a little, she put her things away when a secretary approached.

"Mirko-sama, you've been called," says the woman handing over a cell phone.

"This is Mirko," answers the red-eyed girl.

"The Phantoms Thieves appeared," says the voice making the heroine open her eyes.

"Coming right away," the woman puts down the phone "Fenrir, it's time," Kree understood the message and runs with Mirko to the streets.

Shibuya Central Plaza was flooded with various Calling Cards stuck in various places, there were even larger banners that said, 'We will steal your heart' Mirko and Kree ran straight to the police station meeting Sae, who was on the phone.

"It's here," says Sae, hanging. "This has gotten out of control, these banners are all over Shibuya," the woman comments.

"Any clues?" asks Mirko.

"None, there's nothing on those cards that can help us, fingerprints, smells, nothing," Sae answers frustrated "They're smarter than I thought, take a look," the woman hands her the card.

"Mister Kaneshiro Junya, the money-devouring sinner of gluttony. You delight in swindling others with horrendous methods that target only minors. We have decided to make you confess all your crimes with your own mouth. We will take your distorted desires without fail. From, The Phantoms Thieves" Mirko reads, looking at the card "Waow,"

"They're really into this," Kree thinks.

"We will investigate immediately, Fenrir, let's go," Mirko orders.

"I'm coming after you Lady Mirko," Kree answers, running down the street. They were near an alley when Kuda senses something stopping the heroes, the wolf runs into the alley. "Kuda!" Kree follows her companion.

While chasing the wolf they ran into Joker and his team, but wearing civilian clothes and without a mask, Mirko sighed.

"Wow, you went big," the woman comments.

"It was necessary to make sure that Kaneshiro would find out about the cards," Joker answers calmly.

"We only have this day to steal the Treasure," says a black cat coming out of Joker's backpack.

"That cat just talked?" Kree asks confused.

"Is Mona," Panther answers in his school uniform.

"Our appearance changes in the Metaverse, it's time to go to the Palace," Joker takes his phone "Are you ready?" he asks.

"Ready, do it now," says Mirko prepared.

"Okay, let's go," Joker presses a button and everything turns red and black.


Kaneshiro Palace, Metaverse

They all came out of the same alley, but there were no more people on the streets, no cars, nothing, Shibuya looked like an abandoned city, Mirko came out of the alley observing that even the sky was different, it was dark, but with a greenish tone, and the wind that blew carried some bills with it.

"Where the hell are we?" Mirko asks confused.

"We are in Shibuya, from Kaneshiro's point of view," Mona answers in her anthropomorphic form.

"His point of view? Does he see Shibuya as an abandoned city?" Kree asks.

"Worse," answers Queen.

At that moment, Mirko and Kree see people passing by, well, not exactly, they were ATMs with legs and arms, some were walking, others were giving off sparks as if they were broken, others were simply lying on the ground as if they no longer worked.

"If Kaneshiro sees the city like this, it means that those..."

"That's how Kaneshiro sees people, as ATMs from which to withdraw money," Queen answers seriously.

"I understand now," says Mirko "Those who are twitching and sparkling are people under a lot of pressure from him, and the ATMs there are broken..."

"They are people who have been murdered," Joker answers.

That last thing filled Kree with rage, that means that he even murdered more students, young people his age, who probably had some dream or goal for the future, and this man murdered them in cold blood without any remorse, he remembered what happened last night, that young man murdered, how many more suffered a similar fate? He didn't want to know. A noise caught his attention, when he looked up he saw a huge circular structure above them, it was a bench on a platform that worked as a kind of vacuum cleaner that collected the bills that were all over the place.

"That's his Palace, right?" Kree asks.

"That's right, luckily we can get in," says Panther.

"Let's go," says Mirko clenching his fists.

"That's the plan," Joker looks at Mona, who nods and turns back into a van.

"Come on, we'll get to the Palace quickly," the cat invites.

A kind of carpet went out from the Palace to Shibuya Street, Mona started it and went up this until she reached the entrance of the Bank, there they all got off and saw that the main entrance was broken and blocked.

"What happened here?" asks Mirko.

"An incident with Queen" Skull jokes .

"We're not going in through there, we're going in through there," Joker points to an entrance in the ground.

They all entered through the secret entrance that took them inside the bank, when they came out Mirko saw it as a completely normal bank. Joker went up some stairs to the second floor, he gave the signal for them to approach, the security was high, some guards were watching the place more carefully.

"There's a safe room in the basement, once we get there we can go to where the Treasure is quickly," says Joker.

"First we have to get rid of the guard," Fox answers, looking.

"I'll take care of it," Mirko comments seriously.

"You've seen what those things usually look like, are you sure?" Queen asks.

"I'm more aware now, Fenrir, it's our turn," the white-haired girl calls.

"At your command Lady Mirko," both heroes sneaked away to surprise attack the shadow, Kree hit him by removing his mask so that he writhed like in Mementos, the shadow melted and the enemy appeared.

This time it was a different enemy, it was a kind of light grey dog, very long, like a snake and semi-flat, with some red marks on the skin, the second was a kind of fairy with light blue hair and a blue suit and the third was a kind of 2-headed lion.

"Those are easy," says Queen approaching to help them.

"Okay, then we have to go to that elevator, let's start Fenrir," Mirko orders.

"Immediately Lady Mirko," Fenrir gets into a combat stance.

The lion runs straight towards Mirko who easily dodges it, Fenrir dodged the gray dog's nuclear attacks, he sent Kuda and Dredge to attack him, but he floated out of the wolves' reach, the fairy on the other hand, tried to throw a pink smoke towards Fenrir , who manages to dodge it, the gray dog flew towards him, but Kree managed to successfully kick him towards the fairy causing both to collide.

"Fenrir!" Queen throws her revolver at Kree. "High Pixies are weak against projectiles," says the brunette.

"Verstanden," Fenrir takes the gun and shoots the High Pixie knocking her down, now only the wolf was missing.

Mirko grabbed the two-headed lion by the tail and thanks to her great physical strength, she lifted it up and slammed it against the ground. The heroine jumped and fell with a huge stomp on the lion, defeating it. It turned completely black and exploded into a million particles. Fenrir managed to hit the gray dog and Kuda managed to bite it to hold it down. Finally, Fenrir shot at the dog, defeating it. Only the High Pixie remained.

"P-please spare my life," the fairy begs.

"Will it work like in Mementos?" Fenrir asks.

"I'll take care of it," says Joker pointing at him.

"What do you want from me?" asks High Pixie.

"I want an object," Joker asks seriously.

"It's not much, but I hope it helps you; it helps you regain energy," the fairy gives a bottle to Joker "Thank you for sparing my life," the fairy disappears.

"Okay, we're done here," Joker says walking to the elevator.

The group went to the elevator heading to the basement, during the trip Fenrir returned the weapon to Queen, but the question arose.

"How did you get weapons?" asks Mirko.

"In a store on Central Street, they are imitations, but in the Metaverse they work like a real one," Mona answers.

"How is that possible?" Fenrir asks.

"Simple, the weapons look real, if the enemies think they are real, then they are real," explains the cat.

"So what you think here, becomes real?" Ferir asks .

"Something like that, they will be shadows that take the form of what you want to be real, like a person or a dog, but inanimate objects become real if you think they are," Mona mentions. The elevator door opened.

"This way," Joker leads his companions to a green door, Mirko saw for a few moments how the door distorted a little. Upon entering they saw that it looked like a small office room.

"What are we doing here?" asks the heroine.

"It's a Safe Room, a point in the Palace where the distortion is extremely weak, the shadows don't reach here," explains Queen.

"Convinent," Fenrir replies

"A lot, now, be quiet for a moment," Joker asks, approaching the door and knocking on it for a few moments. "I can see it," says the leader of the Phantoms Thieves opening the door.

Mirko saw that they were no longer in the same place, now it looked like some kind of room, and in front of them was an elevator completely different from the one they took.

"I'm so confused," says the heroine.

"It's the Fast Travel," Mona speaks "It is to move more quickly in the Palace through the Safe Rooms,"

"Again, convenient," comments Fenrir.

"We're close, let's go," Fox opens the elevator doors and everyone enters.

As they went down they were able to see an immense vault, it was so big that it seemed to be about 5 commercial districts.

"This world makes me sick," says Mirko observing.

"This is how he sees Shibuya, he thinks all the money in the city belongs to him," Panther comments while watching.

"Last night we patrolled the city a little more," Mirko says seriously "And… Fenrir found a criminal," the woman mentions, making the aforementioned lower his gaze a little seriously.

"Criminal?" Skull asks.

"He was trying to hide something, Fenrir discovered that he possibly murdered a student," by saying that, the Phantoms Thieves opened their eyes.

"We arrested the criminal for drug possession and alleged murder," Fenrir speaks "The boy seemed to be you age,"

"Shujin Academy," Mirko mentions "You are students of Shujin , aren't you?" the woman asks.

"We, um…" didn't know if they should answer.

"We have a deal, we won't tell anyone about you," Mirko explains.

"You knew about Kaneshiro because his drug was being distributed at your school, right?" Fenrir asks, looking at them.

"Yes, that's right, I saw that Kaneshiro was in the police's sights, and I asked them to defeat him, things got out of control after that," says Queen.

"You are Nijima Sae's sister, right?" Mirko deduces "That's why you seemed very familiar to me,"

"And that's why her essence was similar to Lady Nijima's in LeBlanc," Fenrir answers.

"Yes, she is my older sister, how ironic, isn't it? The prosecutor who is looking for the Phantoms. Thieves of Hearts and her little sister who is a new member of these," says Queen sighing.

"It was harder for us than you think to agree to your deal, Miss Mirko," the blonde in the red suit begins to speak "It wasn't easy for Mukosei like us to give up the only chance we had to help people," says Panther.

"But it was the most sensible thing to do," adds Fox "We wanted fewer people to go through situations like ours," says the blue-haired boy.

"Miss Mirko, how will you explain this about Kaneshiro?" asks Queen "People have already seen that the Phantoms Thieves were after him, how will you explain that you stopped him without us having anything to do with it?"

"I'll say that we crossed paths and that I decided to help them, hopefully they won't ask me for more information about it, since they haven't been operating for very long," the heroine answers dryly.

"We will trust your word," comments Joker.

"Let's get this over with as soon as possible," says Mirko, cracking the bones in his hands.

The elevator stopped at the entrance to the vault, and they saw that the entire path to the center was completely clear, that the thousands of trunks that formed part of the vault had been moved in their entirety to leave a passageway.

"Well, the Treasure is coming to that elevator," says Mona determinedly.

"So, let's go," as they got out of the elevator, everyone ran straight to that elevator, Mirko and Fenrir looked at the gigantic vault, they couldn't believe how twisted a person's mind could be.

"This money is mine; I earned it through hard work," a voice could be heard in the area.

"That bastard again," says Skull annoyed.

"Is that Kaneshiro?" Fenrir asks.

"That's right, his Shadow is trying to justify his actions, it means he knows his wishes will be stolen," Joker answers as he reaches the elevator "Is everyone ready?" the black-haired man asks.

"We are with you, leader," Skull answers smiling.

"Let's get this over with," says Mirko with a sideways smile.

The robbers and heroes used the elevator down to the safe room, when they arrived, they saw absolutely nothing, just a huge door with a giant lock.

"What the heck?" Skull asks .

"A vault?! This wasn't there the last time we were here," Mona comments, surprised. "The whole room changed so quickly. Well, I guess this Palace isn't a bank for nothing."

"This world only confuses me more and more," Mirko answers confused.

"Greetings," a male voice is heard, a short and overweight man appears, he was wearing an elegant white suit and his skin was purple. "Welcome to my Private Bank City," the man says as some seemingly normal guys approach him. "I'm surprised you managed to get here alive. You seem very lucky."

"Stop messing around Kaneshiro, we've come to defeat you," Mirko comments seriously.

"Mirko? What's a hero like you doing, taking care of a bunch of kids?" the man asks without any surprise.

"It's none of your business, you moron, we will bring you to justice and you will pay for everything you've done," Mirko replies angrily.

"Those in power work those below them to the bone for money. That's the hierarchy of the world, isn't that how hero society works? You're the number 5 heroine, the first woman to reach that high in the rankings, you have your own agency, you should understand more about how the world really works," says Kaneshiro.

"You are wrong, we are in that ranking because of our actions, we are there to help people, Endeavor, Edgeshot , All Might , they are all heroes who are willing to give their lives to save people, lives that you destroy for your own benefit," Mirko's anger increases with every minute.

"You just abuse people to take their money, you are a piece of human scum," comments Fenrir seriously.

"All of that was forced on me too, you know?" Kaneshiro mentions pointing his finger at them "I went through shit until I crawled all the way out of the feces! It's my turn to benefit from everyone else," the man replies.

"You are despicable," Mirko answers.

"It doesn't matter, the strong and clever devour the weak! That's the natural order of things!" shouts Kaneshiro.

"Wrong!" Fenrir speaks. "That is not the natural order of things. On the contrary, the strong help the weak, the smart educates the ignorant. Only the coward uses force to subdue others." Fenrir 's wolves appear.

"What do you know, brat? Your family is extremely powerful. What do you know about what it means to get off the streets? To stop being miserable?" Fenrir frowns, remembering a certain person very close to him.

"I can assure you that I do know that, and that is why, in his name, you will be defeated," says the Austrian.

"This is where my big lesson ends. Now, I hope you are ready to work like slaves here for the rest of your lives," Kaneshiro answers.

"That's outrageous," Fox comments.

""Hehehehehe ! I'm going to swarm all over you all… And squeeze out every last penny!" Kaneshiro began to feel ill, holding his head and hunching over.

A black liquid dripped from the man's face, bumps began to grow on his back, Kaneshiro slowly brought his hands together and began to rub them while a buzzing sound was heard, the men who were with him began to get scared when their boss began to be covered by a black and red cloak, two insect wings emerged from Kaneshiro 's back and his yellow eyes changed to being red and large, like a fly's.

"I'll take care of this myself," Kaneshiro speaks in a distorted voice "Wassup yo? ¡Now come and get some," comments the strange being, speaking as if he were a rapper.

"You filthy, bastard fly… Get the hell out of my sight," Queen comments.

"Gyahahahaha! Alright, here we go you pieces of shit," says Kaneshiro smiling.

The fight had begun, Kaneshiro now as a kind of semi-fly was standing watching the thieves and heroes, everyone was disgusted because he acted like a real fly, rubbing his hands, turning his head looking everywhere, it was disgusting to see him.

"Hehehehe, being young is really a crime. They are naive, reckless, and most of all, they don't even know how stupid they are. I couldn't just sit back and NOT take advantage of those idiots, right?" the man asks while laughing.

"All together!" Joker shouts.

Mirko immediately ran to attack the villain but he began to fly to get out of the heroine's reach, Fenrir ran towards his teacher who lay down and raised her feet so that Fenrir could stand on them, the white-haired girl pushed her pupil with her powerful legs, throwing him against the villain, Fenrir for his part, managed to kick Kaneshiro , and before crashing into the wall, the symbol on his shoes lit up so he could briefly run along the walls, he jumped with enormous lightness towards the fly to kick it down. Fox and Skull ran towards the fly, Fox brandishing a long katana and Skull using a baseball bat , Fox quickly gave 3 slashes causing damage to the creature while Skull hit him hard in the face pushing him away.

"Come on, Carmen!" Panther shouts, letting the blue flames consume his mask and letting out a kind of extremely beautiful woman, with pink skin and a black panther mask, wearing a very detailed red flamingo-type dress. "Attack him, Agi!" Panther says, causing the woman to summon two fireballs and throw them towards Kaneshiro.

"Bitch!" says the fly while black, red and white energy comes out of its hands and throws a dark sphere at Panther who couldn't dodge it and was pushed away a little.

"Panther!" shouts Queen, helping her friend.

"Muahahahaha, you are very attractive, I will play with you when I killed your companions," the fly looked lasciviously at the two women.

"You disgust me," Mirko shouts, launching a strong kick that Kaneshiro dodged, but the impact was such that it created a small crater in it.

Mirko jumped up and kicked Kaneshiro hard, causing him to crash into the huge lock of the room. The fly growled and decided to throw a kind of purple cloud and sent it towards the thieves. Everyone managed to dodge the cloud except for Fox, who suddenly began to feel afraid.

"T-this… scares me," says the terrified boy.

"Mona, use something to free Fox from his fear," Queen orders while riding Johanna.

"Right away," the cat answers, running towards his companion.

"What happened?" Fenrir asks .

"It's the Metaverse, it grants certain abilities to the shadows, right now he used an attack that increases fear in people," explains the brunette.

"I'm getting fed up with this world," says Mirko trying to kick Kaneshiro.

"It gets stranger as you go along," Joker comments "Arsene!" the boy shouts as his mask bursts into flames summoning his persona, a sort of tall man in a red suit, his face seemed to wear a metallic mask that was illuminated by a sort of flames that acted as eyes and teeth, his top hat also looked metallic and he had black angel wings on his lower back "Eigaon!" Joker says, causing Arsene to launch an attack of darkness towards Kaneshiro.

"Ragh!" complains the villain "You guys are stronger than you look. Looks like I'll have to bring out the big guns," comments the fly.

"You're just a dog that barks and doesn't bite," Mirko replies, smelling victory.

"That was my line," Mona complains.

"Hehehehe… We'll see about that," Kaneshiro turns around and the safe starts to stop on a combination.

The hatch to this one opens and Kaneshiro flies inside as the lock opens revealing a giant robot shaped like a savings piggy bank.

"Gyahahahahaha! Ready to die?" declares the villain inside the robot.

"I always am" answers Mirko smiling determinedly.

"A pig?" Mona asks confused.

"It's not a pig, you idiot. It's my defense mechanism designed by me, Piggytron," answers the fly inside the robot.

"What a ridiculous name," Fenrir replies.

"How anticlimactic," Panther adds.

"Shut up, brats! You'll see, you'll regret your audacity," Kaneshiro shouted as his robot's eyes opened, revealing some gun barrels.

"Careful!" says Joker, dodging the bullets fired by the robot's eyes.

Mirko was used to being shot at, but that robot had too many cannons, and the bullets were too fast, the heroine jumped and gave a big kick creating a bigger crater to cover herself. Fenrir barely dodged and decided to enter his Astral Plane just when a bullet was going to hit him in the stomach, that gave him relief, momentary because afterwards he was immediately expelled from his world.

"What the heck?" Fenrir asked himself before Mirko pulled him into his little trench.

"I want you focused, newbie," says Mirko.

"I'm sorry, my Astral Plane isn't working as it should, I'm only able to enter it for a few seconds," explains Fenrir.

"We'll have to not use him so much, come on, let's get this jerk down," the heroine smiles as she emerges from her hiding place.

Piggytron was recharging, it was the perfect time for everyone to attack, Mirko ran straight to kick him, but the robot jumped and was about to fall on Mirko, but Fenrir took her and took her to the astral plane just before the robot fell on them, before being expelled from the Astral Plane they managed to get away a little from the robot.

"Captain Kidd!" Skull shouts, summoning his Persona, a kind of pirate riding a small pirate ship "Zio!" saying that, Skull 's Persona launched an electric attack on Piigytron, momentarily pushing him away.

"Goemon!" Fox now shouts, summoning his Persona, a tall man in traditional Japanese clothing and with his face painted. "Bafu!" Fox launched an ice attack that froze part of the ground, causing Piggytron to start slipping.

"Don't think you can beat me, brats, Piggytron, VIP form!" says Kaneshiro inside the robot.

Piggytron jumped, put its legs, weapons and nose inside itself, turning into a huge metallic sphere. Kaneshiro came out of one of its holes to stand on top of it and start spinning.

"You'll see, brats, I'll destroy you," said the fly, smiling maliciously.

"Is he trying to get away with it?" Mona asks, surprised.

Kaneshiro rolled his huge spherical robot towards the thieves who barely dodged it, there was a trail of destruction wherever Kaneshiro passed , all while laughing like crazy.

"I have an idea," says Queen "He's greedy, if we give him something of value maybe he can be distracted," says the girl.

"Good plan Queen, I have some things," Panther takes out a small red crystal and throws it on the floor right where Kaneshiro was going to pass.

"Uh, what is that?" Kaneshiro stops completely "It shines, it's red, it looks like a ruby, that's worth a lot," Kaneshiro made his robot stop being a rolling sphere to turn back into its pig form to absorb the stone.

"Now!" Mona shouts. "Fox!" the cat summons his Persona, a burly man dressed as a Spanish thief with a rapier in his hand. "Garu!" the being launched a wind attack, pushing Kaneshiro away from his robot. "Destroy that robot!" the cat orders.

"With great pleasure," says Mirko, his smile widening.

The heroine ran towards the robot and using her enormous physical strength she kicked it hard, after that she jumped towards where the eyes were to tear out the cannons it had in them.

"NO! Piggytron!, Get away from him, you filthy slut!" Kaneshiro growled as he flew towards Mirko.

"¡Lean Sidhe!" Joker shouts, summoning a Persona different from the previous one, now it was a beautiful blonde woman, with long hair and wearing a purple dress, Fenrir watched confused, that Persona was different from the one he used a few moments ago.

"I don't have time to ask, help me," says Fenrir running towards Kaneshiro.

"Magarula!" says Joker, the woman launches several wind attacks that lift some debris so that Fenrir can jump over it without problems.

"I got you!" Fenrir manages to grab Kaneshiro 's foot causing them both to fall to the ground.

"Piggytron, Fire!"

"What?" Mirko didn't see what was coming next, Piggytron opened fire, in front of Mirko, a total of 5 bullets went through Mirko's stomach pushing the heroine away and throwing her off the robot.

"Fenrir screams as he sees his teacher falling, he slammed Kaneshiro 's face hard into the ground and ran quickly towards Mirko, jumping and managing to catch the woman, acting as a cushion for her. "Sensei!" Fenrir takes Mirko's hand and tries to find her blood pressure, she had some, but very little, her heartbeat was also somewhat slow.

"T-that… h-hurt," Mirko complains in pain.

"Don't worry, sensei, it will be fine," Fenrir carefully carries Mirko and takes her to the trench she made herself.

"Oh no, this is bad," says Queen looking at Mirko's wounds "Let's hope this helps, Johanna, Diarama," the girl starts her bike and the energy travels to Mirko surrounding her.

"What is this?" Fenrir asks.

"It's Joanna's ability, it allows us to heal ourselves, but I don't know if it works on a user outside the Metaverse,"

"I'm fine, I-I don't need your help," says Mirko trying to get up.

"Sensei please, your wounds are serious, who knows what caliber those bullets were," Fenrir asks.

"I can't allow myself to be a burden," the woman says, exhaling heavily.

"He isn't, but he can die if he isn't cured with Diarama," Fenrir answers.

"Do you remember what I told you, kid?" asks Mirko looking at his pupil "I always go out with the idea that I can die, there is no better way for a hero to go than falling in his job," the woman adds.

"I'm not ready to lose my sensei," says Fenrir "Not again," Mirko looked at his pupil with a calm expression and smiles.

"You are a case, wolfie," answers the white-haired girl.

Queen released a blue energy that headed towards Mirko, the heroine began to feel how her wounds were closing, but the pain was still acute, fortunately, Mirko was very used to pain.

Meanwhile, Joker summoned another Persona, which was none other than Oni, the same beast that attacked Mirko and Fenrir in Mementos, using a multi-hit physical attack to deal tremendous damage to the Piggytron. The pig threw a small Concussion grenade momentarily blinding the thieves, then aimed again at Mirko and Fenrir.

"Fire!" Kaneshiro shouts.

"Tetrakarn!" Joker shouts, getting in his way. The bullets bounced off Piggytron, except for one that hit Joker in the shoulder.

"Ragh!" the black-haired man complains.

"Joker!" Queen helps her leader.

"All together, he almost has no energy left," says Mona seriously "Zorro!"

"Captain Kidd!"

"Carmen!"

"Goemon!"

"Johanna!"

"Ar… Arsene!" Joker shouts, still in pain.

All the Phantoms Thieves used their Personas to make a joint attack that went straight to Peggytron as well as Kaneshiro who was inside it, the attack was devastating, it was seen how the giant robot began to have failures and sparks flew from it. Mirko and Fenrir observed the determined look of the thieves, they did not hesitate and were giving their all, the same look that she saw in her childhood heroine she saw in those boys.

Piggytron was on his last legs, Kaneshiro was cursing because the controls were failing. Fenrir watched his teacher's smile, it wasn't necessary to have a telepathy gift to know her plan. Both of them ran with the strength they had left. Fenrir used his feet to make a great jump thanks to his sister's improvement in her boots, while Mirko used the energy reserves he had left and both of them kicked the robot so that it crashed against one of the walls of the place.

Piggytron rose a bit but eventually crashed to the ground with some explosions inside. The fight was over. The robot's nose opened and Kaneshiro fell to the ground with some human-sized gold bars. Kaneshiro had lost his fly form and was now hugging the gold bars as if his life depended on it.

"Kaneshiro…" Queen speaks seriously.

"I won't let anyone have it... This is my money..." said the man with a slight air of helplessness and desperation.

"You stole it from innocent people!" Mirko answers, helped by Fenrir .

"Fine. I'll pay off the debt," the defeated man replies.

"Well, you still sound pretty condescending," Skull says.

"You're right, I am a poor, ugly, idiot, how am I supposed to live a normal life like this? It's all our society's fault. Weak people can't live a happy life, no matter what they do," the villain turns to look at Mirko "The hero society has only made those without a Quirk be bullied, despised, unable to aspire to more," Kaneshiro answers.

"You don't have a Quirk either?" Fenrir asks.

"Mukoseis are the weak ones, they can't do anything that the heroes can," he looks at the thieves "You guys should understand better than anyone, you don't have Quirks either, that's why you're vigilantes, isn't it?" that last thing struck the thieves, it was true, they couldn't use their abilities in the real world, there they were nothing more than simple teenagers without a Quirk.

"Do you really think you're the only one with complexes?" Skull says "Me... All these guys, we're fighting against that,"

"But don't worry, you'll finally have a place to belong, a place where you can make things right… For the rest of your life," Queen clarifies.

"We'll do something about that distorted heart of yours, no charge," Skull speaks, Kaneshiro turns around sitting up.

"I'm glad you understand," says Fox "Now hurry up and get back to the real Kansehiro," orders the blue-haired man.

"Really? You guys have no tact. Especially with that incredible power… These Palaces can give you tons of money. You can do whatever you want with people's hearts," Kaneshiro says.

"We are not like you," Panther answers, but Kaneshiro just laughs.

"Hm, hm, hm, hm, where do they get the meaning of this naive sense of justice?" asks Kaneshiro "You know, there is someone else out there taking advantage of what the Palaces can offer," that catches Mirko's attention.

"What did you say?" asks the heroine.

"I'll leave you with something to work on… There's another criminal using people's Palaces to complete whatever he wants. Psychotic Breakouts, Mental Shutdowns… Anything goes," Kaneshiro comments, capturing everyone's attention.

"Could that be the guy Madarame's shadow talked to?" Fox asks seriously.

"Spit it out, who are you talking about?" Skull asks, but Kaneshiro just laughs a little.

"Don't even bother. You're nothing compared to him. Better be careful. An encounter with him could be fatal," Kaneshiro finally flashed and disappeared.

"What happened?" Fenrir asks .

"He's back to being the Kaneshiro he was before, we have to go," Mona replies.

"Why?" asks Mirko, at that moment an earthquake was felt

"There is no time, let's take the Treasure and go," says Fox.

"But which gold bar is it?" asks Skull.

"Let's take the biggest one, what?" Queen looks confused at Mona who seemed to be rubbing herself in the gold like a cat.

"Mreeeeeoooooow," he purrs.

"What's wrong with him?" Fenrir asks.

"This is sooo... cooooooool, being a human is great," in his excitement, the cat jumped into Panther's face.

"Hey! Get off of me!" the girl asks, managing to get the cat off her face and throw it into the air so that it turns back into a truck.

"You shouldn't throw animals, dammit," Mona complains.

"That's enough, everyone okay, let's go in and go," says the blonde.

"Come on Lady Mirko, we have to run away," Fenrir helps his master.

They place her in the center of the seat, Joker next to her since they were the most injured in the fight, behind that seat there were about 5 gold bars, Queen would drive while Panther would be her co-pilot, there was almost no space left so Fenrir decided to go on the roof.

"It's not safe," Queen says looking at the hero.

"I didn't ask you if it was safe," Mirko and Joker must treat their wounds, "Get going!" the Austrian orders.

The brunette obeyed and started the Mona-car, the Palace was collapsing, while Queen drove, Fenrir clung to the roof of the truck dodging the falling debris, they finally left the Palace, but there was a problem.

"Wait, there's no path! WOOOOOAAAAAHHH!" says Mona when she sees that the path they used to go up to the Palace had disappeared. Everyone screamed and as they fell, everything turned black and red for everyone.


Shibuya Alley

They were all lying on the ground, in pain, but in their civilian clothes. In the case of Fenrir and Mirko, nothing changed at all, they were still wearing their hero costumes. The Austrian helped his teacher as she still had bullet wounds, she had to go to a hospital immediately.

"Ow, that hurt," says Panther without her thief outfit.

"We're back," Queen answers in a school uniform.

"Did it work?" Fox asks without his outfit.

Fenrir walked out of the alley looking at the city of Shibuya inhabited again, they had returned to the real world.

"Yes, it worked," the boy turns to see the Phantoms Thieves without their secret identities "Lady Mirko, come on, we have to get her to a hospital," the boy says.

"Wait, where's Mona?" Joker asks, they turn around and see a cat lying on the floor with a golden briefcase on top of it.

"Wait, that briefcase," Skull speaking .

"Is that the Treasury?" Fox asks.

"What?" asks Mirko.

"Kaneshiro's desires," explains Joker helping Mona.

"And where do we open it?" asks the blond.

"You can't," Mirko answers "It's evidence, you have to take it to the police," the boys looked at each other knowing it was a bad idea.

"Well, a deal is a deal," Skull gives the briefcase to Mirko "As a hero, it is your duty to deliver this evidence to the police," says the boy smiling, the woman smiles back.

"Fine, but first, I must recover my wounds, their leader too," answers Mirko.

"I can't," Joker answers.

"Your bullet wound is ugly, you need to go to a hospital immediately," Mirko answers.

"They will ask how it happened, and technically if I get into trouble, they will send me to a correctional facility," the boy admits.

"What?" Fenrir asks.

"I'm on probation for a crime I didn't commit, no matter what I do, if I get caught in any kind of trouble, I'll go to prison," the boy answers seriously.

"And yet you decided to be a Phantom Thief, you have guts kid, I'll give you that, you gave your lives for the people that Kaneshiro destroyed, I won't hurt you, but, I think I can help you with your problem," says Mirko smiling.

Minutes later

The stage was set, the young people gave him Kaneshiro's location Kaneshiro's location, Mirko immediately went ignoring her wounds. Without any problem, she and Fenrir took charge of arresting the mobster along with some of his accomplices, since Kaneshiro turned himself in as soon as he saw them. After that they called the police. Moments later the police arrived at the alley where the heroes were, along with Joker and Kaneshiro.

"Kaneshiro Junya, you are under arrest for drug smuggling, extortion, kidnapping and murder, you have the right to remain silent, anything you say will be used against you before a judge in a court of law," while the officers arrested the man, the ambulance went to help the heroine and her ward.

"How did this happen?" one of the doctors asks.

"His accomplices, some managed to escape, but one managed to shoot me," explains Mirko.

"And that boy?" he asks, looking at Joker, who was being treated by another doctor.

"Collateral damage, he was caught in the crossfire, he was passing by, but he saw me in trouble and took a bullet for me, he was just going back to his house, but he was wounded," says the heroine.

"What is your parents' number, boy? We need to inform them of your condition," the doctor mentions to Joker.

"He's a hero," Fenrir says , smiling. "All of them," He said the last thing to his teacher, who just nodded in agreement. "What he said, that about being on probation for something he didn't do, I don't think he made that up," Kree says.

"She doesn't seem like someone who would lie about something as serious as that, I have to look into it," the heroine comments.

"Well, I owe that boy a debt for taking a bullet that was aimed at my teacher, I'll try to help him," Kree mentions smiling.

"Ho, ho, you sound like quite the hero, Wolfie," Mirko mentions

"I learned from the best," Kree answers.

"The look on their faces," says Mirko "Full of determination, courage in their hearts, all to save others, reminded me of my childhood hero," confesses Mirko.

"It was the woman in the photo, right?" Kree asks, Mirko just sighs.

"Yes, yes she is, she was the one who inspired me to be a hero, and always give my life for others, I try to honor her memory by being the Mirko that everyone knows, reckless, energetic and without regrets," says the heroine "I never saw her team up with anyone, so I decided to do the same as her for one day, to be the same,"

"No hero is made alone," says Kree "At least that's what my father used to say, like I said, the strong must protect the weak, that's the duty of the Alpha Wolf," Kree caresses Kuda "I believe you are one of the greatest heroes in the entire world, whether you team up with someone or not,"

"You are good with words," congratulates Mirko.

"I have my moments," Kree answers, smiling proudly.

"You are good at motivational speeches," Mirko wakes up with bandages on his body.

"With that said, can you reduce the time you use the weights?" Kree asks, smiling nervously.

"Don't push your luck, Wolfie," Mirko answers, laughing.

"LeBlanc's coffee is on me," Fenrir adds.

"Add the curry and it's a deal," says Mirko, closing the deal with his pupil.

Moments after Mirko and Fenrir gave a report on Kaneshiro's capture, he was asked about the Phantoms. Thieves, for which, the hero only mentioned that she managed to convince them to stop operating and to give up being vigilantes, in addition to also giving information about a person with a very strange Quirk that allowed him to causing mental shutdowns and psychotic breakouts. That little information was enough for the police's focus to focus on a fugitive outside of the Phantoms. Thieves and not these ones luckily.

The fact that Mirko told them that they would stop operating to become legal was enough for them to stop considering them criminals who, in theory, were not even considered as such, they barely had a couple of cases, especially since Mirko explained to them that they possess a very unusual kind of Gift that only manifests itself in random situations, making them completely undetectable (Which was not entirely a lie).


At night

Mirko was already relatively healed, so she went out with her pupil to eat at LeBlanc as promised, when they arrived they saw the Chief cooking and the Phantoms Thieves as civilians.

"Wow , what happened here?" asks Mirko.

"Oh, sorry, we're closed for tonight," says the Boss apologetically.

"No, no, no, wait Boss, they can join us," says Panther "Amamiya-kun will be happy to see you," says the girl and goes to Mirko "Nice to meet you Miss Mirko, Takamaki Ann, nice to meet you," the girl introduces herself.

"Kitagawa Yusuke, it's an honor," comments Fox bowing.

"S-Sakamoto R-Ryuji," Skull is introduced, nervous to see one of his favorite heroines not being Skull.

"Nijima Makoto, it is an honor Miss Mirko," Queen introduces herself.

"Hello everyone," Mirko answers calmly.

"Well, if you like, Miss Mirko, you can join us," says the Chief smiling a little.

"What's the occasion?" asks the heroine.

"Celebrating the child's idiocy," the Boss respond, at that moment, Joker comes down with his arm in a cast wearing casual clothes "Look at you, getting shot, you could have died," the Boss comments worried.

"I'm sorry," Joker apologizes.

"Don't do it," Kree speaks "You did what any hero would have done, with the detail that you didn't have a Quirk, that, requires guts, and my teacher here present, respects people with guts," the aforementioned nods.

"Yes, you showed courage by taking that shot that was meant for me, I appreciate it," Joker smiled a little.

"Wow, in just one day you are considered a hero and you receive thanks from Mirko and the winner of the Yuuei Sports Festival, I envy you, buddy," Ryuji comments smiling.

"Well, take a seat, the curry is coming out soon," says the Chief preparing his famous curry.

It was all fun, despite being a cozy and small cafe, the curry in Mirko's opinion was delicious, Kree tried to ask for the recipe for his brother, but unfortunately he didn't get it, the Boss said it was business policy.

The rest of the night was full of friendly chats, Ryuji trying to get Mirko's autograph, which he got and even getting a picture with the rabbit heroine, she also told some stories about her career as a hero and how it was possible that after working so long in Shibuya , she never heard of that cafe. In the end, Mirko and Kree said goodbye to everyone and returned to the agency, wow, it was a very long and strange day.


Café LeBlanc, Attic

Amamiya Ren, better known as Joker, was resting in the attic that served as his room, it was quite spacious and clean for an attic, while he slept he heard a voice in his head, a sweet, feminine and tender voice that spoke to him, the voice lulled the young man, telling him things like "Your time has come", "You can be a hero", "I will help you", "I am thou..."

"Thou art I," Ren said, waking up suddenly with his Joker mask on. The boy brought his hands to his face in surprise, he had the mask on, but not his suit.

"The wings of rebellion have risen, they will allow you to fly to stop your ruin, show this society the power of your will. Joker, save me," said the voice.

"Persona," Joker said, taking off his mask.

The entire room was completely illuminated by a blue light, fire of this same color began to cover the boy giving him his black thief suit. That fire then positioned itself behind the boy beginning to take the form of Arsene.

"I am Thou, Thou art I. Show the strength of our will, and rise up against all our adversaries," said a deep voice, which was that of Arsene .

"I'm counting on you Arsene , we'll be heroes," says Joker smiling.

Arsene disappeared, turning back into the Joker mask. The mask was once again covered in fire to turn into fake glasses. Joker watched what happened smiling, then placed the glasses on his shelf and went back to bed. What he didn't know was that what happened to him had happened in 5 other different places.


End of Chapter


Yeah... I'm a big Persona 5 fan, sue me.

This technically ends the Metaverse arc, but, like in my spanish version, this will not be the last time we see the Phantom Thieves or Mirko, but that's future Zar's problem, I hope you like this chapter. Let me know if you have any tips or just your opinion on the story, I'll read them all.

With all that said, I read you later, ZarBalor, out.


Glossary

Verstanden - Understood