Chapter 37: Time Skips & Updates Part 3
"Text" = Talking
[Text] = System
'Text' = Normal Thoughts
{Text} = Telepathic Thoughts
<Text> = Message Through System
*Text* = Actions During Sentences
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(Location: Hirosawa Elementary School, Shizuoka bordering on Nagoya, Time: 5 Months After The Trial)
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Well, I was right, that seal did break, it happened a while before the trial actually, that's why I was so insistent on completely destroying their lives. My sadistic nature wasn't the only change though, because those sleepless nights came back, but thanks to Guts and Tenko being with me at night I was at least able to get a couple hours of sleep per night. Though, it didn't stop from me gaining permanent bags under my eyes, just like the ones I had in my past life.
Also, here's an update on the current situation, it turns out Nezu decided it would be a good idea to send Tenko, Himiko (I'll explain that in a second), and I to a school that's a bit away from UA. Apparently it's to make sure that we are at least close enough in case of an emergency, but also far enough away that I won't try to walk out of class all the way back home.
Which, happened more times than you would think at the school he tried to put us in before, we were barely there for a week because of me, this was mainly due to me having the fucking internet linked to my brain at all times. That makes it really hard to actually give a damn about class, when I can learn most stuff they teach here in just a day.
I also, managed to get in contact with Shoto, two months ago.
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(This Flashback is brought to you by, Guts devouring a mountain of Croquettes.)
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Turns out, it was easier to send out one of my copies when I actually had some time to myself away from the others. Though, I did have to use Technopathy to make sure none of the security cameras saw my copies as they left to hunt for more blood, mainly to fuel Wendigo, but one was sent to finally get to Shoto.
Fun fact, I can actually see things from my copies perspective if I want to, honestly these copies kind of remind me of a hivemind sometimes.
It took around an hour or two for my copy to get to the Todoroki household, mostly because I couldn't let it use Lightning Body to get there for obvious reasons.
Once my copy made it there, it was time to get it close enough to connect Shoto to my telepathic network. That part was actually easy, because if anyone saw my copy I made it summon Heaven's Door to make them forget they even saw it.
Now, hopefully, Shoto doesn't freak out too much at having a random voice in his head. But, I don't see how he would, 'cause everyone has voices in their head that tells them random shit, right?
Well anygays, I can now see him sitting against a wall through my copy that's viewing him through a nearby window, and from what I can see, judging by the bandages on his face, he's already been scarred by his mom, this means I wasn't fast enough to change that.
{Hello, Shoto Todoroki.} So, he looked scared and surprised, for some reason. I wonder why he's acting like this?
"W-who are you?!" Ah yes, immediately asking the voice in your head who it is, even if it could possibly just be your own mind, instead of a demigod that wants to befriend you.
{Well, first off, you just need to think and I'll hear you, so you don't need to scream at me. Second, my name is Evangeline, but you can just call me, Eve.} I wonder if he'll just think I'm his imaginary friend, or something?
{O-okay, now what do you want?} Hm, he's definetly still nervous about this situation, but it's not like he can tell anyone about this happening, they'll think he's crazy.
{It's simple really, I want to help you, specifically with your ice.} Even if this is an AU, people rarely change Shoto's hatred for his father, and his desire to surpass him with ice only.
{Wait, you can help me with my ice, does that mean I can really surpass him while only using my right side?} Damn, his hatred for Endeavour overtakes his reasoning to question the situation. Welp, time to make a deal with a traumitized child.
{Yes, when the time comes, you'll be able to even freeze the flames of hell itself.} Just like the others, I'm going to make Shoto dependant towards me. Now I wonder, would this Shoto be one of the versions that will fall in love with Izuku? Hm, that's something that I'll be curious about for years, until they finally meet.
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(Back to the present)
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Now, on to the part that most likely confused you guys, how the hell Nezu sent Himiko to school too?
Well, this is because we found out that Himiko can, technically, take control of one of my copies, then we just change the appearance to hers, like I did in the trial, and bam perfect Himiko body.
So, now onto the reason why I said 'technically' before, because my copies are linked to my body, mind, and soul, she can't really control it for extended periods of time. At max, she can only keep control for eight hours, which is mostly spent at school now, and it annoys the fuck out of her that Nezu is forcing her to go to school too.
As to why he even found out about this 'body snatching thing', the first time we did this was actually an accident, and it surprised all of us, even Guts was surprised. Now, Himiko 'Toga' is officially enrolled in school, and so is Evangeline Kieran, we had to create a fake identity and birth certificate for me, which was easy with Technopathy and Nezu's connections.
Though now, Nezu genuinely believes we managed to find a way to separate our personalities to different bodies on command, and that 'somehow' all the quirks gained through the 'experiments' were linked only to me because I went through it, not Himiko.
That's just about how the hell we got in this situation, where the three of us are forced, except Tenko who's fine as long as I'm here, to go to school. But, there were some things that I needed to change, so I could be properly seen as an entirely different person from Himiko by others.
I first changed my voice to sound like a young Jade West from Victorious, may Dan Schneider suffer for all eternity, the reason why I chose her voice is due to her voice just being down right amazing. The second thing was something I asked for Nezu to put in my papers, my birth quirk is now considered Wendigo as it's the most visually obvious of my quirks.
But, I do kind of find it funny, Himiko's quirk was considered villainous due to her desire for blood, and Tenko's for its destructive capabilities. Then there is mine which makes me become cannibalistic to fuel the use of the abilities connected to it (that includes the now, constant change in my voice).
Oh, I almost went on a ramble there, but it's a good thing I stopped, because there is another thing about this school I need to talk about, and that is-.
"Hey, Tsuyu, can you pass me the tape?"
"Jiro, I told you to call me, Tsu."
Yeah, that, it turns out in this AU, Kyoka and Tsu both went to the same school, and now the three of us go to that exact school too. Which means, I've technically become the childhood friend of multiple important people in this world, and that girl with the snake quirk isn't here, surprisingly (meaning we've become Tsu's first friends).
Honestly, I was pretty happy about getting to go to school with them, since it gives me people that I liked from the show to hang out with. Though, I wasn't even close to how excited Himiko was/is, after all she still remembers what mom showed her about her life in the anime.
This may seem confusing, but she wasn't this excited about hanging out with Izuku and Uraraka, probably because she saw them as the ones that didn't 'love' her in the anime, so at best they are just acquaintances to her. Though with Tsu, she saw her more as someone who could be a pretty cute friend, even if the original Tsu wasn't a friend to the original Himiko, hell she even practically squealed with joy the first time Tsu told her to just call her Tsu, instead of Tsuyu or Asui.
But, let's stop focusing on Himiko seeming like she took every drug imaginable, and focus on the progress I've made with my quirks. Yeah, surprisingly the training I've done has finally paid off, I managed to get both Transform and Blood Manipulation up a rank, and it's all thanks to my copies, here are the notifications I got as proof.
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[NOTICE the quirk Transform has reached B Rank, the user can now perfectly replicate the clothes of their victim from the time the user acquired their blood.]
[NOTICE the quirk Blood Manipulation has reached B Rank, the user can convert/control blood in the form of mist, the users' area of effectiveness has increased to 10 meters.]
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Fuck, I got ahead of myself and forgot to say how my copies helped in the process of ranking these two up. It turns out that Self-Duplication works similarly to Naruto's Shadow Clone Jutsu, everything they experienced gets transferred to me after they are dismissed, including the training done on quirks.
Through this method as long as I use my copies before training, I can effectively increase my progress by four times, but it does have a surprising, but unimportant, drawback. When Himiko controls one of my copies I don't get that experience from when she was in control.
"Eve, you're spacing out again, ribbit." Oh! Damn, looks like I was focusing too much on updating you guys, and forgot to continue working on this craft project the teacher assigned us. By the way, Tsu rarely says ribbit, unless it's for when she's happy, hurt, or as a single word response, so I can tell she's happy when we all hang out and act chaotic.
"Oh, I guess I was, thanks for getting me back to reality, Tsu." She smiled a bit at me not calling her Tsuyu, turns out I was one of the few, outside of her family, to call her Tsu after the first time she said to call her that, one of the few was also Himiko.
"Hey, hey, Eevee, what were you thinking about? Were you thinking about me?!" Yeah, that comment came from Himiko, she's actually refused to stop with the nickname that's referenced after the multi-evolutionary Pokémon.
"Hehe, yeah, I was actually, Ayuna." Since she refused to stop calling me Eevee, I decided I might as well give her a nickname too, if you can't beat them, join them, ya know. Ayuna, actually means bloody, it's a good nickname for a sweet girl that has a dark and blood filled side like Himiko.
"Yay! *hugs my arm*" She ended up hugging my left arm, as my right was currently being held by Tenko, by the way, Kyoka and Tsu were sitting across from us. We all actually became friends because we were all placed at the same group of desk (mainly because Tenko and Himiko refused to leave my side).
"Big sis is spacey." I couldn't help but chuckle a bit, 'cause Tenko had a point, whenever I went on a rant to you guys I was spacing out in reality, but hey, it's better to space out rather than have them all hear what I'm thinking.
"Yeah, your big sis is, Tenko. *Gives him headpatts* But that's why I have such an amazing little brother, to help make sure I come back down to Earth." Fun fact, they eventually found the ruined Shimura family in these past five months, so Tenko was officially considered an orphan.
Once he was Nezu quickly adopted him, that was also around the time Nezu 'adopted' me. Now since Tenko wasn't a part of the Shimura's anymore, Nezu asked him if he wanted to change his surname, and Tenko immediately asked for it to be changed to Kieran.
So now, Tenko and I are officially, by law, considered siblings. I said I would make him my brother, and I kept that promise, 'cause like hell am I going to not make a depressed little psycho a part of my family.
"Oh! Eve, I just remembered something important!" Hm, I wonder what got Kyoka excited, does it have to do with heroes or music?
"What is it, Kyoka?" I may have forgot to mention this, but she actually allowed me to call her by her given name after she saw how much I cared for Tenko and Himiko, also because I told her that I loved music.
"I heard from one of the teachers that there is going to be a talent show next week, it's to show what we can do outside of our quirks to our classmates and parents!" Well that's different, I've never been a part of/near a talent show, should I even participate?
"Well, that's interesting, but that doesn't explain why you're so excited." Does Kyoka want to participate in the talent show? Well this is before she decided to become a hero, so it's not impossible for her to want to play music, or sing at something like this.
"It's because, I want to perform a song with you in the talent show!" Okay, that was completely out of my expectations, how did she even get the idea for this?
"Wait, what? Why do you want me to perform with you, actually scratch that, I could be terrible on stage, so why pick me out of all people?" I haven't shown any signs of being capable of singing, or playing an instrument since that day in the warehouse. So, why ask me to perform with her?
"Well, Himiko and your brother have told me that you have an amazing singing voice, and that your singing actually calmed him down when he was scared once!" Oh, it was Himiko and Tenko, they told her about my singing from that time I wanted to calm down the others, though it seems they didn't tell her why he was scared.
"*Sigh* Then, I guess it can't be helped, I'll perform with you in the talent show, but I'm picking the song." I doubt she would stop asking me if I refused, or she would get sad and I would give in anyway, so it's best to just accept it now. Also, if I'm going to be made to sing in front of a bunch of random people, I'm going to be the one choosing what I sing.
"Deal! This is going to be amazing! Oh, we should practice after school till the talent show!" Damn, she's cute when she's this excited... wait... Fuck, I hope that wasn't enough to be considered 'desiring to be with her' by Aphrodite's Blessing!
(Flag Triggered)
Why do I get the feeling that I just fucked up? Eh, it's probably nothing, I should just focus back onto the conversation.
"Sure, but it should be at our house, unless I can get permission from our guardian, since he can be pretty protective." By 'protective' I mean monitoring me and Himiko, it's possible my influence was too much, because now, on top of 'protecting' me from the HPSC, I think he wants to groom me to become the next principal of UA at some point.
I came to this conclusion based on him planning on getting some of the heroes on campus to train me physically, while he has been slowly teaching me how UA runs and how to manage it.
"No worries, even if he doesn't say you can come over to my house, I can easily come to yours, I would just have to get my mom, or dad to bring my guitar for practice!" Huh, now that I think about this would be the first time anyone, other than Toru, Mei, Uraraka, and Izuku, will have come to our home.
"Now that I think about, you three have never told us were you live." Oh right, nobody, but the faculty, know that we live at UA and that our guardian is Nezu. Our classmates never really figured it out, because when it's time for parents to come and pick up their kids, Hound Dog is the one that comes to pick us up, because Nezu's usually busy with the school (yeah, Hound Dog graduated, and then basically said 'I want to go back now' after like three years).
"Oh, we live at UA." Himiko, I love you, but could you have not been so blunt with that information.
And, just as expected, Tsu and Kyoka blanked at that info, as did everyone else in the class that managed to hear Himiko's words.
There was a couple of minutes of silence, and I could just imagine those three dots popping up in the air because of this devolopment. I wonder how long it will take before-
"WHAT!?!?" There it is, the astonished scream of everyone in the room that I think everyone in the school could hear. The sudden yelling actually hurt Kyoka's and my ears, turns out Wendigo forgot to mention that my hearing was also enhanced by these deer ears.
Everyone immediately started to ask us questions about how we lived in UA in the first place.
'Dammit, this is going to take a while to sort through, I'll just turn off the vie- I mean time skip to when Kyoka comes home with us to practice.'
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(Location: Nezu's Apartment, Time: the next day after school)
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So, it turns out that both Tsu and Kyoka decided to come over, their moms even came over too, 'cause what parent wouldn't make sure their kids weren't in a terrible environment the first time they go to a new friends house (answer, mine).
Surprisingly though, Nezu was cool with them coming over, he said something about me finally making more friends, and me being usually a loner without the others. I really don't know what he's talking about, I totally don't avoid most people like the plague.
"Nezu, we're home!" Since we started going to school, Nezu has made it a point to do most of his work at home, rather than in his office, so he can be here whenever we finish school.
From the living room I could hear the sound of two sets of small footsteps, one belonged to Guts, who basically tackled me because he missed me, the second was the chaos rat himself.
"Ah, it's good to see you three back, it is also good to our guest have made it to our humble abode." Humble my ass, all the stuff in our house is high-end shit, the first time Uraraka was here she almost passed the fuck out because of how expensive the things our home are.
I quickly led Kyoka and Tsu to our room while those three exchanged pleasantries, 'cause like hell am I going to listen to that boring exchange. I also took Guts in my arms, because I am not leaving him out of this.
Oh, now that I think about it, I never told you guys how our room looks like. Well, let's just say there is no hero merch, outside of that one Fat Gum hoodie I have, and we also have a king sized bed, like I said we only got high-end shit in this house.
"I- why is your bed so big, Eve?" Hm, did Tsu think we slept in seperate rooms? Himiko literally makes me make another copy for her to take over before we sleep, so she can cuddle me, and Tenko can't sleep without me there.
"Oh, that's because the three of us share this room, 'cause these two can't sleep without me." Yeah, I think that surprised them a bit, I mean the three of us are close in school, but who would expect that we can't sleep unless we're all in the bed.
"Without us you wouldn't sleep either, sis." Insomnia is a bitch, okay Tenko.
"Fair." I can't help it, it helps remind me that I'm not alone anymore, and that this is my reality, not just a dream that I'll eventually wake up from.
"Come on, let's get to practicing already, Eve." I get the feeling that this won't be the last time that I get forced to sing at an event by those I care about.
Weekly Power Status
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Ranking 
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