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Capítulo 3: CHAPTER 003(The Matani's Last Supper)

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---7 Years Old...

In the same operating room where Law first used Hand Of God, lies an unconscious woman, her body missing the top half of her head as the oxygen mask placed over her mouth keeps her unconscious, but very much alive. The same invisible barrier of space rests at the point of separation from her body.

At the other end of the room at a metal desk sits Law with the top of her head still very much alive in front of him.

With his father looking over his shoulder, "Amputate," Law commands while he carefully cuts her head down the middle, splitting her skull and brainstem in one swift motion. Once again harmlessly dividing her body.

"There it is," Corazon says as he points to the blinking little bead attached to her brainstem.

Focusing on the bead law raises his hand in a grasping motion, placing a little vial of water beside the head he focuses on both the water and the bead.

"Shambles," he commands. A single drop of water swaps places with the bead, dropping the blinking bead into her vial and placing a harmless drop of water on her brainstem.

Releasing a tired sigh Law wipes the sweat from his brow. This was the final surgery of a very long day, the seventh bomb he's removed from a person's head in a row.

Looking around he focuses and sees the bubble enveloping the room. A faint blue tinge hung in the air that was only visible to him.

"Room," he commands and the bubble seems to pop.

ROOM is the basis of his quirk, all his other techniques must be performed within this operating room, however, some effects will persist outside of this ROOM. The ROOM cannot exist without Law being inside.

The size of his ROOM as well as how long it persists is entirely determined by his stamina, there is no other limit. No material can block it, no quirk can resist it, and no other person can perceive it.

SHAMBLES is a technique that allows him to freely substitute the positions of any items within his ROOM. Effectively allowing him to warp around anywhere he wants as long as there is something to swap with.

Working together both men reassemble the woman, quickly undoing the effects of his first technique.

AMPUTATE, is a technique that ignores all physical resistances and divides space itself to cut matter. This technique does no harm to living things however and can be extended as far as his room reaches, although he requires a bladed tool to use this.

After putting the woman back together his father scans her. While less effective than Law's SCAN technique which can pinpoint anything within his ROOM depending on his awareness, or allows him to target a particular organ within a person if he's making contact while scanning them.

Corazon took the lead in the final check-up as Law was already tired from constantly making ROOMs today.

"She's perfectly fine," his father said. "You know your quirk really is a miracle. Of all the people in this world, I do believe you're the one that can become a god, all these new techniques always showing up. I couldn't be happier, and you're learning medicine so quickly too, now that really makes me proud."

"I still have a long way to go, I can only operate on certain organs without you supervising me, brain surgery would have been impossible without you," Law says.

"You're still young, you've got time," his father removes his gloves and ruffles Law's hair. "Why don't you go see what your mom made for dinner while I deal with this," he gestures to the unconscious woman. "Remember we don't want people seeing your face."

"Right, don't take too long," Law says as he removes his gloves and leaves to get cleaned up.

Watching his son leave Corazon looks at the little vial on the desk still containing the explosive bead. Something that would have been impossible to remove without the phasing quirk that placed it there, "yeah, you're gonna be on top of the world son..."

---9 Years Old...

CLANG!

On a highrise rooftop in Hosu city Law and his mother, Kiku, clash blades.

The professional Adventurer, as she prefers to call herself, educates her son in the art of combat while his father handles more academic pursuits.

"Faster!" she demands as she parries another of his sword strikes. "Your quirk gives you an absurd boost to spatial awareness, use it and increase your reaction time. You can get it close to zero with enough training."

While Law was covered in sweat and panting heavily, she was as calm as ever without a worry on her face. He holds his sword out -a perfectly straight short saber reminiscent of a scalpel- and accepts her challenge while she simply has her right hand in the form of a greatsword and gives him a bored look.

Spinning on his heel Law turns his back to her and slashes forward, slashing at empty space.

'Shambles,' he mentally commands, no longer needing the crutch of saying his intent out loud to activate his quirk.

He and Kiku instantly swap places. For the briefest instant, her eyes widen before she spins on her heel and easily parries his strike.

"Not bad," she complements while locking blades with him. "But this isn't a sword duel," she says before punching him in the face, knocking him onto his back.

"Ow," he groans while rubbing his face.

Kiku sighs and helps him up, dusting him off slightly. "Law, in this world the only thing that matters is power. Most of society isn't allowed to use quirks because the people in charge know this is true. They can't control everyone, so I need you to focus more on the combat applications of your quirk for when you need it, alright?"

"Alright..."

"The sooner you learn this the better. In this world there is no good or evil, there are no heroes and villains. The strong decide those things, they decide the labels and rules. The weak don't even get to choose how they die, you have to be the strong," she says in a serious tone.

As they take a break Law walks over to their backpack and takes out two burgers, handing one to his mother.

Sitting with their legs hanging off the top of the building they look out over the peaceful mid-day city.

"What do you think I need to work on more?" Law asks his mom as they're having lunch.

"Hmm," she thinks about it for a moment. "Well, you're already past the first hurdle. See most people either don't or can't legally encourage their kids to use their quirk as much as possible, especially not as much as we do because, well, laws. That's usually the first roadblock and you're comfortable enough to instinctively use your quirk anywhere and any time. Now you need to work on combat sense and the size of your ROOM. Covering a few buildings won't be enough if shit hits the fan after all."

"Mhm, so just keep pushing my limits, I can do that," Law says.

"Yeah but have fun too, maybe get a girlfriend? Not that I don't like you being more mature than a lot of people but what's the point of all the fighting if you end up alone," she leans over and pulls him into a hug. "That's why I have you and your dad."

"Mm, I rather just stay in the clinic," Law decides.

"Tch, you're gonna be one lonely god huh," Kiku says as her phone beeps. "That's our signal."

Raising a hand to her face she covers both her eyes. Activating her quirk her hand seems to flatten before two holes appear, one in her palm and the other in her fingers to form high-powered scopes.

Looking at the city below she sees her target.

A tall and bald man in a three-piece suit with bodyguards surrounding him. Walking at his side is his trophy wife with their five-year-old daughter between them holding both their hands.

"Gotcha," she says. "Pass me a round."

Without looking Law reaches into their day pack and passes her a four-inch-long, .50 caliber bullet.

"Thanks," she says as she holds it in her hands. Making a squeezing motion both her arms shift and twist into a massive rifle with a high-powered scope. "Contract calls for this to be messy, oh well," she says as she aims.

"Can I get the next one?" Law asks.

"Mmm," she considers it for a moment, "what the hell, you're already nine, gotta get your feet wet at some point..."

"Yesss!" he cheers, finally feeling like he'd be able to really contribute to her work.

"Just in case, and I'll be choosing all your targets alright, can't afford any slip-ups," she takes a deep breath. "1500 meters on a crowded street in broad daylight, you know what most people call that?" asks says as she exhales.

"Impossible," Law says, "but for us, it's just another Monday," he laughs.

"Damn right..."

Focusing her mind she gently squeezes the trigger, firing between her heartbeats to silence her targets'.

With no issue the bullet tears through the air and one of his guards before hollowing out the man's chest in front of his family, painting them all red.

Watching through his binoculars Law doesn't even flinch, over the years of being a surgeon and her spotter he's quite used to the sight of blood.

As the round is released the bullet shell pops out of her rifle as her hands shift back, slight red spot on her forearms from the heat of the shell.

"Takt," Law catches the casing before it falls to the streets below them and stores it in their backpack.

TAKT is his equivalent to telekinesis or gravity control, although it operates more vaguely as simply manipulating space, allowing him to even move liquids or simply command it in an area to raise a pile of sand instead of focusing on every grain. However larger objects need more specific focus and consume more energy. He also cannot directly move himself with this technique.

Placing a hand on her shoulder arm where the injury is he focuses on her, "Booster Shot."

She feels a small adrenaline surge as he removes his hand, and the sore sport completely heals as if it were never there.

Booster Shot was a more recent development, allowing him to convert his own stamina into healing for others, or to use it on himself to heal. If he uses it on a person or himself without needing any healing, it instead gives a physical boost proportional to the stamina consumed.

Getting ready to leave the roof as sirens start blaring and heroes rush to the scene, the duo casually enters the elevator and descends to the lobby.

Kiku still rubs where her arm was stinging from the recoil and heat, thankful for her son's healing technique. Unlike Lady Nagant, while Kiku can make any weapon her flesh is only reinforced to a certain extent, she also can't separate body parts, therefore, making and firing ammunition is impossible with only her quirk, which leads to her preferring close-range fights overall.

"So your birthday is coming up, anything you want?" Kiku asks as they walk down the street, ignoring the fleet of emergency vehicles passing by.

"Obsidian scalpels, maybe a new sword?" Law answers immediately.

Kiku sighs, "sure, but how about you also pick something outside of medicine or training. I know those are your first loves but it's ok to branch off a bit and have fun."

"Hmmm," Law ponders it for a minute as they round the corner to their car. "What about a skateboard?"

"Obsidian scalpels, a new sword, and a skateboard, that's easy enough," Kiku muses as they make their way home.

---15 Years Old...

Law had grown up quite a bit in the last few years, they suspect the mutations in his body -extra mitochondria in each cell- are what caused his height to shoot past both his parents. While they both stood at 177cm -5ft10 inches-, Law was already at 183cm, just a hair over six feet tall.

His body was well defined, muscular but mean, clearly he was someone who enjoyed weight lifting but could also go for a long run whenever he felt like it. His skin was slightly tanned, an extremely light brown hue, partly his natural complexion, and partly from how he spends his free time.

But likely the most startling feature is the bluish-white eyes that seem to look past everything in front of him.

Sitting around the dinner table Law gladly digs into his Katsudon, a deep-fried pork cutlet on a bed of fried eggs atop a spread of white rice.

Beside his plate is a small glass of whisky.

Both Kiku and Corazon have the exact same meal, a birthday and holiday tradition in their little family. Which is why they were eating it tonight, April 3rd, Law's 15th birthday.

This is what they ate the night they made Law and started their family, so they decided it should become a tradition.

"So who is she?" Kiku asks.

Law chokes on his rice for a moment, reaching for his glass to wash it down. "What?"

"The girl you snuck out of here this morning, she forgot her jacket," Kiku says with a bored look.

"Just some girl I met a few days ago, it's nothing serious," Law says.

"Another useless pretty face huh, why can't you just find a nice girl that you'll actually keep around for a change?" Kiku berates him.

"Ugh, why would I ever do that, I'm fourteen and I've got money and power, that means the world is just full of options for me," Law boasts.

"You sound just like your father, but he changed his tune when he met the right woman," Kiku says with a prideful smile.

"Mhm," Corazon nods. "Then I started a family and it was honestly the best thing to ever happen to me."

"Have you at least considered taking the actual medical license exam?" Kiku asks. "You know we have connections to get you in there, you'd easily pass and then we'd actually have a trusted license in the house, maybe even make the clinic legit."

"I don't know, I don't think I want to get involved in government stuff. What we're doing now works so why change it anyway."

"I'm just suggesting options, you've got your whole life ahead of you still no need to choose now," Kiku says.

"Well..." Law trails off nervously, "there actually is a job I was looking at."

Both his parents give him a strange look before his father speaks, "what job?"

"A simple hit."

"Law," Kiku narrows her eyes at him. "We've been over this."

"I've been watching you for a decade, studying constantly and practicing, just let me do one for once," he argues.

Narrowing her eyes at him Kiku silently considers all their options.

"If I say no will you do it anyway?"

"Yeah."

"Sigh, did you properly check the sources?"

"Of course."

"Where is it?"

"Only one district over."

"Target?"

"Some lawyer, works for an oil company."

"Pay?"

"Two million dollars," Law says.

Kiku frowns and looks over at her husband.

Corazon shakes his head, "if he's going anyway then I'd feel better with both of you there..."

"Damn it, fine, when?"

"He has a case tomorrow afternoon..."

END CHAPTER---

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Capítulo 5: CHAPTER 004(Ambush)

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CHAPTER START---

Law stood in the hotel room staring out the large windows. Fifteen floors up all he has to do is make one precise shot and this job would be done.

On the bed rests his sword, a sleek 120cm -4ft- long white saber, completely straight and razor-thin, custom made to simulate the feel of a scalpel, a tungsten-carbon alloy perfect for his needs. The hilt was rectangular and matched the blade perfectly, white with black accents.

"You ready?" Kiku asks.

"Of course," Law takes his sword and draws it from the white scabbard.

Lining it up with a painting on the wall he activated his quirk.

'ROOM'

A tiny invisible ROOM reaches the painting but no further, just barely touching the ink.

"Injection shot," he says quietly. Lining up the blade to where he wants, a bullet of invisible force slams into the ink but goes no further than his room's limits.

"You really got all the good stuff..." his mom mutters. An invisible and silent bullet, perfect for these types of missions as it can either harm inorganic objects, no matter how physically tough they are, or bypass physical defenses and do exclusively internal damage to organics.

"Your stuff isn't bad mom... I'm just that much better," he says with a cocky grin.

"Oh yeah?"

"Ach-" she smacked Law on the head. "Alright alright."

As Law frowns and rubs his head Kiku looks at the wall clock, "It's almost five, he should be leaving the office soon, get ready."

"Right," Law walks toward the tinted window as she hands him a pair of binoculars. Looking down at the crowded street. Two lanes of light traffic but dozens of people on the sidewalk, either going home or to their evening plans.

Focusing on the door he expects his target to be leaving soon Law keeps his eyes locked, ready to activate his quirk and get another clean job under his belt.

"Breakdown?" Kiku asks over his shoulder, her eyes transformed into high-powered scopes to help locate the target.

"Mom you know tha---"

"Don't care," she cuts him off. "Doesn't matter how many jobs you've done, always good to double-check everything. Breakdown. Now."

Law sighs, "Fine. Early fifties, grey suit, blue tie, has three horns on his head."

"Quirk?"

"Horns, he has horns," Law says in a bored tone.

Kiku nods, "family?"

"Doesn't matter."

"Reason for the hit?"

"Doesn't matter."

"Payout?"

"Three million," Law smiles.

"Good, the only thing that matters is the contract, nothing is more sacred in this life," Kiku smiles, knowing this rule was properly instilled into their son years ago. "Look lively..."

Law spots his target simultaneously, a short and rotund man, barely 150cm -five feet- tall. Wearing a grey suit with his blue tie, and sporting three horns. The face perfectly matches the picture in the request.

Looking at the people walking about Law spots a gap in the foot traffic, the perfect spot for him to get his shot.

"Easy money," Law says.

ROOM

A massive room, spanning over a hundred meters, invisible and undetectable as always, expands outward from his chest to encompass everything.

Creating his domain, with him at the center of it.

'Shambles,' a butterfly knife appears in his left hand, without needing to swap places with anything. Familiarity with an object or space allows him to warp them without requiring the crutch of a substitution item.

"This would be a lot easier if hotel windows could open," Law sighs as he makes a slicing motion in the air. The lock at the edge of the window is sliced open, a perfect and routine use of Amputate to divide matter.

Law places the tip of his blade just outside the window to prevent any 'bullet holes' when he fires.

'Scan,' his mind is bombarded with information about everything within his room, but he only focuses on his target. Scan gives him a perfect external breakdown of his targets' body and passive awareness of everything within his room to an extent, but the larger the room the easier it is to miss things. And gathering information about a person's internal structure requires him to be in contact with the person, even if it is through gloves.

"Almost there..." Law says as he focuses, aiming his blade directly at the target. "Injection Shot," he mutters.

A silent force bullet rockets from the tip of his blade and crosses the street, clearing the distance in half the time it would take for a standard bullet while remaining completely silently and invisibly.

They both see the target get hit, a direct shot to the side of his head as he's walking. Shattering his brainstem and killing him instantly, the sidewalk at the other end of the man cracks as a bullethole suddenly appears in it. As if it went clean through his head...but without ever breaking the skin. As always, internal damage only to organics.

"Easy jo---" Law celebrations are cut short. As expected the surrounding crowd looks on in horror as the mall falls to the floor.

But both Law and Kiku's eyes widen in surprise as his body shifts and contorts. Transforming back to its original form, a brown blob of flesh, clothes and all shift with it.

A moment later it truly reverts to the original form.

A tall slender man with pale grey skin laying lifeless on the sidewalk.

"Shifter," Kiku's eyes widen in realization, seeing the shapeshifting hero's corpse laying there. His bulletproof skin is obviously assumed to be able to protect him from them, but the hero couldn't have known about Law, about how his quirk worked. "Mask on!" she yells.

Law immediately shuts the window, and runs to the bed. Reaching into his bag he pulls on his ski mask, leaving only his white-blue eyes exposed, his mother wears an identical mask with her brown eyes revealed.

Kiku taps a few buttons on her phone, disabling all the cameras and recordings on their route and prepared exit before throwing the phone onto the bed.

Turning to looks back at her son, she nods.

"Ready?" Law asks.

"Let's go," she reaches into the backpack they brought and clicks a button, leaving it on the bed beside the phone and anything else they brought.

Law grabs his sword and focuses on where they need to go.

"Shambles," he says as they disappear, replaced with two blue marbles that clatter to the floor.

They appear on the roof of the hotel and begin running along the rooftops, understanding that escape was the main priority before they could do anything else.

BOOM!

As they leap off the roof and onto a neighboring building the room they were in seconds ago explodes into a raging inferno, destroying all evidence of anyone being there.

With only their eyes exposed they simply had to escape now and lay low for a while, they were certainly impossible to track.

Running toward nearly the end of the second rooftop Kiku stops and grabs her head, "agh!" she yells in pain, feeling as if her skull was in a vice.

Law stops as he feels a tingling at the back of his mind, but he automatically shrugs it off, the telltale effect of someone trying to use their quirk on him. Thankfully between his ego, willpower, and quirk, it was impossible for any other quirks to tell him what to do.

Kiku however, without such resistance drops to one knee due to the extreme pain, on the empty rooftop Law knows they have no cover and picks her up, thankfully his mother was shorter and lighter than him, he could barely feel her due to how much energy his Quirk gives him.

Scooping her into his arms and handing her his sword he takes off.

"What is it?" he asks.

"They're tracking me," Kiku says. "We need to find the quirk user and kill him, then disappear. And if we can't---"

"We will," Law says. "We'll both get out of this."

"East, he's East," Kiku says as the pain begins fading aware, yet she could feel the established connection tugging her toward the quirk user.

Law turns on his heel and begins running East.

'ROOM,' he creates a room as they arrive at the edge of the roof, quickly scanning for a few rocks on a rooftop across the street in front of him.

'Shambles.'

They both disappear.

"You can put me down now," Kiku says as they step out of his room, causing it to collapse immediately.

Kiku stands on her own and points to a spot on the floor. "I can feel him down---"

"Move!" Law pulls her out of the way as a sharp feather flies past the spot where she was.

CRASH!

Rooftop rumbles behind them. Turning around they both see a man in an aviator-style getup landing on the rooftop behind them, two wings of red feathers at his back where the lone feather that tried to attack Kiku returns to.

The number three pro hero, Hawk, glares at them, a long feather in each hand acting like a sword.

Standing beside him is a tall hulk of a man, the ground beneath him cracked due to his rough landing earlier, his massive two-meter tall frame was swollen with muscles, and his entirely metal body shone under the sunlight.

Chrome, the number twelve pro hero, his armored skin allows him to handle some of the physically strongest villains, and makes him immune to firearms and even tank shells.

Hawks looks at both targets for a moment before speaking, and Law uses this time to create a room spanning two hundred meters, a tax on his stamina that he could truly feel, but making this room and scanning was essential to expect any more ambushes, he'd barely made a room in time to detect that sneak attack earlier after all.

"Hmm, if you have a sword," he points at Law, "then that must make the woman Arsenal," he levels his feather sword at Kiku.

"Did you find him yet?" Kiku asks quietly, neither side moves their eyes from each other as both her hands morph into swords, confirming Hawk's suspicions.

"Yeah," Law says. "I have his location, plan?"

"Kill them all, they've seen too much."

"Mhm," Law nods in agreement, focusing on the person she pointed at earlier through the floor.

While mother and son were quietly muttering to each other, standing fifteen meters away Hawks and Chrome were creating a simple plan, not expecting the infamous assassin Arsenal to have backup.

With the sensitivity of his feathers, Hawks felt the vibrations their words sent through the air, easily hearing their plan.

"They found Mind-Binder," he tells Chrome in a hushed tone, still staring down the villains. "Don't hesitate to break them, they plan to kill us all. I think the swordsman has heightened senses, you should take him."

"Piece of cake," Chrome says.

"Now!" Arsenal -Kiku- yells.

To the shock of both heroes, Law turns toward her and swings at her neck with his blade, drawing it and attacking before anyone can make sense of this betrayal.

'Shambles,' in Kiku's place an older gentleman with grey hair suddenly appears, eyes closed and hands on his temple as he focuses to maintain his quirk on the woman, keeping his mind connected to the woman.

Before he can open his eyes they've swapped places and a sword slashes through his head.

'Incision,' Law enhances his slash to do more damage, unfortunately, this requires physical contact unlike Amputate, but the results are obvious as he bisects the man's skull.

Before the fresh corpse can hit the floor Kiku is swapped out once more.

"Binder!" Chrome yells out as both parties rush each other, Chrome charges toward Law while Hawks has his sights on Kiku.

Heroes versus Villains, a bloody battle begins...

END CHAPTER---

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