Télécharger l’application
15.22% MHA: Horizon (Ope-Ope No Mi) / Chapter 57: CHAPTER 054(Mystery Class Monsters)

Chapitre 57: CHAPTER 054(Mystery Class Monsters)

Discord: https://discord.gg/t7bHrdRY7Y

pat.reon: Keanu_Eugene

CHAPTER START---

Standing in the tunnel leading to the arena Todoroki watches the crowd once again lose themselves as Midnight announces his next match.

With a sigh he raises his left hand, creating a small flickering flame in his palm. "Midoriya... you showed me what it means to be a hero, to help people," he crushes the flame in his hand, snuffing it out. "But I don't know how ready I am to start moving forward, but maybe I can help someone else..."

He sees Horizon enter the arena, hands in his pockets, not waving to the audience at all.

'Something is off,' Shoto realizes, Horizon's showmanship was suddenly taking a back seat, he was far more serious.

After Midnight announces his name Shoto begins slowly walking to the arena, his mind working overtime to go over his plan one last time. An exercise in futility.

'Freeze him as fast as possible, if that fails and he summons his sword I can use my heat to displace the Air Slashes...' he thinks, keeping it simple and adaptive.

"Are both of you ready?" Midnight asks, and neither boy reacts.

Horizon just looks down on Shoto, and he looks up at Horizon who was towering over him. Only ten meters between them.

But from this far away the presence of Horizon felt more intense, as if he went from being mildly annoyed at everyone to being outright pissed. All for a reason Shoto couldn't understand.

"Uh, ok," Midnight said awkwardly, "BEGIN!"

Todoroki immediately lowers his stance, feeling the right side of his body cool down, a thick layer of ice spreads across the arena, cracking and breaking up before reaching Horizon.

'Heaven-Piercing Ice Wall!'

The ice on the floor erupts into a sharp burst of ice thrusting up at Horizon, and the moment it's about to make contact.

SHAMBLES!

His vision is suddenly blocked as Horizon appears in front of him, his right hand outstretched already and touching Shoto's chest.

MES!

"Hng!" Todoroki stumbles back, vision going blurry for a moment as he drops to one knee, breathing heavily. He looks up, trying and barely forcing himself to stand, seeing Horizon looking down on him with both hands at his sides.

Stumbling back one more time Shoto raises his right arm, trying to launch more ice, only for him to feel as if he got the wind knocked out of him. Wincing in pain and nearly doubling over he sees Horizon tilt his head slightly.

"My Quirk!"

"You really should have kept your mouth shut," Horizon says before stepping forward, connecting a solid right cross to Shoto's face.

His vision goes black for a moment as he feels his body crumple toward the floor, only for searing pain on his head as Horizon catches him by the hair, holding him up.

"Mmm," Todoroki's words fail, seeing blood dripping from his mouth, three teeth clattered across the floor.

"So weak," Horizon says, holding Todoroki by the hair a few inches off the floor, much to the horror of everyone watching.

Fighting through the pain Todoroki raises his right hand to Horizon's face, intent on using his Quirk once more.

SHAMBLES!

They both appear a few meters away at the ice structure Shoto made, with Horizon slamming him into it face first.

SHAMBLES!

They appear at a different piece of the ice and Horizon smashes his face in one more time.

Todoroki hangs limply in his hand, easily getting tossed back to the middle of the arena, rolling a few times before crumpling to the floor, blood running down his face from his mouth and forehead as Horizon walks up to him.

Shoto fights through the pain, forcing himself to sit up, looking up at Horizon with confusion and anger, glaring as best he can with a bloody face.

Midnight raises a hand to her earpiece as Horizon casually walks over to Shoto, "Nezu, he's gonna kill him," she mutters.

"No he won't," Nezu says. "He's being a bit rougher than usual, clearly something is off, but he won't kill him. The risk isn't worth it."

'What the hell does that mean,' Midnight wonders, seeing Horizon standing above Shoto. 'So he won't kill him because of the risk instead of because it would be the wrong thing to do...not much of a hero.'

Shoto once again fruitlessly thrusts his hand forward, this time his left hand, trying desperately to make a flame so Horizon would have to back away, adrenaline and fear gripping his heart and mind as nothing happens.

And in response Horizon only tilts his head, hearing the audience murmuring, trying to figure out what happened.

"You still haven't realized? Your Quirk doesn't work anymore."

"Hngh?" Todoroki's swollen and bloody mouth can't even form words, but the audience echoes his confusion.

Horizon sighs, deciding to start his big debut scene now, he can already hear the people all around the world constantly screaming his name, and he'd get to teach Todoroki never to talk about his family again...

"Your Quirk has three simple weaknesses," Horizons says. "Overuse your right side and you get frostbite, left side leads to heat exhaustion...but even if you could perfectly control them, you still need stamina. All I did was remove the source of your stamina, and without it, your body won't allow you to activate that Quirk, no matter how badly you want it."

Todoroki looks up at him, not understanding what he meant at all, then stares down at his hands, currently kneeling before Horizon.

Trying and failing to create fire or ice.

"Here, let me show you," Horizon holds out a hand, and in it appears a beating heart, red and healthy, preserved in a jelly-like clear cube. "Your stamina engine..."

Todoroki's heavy labored breathing suddenly becomes desperate panicked pants. Sweating profusely as he grips his chest, tearing at his shirt and undershirt. His body and mind flooded with panic and fear.

All while some of the audience reel back in horror or lose their lunch.

"IS THAT HIS FREAKING HEART?!" Mic screams, followed by terrified murmurs all around the stadium.

A moment later Shoto rips open his top, exposing his creamy skin, well-defined abs, and a square hole in the middle of his chest where his heart should be.

He completely freezes, looking into his own body.

Even more people lose their lunch as the cameras focus on him and the beating heart in Horizon's hand.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine unless something happens to this," Horizon gestures to the heart, then give it a light squeeze.

"Arrngh!" Shoto screams out, clutching his hollow chest and doubling over. "Oh don't be such a baby, I barely touched it," Horizon scoffs.

Todoroki reaches up, still in immense pain he desperately reaches for his heart, only for Horizon to take one step back taunting him.

"This should teach you never to talk about my family," Horizon says, clear for everyone to hear him.

He raises his free hand, summoning his sword to his palm, and immediately swings down.

"NO!" Midnight rips her costume, releasing a pink mist.

But he'd already slashed Shoto, slashing his head diagonally, seemingly killing him.

Everyone reels back in horror but Horizon dodges Midnight's whip before warping away, just in time to avoid Cementoss's cement attack, a wave of the substance trying to swallow him.

"HE'S NOT DEAD!" Horizon yells, causing both Pros to freeze, still glaring at him, but their eyes flicker off to the side for a moment.

They see Todoroki cut into two pieces on the floor, his arm reaching out randomly, confused and dizzy.

And Endeavor is already kneeling beside him, not sure if he should reach out and help or just wait, frozen in fear and confusion, all his flames currently shut off as his world crumbles apart.

Midnight is the first in the arena to snap to her senses, everyone else still staring in shock, "HORIZON! This must be one of your Quirks, start explaining or you're disqualified!" she says, ignoring whatever interests Nezu had in the boy.

Unable to stand by as someone possibly kills one of her students.

Horizon straightens up, still surrounded by the pink mist she was emitting, her Quirk, Somnambulist, a powerful sleeping agent that's even more potent against men.

"Quirk, singular," he says, straightening up and summoning his scabbard onto the blade, holding his sword in his left hand and Shoto's heart in his right as he makes his grand reveal."

"My Quirk gives me multiple abilities, each capable of being a powerful Quirk on their own," he looks at the surprised faces of the crowd, until now many people either didn't bother trying to solve his Quirk or assumed it was some sort of spacial control ability.

"Obviously, everyone has seen my warping," he shrugs. "And you all know about my healing, but..

AMPUTATE, those are my ranged slashes," he lifts his sword to draw their eyes to it. "A lot of range and they divide things as they are, overcoming feeble things like resistance and material composition, if it exists, I can divide it."

"We thought those were Air Slash," Midnight says.

"And now you know better, I simply cut reality," he says with a humourous tone, as if suppressing a giggle at all the surprised faces. "Any living thing I cut with the ranged slashes is harmlessly divided of course, "he raises the beating heart.

"Next I suppose is Counter-Shock, it lets me generate electricity.

Takt, again, not Telekinesis, I just order the world to move and it obeys.

Booster-Shot, temporary surge in physical strength.

Injection-Shot, invisible bullets that also ignore defenses, they only do internal damage...

And a few other things I'll keep up my sleeve, but that's all everyone has seen me use today, you'll have to keep watching for more," he says casually, enjoying all the murmuring from the crowd.

"What kind of Quirk is that?" Midnight asks, both intrigued and wary of him, no longer sure if he was even human.

"A virtually endless bag of tricks, the ability to manipulate the world around me in whatever way I desire, that's the power of my Quirk, HAND OF GOD!" He boldly announces. "Japan's first, and the world's second...Mystery Class Quirk!"

For a long moment, everyone is so surprised that they're silent.

Then realization hits.

They have a Mystery Class Quirk.

A superhuman prodiy at UA.

Training to protect them.

To be a hero and fight for them.

They have a new top-tier hero right in front of them.

And the crowd goes absolutely wild, screaming and cheering to the point that Horizon felt as if they were trying to rupture his eardrums.

"Oh, and one more thing," he makes a show of taking a deep breath, pulling in as much of Midnight's sleeping gas as possible before breathing out, and everyone gets quiet to listen in, excited to learn more about their future superhero.

"Mortal ailments and diseases don't really work on me because...well, you get it, right?" he asks jokingly, seeing Midnight just blankly staring at him as he shrugs off her Quirk. "But hey, at least you smell good."

She blushes slightly at that but quickly looks unamused as he walks over to Shoto and Endeavor.

"You can have this back," he says to them, tossing the heart down at Shoto only for Endeavor to quickly react, snapping out of his trance and gently catching it. "Next time he runs his mouth about my family I won't be putting him back together for you."

Horizon snaps his fingers, and Shoto's pieces flicker about for a moment before he appears perfectly assembled on the floor in front of his dad, completely unconscious from the shock of being divided and the heart attack.

"Todoroki is unable to battle, Horizon wins," Midnight announces in a confused and worried voice, immediately running over to Shoto and calling some medical robots to help her.

Endeavor barely snaps out of his stupor as the robots arrive with a stretcher, and by the time he looks across the arena, Horizon is long gone.

Another person he was destined to play second place to suddenly appeared...

Sitting in the locker room Horizon idly scrolls through his 'Yay!' page, watching his follower count climb to twenty million as his name is trending.

His mind no longer as angry now that's he's slapped Todoroki around a bit...

---Kamino Ward, Tokyo, Japan...

Sitting in his large chair All For One mutes Shigaraki's video call and turns to doctor Garaki who sat beside him, narrating the action of what happens on screen since All For One had no eyes, only 'seeing' with infrared.

While Shigaraki was ranting about how unfair it is for the heroes to have that cheat code called Horizon, the adults decided to have a constructive conversation.

"A Mystery Class Quirk," Garaki says. "To think a third would appear so early, and within our very own borders..."

"Hmm, but this is also problematic, Nezu has him in that fortress six days a week," All For One says. "We can't get to him in there unless I go in person, even if we send Gigantomachi he can't capture someone who will warp away."

"Neither can you, at least not yet," Garaki says.

"Mmm, my sources within the Hero Commission are slow but useful, apparently Nezu kept his information from them as well."

"But even if that plan works, is engaging him truly wise?" Garaki asks. "Mystery Class Quirks are head and shoulders above all others, that was the reason we sent Arsenal to kill that girl all those years ago in America...too bad her sister also had the same Quirk,that damn Star and Stripe..."

"Yes but this time I'm sure we can have some leverage to bring him to us, and I'll be using Shake Down."

"That will kill you!" Garaki yells.

"Relax doctor," All For One chuckles at his friend's worry. "I won't be using it directly, we'll place it in a Nomu."

"Hmm, I won't have enough time to clone it in that case with the amount of Nomus we're currently making, but I suppose with a Quirk like that you only need one use."

"Precisely, we simply need to wait for our spies to do their job..."

All For One then unmutes Shigaraki's screen and the incessant rambling about the unfairness of this whole situation continues, causing both men to groan in annoyance.

Since the appearance of this new walking miracle, All For One couldn't care any less for his apprentice, now only keeping him around to hurt All Might.

Both he and doctor Garaki were counting down the days until they could dispose of him...

---Off The Coast Of New York...

Standing atop a next-gen X Class fighter jet America's number 1 hero stands tall, moving 3000 kilometers per hour, the wind blowing her long blonde hair.

Standing at 6ft4 -193cm-, the same height as Law, but slightly more muscular. Her entire costume is styled like an American flag, her cape made of red and white stripes, long and flowing. Blonde hair modeled after All Might's. And the entire skin-tight suit is red and blue with the same stripes as her cape mixed in. Metal bracing around her midsection and shoulders purely for aesthetics.

Smiling proudly, Star and Stripe, America's number 1 hero, and currently the single most powerful person in the world.

Casually walking across the hull of the black jet under her feet, as if it weren't even moving, Star makes her way to the front and leans forward, looking through the glass to wave at the pilot.

Inside she sees a brown-skinned man seemingly made of rock, average height and build but shaped strangely, with a bushy white mustache, hand on the flight juke controlling the aircraft.

"How is the sports festival going?" Star asks commander Agpar.

"The first semi-final match is starting," he says. "It's Endeavors son against that Horizon kid."

"Did All Might make an appearance yet?" Star asks, her inner fanboy coming out.

"How about we deal with this nuke then you can watch it yourself, he'll probably only show up for the medal ceremo---" they're both cut off by a beeping in their ears.

Star immediately stands upright atop the plane and folds her arms across her chest, focusing her eyes to see kilometers away.

"It's on the radar now, get ready," Agpar says.

"Yeah, I can see it," she says. "Fly directly into the nuke, let's make this quick so I don't miss All Might's appearance, you keep an eye on the tournament for me..."

"Damn Evolutionists," Agpar grumbles. "If we could just bait out their leaders we'd be able to lock them all up, bunch of cowards won't show up as long as you're in America..."

"Can't blame them," Star chuckles, "I'm the strongest woman in the world..."

They both immediately notice the dot on the horizon, the nuclear missile heading directly for Manhattan, powerful enough to crater the entire island.

After Agpar sets them on a collision course he turns back to his phone, watching the sports festival live as Star deals with the nuke, there couldn't a more relaxed duo in the face of a superweapon.

As the missile gets close enough Star activates her own Myster Class Quirk.

"NEW ORDER: The Atmosphere around me will gather and materialize into an avatar of me, one thousand times my size!" Star decrees, and her Quirk makes it so.

Around and behind her the air gets heavy, invisible to the naked eye but to her, she saw a naked version of herself, a colossus of solid air with the jet at the waist. Smiling fearlessly as the missile gets closer.

She throws a quick jab, and the avatar does the same, making contact head-on with the missile and detonating it a kilometer away.

Star and Agpar fly directly toward it, not that they had a choice with the jet already being inside the 10km blast radius, 2310 technology truly is no laughing matter after all.

With a thought she deactivates her order, and the avatar immediately disappears. She extends her right arm forward after quickly moving to stand at the very nose of the plane, making sure the blast wave would hit her before the plane.

"NEW ORDER: The nuclear explosion and connected shockwave will compress into a spear for me to throw!"

The moment the shockwave touches her hand, exactly what she said occurs.

New Order, the Mystery Class Quirk, bestowing the wielder with the voice of god. Allowing her to speak and bend reality, with limitations of course.

A common trend between the two Quirks of this class to exist.

While Hand Of God makes the user act as god, imposing their will on the world with them standing at the center of their universe, this simply allows the user to become the voice of god, imposing their will on reality through words.

While Hand Of God has much less limits after an ability is created, New Order allows its user to effectively change the world at will, but the trade is that New Order has many more requirements for activation.

But Hand Of God has clear limits in itself. Such as the way it can only exert that much will onto other living beings. Making Law unable to simply grab people and toss them around while alive. Or the fact that every time Law uses Shambles he first locates the object or person within his room, the more focus and energy he takes to perform an in-depth SCAN of the area the faster he will run out of stamina.

It is for this reason he doesn't simply use dust particles to warp about, as focusing on them would completely drain him after two or three warps at best. Anything an average human would be able to see and hold is many orders of magnitude easier and more energy efficient.

But neither Hand of God nor New Order can do truly anything, simply because God cannot tamper with free will.

If these truths were made public, the classification would almost unanimously change from Mystery Class to Divine Class.

So it's to the surprise of no one when the nuclear explosion compresses into a spear shorter than Star herself.

Holding the red spear of energy and force in her grasp, Star rears back her arm and puts her back into a throw. With her immense physical power, currently, the strongest on the planet. Combined with the weightless nature of the spear itself, the clouds above them shatter as a red trailing beam is left in the wake of her throw.

Saving millions of lives and doing more than most of the world's heroes can, with two simple commands...the strength of Mastery Level 80, Mystery Class Quirk.

One-VS-One, compared to every other combatant on the planet, at least in their current state, Star and Stripe is entirely invincible, she simply will not lose.

Agpar simply sits back and continues watching the sports festival, even as a beam of red energy rockets toward the sky and pierces the outer atmosphere.

Sending the nuclear blast safely into space.

"Uh...Star," Agpar says, a hint of concern in his voice. "I'm changing our route to Washington DC."

"Huh, what's going on, did President Harrison call?"

"No, but he will...apparently his doctor is Japan's new rising star."

Star chuckles at that, "that Horizon kid, not surprising since he can warp."

"Yeah, not just warp...looks like you aren't the only Mystery Class anymore..."

Star's smile falters as she stands with her arms folded, raising a finger to tap her chin as she considers what this may mean for them and the world.

Then her smile returns.

"Well then, I can't wait to meet him..."

END CHAPTER---

For anyone wondering, if Star fought Horizon to the death as they are currently...he has almost no chance of surviving. Been waiting for weeks for ya'll to get to this chapter :)


Chapitre 58: A/N

Discord: https://discord.gg/t7bHrdRY7Y

pat.reon: Keanu_Eugene

Wow, that last chapter was definitely my favorite at the time of writing it.

This author's note is just a small update. Previously chapters would state that you could get up to 5 chapters ahead on my pa.treon.

This is no longer the case and therefore that will be changed moving forward.

The tiers have been adjusted and the highest tier will give unlimited access to my edited stockpile of chapters. Currently, that means access all the way up to chapter 80, that's 1.5 months ahead.

Anyway, that's all for this announcement, feel free to comment anything you want to tell me here or join the discord so we can chat.

And I hope you're enjoying the story :)


Chapitre 59: CHAPTER 055(Invaluable Resource)

Discord: https://discord.gg/t7bHrdRY7Y

pat.reon: Keanu_Eugene

CHAPTER START---

Sitting in the waiting room Horzion is leaning back in a metal chair by the wooden table, lockers and benches on either side of him as he taps his fingers on the surface.

In front of him was his phone, face up showing his profile, the follower count now breaking past 50 million.

He didn't bother returning to the stands after his match, Tokoyami was already in the tunnel by the time he defeated Todoroki, so he simply warped back into the waiting room.

Currently, Cementoss was still fixing the arena, but the world was already reacting.

"900 Million, that's the goal," he mutters to himself, seeing the follower count begin to plateau. "If I can get to All Might's follower count then I know I'm in a spot comparable to the best hero in history...that'll give me all the leverage I need..."

His plan was simple, for most it would be impossible, but for him, it was a set of basic steps that pose barely any challenge.

First, he would need to make his grand debut, which he did against Todoroki. Albeit a bit angrier than he intended.

Now the entire world knows he's a Mystery Class, everyone will want to have him on their side, assuming they didn't already want him as a miracle doctor.

His following and influence would immediately balloon, which he can easily track as online followers for a simple metric, keeping the goal to surpass All Might in influence and reach simple.

Next, he simply has to finish up his match against Bakugo and win this tournament, proving he's a truly peerless student with unfathomable potential.

After a few simple months, he'd get his provisional license and start doing actual hero work to continue growing, and if things go as planned he'll enter the top 10 Pro Hero Ranking the minute he graduates.

"Then a few more years of this hero crap...and by that time All Might will be retired or dead, so naturally people will look to me as his next replacement, and I'll be their perfect Symbol of Peace until I get what I want..."

He smiles at the thought of that, having the entire country, maybe the entire world groveling at his feet. He'd finally be able to fix his mistake and bring his family back together.

Then they'd never have to set foot in Japan again.

CLICK!

Horizon looks up to see Nezu entering the room, his tablet held under his arm as he reaches up to lock the door behind himself.

"Here to congratulate me?" he asks jokingly.

"I never doubted you, but you were a bit rougher than expected," Nezu says while taking a seat beside Horizon, placing his tablet on the table and taking out his phone as well. "You knocked out some of his teeth, not to mention the things you did with your Quirk."

"I barely touched him, he'll get over it," Horizon scoffs.

Nezu just sighs and shakes his head, not at all surprised by this response. "And yet he's still in shock laying in the infirmary," Nezu shakes his head. "Anyway, you said that he mentioned your parents, I assume what he said couldn't have been good. But I never expected behavior like that from Todoroki."

"He made assumptions and tried meddling where he shouldn't, he won't make that mistake again, and now everyone else knows not to do the same," Horizon growls out.

"And what did he---"

"I'm done talking about this."

Nezu bites his tongue and just nods, "understood." After a long pause, he realizes Horizon was in a bad mood from simply recalling whatever Todoroki said and decides to change the subject. "Aren't you going to ask why I'm here?"

"No, but you'll tell me anyway."

"Fair enough, so, you slash...reality?"

"That's one way to put it yes, it ignores all defense and material composition, can even slash Warp Gate to make them collapse."

"But you couldn't just dice up the USJ Nomu because?"

"Super-Regeneration, it acts like stitches pulling the parts back together, I don't think all will be that fast, but for that one it was. It's like since the Nomu is so full of energy and reactive stem cells they start growing to reach out and reconnect, even if I don't technically hurt them..."

"I see, and I assume the Injection-Shot bullets operate the same, but they somehow do real internal damage."

"Pretty much."

Nezu sits back in his chair just taking in the power of his Quirk, understanding that there was still so much he didn't know, and would certainly never be allowed to know. By definition Mystery Class Quirks are beyond human and scientific comprehension, he knew no matter how hard he tries, and how much time he has, without Law explaining it he'd never get any closer to figuring it out.

"I assume you're banning my sword," Horizon says.

"Oh most definitely, many people were concerned seeing a student cut into pieces, and the morality of removing a person's heart is still being questioned."

"It's not like it killed him," Horizon shrugs.

"Well Pantu already called me the moment you made the reveal, she'll be calling back any minute now to discuss the contract we all agreed to."

Hearing that Horizon sits up, "is she trying to change it?"

"She didn't say, but I decided no matter what she wants everyone who signed it should be in agreement...seeing as we all have much to lose and gain from it."

"Mhm," Horizon just nods and leans back, trying to clear his mind.

Not even a minute later Nezu's phone rings, he immediately answers and puts it on speaker, resting it on the table between them.

"You're on speaker," Nezu says. "Only Horizon and I are here..."

'President Pantu' was the name on the screen, the head of Japan's Hero Public Safety Commission.

"Good," her calm and feminine voice flows through the phone. "Let's skip the pleasantries, I just got off the phone with a lot of very powerful people, they don't want Horizon taking the hero route."

Nezu doesn't react, expecting this outcome, simply nodding along. "Because they want to keep their potential miracle elixir safe?"

"Essentially yes, people aren't comfortable with the man that can cure and heal any non-genetic disorder putting himself in danger like a common hero, he's been deemed an Invaluable Resource, a class zero security case."

"What?" Horizon asks, not understanding what that means.

"That classification list was created by the United Nations," Nezu says. "Until now the only class zero was me, people deemed too valuable to mankind to allow any risk in insuring their safety, that's why UA is able to become an armed fortress in such a restrictive nation like Japan."

"That's putting it lightly," Pantu says. "UA is all but its own sovereign nation, I can't even send officials on campus without presidential approval. Not to mention any action Japan takes against UA needs United Nations approval, plus every other country wants Nezu to live in their borders..."

"Ok, so what does this mean for me?" Horizon asks.

"Whatever you want," Pantu says. "Money, influence, land, we'll get you whatever you want, and provide full-time 24-hour security, not that you need it. But we can't take the risk of losing you."

"What about my parents? I don't alter or renegotiate contracts, and I definitely never ever break them, if I change anything then I want them out," Horizon was a hair away from angrily growling out those words. Even now the idea of not completing a contract as he agreed to made him sick.

"They can't just be let out that easily," Pantu says. "Look, you're mom killed a lot of powerful people, and a lot of people between her and her targets got killed too. She was the most effective killer in the world and everyone knows that, which means all the powerful people in every country in the world want her locked up, forever, because she is one of the few people who could kill most of them. If we let someone like that out with any kind of deal suddenly big countries and companies stop trading with Japan, or start pressuring us in other ways."

"How bad is it? And how soon can they get out?" Horizon asks.

"It'll be at least a few more years," Pantu says. "And as for how badly...well the last time you spoke to them I had them moved into solitary and they'll be there until release. A lot of powerful people were lobbying for immediate execution but I sold them a story about getting intel from them to buy time. They've been in solitary since Christmas."

Horizon sits back for a moment and considers his options, then decides to just test the waters a bit. "OK, and if I drop out of UA and take the safe life, what's the deal to get them out?"

"Uncertain, I'd have to move some things around."

"Mmmm, don't like that," Horizon says, tapping the table a few times. "Guess I'm staying in the Hero Course."

"But the risk---"

"Is fine," he cuts her off. "See I'm gonna be Japan's greatest SUPER-Hero, unrivaled. I'll fulfill the contract the three of us agreed to in a few years, then you do your part and get them out of Tartarus, because otherwise, things get messy."

"Are you threatening a government official?" Pantu could hardly believe what she was hearing.

"No no no, that's not very heroic at all...but. If say, you break the contract, or try some underhanded government bullshit to stop me from being a hero, or I so much as sense any foul play, this story goes from me being a hero to protect all the idiots that can't defend themselves...to everyone counting how many people...and heroes...and cities...get between me, and you, and I just don't think you have enough."

A pregnable silence fills to room, the air tense in anticipation of Pantu's response, until a soft and defeated sigh sounds through the phone, "alright," she says. "I'll try to get them out before approaching you again with this offer. I technically don't have any legal grounds to stop you from being a hero so this was all a matter of your choice anyway, not that any legal red tape would work with Nezu in your corner."

"Very true," Nezu says.

"Look on the bright side of things," Horizon says to her. "You'll get an unbeatable super-hero, Nezu gets his new Symbol of Peace, and I get my parents back, you keep your end of the deal and everyone wins, simple."

"I'll take care of it," Pantu says. "I suppose the only thing left is to congratulate you on winning the sports festival."

"The first step to being your next Symbol of Peace," Horizon says jokingly.

"Right..." she abruptly hangs up.

"So did that go how you expected?" Horizon asks Nezu.

"Entirely."

He looks at Nezu skeptically, "you really predicted that even being a miracle elixir isn't enough to get my parents out? Really?"

"Of course," Nezu says. "Humans at their core are fragile and scared creatures, for most of the powerful people that could sway such a decision releasing the best contract killer in history, the person most likely to eliminate them or their families...simply isn't worth protecting a miracle elixir that they'd likely never need or use for themselves or their loved ones."

"I see, because people never think bad things will happen to them. They never think they'll be the one to get sick...just like those idiots who run around playing hero never think they'll be the one to have a villain track them back to their family..."

"Sadly that is the nature of being human, you all think you're so special and unique, and that very fact makes you all the same."

"Is that how you think I view things?" Horizon asks, a soft curiosity in his voice.

Nezu looks at him a bit surprised, "is that not how you see yourself? Special and unique, unlike anyone else, I figured that's why you're so harsh on others."

"It's...it's not that simple."

"We've got some time," Nezu says, gesturing to the screen in the corner showing the stage now about to be completely repaired.

Horizon thinks about his words for a moment then speaks, his voice taking a softer and kinder tone, an almost startling change from his blunt and abrasive way of speaking.

"When I was a kid," he says. "When I first asked my parents to teach me, medicine, fighting, this was even before I knew how to use my Quirk, they never held back. It was tough, but I did it, because it's what's expected of me. Push me, break me, watch me fall, and just wait as I pick myself back up, over and over and over.

It taught me a lot, and they taught me a lot. I knew I was different, smarter, stronger Quirk, just better than anyone else. But it wasn't enough, I had to train and study every day for years, until I figured out what it means to be truly perfect.

The world doesn't slow down for you to learn, so I had to learn fast or deal with the pain of failure, and there was a lot of pain...but it made me stronger. It made me the culmination of everything they are in my own ways, and I couldn't be happier to be who I am now, I just wish they were here with me to see it. But coming to this place, honestly.

I don't expect anyone to ever match me, no Pro, no classmate. But I despise people who clearly aren't trying hard enough to live up to their full potential. I don't care if they want to live a life of mediocrity, but I've worked too hard and sacrificed too much for them to think they're my equal or even comparable just because they're a Pro or in my class.

And I especially don't like when they think we're the same.

We just aren't the same. People who never try to be more than they currently are, than the world tells them they are... those people don't deserve to ever stand beside me, and sadly almost everyone I've met here is doing exactly that. But at least most of them know their place by now.

As for things like Quirks, since we're training to be heroes it matters a lot, some are just so obsolete that they should never have gotten this far. But once a Quirk can be truly useful I don't really care so long as the user has decent Mastery of it.

But some people are just so pathetic...ten years with a Quirk yet you still break your arm to throw a punch, or can only control half the Quirk, or don't even know what your Quirk actually does.

I'm stuck in a classroom with that after all I've done...and you expect me to just play nice, really?"

"I see," Nezu nods solemnly, taking a moment to consider everything he just heard. Now gaining a deeper understanding of how Horizon thinks. "So you don't like when people think they are your equal, without living their life always giving their all, constantly going Plus Ultra..."

"Not Plus Ultra," Horizon says. "That means to go beyond your limits, I have no limits, I just am. But the point is they just don't try hard enough..."

'A massive ego,' Nezu thinks. 'Powered by years of hard work, boosted to absurd levels by his superhuman talent, and all balanced by apathy toward anyone or thing not relevant to him...a dangerous sociopathic combination, especially with such a powerful Quirk...'

"Well this certainly taught me a lot," Nezu says happily, hopping down from his chair.

"Like what?" Horizon asks.

"Well...the only time you ever speak with such care and love in your voice, is when you speak about your parents. I think that's the most important thing to take away from this, now I'll let you get ready for your next match," he gestures to the screen in the corner.

Turning to it Horizon sees Tokoyami pinned down by Bakugo, a constantly exploding palm held close to Dark Shadow like a flashlight.

"Guess its time to wrap this up..."

END CHAPTER---


Load failed, please RETRY

État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire

Chapitres de déverrouillage par lots

Table des matières

Options d'affichage

Arrière-plan

Police

Taille

Commentaires sur les chapitres

Écrire un avis État de lecture: C57
Échec de la publication. Veuillez réessayer
  • Qualité de l’écriture
  • Stabilité des mises à jour
  • Développement de l’histoire
  • Conception des personnages
  • Contexte du monde

Le score total 0.0

Avis posté avec succès ! Lire plus d’avis
Votez avec Power Stone
Rank 200+ Classement de puissance
Stone 200 Pierre de Pouvoir
signaler du contenu inapproprié
Astuce d’erreur

Signaler un abus

Commentaires de paragraphe

Connectez-vous

tip Commentaire de paragraphe

La fonction de commentaire de paragraphe est maintenant disponible sur le Web ! Déplacez la souris sur n’importe quel paragraphe et cliquez sur l’icône pour ajouter votre commentaire.

De plus, vous pouvez toujours l’activer/désactiver dans les paramètres.

OK