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95.8% MHA: Horizon (Ope-Ope No Mi) / Chapter 364: CHAPTER 354(Horizon’s Era)

Chapitre 364: CHAPTER 354(Horizon’s Era)

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---Minato Tokyo, Matani Plaza…

On the roof of a highrise building, a Japanese man of average build looks through his binoculars, focused on Horizon Tower.

Focused on the gathering crowd of people a few blocks away at the front of Horizon Tower.

The man enjoys the warm morning sun as he analyzes the situation, seeing hateful words on their posters. People line both sides of the barricaded street as they wait for the armored convoy to arrive.

"I can see it from here, but where is my backup?" the man asks through his phone.

"This isn't that kind of job, Crater," Shigaraki responds through the line. "This isn't a breakout. You're just tying up a well-informed loose end."

Crater smiles, thinking about all the dead people he's about to add to his record. "Then I'm definitely the right person for the job."

"I know. I already have an extraction point setup for you. Get back to the safe house when you're done and contact me."

"I won't have to. You'll see how it goes on the news," the man says as the news helicopters and drones arrive.

Late last night, a mysterious source leaked intel that someone captured Himiko Toga yesterday, and that they would transfer her from Horizon Tower to Tartarus via an armored convoy this morning.

And now, mere hours later, people have gathered to get a glimpse of this heinous criminal.

Many of their posters and signs denounce and wish disaster upon the League Of Villains, while others praise Team Horizon for capturing this monster without their boss being in the country.

Soon the convoy arrives, a reinforced armored truck preceded and followed by police and swat vehicles.

Above, Endeavor and Ryukyu fly, the dragon hero carrying Crust and Edgeshot on her back.

In the front seat of the armored truck is Mt. Lady, and standing on top of it is Kamui Woods.

Every hero is ready for action, expecting a rescue attempt from Shigaraki.

"These fools," Endeavor mutters through the comms. "All our warnings and they still gathered outside Horizon Tower."

"This is the first sight of Shigaraki's top commanders in months," Edgeshot says. "People have a lot of hate for them, and want a chance to say their piece."

Endeavor looks out at the civilians, still annoyed but unsurprised that all these people want to rip the villains apart.

"We're getting into position now," Mt. Lady says. "Monitor the crowd. If one civilian takes revenge here, we won't be able to interrogate her in Tartarus."

"Got it," Kamui Woods says as the vehicles turn around and get into position.

Mt. Lady gets out of the truck and stands guard while some of the swat officers enter the building, carrying rifles and riot shields.

The other Heroes take positions above or around, with Ryukyu guarding the skies with Endeavor while the others monitor the crowd.

"I thought she hated him," Crust mutters to Edgeshot as they wait for Toga.

"Who?"

"Mt. Lady, didn't she and Kamui Woods have some big breakup?"

Edgeshot glances at her, seeing she's not listening to them. "The Lurkers broke up after The Gigantomachy. After the whole mess, Kamui Woods thought they should keep Horizon."

"And she thought they should lock him up, right?"

"That's one way of putting it. She had friends in that city, so…she won't be letting it go any time soon."

"Damn."

"Yeah."

"They seem to get along now though."

"It's a slow process," Edgeshot says. 

A moment later, the officers exit the building, with a restrained Himiko Toga walking between them.

She had scars and bruises all over her face, along with patches of hair missing, having burnt off. Her frail and malnourished body showed sunken, sleep-deprived eyes.

She'd obviously been through more than a mere few hours in Horizon Tower, but the government had already decided what story they would tell.

At the back of the group, Cellophane and Tsukuyomi strut out of the building, receiving cheers from the crowd.

The sound of which makes Mt. Lady's stomach turn.

Knowing the truth about when they captured Toga, she couldn't imagine what they put her through, what the child suffered through.

Even now, while looking at the broken and battered girls, part of her still saw a lost 16-year-old girl.

"When did you get so tall?" Kamui Woods asks Cellophane as his former intern walks over to him.

"It's good to see you too," Cellophane says as he stands beside the man, now much taller.

Standing at 6ft -180cm- to Kamui Woods 5 ft6 -168cm-, and having a much more muscular build.

"No, seriously, you look intense," Kamui Woods says.

"It comes with the job. Team Horizon can have no weak links. And since I've got the weakest Quirk, I have to make up for it somehow," Cellophane shrugs.

"Oh, that makes se—"

"Breach!" Endeavor yells through the comms as the officers are loading Toga into the truck.

They shove her and the guards into the back as Crater breaches the perimeter, glowing purple as he sprints at the truck.

He moves with absurd speed, his footfalls causing minor quakes and shattering the street as he rushes toward the middle of the formation.

Kamui Woods recognizes what kind of Quirk he has, as does everyone else.

But Kamui Woods reacts first, rushing toward the attacker and growing his wooden limbs to contain him.

Mt. Lady moves one step behind him, and as he grows his limbs in multiple layers to wrap the villain in a dozen-meter-wide ball of reinforced wood, she jumps onto Kamui Woods.

Gigantified, she shielded him from the explosion with her body, curling around him as best she could.

All the while Tsukuyomi and Cellophane don't bother moving, not at all concerned about this feeble attack.

Seconds passed as the crowd, which crouched to take cover, began opening their eyes.

Mt. Lady looks up, seeing the wooden limbs stretching out from below her and the wooden ball beside her, all perfectly fine.

"Is everyone alright? Did anyone get hurt?" She asks while looking around, moving to reveal a perfectly fine Kamui Woods below her.

"Nothing happened," he says while retracting his limbs, unraveling the sphere to reveal that it's empty.

For a moment, the crowd is confused, then the sound of a body hitting the asphalt redirects their attention from Kamui Woods.

"What the hell…did you…my chest," Crater groans as he lies on his back, with Horizon standing beside him, one foot on his face.

It takes a second for the crowd to process what's happening and who they're seeing.

And the moment they do, a roar of cheers shakes the entire block.

Everyone watching at home in Japan feels a wave of relief flowing through them, as to their knowledge, for the first time in months.

Horizon is back in Japan.

Back home.

"Was he the only one?" Mt. Lady asks after the crowd becomes quiet, on account of everyone trying to listen in and record whatever they can.

"His Quirk doesn't exactly scream 'teamwork'. He gathers and detonates his kinetic energy," Horizon says while stepping off the man, leaving him in pain on the ground. "They didn't send him to save her, but to silence her."

"So they're even killing their friends. Well, I shouldn't be surprised. They are villains, after all."

"Now that just leaves one thing," Horizon says as he raises his hand, revealing Crater's heart in his hand, still beating.

Mt. Lady takes a horrified step back, and above Ryukyu has to look away.

Memories of what he forced her to do to Gentle Criminal, and the people that died, all for him to prove a point. 

Those memories resurfaced and threatened to bring up her breakfast with them.

"Bring the restraints," Mt. Lady orders some officers, and they rush to do the attacker.

"Don't both, he won't know anything useful," Horizon says as he looks down at the man, raising his heart for everyone to see. "And my world doesn't have any place for creatures like this."

The man looks up from the ground in horror, desperation in his voice as he begs Horizon to stop, feeling pain in his chest as Horizon's fingers dig into his heart.

To her horror, Horizon crushes it in his grasp and drops it onto the man's dying body.

All for the world to see, and all in the time it took Mt. Lady to realize what was happening and lunge forward to grab the heart.

SHAMBLES!

Horizon swaps his position with hers, only for her to turn on her heel and glare at him.

The hate in her eyes was obvious, and Kamui Woods was dreading what would happen next.

She lowered her stance, and everyone held their breaths as she clenched her fist, ready to attack Horizon.

Horizon looks down at her, an amused smile beneath his visor as he takes one step forward.

He looms over her, snuffing out any will to fight she had, as the unimaginable threat stares down at her, daring her to oppose him.

So intense she felt as if her throat was swelling shut.

Slowly, gently, Horizon reached up with his blood-covered right hand and touched her chin.

She flinches, but he continues, cupping her chin, forcing her to look up at him while feeling the warm blood on her face. 

The defiance in her eyes was constant, even as her body begged her to run away.

"I know, this isn't what you want Heroes to be, I know," he says, so sincerely that she can't help but believe him.

"I know that while I was away, you worked diligently. Day and night, saving as many people as you can while the crime rate kept rising.

But things are different now.

I am committed to being a Hero, more than ever before. But, things will be a bit more…practical. Some villains can be reformed, but others. People like this. People who are willing to bomb civilians.

Those people have no place in my world."

"You're a murderer," she grits out.

"Yes, I am. But Japan will be safer than ever, because I will deal with problems in the most permanent way.

The people will go about their lives, knowing that the worst of the worst monsters are where they're meant to be, in the dirt.

And even you won't have to work as hard as you did during the summer. So rejoice, a new era of peace is beginning. Because…

I am here."

Horizon walks away, stepping over the corpse in the road as the crowd cheers for him, leaving Mt. Lady petrified.

When the convoy is ready to transport Toga to Tartarus, she snaps out of her daze and looks around, seeing the people she risked her life to protect day after day.

Worshipping the greatest mass murderer in the history of Japan.

Kamui Woods then walks over to check on her and gets her to focus on the task at hand.

And while the convoy moves out to Tartarus, the entire world sees and hears everything that transpired.

And a new era of peace begins within Japan.

The era of Horizon has now begun…

END CHAPTER---


Chapitre 365: CHAPTER 355(One Down)

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"You know, I could have warped her into the cell," Horizon says to President Pantu.

"Protocol exists for a reason," she says as they watch the guard unload Himiko Toga from the convoy. "You're not even supposed to be within ten miles of Tartarus, let alone overseeing prisoner transport."

"What, do I make you nervous?"

"Yes," she says as they step aside for the massive elevator to open and the guards to take their positions.

She and Horizon step into the elevator after the guards have taken their positions, waiting for Toga to be brought to them.

Kamui Woods and Mt. Lady stand closer as they roll her out of the truck, chained to a trolley and wrapped in restraints.

Himiko rattles about feebly against the steel restraints.

"Quit struggling. You'll only hurt yourself," Mt. Lady says as they place her in the elevator and step onto it.

Toga grumbles and groans, gagged yet trying to speak. She's left with mainly her sense of hearing as the blindfold covers her eyes.

"Beginning descent," the guard captain says as he inputs the security key to activate the elevator. "Descending to Level 5."

As they descend 600m below sea level, Toga continues to rattle her restraints, causing Mt. Lady to ask her once more to stop.

"She'll be out of them soon enough," Kamui Woods says.

"It won't matter soon enough," Horizon says, and Toga freezes.

Hearing his voice for the first time in a long time.

"Oh, are you shy around me now, Himiko?"

She begins violently rattling her restraints, hard enough to bruise her body and even break her skin, drawing blood.

Mt. Lady tries to step forward to stop her, but the guards block her.

TAKT!

All the restraints freeze in place, even as she crashes against them.

Mt. Lady feels Kamui Woods holding her hand, pulling her focus away from everyone else.

Until Horizon takes a casual step forward, warping in front of Toga.

Even the strict guards of Tartarus dare not challenge him.

"You seem scared, are you scared?" he asks while using Takt to remove the gag from her mouth.

"Fuck you!" she immediately spits blood at him, revealing some of her broken teeth as she does so.

Horizon warps the blood away before it touches him.

"So ambitious. Most girls your age want to do that, but you're at the bottom of the list."

Toga bites her lip, hard enough to rip the flesh, "You know, one day you'll die too…someone will kill you. I just hope it hurts. Even if you suffered one percent of what you put other people through, it would break you."

"For that to happen, I'd have to lose. But I cannot lose, because I am Horizon."

Toga releases a primal, aggressive groan as she tries and fails to lunge at him. "Shigaraki was right. I hope he destroys this entire shitty world. That's what it deserves if it's a world where you're the best hero it can have."

Horizon reaches up and removes her blindfold, allowing everyone to see the tears flowing from her eyes.

"Maybe you're right," he says. "But, you know what? They may be cheering for me now…but imagine how hard they'll cheer when I tear out Spinner's heart, the heart that loves you so much, even until his death."

"Wha—no, that's impossible!" she hurts herself more against the restraints. "You'll never find them!"

"True, but he'll come to me, because I have you. He just needs to believe I hold the key to you, and he holds the key to me.

As Toga considers his words, her tears keep flowing, knowing that if Horizon willed it, the only boy ever to love her would soon be dead.

But her mind puts the pieces together, after a lifetime of desperately seeking to understand love.

She opens her eyes to see Horizon, and understands him.

"I get it now," she says. "The key to you, the blo—"

Horizon grabs her mouth and a sickening crack is heard before her agonized, bloodcurdling screams fill the elevator.

He then steps away, allowing the guards to place the blindfold on her.

Unfortunately, everyone was forced to endure her cries as they couldn't gag her shattered jaw and mouth.

The elevator opens and the guards roll her to her cell.

Leaving Mt. Lady and Kamui Woods behind as Horizon and Lady Pantu trail behind Toga.

"She's smarter than you thought, or are you just getting sloppy?" Pantu asks Horizon as they follow the guards.

"No, she shouldn't know about that. Could Gentle Criminal be more well-connected than we initially believed, possibly linked to the League of Villains?"

"Shigaraki has been going out of his way to avoid you. He wouldn't send someone to attack you, especially not at your home."

"Well, that's the only way a villain would know about that person."

"Do you want me to reinstate her security team?" Pantu asks. "I'll have to assign new people since, well, we cleared out the last set."

"No, she'll be fine. Just keep your eyes away from her."

"It's not her that I'm worried about," Pantu says.

Horizon stops walking, causing her to stop beside him and the guards to move around them, taking Toga to her cell.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he asks while looking down at her.

"It means that I thought you were dangerous before, when you had nothing else to lose. But now you're…attached to her. And I can't imagine what kind of creature you'd become if you ever lost someone you loved. So I'm just trying to save the world from that version of you."

They share a tense moment, then Horizon chuckles and continues walking.

"Even Horizon couldn't save anyone from that version of me…"

Moments later they arrive at the solid steel door, six inches thick, built into a wall of metal alloy.

"She's secure, ma'am," the guard captain says to Pantu as he prepares to lock the door.

"Good, confirm in your files that the prisoner is captive and alive," Pantu says. "Horizon, she's all yours."

The guards look at Horizon after they lock the door, and he instantly disappears.

They recognize what's going on and hear muffled screaming from inside the cell.

Then Horizon warps back beside Pantu, rubbing the back of his visor. "Damn, that always gives me a headache."

"Did you get it?" Pantu asks.

"Yeah, I tore everything I could from her brain before it melted, but I got enough. Spinner should have more."

As they're speaking, the guard captain opens the cell, seeing Toga's corpse on the floor, her head smoldering, her brain incinerated in her skull.

"You killed her," he says. "But, I don't understand…"

"Tartarus has leaks," Horizon says. We picked all of you for this task because someone who is not part of this group is sharing information with the League Of Villains.

"That's impossible!"

"Or unconscious," Horizon says. "Telepathy exists after all."

"Only one thing matters," Pantu says. "You keep her status as alive in your files and to the knowledge of anyone else. Her boyfriend should attempt a hostage exchange for her, but she must remain alive for it."

"You tell me someone in my compound is a spy and expect me to do nothing about it, seriously?"

"Exactly," Horizon says. "Because this is all part of the plan."

The man sighed, "Fine. I'll clean this up afterward."

"Thank you for your hard work," Horizon says as he begins walking away.

Pantu falls into step beside him. "So, is Tartarus everything you expected?"

"More boring than I expected. But the new floors look fun."

"The tenth floor is confidential," Pantu says.

"I know. I read the confidential files. Moving All For One down there makes sense, but, Shigaraki…"

"What about him?"

"You think I'm going to let him live?"

"Seizing him offers an immense ideological advantage; it sends a global message."

"Tartarus has enough prisoners. I have no interest in adding to it."

"Globetrotting won't go as well if you're acting like an assassin. Countries will be much more willing to let you ignore borders if it's to capture, not kill."

"I have something in mind for that. Once I release my next project, they won't dare question anything I do."

"What about Dabi?"

"I owe his dad a favor, that's different," Horizon says. "As for the rest of them, well…"

"Capture and detainment?"

Horizon laughs. "No prisoners, only trophies," he says as they board the elevator.

As they leave, below the ocean in the most secluded corner of Tartarus Level 5, the demon lord smiles.

Sensing Horizon and Pantu walking by with Toga, then leaving, walking past his cell, casually discussing a hopeful future.

Everything's coming together for him.

Now he was even more reassured in his bet.

That Japan will crumble, and he will rule as the demon lord. 

Meanwhile, seconds later, back in Horizon Tower, Horizon arrives in his living room to see his entire team and Mina Ashido having lunch.

"How'd it go?" Sero asks.

"She's dead, but I got all the info she had," Horizon says as he sits on the couch, pulling Mina into his lap. "Did you buy something sexy for our first date?"

Mina rolls her eyes at him, but doesn't bother to get up. "You're enjoying this a little too much."

"Learn to enjoy the peaceful moments. We're heroes. It's what we fight for."

"Doesn't mean you have to put your hand there…"

Horizon flexes his fingers, tightening the grip on her ass for just a moment. "As far as the world will be concerned, it's mine. I'm just playing the part…"

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