章 190: Light
"Why is he here?" Melissa was startled.
While he felt that Melissa's father, David Shield, might have something to do with this villain activity, he said, "Did the villain bring him here to force him to do something?"
"We have to save him!" Melissa quickly said with a worried expression.
"We will." He took her hand and said, "Whether it is your father or everyone on this island, we will save all of them, so calm down."
Melissa calmed down, but she didn't let his hand go. "Yes."
After they made their plan, they walked quietly to follow David.
'What is this place?"
'It's a storage room.'
He looked at Melissa and wondered what David wanted to get from this place. The two kept following David and Sam, who was David's assistant. Neither of them talked since they could tell that David and Sam were alright and the two of them weren't caught by the villains, so what were they doing here?
"What are they doing?" Melissa asked with a frown since she felt that her father wasn't being controlled by the villain.
"Let's observe it first. We might get the answer soon."
"Un."
The two kept following them, and soon, they got their answer.
David and Sam didn't realize Melissa and Mineta had been following them since they were concentrating on what they were doing. They controlled the computer in the storage room for a while before one of the storage items was unlocked.
Sam took a box from the storage before he walked toward David. "Professor, finally!" His mood was excited, and he seemed so happy.
"Yes, I have finally gotten it back."
David clenched his fists tightly, showing how emotional he was.
"The device and research data are the only things I would never give to anyone. I will never give up."
"Everything is according to the plan, isn't it? It looks like the villains are doing well, too.
"Thank you. It was all because you arranged everything for me, Sam."
However, hearing those words, Melissa couldn't control her emotion anymore.
"Papa..."
She walked out of her hiding place and looked at her father in disbelief.
Mineta didn't stop Melissa and followed from behind while wondering what the device was since David dared to create such a commotion and even made a fake villain to cause chaos on this island.
"!?"
David and Sam were startled when they saw Melissa's appearance.
"Mel... Melissa..."
"Miss, what are you doing here?"
"What do you mean by "arranged"?" Melissa didn't answer their question. Instead, she asked this question. She looked so shocked and disappointed when she asked this question. "Papa, don't tell me you're the one behind this incident. In order to get the device...? Is that true, Papa?"
David's body trembled as he faced his daughter, but in the end, he closed his eyes and confessed, "It is."
"!!!"
Melissa couldn't believe what she had heard.
Mineta stood behind her and watched the family drama in silence.
"What...? Why...?"
"The professor is only trying to get what was stolen from him. This groundbreaking invention that mechanically amplifies Quirk..."
'Oh-ho?'
Mineta looked at Sam, who was holding the suitcase, with interest.
"It amplifies Quirk?"
"Yes, it is still testing, but with this device, unlike with drugs, Quirks can be amplified without affecting the body. However, the sponsors confiscated this invention and research data. The research itself was also frozen."
By then, Sam told them everything which happened to David and the invention, telling them without hiding anything. He told them how they planned to make a villain to invade the I-Island, so they could get this invention and continue with their research.
Mineta yawned secretly and glanced behind him, but he didn't say anything.
"No way..."
Melissa didn't see Mineta's reaction, only looking at his father in disappointment.
"Tell me this is a lie!"
"It's not a lie," David said with heavy emotion.
Melissa's body trembled as she looked at her father in anger. "But it doesn't make sense! The Papa I know would never do anything like that! So why? Why?!"
How could David lie in front of her daughter?
Even if he could lie to the world, he couldn't do that to his daughter, her only family.
"It's for All-Might."
"......" Mineta.
"You two probably don't know, but his Quirk is disappearing. However, if we use my device, then it can go back to normal." David thought about All-Might, and suddenly, courage was born in his heart. "I can give him more abilities than he started with. The number one hero... The Symbol of Peace... can get his light back again... and save so many people once more!"
Mineta's lips twitched and sighed since everything was because of All-Might.
But why All-Might?
Why couldn't it be other heroes?
What was so special about All-Might?
However, Mineta shook his head since everything David was doing was futile since he knew what had happened to All-Might.
David then took the suitcase from Sam and said, "Please give this item to All-Might! I don't care what happens to me! Whatever the punishment, I can accept it, but you have to give this item to All-Might!" He didn't do this because of his ego or selfish desire. Instead, he believed that everything was for the peace of this world.
To maintain this peace, All-Might's existence was necessary!
However, what David received was his daughter's anger.
"We risked our lives! Everyone also risks their lives! What do you think that we went through to save everyone?!"
"......"
Mineta looked at Melissa speechlessly since their trip was safe and okay.
'Well, we're risking our lives.'
After all, climbing this tower wasn't exactly safe.
However, Melissa's anger caused David to be confused.
"What is the meaning of this? The villains were fake... It should have all been an act..."
"Of course, it was an act."
A voice suddenly joined, which caused their bodies to tense, except for Mineta.
Still, Mineta looked at the man who suddenly joined their conversation.
The man had a villain-like appearance with a metal mask, which covered most of his face, leaving only his eyes, nose-holes, and mouth open.
"An act pretending to be a fake villain."
This man didn't come alone. Instead, he came with several people, and from their appearance, they were far from friendly, and it was easy to tell that they didn't have good intentions.
Mineta looked at the villains for a while and let himself be caught.
"You--!"
When he was about to move, the villain in a mask suddenly controlled the metal in the surroundings and was slammed into the wall, trapped.
"Minoru-kun!" Melissa panicked and quickly ran in his direction to help him.
"Stay there for a while." The villain looked at Sam and asked, "Sam, where is the device?"
"It's here!"
Sam grabbed the suitcase from David and quickly ran in the direction of the villain.
David also didn't stop Sam, or rather he couldn't since he was too shocked.
"Don't tell me from the beginning... you were planning on giving the device to the villains all along?"
"Y-You're the one who tricked me. I served you for so long, but you let your research freeze so easily, and the honor and renown we were supposed to get all went away... If I didn't get at least some money, then it was a waste of my time!" Sam said with tears.
David couldn't say anything, only closed his eyes in resignation.
"Where is my reward?" Sam quickly asked.
"This is your reward." The villain suddenly held a gun and shot it at Sam.
"Sam!" Melissa was shocked and in disbelief.
"Wh-Why?" Sam asked in despair. "This isn't what you promised!" He held his bloody shoulder while asking why everything had turned like this."
"Promised?" The villain smiled and said, "I don't remember." He aimed his gun, showing what he planned to do with him. "This is your reward."
*Bang!*
"Argh!"
The one who was shot wasn't Sam, but David, who suddenly stood in front of Sam to block the bullet.
Melissa couldn't even let out a scream, watching this scene in horror.
Mineta sighed and thought that it was time, but he thought for a while before he held it.
'There's not enough despair.'
It was impossible to let David die, but he wanted it at the last moment when Melissa thought her world was about to crumble.
When those happened, he would help her like a hero, becoming her sole hope and light in the darkest night.
From the beginning, his goal had never changed.
Everything was for the better world.
"Professor, why...?" Sam asked in disbelief.
"Ru-Run away!" David said with all of his might, even if his entire body was in pain.
"Papa!"
Melissa ran to her father without hesitation.
"Don't come here!" David screamed.
The villain slammed Melissa with his fist without hesitation.
Melissa was blown away and a bruise formed on her beautiful face.
When he saw this, Mineta held back his anger before closing his eyes since he was afraid he might kill this man. He had marked Melissa as his woman. It was only he who could touch his bitch, and no one was allowed to touch her.
However...
'It wasn't enough.'
One more time, only one more time, before he was going to destroy this man.
"Melissa!" David looked at his daughter in worry and wanted to save her, but suddenly he felt an intense pain in his back. "Guwah!"
The villain stomped on David's wound as he grinned. "Feeling like playing a hero after all this time? It's no use. No matter what reason you had, you have dirtied your hands with evil deeds. Whether we're fake or real, the crime you committed will not disappear. You're the same as us. You can no longer remain a scientist or continue your research. You can only fall into the darkness of villains."
Whether it was David or Melissa, they fell into even deeper despair when they heard the villain's words.
The villain grabbed David and said, "All you can do right now is mass produce that device for me." He snapped David's neck with the back of his gun and made him pass out before he looked at his subordinates. "Hey, bring him with us!"
"Give him back!"
Melissa looked at the villain in tears and stubbornness. She might not have had a Quirk, and she didn't have power, but how could she let her father be caught like this?
"Gi-Give him back!"
The villain looked at Melissa and showed a gentle expression. "That's right. I have to get rid of all the professor's attachments." He aimed his gun at Melissa and looked at her cruelly.
"Hey."
"!!!"
Suddenly, the villain felt his entire body shiver in the cold.
"Isn't that a bit too much?"
The villain suddenly felt a shadow covering his face, but when he turned his face, everything was too late.
*Crack!*
The villain was blown away and slammed into the wall.
"BOSS!"
All the villains' subordinates looked at their boss in worry.
"Minoru-kun..."
Melissa looked at Mineta in a daze.
Unlike his sharp and stylish appearance, his suit was already torn, leaving his pants, showing his perfect body, yet the thing that Melissa paid the most attention to was the hammer in his hand.
"You don't need to worry. I will save you and your father, so wipe your tears and stand up." He looked at Melissa with a gentle smile and said, "Oh, also, help me to restart the security system, okay?"
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