章 192: CHAPTER 188(One Task Complete)
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Hearing Momo knock on his door, Horizon pauses his hologram and decides to walk over instead of his usual Warping.
Not wanting to make her any more nervous than she already is.
But when he opens the door, just for a tiny moment, he freezes.
Because while his Quirk allows him to sense anything within his Room, it doesn't give him any sense of color.
So looking at Momo, wearing only a sweater dress, white with blue lining, and his logo proudly displayed at the bottom above her left thigh. And the faint pink lip-gloss on her lips, he's completely caught off guard.
He completely ignored the folder in her hands and just watches her for a moment, taking it all in as she nervously fidgets before him.
"Huh, I always knew I'd look good on you..." He nods to her outfit.
"Well, I, I was told you'd like it."
"Oh, believe me, I do," he steps aside for her to enter, and she scans the hallways quickly as if expecting someone to stop her or yell at her for what she's doing. "But I don't think that's licensed merchandise from my website..."
"Oh, I, made it myself, I'm sorry, I hope you don't mind."
"The view is well worth it, make whatever you like with my signature on it," Momo's cheeks blush slightly as she sheepishly nods.
"It still feels strange being in a boy's room," Momo says, following his lead as he gestures to the couch.
"You'll get used to being in here," he turns his back to her and begins making some adjustments to the hologram, which finally catches her eye.
"You have one of those in your room?"
"Nezu let me design my own room, and this helps me manage my current cases," he gestures to the map as he makes a few adjustments. "Look familiar?"
Momo thinks about it for a moment while trying, and failing -because of how nervous she is-, to get comfortable on the couch. "A map of Japan's highways?"
"Close," he saves his work and takes a seat to her left, resting his arm on the back of the couch. "I put this case together myself, very confidential, and what you're looking at is the known transport route for all manner of contraband, a lot of people work together so Heroes never learn about this, but I'm not just any hero."
"So how did you find out about this?" Momo's eyes widen in amazement as she speaks, carefully analyzing the map.
"I have my ways."
"Always one step ahead," she mutters, still trying to comprehend the magnitude of the map he's displaying.
"And I see you brought something too," he gestures to the folder beside her.
"Oh, well, you seemed interested in the rifle designs I came up with so I figured...you could see what the Shields and I have been working on together, they're almost ready."
"Maybe some other time, but right now it's already nine o'clock, so I'd rather just focus on you," he gently reaches out and lifts her chin so she's staring at him, and he can almost see the excitement in her eyes.
Then something many of the girls have been wondering pops into her head.
"Will you take off the visor?"
Horizon pauses for a moment, then retracts his hand, and she leans forward slightly, not wanting him to let go, before catching herself.
"I'll have to, but I'd rather you cover your eyes, for your own safety. I'm so handsome it could give you a heart attack."
Momo gives him a skeptical look, "I won't look if you don't want me to, I respect your privacy."
He considers it for a moment, ready to use his UA tie like a blindfold as he'd done with Ryuko at the summer camp. But before that, takes a different approach.
"Thank you, but honestly, how about I show you..."
Momo's breath hitches.
"But its a bit...intense, because of my Quirk, and you can't look for long, it can be dangerous for you."
"Well, if you're comfortable with it."
"I trust you," Horizon says.
And he slowly reaches behind his neck and deactivates his visor. Sensing it unbind from his body glove around his neck and begins folding away.
And Momo's eyes widen in genuine surprise at what she sees.
His face was still covered in the white matching ski mask as he always is, but through the eye holes were steady thick streams of the blue energy vapor.
His eyeballs themselves were bright blue, glowing like bulbs. And Momo finds herself squinting when looking at them for more than a moment.
A clever use of Booster Shot to create this effect, gives a bit more justification for his body glove and visor being Lifestyle Support Items, in the unlikely case that Momo gossips atleast.
And hopefully makes this entire situation easier for her to stomach.
"So, not what you expected?" he asks playfully, seeing her brain trying and failing to process this.
Without a word she slowly reaches up, and touches the energy vapor pouring out of his face.
She feels the cool and soothing sensation flowing through her finger, familiar, the same as his healing energy from earlier that day.
'It's a containment suit for his power...it must have taken him a lot to trust me like this,' she forms her own conclusions. 'I can't imagine what terrible things he's had to deal with to live like this...'
And in her eyes he's elevated that much higher, overcoming adversity she can't even fathom.
Giving him a joyful smile, so glad that he trusted her with such a secret, Momo lets some of her inhibitions go and leans forward, sitting up properly to clumsily crash her lips into his.
She feels a tingling sensation in her body before the soothing and relaxing feeling overcomes her, helping her to melt into his gasp much easier as his hands hold onto her.
Nearly two minutes pass before they finally separate, and Momo leans back completely out of breath with her arms around his shoulders, feeling one of his hands at the small of her back and another holding onto her rear.
"I'm so sorry, I should have asked you first," she says between quick breaths.
At this Horizon just chuckles, and she feels the vibration of it in her entire body, "Momo, I'm Horizon, if I don't want someone touching me, they can't touch me, and as you can feel, I'm very happy with how this is going..."
And that's all she needed to hear before greedily diving back in.
Twenty minutes later and Momo is straddling his lap, now wearing a comfortable blindfold she made in his colors, on his bed.
And it's only when he gently begins lifting the edge of her sweater dress, which only has her naked body under it, that she realizes exactly how badly she'd really wanted this.
Years of being prim and proper and never getting to have friends or talk to boys. Never even having so much as a crush.
And now she's here, in the bed of her first crush, dear she says her idol. Her gold standard for what she needs to become, and she's about to give him everything, to share the most intimate experience with him.
She wants more than anything to give in and finally cast aside her inhibitions, but that nagging feeling haunts her and she reaches for his hands, stopping him from undressing her as she holds onto them.
"Are you alright?" Horizon asks, and his voice hits her in a way that sets her blood on fire, her heart pounding in her ears.
"I just," she takes a few short breaths. "I don't know if, am I...am I being a good person."
"Momo, you're one of the best people I know, golden-hearted to a fault honestly, but you always doubt yourself."
"But, what am I doing?"
Horizon rolls his eyes, "babe---"
She feels her heart skip a beat, that word having such a strong effect on her, like honey to her ears.
"---you aren't doing anything, this isn't on you, it's on me, because you're just following my lead, right?"
And with those few words all the responsibility falls away from her, and her inhibitions with them.
Momo leans forward, grabbing his face and kissing him as he removes her sweater dress.
Showing off her naked body below...
The start of a very good night for both of them. And certainly one that they'd never forget.
Minutes later, as the lights are finally off so he can stop excessively burning energy, Horizon lays her down on his bed, the now disheveled mess that was Momo Yaoyorozu, to begin the rest of their night.
He does one last scan of the dorms, and notices something interesting, someone eavesdropping on them, and enjoying herself while doing so.
He has to stop himself from laughing and just decided to ignore it for now, because he had more than enough to focus on in his bed at the moment.
'One task at a time, I'll get to her later...'
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章 193: CHAPTER 189(The Morning After)
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Momo wakes up in a large and comfortable bed, and she feels a satisfying soreness wracking her body.
Before her eyes open she remains under the blanket, memories of hours earlier flooding her mind, causing a cheerful grin to spread across her face.
He can't help but release a small giggle and roll onto her side, and as the sense of bliss fades away, she realizes she's not in her room.
Feeling around all she finds is more of the empty bed, and all the things she's heard about women waking up to find themselves abandoned and only used for sex flood her mind.
She frantically throws off the blanket, uncaring about her naked form, and looks around.
Then breathes a sigh of relief as her eyes land on Horizon.
He was standing toward the other side of the room, the only light source being the hologram he'd been working on last night before she arrived.
He was now in his body glove and visor again, but she could see what looks like a young white haired girl with a single horn on one of the screens, and a map of Japan on the other.
"You ok?" Horizon asks, not even turning around to look at her.
"I'm," Momo thinks about it for a moment. "I'm happy, actually. I was just worried you wouldn't be here."
Horizon continues making adjustments and notes on the map, "you're here, so where else could I possible be? Besides... it's my room."
"Oh, right."
"How do you feel?"
Momo takes and blanket and sloppily wraps it around herself as she gets out of bed, not wanting to imagine the state of her hair at the moment, "exhausted, is that normal?"
She walks over to him and takes a seat on the couch behind him, then he looks over to her, "you spent the night with what's comparable to a living nuclear power plant...so yeah, it's pretty normal." He then turns back to his work. "Don't worry, you'll get used to it, and I'll try to keep your limitations in mind more going forward."
Momo blushes at that, the thought of doing this again already making her heart race, "what time is it?"
"5 AM, a bit earlier than you usually wake up."
"And around the time Mr. Aizawa does his checks to make sure we didn't break curfew, I should get back to my room before---"
"You really don't need to worry about that," Horizon says as he opens a third screen, and she sees him composing an email addressed to Fatgum. "Eraser Head doesn't check certain rooms."
"What do you mean?"
"Mine, Sero's, Shinso's, yours, Jiro's," he shrugs. "He has very good reasons to stay on my good side, and our understanding makes my life at UA so much easier."
Momo looks genuinely confused, "I understand that Team Horizon would have some privileges, but, why wouldn't he check mine or Kyoka's rooms?"
"Asks the girl who just spent the night in my bed, pretty sure the entire school knows about the not-so-secret crush you two have."
"Can we please not talk about that?" Momo asks. "I still need time to process what happened last night."
"Sure, also, when you're ready to go back to your room, I can warp."
"I'd like to stay here just a bit longer, I'm not ready to be alone with my thoughts just yet, if that's ok."
Horizon chuckles as he sends the email, "I'm a gentleman, I won't just kick you out after sex."
"That's not wh---"
"I'm kidding Momo."
"Oh, right."
Horizon works in silence for a few minutes, sending a few more documents out to top Pro Heroes, many of which Momo never would have expected him to be working with.
'I suppose it makes sense,' she inspects the map even closer. 'His domain is Minato Tokyo and Musutafu where UA is. This map has points all across Japan and some off the coast, he needs dozens of Pro Heroes working together to bring it all down at once.'
"Why do you accept help from other Pro Heroes?" Momo asks. "Isn't your catchphrase 'I am enough'?"
"That's not official," Horizon says. "But as to why I accept help, well, part of being respected is being seen as a competent leader. Even while All Might was the top Pro, for many situations the Commission would call upon Endeavor to lead operations because All Might is more of a solo act."
"So you don't just want to be another #1 Pro Hero, you want to be the respected leader of all Pro Heroes."
"Exactly. But I also can't be everywhere at once, I can hardly leave Minato Tokyo these days, so having pieces on the board is a way of extending my reach."
"You're even more ambitious and incredible than we thought," Momo mindlessly whispers.
"Thank you."
"Oh, I didn't mean to say that out loud..."
"Well I appreciate it anyway, but honestly, the perks of being a Top Pro are barely in effect since I only have a Provisional License...and I'm already starting to like it."
"What kind of perks?"
"Honestly, just being able to do whatever I want, and nobody questions it, people hold Pro Heroes up on such a pedestal that the license and a good reputation is all you need to have the world in your hand."
"That's a dangerous way of viewing it."
"Power not worth abusing isn't worth having," Horizon says. "But don't worry, I still intend to be the perfect Hero, because I've got people I need to save."
"Well, that's a relief, because I'm not quite sure how we'd arrest you," she laughs nervously.
"Well, you can certainly try, but we both know how that'd end."
Preferring not to think about such a seemingly unlikely and impossible scenario, Momo eye's drift over to the files regarding the little girl.
Taking a closer look at her red eyes and white hair, noticing her arms and legs were covered in bandages, and most of the information on her page was left blank.
Only the name 'Eri' at the top along with some basic information, as well as her Quirk being listed as 'Rewind?'.
"Who is the little girl?" Momo asks. "She's so cute, is she someone you rescued?"
"No," he continues typing. "She's currently being torn apart and put together by someone that's being investigated. I'm consulting on the case, they're using her to make Quirk destroying bullets, Deleter Rounds. This is all confidential ofcourse, but I trust you not to gossip."
Momo appreciates his confidence, but also looks disgusted at the very thought of what Eri is going through, "what kind of monster would do such a thing?"
"Some wannabe Yakuza boss, he's trying to make his faction of the Yakuza into a feared gang again, he'll be in cuffs by the end of this month."
"Well I feel better knowing that you're going after him, villains like that, people who take advantage of those that can't defend themselves...those are the worst types of people."
"Well, I'm only consulting, he operates outside of Tokyo so he's not my problem until Nighteye runs out of time."
"Sir Nighteye? Does this have anything to do with why Midoriya isn't doing his Work Studies there anymore?"
"This case is a bit too dangerous so they sent Deku back to UA," he lies, not in the mood to go into Deku's failures.
"Oh, well that makes sense, these people sound dangerous."
"Which is why Sir Nighteye has 8 more days to solve it before I have to step out of Tokyo and put boots on the ground myself."
"But I still don't quite understand," Momo pauses for a moment, trying and failing to make sense of this. "How do you know this girl is in danger, but leave here there instead of simply going to rescue her? It couldn't possibly take you that long, right?"
"Meh, a day or two at most, just fly by the hideouts on my hoverboard, find the girl, and do some light violence," Horizon shrugs.
Momo furrows her brows, "then why don't you just go save her?!" her eyes open a bit in surprise. "Sorry, I didn't mean to raise my voice, it's just, it's difficult to understand. If you have to power to go save her, why wouldn't you do it."
Horizon stops for a moment, realizing exactly what's about to happen, and snaps his fingers.
The hologram shuts off and the lighting comes on, causing Momo to squint and pull the blanket up higher, even as Horizon sits beside her.
"You've heard me say things like, 'I'm not just a Pro Hero, I'm Horizon', right?"
"Yes I've witnessed your bravado," she says jokingly. "But what does that have to do with it?"
"Well, it's not bravado, it's painfully literal and true. I'm not like other Pro Heroes, my role in the world is entirely different. I don't get to run around putting out fires all day. I have to stay put in Minato Tokyo because my existence makes crime almost non-existent. I leave and villains come out in force to make up for lost time, and the Paper Pros can't handle that.
I don't have the freedom to just go where I please, as much as I say I can do whatever I want, which I can. Being able to do something doesn't mean you should. Like me stepping out of Tokyo to save Eri, I could, but a lot of people would get hurt and a lot of drugs would get shipped since Horizon Tower is so close to the docks."
"But---" Momo tried and tried, but couldn't make sense of it. "How can you just, exist, knowing someone out there needs you, and you're here with me being...happy?"
"Because I see the big picture. I'm holding Japan's feeble Hero Society together by just being here. I'm the big red button the government can push when shit hits the fan. Like the nuclear option when things go very badly. Other nations know this and are always trying to buy my service, wanting me to come live in their countries.
They've offered me everything. Money, political office, a knighthood, lands, titles, women...the ability to make and alter a few laws. Or complete immunity to laws in their lands. Everyone wants Horizon, and the most effective thing I can do for the whole, is not running around trying to save every single person that needs help."
Momo looks back at Eri's picture and falls into deep thought, "I can't imagine the magnitude of the weight on your shoulders. But I trust you to always make the right choice to help the most people."
"Yeah well, that's why I'm here, I deal with the big problems so they don't run over anyone else. All the little people get to live in ignorance of all the looming threats and sleeping giants, hell nobody even knew about the shadow war between All Might and All For One until Kamino, so imagine how many of those happened before that day."
Momo moves a bit closer and leans against his side, and he wraps an arm around her, "shadow wars and political disputes over you, intense."
"Yeah, meanwhile I'm just here spending the night with you, so in a weird way, you're closer than they are..."
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