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章 205: CHAPTER 201(Raid Complete)

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CHAPTER START---

"Will she be alright?" Ryukyu asks.

The dragon hero was standing at the back of an ambulance as most of the Yakuza members were already being taken away in armored trucks.

Nejire-Chan, Uravity, and Froppy were off assisting with some cleanup and leading civilians back to their homes now that the operation has been concluded.

And in the back of the ambulance is Eri, coated from neck to toes in a layer of stone, being carefully inspected by two paramedics.

The girl was stiff and silent, just observing everything around her without saying a word, clearly traumatized. But for now, they could only focus on her health, healing everything else would take time they didn't have at this moment.

"I, I can't know for sure," the medic says. "We can't just break her out if what Horizon says is true."

"If he says it's fused to her, then it is," Ryukyu says. "We have to operate under the assumption that he's correct."

"Right," the woman frowns. "Well, we'd have to chip away at it then cut off...well, you know. Until it's all gone."

"Can't this be done without hurting her."

"Sorry ma'am, but I'm not Horizon, and I recommend we wait for him."

Ryukyu sighs and just folds her arm, not-so-patiently waiting for Sir Nighteye's group to return.

SHAMBLES!

A few moments later Horizon swaps them with bits of rubble on the floor to arrive behind her.

"Hey Kyukyu', is everything done here?" he asks.

She resists the urge to scoff while turning around, "for the last time its Ry---" her eyes go wide as she sees then.

Lemillion was being oddly stoic, as if lost in his own head. Sir Nighteye looked completely find, but Horizon's right arm from fingertips to his forearm was severely burnt and cracked.

Skin and muscle mostly gone to show the brittle bones below, charred black with an absolutely disgusting scent.

She reels back and covers her nose, "what happened to you, and him?" she looks at Rocklock who was on Horizon's shoulder, his right foot being in the same state.

"I'll explain later," Horizon says as he walks past her and roughly drops Rocklock onto a stretcher. He then looks to the ambulance driver, "Rocklock and Eri need to be taken to the Miracle Ward, I'll fix both of them there. Also, don't make any contact with Eri, her Quirk is quite dangerous."

The man stiffly nods and begins preparing to transport them as Horizon turns back to Ryukyu.

"I'll stay with Eri," Lemillion says, "in case villains try something, and I've still got a lot to make up for..."

Sir Nighteye nods and Lemillion gets into the ambulance.

"Well I suppose we can all go there," Rykyu says. "Now what about Overhaul, where is he?"

A tense silence befalls them which causes Ryukyu to worry, but she looks over at Horizon, 'as if anyone can escape him...' she thinks.

Then she glances down at his burnt hand, "Oh god, did you---"

"---What's important is," Sir Nighteye cuts her off. "He won't be coming after Eri, or bothering her again, lets's not talk about this here, now we should save the rest of this debrief until everyone is better and awake, at Central Hospital."

"Mmm," she narrows her eyes at Horizon who doesn't even have the decency to act bothered, only giving an uncaring shrug.

And as she opens her mouth to question if what he did was really necessary, her favorite sidekick interrupts them.

"Ryukyu!" Nejire-Chan yells out as she flies down, carrying Froppy and Uravity who were currently weightless. "The last of the Yakuza are gone now, and we're just about done helping in the cleanup!"

"Good work girls," Ryukyu says as they land.

"Gross, what's that smell?" Froppy covers her nose.

"My arm," Horizon calls all their attention to his injury.

"EW!" Uravity yells out, then looks embarrassed, "I mean...what happened? Did Overhaul do that?"

"As if he could ever hurt me, this is just recoil from a new attack I used, nothing more, I'll have it fixed in a few hours."

"You did that to yourself?" Ryukyu asks. "Must be some attack."

"A real stinky one," Nejire-Chan says. "But at least you'll be alright."

"Maybe Eri can help you," Uravity suggests. "She can just rewind it, right?"

"I'd rather not trust a traumatized child with no Quirk control to use her highly lethal and dangerous Quirk on my body," Horizon says. "Plus I still have to study her and figure out how that Quirk exactly works, so she shouldn't be using it at all."

"Not just that," Ryukyu says. "Eri has been used as a tool and object her entire life. Abused and mistreated because of it, the last thing we want is for her to think she's just been handed over to more people who will treat her the same horrible way. Right?"

"Right," Uravity hangs her head in shame. "Guess I didn't really think about that, sorry."

"What about Overhaul?" Froppy asks, looking around. "Shouldn't he be in one of those armored trucks? Or did he get away?"

"No need to worry about him," Ryukyu assures her. "The raid was a complete success, now in need you three to head back to the agency and rest up a bit. We'll resume patrols tonight after I get back from Central Hospital."

"Central Hospital?" Nejire asks.

"I'm just going to check on Eri and make sure she's alright, you girls will handle our area until I get back, but focus on resting up for now, alright?"

"You can count on us!"

"Can we get moving already?" Horizon asks. "The media will be here soon, and I have a public image to maintain," he gestures to his injury.

"Can't let them see that gods bleed huh," Ryukyu teases him. "I'll be flying over so you can come with me."

"Thanks, now let's just get out of here already..."

---3 Hours Later, The Miracle Ward, Central Hospital...

Standing at his own operating table Horizon has his arm on it, severed from just below the elbow via Amputate so he can carefully study it.

The charred, dried out, and mostly brittle limb was horrific, an abomination almost ripped out of a nuclear blast wave.

Luckily after the initial blast of pain, the cells were killed so rapidly and thoroughly that the entire thing was numb to him. He couldn't feel anything in it, even now as he pokes at the exposed bone and a few strips of muscle where nerves should be.

SCAN!

'My Gamma attacks work as intended, I'll have Overhaul's body by the end of the week to do some more studying. But killing cells so thoroughly prevents regeneration, and leaves nothing that Shigaraki can salvage to get DNA from.

The intensity of heat and radiation destroys DNA chains, so we at least don't have to worry about a Overhaul Nomu suddenly appearing.

But my control is still awful. If I could condense the attack it would take less energy, force all the radiation into a Nomu's brain. A fraction of the energy and time, but I also have to work on my control for my own safety.

I've never used that much energy before while training, the backlash was beyond me, at least for now. Fried and irradiated my own hand and forearm, and Rocklock's foot.

But I suppose if he didn't do that things could have gone much worse, I still don't know how to safely cancel that attack so it would have been like a radiation bomb in that room, then we would have been in real trouble.

And the fact that I can't use any other ability while I'm preparing and executing that attack...a lot of problems to solve.

Nothing a lot more practice can't fix, and I'll have a quick and efficient way to deal with those Super Regeneration Nomu at the end of it. After I practice enough to contain and condense the radiation so it doesn't leak out and destroy my hand again.'

Horizon takes out his scalpel, holding it awkwardly in his left hand he cuts into his severed limb, looking at the bone marrow inside the brittle bone.

'Everything here is dead, which means---'

BOOSTER SHOT!

He transfers healing energy from his healthy hand into the severed one, and it dissipates with no effect.

'Fuck, this will take a lot more energy than just normal healing...and I'll have to do this for Rocklock too. Guess I'll take tomorrow off and get some rest, what a day...'

Without a word, he summons his sword into his free hand, then places the blade just beyond where he had used Amputate on his main body.

Taking a deep breath he grits his teeth, then cuts down.

"Hngh..." he feels a jolt of pain as he now does a more traditional amputation, just below his right elbow.

Blood begins flowing out onto the table before he uses his Quirk and controls his body to dull the pain.

Something he usually avoids doing because of how dangerous it can be, interfering with such essential survival senses.

But this special occasion called for it.

BOOSTER SHOT!

The blue healing energy begins flowing out of the wound, stopping the bleeding within moments.

Then it becomes dense, gathering from a thin blue mist into a liquid like form.

Translucent but flowing like water, gathering and staying attached to his wound.

With furrowed brows, he pours more and more energy into this, and the liquid becomes much more dense, and he can see the shadow of a new hand growing from the wound.

Perfect replication and regeneration of what was lost.

While still covered in a thin sheen of the healing energy, he sees the bone regrowing. Then the strands of tendons and muscles, the veins and nerves, all the blood and flesh he lost.

Then finally the skin and fingernails, were perfectly remade.

Well, almost perfect.

"Fuck," he says through exhausted breaths. "Lost my tattoos..."

END CHAPTER---


章 206: CHAPTER 202(Raid Debrief)

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CHAPTER START---

---7 PM, 6 Hours After Yakuza Raid...

"---Alright so that's just about everything, you're all caught up," Horizon says.

Currently, he was in one of the hospital rooms of the Miracle Ward in Central Hospital. Wearing his backup Hero Costume kept here so his new arm was seemingly the exact same as before.

And speaking to Rocklock, who is sitting up in the hospital bed, wearing a medical gown and staring blankly at Horizon.

After a few more silent moments, Rock Lock blinks and just continues to stare.

"Are you gonna stare like a useless fucking retard or will you be useful?"

"Uh, sorry I just... it's a lot to wrap my head around," Rock Lock admits.

"No, it's really not, and I fixed you better than you were before. For some reason you had some damage in your foot from before."

"Yeah I broke it a few ye---"

"Nobody cares."

"But you're my do---"

"Look do you understand what I said or not?" Horizon cuts him off. "It's not that complicated, your foot got hurt, I cut it off and grew you a new one, easy?"

"And by got hurt you mean...you nuked it."

"Irradiated it, just radiation burning and saturating it until the DNA chains were destroyed and the cells died, you didn't even feel it. Your body doesn't even know that's not the same foot."

"And Chisaki?"

"Same thing that happened to your foot, but, to his whole body," Horizon shrugs.

"You killed him?" Rock Lock looks genuinely concerned, mostly by how casual Horizon is being about this.

"Oh yeah he's super dead, even I can't heal what I did to him, but hey, no need to dwell on it, things break all the time," he mindlessly says, much too tired to put up the proper 'True Hero' persona after such a long day.

"Right," Rock Lock nods slowly. "Well, thank you for everything, and good work out there. Now I should get changed and get out of he---"

"Actually your wife is here waiting for you, but you can get changed after the meeting."

"What meeting?"

"They're about to walk in?"

"What?! Wait I'm mostly naked here, who?" Rock Lock looks even more worried and double-checks that the hospital sheets are covering him.

And a few seconds later four people walk into the room.

Sir Nighteye, Ryukyu the #9 Pro Hero, a lone security agent.

And the person whose presence mortifies Rock Lock the most due to his state of undress, Hero Public Safety Commission President Pantu herself.

"He's fine to talk now," Horizon says as they all enter and the agent stands in the room blocking the door, presumably using some Quirk so they aren't being spied on.

"Its a pleasure to meet you lady Pantu," Rock Lock says, as she is rarely seen outside of the Commission buildings.

She glances at him for a moment, "likewise I'm sure, now, can you recall the situation which led to Horizon's more lethal approach during the battle against Kai Chisaki, aka the villain Overhaul."

"Well uh," Rock Lock looks around nervously at everyone, then his eyes fall onto Horizon who was silently standing there.

"Just pretend he isn't here," Pantu says.

"Right, well. I remember the fight was tough, we were in a stalemate for a while before Horizon showed up. He warped Eri away, then he beat the villains but, then something happened. It was like I blinked and everything changed."

"Time bomb," Sir Nighteye says. "One of the villains had a minor time Quirk, he overdosed on a unique and lethal strain of Trigger and became a bomb that slows time to a near stop around his body."

"Seriously?"

"I overcame the effects after a while and prevented Overhaul from leaving," Horizon says. "You obviously slept through the recap we had after your procedure."

"Focus please," Pantu says. "After you were freed."

"Right," Rock Lock thinks hard about what happened before answering. "Well we tried everything but nothing could stop the guy, until Horizon did that radiation attack. I didn't know it was a lethal attack I swear, I just knew if he thought it could bring that monster down it was our best shot."

Pantu detects no lies with her Quirk, then turns to Sir Nighteye. "Did you know the attack would have been lethal?"

"Obviously not," he says, and she detects no lies. "I'm very strict with my Quirk, and since I used it on myself I could only see into my own future, and only a few feet around myself at best through a fuzzy image."

"Very well then," she turns to Horizon. "Your justification?"

He just shrugs, "it was the most efficient option, since the alternative was a long fight that we weren't ready for. One of those Nomu gave him enough energy to win a war of attrition, and there wasn't anywhere in my range that I could warp him to and safely fight away from all civilians.

It's also the only attack I have that can properly deal with his Quirk. Overhaul is much better than just regeneration, he was restructuring any damage in real-time, and only needed to command matter instead of constantly focusing on it. The best course of action was to fry the cells entirely."

"And why did you have this attack?" Pantu asks.

"For people like All For One, or whenever I got attacked by some Nomu."

Pantu doesn't detect any lies so she asks the others, "Does anyone think his assessment is wrong?"

"A bit extreme perhaps," Sir Nighteye says. "But, I understand how he could come to his conclusion."

"I just hate the fact that I helped kill someone," Rock Lock says. "Willing or not I've got blood on my hands now..."

Beneath the visor Horizon rolls his eyes, and throughout this entire thing Pantu's cold demeanor never slips.

Hearing enough from the others Pantu turns back to Horizon, "do you feel any guilt or remorse for what you did?"

"..."

"Remember who you're speaking to, lying doesn't work..."

"I remember, and I also know sometimes extreme circumstances demand extreme actions, and I don't regret or feel bad for saving everyone there."

She once again detects no lies, but is slightly impressed by his clever phrasing to conceal the mercenary beneath the visor.

"Well then I've heard enough," she snaps her fingers and the security agent takes out a few documents from his jacket, handing them over to her. She passes them out, giving Sir Nighteye two. "I've mostly kept this contained, some of the police and people on the scene will suspect things due to only you few being present at the time of death, but nobody will believe them."

"You've got to be kidding me," Ryukyu says, looking down at the forms. "This is a cover-up? You want us to sign this? No way! He killed someone and you expect me to promise to never ever speak of it to anyone, to never report it to anyone, look I know our job can get messy but this is extreme.

If I sign this then what next, then how many times are we teaching him and other Heroes that 'sometimes killing villains is ok', that's a slippery slope that I will not be a part of. He should at least publicly acknowledge it and apologize, that's the right thing to do," she looks around the room, seeing Rock Lock a bit inspired, Pantu and Horizon unimpressed, and Nighteye in the back signaling for her to shut up.

Clearly, he knows more about her when regarding the HPSC.

But she noticed him a bit too late.

"Really?" President Pantu asks, taking a step closer to Ryukyu. "And what would that achieve?"

"It would maintain his honesty and integrity, as any real Pro Hero should," Ryukyu says.

"Perhaps, but clearly you and everyone else tend to forget that Horizon is not yet a Pro Hero, he's a Hero Course Student often treated as one because more often than not, he's better than ANY Pro Hero we have."

Ryukyu takes a step back and has the decency to look ashamed, just for a moment, before resuming eye contact with Pantu.

"This isn't right," she says defiantly.

"It's what's best. But please, refuse if you must, if your values and integrity demand it. But I want you to know, before you make that foolish decision. It will result in you being locked in the deepest depths of Tartarus for the rest of your life."

"Wh---"

"For conspiring to destabilize Japan and incite fear and panic into the civilian population. Because Horizon provides safety, and stability, his being here allows people to stay calm, especially with All Might now retired.

See, when a student messes up they are usually suspended from using a Provisional Hero License, but in this case, we would be forced to expel Horizon, and remove Japan's next Symbol Of Peace because of how you feel in your heart.

With him here we could have an even more peaceful era than that of All Might's, and you intend to threaten that, clearly, so either you sign that document right now, or I can have him warp you into your cell."

Ryukyu narrows her eyes at Pantu, "You'd go that far for a student? Throwing an innocent Top Pro Hero into prison with monsters to rot?"

"Top 10 Pro Heroes are easily replaced, the existence of the annual ranking ceremony proves that, but there is only one Horizon, it's an easy choice to make," Pantu says. And without a word she reaches into her pocket and hands Ryukyu a pen.

As Ryukyu angrily signs the papers Pantu looks around to see the others doing the same, 'at least I know the rumors about him and Ryukyu aren't true, we can stop investigating that now...' she thinks before turning to Sir. Nighteye.

"The second form I gave you is for Lemillion, I understand he's here trying to cheer up the girl, how is she?"

"Resting after Horizon healed her," Sir Nighteye says.

"Good, then this raid really was a success. And good job following protocol, calling Horizon the moment you discovered the Yakuza had Nomu saved a lot of lives today."

"Yes, but what made you instruct us to continue forward?" Sir Nighteye asks. "Was it not safe to assume Kurogiri would simply warp them out."

"It was a gamble we were willing to take," Pantu lies, because the information from Hawks told her Kurogiri was off on a trip with Dabi and Shigaraki this morning. "Hopefully whatever information we recover from their systems will give Horizon some leads to track down the League Of Villains."

"Well, I'm glad it all worked out," Sir Nighteye says. "Now I need to brief Mirio on what's going on, is there anything else lady Pantu?"

"Just a small warning to Horizon," she looks at the hero in question. "Try not to use your 'Gamma' attacks please, unless absolutely necessary. Most countries don't appreciate any radiation-based attacks such as that...especially ours, considering our history. Unless you have to resort to it, keep it hidden. And it should go without saying, not against living people, only Nomu if necessary.

I'm burying this incident so deep nobody will find it, but we can't make this a habit, because even for you I can only make so many exceptions, understand."

"Don't act out and make people think I'm a nuclear reactor beneath this," he taps his visor, "I think I'll manage."

"Always a pleasure talking to you, now I need to get back to work, aside from the complications, well done on the raid today everyone," Pantu says before abruptly leaving with her bodyguard, quickly followed by a pissed-off Ryukyu.

"Well, I should go speak to Mirio, thank you, once again, for everything Rock Lock," Sir Nighteye says.

"Hey it's the job right," Rock Lock replies before it's just him and Horizon in the room.

As Sir Nighteye leaves Horizon turns to Rock Lock, "If you're gonna cry about how you helped kill someone, don't, your wife is about to walk in, with the baby."

"Oh, thanks for the heads up."

"Just be out of here quickly, I have one more patient to work and it'll need the room after, oh, and good job today. You aren't completely useless after all."

"Than---" Horizon warps away as the door opens, causing Rock Lock to mutter. " Man, even giving a compliment he's such an ass..."

END CHAPTER---


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