Sowhere in a basent, a little group was surrounding one person as they observed her.
That person was rather short, but it wasn’t the reason they were observing her. Rather, what drew their attention was the armor on her.
The current group was composed of Kuroha, Milienia, and lissa. The one they were observing was none other than Himiko.
"I feel a little bad to hide it from twice."
Himiko's voice sounded from the armor. The voice receptors still weren't perfectly finished so her voice sounded rather funny.
"That little Twice is really funny and has a very good potential, but with what you're currently doing Kuroha made the right choice in not lettings in him on the situation."
Kuroha nodded at Milienia's voice. He had his own reasons.
After eting Twice, Kuroha imdiately had a good impression of him. He was really a good guy and was without a doubt the kind of guy who would never betray those he considered his friends... At least not intentionally.
As soone who also suffered from so ntal trouble, he directly understood two of the greatest personality traits of Twice.
Firstly, He was a pure guy. Too pure.
People sotis made the mistake of comparing pure and good. What they didn’t understand was that pure people were simply great psychopaths in the making. Good people know about the difference between good and evil and choose to do good. The sa went for evil people.
But pure people? They were the kind who could murder in cold blood with a smile because for them, what they did was right. Not good, but right. As long as it was right, as long as it followed their sense of logic, they could massacre thousands upon thousands without ever tainting their heart.
Kuroha admitted that he was the sa. The difference between Twice and Kuroha though was the source of their madness. Kuroha had a pure wish for evil to be eradicated. As such he simply killed all those he deed evil.
Twice, on the other hand, was desperately in the need of friends. Once he found one, it wouldn’t be too much to say that this friend would beco like a god in his eyes. He would do anything for his friend.
This was where the second problem lay. A problem Kuroha didn’t share...Dependence.
Twice was too dependent on those he considered as his friends. He was also the kind to easily trust people.
Conclusion? He couldn’t and shouldn’t be given any deep secret, otherwise, he would easily leak it to another “friend”. Not as a betrayal. But simply because for him friends didn’t have secrets for each other.
Twice didn’t know the identity of lissa. Though he did et Ferrum Femina and didn’t know his true face either. He also didn’t know that lissa could create an armor that could make a quirkless person rival with a hero.
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It has now been one week since his eting with Twice. During the past weekend, he should have t Nighteye, but he has been rather busy with his research on the Yakuza. Today was a Friday, and at the start of the next week, it will be the start of the festival.
Kuroha truly wasn’t interested in it. He had no reason to showcase himself and had nothing to learn from people he could beat even before his evolution.
‘Perhaps, I should leave UA?’
He really began to wonder if it was the right choice. Currently, UA could give absolutely nothing to him. Going to school was simply a waste of ti for him. He had already learned all the courses from first year to third year. He was strong enough now to make so pro heroes avoid his road.
At least after his latest fight with Mirko yesterday, she had said that he was already strong enough to officially beco a hero.
Of course, being pro wasn’t just about fighting. Taking into account the situation, being careful about the civilian, following the protocol, etc. All those were things that were taught in school. You could even say that it was the crystallization of the wisdom of all heroes.
But...Could this experience even compare to a third of Milienia? What about All Might?
‘In the end, the more I think about it, the less I am interested in staying in UA.’
“YES!!!”
This exclamation brought him out of his musing. He turned his gaze and looked at the excited lissa that was using a mini-computer connected to different pieces of the armor.
Kuroha walked toward her and bent down to look at the number dancing on the screen. He squinted a little before releasing a sigh,
‘Yep. I understand nothing.’
“So, seeing your excitation, you finally did it?”
"Oh~! Did the little girl succeed?"
It was Milienia who asked. Kuroha shivered a little before moving aside. After he told her his blood quirk had evolved, he never saw her so excited. She looked at him as if she wanted to devour him. Her gaze was really unsettling back then.
The worst was how she has proceeded to beat him up like a child after he challenged her in a fleeting mont of pride. The worst was that...He didn’t even rember how he lost.
One mont they were in a forest, the next mont he woke up with half of the trees around him destroyed.
The fact that he lost consciousness ans only one thing. In that very short instant from when the fight began, she had given him a degree of fatal damage higher than the one received from falling from a 50 ters high building. (EN:164 feet for our arican readers.)
*Gulp*
Just thinking about this made him shiver in fright, but also in excitent. He wanted to reach that level of power and even surpass it.
He wanted to...Reach the Apex of power in this world. He wanted to stand at the summit. He didn’t know why. He just knows that sothing would happen once he did so.
‘Sigh. Now isn’t the ti to think about this.’
He turned his attention to Himiko,
"Himiko. How do you feel. Any discomfort?"
"Hum…"
Himiko, who was in the armor slowly moved her hand before jumping a little and doing so fists movents,
"No problem. I can't give exact numbers but compared to the normal armor, I feel way stronger. Too bad it's only temporary. Still to think lissa would really succeed."
Kuroha nodded, before asking to lissa,
“lissa. What do you say? Now that you managed at least the start, do you think my demand is possible?”
lissa’s eyes shined as she nodded, but she hesitated and asked
“Yes, this is really a good idea. But… are you sure? Won’t you weaken if you do that?”
“No. As long as I keep the concentration to this level, then it shouldn’t be a problem.”
“I see…”
lissa didn’t insist and directed her gaze back to the armor Himiko was wearing. More precisely to the red crystal embedded in the chest of the armor,
“What will you call it?”
Kuroha hesitated a little as he thought about it,
“You had said that my blood gained a sort of symbiotic ability right?”
lissa shook her head,
“Not gained, but rather evolved. From the exam I made on Himiko, your blood was already able to sowhat boost the physical ability of those who ingested it. Only that it was a slow process. One needing years to even show visual results.”
“Hum...I see… I feel like so kind of tonic drug or so hive monster.”
He suddenly smiled,
“Since this feels like such, even though it's just a temporary and weaker version, I will na it...Naless worm.”
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