142: Imminent Danger (1)

Chapter 142: Imminent Danger (1)

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[Dragon Monarch]—that’s what Hisashi Midoriya’s real quirk is called.

It’s a transformation type Quirk, but it’s a pretty special one, as it can also be considered a mutant type Quirk. Even without transforming, his humanoid body wasn’t exactly humane, it was draconic in many ways. This allowed him “Longevity”, which is how he’s as old as the infamous All for One, despite looking like a middle-aged man.

That’s the reason Hisashi Midoriya could barely hold his rage. He’s lived long, but only once in his life did he fall for a woman. Now, that woman was in the hospital, and the child he had with her was no more.

All, because of a brat in high school.

“Neji Hado, huh?” Hisashi grumbled, throwing the glass of wine he had in his hand.

Neji Hado–a kid who was studying in the same class as Izuku. From what his old friend Shigaraki told him, that kid’s been making things hard for Izuku since high school started.

Hisashi wasn’t aware of the bullying his son went through in Middle School, which was why his son almost committed suicide by drinking poison. Luckily, Izuku survived that time. Unfortunately, something similar has happened this time too, and this time… there was no lucky situation.

No, this time it wasn't a suicide attempt, both AFO and Hisashi believed that.

From what AFO said to him, it seems Izuku was having a hard time in school because of the other boy, which was why he wasn’t getting enough sleep and was always tired, both mentally and physically. This meant, there’s a high chance that the accident with the oven happened because Izuku was mentally tired and wasn’t careful to the initial smell of burn, which should have alerted him to turn the oven off immediately.

Hisashi was very angry at his friend, Shigaraki aka All for One, for not taking care of this Neji kid before. But he understood his friend's situation, so he naturally transferred all his hatred towards the white-haired kid.

Hisashi knew there's a solid chance All for One was just trying to redirect his anger onto someone else, but there's an even more solid chance of him telling the truth. Because Hisashi watched the UA Sports Festival, where that Neji kid stepped on Izuku's head and defeated him shamefully, even though there was no need to go to such lengths. There clearly was bad beef between his son and that kid. 

More importantly, that kid… just looked irritating, so much so that Hisashi could easily imagine him bullying his poor son.

‘In middle school, it was that Bakugo kid. I couldn’t do anything because by the time I was notified, Izuku had already left that school. But now… now that my son was killed because of excessive bullying from a foolish teenager, I will have my revenge.’

His body trembled as he slammed his fist on the wall, causing it to crack and blast a hole on it.

"Tch… I have to hold it in… just a bit more… just a week …" Hisashi hissed. "Shigaraki said he's making a deal with a group called the Meta Liberation Army. That old fool probably wants to use me in his plan to take over Japan…"

Hisashi had no interest in Japan, so he didn't care. While this all irked him a lot, he needed All for One's help to safely leave America without notifying Star and Stripes, and luckily All for One was the perfect man for that with his teleportation Quirks.

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Neji and Ochako's training proceeded smoothly without any issue, and slowly Neji started to sense the tweaking with gravity that Ochako's quirk did, it was like seeing and feeling an invisible force.

After spending a bit more time together, Neji asked Kimi to drop Ochako back at her apartment, while he kept training.

Now he stood awkwardly, the fingers of both his hands touching, imitating Ochako when she used her quirk.

There was a doubt within Neji which made him think, ‘But do I really need to do this pose?’ But he still did so despite the thought.

Uraraka needed to hold her breath if she wanted to float by negating her own gravity, so Neji did that too. He held his breath and closed his eyes to imagine a sensation of floating in the air without feeling any pull from the earth.

It took him a few minutes, but it was surprisingly not that hard.

One time he was on the ground, the next thing he was floating in the air.

He then tried to do the same without holding his breath and making that weird hand gesture. Fortunately, it still worked.

Uraraka recently levelled up to Tier-3 from Tier-2, but this single difference made Neji's Level-1 Quirk better. But then again, it was to be expected as his power wasn't simply turning gravity off. Based on the description, it was on a whole other level.

Keeping that in mind, Neji wanted to train its other aspects too.

"This is gravity negation, so I guess this falls under the Manipulation category." Neji muttered to himself while picking up a dumbbell from the side.

He again negated the gravity around him and therefore caused his body to float upwards. After which, he focused his control on the dumbbell.

This time it was harder. Ochako's quirk gave him the general idea of how to negate his own gravity because of his new [Gravity Sense], but he has no idea how to generate gravity.

After careful observation of his surroundings, understanding the pull that the earth was doing to everything else, Neji finally got a gist of things.

He focused his attention on the dumbbell, and created a Gravitational Spot, trying to impose all his power into the spot.

As he did, he noticed the surrounding objects shaking, trembling towards himself, or more specifically the dumbbell.

After feeling he poured enough power into it, Neji immediately threw the dumbbell on the ground, and seconds after that all the workout equipment jumped from their spot, going towards the dumbbell. The heavier ones went faster, and the lightweight ones were a bit behind. But all of them moved, except for Neji who had smartly negated his gravity already.

—Boom~!

Everything that dashed to the dumbbell crashed into each other, creating a big loud thud as if an explosion had happened.

Dust rose in the air as Neji laughed nervously while floating.

"This is good…"

No, this was awesome.

—★—

The classes after that day were boring and normal like always.

First of all, Aizawa cleared up that there won't be any new student replacing Midoriya's spot until the mid-term exams ended. After which, depending on the results, someone from the other classes will be brought into Class 1-A.

But Neji's mind wasn't paying attention to these boring classes, because something much more sinister was happening in the League, as Toga reported.

Today, a week since his first training, Neji sat inside the classroom, behind Momo and in front of Ochako. Amidst the boring lecture, he couldn't help but think back to his conversation with Toga this morning.

[Toga: Yeah… things been weird lately in here. The All for One dude is preparing us for a mission, but I only have guesses about what mission. There's this Meta Liberation Army thingy, I never heard about them, but I heard Kurogiri chat with AFO about it. I think we're either going to fight them, or join them in some kind of even larger fight.]

That's the message she sent him today before he came to school. After that, there's another message… a voicemail. Or should he call it a 'Whisper'mail?

"If you're wondering about the bad sound quality, that's 'cus I am sending this from the washroom. We're in Deika City, and we were joined in by this big bad giant stone-looking guy. After that, we met up with the Meta Liberation Army, but we didn't fight, it seems All for One made some sort of deal with them, so we— TOGA?!" Her voice was interrupted by a deep man's, seemingly coming outside of the bathroom she was inside. "WHAT IS TAKING YOU SO LONG! RE-DESTRO IS GETTING SUSPICIOUS IF YOU'RE A SPY OR NOT!" Next, her voice returned. "Sheeh, they won't even let me make a report. Anyway, bossman~ you don't live in Deika City, right? Tell me if you do, I will betray them anytime, hehe~"

Neji heard this message during lunch break, and it's been a while since that moment. Things weren't really going according to canon anymore, but Neji didn't care much. Canon was already fucked anyway. Besides, Deika City was almost on the opposite part of Japan compared to the city UA was located in.

But Neji was indeed confused for a moment. Wasn't the "World's Will" or whatever unable to actively make his life harder? But that confusion didn't last long as he realised, not everything is controlled. Every action causes an automatic chain of reaction without any manual outside control. This must be the scenario here, which is causing the canon plot to move faster than it was supposed to be because of Izuku's death.

Either way, the reasons for all these changes didn't matter, what mattered was what the actions Neji needed to take to match up with all this. Would Summer Camp still happen? If not, there was a need to change his plans because all his previous plans would then be destroyed anyway.

"That's all for today."

Neji's thoughts were interrupted by Aizawa's voice, who started to prepare the documents on his desk.

"Today's been a mentally tiring day because of the surprise quiz, so be sure to get a proper night of rest," Aizawa said. "At the same time, don't forget to study for the finals. Remember, as I said, only the ones who pass the exam would be allowed to the Summer Camp. Class dismissed."

"""Thanks Sensei!"""

Aizawa bowed and then turned to the door to leave. But… he couldn't even take his first step as the space in front of him distorted.

Black mist flunked out of a hole in the middle of the air, as it began to expand into a portal.

The students recognised this phenomenon, which was why their hearts skipped and their faces began to express their sudden fright.

The documents fell from Aizawa's hands as his hair began to rise, his eyes gaining a red tint to them. However, before Aizawa's Quirk could entirely act up, a hand covered in draconic scales jumped out of the portal and grabbed Aizawa's skull.

Before anyone knew it, the hand clutched hard and devastated Aizawa's head into a mess of gory blood and brain matter.

There was a stretched silence as the situation clicked in on the students' minds. Their Sensei… their Pro Hero Sensei just died by a clutching hand. It was Yuga who stuttered first, before everyone in the class yelled in unison.

"AAAAAAAA! IT'S THE LEAGUE!"

Neji wasn't yelling though, he was busy putting Momo to sleep before he threw her in his inventory. Because that draconic hand wasn't anyone he was familiar with. 

Some, including Ochako, noticed his weird set of actions, however, nobody was in the right mind to think of that. They just wanted to escape.

But the door was obstructed by the enlarging portal, so nobody could do so. They simply ran to corners of the room and stood with their guards up.

Neji did the same, as the portal finally widened enough to reveal a man with long flowing red hair walking inside with his bloody arms behind his back.

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Neji couldn't help but feel a pull on his abdomen when the man slowly turned his glowing red eyes to meet his, and when Neji's eyes fell on the text hovering above his head.

[Hisashi Midoriya - Draconic Human - Tier 8]

The next moment, he realised how smart it was to have put Momo in the inventory because the man emitting danger growled at him with a glowing mouth.

"I heard you like dragon breaths a lot." It wasn't a question, it was a statement as he widened his mouth and fired a breath of liquid plasma.

In the sudden outburst, Neji could only use his new defence technique, a mixture of his White Tiger's Cloak and Gravity Manipulation.

The moment Neji was covered in a cloak of transparent shine, he barely managed to push Ochako off the way as he was engulfed within the fiery beam which shattered the walls behind Neji.

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Author's Note: Things never go according to plan, not when the plan seems too smooth and easy.

Also, before you complain, Hisashi was revealed back in chapter-49, it was also revealed how strong he was back then. So go complain there.