CHAPTER 003(The Matani’s Last Supper)

CHAPTER 003(The Matani’s Last Supper)

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---7 Years Old...

In the same operating room where Law first used Hand Of God, lies an unconscious woman, her body missing the top half of her head as the oxygen mask placed over her mouth keeps her unconscious, but very much alive. The same invisible barrier of space rests at the point of separation from her body.

At the other end of the room at a metal desk sits Law with the top of her head still very much alive in front of him.

With his father looking over his shoulder, "Amputate," Law commands while he carefully cuts her head down the middle, splitting her skull and brainstem in one swift motion. Once again harmlessly dividing her body.

"There it is," Corazon says as he points to the blinking little bead attached to her brainstem.

Focusing on the bead law raises his hand in a grasping motion, placing a little vial of water beside the head he focuses on both the water and the bead.

"Shambles," he commands. A single drop of water swaps places with the bead, dropping the blinking bead into her vial and placing a harmless drop of water on her brainstem.

Releasing a tired sigh Law wipes the sweat from his brow. This was the final surgery of a very long day, the seventh bomb he's removed from a person's head in a row.

Looking around he focuses and sees the bubble enveloping the room. A faint blue tinge hung in the air that was only visible to him.

"Room," he commands and the bubble seems to pop.

ROOM is the basis of his quirk, all his other techniques must be performed within this operating room, however, some effects will persist outside of this ROOM. The ROOM cannot exist without Law being inside.

The size of his ROOM as well as how long it persists is entirely determined by his stamina, there is no other limit. No material can block it, no quirk can resist it, and no other person can perceive it.

SHAMBLES is a technique that allows him to freely substitute the positions of any items within his ROOM. Effectively allowing him to warp around anywhere he wants as long as there is something to swap with.

Working together both men reassemble the woman, quickly undoing the effects of his first technique.

AMPUTATE, is a technique that ignores all physical resistances and divides space itself to cut matter. This technique does no harm to living things however and can be extended as far as his room reaches, although he requires a bladed tool to use this.

After putting the woman back together his father scans her. While less effective than Law's SCAN technique which can pinpoint anything within his ROOM depending on his awareness, or allows him to target a particular organ within a person if he's making contact while scanning them.

Corazon took the lead in the final check-up as Law was already tired from constantly making ROOMs today.

"She's perfectly fine," his father said. "You know your quirk really is a miracle. Of all the people in this world, I do believe you're the one that can become a god, all these new techniques always showing up. I couldn't be happier, and you're learning medicine so quickly too, now that really makes me proud."

"I still have a long way to go, I can only operate on certain organs without you supervising me, brain surgery would have been impossible without you," Law says.

"You're still young, you've got time," his father removes his gloves and ruffles Law's hair. "Why don't you go see what your mom made for dinner while I deal with this," he gestures to the unconscious woman. "Remember we don't want people seeing your face."

"Right, don't take too long," Law says as he removes his gloves and leaves to get cleaned up.

Watching his son leave Corazon looks at the little vial on the desk still containing the explosive bead. Something that would have been impossible to remove without the phasing quirk that placed it there, "yeah, you're gonna be on top of the world son..."

---9 Years Old...

CLANG!

On a highrise rooftop in Hosu city Law and his mother, Kiku, clash blades.

The professional Adventurer, as she prefers to call herself, educates her son in the art of combat while his father handles more academic pursuits.

"Faster!" she demands as she parries another of his sword strikes. "Your quirk gives you an absurd boost to spatial awareness, use it and increase your reaction time. You can get it close to zero with enough training."

While Law was covered in sweat and panting heavily, she was as calm as ever without a worry on her face. He holds his sword out -a perfectly straight short saber reminiscent of a scalpel- and accepts her challenge while she simply has her right hand in the form of a greatsword and gives him a bored look.

Spinning on his heel Law turns his back to her and slashes forward, slashing at empty space.

'Shambles,' he mentally commands, no longer needing the crutch of saying his intent out loud to activate his quirk.

He and Kiku instantly swap places. For the briefest instant, her eyes widen before she spins on her heel and easily parries his strike.

"Not bad," she complements while locking blades with him. "But this isn't a sword duel," she says before punching him in the face, knocking him onto his back.

"Ow," he groans while rubbing his face.

Kiku sighs and helps him up, dusting him off slightly. "Law, in this world the only thing that matters is power. Most of society isn't allowed to use quirks because the people in charge know this is true. They can't control everyone, so I need you to focus more on the combat applications of your quirk for when you need it, alright?"

"Alright..."

But likely the most startling feature is the bluish-white eyes that seem to look past everything in front of him.

Sitting around the dinner table Law gladly digs into his Katsudon, a deep-fried pork cutlet on a bed of fried eggs atop a spread of white rice.

Beside his plate is a small glass of whisky.

Both Kiku and Corazon have the exact same meal, a birthday and holiday tradition in their little family. Which is why they were eating it tonight, April 3rd, Law's 15th birthday.

This is what they ate the night they made Law and started their family, so they decided it should become a tradition.

"So who is she?" Kiku asks.

Law chokes on his rice for a moment, reaching for his glass to wash it down. "What?"

"The girl you snuck out of here this morning, she forgot her jacket," Kiku says with a bored look.

"Just some girl I met a few days ago, it's nothing serious," Law says.

"Another useless pretty face huh, why can't you just find a nice girl that you'll actually keep around for a change?" Kiku berates him.

"Ugh, why would I ever do that, I'm fourteen and I've got money and power, that means the world is just full of options for me," Law boasts.

"You sound just like your father, but he changed his tune when he met the right woman," Kiku says with a prideful smile.

"Mhm," Corazon nods. "Then I started a family and it was honestly the best thing to ever happen to me."

"Have you at least considered taking the actual medical license exam?" Kiku asks. "You know we have connections to get you in there, you'd easily pass and then we'd actually have a trusted license in the house, maybe even make the clinic legit."

"I don't know, I don't think I want to get involved in government stuff. What we're doing now works so why change it anyway."

"I'm just suggesting options, you've got your whole life ahead of you still no need to choose now," Kiku says.

"Well..." Law trails off nervously, "there actually is a job I was looking at."

Both his parents give him a strange look before his father speaks, "what job?"

"A simple hit."

"Law," Kiku narrows her eyes at him. "We've been over this."

"I've been watching you for a decade, studying constantly and practicing, just let me do one for once," he argues.

Narrowing her eyes at him Kiku silently considers all their options.

"If I say no will you do it anyway?"

"Yeah."

"Sigh, did you properly check the sources?"

"Of course."

"Where is it?"

"Only one district over."

"Target?"

"Some lawyer, works for an oil company."

"Pay?"

"Two million dollars," Law says.

Kiku frowns and looks over at her husband.

Corazon shakes his head, "if he's going anyway then I'd feel better with both of you there..."

"Damn it, fine, when?"

"He has a case tomorrow afternoon..."

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