CHAPTER 062(Legacy and Grief)

CHAPTER 062(Legacy and Grief)

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"These things are a lifesaver," Horizon says, standing in his Musutafu apartment watching the rain beat down on the city, including UA off in the distance.

In his hands are three of his custom meal bars, which he carefully places into his jacket pocket. The thousands he bought were already scanned for anything suspicious before he brought them into this property for storage.

"Room..."

SHAMBLES!

He suddenly appears in his seat, only a few classmates quietly chattering about, not even batting an eye as he warps his card back into his hand and puts it away. He immediately shrinks his room down from a 5km radius to 20 meters, just enough to know when Eraser was close.

Behind him, Momo was reading a book, quietly enjoying her morning and waiting for class to start. At the very back of the room stood Sero and Tokoyami with a few other classmates, he could hear them excitedly talking about people recognizing them from the sports festival three days ago. And in her seat closer to the front Jiro was listening to music, her Earphone Jack plugged into her phone.

But all the chatter suddenly stopped the moment Iida entered the room, Deku one step behind him. Horizon spared him a glance before leaning back and ignoring him, but most of the students got up from what they were doing to give their condolences.

Over the past two days, Ingenium had been on every news channel, it would be impossible not to know about his death by now.

Their first taste of what they truly risk by becoming a hero.

Listening in on the conversation Horizon hears Iida's cheerful responses, telling his classmates that he'll be alright no matter how many times they asked, and he doesn't think anything of Iida's responses.

"Eraser is coming," Horizon announces, and everyone scatters back to their seats immediately, sitting quietly and waiting for their teacher.

ROOM.

He shuts off his Quirk and leans back, expecting to fall asleep during math class this morning. Thus far he's slept through almost every single class that wasn't geared toward heroics.

He even sleeps through Midnight's 'History of heroics' classes, and since UA doesn't grade the Hero Course students on class work, he doesn't bother with in-class work.

To compensate for the life of their Hero Course students UA doesn't give any kind of project or group projects to them, or grades on classwork, only exams. This is entirely because students will likely be getting Provisional Licenses and have to take days out of their school week to do hero work, missing classwork would be unavoidable, so everything is staked on the exams instead.

Because of this everything you need to pass the mid and end-of-semester exams is in the textbooks, and since those exams are all that matters, and Horizon has already read the books...he can sleep all he wants in class.

Only the afternoon classes would even need his attention, so until lunchtime he can just relax.

Thus far only Mic keeps waking him up, and that's almost entirely because of how loud the man can be when he's teaching.

"Good morning class," Eraser says in a tired voice, hearing a chorus of polite responses from most of the students. Unlike his usual walk to the front podium, this time he turns to glance at Iida, seeing the boy as studious as even he just gives him a short sympathetic look before continuing on.

"So by now I'm sure most of you have had to deal with the public," Eraser says. "UA gives many advantages, this is one of them. Every department is about either training heroes, supporting heroes, or teaching people to manage heroes, but this has caused the effect of us having all eyes on our Hero Course students.

Because of this students tend to get famous before going pro if they really stand out, and since your class is already more famous than most hero students, some more than others," he glances at Horizon and Todoroki. "I'm sure you've had to deal with people wanting to talk to you or get pictures."

He sees most of the class nod, either having people they know call them or dealing with fans while traveling to school this morning.

"Well, how you deal with this is important, having your identity out there can be good to build a legacy or fanbase, but privacy is also valuable. In a society of celebrity heroes most people just lean into the fame side of things, whatever you choose, just think very carefully before you commit. You can't be officially listed until you get a Provisional License and completely the three-year probation period with it, at that point you could completely reinvent yourself, but remember, some things you just won't be able to hide or bury, so your careers have already begun..."

Horizon rolls his eyes beneath the visor, "the world doesn't really care about that, but I can see you're too invested to think about this logically so how about this, what's your plan?"

Iida looks confused, not sure where this is going, "my plan?"

"Yeah, you seem like you have one, probably a stupid one."

"I...I don't think I should tell you."

"If you tell me, I promise I'll keep it between us, no matter what," Horizon says. "It's a contract between us, and I never break a contract."

Iida looks at him skeptically, but decides to trust Horizon, he's never once seen him be dishonest, and he does value his opinion very highly.

"I'm going to kill Stain," Iida says, a look of rage flashing across his face at the thought.

"I figured...since I promised I would keep this between us then I won't report it, not that I would either way. What you want to do with your life isn't my problem, once I'm not there it can't bite me in the ass," Horizon shrugs.

Iida looks taken aback at this, he was expecting a lecture on how wrong killing was, that's what any other Hero Course student would do at the very least, but Horizon barely bats an eye at his plan.

"Thank you for understanding," Iida says.

"Ok but let's play the scenario out," Horizon says. "Are you gonna wait until you get a Provisional License?"

"I can't wait for that," Iida says.

"Ok, so illegal Quirk use, that's grounds to get you expelled if it's done to intentionally harm or kill someone. Basically anything but an absolute emergency, or if a Pro Hero gives you permission to engage while you're working under them, that's technically not legal but once you don't get hurt nobody would cause a fuss. But they'll never let you actually fight a villain before you get your license, so you'd have to go solo. And the cops will immediately know you went after Stain because of the obvious motive. So bye-bye hero career.

But all of this is assuming you get caught or someone interrupts the fight, which is super likely since Stain only hunts in the abandoned edges of big populated cities.

If you don't get caught it's all fine...well, if you live, which you won't."

"But---"

"No," Horizon interrupts him. "No way around it, he will kill you. He's killed dozens of Pro Heroes, including your brother who has the same Quirk as you, but with an extra what, fifteen years of experience and probably more power, do you really think you can kill someone that your brother couldn't?"

Iida just deflates, falling into silence for a tense moment as he quickly comes to the same conclusions as Horizon, but then he gets an insane idea.

"What if you help me?" Iida asks.

"No, not worth the risk of getting expelled."

"But he's killed dozens of people, including my brother, think of all the people we'd be saving," Iida pleads.

"Not my people, not my problem," Horizon says. "All that matters is my contract with Nezu, and I'm not fucking it up for anything, especially for some revenge crap, leave me out of it."

Iida just sits there for a moment, then eventually agrees. "You're right, this is my fight, not yours. I'm the one who inherited his Ingenium name, I should be the one to avenge him, to prove that I'm worthy, for Tensei."

"Whatever, just leave me out of it, and if anyone asks I didn't know anything," Horizon says in a serious tone. "Because I promise if you tell anyone about this conversation, they'll never find any of your pieces..."

A single bead of sweat rolls down Iida's face as he nods stiffly. And a moment later the bell rings as everyone begins flooding back into class...

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