CHAPTER 073(Nightmare House)

CHAPTER 073(Nightmare House)

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Sitting in the back of the car Horizon is leaning against the door, head nodding along to the music being played in his visor. He wore a simple blue t-shirt with his logo on the back, a pair of matching pants, along with his Hero Costume boots, and his watch. Keeping his cards in his pocket just in case.

Across from him on the other side of the back seat, Shoto stares out the window as they drive past the houses.

And in the front seat Endeavor and the driver are entirely silent the entire ride.

Getting an alert Horizon takes out his phone to check it, seeing a text from Nezu.

'I got your request, but support items for Hero Course students must be designed by fellow students. I'll pass the request to Power Loader for him to assign the appropriate student...'

As Horizon closes his phone the car comes to a stop in front of a traditional Japanese mansion.

'Huh, I expected more...' Horizon thinks as they all get out of the car and follow Endeavor to the front door.T/his chapter is updated by nov(ê(l)biin.co/m

Walking through the courtyard he opens a room for 100 meters in every direction, 200 meters across in total.

SCAN!

He senses an old woman, setting a table and finishing up some cooking. Helping her is a younger lady with glasses. Aside from them nobody else is here, and he doesn't sense anything unusual for a place like this.

Entering the main house they all take off their shoes as Horizon hears a set of footsteps approach, feeling the younger of the two women doing a small jog down the hallway.

"Shoto!" Fuyumi Todoroki rounds the corner with a wide smile.

Fuyumi was a plain-looking woman, 22 years old with a slim build and short stature, only standing at 160cm -5ft3-. Her most striking feature was the head of white hair with small patches of red sprinkled about. Along with the square black glasses on her face just barely hiding her gray eyes.

'Huh, she sounds just like Jiro...' was Horizon's first thought, while Fuyumi just froze for a moment, trying to process what she was seeing.

Her eyes widened for a moment to take in Horizon's jarring look, not expecting him to always be in a mask and body glove, and also not expecting him to be almost as tall as Endeavor, although you'd have to look very close to notice the 1cm difference.

But then her stare turned into a harsh glare and scowl, "why are you here?"

"Huh?" Horizon looks at Endeavor. "Your dad said you wanted me here."

"He told me one of Shoto's classmates was working with him...he didn't say it was you," she growls out.

"What's your problem with me?" Horizon was genuinely confused, all while Endeavor and Shoto wisely kept quiet. "I've never even met you before."

"You nearly killed Shoto!"

"Tch," Horizon scoffs. "I barely touched him, and he was never at risk of death. Honestly, he got off lucky considering how much he ran his mouth before the fight."

"Got off lucky?!" Fuyumi gestures at Shoto. "He still has nightmares about waking up with no heart!"

Horizon looks around even more confused, "how is it my fault that he's a complete fucking pussy, just get him therapy or something. Isn't that what you losers do?"

Fuyumi's face goes red, but Endeavor steps in before she goes into a full tirade, "let's all just take a moment and go to the dining room, we can talk this out there."

The harsh glare he gives Fuyumi immediately has her mouth shut, but Horizon just rolls his eyes when it falls upon him.

As Fuyumi stomps away Horizon just sighs and follows Endeavor into the dining room.

Stepping into the dining room Horizon sees a low table and floor mats for them to sit on. A full traditional dinner to match the clear style of the house was laid out for them.

"It's not that hard to do. Shoto sucks at literally everything in my eyes, as a person Enji is 'meh' at best. I count Endeavor separately so he's still great. But you've cooked for me and you're willing to stand up for your brother in the face of someone who can literally shut your brain off with a thought. How am I not supposed to like a woman like that?"

"Her eyes go wide in surprise. Can you really do that? The brain thing."

"No, but half the fun of my Quirk is that I can say crazy stupid things and people have to assume at least a little bit that I can really do it," he chuckles.

Fuyumi sighs and shakes her head. "I hope this isn't you trying to flirt with me. You're 16 but I can't date anyone so young, it'd just feel weird, not to mention I don't date heroes...plus, I'm a teacher so I'd feel extra creepy."

"This isn't that, I promise. You can't pay me enough to date someone with this much family baggage."

"Oh wow, exactly what I want to hear right now," she sighs. "It's already hard enough getting a date when people learn who my dad is, they're either scared of him or trying to use me to get to him..."

"One more reason to keep my identity private. So my kids won't have to deal with that crap one day."

"Yeah, you won't have any trouble finding someone, mister genius, doctor, hero, Quirk researcher," she rolls her eyes at how absurd his resume was.

"Plus handsome and rich, can't forget those."

"Sigh, because of course you are. Why did you decide to be a Pro Hero anyway? Adrenaline?"

"Nezu made me a deal, he'd get me something I want if I graduate UA, that's all."

"No wonder he published your Quirk Research paper on the official UA website."

"You read it?"

"All fifteen pages. All the genetics stuff about superhuman potential went a bit over my head, but seemed pretty smart. It's so weird for someone young to be an official Quirk Researcher, it's usually old men."

"Well that's because you need time and experience for it, that's why it's usually older doctors."

"Yet you did it at only 16."

"I've lived a lot of life," Horizon shrugs.

As Fuyumi is about to respond suddenly the entire house shakes violently.

Horizon instantly opens a ROOM and scans around, realizing the problem was just outisde.

With a deep sigh he gets up as she's trying to crawl under the table, thinking it was an earthquake.

"Not an earthquake, just dramatic people..." he slides open the paper doors leading to the courtyard for them to see what was happening.

Shoto had an absolutely furious look on his face in the middle of the courtyard. Across from him Endeavor was standing with a flame in his right hand. All around Endeavor was a massive pool of boiling water, and to the far sides were the massive ice shards that didn't instantly evaporate.

Shoto tried to use a Heaven Piercing Ice Wall, only for Endeavor to instantly melt it the moment it even got close to him, showing that as they are now, Shoto is nothing compared to his dad.

Endeavor deactivates his Quirk and just looks heartbroken as Shoto starts yelling.

"You think you can ever atone, that we'd ever forgive you! After you destroyed us! You tore us apart! You put mom in the hospital! And now you want to tell me that I can choose to stop being a hero?! If I stop now then what was all our suffering even for?!"

Shoto was seething with rage, and Endeavor just stood there, not saying a word to defend himself as his son stomped away into the house.

Shoto looks back over his shoulder to say one last thing, "I never want to see you again, consider this the end of my internship..."

Fuyumi breaks down into sobs and runs after her brother, and Horizon just shakes his head at all this family drama.

'This house really is a fucking mess...'

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