CHAPTER 118(Shattered Pillar)

CHAPTER 118(Shattered Pillar)

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Flying on his hoverboard, Horizon glares at his phone as he soars above Japan.

He was pushing his speed up to 400mph -643kmph- as he was watching the live news broadcast on his phone.

With the audio projected into his visor, he completely ignores everything and focuses on the fight.

Listening to All For One's words he can't help but scowl.

"Nana Shimura...she really just destroyed her family to save strangers, disgusting..." he mulls it over for a few seconds before realizing something.

"Wait, if All Might called her his Master...he has the body of a Quirkless person, so he must have gotten One For All from her.

And she had to have gotten it from someone, All For One attacked the camp for it so he knows about it.

Plus everything Deku just said means...how many people did that Quirk get passed down to before now?

Oh, that was a smart move, finally got rid of the distraction," Horizon mutters as Gran Torino is turned into bloody mist by All For One.

'Now I just need All For One to win or warp away so he can keep up his end of our deal...'

Moments later his hopes are crushed when, as always, All Might claims victory.

'Fuck,' he frowns at the screen, seeing All Might standing unconscious with his right fist raised to the sky and his left arm missing from just below the shoulder.

'Ok, I guess I can work with this, heal up All Might, get some more credibility from all the crap All For One was spouting during the fight about how if they wanted to guarantee victory they should have brought me.

Then I guess since All Might is definitely forced into retirement by this I can fill the much more blatant power vacuum, thankfully I've already prepared Minato Tokyo to be my territory.

And since All Might used to be there they don't even have many Hero Agencies in the first place because he always put them out of business...

I guess I'll have to ask Nezu for more days away from UA to do hero crap. Two days a week is already pushing it but maybe I can get Thursdays too.

That way I can do hero work from Thursday to Sunday.

Plus I can just start hunting down the League Of Villains immediately, if I lock up all of them before I graduate that'll get me to the #2 spot, if not number one.

Hmm, #1, Endeavor probably wouldn't be that easy to get ahead of, but now he's dealing with his nightmare family bullshit so he's distracted by that.

Plus I need to train up Sero so people know that I'm a capable leader and keep working on myself, that'll get me to the top spot,' he decides, considering the finer points of his plan as the scene changes on his phone.

Instead of the battlefield, the news helicopters follow the ambulance as it rushed All Might to Central Hospital, by far Japan's second-best medical facility.

Second only to whatever room Horizon happens to be standing in at any given moment.

Seeing this he hops onto 'Yay!' to check how the internet is reacting to All Might's fight.

And as usual, it was having a complete meltdown.

Multiple discussions and topics were trending, many of which involved people putting together any possible evidence of All For One existing over the years, but of all these people none would ever openly admit to being in collaboration with him.

Not while he's in jail, too far for his influence and power to protect them.

Checking the other topics Horizon sees almost unanimous praise for All Might, and some people are a bit too trigger-happy with the 'in memory of' tributes.

"Shigaraki and his group of losers shouldn't be as dangerous without their backed, but we still don't know who is making the Nomu for them."

"We assumed it was All For One," Nezu says.

"If he's a geneticist then possibly, otherwise they've got someone who knows his way around a helical genetic code and pharmaceuticals..."

"Hmm, we'll have to look into it, but it won't be easy until we have some of their group in custody to question."

"Yeah that'd make things a lot easier," Horizon says. "How'd you even find the villains so quickly?"

"Oh, I half expected her to have already told you...Ms. Yaoyorozu attached a tracker to one of the Nomu at the summer camp, with some help of course."

Horizon doesn't know if he should be annoyed or surprised that now is when she chooses to be capable, when she had the best opportunity to completely fuck him over and ruin his escape plan.

"Good job I supposed," he says in an extremely bored tone, deciding not to think about it too much.

"You should tell her that in person sometime, how much longer before you get to the hospital?"

"Half hour, is that place secure enough?"

"The Commission is having all nearby heroes and a lot of police head there now to secure it, they expect trouble since All Might is the patient...every villain wants to be the one to finish off All Might."

"Better the hero the bigger the target on your back," Horizon says with clear disgust in his voice, "even extends to your family sometimes."

"Mhm, will you be able to save him?"

"From what I saw and what I know of his condition, he's got about a 1% chance to live, it'll take a miracle basically...so yeah, he'll be fine when I'm done, but..."

"But what?" Nezu asks, scared to hear the answer.

"The hero 'All Might', is done, you know that right?"

Nezu sighs, "yes, I prepared myself for this a long time ago, but I don't believe he's ready to hang up his cape."

"He won't have a chance, and you're a lot more ready than most, have you seen how the media is reacting?"

"Insanity and chaos, as usual."

Horizon shakes his head, "people just aren't ready for their one support pillar to shatter like this. An entire society leaning on one person is destined to fail, the system has to change if you want it to last."

"True, but thankfully, until those changes happen the masses will be a bit calmer since they already have an idea of who their next pillar shall likely be...right?"

Horizon rolls his eyes, "first things first, so for now let me just try to pick up the pieces of the last one..."

As Horizon continues his flight to Tokyo, both men would be proven right on this very night.

Countless people demanded that the Japanese constitution be ignored in the case of Horizon. Allowing him to be a fully licensed Pro Her without completing the trial period or graduating from a Hero Course.

A move made out of desperation and fear, because with All Might seemingly dead or out of action, people wanted someone they could hide behind when things got dangerous.

And as if to prove Horizon's point about society needing to not depend on one person to this extent, over the next 24 hours, the Japanese currency would lose 12% of its total trading value.

Soon trade and shipping would begin to slow as crime skyrockets, and at every level of society, people would feel the repercussions of this night in their wallets and bellies.

The shifting tides as the eras change.

Chaos, until Horizon rises to become their next Symbol Of Peace...

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