CHAPTER 123(Settling In)

CHAPTER 123(Settling In)

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Sitting behind his desk early this morning, Nezu is checking the media response from All Might's official retirement last night.

Moments after the Hero Public Safety Commission made the statement the internet had a complete meltdown, as it always does when anything happens.

As expected the general public was terrified of a world without their Symbol Of Peace, and the villains were cheering.

He'd already built a program to track new villain recruitment groups online, and just overnight dozens of people got caught in the net.

But looking through them he only saw small fish.

"The League Of Villains must have a more intricate recruitment system, assuming they'd even bother bringing in people. Thus far aside from the Vanguard Action Squad members they only have Nomu with them...and whoever is making all the Nomu."

Sending the data to the police he moves over to the news websites, seeing much of the same panic and chaos.

Then finally over to All Might's 'Yay!' account.

"Well this is surprising," Nezu says as he reads the most recent update.

It was a long-winded message from All Might to the world, as expected.

Going on and on about how thankful he was to have had the time to help people and shared how hopeful he is to see what the world will become in the future.

But what surprised him the most was the second part, about his injury

"He actually told people about All For One hurting him 5 years ago...and thanked Horizon specifically for repairing enough of the damage over a year ago, so he could 'vanquish his evil foe' once and for all."

Nezu hops over to Horizon's profile to see his follower count up by 10 Million overnight, and he immediately puts it together.

He then reads the end of All Might's post, about how committed he is to guide the next generation of heroes to the best of his ability.

"Well, I guess I should be ready for public backlash about him being here, but hopefully it should pass quickly."

After finishing up his analysis Nezu turns to the camera system to find his main investment.

"Hmm, new upgrades maybe?" He asks himself, watching Horizon speak to Mei outside of the Support Course building. He opens a new window on his computer and doesn't see any requested items from Horizon.

"He must now be putting in an order, well I'm sure between Ms. Hatsume and Power Loader it'll be fine."

A few seconds later Nezu sees Horizon abruptly turn his head toward the entrance of the school, and another second later Hanta Sero appears on the lawn beside them. Carrying a suitcase at his side.

His other items were already being sent over later today.

The three students chat for a while before Mei shoves them away, clearly too excited over whatever idea they just gave her to keep chatting with them.

As Horizon warps them away, Nezu notices how disheveled Mei is, but he doesn't think much of it. Support Course students were normally too busy working to care about appearances.

"Well...aside from that one Year-2 girl," he recalls the Culture Festival beauty pageant winner from last year.

Suddenly there is a knock at the door, drawing Nezu's attention away from his work.

"Come in!"

The door opens and in steps Yagi, wearing a similar tracksuit to what he had on yesterday. His arm was no longer in a sling but still tightly bandaged up.

"Principal Nezu."

"All Might, how are you feeling?"

"Better than yesterday at least."

"Mhm, you should be resting."

"Even if I wanted to, I can't sleep anymore," he makes his way over to one of the couches and sits down while Nezu continues working. "I can't stop thinking about what Horizon said yesterday."

"Which part?"

"About Inko Midoriya hating me for endangering her son like that. About young Izuku never being allowed to be a hero again. About her likely forcing him to give up One For All entirely."

"All extremely likely, if not absolute certainties," Nezu says. "And what do you intend to do about it?"

"I don't know. I was actually hoping you'd have some answers for me."

"Hmm, well, maybe it's just time to be honest, about everything."

"But she already knows everything," Yagi says.

"About the Quirk yes. But she doesn't know why you chose Midoriya. You could have picked anyone, but you picked her son. He may not have been your first pick, but he is the successor you chose."

"Yeah, thankfully you warned me against giving my power to Horizon, now that I've been around him for longer I'm sure I made the right choice with Midoriya."

"I suggest you tell her that part too," Nezu says. "People look to Horizon as a golden standard for what Hero Course students should be, and on paper, he is. But we both know he lacks the heroic spirit, and that's what you saw in her son."

Yagi smiles at that, now absolutely sure he made the right choice in Izuku Midoriya, "yeah, I'm sure she'll understand."

Nezu gives the delusionally hopeful man a nervous smile, having dealt with parents after their children get hurt. He knows fully well that they're anything but reasonable, and Inko Midoriya had every right to be absolutely furious at All Might.

"Well, you've got a few hours to prepare, I'll be sure to call you when they get here," Nezu says.

---11 AM, Training Ground Zeta...

In Horizon's personal training ground, both he and Sero were standing opposite each other at one end of the site.

He now had the fancy new dorms instead of the tiny 1-bedroom apartment he and his dad shared. His dad no longer had to pay for him to travel to and from school 6 days a week.

And now Horizon was paying for all his meals to be prepared and delivered by a nearby company.

But that last one is what bothered him so much.

When Horizon agreed to help him he expected just some basic training and advice. But it seems Horizon is obsessive with doing the best he can to keep to his end of the deal.

Now Sero is under a lot of pressure not to disappoint. Because when he's good enough Horizon is gonna help him get the boost he needs, to properly launch his own career, and the very last thing he wants to do is disappoint him.

'But this is just so much food...' Sero thinks as he looks down, only to notice half the food is already gone. 'Wow, I guess I was more hungry than I realized, never mind.'

SHAMBLES!

Horizon suddenly appears a few feet away from Sero, holding two pizzas in one hand, and with his other hand wrapped around Mei, who was holding their drinks.

"Enjoying your food?" Horizon asks, and Sero just gives him a thumbs up as he continues eating.

As they both sit down to join him, Sero looks over to Mei, noticing that she literally looks like she got hit by a bomb.

Her clothes were spotted with black ash and she sat down with her pink hair all frizzy.

"Are you ok Hatsume?"

"Lab explosion, it happens," she says as if it were the most normal thing in the world, then before Sero can say anything else she reaches out and grabs Horizon's left hand.

Horizon was currently eating a slice of pizza with his right hand and turned to look at her, "you built it already?"

"Mhm, take off the watch," she says, noticing his Rolex was still on.

"Shambles," he warps it onto his right hand.

She fishes into her pocket for a second and takes out what looks like a flat white bracelet, with his logo on it. That familiar checkered smile logo that's on everything he wears.

She puts it on his wrist the leans away, "ok, now link it to your phone and set what you want to display. It should link to the visor too through the phone."

"Hmm alright," Horizon takes out his phone and quickly connects it, and it projects a small screen across his forearm, currently displaying his vitals. He slaps his watch other it to help keep it hidden while displaying the screen. "It's perfect, thank Mei."

"Just remember to say who made it on that website of yours alright."

"Yeah yeah, I know."

As Mei begins eating Sero leans over and gives the screen a confused look, "but can't you already monitor your vitals with Hand Of God, why do you need this?"

"It's for more than just my vitals, sometimes I just need to view more data when running some cases," he says.

But that was only half true. This was almost entirely so he can monitor his vital whenever he experiences an 'Overload' and blacks out because of the new Quirks.

This device, in theory, would help him figure out what's wrong with himself.

"---wait so your dorm is finally ready?" Mei asks Horizon, after they're all done eating.

"Yeah, Nezu just sent me the message, I'm checking it out right now, seems perfect," Horizon says while looking in the direction of his room.

"That's still super creepy," Sero says. "How does that work anyway?"

"Eh, think of it like echolocation, but it's super precise. Like I can get a view of someone, what's in their pockets, count how many pieces of candy is in a pack, or if I felt like it I could just see what they're like under the clothes," Horizon shrugs.

A cold shiver runs down Sero's spine, "that last one is super pervy, do you actually do that?"

"No, I'm too classy for that," Horizon says flatly.

Sero's eyes shift over to Mei, seeing her completely unbothered, "this doesn't bother you at all?"

"Huh, why would it bother me, he's already seen me naked a few times," Mei shrugs.

And Sero's brain begins melting, "oh...oh! Sorry I didn't realize you two were a...sorry!"

"We aren't a couple, and stop being weird," Horizon says.

"Yeah, I don't have time to waste on boys!" Mei declares proudly, "I've got babies to make!"

"Uh..." Sero gets confused all over again. "But...don't you need boys to make ba---"

"Gadgets, she means gadgets, oh my god," Horizon groans. "Just keep this between us alright."

"Got it," Sero gives them both a serious nod. "But speaking of Hero Equipment, shouldn't I---"

"Yes!" Mei yells out, eyes lit up and ready to work.

"No," Horizon shuts them down. "When he's mastered his Quirk enough then he can use them, otherwise they'll just be a crutch..."

They both frown at him, but can't deny the logic in that.

Horizon suddenly turns toward the main campus, "damn," he mutters.

"What happened?" Sero asks.

Inko Midoriya slapped the taste out of All Might's mouth is what happened.

"Uh...nothing, we should get back to training, and I'm sure Mei has some stuff to do," he turns to her, "I'll warp you over later, alright."

"I want some chocolate."

"I'll figure something out..."

As they're packing up he senses Inko now hugging All Might as she's crying her eyes out, 'should have expected that, it did make Deku after all...'

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