Chapter 5: Fear
Kuro POV
This scene again. How often it repeated itself these days.
Some idiot noticed that I had risen to power with my own power, and they thought that gave them the same ability.
That their feeble power gave them the ability to try to take power from me. To attack my allies.
Now, once again, I stood in the remenants of what used to be a warehouse, quite a large one actually, with only some support pillars and the leader of these fools left.
"Now then, I ask you, was this worth it?"
"ALL FOR ONE! Don't dare think you won yet!"
Ah. One of those.
He, like many others, seemed to think he could still win this. As if all his allies were taken from him. As if he wasn't trapped, with no way out.
These types showed up every now and then. Atleast they were less annoying then those that tried to escape.
I lowered myself from my position in the sky, a position I had only assumed once this fool was the last one left.
See, I didn't actually like fighting while using this flight quirk, and I was only using because it was the only one I have found.
The problem with it was that it took too much focus to use in combination with many other powers while staying still, as it works by moving at a certain speed, with both a lower and upper limit.
Which means, you could not use it to stand still. Well, you could, but you had to push yourself up a bit, then drop down a bit, then go up again.
It led to it simply being annoying to use when I wanted to hover, and it had a pathetic upper limit as well.
I suppose it's only advantage was it's instant acceleration.
Although if I wasn't using a power that made me able to resist whiplash when I used it, it could lead to, well, whiplash.
Back to the matter at hand, this insignificant fool was actually standing his ground, even as I was approching.
Strange, as usually even the arrogant ones started to run, or as one of them called it, "a strategic retreat".
No matter, his little dream of power will end here and now, the same way the dreams of the others had ended. They always tried to run, but they never succeded in escaping.
I was so close now, about to reach out to take his power, disintegration, when he stopped glaring and his face lost all emotion.
I used a warp quirk out of his sight as quickly as possible.
It was barely fast enough. I saw my hands, old and wrinkly, and as quickly as I could I dragged out a quirk that allowed me to remind my body to the state it was in 5 seconds ago.
What he did was reversed, and this time, I wouldn't be arrogant.
I merely stacked some quirks that would allow me to handle the recoil of what I was about to do.
Then I grabbed a power that allowed me to send out energy out of my arm, essentially just a ranged punch, and grabbed as many amplification quirks as I could.
Another as well, to transform some of the energy into heat, and another after that to make me resistant to the heat.
At this point I warped behind the fool that had wounded me, and slapped him with quirk that made him unable to look, smell or hear anything for a short period of time.
Then I pushed. The city around me was torn apart for block, houses being ripped out of the ground and into the air, some merely toppled, and others were crushed to the ground.
Then heatwave came.
What was left at that point burned.
The idiot desperate for power left no corpse behind.
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I woke up in cold sweat again. It was the same nightmare, the same as it had been over and over these last days.
Sometimes a nightmare in which I didn't warp away in time, and rotted away without finishing my work.
Other times a nightmare where I grew old and unable to uphold my kingdom before falling down as another victim to time.
Finding a method to stopping age would be hard, but not impossible.
I simply had to find the right quirk.
I smiled to myself in the dark.
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Another failure. Another quirk that would not work.
It had been weeks now, and I refused to stop until I had the answer.
My brother still refused to hold a civil conversation like adults. As if I wasn't doing this for him. As if I wasn't doing this to keep him safe.
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I found it. The answer was not in one quirk but two.
The first quirk was at first glance a weak regeneration power, but it would make one immune to most illnesses.
The second one could ensure your body didn't degrade, or atleast not fast. Seperatly both would allow me to live longer, but togheter I could stay in my prime until I chose that it was time to pass on. Until I succeded.
Until I made a world where all men, and women, were born equal.
Things couldn't have been better.
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Thing's couldn't have been worse.
Yoshito was dying. It was something I had always known would happen, but now it was so close. The doctor said he had months left.
I disagreed. And if I was wrong I would make it so I was right.
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I gathered more and more allies, faster than ever, but I was no closer to finding a quirk that would solve Yoshito.
No closer to what was important.
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Before I had thought I feared the most failure.
Now I realized it was death I feared more than anything.
Not my own, I only fear that because it would bring me failure, because there was no one to make the world equal for all with me gone.
For all my power, this seemed so hard to overcome. I had only found quirks that could prolong Yoshito's suffering once I gave it to him.
Now there was only one power left among those I suspect might be able to ensure he can survive.
A power stocking quirk.
It belonged to a woman that was before the shining child.
She would hand it over. Whether she would be willing or not never even crossed my mind.
It didn't matter.
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