The exams went about as you'd expect.
Looking at the students get trashed by Pro Heroes is never NOT entertaining.
All Might did give me a weird look when I laughed at Mineta getting whipped by Midnight.
I even got to fight. The team I was against was Tokoyami and Shinso. It wasn't much of a fight.
But I did let Shinso brainwash me for a bit, just for curiosity's sake. Apparently, moving my body is impossible, but I can still manipulate the light around me.
I simply moved my own body using the light around me. It was quite neat, Shinso's expression was also something I will make fun of for the rest of the month.
The rest was quite uneventful. The students were still stronger than they should've been. But It's not by much, some still need to train their quirks.
Like Kirishima not being able to grow claws yet, or Bakugo's explosions still being as weak as in the beginning of the year.
After finishing that I just went back home and continued my life as a mangaka.
Or I would've if I didn't get an unusual call. It was from an old friend. Giran, I hadn't heard from him in a long time.
"Hello! Giran, how are you?" I said in a cheerful tone.
Giran isn't someone I hate, he's helped me repeatedly. It may be due to our arrangement, but he does sometimes inform me of big things.
Like back at the USJ, if I didn't already know about it his warning would've been quite nice to have.
He found out about the Meta Liberation Army a bit late. Mainly because they didn't really recruit villains the normal way, they used Trumpet's charisma to gain followers and the extremists
"Don't 'Hello!' me! You ruined my business you son of-" I let my hand fall to the side for a bit, waiting for Giran to finish shouting at me.
What does he mean by ruining his business? Guess I have to find out now...
"Are you done?" I asked after he finished shouting and throwing a tantrum.
"Yeah, I'm better now." He said, with some traces of anger still present in his tone.
"What do you mean I ruined your business?" I can guess what happened, but I don't really know the full scope of things in the underworld.
I just heard a frustrated sigh from him. Then he started talking a bit more calmly, regaining his composure.
"Your actions slowly pushed my costumers away from this country. Every big organization has moved away from Japan entirely." Well, that was to be expected. Me killing around 13000 villains didn't exactly make the other villains feel safe.
I didn't really get any punishment, besides a fine. It wasn't even that expensive. I thought I'd at least get some prison time. But oh well. I won't complain about it.
As for the rest of the villains, they were mostly captured.
"All that's left is a few brokers like me, looking around for contracts and places to make money. Most just left the country too..." Giran was pretty much exasperated.
I guess I did kill his business, technically.
"Am I really the cause for such a major movement in the underworld?" I asked, just to be safe. All Might is back in his prime, after all, he might also have played a part in that.
"What underworld?! Everyone of notice in Japan is gone. The only people left are a few 'druglords' shivering in their boots at every move they make." Giran said in a sad tone.
"Allan, there is no Underworld in Japan anymore, no black market left to speak of, nothing."
Well... That's quite neat. I don't mind obviously. But I do feel bad for Giran, he's basically lost everything he tried to build over the years.
I guess I can give him a helping hand.
"Well, I'm not going to apologize. But I am willing to support another venture for you." I said in my usual tone.
"What venture could that be? I don't feel like leaving the country." He sounded a bit intrigued, but still distraught.
"Have you ever thought of starting a legal business? Before you start laughing, I believe you could make it quite easily."
"And what type of business would I start? I'm still a wanted villain and I don't feel like working for the cops..."
"I can take care of giving you a clean slate too. It's not that hard, I just need to tell the police that you were working as an informant for me all the time." He paused after I said that. As if he was considering my offer.
"Fine! Just do your thing. I'll think of a business venture and return your initial investment at some point." He accepted in the end. He doesn't really care about the law, but he does like money. I guess we will remain in contact.
Maybe we'll get to play some poker again? I learned a few new tricks that I want to try out.
Oh well. We have enough time to ponder on that.
Getting rid of his criminal record isn't really hard. My strategy? Just tell Nezu about everything, including everything Giran has done for me and said, And he'll do it in a heartbeat.
Well, not everything. But an altered version of things that will make Giran look like a reformed individual that cares about more than just making money. Not too much altering tho, Nezu easily picks up on that.
And would you look at that! Nezu didn't buy the whole story, but he still accepted to help Giran. I took him to have a talk with the police chief about this incident.
My plan worked, for the most part. Giran will be kept under surveillance for a while, but him being a double agent for me has been accepted as the truth.
But the information about the underworld leaving got Nezu and the police chief quite excited. By their words, Japan is going to become a safe haven compared to other countries.
Crime will still happen. But criminal organizations are all gone. Petty and crazed criminals are a lot easier to deal with than hardened criminals working in groups.
Wait, does that mean I might've cost some heroes their jobs? Oh well, they oughta thank me anyway. Like the police chief did.
All that's left is enjoying summer and going to the beach. I'll probably invite all of my friends. Even if I don't feel at home in the sea, I can still enjoy some sights.
Like, the ocean's waves crashing on the shoreline and the stones. The children building sandcastles. Oh, and Rumi wearing a bikini.
Every one of those sights makes for a great motivator. Especially the last one.
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Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
I felt that adding this would be nice, since crime fell drastically it just made sense that the Underworld would move away on other turfs for more profit.
Two more to go! (And an epilogue that I still need to write)
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