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Chapter 9 - Emotional distress

Today is the day of the UA entrance exams! So I'm perched on the roof awaiting all the students exiting from their exams. I mainly patrolled around the schools massive perimeter incase a villain slipped into the practical. It has be known to happen with a man who had the quirk off a rat transformation.

Reminds me of wormtail from the Harry Potter series to be honest. To pass the time me and Yu talked about what potential quirks some of the students had. It's like shooting fish in a barrel when it comes to the mob characters but there are some people who make theirs obvious.

We spotted Kaminari Denki entering the building today and easily identified an electric related quirk based on his hair and clothes with lightning designs. I also spotted Kinoko who seemed to have spotted me, she can sense all mushrooms within a fixed range or something and I do have some stored in my body.

We also saw the candle dude who joins 1-B and Asui the frog girl who becomes Froppy. I even felt Bakugou enter the body followed by Midoriya, the explosive rage was radiating off his person and there was a small trail of tears following broccoli boy. Seriously mutated tear ducks has to have been his quirk?!

Once the evening came round we basically had to act as traffic wardens with all the parents coming to collect their children. Seeing all those kids with distraught looks made me think that they're about to be spoiled rotten with stuff to cheer them up.

We hung around for two more hours before deciding to go into the city for a patrol, some of the kids might be venting a failed exam somewhere. I know that when I failed an exam in my first life that I believed to be really important I drove off into a forest and took a long hike to cool off before I resat it a few weeks later.

Our guess wasn't to far off the mark when nightlife messaged us saying that a kid with a dinosaur quirk was ramming his head into a wall whilst behaving like a drunken fool. Hah~ what a drag.

Manoeuvring through the city we arrived quickly and found a dude with his head turned in a pachycephalosaurus head butting a pizza vending machine. The shit that exists in Japan boggles my mind sometimes. Nightlife was trying to restrain him but it didn't work.

I just wrapped the kid up by restraining his human body, used a little leaves to grow a sleep mask over his eyes and then a shrooms to release a muscle relaxant. He was out like a light in a few seconds before the cops arrived to book him. His friends arrived and quickly squealed that some asshole was selling booze to all the kids at their hangout spots under a bridge somewhere.

More parkour led us to what I thought was Gandalf passing out bottles of beer. Upon closer inspection it was just a homeless dude with an impressive beard. As soon as he spotted me he cupped a circle over his mouth with his fingers and blew a fireball at me.

Mount lady hid behind me while I just stood their unfazed. The flames impacted me and just sort off.... fell of? I'm extremely flame retardant departs my wooden nature. The old hobo had a quirk that allows him to store alcohol in his body then ignite it was will.

Basically like endeavour but he had alcohol as an MP bar. I wondered what would happen if he drank top shelf stuff rather than cheap stuff, would his fire power increase? Does flavour impact on it at all? Can he drink fire and turn it into alcohol? So many questions.

I honked him with a bokken then threatened to shave his beard. We confiscated the cash and the drinks despite the kids groaning. I then whipped out my phone and live-streamed them. "Say hi to your parents~ I'm sure they'll love to hear your drinking recommendations!"

A group of teenagers turned ghastly white as they dropped the beer and took off home in an attempt to save themselves. Probably not gonna happen though~.

Following this we finished up the patrol and went our separate ways. I decided to go to Nemuri's apartment tonight. The exams may have turned her out, she mentioned on occasion that she had to do search and rescue on some morons who collapsed buildings last year.

Arriving at her building I pointed my finger at the door making it shape shift into a key shape. Turning my wrist unlocked it, when I walked in I saw her hero boots and a pair of women's slip ons on the floor. Maybe she went for some groceries?

I walked in and took off my belt before walking towards the living room. I found it empty so looked around for signs of where she is. I saw her bedroom door closed and light shining from the gaps underneath.

I thought she was changing so I decided to surprise her. I steal them my way upto the door and went to unlock it until I heard *mmmmmnnnn~* causing my hand to abruptly stop and my senses to dial up a notch.

She's either having a solo session or..... or she's doing something I really hope she isn't. With a little hesitancy I opened the door slowly and was gobsmacked by what I saw.

Inko fucking Midoriya was ramming herself onto my girlfriends face! "Tell me Slut! Is my Son getting into the school! Tell me!"

Nemuri only responded with a muffled response, I felt extremely angry. I then had a flash back of when I was in the hospital and Inko stared at midnight. My mind went into overdrive as I processed all the details.

Nemuri mentioned fooling around with girls in her youth, she said she was into both S and M roles and that she had a mistress once back in college. So inko Midoriya may have been that woman, Izuku may have failed the exam in canon because his rescue points were kinda bullshit in my opinion. Kids struggle to get three points from a robot yet he gets sixty for saving one girl!

Ah! Inko probably slept with Nemuri in cannon to get more points. It's nothing new for a professor or higher up to do favours for sex. This world is filled with corruption just like my old one, you just need to see it.

I don't know how this was happening though! Nemuri has been faithful the entire time, or at least I hoped she has been. I began to feel a pain in my chest, betrayal? Is that what this feels like. I did tell her I was afraid of it when we started our relationship.

"Fuck!" I leaked out causing the two women to look in my direction. Inko's eyes widened in shock while Nemuri looked panicked and scared. When my eyes connected to hers I felt the need to leave, now! I commanded my body as I spun around and took off from the apartment.

I heard Inko he pushed off because she squealed in indignation. "Wait Shinji! I can Expla—". *slamm!!*

I didn't want to hear the rest of that explanation so I slammed the door of her apartment as hard as I could before leaping off the edge of the building. My body moved on auto pilot, fight or flight instincts took over and I was flighting. Heh~ was I Mike Tyson or something?

The lights of the city buzzed past me as I swung around much harder than I normally did on my branches. I even managed to leave mustafu as I kept going. Didn't think about a direction just felt the need to keep going.

I ended up soaring through the tree line of a forest but that just made me speed up more. It was like I could hear the trees whispering to me for a brief second as I landed on one, no not hear them more so sense them. But I ignored that and kept jumping and running until eventually I left the forest and was running through some dry lands.

When I finally stopped I was panting, my suit was soaked with sweat. I looked up and saw that it was dark out, I reclaimed a steady breath before beginning to try to process what had happened. My girlfriend cheated and I stormed off, sounds so simple in retrospect but all the drama surrounding it may have clouded my judgement.

I noticed my phone in my pocket, numerous texts from Nemuri. Some in apology, some explaining about Inko who she had been reconnecting with over coffee, about how her quirk is telekinesis, after today's exams she came over to the apartment then used her quirk to fling Nemuri on the bed, how her quirk was thought to be weak but is charged by how horny she is.

I wanted to scream Bullshit, I saw texts from Yu and nightlife as Nemuri wanted my location so she called them. They had questions as she probably didn't tell them anything.

I turned off my phone and saw my mask reflected on the screen, the colour had changed from the originals brown to an ashy white. I reincarnated and wanted to be a hero? No more like I was one and just wanted to be better.

I thought dating an anime waifu was amazing, but real life is a bitch. I started taking deeper breaths letting my chest expand onwards and outwards. I clenched my phone tightly before just dropping it. I looked down at the screen that was off before it flashed displaying another text from Nemuri.

I felt something click in my body before I let out an angered roar *Aarreggh!!*. I then slammed my hands into the ground as hard as I could. They slipped through it easily showcasing strength well beyond what a normal human was incapable of.

I felt my quirk go off and cascade out of me much more than it ever had before. I closed my eyes to think before I looked up and saw an armada of trees surrounding me. I was in dry lands with no trees though? I looked down at my hands and saw that they had branches out like roots. I snapped the connection to whatever they had made contact with and recalled them.

I looked at the trees which were varying in species. I blinked before I voiced out "deep forest emergence?" It was always a dream to try and make my powers match the scale of wood style. I guess I achieved it

I looked down at my hands in wonder completely ignoring the drama from earlier. I was just that enthralled with the thought that I had completed a childhood fantasy.

"When we are at our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change". A quote from the avatar series that always resonates with me. From my perspective I didn't look like I was at my lowest point, I had a well paying job, a few friends, powers and I had just been betrayed.

I went into a nervous breakdown which caused my quirk to develop. Emotional distress provoked great changes within me. Was that my lowest point? Not the few times I'd nearly died as a hero but being cheated on. So petty I thought before I looked at the trees again.

Well..... messing with mokuton rip offs might serve a great distraction.

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A/N hey everyone, sorry I didn't upload anything for a few days. Work was hard this weekend and the heatwave in my country made me feel like lazing in the sun.

Today I felt like adding a bit of drama to a relationship in one of my stories because I'd never attempted too before. Let me know if you thought it was good or bad.

If you didn't like it then I'll give you some compensation. A hint to something I plan to be hilarious in this story.

Spoiler;

Deku and Bakugou where walking through their summer exam to determine whether they can attend the summer camp. Bakugou was disdaining Deku in his mind whilst simultaneously keeping an eye out on the surroundings.

They had to fight a faux "villain" but there's wasn't revealed like all their other classmates. Tch Bakugou didn't care, he didn't need a hint. *pat pat pat*.

A lady emerged from the side alley of a building with a panicked look on her face. She looked at the duo and screamed "Help! There's a—" before she was yanked back into the darkness of the alley.

The two froze in shock before they heard a womanly scream follows by a slashing noise. They snapped back to reality and the two dashed into the alley only to be horrified.

The woman was cleave in half and was smoking from where she was cut. No villain in sight, the duo heard a thump from behind them so they turned to face the threat.

A white skeletal villain with glowing yellow eyes stood their. It was wearing a white cloak which began to shuffle, two metallic arms shot out from the cloak before those arms split into four.

The arms each held a small metal construct which elongates before glowing blue and green respectively. The two being held above the creatures head began to spin rapidly making the blades carve through the wall leaving similar marking to the dead woman.

The creature then spoke in a choked voice "Hello there~". Before rushing at them.

End of spoilers.