After getting some sleep in an actual bed. I wanted to go outside and check the city as it was already daytime.
'Wow! I really spent 8 hours of sleep this time, I usually sleep like 3 or 4 hours. I guess that sleeping on an actual bed after 3 years of sleeping on the ground does wonders.'
I went to officer Minori to ask him if I could explore the city.
"So can I actually go outside?" I asked when I got to the desk where Minori was. He looked at me as if thinking something.
"Can you read?" He replied with another question to which I nodded, then he held what looked like a modern cell phone. "This a GPS, right now you are in Naruhata City and…" He began to explain the device and how to use it.
"And also, wear this" He pulled out something from under his desk, it looked like electronic tagging… it was too big for me. "Just press the button that's on this side, and it will send a signal. Now, don't go following any strangers and…." He kept telling me what any kid should know, pretty much he was just telling me to not get kidnaped… again.
After putting the electronic tagging in my pocket I said. "Thanks!" as I was waving at Minori and leaving the police station.
I was wearing baggy black clothing like yesterday and no shoes of course, although this time I was wearing clothes that cover my limbs entirely. It would make some people uncomfortable seeing a kid with scars, besides I don't want unwanted attention.
'He also gave me some money… He is a bit too nice' With these thoughts, I checked my pockets. Japanese bills were weird…
'Why do they have to make it with one unit? can't they have cents and dollars like other countries?'
Mexico has pesos, which are made out of cents, the USA has dollars that are made of cents too.
Anyway, I just went to try some food stands. All of them were pretty good… if the food that you can get on the streets tastes like this then I can't wait to get some 5 stars stuff.
I also found some deep-fried eggplants… to be honest, Japanese street food was a wild experience.
I went to the park and saw a lot of people just enjoying their time. The park wasn't anything spectacular, it was just very lively, and this helped me to realize something… My senses are good, maybe a bit too good. I could see every detail, hear all the conversations of people, and smell everything.
"Hey did you hear about yesterday? All Might came to defeat a villain near here…" Said a little kid to his older friend.
I smelled some food… and other things like perfume.
"What! No way, did you take a photo!?" Exclaimed his friend with excitement written all over his face.
I saw a kid playing with his dog and his family trying to catch the dog with him…
"Did you hear Pop Step's new song?" Asked a teenager to his friend group.
I could feel some gazes on me, it felt like being poked with a needle. It didn't hurt though.
"Oh right! I saw her singing yesterday! Too bad that the police came before I could take more pictures of her…" Answered one of the teenagers with a bit of a sad tone.
*Breath in*
'It's gonna be hard to get used to this, the forest was different, it was me and my prey only. But if I want to return to society I have to get used to crowded places with these new senses of mine. It's not like I'm being overloaded with every detail around me, but it's a bit annoying'
It's as if you couldn't ignore your nose, your brain always ignores it subconsciously, but imagine that you couldn't. It wouldn't be that much of a problem, but it would suck.
'This is gonna take some time, a good thing is that if my normal senses were to be overloaded somehow or just lose them, I still would have Spiritual Sense. I have it up every single moment, even when I'm unconscious or asleep. Spiritual Sense along with my instincts make me untouchable, but I don't want to be untouchable. I have to be strong to take hits like my old body, there is no way around it, I have to take everything in.'
*Breath out*
With the resolve of getting used to hearing, seeing, smelling, and sensing everything. I make my way to the stores and other crowded places.
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[4 Hours Later]
I've gotten somewhat used to my senses in crowded places, somewhat is the keyword. It's like multitasking, I can pay attention to something while also hearing or smelling another. It has become a lot less annoying.
By the way… No, I'm not actually sensing everything under people's clothes, I have morals.
I can even hear someone's heartbeat if they are close enough, but while I can sense everything around me, I deliberately ignore certain parts that are under their clothes, except for organs, muscles, and general shapes of their body… It was uncomfortable to train in ignoring something. The trick was to imagine a switch in my mind, that switch would be the information I get of specific parts of others bodies, so I just imagined turning it off and it did work.
Thanks to this, I won't have to live "seeing" people naked all the time.
Anyway, I went to a store to buy some candies… 'I might be addicted to sweet stuff at this rate. Not like it matters, anything with calories will do with this body of mine'
With these thoughts, I started to pick some sweets and sour candies from the store. While walking to the cashier, I noticed something… well, more like I noticed the lack of something. There was a man with black long messy hair in a black jumpsuit with bandages around his neck and shoulders.
He lacked presence and the sound of his footsteps was barely noticeable to me, if I didn't have Spiritual Sense then I might've ignored him without realizing it.
I realized the lack of consistency in him, I could sense him with my Spirit, but to my normal senses, he was like a blurry image.
I got in line to pay for my candies and saw him buy cat magazines… and a lot of eye drops?
I picked the receipt that proved that I bought candies. It's a little habit I picked up when I was Alan. I would usually get into fights with gangs and other delinquents, so I always bought something and used the receipt as a little alibi… it did the trick though. I always did this before going out and taking out gangs and other stupid people who thought that they could terrorize others because they had a group with them.
The man was a bit shady so I decided to follow him in secret. I learned about stealth in the forest, although I might not be as good as that man. I could learn by copying his footwork, aside from that, I didn't have to see him to follow him, he just needed to be in my range to sense him with my Spirit.
After a few minutes of following him, I got to see him… fight another villain????
He started to fight another man that had a black bandana that covered the upper part of his face, he wore military pants, a black shirt, and a coat that reached his knees. He was about to attack a businessman but was stopped by the man in a black jumpsuit.
And near them, I saw the guy with the weird jacket, the businessman holding a case who almost got attacked by the bandana villain, as for the girl…. Let's skip her description...
/Author: Just google "MHA Pop Step" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)/
I heard some screams while getting closer.
"He really picked a fight with a pro hero!!" Panicked the guy with the weird jacket.
"He's got a screw loose!!" Screamed the girl.
The businessman was just fidgeting in his place.
I got near them and commented, "Both of them look like villains though..." which made the weird jacket guy jump back. "N-n-no! One is a hero, the other one is- That's not the point!" He said and went towards the businessman.
"I apologize for scaring you like that, but can you please explain to him that we are not the bad guys!" He said and pointed towards the duo ducking it out in the park.
But the businessman just ran away… Then the girl seemed to realize something while looking at her phone and then turning toward the fleeing businessman, "That guy has been around whenever villains cause trouble! He has to know something!" and started chasing him by jumping incredibly high. Must've been some type of quirk that lets her jump at least an entire building.
I look at the 2 men fighting and then look at the weird jacket guy. "They don't look like they are gonna end it anytime soon, shouldn't we go for the suspicious man first?"
"Right! By the way, who are you?" He asked in confusion. "I'm the one who asked you about the police station yesterday," I answered while lifting the hair on my face to let him see my eyes more clearly. He finally recognized me, "I-IT'S YOU!?!?!"
"Yeh" He was a bit startled by seeing the difference between me of yesterday and the one today.
"C'mon, let's go!" I said as I went to chase the businessman along with the jumping girl.
I caught up with the businessman easily, I didn't have to use Super Dash or anything, I was quite fast without any techniques.
When I was about to get him I saw that the guy in the weird jacket was stopped by some thugs. There were 3 of them, one with spikes on his back, another with some flames all around him, and the last one being just a lizard dude, kind of like a wyvern as his arms became wing-like.
I was gonna turn around to help him but he screamed. "Keep chasing him! Don't lose him!!"
I gave him a thumbs-up and caught up with the suspicious man, the girl called him out. "I said, wait up!" As she was about to get him, I sensed the flying lizard thug trying to tackle her while she was airborne.
I jumped and grabbed her like a sack of potatoes saving her from getting tackled. "Ack! Don't you know how to treat a delicate lady!?!" She complained and in turn, I replied with a deadpan expression, "If you want to be treated like a lady, begin by dressing like one…"
"You-" She tried to answer but I got a bad feeling all of the sudden so I just ignored her.
It wasn't a sense that you get from incoming danger, more like a bad premonition when you go to the bathroom, then later you realize that there was no paper…
/Author: Best example I could come up with lmao/
I "took" off my weights just in case.
I turned toward the businessman after letting go of the girl. As I took her out of the way, the lizard thug ended up crashing with him instead of the girl.
I saw the suspicious man with something in his hands that looked like a syringe, he injected himself with something. Suddenly his body became black, he grew to the size of a building, and also sprouted a pair of arms from his upper back. He grabbed the lizard thug and tried to grab a car with people still in it.
Without thinking I pushed the car out of the way as gently as I could, I didn't want to flip it on its side. In the end, the giant grabbed me and started to swing me around like a... toy? He was doing the same with the lizard thug.
'This is a damn mess…' I thought with a calm expression, I knew I wasn't in danger. Even if I were to fall from a mountain I know that there wouldn't be any actual risk of injury in doing so. I started to get out of the giant's grip with pure strength.
But before I could, I saw the old man that was fighting the other man that I was tailing. He was swinging between buildings using a rope, kind of like the manbat or whatever that hero was. He used the momentum he built up between swings to kick the giant in the face which made the giant slap the man and loses his grip on me. Finally letting me fall.
I hear the weird jacket guy call the man that got slapped. "MASTER!!!"
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'Huh?!?!'
While I was falling, I saw the weird jacket guy slide up the wall of a building at great speed, he was doing the weird pose like the one I met him before. Using the speed and the wall like a platform, he jumped and caught me in the air.
We were falling towards some bags of trash to soften our fall. Too bad the giant wasn't liking the weird jacket guy's plan.
"KOICHI!!!" The girl screamed when she saw that the giant was trying to slap us as we were falling down.
'So that's his name, huh.' I was thinking as I saw the giant's hand trying to slap us. I waited until the last moment to use his hand to change our direction by kicking it. The best I could do was to go toward some umbrellas that were outside a restaurant.
*CRASH*
But our fall was a bit intense and went through them and crashed through the window of the restaurant. We didn't get any bad injuries despite rolling on the broken glass because of the curtain that was behind the window.
"Ow…" Koichi groaned.
"That landing was 7/10" I said with a chuckle.
Koichi laughed and added. "I'd say that landing on the trash was at least 9/10 then."
We both got up, that is when the girl came checking on our condition.
"You okay? That fall looked kind of dangerous." She asked.
I just gave a thumbs-up while Koichi went on monologuing.
"Nah, I'm just kinda exhausted really. But just… Wow, diving into uncharted territory sure is dangerous… I mean, playing a hero in a big brawl like that it's just not my thing… like when I fell, I really thought that I was gonna die-"
I thought that Koichi was a bit too humble, he tried to save me by putting his life on the line after all.
'It's not that he could run faster than anyone or jump buildings, the fall itself could kill him. It's just that he wouldn't stay still when someone was in danger. That makes him... I guess that's what a hero really is.'
Anyone can save himself, but the strong can save others…
But while I was thinking about this. The girl just reprimanded him.
"Annoying, what's up with those lame excuses and humility? That's all pointless stuff!" After saying all that, she turned around with a *hmph* and looked back at Koichi. "I was gonna congratulate you for making it out alive but… you are just annoying." She said with a small blush…
'Wait… didn't Aidan tell me about girls with this kind of behavior?' I thought while trying to remember what Aidan said...
'I should've paid more attention to his rants about kuderes and…. tsunades? Ugh, whatever he talked about.'
And the word finally came to me. "...tsundere…" I mumbled to myself.
The girl's ears perked up, then with a face red as a tomato, she turned around but as she was about to say something…
The man that Koichi called master came in. "Koichi! Ya know why yah fell? that 'cuz you flew from then it's a matter of stick the landing. Good job at aiming toward the pile of trash just like I thought you… and you!" He said at the end pointing at me. "Good job at improvising and- wait who are ya?"
"I'm… Shiro?" I replied confused.
"Where are your paren-" Before he could finish, I realized something… The detective said that I shouldn't cause trouble… I looked around me, the shattered glass and a few cuts on my arm and back…
'...heck…' With this stupid realization I ran at top speed towards the police station to make an excuse with the receipts I had from the convenience store. 'Let's see if it still does the trick.'
"Brat!" A tired but stern voice called to me before I could escape. I didn't have to turn around to see that it was the man who I followed from the convenience store. I could see that he had defeated the other 2 thugs from before along with the giant, as he had his weird bandages restraining them, they looked kinda funny.