(Daily Music: I Wanna Be Your Slave- Maneskin)
-One week after the display of Hiru's body, 3rd POV-
All of Japan had been alight with the display a week ago. Not just Japan, the world.
"Pro Hero hung in direct view of everyone, is this the start of a new dark age?"
"Pro Hero's brutalized body hung like a display for all to see"
"Pro Hero in Japan found hung after being tortured". That one was made in England. It was the first place outside of Japan to report on it.
Just three of the hundreds, nearing thousands, of articles that were made about it.
Heroes had gotten extremely alert, going as far as to change tactics. Instead of being mostly solo, they absolutely prioritized that everyone go in groups, as large as they could manage. This was especially enforced with hero agencies so that learning heroes were not in as much risk.
Villains had been adopting a similar strategy. They put aside their desire for conflict and usurpation against each other, and made a big deal of forming large groups. They also tried to incorporate proper strategy to their every move, instead of boldly going ahead with their thoughts.
Civilians were all constantly in fear. Especially ones that had terrible secrets that would get them targeted by the boy. They knew very well that they could suffer similar fates as the hung hero.
-Jokara POV-
Second week of being a villain, and I've already made international news. This is good. It will be a good way to spread fear if my deeds are known worldwide. This is the first step to being the boogeyman of the world. Get a platform where everyone hears of your actions.
Also, progress in powers were still going quite well, seeing as I had pretty much all day to do it unbothered.
My light constructs had gotten slightly stronger, since I had been making common use of the hardlight constructs. Not a giant increase, but an increase nonetheless.
Fire Coat had gotten hotter. Hot enough that some areas, mostly the edges of the coat had begun to turn into blue fire from the regular orange, obviously showing that the flames were getting much hotter. I could also almost cover my palm in blue fire, there were still some imperfections though.
(Not like Dabi's blue flames, a darker blue. Like that of Lapis Lazuli.)
My physical capabilities had gotten even better thanks to the weights and their effects taking place over the week.
But the most interesting advancement had happened just now.
I was trying to stay in my transformed state for as long as possible to see if anything happened. I obviously still felt that strange connection, but I thought little of it while I was waiting in the form. I was solely focused on some kind of advancement, so I pushed it to the side in my mind.
Until it started getting clearer.
As the feeling got clearer, I closed my eyes, through no action of my own. When I opened my eyes, I was in an area of pitch black. There was no floor, nothing to look at, just darkness.
I heard footsteps. Coming from two directions. I got into a fighting stance, just in case. And I saw them.
A man with white hair identical to mine. Green eyes. Two paint dots on his forehead, like that of my clan. Wearing an outfit identical to the one that I used for my hero costume.
A tall, pale skinned woman. Long, sweeping white hair. Clear, white eyes. Two brown horns in a shape like rabbit ears on top of her head.
???: He's found us, Kaguya.
???: Indeed, Kimimaro.