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Chapter 21 - A Farewell Party?

/Author: I don't know how Halloween is celebrated in Japan so 'ama do something called "the asspull" and just roll with it./

"So…. um... you're telling me that all of this is fine, not illegal and all, right?" I asked dad as I looked around the streets filled with people in crazy costumes, a lot of them used their quirks in public.

'There are fewer hero cosplays than I thought…' I could see many costumes that were traditional, like Frankenstein's monster girl who had green moss hair, she seems to be able to separate the parts of her body or something since she is holding her own head and carrying a bag filled with candies on the other.

/Author: I hope you know who I'm referring to, she is from Class 1-B and I really think that she is a cool character./

"Yes, but it's more of an unwritten rule, to be honest," he pointed at a kid with a crow head who was in a black knight armor buying an edgy sword, he had some sort of shadow as a cape, "as long you don't disturb others, you won't get arrested or anything for using your quirk, of course, you can't go around police stations doing it, but anywhere else is fine."

"Shiro," mom called for my attention, "just put this under the case of your cell phone," she handed me some sort of electronic chip…

I looked at dad who looked back at me and mouthed 'just do it' with a helpless smile.

And I did as mom told me, "Alright, so you can go anywhere as long as it's not outside the mall… Also! Here is some money."

"Thanks!" I said but she suddenly put her hands on my shoulders, "No following strangers even if they offer you candy you have to deny it, the same caseiftheyoffer moneyorsomekindofcooltoyjustdon'tgowiththemokayalso-'" She suddenly started to speak without stopping, it was surprising that she was a chef and not a rapper…

I just attentively listened to her while my dad seemed to be surprised at the fact that I could understand mom's rambling.

In the end, dad picked her up like a sack of potatoes and left.

Dad's costume was something akin to a crystal monster, he seems to be able to freeze anything he touches hence he can keep the ice on his costume without it ever melting.

As for mom, she was a sunflower and used her glowing hair like the petals… it's a funny costume.

And for me, I was a mummy… it doesn't seem original because I was bandaged already for a good while before but I also have my eyes bandaged which adds some… originality?... I think?

But I can still hear, smell, and feel things around me so I won't be bumping into everyone so it's fine.

The whole place was filled with decorations, bats, spiders, and other scary insects sticking to the walls or ceilings.

There are spiderwebs on the roof with candies on them just to see if someone can reach that high.

All the costumes looked very good, it seems like having mutation and transformation quirks really helps with the whole costume thing, It almost makes it unfair.

Looking around for a moment I could see that there were many things to do, there are costume competitions where you see who has the scariest or coolest costume.

There is "Murder mystery" which is about the murderer having 60 seconds of "killing" the victim and the victim has to make a scene while daying for the detectives to figure out since the killer will also be a detective and will try to mislead everyone… a really complicated game to be honest.

/Author: Don't know if this is real since I just made it up lol./

Escape rooms where you win if you have a mental breakdown in the bathroom corner… 'wait a minute…'

Competitions of making spiderwebs and other figures from paper, it wasn't origami since you had to bend the paper and cut it out then see if you made the shape that you wanted when you unfolded it back again.

/Author: I remember that this has a different name but I can't really recall it clearly./

There was also a game of making up a spooky story… for some reason, everyone seems to add Gang Orca to their story...

'What do I do first?' I asked myself, and as if destiny heard my question, I got my answer immediately.

"WHA!!!" "HOW DO YOU DO THAT!!!"

"cant you be any quieter?" "YOU SAID SOMETHING???"

"HEY, IT'S MY TURN!" "THOSE ARE SOME MOVES!"

There was one group of people that was especially loud, they were in the arcade and seemed to be middle schoolers like me, although I haven't entered because of mom and dad saying that I should learn under a tutor first to catch up on what I've missed from elementary school.

As I got closer I had to remove the cover on my eyes since I couldn't see colors or the display on the screens, I can't sense color/lights through Spirit Sense.

I saw the machine that they were dancing on "Dance x 3 Revelations? Somehow sounds familiar," I muttered to myself as I read the name of the machine.

"Wha-" A kid who was dancing on it got his foot stuck on the other and fell, but I caught him before he could kiss the floor.

"T...thanks," he said to me, and then he looked at the girl in a spacesuit who was at the other machine, he seemed to be competing with her, "I lost, but tomorrow will be different!"

"Yea yea I know," she waved her hand as if shooing the kid away, "wanna play?" she asked me when the other kid left.

I looked at the girl in space costume for a second. 'Dancing… it's not something I even bothered with before, actually, I never could do it since my coordination was pretty bad so I didn't really practice, but with this body…'

"Why not." I shrugged as I stepped onto the machine and did some stretches while ignoring some kids whining about me stealing their turn.

'I don't know anything about dancing, but I do know a little about capoeira… so that's at least something….'

I made sure to look at the movements of the people on the screen as well as the girl beside me.

{ . 3 . 2 . 1 . }

"MY MONEY IS ON THE GIRL!" "you know what, I betting on him" "you will lose for sure then"

"HEY LET'S GO TO ANOTHER MACHINE!" "TALK LOUDER DUDE!!" "WHAAT!!!"

{START}

I was surprised by what the machine was playing.

The song was really upbeat and all but what caught me off guard was that it wasn't about heroes, it was actually about Spooky Scary Skeletons…

'Wasn't this a song in my era?' I froze for a second, 'is this what Aidan called a "mental flashbang"?'

I snapped out of my thoughts when the girl started to move.

I just started to copy the movements of the man in the display and learn the movements of the girl beside me.

Hands-on the ground while twisting your body, handstands, inverted kicks, footwork, balancing your weight, fluidity between movements, to connect every movement with the next one, to give meaning to every step you take…

'Was dancing this complicated?' was my thought while trying to find my own way of movement.

Although the screen showed you the moves you had to make, the girl beside me did extra moves or just straight up changed them completely.

So I started to do the same as her but in my own way, with fluid motion, to do the moves that I wanted as long as I stepped on the right tiles.

One thing that helped me was the agility I already had and the fact that the girl beside me was good, so learning from her gave me a huge leap in my dancing skills.

'The score was better than I expected,' I contemplated as I saw the score on the screen

{ P1: 990p P2: 925p }

"THAT'S THE HIGHEST BESIDES HER!!" "dammit"

"Hihi, you lost the bet" "I WANT TO TRY THAT!!" "WHAT KIND OF DIFFICULTY WERE THEY PLAYING?!"

Ignoring all the shouting, the girl turned towards me, "What was that?! You were kind of good at the start but you suddenly got all cool at the end!" She said and tried to do a high kick as I did before.

She looked kind of funny while imitating me, "You wa- wait, what's your name?" she asked as she got closer while taking off her helmet.

She had pink skin and hair, 2 little horns, and she even had dark eyes with yellow pupils.

"My name is Shiro, what's yours?" I responded before taking off the bandages from my head.

"My name is Mina." She said with a smile.

"C'mon! Let's play another round!"

"I WANNA SEE MORE!!!" ".... i'm still betting for the guy…" "... you are really stubborn, you know?..." "WAS THAT KARATE OR SOMETHING?!"

"WHAT ABOUT US!!!" "TOLD YOU TO GO TO ANOTHER MACHINE!!!" "WHAAT!!!!"

/Author: I don't know about the -san, -chan, or -kun thingy in Japanese, so I will try to just stick with calling people by their last names or first names for now. If you can, please enlighten me./

[2 Months Later]

*GULP*

"Huuu…"

After I finished eating all the bananas and rice gruel.

*hiss*

I agitated a soda then opened it in a bucket so I wouldn't make a mess in the backyard. After taking the carbonation out of the soda I drank the whole thing in one go.

Eating and drinking things that are quick acting energy food seconds before a workout would be useless if one had a normal digestive system… but, since when was my body normal?

I also do this to practice increasing the speed of my metabolism so I can digest the food in seconds. It is a weird feeling, I just tried to increase my heart rate and other organs activity in hope of it happening…. And somehow, it really did.

Something else I tried was to do the same with my muscles and surpass my limits like I did before with those 3 villains, but I failed.

There is something I'm missing but I don't know what it is.

Leaving that for later, I concentrated on increasing my metabolism and I could feel my body somehow feel warmer. With a sudden rush of energy, I stood up again feeling light as a feather.

'They are really weightless if I don't add any weight with Imagination Training…' I mused as I moved my limbs with the weights on them before starting to breakdance… yup, I do this now since it helps with balancing and managing my weight in every move I make.

/Author: Can you tell that I'm having fun? Hehehe./

One of the reasons that I started to wear the weights again was so my family gets used to my abnormal strength since it's different from hearing about it than seeing it yourself.

They were obviously surprised with the ease that I can move with the weights so this Christmas I asked dad for training equipment, mom also seemed to plan for something like a family trip.

Mom seems to want me to try everything, like music, art, writing, and also dancing since I told her about Mina… she also wanted her to come home for some reason…

Anyway, back to the training.

I started to train again but different from the way I did in the forest, I started to train Mach Strikes in a unique way since I kind of felt that I could do more.

I've come to realize that I always do just one move, carrying all the momentum by aligning my joints so there is no power wasted, always in the need to have the perfect stance and using only the muscles necessary.

But I wanted to do more than that, I wanted to carry that momentum to another move to make it stronger, kind of like dancing which is to give every step a meaning and smoothly transition to another… it's hard to explain but yes…it's like dancing while throwing hands…

Actually, it's just extreme capoeira.

/Author: This is the part where I use anime logic, you better turn your brain off and don't fact check me about anything that is going to happen from this point forward. Thank/

It doesn't end with a kick, you have to keep twisting your waist, to move your core and add more momentum to the next move, leave defense and go full offense. I haven't tried against an opponent yet, but the main idea is that of taking hits head-on and making them my own.

Every move I did was becoming stronger and faster, but to me, it somehow felt like the weight on my limbs was increasing after every move, it was a weird experience.

Must be because of the strain in my muscles…

Hooks, turning sidekicks or turning hook kicks, axe kicks, uppercuts. I did movements that involved circular movement, if I did straights then I wouldn't be able to bring more power to the next move and so on.

For example, using front kicks, push kicks, or back kicks are to be used as finisher moves, since carrying more momentum after such moves is difficult. I have to get back into stance if I want to keep attacking.

I continued until I felt my body was about to give out, it was as if I was dragging a mountain every time I tried to strike, I could also sense some flowers and other plants being torn by the violent wind I was creating around me.

*FWOSH*

The aftermath was a bit unexpected, I directed all the power I gathered to the sky so I wouldn't destroy any trees in the backyard and actually managed to make a little tornado… and all plants and flowers that were around me got messed up tho...

'To think that I would need this much time and energy to make something remotely similar to All Might…'

I stood on a perfectly clean spot of dirt in a 10 meter radius while anything outside it was green grass.

I dropped to the ground, 'this a new way to test my limits, huh.'

I stayed on the ground as my muscles were completely torn apart, joints and tendons were strained, my bones hurt too but they are still in one piece… kinda

The stress on my body was a lot.

I couldn't help but smile, breaking my body so it will become stronger…

'I don't think that people would smile while being in this situation… I am beginning to think that I might be messed up a little.'

After contemplating my own sanity, it was time to try something, 'let's try it again.'

I tried to replicate the feeling that I felt when Recovery Girl healed me, it wasn't about fast metabolism, it was a different concept…

It was just healing itself and using one's energy to do it, it wasn't about increasing heart rate or anything.

'Just imagine the process and apply it to your body.'

Muscles growing stronger than ever, bones solidifying again, tendons recovering…

I imagined the process and feeling that I experienced back then.

It took around an hour to actually feel anything other than my body telling me that it hurts to exist. The time and concentration that it took was quite a lot.

My body heated up a little but it wasn't my metabolism or anything, it was the energy generated from my body healing itself.

/Author: You ever wondered why steam comes from wounds that heal fast, almost as if it was burning or something… well, this is apparently why… maybe, I dunno I ain't a doctor so don't trust me too much./

It took around 3 hours to heal properly. It was a pretty long time but definitely better than staying in bed for 4 or 5 days.

'... also, he's still here…'

I couldn't feel his gaze but my Spirit Sense could detect him, the "bodyguard" is always with me, he always is whenever mom and dad aren't home or when I go outside on my own, although he wasn't during the Halloween week tho.

He still watches from the shadows so I still can't see his color of hair and eyes despite knowing his facial features already.

'Even if I still have the GPS tracker inside my phone, they still keep an eye on me… if it goes like this then I might have to bring up the Vigilantism stuff to them, although there is no way I would lie to them, but still.' I complained in my mind as I got up when my muscles started to respond again.

I felt sleepy and drained of energy so I went to my room.

Although I can heal myself, I can't do it at the same level of efficiency as Recovery Girl so I always end up exhausted.

I wobbly walked into my room which has changed a lot by now.

The cabinet is full of clothes now, the closet is full of candies and plushies that I- no, WE got from Halloween week… with who? Well, with Mina, of course, we spent all the week playing games and we were too good at them, our win rate was like 9 out of 10.

/Author: Don't think too much of this, it is the kind of friendship that you make with that one guy during a family vacation, that person is like your best friend for a week but you never see them again after the family vacation ends.../

We kind of became business crushers since no one made money when we played their games, we were thrown out many times actually.

Out of spite, we got our prizes and took pictures with them in front of the places we got thrown out of with a big smile on our faces…

Also, one of the reasons we won so much was because I cheated a little… Most of the games were rigged from the start so it wasn't wrong for me to cheat, I used Spirit Sense to see all the hidden items and the perfect angle to pick up the plushies from the claw machine.

I mean, I trained to the point of getting anemic because of the nosebleeds so I say that those are well earned prizes… they are wrong for rigging those games, not me… whatever, doesn't matter anymore.

Anyhow, I moved out all the manga that was on my bed to the side.

Mina told me about a website where the community willingly searches for entertainment that was lost in time.

There is also a science and other records section but I'm too lazy to search that.

People have found some popular manga, although it is incomplete, the general idea of the story itself is still there so that's why some people are searching for companies to reboot them and all that business.

'Pretty sure they are rebooting some already…' With such thoughts, I drifted off to sleep.

[Some Time Later]

"Should've seen this coming…"

As soon as my parents came back, they gave me seeding soil, fertilizer, flower seeds, a shovel, and a gardening book... they didn't even see the backyard, they came already knowing what happened.

'The guard ratted me out for sure.'

*sigh*

I spent almost an hour reading the book and another one fixing the backyard… one thing was for sure, gardening wasn't my thing.

When I walked inside the house to clean up my dirty hands, I overheard mom, "so… maybe I-Island can wait..." she spoke as if thinking out loud.

"What happened?"

She turned her attention to me, "you see, we are going to help a friend in a Farewell Party for her boss, it's gonna be a big event so she will need the help she can get." She answered, a little apologetically as the I-Island is a big event that she wanted us to go to.

"There will be heroes!" Dad commented from the kitchen.

"I'm in!" Was my instant response, which seemed to make mom a bit bitter but just nodded with a helpless smile.

"Hmm…" Mom started to think of something, after a little moment of silence she sighed and started to message someone on her phone… After a few more moments she turned to me again, "if you want to meet the heroes that badly, then you might get a special pass for the Farewell Party if you help a little..."

"How can I help? Am I going to help in the kitchen?"

"...You have a lot of energy to spare, right?" She asked with a smile that wasn't really a smile… I couldn't help but shudder for some reason.