Chapter 137: Plans and Executions (2)
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From just canon, Neji already knew that villains will be coming to attack the students in Summer Camp. But, he wasn't expecting them to attack the students' parents too.
'Guess the butterfly has flapped its wings again.'
About how Izuku even knew of the Student families' location though; Neji had a fair guess. It's not exactly hard to get information, even inside a school like UA-High, with Izuku's quirk. He can simply go to the bathroom and enter his Astral Form to roam around and find the papers he needed.
At last, as shocking as it might sound, Izuku Midoriya was the main schemer in this plan of killing students and their families. Because from what Toga reported, even Shigaraki was shocked when Izuku presented the idea, meaning, this idea was 100% coming straight from Izuku.
Though unfortunately for his poor luck… Inevitably because of this plan, he was targeting Neji's parents, too.
'That fool.'
He just invited his own death.
Neji could ask Kimi to look after his parents when he leaves for Summer Camp, but that'd mean Momo's parents would be in danger. Not only that, Uraraka was a good friend of his, and he knew if anything happened to her parents she'll probably kill herself. So of course, Neji wouldn't sit and watch all this happen.
So, since Izuku's the brain of this plan, Neji simply needed to eliminate him.
Because what's a plan without the brain?
The League will be forced to abandon this idea of theirs, then. If they don't, Neji had Toga to inform him of everything anyway. He will prepare a counter plan for everything.
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The next day at school, it was lunchtime when Neji leaned against the wall, eating a sandwich, as he watched Momo and Kendo work their butts off.
"Ugh…!" Momo grunted, picking up a large box big enough for her hands to barely grab it. "Who knew being the Class President demanded such labour."
"Regretting already?" Neji chuckled in a mocking tone. "You know, you can just ask me for help. I can use my telekinesis~"
"How about no." Momo said dryly, walking from one corner to the other of the room, putting the box down. "I don't need your help with this little work. Stop making me seem worthless, hmph."
She humphed, leaning down to pick up something else, which caused her butt to raise up and wiggle in front of Neji's eyes.
"You know…" it was Kendo who spoke this time. "It's kinda creepy if you stare at her butt while eating food."
Momo flinched at that, blushing softly, but she didn't try to cover anything.
Neji, licking food from his lips, turned to Kendo. "Well, um, sorry if you feel offended. I would have looked at you too, butt she'll be jealous."
"Hey!" Both girls, blushing, yelled at the same time. Kendo couldn't stand it anymore and turned to the door. "Y-you two love birds stay here. Momo, I will take care of the other room!"
Saying that she ran and left.
Neji kept eating his sandwich, while Momo went back to work.
"Seriously…" she sighed. "Can't you stop flirting for even a minute?"
Neji, eating his last bite, yawned. "I mean I don't have anything else to do in school, you know? Besides, it's lunchtime."
Momo sighed again, moving a chair from one corner to another. She gave him permission to flirt, as long as he wasn't touching any girl right in front of her. Now it seemed that was a bad idea.
Time passed and she worked while Neji took out more food out of his inventory and kept eating.
"Yaomomo," Neji said after a while. "What do you think of Nawab? The ruler of South Asia, the strongest villain in existence, some say."
Momo stopped to look at him with a tilt of her head. "Huh? Why so suddenly?"
"I am just interested in your view," Neji said. "Do you agree with the World? That he's a bad guy? Or do you think he's a Hero, since as far as the rumours are concerned, people in his territory are living much better than the people in other countries? Even countries like Japan and America."
Momo hummed, thinking for a while before she shrugged. "He's still a villain, duh. He destroys cities, threatens countries, and kills thousands. Just to spread his area of ruling. Also, things about people from South Asia living better than others are just a rumour. Let's not trust rumours and instead focus on the proof we have."
She went back to her work and after putting the chair down, she dusted off her hands. "Why are you asking though?"
"As I said, I'm just curious about your opinion." He yawned and took out a Manga from his inventory. "Hey, you wanna read some manga? There's this one new manga out recently, and Kimi's a big fan of it. Mc destroys stuff, slaughters people, but he is at the same time building a kingdom where people can live peacefully. Oh, Mc is a slime too."
Neji watched her eyes as he offered the manga to her.
This might sound ridiculous to some, but fictional works can create debates within someone's mind. That's what he is going for with Momo here. Shattering the Hero Syndrome of a girl who's been like this for 15 years would be hard in the short amount of time he had. So, he needed a crack in Momo's defence that'd allow him inside to inject the reality into her. For that, he needed the help of Fiction.
Fiction is something that lets people experience things beyond reality, so this would be a good way for his plans to take their first step.
Of course, to boost the process he had quite a lot of magic items to help him with this. [Imagination Enhancement Pill], [Self Doubt Pill], [Emotion Enhancement Pill] etc.
The first pill would enhance her imagination enough to see the manga as if she's a spectator, seeing the reality from another world play in front of her. The second pill would make her doubt herself, her morals as she would watch Rimuru Tempest, the main character, slaughter people and at the same time, make comfortable living places for people. The last pill will enhance her emotions, her doubt and slowly eat her out from inside.
This manga was pretty light-hearted, but he planned to delve deeper into more realistic and dark ones after this.
Neji hated himself for doing this. He wanted to punch himself in the face, and he actually did, thrice before… But… he didn't like the sound of it since he hated it a lot, but this… was for the greater good. For her greater good, and his too.
"Ugh, I told you before, I have no time for reading Manga right now~" Momo said in an annoyed tone but even so, she sighed and accepted the book. "But since you've been telling me to read this for a week now, fine… I will do it."
Neji smiled at her and pulled a plate of smoking chicken wings out of his inventory.
"Alright~ As a thanks, take these. There's still more than half an hour until lunch ends, so don't rush it~ I hate when people skim. Oh, also, I will clean up the room for you."
Momo seemed hesitant at his offer, but she couldn't help it. She was hungry and that scent was her favourite. So reluctantly, she nodded and let him do the cleaning… which took ten times less than what it should have taken her.
Grumbling, she accepted the food… the food that she didn't know wasn't as normal as it looked… After that, she started to read as she ate.
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Neji told Momo that he will go to Dungeon today too. Except today, he asked her to stay behind inside their club and keep reading the manga since he will be later than usual, and he didn't want anyone to know he wasn't actually inside the club—the excuse that Momo organises for him every time.
Momo was kind of annoyed at him since exams were coming soon, but she accepted it since she was starting to like-… Well, 'like' wouldn't be the right word. Instead, she was starting to get 'interested' in that manga.
After Neji left the club though, he and Kurai didn't leave for the Dungeon. No. In reality, he wasn't going to the dungeon today at all.
He just kept Momo in there to have a trustworthy witness to prove he wasn't outside the school today. Because today… he was going to kill someone who should have died a long time ago.
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Author's Note: 🥴 Momo reading Tensei Shitera, oh no. Vote powerstones to save her from Neji's last resort, Boku No P- *dies*