Book Four
Volume 11
Ch. 170 Goto
Pov.
-Kara-
Alone?
What the hell does she know…
I sit up
She was sleeping in our bed.
I took the couch, not because… she made me or anything, I just…
"Kgh." This is humiliating
Of all my years, I had not a single woman dare demand a thing from me and live.
Who does she think she is?
"Mmh." She holds onto the walls as she wobbles her way into the kitchen
"Breakfast?" She asks after I gather my things
Then she acts like everything is perfect.
Could it be this? Her? The reason it's been feeling so… forced lately?
I mean… It's not like I haven't had my fill of her..
Could I be having some sort of… withdraws somehow?
…
"Tch." Yeah fucking right. How ridiculous does that sound?
Me, a God, dependent on a woman. A mortal woman at that.
I glare at her as the door shuts behind me
I hunt down another handful of those parasites and gather more info on that Reiko chick
…
She seemed to have been running experiments on both humans and her own kind.
She also had access to the Mayor's funds. So there was something shady going on there
"Fuck." I grumble
Damn it. I scratch my head.
It's the same shit.
Over and over.
How pathetic can these creatures get? They're all the fucking same.
Running around, searching for power to satisfy their own… urges.
"Tch." I stand up as I watch the parasite I've been trailing turn the corner.
Is that what I looked like?
No, power on a cosmic scale is something worth fighting for
I jump off the light post and shove my blade into his skull, straight down the middle
It bursts into flames
I then take a thigh before disappearing into the night
I debated going home but something about even… looking at Cana was… well… not in my best interest.
Even then. Getting rid of her is out of the question
…
Wait-
I pause my pursuit…
A feeding ground?
It was this five story parking lot the mayor recently built.
I see, so this is their plan?
Playing the same game as humans
I sneak into the place where I ran into Shinichi
"What the hell are you doing, boy?"
"Kara?!" He jumps "w-we followed this thing here." He whispers before I hear the elevator ring.
"Stand right over there." He tells the women he's with
I step out, read to split them both in half
…
"Wh-who are you?" The woman asks, taken aback by my beauty
"You, get away from that man, he's a monster!" Shinichi jumps out of hiding
"A-A monster?" She turns around "Kya!"
The parasite splits its head open just as Chaos snapped into a katana, cleaving it straight in half as it did.
"Thank you!" The woman cries
"Shut up." I glared at her before returning to Shinichi.
"Has Reiko reached out to you?"
"Yes, actually we saw her yesterday." His hand says
"Migi!"
"What?"
"She has a baby now…"
"So what? She's a danger to all of us. She works at the university as Tamaya Reito." Migi adds
"University, huh?"
"Yes. It'll be great if you can put her down for good."
"This is her last known address." Migi tosses me a folded piece of paper
"Very well."
"You might want to be careful, she's talked about experimenting on her own kind."
"Yes, that Hideo boy consisted of three parasites."
"Three?! How is that possible?!" Shinichi jumps
"Remember the offer that other parisite made to me?" Migi asks
"That's right. He made a place for you in his body."
"Indeed. In theory, one body could be fit to host multiple organisms at once."
"Only a question of how many of those things the head could control."
"That's right." Migi agrees
…
I quickly head on to this address where I found her attending to the human child
I step through the door
"You must be the one that has been hunting my kind to extinction."
"No hard feelings." I smile
She cradles the baby
"That creature isn't even yours. It belongs to your host." I cross my arms
"Maybe, but… it's intriguing. How something so small… so fragile mean so… so much…"
…
"It's just another… animal. Dependent on a host, a parasite, just like you."
"If that is so, then aren't we all?"
"What?"
"Parasites, aren't we all dependent on something in one way or the other?"
"Oh yeah? How do you mean?"
"Well… some people are dependent, or rather, seek attention, others wealth, fame, and… Power… am I wrong?"
…
"When I first took over this host her mother knew, without a doubt, that I wasn't her daughter. How is that?"
"They call it unconditional love." Chaos snaps into a Katana
"Really? She smiles
"It's stupid."
"Is it? Every human I've experimented on, has shown some form of this protectiveness, this… loyalty…"
…
"Could we experience the same? What really makes us so different from these creatures?"
…
I've often pondered the same. There's still so much I do not understand. Could a being like me really experience this…
One who has walked in the dark for as long as I have should be incapable of such a feat.
Even so, what I feel for Cana… it is beyond a questionable doubt…
"Love… is quite the phenomenon, don't you think?" She sets the infant down, inside its cradle
…
I lunge at her, ready to deliver her a quick death. It was then when the door beside her bursts open
Chaos snapped in half the very moment it made contact with the creature before me
"Goto… thank you." Reiko smiles
"Is this it?"
"Yes, the one that has been extinguishing our kind."
"Bastard." I grit my teeth
There's at least five parasites inside his one body
No… more than that.
I cross my arms, blocking his fist that sent me crashing five stories and into a restaurant across the street
"Motherfucker." I spit blood
He lands outside the restaurant
So much for fucking secrecy.
I quickly began emitting the illusory mist to hide the reality of our battle to the mortals
As he stepped inside, he cut down the humans on their frantic attempt to escape the crater I left in the middle of the restaurant
This is going to burn.
My entire body becomes engulfed in flames as my heart begins pumping more and more blood, heightening my regeneration
Flame Art of Apollo.
In this stage of Dragon Force the flames burn stronger beneath the sun.
I sprout draconic wings as Goto pierced straight through the space between us
I catch his fist, needing both my hands and the set of wings
I dig my claws into the back of his hand and jerk myself in to smash my heels into his side
I retreat before he could cut me down and I wrap my leathery wings around me to suppress the force of his punch
My wings then snap into those of a raven before the feathers shot into every direction, narrowly missing those hiding in the corners and piercing straight through Gotos skin
They then burst into a cloud of smoke. I launch myself out through the broken ceiling just before I ignited the smoke
Despite my eyes not capturing the moment he followed suite I jerk my body around and brace myself as he pounded me into the ball of flames that I left of the restaurant
"Kgha!" I spit aside as I pull myself back up
I open my arms and twist my body, creating a tornado of these flames that ended just before him just standing in the sky
I pull my arm back and blast off the ground
He catches my fist. The tornado twists inside out before slamming into his chest and bursting out his back
The force of the explosion sends us hurtling out of the sky
Landing on our feet amidst heavy traffic we glared eachother down
"Reiko did say you would be quite the specimen." His chest bulges
His physique easily tripled in size as multiple eyes pop around his head and neck area
"I'm just glad I got the chance to put this body to use."
His legs resemble that you would see on a large cat. Then, his back and arms sprout those annoying tentacles
"Behold, the epitome of evolution." He opens his arms
Yeah right. I smile
The flames around me burn a stronger red hue
It melted the skin off my forearms and feet the very moment I snapped into Kaioken x5
I split down the middle lanes, between the cars as he flips and smashes through those on his side
Our fists clashing on each other's flesh blows the cars aside.
The heat I emitted began cracking the concrete and melting the rubber tires
I punch his fists and deflect his blades
He grabs someone's door and nearly splits me in half with it
I retreat before narrowly dodging the car he flipped over. As well as those that came after
I raise Chaos above my head, splitting the last one in half
I cock my arm back before warping the space around me to maximize my speed for a split second
I smash my fist into his chest with a massive black flash
He coughs a bucket of blood and grabs my wrist, flips me over his shoulder and smashing me into a car.
I claw on my arm, trying to tear it off just before he sent me crashing through a building
I stumble around for a moment
As I stood back on my feet I blast the car he sent after me with the elder man aside
I slam my wrist together, ready to annihilate the bus, only to hesitate the moment I saw Cana holding her belly
Course it wasn't really her. Just some random pregnant woman, so why am I thinking of her now?
I catch the bus and bring it to a halt only after it smashes me through another brick wall.
I grind my teeth at the thought of taking a blow like that for some random.
The passengers hurry out.
I tear the bus in half, leaving the engine hanging in between
My leg bulges, after I focus everything into it in order to stomp the engine into Goto the very moment he landed on our floor to asses the damage
The fifteen hundred pound machine smashes into his chest
The muscles in my leg twist and cramp, even so I follow right behind
He was in the midst of rolling the engine off his chest
I create a triangle with my fingers
"Event Horizon." The gravity within the triangle of which I aim multiplies ten fold, crushing Goto into the ground
But even then, he slowly but surely managed to stand up
Even despite the gravity weighing his skin down to the point where it peeled off his face
"Times Ten!" I snap into the Kaioken Multiple
The Event Horizon increases to 20x gravity
I felt my ears ringing and my nose running with blood. My eyes were ready to pop out of their sockets the longer I held him down.
But I had to let go.
The very moment I did he blasts off the ground
I grab my bicep and jerk my arm back as he flies at me nearing the speed of sound.
"Big Bang…" a ki sphere pops and cracks in my palm
I bring it forth the moment he reached out to grab my face
"ATTACK!" I smash my palm into his chest
The attack annihilates his upper torso and blows us opposite to the other
My back smashes against a building before I crash and stumble 8 stories into the ground
…
-3 days later
"Good morning!" Cana jumps in my face "You alright? That earthquake was crazy, huh?!" She munches on a cookie
I toss the blankets aside and check my phone sitting on the counter
Midnight- Great job, hunk! Sounds like you're just about ready to come home! 😘
"Tch." I grumble
I pull myself out of bed
I clear my throat from the taste of blood as Cana gathers my things
"An Earthquake of this magnitude hasn't been seen in decades." They report in the news
"That's terrible." Cana sighs
Earthquake? Is that what they thought it was?
"Where are we going?" Cana follows me after I got changed
"Back to UA."
"Really? Don't you want to say bye to your friends?"
"What friends? Hurry up." I pat my thigh
"Okay-Okay." She waddles a little faster with her belly
We gather our stuff from the apartment before heading right back to UA
After a few hours of driving we arrived at the school
"What about Amy Surano?" Midnight points at her name
"Blonde right?"
"Brunette."
"Big tits?"
"Huge."
"Yeah, why?
"Yes…" she writes down
"What about-."
"Do you have pictures?"
"I can get you some."
"What is this even for?" I take the list of names
Most of which I've heard before
"Well…" she smiles "so far, all of these girls have claimed that." She clears her throat "You are the father!"
"What?!" I growl
"Lucky for you this happens all the time." She shrugs
"Yeah? Then get rid of them."
"Sure thing, except it'll cost ya." She bends over her desk.
"I thought as much." I smirk, but before I could pull my shirt over my head Cana came crashing in
"Okay-Okay, tell him yourself!" She shouts into her phone "Here, Kara. Listen to this! It's All Might, something bad happened!" She jumps
"Kgh." I grit my teeth before snatching the phone "what?"
"It's Bakugo, he was kidnapped last night during the Spring Training Camp."
"So what?"
"We need you here is what!" All Might shouts through the phone
"Yeah-whatever." I toss the phone aside
"That doesn't sound good." Midnight tilts her head as Cana juggles to catch her phone
"I won't be long." I press two fingers to my forehead
…
Kachan, I can't sense his energy reading. They must be hiding it with some quirk
I travel instantaneously to All Mights location
…
"Kara, you're…" Momo gasps
"Wow, you look stronger!" Deku steps forward in his crutches
"Yeah? Well…" I smirk
"That's enough. We need you to check this out, see what you can find." All Might points over where Kachan was last seen
"What the hell do you want me to tell you?" I crouch down
There's nothing here. Like he vanished into thin air.
"Must've been that portal guy from the USJ."
"You're right, he took Kachan before I could get to him." Deku squeezes his fists
"And who are the others?"
"Others?"
"There are scents here that were not in USJ."
"We managed to catch three, among them, Muscular. There was also Dabi, Twice, and some Lizard guy."
"Tell me, does any of their quirk consist of fire?"
"Dabi, why? How did you know?"
I thought so. He smells… familiar. I look at Todoroki
"There is also the faintest hint of alcohol. It'd be good to check out regulars and even bars that have had remodeling done within the past six months."
I doubt they'll find anything but it's a start.
Telling them this will also get All Might to lay off.
"What is it?" I catch All Might glaring at me as everyone else began heading back to their camp
"The villain who did this… I suspect it may be…"
"All for One?"
"Yes. A lot has happened during your time in Hiroshima."
"Oh yeah?"
"There was the Hero Killer Stain. Shigaraki tried to take him under his wing. After his defeat at the hands of Midoriya and Todoroki he became a martyr."
"We believe those that joined Shigaraki and led the attack with him could be the villains that took after Stain."
All for One…
Great, another mountain.
Except, something tells me this one is going to be brutal.
Guess training could actually be of some use this time.
With that I disappear back to Midnight.
…
-to be continued