Book Four
Volume 11
Ch. 178 Hood
Pov.
-Kara-
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Eri's giggles accompanied by Lia's wakes Cana up
She shivers in my arms for a few minutes before scrubbing us both clean
After rinsing off we step out of our bath
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The one upside of taking Eri was her caring for Lia.
That way Cana isn't pausing every second to check on her.
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It's been a month since Cana has taken Eri in. A month since I've restored Mirios' quirk.
I did it with the sole condition that if anyone is to ask it was Eri that restored it.
As for Eri herself, I casted a curse that seals away her quirk unless I say so.
"Gotcha!" Cana tackles Eri into the couch
"Hehe!" Eri giggles as Lia claps in her chair
Although she doesn't say anything beyond formalities, she's clearly taken a liking to Cana.
Not to mention Lia, who's the only one she does talk to.
"Eri, come help me with dinner." Cana gives me a huge smile as she strolls by.
"Yes ma'am." Eri hurries behind
Lia too follows in her little baby walker, banging into every corner, leaving Odin to chase his own tail
We had a Mac N' Brisket Skillet.
After dinner I was called into work.
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"How's everything going?" Midnight smiles widely
"Why?"
"Just," she shrugs. "You know… you haven't had any use for me in a while." She puffs
"It's… whatever…"
"Hmh," she smirks, "well I'm glad you're having a good time."
"That's not what I said."
"Anyways, today we are tracking down this hooded Nomu that was spotted above Uji."
"Hooded?"
"Yeah, its energy readings are said to be on par with the one… well the one that seriously messed you up."
"Oh yeah?" I smile
"Yeah… they're getting strong. Insanely strong." Her tone takes a serious turn
All for One…
What is he testing me?
Blasphemy. I smirk
"Bruce is on a mission. He's looking to get some intel under the cover of your battle…"
"What?"
She shrugs. "He didn't want to say much."
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I teleported to his location, a steakhouse on the 50th floor of a hotel.
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"Kara…" He looks over the menu
"Steak, huh? Man, I just had dinner."
"Good, cause I'm not buying."
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"What do you have on this thing?" I take the files
"So far it has only made appearances at night, it targets strong heroes, and it can fly."
"Sounds fun. Is that why they sent me over here? To draw it out?"
"Exactly. The association's plan was for you to get rid of it quickly and quietly-." He pauses
"Quietly?" I watch as it lights up the sky as it barrels towards us
"That's what they said." He sighs.
"That's ridiculous." I tap into the 15x multiplier of Kaioken
"And that's what I told them."
The people explode into a panic after the Hood crashed through the window
I bob under its fist as I step in.
I slam my knee into his gut, hard enough to blow the windows out of the entire floor
"Ngk." I grit my teeth after it tanks the blow
He blitz behind me and hammers his fists into my forearms the very moment I jerked around to brace myself
He sends me crashing through 50 floors and into the ground
I raise my hands
Big Bang
"Attack!" I blow the entire building into the sky as Bruce lands beside me.
"Shit, all those people…" He grumbles
"Bunch of corporate assholes." I shrug
"You need to be more careful if you don't want to be classified as a terrorist."
"Wasn't me, it was that douche."
"Let's hope they believe that."
"Mm-hmm." I stretch, "interfere and I'll kill you."
"I have a job to do." He turns around and disappears into the shadows
I catch the Hoods fist before reeling him in and shoving mine into his face
As it stumbled back I smashed my knee into his side.
I follow him crashing into the building and pound his face around.
He slams his fist into my chest
I hold my ground, bobbing his cross before sinking my fist into his face
I jerk my body into a 180, just under his jab and slam my heel into his temple
He shakes it off
I tuck my elbow into my hip, blocking a liver shot.
The blow sends my arm flying across the field
It quickly regenerates with reverse curse before I sink it into his gut
He goes for my wrist as he folds into the blow. I tug my wrist back before he could smash me around like a ragdoll
I twist around his jab and swing the back of my fist into his cheekbone
I bob a cross before blasting a fireball into his chest
A Red followed by a Blue sends his hand flying.
I flick a Hollow Purple that blows the rest of his limbs away and buries him into the ground
I wait as his arms slowly regenerate.
I held my hand out once his legs began healing
Flame Art of Apollo.
A miniature sun forms in the palm of my hand
It grows into the size of a basketball before multiplying 5x that in an instant.
"White Dwarf."
Before the star could explode a massive fist smashes into my shoulder.
I tear through ten buildings before I could even attempt to bring myself to a halt by the fifteenth
This brute strength…
It can only be…
"You…" the Massive Nomu stands in front of the Hood.
It's the one that held All Might off
The one that nearly killed me
"Hmh." I smile
"Still think you can hold them off?" Bruce lands beside me
I roll my head, popping my neck as the Hood stood beside the Nomu
"Oh yeah." I lean forward I split the distance between us to nothing in an instant
I slam my feet into the Nomus chest before snapping behind the Hood after he tried to hammer me into the ground
I slap a Rassengan into the back of his head
The other Nomu quickly recovers and punches straight through my afterimage before I introduce my knee to his jaw
They both turn around
"Good." I smile
The very moment my foot touched the ground I slide out of the way of one's fist.
For the next three minutes I jump, twist, bob, and weave their every blow.
With each one closer to hitting me than the last
I sink my elbow into the hoods gut
The other Nomu rocks my jaw
On my crash course through two buildings I do the 48 corresponding hand signs
I plant my feet into the ground
"Earth Dragon Spear."
I send the rubble in the form of a raging dragon into the Giant Nomu
He jumps right over it in time
The Hood catches its fangs. The dragon scoops him up and jerks him around before burying him into the ground
I pat the Nomus fist aside
My fish bursts into flames before burying it into his abdomen
The flames engrave the outline of my fist into his skin
Even despite that it didn't faze him one bit
Thanks to his shock nullification quirk he was ready to return the favor
I manipulate the space behind me to work as a vacuum that sucks me back faster than I could do it myself
It's no use
I bring my hands together
Domain Expansion.
"Domain of Oceanus."
Everything within a spherical radius of 15 Meters is submerged into water
"Ryou." My fist are outlined with the advanced Haki technique to surpass his shock nullification quirk and directly attack his insides
The power behind his fists and his movements slowed beneath the mountain of water of the domain
But all he seemed to do was get faster.
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An adaptation quirk.
He charges straight for me as my Domain crumbles around me
Together with the Hood they come at me a second time
I duck and twist into various stances.
Their increased speed made it so that every other blow would smash into my face had I not been spamming Kamui like my life depended on it
This damn…
What the hell is this quirk?
It has to have some kind of area of effect, cause even the Hooded one had some kind of power up.
Chaos snaps into a golden hooped staff that I managed to use to block and deflect their fists until it inevitably snapped
The hood punches straight through my chest, dangerously close to my heart
Before the giant Nomu could take my head off what seemed like a meteor smashes into the pair and blows them away
Endeavor…
I cough a boatload of blood as I heal with Reverse Curse
"You've destroyed half the block."
"Me?" I pull myself up "I'm only doing my job." I wipe my mouth
"Your job as a Hero will always be putting the lives of the innocent first."
"That's ridiculous."
"You defeated All Might, no? To say you can not do something as simple as that is ridiculous."
"I was getting jumped."
"I understand that you have a personal vendetta against the big one."
"Oh yeah." I take off
I tug my fist bag as the Nomu does the same
Before the Hood could jump into our fight, Endeavor tackles him into a parking lot
"Alright."
We exchange a few blows till I blitz behind him and hammer my fist into the back of his head
I swing around before he'd smash into the ground and sink my fist into his chest, sending him into the sky
I teleport right behind him and slam my palm into his back
"Big Bang…"
But before I could unleash the attack Endeavor swings the Hood at me
I kick it aside
"What the hell?!" I growl
"What did I just say?! You can't unleash attacks that powerful this close to the city!"
Who cares?
The Nomu grabs my ankles and swings me into the ground
"Kgha!" I cough after he lands on my abdomen
He floats back into the sky
I sit up before he stomps onto me again and then again
He grabs my ankle, swings me around two, three times and tosses me through an animal shelter.
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I wake up moments later to a fat orange cat in my face
"Meow…"
I shove it aside
It scurries away as I stand up and the Nomu casually walks through the rubble
I raise my hands
All the dogs on the top shelves explode the moment I crunch my fingers
Their droplets of blood blast through the Nomus skin like bullets before I split the distance between us to nothing and uppercut him into the sky
I catch up and grab his wrist
I swing him even higher up before opening my arms
"Solar…"
I use instant transmission to get right up in his face.
"Flash!" The beam clears the sky for miles, leaving not a single trace of the Nomu himself
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"Hmh, trash." I swing my arm clean of blood
I decened back onto the ground
"Meow." The fat cat jumps onto my shoulder
"Tch, stupid cat." I grab its head to blow it away
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But before then I hear Cana's voice mentioning she wanted a cat
A big fat cat
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I warp it into the Kamui dimension.
I watch as Endeavor falls out of the sky just before the hero Hawks catches him
"It's done." Bruce steps out of a shadow.
"What was it you had to do?"
"Nothing, your job here is done."
"Tch."
I disappear before the media could swarm me
"G-Good afternoon." Eri welcomes me at the door
"Yay, daddy's home!" Cana jumps
Lia hurry's over right behind her in her walking chair
"Aba!" She opens her arms, begging me to hold her as she bumps into my leg
I raise my hand, summoning the cat.
"Kya?!" It cries as I hold it by its tail
"Kitty!" Eri jumps
"Garfield!" Cana shrieks before taking it into her arms
Lia hurries to try and pet the cat as I step over to the couch
"Awe it's a girl." Cana frowns
I watch the three trying to get Odin to let go of the cats tail
I watch Cana laugh and play along with the girls, wondering to myself… what is it that I truly know about her?
What is it that I truly know about anyone?
I've never bothered to get to know a single person.
But Cana? She intrigues me more than anything.
After putting the girls to sleep. She joined me on the couch to watch tv
I could feel her gaze watching me as I clicked through the news channels reporting on the fight in Uji
After settling on a movie, I lower my gaze to meet her
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Seeing her smile seems to warm my body.
It always dulls my senses and erases any thought running through my head.
"What are you thinking about?" She sits up
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I shrug.
"Tell me." She tilts her head
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I want to know…
Why?
I want to ask her so many things but I can't bring myself to do it…
Why is that?
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-to be continued