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Chapter 8 - Preparation

Kiyoshi waits at one of the booths at school, it was after 12 so the rest of the group should be here soon. the group left on Sunday morning, Mitsuki was happy to go home while Akari was talking about her first time drinking alcohol to Kazuya.

He remembers being tired but cleaned up so the house wouldn't get any mold or rat infestation if he ever returns.

"Imagine submitting that embarrassing costume to be your hero suit man!" someone was talking behind him

"Shut up, your just jealous I came up with the idea" he argues back

"Whatever I'm so ready to rip on you tomorrow when costumes arrive!" he chuckles.

Costumes were tomorrow, the first years were told to customize and create their costumes online, and the most enticing part was it was free. He didn't think much about the style or presentation only about how much damage it could take and if it could be useful to him.

"hey dude" he felt a hand touch his shoulder which he shrugs off, Kazuya arrived, and Akari was behind him. They both sat across from Kiyoshi, Akari then hands Kiyoshi a handheld packaged gift.

"It's an appreciation gift for letting us stay at your house," she says cheerfully, Kiyoshi nods in response.

"hey" Mitsuki then arrives, she pauses when she sees the only spot available was next to Kiyoshi. Instead of sitting down she remained standing.

Kazuya checks around, seeing a couple of people near them so he then hands everyone a small piece of paper.

"Too many people, can't say much here but the note explains it" he informs with seriousness in his voice.

The paper reads " I manage to locate one of the next meeting locations, I'll lead us there, so meet outside of the Eiru center at 7:00 pm tomorrow, bring your costumes as it is better to be not recognized".

with that Kiyoshi leaves.

He walked past one of the first-year students, a robot, no not a cyborg but full metal and wiring, he doesn't know much besides talk of the "A.I. hero program", he has just been in classes observing the studies but not interacting with other students. Kiyoshi says nothing and continues on his way.

He entered the elevator, he pushes the button for the fourth floor, while waiting his eyes gazes over to one of the digital screens inside, on the screen, advertises campus activities. Some of it shows tryouts for the Power ball, an activity where you score points by throwing a ball in a goal in a 3x gravity room.

*Ding*

He walks out and into a student, the student then stumbles back a little and glares at Kiyoshi.

"Watch where your going dog, you're going to ruin my hair" he growls

Kiyoshi says nothing but notices the student had a cybernetic arm implant.

"Don't you dare look away dog" his irritation in his voice grows, he then grabs Kiyoshi's shoulder with his metal arm

"Beg" he then squeezes his shoulder tightly which Kiyoshi almost drops to his knee, he wasn't expecting the strength behind the arm.

"Suprised? I paid handsomely to the best surgeon to get this beautiful piece of art implanted, its grip strength is on par with professionals" he explains with arrogance in his voice.

"What are you doing trying to go to the fourth-floor dorms, it's known that the wealthiest students live here, from what I've heard you're a slum rat" he threatens

"Akuma Kodomo" a familiar voice speaks out

They both turn to look

"Sayuri Tanaka the daughter of the famous Tomiju Tanaka the CEO of MedEx," he says with snark

"I see you have met my acquaintance, could you please take your arm off," she tells him

"Why? he's not supposed to mingle with us people besides no one going to care if a dog like him dies right?" he chuckles with his grin growing

She then appears behind him grasping his shoulder

"We both know that your implants are compensating for your lack of powers, so if you don't want to cause a happy little accident then please take your arms off now." she threatens with an eerily cheer in her tone.

"Tch fine, what happened to the old fun Sayuri" he then stomps off

She then gets down to eye level looking at Kiyoshi

"Are you okay? I do hope he didn't hurt you" she says with worry

"No" he lies, he knows something broken. He tries to head to his door but grunts in pain when he tries to lift his arm.

"You shouldn't try to hide your pain, let me take a look" she scolds him.

he opens his door to which she follows in.

"Sit down please and take off your jacket" she instructs

he does so and unbuttons parts of his dress shirt to expose his shoulder.

She observes his shoulder lightly touching it, after a bit she concludes

"A broken clavicle, but not to worry I can heal it"

she unpacks from her purse and grabs a couple of flowers

"Hold still please" she then has her hand inches away from contact.

he watches as the decompression from his shoulder slowly returns to normal.

"There we go, all I did was reverse time before it was injured." she smiles.

"thank you," Kiyoshi said, stretching his shoulder to make sure it was fine.

" You know I never see you leave your room, I keep forgetting that you live on this floor," she tells him

"I leave early in the morning" he explains

"Why?" she asked

"Training" he responds

"Really? well that's great it's good for your health, this reminds me of-" *ring-a-dingle!* her ringtone goes off

She looks at her phone

" My bad it seems that something important came up, well take care Kiyoshi make sure you don't hurt yourself ok?" she informs

she leaves, and Kiyoshi sits alone thinking.

* The slums are home to many gangs and groups, one of them is "the pack" they live underground in sewer systems keeping to themselves*

After a long night he awoke from his uneasy sleep, he gets up with bags in his eyes. He still isn't used to living in such luxury, he wakes up a lot at night to the faintest of noises believing it was an intruder trying to cause harm. Luckily his alarm woke him up and he gets out of bed and straight into his track clothes, he stretches and leaves his dorm room.

He got into the quiet hallway, no one had awoken yet which left him some sort of comfort which was then cut short. He heard someone closing their door behind him, he turned around and to his surprise, it was Kenshiro Takeshi the boy who surprised everyone back at the arena. He also had track clothes on, his hair tied back into a bun with headphones around his neck.

They both made eye contact, but none of them said anything to which they both remained for a bit. Kenshiro nodded in respect seeing that Kiyoshi was heading out for a run, to which Kiyoshi returned the gesture.

They both decided to go together.

The run was uneventful, both being silent not saying a single word, to which they found some form of comfort.

After the run he ran back to his room, his class was about to start so he decided to take a quick shower. After getting out he looked at his wound from that incident a few days ago, it was healing quite fine which delighted him.

He headed to his class most of which was uneventful as always, he only cared about power training and physical activities. Later at the end of classes, a faculty member strolled in with a cart of cases to which the rest of the class grew excited.

" costumes," the man said

they handed everyone their costumes, the stylish case that adorned the academy's Black, white, and gold held their suits.

Kiyoshi grabbed his case but doesn't open it yet, the others like Mitsuki took out their costumes.

Her costume is adorned with purple and black colors, he couldn't fully describe the costume as she hasn't put it on for obvious reasons.

He was back in his dorm room so he could put his suit on in private, he opened the case to which his suit was neatly folded, and he also included in the design their to be equipment for other uses. During classes, he was brief on hero agencies and internships and the benefits were other advance gadgets as well as pay.

He took out his costume, the suit was all black which delighted him he planned for his patrols to be at night. He had five main components of his suit, his Pants were designed with kevlar padding and has multiple pockets, his kevlar vest with protective sleeves, and his steel toe shoes, the most catching part was his trench coat and long and wide brim hat. He lastly put on his face mask and his leather gloves, he was fine with this design, so long as he can make use of it, then it was a fine suit.

He decided it was time to leave, he took off most of his suit, only leaving the pants, he then wore his baggy sweater and left with his case.

*There's a rumored sighting of a masked figure seen near the slums, few have seen and gotten out alive those who do call it the oni*

It was 6:32 pm when Kiyoshi got off the station, it reeked of piss and shit something he had gotten accustomed to, bottles and trash littered the stairs that lead up to the surface, and he kicked a couple when trying to walk to the stairs.

"HEEYY, You fuckerr I-I was just drinkingg that" a man covered in grime got up drunkenly from his spot, he pulled out a small knife

"..." Kiyoshi stared at him but looked at the spot the man was laying at, needles and bottles of liquor lay around.

"Noww yuu gott ttu pay me back fuckerr" he then went in for a stab at Kiyoshi

In an instant, Kiyoshi grabbed his wrist and swung his fist straight in the man's face breaking his nose.

"AARRUGH, YOU BROKE MY FUCKING NOSE YOU FUCKING BITCH" he screams in pain to which Kiyoshi didn't let up laying into the man with every strike calculated at each vital spot. One spot landed at the man's armpit to fuck up his nerves, his throat to stop him from screaming, and to which the man collapse to the floor.

Kiyoshi wasn't finished, he grabbed the wheezing man by his hair and stared at him while grabbing the man's knife, he stabbed the knife through the victim's hand leaving it there. He grabbed the empty syringe from the ground and put it close to the man's eye to which Kiyoshi starts to speak

"If you like injecting shit into yourself let me assist with that" he spoke with quiet anger in his voice.

The man's eyes widened and he started to piss himself out of fear, Kiyoshi's expression never changed, still keeping that shakily calm face.

"Or do you want to stop using such garbage?" he asked to which the Man furiously nods

He lets go of the man's hair and leaves towards the stairs, the only witnesses to that were him and that vagrant.

" Is something troubling you Parker?" Dean Hugo asked his colleague, Hugo was observing his old friend while sipping his tea. Parker who was on the couch in the faculty lounge scrolling through his tablet looked uncertain.

"It's something that worries me Hugo" he responds, the dean walks up to him peeking at the information on his tablet.

"Isn't that Student 117, Kiyoshi?" he questions

"It is, over 19 years of student analyst I started to see a pattern among students, the ambitious youngsters, the greedy fame-seekers to the rare do-gooders with hearts of gold but I never saw something like this one," he tells him

"Yes, it was questionable to pick a student that resides in the slums but during his exam, we have gotten a look at his mental health which passed with flying colors"

"No, it's not that exactly, when I was testing him on the fourth test he suddenly changed in his demeanor, he grew somewhat eerily violent"

"Like how?" he asked

"He ignored the civilians in need and had this killing intent for the criminal doing damage while trying to catch him but when he did he executed the criminal to which the simulation stopped"

"Well, what do you suggest? expel him?"

"No, no I suggest we should closely watch him while advising him to be less violent," he says

"Well, I'll make sure I'll inform the faculty" the dean offers.

he then leaves the lounge.

Parker turns off his tablet, sighs

"Student 117, you look so calm yet dangerous, your eyes give it away, like one push away from snapping" he then lights a smoke.

The sky was dark when he got to the location, its vibrant lights that come from the large building shone the night sky. He walks around the building where he spots them.

Kiyoshi meets up with the group who were already there with their suits on, Kazuya looks at him

"You ready?" he asks

He nods his eyes glowing slightly.

Yu Bushida

Description:

Yellow Undercut

Yellow Eyes

6'2

Pretty Muscular

small scars around his body

one scar across his nose and one that goes done his left eye

Power: Adrenaline rush

Is able to activate their adrenaline on will, the effects of their adrenaline is twice as efficient as an average person. He gains an extra boost in strength, extra boost in speed, higher pain tolerance, improved vision, greater sense and fast thinking. When on adrenaline the user will consume massive amounts of calories and nutrients and electrolytes and in risk of hurting themselves with nutrient and vitamin deficiency. They are also at risk of heart attacks, strokes, damaged blood vessels and higher blood pressure.