"Tell Me, What Is It You Truly Desire?" Lucifer, Lucifer Show
Izuku then bent his upper body, as his red eyes glowing through the mask, as he looked into Shoji's eyes and said in a hefty and cold voice as he asked, "What is it that you truly desire?"
Shoji was stunned as he couldn't process what just happened.
Seeing Izuku so close Shoji's heart started beating rapidly.
Shoji choked, his voice catching halfway between a scream and a whimper. Blood stank in the air, a foul counterpoint to the dripping gore clinging to Izuku's flickering hand. It had all happened so fast, a whirlwind of violence so neat, so precise, Shoji's mind was still reeling, trying to catch up.
Bodies lay strewn like discarded puppets, limbs twisted at unnatural angles, faces frozen in masks of shock and pain. Shoji's stomach lurched, bile rising in his throat. He'd seen death before and tasted its bitterness on his tongue, but never like this. Never so clinical, so deliberate.
"What is it that you truly desire?"
The question hung heavy, thick with chilling finality. Izuku's voice rang with a cold command that demanded obedience.
Shoji's mind was a tangled mess of emotions. Fear pulsed in his veins, a primal urge screaming for escape. But something else stirred within him, something dark and twisted. He saw the power, the raw, untamed potential crackling around Izuku like a storm cloud.
He saw the answer to his unspoken desires, the vengeance simmering in his gut since Eiji's brutal end. He saw the chance for a world turned upside down, where the hunted became the hunters.
Shoji swallowed hard, the taste of fear, along with iron from blood on his tongue. "Justice," he rasped, voice barely a whisper over the booming in his ears. "Justice for Eiji, for all of us, all the heteromorphs who've suffered."
Izuku's lips twitched into a humorless smirk, devoid of warmth. "And what does this justice look like, for you?" He tilted his head, the flickering hand hovering inches from Shoji's face, a silent threat. "Do you crave payback, a bloody show to soothe your pain? Or something more... lasting?"
Shoji met Izuku's gaze, as his own fear morphed into hard resolve. "I want them scared," he said, his voice gaining strength. "I want them to feel the terror we've lived with, the constant fear hanging over our heads. I want them to know what it's like to be hunted."
Izuku's grin widened, a spark of something like approval flickering in his crimson eyes. "Then perhaps," he murmured, the flickering hand retreating, "we can be friends in this business."
Shoji's heart hammered, excitement and dread warring within him.
He'd crossed a line, and stepped into a darkness he never thought he'd touch, a line Eiji made sure not to cross when he was alive, and also made sure Shoji never crossed it either. But in the aftermath of this bloodbath, he saw a glimmer of hope, a warped reflection of the world he yearned for.
He once dreamed of a world of equality, a place where the heteromorphs, lived in peace and coexisted with the normal ones, yet this was just a child's dream, wishful thinking of an idealistic world, which was good, but only good enough to be in the storybooks, and this was real life, where there was no place for an idealistic world, in reality.
Shoji had started losing hope in this idealistic dream of his, but it wasn't anything great, it was just a sliver of flicker that would extinguish when with Eiji, as he believed if Eiji could smile even after such abuse, then Eiji's dream wasn't stupid, and such world could exist, but it all changed when Eiji died all alone, without achieving anything he dreamed of, Eiji's death sealed the deal, as he was shown the harsh reality of life, as he saw how even after death Eiji was humiliated, and how his parents were unable to do anything other then just endure the humiliation.
And when a small kid spits on Eiji's grave and he is praised for it, Shoji realizes, that what Eiji dreamt of is only good in storybooks and not in real life, if a small kid would willingly spit on a dead person to humiliate him, for just being a heteromorph, and the adults instead of reprimanding him are praising him, then this world is beyond saving.
That's exactly why Shoji was here, and was willing to cross this line, not because of revenge, well he wanted revenge, but what was more important was to ensure, Eiji got justice, and no other heteromorph had to go through such humiliation again, Shoji was willing to enter the darkness, willing to stain his hands with blood, held the burden of murdering someone, doing all the dark things needed to ensure he and people like him weren't treated like this ever again, he was going to take in all the darkness, so that the next generation of heteromorphs, that are born, don't have to fear or live in terror
He had embraced the monster, not just in the person in front of him, but in himself as well. He knew if people didn't treat them with love and respect naturally, then he needed to snatch it from them, make them forced to do so, and leave them with no other choice but to treat them nicely.
Shoji stood up with a steeled resolve as he said, "I want to get revenge on whatever has happened to us heteromorphs for so long, I want them to live in fear, will you help me?"
"And why do you think I would help you do that?" asked Izuku.
"Because if you didn't wish to, you wouldn't have saved me, or even killed all these policemen here, unless you need something from me and you yourself want to get rid of them, you also want something, and to achieve that you are willing to kill people, and if that's the case then we should work together, that way we both will be able to achieve our goals," said Shoji as he reached out his hand to shake hands and seal the deal.
"Impressive, you don't waste time huh, atleast you're not dumb like others, you are correct about that, I do need something from you, that's why I saved you," said Izuku with a smile
"Well I am done enduring discrimination, now I just want to give my people the love and respect they deserve, and I know how this city is so I don't have any remorse or hesitation for these people and don't want to waste time anymore so what is it that you want from me?" asked Shoji, as he retracted his hand back.
"I want an army, an army of heteromorphs, led by you working for me, in return for which, I'll fulfill your dream, turn the city around, hunters would get hunted, this city would be run around by the heteromorphs," said Izuku.
"Well that can be done, as long as my wish is fulfilled, I'll help you with anything you want," said Shoji.
"But let me clear one thing, betraying me is not an option, if you or anyone from the army you provide me betrays me, I'll slaughter you people, I don't care what reasons you or them have for betraying me if you have a problem talk to me, try betraying me, and I'll make sure this city becomes a no man's land, abandoned city, whose streets and buildings are painted red, with only corpses to be found," said Izuku in a really cold voice, with no shred of emotions and said this, making things clear.
"And since you have seen how I dealt with these policemen, you should have an idea, of how I do things, and there is no escape from me," said Izuku.
"Understood," said Shoji.
"So where do we start," asked Shoji
Shoji was still fearing Izuku, as he burned the image of scattered dead bodies around him to make sure he didn't forget it, however, he wasn't that scared, as the thrill of seeing what he had only dreamt of, for like his whole life, was now a reality and he knew he could also make this true as well, and also protect his people, so he was filled with adrenaline and wanted to do more such things.
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