"Time to hunt!" Yugen grinned as he activated his quirk. Purplish particles materialized before him as he conjured four clones of his eyeballs, then sent each pair in a different direction to explore Sakura Ward streets. The cloned eyes hovered on top of the city, searching for possible enemies he could fight.
He closed his eyes, the scenes transmitted by each pair of eyes kept appearing in his mind, switching and carefully checking the things below him.
After spending almost ten minutes in a fruitless search, just when he started having a headache and considered canceling his quirk, because multitasking—controlling four eyes and processing information sent by four sources of vision simultaneously—caused his head to ache in pain.
Suddenly, the eyeball in the north was drawn to a glowing red light below. Yugen raised an eyebrow, canceled the remaining three eyes, and cloned an ear, then teleported it next to the eye. His ability allowed him to teleport his body parts to any place as long as he could perceive it, be it through seeing, hearing or other senses. But the longer the distance, the more physical energy he had to consume to maintain it. His max range currently was two miles.
He manipulated the eyeball and the ear to get closer, then he saw, in a dimly lit alley, a group of delinquent teenagers basking in the glow of a crackling fire. Laughter echoed through the night, mingling with the strains of loud music and the flirtatious banter of the girls.
"Huh? That logo." Yugen noticed similar tattoos on the bodies and clothes of most boys, which were eye-catching black serpent logos entwined with silver lightning.
Yugen's cloned eye identified them immediately—
"The Thunder Serpents," a notorious gang composed of high school delinquents, the source of trouble and the nightmare of students from elementary to high school in this area.
Because it's only composed of underage 14 to 17-year-old boys and girls, they manage to seize the loophole in the law and act as they want, since even the cops release them after a day or two in jail.
Memories of a past encounter with two of their members who attended the same school as him flashed through Yugen's mind.
Once, they had tried to bully him, asking him for protection fee, but who they think he is?, He is the The Shark! using only his martial art techniques acquired from almost five years of training in various martial art gyms and salles, he had swiftly turned the tables, teaching them a lesson that ensured they never dared to approach him again.
However, just few days ago, he remembers some whispers in his classroom speaking of the gang's escalating violence, it seems the thunder serpents are secretly assaulting those who refused to pay protection fee, and they even beat a student from his class. Yugen had ignored them in the past, he is too busy to care about little kids playing gangsters games, but now, driven by a desire to establish himself as a vigilante, he decided to play with them.
"So here we have these chickens trying to play Gangster, That's bad, Since the law can't seem to straighten them out, I'll just have to unleash these mighty fists of justice and nudge them back onto the right path! Darn it! I'm practically a saint in disguise, aren't I? this sense of mission, this feeling of wanting to save these misguided kids from falling into the abyss is bizarre, but why, it feels strangely good. Maybe being a hero isn't a bad choice..." Yuugen mused, a mischievous grin playing on his lips as he began shadowboxing, warming up his body.
After a few minutes of getting his muscles ready for action, he positioned himself on the rooftop's edge, the edge was thick enough for him to stand on. deliberately avoiding looking downward. The residential buildings stood side by side, separated only by a narrow gap that anyone with enough courage could leap across.
A surge of adrenaline coursed through his veins, a thrilling cocktail of fear and excitement that electrified his senses. He could hear the rhythmic thumping of his nervous heart.
he could hear the rush of blood in his ears as he crouched slightly, accumulating some force, preparing for the leap. His pulse quickened, matching the rapid calculations in his mind, measuring the distance, estimating the trajectory. A misstep here would result in falling, falling mean death, or even worse getting crippled, even though he won't die, but the pain of getting his bones shattered, his brain exploded, is something he doesn't want to try.
'You can do it, Yugen, in the worst case, I'll Return to the third bookmark before slamming into the ground, or maybe I should bookmark this moment?! in this way I don't need to climb the building or experience the pain of getting my head exploding like a watermelon!' Yugen motivated and comforted himself, and it worked.
Yugen Quickly changed the bookmarked moment in the third bookmark, he named it, Leap of Faith.
With a surge of determination, Yugen launched himself into the air, Time seemed to slow as he sailed through the air, the wind whispering past his ears. (damn, the rhythm was good!) The sensation of weightlessness gripped him, the ground below growing larger with each passing heartbeat.
His heart pounded, not just with fear, but with the raw thrill of the leap. The gap closed rapidly, and for a fleeting moment, the world blurred into a canvas of city lights and indigo sky. Then...
"Thud!"
The momentum generated from his leap propelled him across the rooftop's edge, landing him directly on the adjacent building's rooftop. A forward roll followed, skillfully absorbing the impact with fluid precision.
"Whoo-hoo! I fucking did it!" Yugen screamed, his voice a mixture of surprise and unbridled excitement. His eyes sparkled with the satisfaction of conquering his fear of heights, and he couldn't help but revel in the rush of adrenaline coursing through his veins.
It seems it was just a simple jump, but he is the only one who knows how much courage it took him to perform it, even with the existence of the bookmarks as a guarantee, some deep rooted fear and phobia isn't easy to overcome. but slowly, with time and experience, he will conquer this fear!
Yugen walked to the edge of the current rooftop and stood on it.
"I just need to repeat the same process, since i did it once, i can do it twice, and so on!"
Brimming with newfound confidence, Yugen embarked on another daring jump from one building to the next, leaving behind series of joyful screams. His action disrupted the serene dreams of countless residents who, in their sudden awakening, couldn't help but curse the disturbance caused by his screams.
"Hey, what in the world was that?!"
"Who the heck is making that noise at this hour?!"
"Ugh, not again! I just want to sleep!"
"Is that a kangaroo on the roof?"
"What the heck is happening?!"
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