Imagine waking up in darkness, not knowing where you are or how you got there. Yeah, that's how it was for me. For what felt like ages, I floated in this void, grappling with the idea of being alone forever after my death. I would never see my parents nor my friends ever again, and it was eating away at me.
I always read about people getting into accidents and living an amazing life after getting reincarnated with some cheats or perks, but that doesn't seem to be the case as I've been here for who knows how long? The funny thing is, now that I'm dead, I can vividly remember everything that happened in my life. It was strange to me, as I had a terrible memory in my life. Like, I ever forgot some of my family's birthdays, and almost every year, I had to ask when Easter was again in March as I would completely forget.
But I guess now that I don't have a body, I can explore what made me, me. Our sense of self is made up of experiences and memories, and that's what shapes the soul. I was confused when I first woke up and couldn't feel a thing. But after like a few years, I started to question how I remember things without a brain. I came to a conclusion: the lives we have lived that make us who we are gets imprinted on our souls but gets weaker when our body and soul are out of sync. I say this because I have no idea how long I had been here before I had woken up.
When I woke up, I was completely out of it. It felt like I had been underwater for too long but wasn't drowning just yet, while also just waking up on a Monday at 5 a.m. after only going to sleep at 2 a.m., and you just don't want to get up. It also felt like a dream where you try to do something, but even if you try, you actually do something completely different, and have no idea what's going on. Only after, I think, a few years of trying to work out what in the hell was happening, I kinda managed to pull my soul and sense of self back together, and from there is how I started to basically relive my life but without limitations like a brain for me to forget anything, so I basically have amazing memories now.
After going through the thought that wasn't, in fact, cool as I wouldn't be able to see my loved ones again and only really getting over it after a few years, I started to try and do stuff instead of just floating in this seemingly endless void. One of the first things I tried to do was move, but that was hard. It was like trying to move fast when your hand is in non-Newtonian fluid, but what I tried to move was what I thought my hand was, but it was a transparent white, almost blank blob, which only then I realised I didn't have a body, so no wonder why everything was so dark. From that revelation, I tried to move my soul into something of the shape of my body, well, at least at first, and after probably a few hundred years, I managed to do so. Yes, when you're stuck with nothing to do, you can actually concentrate on something, which was very helpful in obtaining a shape for my soul.
After doing this, I realised that I didn't like the overall shape of my body, and from there, I started to edit the shape of my body, removing what was the fat of my body, obviously not all of it, and basically used it to make myself look like what I could have looked like had I cared for my body more. And I got to say it was pretty handsome. Anyways, after that, I basically just dived into my memory because after now having eyes, I realised everything around me was still all black, so I dived into anything I could remember, even doing some maths that I had glimpsed in the past and couldn't answer. But after that, I got really bored and started to just kind of sleep?
It was like shutting down a computer and like setting a timer of when to wake up, and that also got boring after a few thousand years. Then one day, I was like why don't I try interacting with the void like how in stories mages used mana, and that's what I did. I sat (float?) and started to try and feel anything, and well, I have no idea how long I had been sitting there, so yeah. But eventually, I felt something, and I tried to move it and... nothing. It was like trying to grab smoke, it just didn't do anything. But eventually, after a shitload of time, I could move it and even now properly feel it. Now, I had no idea what to do with this, so I just decided I'm going to try and collect it in myself like a cultivator or something, and well, it was scary as fuck, as once I let it in, it was like my soul wouldn't stop absorbing it and it was scary. But it really got scary when I started to feel a fullness in myself and I realised shit, I couldn't turn it off, and I started to panic as I could feel my soul almost bursting at the seams, and honestly, I realised you don't know pain until your soul is about to explode. But I somehow managed to turn off the flow.
After that scary act, I just stopped for a while as I was really terrified. But once I calmed down, I started to inspect what had happened, and it would seem, my soul had changed, and the change was in my core, which made me, me. I realised that somehow I had become void? Kinda, it's more like the power of my soul had me, and then surrounding what made me, me was a dense sphere of void. After a few years of, I guess, kinda refining it, I realised I could use the void to enhance myself, and I did, but I went flying, and I mean shooting off in the distance, and I had no idea how to stop, but I eventually smashed into something.
Then, out of nowhere, I get flung into it. I have no idea, my soul barely holding itself together.
As I was shooting through the void wondering what in the world had swatted me like a fly away, I crash through something, and all I can think about is how I wished my life would have gone as I was so sure I was going to actually die from the sensation of what I can only assume was me smashing a barrier of some reality.
I was ranting on how I could have had a normal death where I meet a ROB who would just grant me wishes and as I was going through the wishes of simpler reincarnation with some perks, but instead, I'm thrust into this mess. But just then, I heard something like a robotic voice, and as I was listening, it sounded like something I had watched before, and I realised it was talking about using karma to grant wishes, but as I had no karma after living in the void for who knows how long, it decided to use the void energy I've absorbed to try and grant my wishes. However, as I was thanking whomever had flung me here, I suddenly feel another smashing sensation, and from the voice, it would seem that I had smashed through the other end of this reality and the thing trying to grant my wishes had an error, and as I heard that I once again started cursing the thing that had flung me into this.
But just as I was going to continue cursing at the entity, I saw for the first time a colour other than black and I was heading right towards a multicoloured crack in reality, I think, and just then I was once again thrust into darkness, but I could tell I was no longer moving.
After calming down, I quickly realised something rather different, and I realised what it was. I now have a body well kinda, I can feel like it's not complete, so I assume I'm just a foetus at the moment. And the only reason I know this is because I can feel myself relax and be without holding myself together, my soul is resting. But it's strange, i can't seem to do anything, like when i try to move myself out of this body i realise that whatever that voice was on about used a lot of my energy but my source seems a lot more dense, like when i say dense i mean so dense, its like i had all the water on earth and about 10 of those then it's now all so condensed it's like the size of a marble but with the same amount of water. So I also realise that my subconscious has fixed or finished what the thing didĀ as I feel I need to recover a bit so I can't really do anything, but I also realise another thing.Ā IT WORKED! Well, kinda. When I tried to used my soul sense to search myself, I felt something change near the core of myself, then all of a sudden sudden bits of memory started coming to me about my own soul sensing skill and was showing me something similar but different, as I tried the method that I had experienced I realised it was better than my own, and I quickly realised what had happened.
I started to laugh in my mind almost manically 'HAHAHAAHHAhAAHAHAHAhAHAAHAHAH' it would seem that, that wish-granting thing wasn't a complete failure, but wasn't quite right, it would seem it tried to give me a cheat that was made from my own refined void energy because i didn't have any karma as my original shell which would be my soul was i think taken by my original universe so it would take that energy, so instead it used the only energy i had which was my refined void energy, but since the process was interrupted and the cheat wasn't finished being made, my soul decided to reabsorb the energy and somewhat completed what the entity tried to do, and as far as I can see, it made something akin to Akashic records where I could look for information, but instead, this uses my own void energy to take knowledge from nothingness after I've experienced it myself.
I felt something in the back of my mind or more like near my memories and core of myself, information started flooding me on, but my soul made it look like something that I was more familiar with and became a part of me once more. So basically, I can now read or decipher my soul information, something like a Status from a game but I can't call it out but rather I would have to read my soul to see it. So basically it says my name, which is filled in as Matthew and it says my soul rank, which is apparently 2 and that I have a skill called Soul sense Lv2 and Soul protection Lv1, which from my understanding is a way for me to increase how long it would take for me to reassemble myself, so if my soul where to get obliterated and everything now thinks I'm gone it won't be true as I'm a part of nothingness and void as my core of me is a part of void, so as long as there is void, there is me, but this skill would allow me to put myself back together.
So basically, I can learn skills, and it would be shown on my soul in which I get knowledge corresponding to the level of it while also getting something like muscle memory, but I need to use it more and improve for it to level up, which is pretty OP.
But i really wonder what is constituted as level 1 knowledge etc, is it by years? Or civilization or by how common, i have not the slightest clue but it is useful, and they think i really love about it is that,this came from me, sure there was that wish granting thing, but it just manipulated some of my energy and didn't even finish, but it's all me, plus the nice thing about it is that if somehow in someway it were to just vanish which shouldn't be possible as it is part of my source, is that i wouldn't all of a sudden loose power as i already know how i did those things, so i can just train to do it again, unlike if i got given power or a system it could be taken and i would become powerless, thats why i really love this.
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[Body Creation Lv1] [Physical Damping Lv1] [Heat Resistance Lv1] [Thinking Lv1] these were just the main skills i had received and learned about after around 5 months of being here, they were pretty cool to learn about and especial body creation was useful because it allowed me to understand most things about my body and i could very subtly manipulate my development like i'm pretty sure i was able to filter out harmful substances while being created in my new mothers womb. I also eventually got a skill called [Growth] which helped to retain my muscles, and make them compressed and stronger, as well as slow down my ageing, and when i was eventually born i had gotten another skill about [Ageing] Yeah, it helps to age me in a slow way while maximising my lifespan, it's very similar to [Growth] which at Lv1 provided a 5% in growth of muscles, retention and compressing and the optimal way i grow, but with ageing it's now basically 10%.
When i got my bearinging to my surroundings i had gotten even more knowledge [Sight Lv1] [Hearing Lv1] [Touch Lv1] [Taste Lv 1] [Smell Lv1] and from those 5 i made a discovery as in my soul sheet it now only had the skill [Sense Lv1] instead of all 5 which was really convenient and i even could feeling i had gotten a new sense which seemed to be integrated into the [Sense Lv1] which was basically a why to sense danger, though i know how to, i would like to practise a bit to make it better. But knowing how to do something is much easier than just winging it so yeah.
After getting my bearings and realising these people are speaking japanese cause i know my anime and with time in the voice i was able to remember everything i had watched so i had a vague idea what they were saying but what came into clutch was the [Japanese Lv1] skill that i had just received and well it was helpful as i know know more of what they are saying, and there is one word that ring a bell in my mind, 'Quirk' 'They are talking about a healing quirk as apparently the umbilical cord was stronger than it should have been which i realise is my fault as i was able to filter the nutrients i had received so i understand, but back to Quirks??? Is this My hero academia or am I just misunderstanding?' Soon an old looking short woman with warm eyes comes in and she comes over to me and gives me a kiss on my cheek, then i get information on [Life Force Conversion Lv1] [Fatigue Resistance Lv1] as i'm getting this knowledge i realise i recognize this woman as Recovery girl from the anime My Hero Academia and just as i made this realisation i passed out, due to the stamina it took to heal me thanks to recovery girls powers.
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Coming to terms with the new reality i've literally been yeeted too was something, it hadn't taken that long to accept as i had being in a void for aeons recreating my soul, so yeah, but when i came to after recover girl had healed my umbilical cord which i found strange that she was there at the hospital, but i had heard something that like this was how she patrolled in her days because it was the best way to help as many people as possible. Anyways my new name now is still Matthew, as my dad is aparently american and my surname is Kobayashi, which i find amusing because it means 'small forest' which represents new beginnings and growth, so yeah, my mother is a beautiful woman with hazel coloured hair, and from the pictures my father is a man with blond hair, im not to concerned with my father as he isnt around, but yeah, im with my mother whis name is Yuki, which is lovely, getting used to being fed with breast milk was a bit weird at first but after a week i just said fuck it and just enjoyed it from then on. I did receive a few skills though. [Shitting Lv2] Yeah, babies poop a lot and well I got this. [Analytic Observation Lv1] this skill taps into your subconscious knowledge and experiences, allowing you to observe a complex object like machinery and piece together its components and functions based on what you already know. Here's how it would function in practice:
Observation: You see a piece of machinery you've never encountered before.
Subconscious Analysis: Your skill kicks in, enhancing your perception and allowing you to identify and analyse each component (screws, cylinders, spark plug, etc.).
Knowledge Integration: Your mind connects these components based on your prior knowledge. For example, you might recognize that screws hold parts together, cylinders are for combustion or movement, and a spark plug ignites fuel.
Information Display: If you already know the name of the machine or its purpose, the skill might display this information. If not, it would provide a detailed understanding of its components and likely function.
This skill enhances your ability to understand and interact with your environment by leveraging your existing knowledge in a subconscious and intuitive manner. It's a powerful tool in the context of an isekai story, where characters often encounter unfamiliar technology or concepts from their new world. (Had the idea, but I just didn't know how to put it into words so I made a chat to do it for me but the idea is mine.)
It's a very very useful skill, and it's pretty amazing, with this skill i was also able to learn a skill called [Subconscious Mnemonics Lv1] which allows me to automatically help me organise my subconscious mind, and such so that's good, i see where this cheat i made has its flaws cause it allows for me to learn 'Unnecessary skills' which in reality are kinda broken, but i do have to either experience the skill, or learn a lot of theory on it and try to do the thing which doesn't always work. I also got skills like [Digestion Lv2] which basically make my digestion better, increases the efficiency etc, yeah, it's pretty cool, but the main think i had been focusing on would have to be the [Life Force Conversion Lv1] which i had gotten thanks to Recovery girl, its amazing as i have played around a bit with it, i can basically change a type of energy into life force and use it for a variety of things for example healing, but from this skill i was also able to get [Life Force Manipulation Lv1] which is even cooler because now i can actually control the shit i do with it. But I need to train it of course. I'm very excited to get my quirk when I turn 4. If I remember correctly that's the age of when people get their quirks! Like my mother uses her quirk for doing multiple things at once and she mainly uses it for cooking which is fascinating to look at. She owns a small restaurant where she makes the food, she had to take me so she could work, and well i was on my best behaviour as i didn't want to inconvenience my mother.
My mother is a very cheerful person and she supports my aspirations of being a hero. I'm pretty sure it's exactly like Midoriya's mother in his childhood. Now I am a really good child as well. I didn't really cry much, there were a few moments as my brain was now of a developing toddler to a young child so I did have my childish moments. It's been around 3 years now and i haven't even seen my father, which is crazy in my opinion and well it seems to be getting to my mother as well, but i was there for her because that was what i was there for, i genuinely came to love her, as i mean she changed my diapers and is always happy to see me, you can't help it and you can feel the love radiating off of her when she looks and hold me. And I was cheerful as a child as I could now actually move around and interact with people after being alone for millions of years, you know? Anyways i had now started to really wonder what my quirk would be, because i was honestly getting impatient, because today was the day when i would go to the doctor to see what my quirk is and i'm really excited! As we were driving to the doctors my mother was laughing along to my enthusiasm because can you really blame me? I'm basically about to get super powers!
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"Apologies Ma'am, your son appears to not have a quirk as he doesnt have a quirk factor. You see we determine that people who have quirks have an extra joint in their pinkie toe, but your son doesn't have one." he said in a remorseful tone. I was gobsmacked, like are you serious? Now I have to actually take life more seriously! Because fuck! Damnit! Due to my silence my mother spoke in tears. "I'm sorry dear. It's my fault, I didn't give you the right genetics.." she started to cry and apologise and I quickly concolled her that I was fine but she didn't believe me. I really don't want her to blame herself because if anything it could have been my fault as I had the ability to help create my body and I could have fixed that 'imperfection' without noticing. Yeah I was incredibly disappointed but I had no time for that as I needed to make a plan and I think I already had an idea on where to begin.
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It has beenĀ years since then and my mother still feels bad no matter what i tell her, so i've basically just been spoiling my mother so she doesn't feel bad because it really isn't her fault but she feels like a familiar as a parent because she thinks i can't be a hero without a quirk and she knows how much i wanted to be a hero. But today my efforts have paid off. You see when i started going to school and had access to more information and things i had gotten a skill called [Learning Lv2] which basically increased my learning ability buy alot, so its bery useful and helps me to retain information, combined with another skill i got from helping some class mates which is the skill [Teaching Lv2] which basically dqudrupled the effect of the learning skill, so i was able to study alot more and faster thanks to [Reading Lv4] [Speed Reading Lv3] yeah i dont exactly get why they are separate but it benefits me so im not complaining, but anyway thanks to these skills and some others i was able to anaylse my mother while she was using her quirk, for hair control, how her life force moved, how a strange energy or muscles moved, basically analysing her powers, i tried to imitate it with just life force it kind of worked but it wasnt nearly as good, but thanks to trial and error and me figuring out how to reverse the [Life Force Conversion Lv3] skill i was able to create the same type of energy which is similar to life force but with a different frequency i think? But yeah and thanks to that I had gotten the skill [Hair Manipulation Lv1] yeah thanks to now having the skill there is slight muscle memory and I have the knowledge on it, it was really useful, it was like having so many extra limbs. When i showed it to my mother she cried tears of joy as she said that i had a quirk, we did some research online and there were a few articles that there can be late bloomers, but i know this isn't a quirk, it's just my knowledge and skill in form.
Thanks to now having my new Hair Manipulation skill i my mother had properly cheered up, i started to also do some proper exercise and i used the life force of plants around me to reinforce my muscles and such, i was still working on a way on how to make a storage bank for it like a dantian or something, but nothing so far. I have also started using the computers more as I start to really absorb information and knowledge like a sponge. Don't get me wrong, I do get bored sometimes but yeah. I've started looking at schematics of hero support items online and things like that and I've started to make small things at home myself. And it wasn't really hard thanks to my knowledge and newly gaining skills. Like i had a bunch of skill related to Science but one i had 5 of them on the same level they combined and i had gotten [Science Lv2] and there was a fuck ton of information in this. Like so much, everything related to science like this was in there. And I had also eventually got [Biology Lv1] and stuff like that. So i was doing well, i did have some class bullies in my school as people still thought i didn't have a quirk and when i showed them i did because they were really getting annoying they even made fun of me because they saw it as weak. But little do they know is that i can fucking strangle there balls if i really god damn tried, because of the little hair they had down there. But my control of other people's hair is still very low as I would need to be touching them for me to do it.
When I turned 7 I was able to win an online competition for kids for making a hero support gear. It was for children under 10 years old, and thanks to that I was able to win 2 tickets to this year's I-Islands expo! Which is fucking amazing! Like bro, but I do feel kinda bad but I've only learned my stuff for the past 3 years. The support item that i had made was a mini shield generator, although it sounds insanely complicated, i had the opportunity to examine a classmate of mine who could made platforms under his feet so he could walk on the air, and from examining him use his quirk while i was playing with him, i was able to have an understanding how it worked, and i was able to replicate it and i got the skill [Barrier Arts Lv2] which i use on my hair and body when i use it, as it does take my stamina at the moment, but i was able to make a small power source that would replicate a barrier similar to the quirk i based it off of, the one i released to the public for the competition after patting it was one that doesn't allow you to walk on the air, but i'm working on a pair of shoes that could make the barrier attached to air molecules for the person to step on. The shield will be able to take a few armour piercing rounds, i would have made it stronger but then the whole thing would have been too bulky and until i work out how to make a smaller power source then this will have to do, it is rechargeable and its pretty sturdy. This should help with smaller crimes.
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My mother was really proud of me that I was able to win the competition and was also flabbergasted. She didn't realise that I was so incredibly smart, that's her own words. I mean im happy for those words but there was a kid that literally made elemental swords that was dope as fuck. The people of this world had a lot more potential in the brain department if they properly developed it here on this version of earth compared to my old one. My mother and I got on the Cruise that took us to I - Island and we had a fun time on the ship. I did manage to sneak onto the gambling deck and mother was a bit mad but I helped her win a few jackpots thanks to my [Analytical Observation Lv 4] Skill which was great, but afterwards we were kicked out and my mother and I had a blast. The food was especially good.
Once we got to I-Island we were given VIP passes because of the official competition. My mother was havingĀ a great time chatting to the parents of some of the other people who I assume came here because they were either rich or they won second place. It was a 5 day expo and it was really amazing. Thanks to my [Analytical Observation Lv 4] Skill I was able to break down some of the things that were on display and learn more things. It was very useful and I could already see how I could improve my shield generator, which btw was in one of the showcases. Thanks to this i was able to meet second place who happened to be Malissa Shield, at first she gave me the stink eye and was pouting, but soon we got along quite well and it was nice to actually talk to someone intelligent, thanks to that we became friends and went to a workshop while my mother was watching one of the shows. Thanks to this we had a lot of fun and bonded over the thing we were making, and by the fifth day we had completed it. An advanced smart watch, that had my now improved mini shield generator in it, which was also capable of turning into a glove/gauntlet that would be able to mix the elements sword and shield generator to make a repulsor technology similar to the one iron man had, it was freaking awesome but it could only be used like 50 times before you would need to recharge which was good, but i wanted to find a better power source. We were able to make it charge with movement and solar but if you wanted a quick charge then you would need to properly charge it for it to charge quickly, but if you don't use it it would last you a good month or even more if you don't use the shield generator. But yeah, the coding and stuff was mainly left to me and we made a really cool operating system and called it SHIELD, because Malica 'Shield' and the shield generator I made, but you get it.
When it was time to go it was a little sad and Mallisa had given me a long hug, while my mother had gotten acquainted with David, Malissas dad. We did exchange contact on the smart watch we made, so we could call each other whenever. And we did contact each other a lot over the next few years, I even went to i-island again a few more times. When i turned 10 we moved to a better house thanks to my Shield generator i was able to patent and now we get passive income, i started getting about 160,000 Dollars per month or 23,200,000 yen, it was recommended by David Shield himself so i got 8% royalties, and this is approximately 10,000 units made a month, and they sell for about 200 dollars, so when it expands i would get even more money.
One day when I was just tinkering with my stuff as usually, i decided to go help my mom in her restraunt that she started here after we moved, and while I was cooking, I heard a news report going on on how the American heros have failed to protect one of their states and a few of the monsters had gotten in and had now taken over that part of land, now obviously I was confused as fuck, so I asked my mother about this because I had never heard of monster here before. It was shocking what I had learned and honestly I should have expected it, and that was that not only humans have quirks, but also animals had started getting quirks and over some time the had evolved and had changed and thanks to that we have super monsters that want to be on the top of the food chain, apparently heros can go to a training camp after high school where you are taught to hunt and kill these beasts, the one thing is That for some reason some of these mutated beasts have a type of core, which scientists have been studying and trying to understand what they can be used for. yeah, I didn't want to touch that anytime soon so I was just going to focus on my life until then.
Now that I have turned 10 I really started to get into proper training, like before I was just doing stretches and light exercises as I was keeping those gains and it also made me very flexible thanks to my skills, but also because I was mainly focusing on creating cool shit. And thanks to this I'm ready to start really doing training. You see, thanks to my skill [Exercise Lv4] I have the best knowledge on how to build muscle the most effective and quickest way, even if some ways seem un orthodox, but what I have been doing till now is finally complete. You see a few years ago when i was exploring the expo with Melissa i had stumbled on a gravity device, and although it was clunky it was working, so basically thanks to my connections and my observation skill i was able to rebuild it on my own, but i did that in a simulation which i had been working on. You see I had started to delve into VR tech, so I basically had created nerve gear, and it wasn't too hard as VR technology had come a long way so after doing that and coding an environment where it links to my brain. So I used this to do my experiments with the gravity device until I was able to get it as small as I could, which wasn't difficult after researching micro and collapsing tech.
Thanks to all of that, I now have a device which I can attach to corners or a room or whatever to increase the gravity of the room. I haven't been able to make a small enough thing just to hang on my wrist but this is pretty good, and it uses my shield technology for isolation so it is pretty cool. The next thing that i had created where small by heavy wrist band that increased my weight by 50% the same ones all might used, i started with those and they were a bitch for the first month or so, as i wore them everywhere, so i had a constant work out ad thanks to my life force manipulation my muscles would heal insanely fast, from there i started to use the nerve gear to learn different types of martial arts, and thanks to the time dilation effects and the electro pulsers i had installed i was able to retain a certain amount of muscle memory but i did still practise in real life, after getting used to the weights i was wearing i started using the gravity room i had made and oh god was it painful, it was stupid to immediately to increase the gravity by 2 as i didn't realise that there would be such a difference. Anyways from there on out for the next year i started to practical live in that room as i hadn't figured out how to shrink the device yet, but then one day i had a breakthrough after getting [Science] to level 5 as that was a massive breakthrough in knowledge, i was able to shrink the device and had made it like a field generator that would attach to my chest, similar to the arc reactor from Iron man. From there my trainer kicked up a notch was i started living with double gravity for my whole day and night, i started running simulations in the nerve gear to do battle fields, rescue operations, maintenance and everything in between, and i was learning a lot from it, i even eventually had sold the capsule design i was using and i got more income from that, and then i basically made 'Games' which were these learning simulations, which were incredible advanced and i heard they would be implementing this into the UA high curriculum in second or third year which was amazing.
From there I had started levelling up my skills in combat whether it may=be armed or unarmed mastery which was going really well. I did start to study more into my biology and stuff, because I needed a way to explain my strength in the long run later down the line, and thanks to that, when I turned 13 I had essentially created a super soldier serum. Which after doing some testing and accidently letting lose a super mouse somewhere i had managed to make the super soldier serum, well my variation on it at least, this serum, basically helps you grow, so it isn't instantaneous, it would boost everything i have so far, basically raising the limits of a normal human body, which i had already broke through, so yeah. From there training went even better and eventually at some point i was living my life under 10x gravity, but i did need to figure out a way for it to not destroy the floor or wherever i walked but i managed to do that thanks to barriers. Eventually i did start going to underground tournaments where i would test my skills, so i could actually make sure i could fight properly even outside of a simulation, and well i was a bit hesitant at first but after getting punched in the face i was able to come to my sense and actually use what i learned, of course i had restricted my strength to slightly above a human adult, as i wasn't ready to kill even if accidently, don't get me wrong i have killed in my simulations before, but i knew that those where simulations.
After doing real fights and getting the hang of things, I continued with training with my skills, and advancing in my technology and fighting abilities. I was eventually able to make something similar to unstable molecule clothes similar to the fantastic 4 but mine was more durable, which I started making all my clothes out of, as well as my mothers so she would be safer. There was something i had made by mistake and i hadn't realised that i had left an experimental ai on, i only allowed access to what's inside my house and i didnt really finish it, but i had forgotten about it. Well one morning I woke up and everything was going normally. I was living life as usual and a few weeks had passed until one day, monsters had invaded Japan where I had lived and I was scared of course but was able to fight back for a long time and basically the world had ended right? Well i had basically been fighting for years on end in this world, well everything went dark, and yeah basically i had woken up and it turned out that i had been inside of a simulation world this whole time, and that my not finished ai had access my nerve gear and hooked me up because of my schedule of fighting in it, i had no idea it was a simulation and i would have probably died if my [Mind Arts Lv5] skill had now been level 5. Because of all the information. But yeah that was one hell of a session. Like bro it was too real and i honestly should have realised something when my skills aren't levelling up, yeah. I forgot about it a while ago. But at least I think I'm done with training for a while. I'm going to hang out with my mom as the UA entrance exam is happening in a month.
This past month has been fun. I've been mainly hanging out with my mother, and she is also looking good, as I had given her the super soldier serum, so she is slowly developing to become stronger, but the last 2 years she has practically deaged. We had fun and my mother and I liked to cook together and cuddle on the couch. I did manage to rope my mother in some of my training and she is pretty strong now as well, as I was teaching her with my teaching skill which is also level 5 and level 5 really is a big milestone. My mothers restaurant is probably the best in the whole city so she is really busy, "Do your best honey! It's okay even if you don't pass! I will still love you!!" ugh, i love my mom too but c'mon even i still get slightly embarrassed at some of the snickers, but it's fine as i shout back saying i love her too, which i receive another round of giggles.
We were quickly moved to a testing area where we partook in the written exam. It was mainly scenarios I guess testing our character, but there were also basic education questions. It was very easy for me as well. I have an eidetic memory thanks to my skills. Anyways soon we were split up into large groups and were brought to a lage city scape, and when i say large, i mean fucking massive. We had the whole speech by one of the UA staff and not long after the test had started.
You see, i don't plan on using my quirk in this test at all, and i know there are some people out there that thinks that is just stupid, well, honestly i don't care, as i want to prove that if you put in hard work, you will be able to be a hero, even without a quirk. I was born without a quirk and I will do this without a quirk. Soon we start, and i run off pretty fast as i man restricting my strength to above average male who has been working out for a while, not too long into the run i pick up a brick that is on the ground thanks to the robots and i head for a 1 pointer, i quickly smash its optical with it and then break its neck off the body, after that i get into its internals and make a makeshift laser with its optics and power supply, very makeshift. With it I blast a few 2 pointers before opening them up and making my weapon even better, as well as making makeshift bombs and EMP. I run along the rooftops of the buildings and do some parkour as I have a skill for it so I don't get hurt in the process. Along the way i save a few people by taking out so robots and removing debris off some people, and put back some dislocated limbs, and it continued like this for a while, i eventually just mounted one f the guns of a 2 pointer on my shoulder and made it shoot at ther robots before it overheated and i yeeted it at a 3 pointer where it exploded, giving me more points.
After that I was back to being empty handed as I had overloaded the equipment, but I found a long iron pole of scrap metal, made a makeshift handle for it and used it as a blade to cut down a few more bots [Weapon Arts Lv3]. soon i heard a blaring alarm and i know it is time, and with that i quickly make a few more EMP bombs and normal bombs before i see a large group of people running away and some with frightened looks and fear it their eyes, on the way i was able to save quite a number of people of falling debris. I heard a few explosions as i was running towards the robot, and when i checked i saw an angry teen looking at me, which i assumed is Bukugo and well i don't remember him trying to destroy the 0 pointer but i guess seeing me trying to he got competitive?
Anyway I broke off from him and ran up to a building and when I got to the roof, I took out 2 bombs I had made, one was an EMP while the other was a normal bomb. And with alot of my strength I tossed the EMP in the air and hit it with an iron pole as hard as I could and I saw it careening toward the robot, but immediately afterwards I sent the normal bomb and I sent it toward the chest of the robot. The EMP hit first and I could briefly see the light of the robot go offline and then just as my bomb went off I saw that there was a secondary explosion which I then noticed that bakugou had shot at it. And when i saw him trying to look all cool and seeing everyone looking at him like he was the main character, i realised they all thought that Bujugo had destroyed it, hell even Bukugo himself thought he did it. Anyways stealthy i made my way towards the back of the robot towards its head and found a terminal, which i just quickly hacked and played a victory meme on the Screen that the UA staff were watching on.
UA Staff POV
[PRINCIPAL] Clearly, the examinees have no idea how many villains are present, or their locations. They have limited time, must cover a vast area, and hunt down every last target. Some use information-gathering abilities to plan out strategies. While others rely on speed to pull ahead of their peers. Of course, remaining calm under pressure can be a huge advantage. As can pure power and combat ability. The most successful students use a combination of all these tactics. They're the ones who rack up the highest scores.
[TEACHER A] Hm, I'd say this year's group looks promising.
[TEACHER B] Well, there's still plenty of time before it's over. The real test has yet to come.
[TEACHER A]: Check out the results from the exam.
[TEACHER B]: Wow, the first place student didn't even have Rescue points.
[TEACHER C]: He took down those faux villains like an ace. When most of the other examinees were running from the big obstacle, he stayed focused on letting the smaller targets get in close and then counterattacking. That kid is tough.
[TEACHER B]: On the opposite end, the seventh place student had zero villain points.
[TEACHER C]: He's not the first UA hopeful to take out that giant robot. Though, it's been a while since I saw someone blow it away with one attack.
[TEACHER D]: But at what cost? Did you see how badly he injured himself? If you ask me, it's like his body isn't used to his Quirk.
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Nezu: "Impressive. His reasoning skills are remarkable."
Aizawa: "He only managed to save one person. That's hardly the mark of a true hero."
All Might: "But what I saw in him was a young man with great potential. Young Izuku Midoriya here is a shining example of that."
Aizawa: "Potential? He saved one person, All Might."
All Might: "Yet he still tried to save that girl without a moment's hesitation. He acted like a true hero."
Nezu: "We just witnessed one of the most inspiring acts of self-sacrifice I've ever seen."
Aizawa: "He failed to show good judgement. You can't teach a kid common sense."
All Might: "Aizawa, I must protest. I see plenty of potential in him."
Nezu: "His efforts were commendable. It's clear he has the heart to be a hero."
Aizawa: "But without a quirk what would he have done? He wouldn't have been able to do what he did."
All Might: "Young Midoriya might just surprise you."
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[The UA staff gathered in a darkened room, facing a large screen displaying footage from the entrance exam. All Might, Nezu, and the other teachers scrutinised each student's actions.]
[Present Mic pauses the footage, bringing up a digital overlay with student names and details.]
Present Mic: "Let's identify the students here. Midoriya Izuku, Ashido Mina, and... ah, Mineta Minoru."
Nezu: "Impressive display of power from young Midoriya."
All Might: "Indeed, his dedication is admirable."
Snipe: "Look at this student.. Ashido! Her agility is amazing, and that is a creative way to use such a quirk."
Midnight: "Oh, this student Mineta is sticking his balls to the walls! Quite resourceful." (Lol)
[The footage transitions to the section where the 0-Point Villain appears. The teachers watch as explosions rock the screen.]
Present Mic: "Whoa, explosions everywhere! That student is really letting loose! This appears to be a student named Bukugo."
Aizawa: "Hmm... impressive control of such an explosive quirk. But he seems rather tempramental"
Nezu: "Its admirable that young Midoriya, destroyed the 0-pointer, but he did destroy his whole arm."
Aizawa: "More like reckless, if he cant even control his quirk he could get some body or even himself killed!"
All Might: "He has only had the Quirk for less than a week, lets move on."
[Nezu leans forward as the footage rewinds and zooms in on the 0-Point Villain.]
Nezu: "Stop. Enhance that section."
[The screen zooms in on the 0-Point Villain's head where the EMP and bomb strike. The lights flicker off briefly.]
All Might: "Wait, what was that?"
Aizawa: "It looks like someone else attacked the robot first."
Nezu: "Trace the trajectory of that bomb."
[The trajectory traces back to where I had thrown the bomb.]
Present Mic: "Hold on! That wasn't Bakugo!"
Midnight: "It must have been a Physical type quirk, but where did he get the bombs?"
Nezu: "Ingenious. He seemed to have created them from the Robots he destroyed."
All Might: "This... Matthew Kobayashi?"
Aizawa: "His Quirk is Hair Manipulation, He did not once even use his quirk throughout the whole examination"
Nezu: "His skills in combat and technology are exceptional."
Present Mic: "And to think he didn't rely on a quirk at all."
All Might: "We might have overlooked someone special here."
[The teachers continue to watch as the footage shifts to Matthew taking out monsters with skill and precision.]
Nezu: "Quite the potential we have here. Matthew Kobayashi, keep an eye on him."
All Might: "He might just surprise us all."