Meeting Sensei showed Taiko the essence of his nature and realized that they are absolutely not similar to each other. After reading the story about the dark times of the Quirk Era and the chaos that brought humanity, Taiko realized that the Demon King and Sensei are the same person. If you count it that way, he is about a hundred years old, maybe even more. The ability to take away, use and give countless Quirks is an incredible ability. However, as a clone of one of the most sinister characters in history, Taiko began to be proud of his Quirk, because it even saved his life a couple of times and destroyed very strong opponents. In some ways, he even laughs at the fact that Sensei could not understand the Quirk and perceived it as trash because of one condition. Apparently, a temporary condition. Only Taiko knew what inexhaustible potential his Quirk could now represent. Kyudai went to look for bodies for new Nomu with the help of Johnny, and Taiko ate with Akiko and went for a walk in the forest. Passing by a tree with a broken crown, Taiko and Akiko remembered those events. To some extent, it was he who created Akiko, who she is now. As it turned out, Akiko did not remember her stay in the lab while in the form of a queen bee.
-Akiko, do you want to start going to school? You will be discharged soon, and then what will you do? There you will have many friends with whom you will have fun.
-And you? - the girl wore an eye patch and no nurse is allowed to touch her in the hospital.
-I'm not going anywhere, I will still work in the lab for the old man. We will live in the same house. - hearing about this, Akiko was happy. Somewhere among the trees, his hornets were hiding, which he could not yet fully control. It was as if they were waiting for you to wake up.
-Speaking of your house. It's been sealed off now because your parents' employer reported them missing for a couple of days. The police came and reported them missing.
Akiko no longer felt bad about killing her parents. Taiko was always there to cheer her up. They had developed an emotional attachment to each other in some way. Including Taiko realizing that they had similar quirks to each other, it definitely made them stick together.
-Ours? -Akiko blushed at the realization of living in the same house with Taiko.
-"Soon, the child protection services will come for her. According to the documents, I am Kyudai Garaki's adopted son, we can ask him to formalize guardianship for her as well. Kyudai has a house in Jaku, quite far from the hospital, so he spends his time exclusively at work and in the lab. We can set up our new home there, clean it up and show off the diligent family man Kyudai to the child protection service from all sides."
-We have a lot of work to do! - Taiko ran towards Kyudai's house, holding Akiko's hand. He ran not only because of the suddenly appeared business, but also because he felt aggression towards Kuin from the ever-increasing number of hornets around them.
-W-what? Where to?!
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Kyudai's dusty house turned out to be quite nice, but in a bad area. There were a lot of marginal personalities here, and Taiko kept Akiko close to him. Having unlocked the door with the key previously received from Kyudai, Taiko was the first to enter the dusty house, which clearly had not seen the owner's hands for a long time.
-Cough-cough! - Akiko coughed.
Taiko hurried to open the windows wherever possible. There were cockroaches running around the kitchen, there was even a small basement, there were also cockroaches running around there.
- Yes, we need dry cleaning and new furniture... - Taiko looked at Akiko and her worn old clothes. - It's decided, we need money. And then we'll buy you any clothes you want.
- Hurray!
How to make money? Only criminal and criminal actions such as robbery and burglary came to Taiko's mind. He was only 8 years old, and Akiko was 7. No one would take them seriously during a robbery, and involving Akiko in this adventure was the last thing he wanted to do. Unlike her, Taiko still hasn't accepted his quirk, but he is much stronger and more resilient than ever, due to the miraculous intervention of Kyudai. He still doesn't understand what the old man did. There are suspicions that this is due to partial nomification.
There is no point in bothering Kyudai about this issue, he would rather tell you what to do than solve the problem. For him, the heir of Sensei is not the kind of person who will ask for help, but will do it himself.
Taiko thought about the hard fate of earning money, staring out the dusty window, stroking the chestnut hair of Akiko, who was sitting on his lap. Her bees were flying nearby, examining every corner of the house. In the window, he noticed a couple of guys smoking weed.
- Drugs ... No, not an option.
Money has always played an important role for Taiko, and from an early age he understood the value it brings. He had a particularly strong desire for money in his blood, since Kyudai created this greed in him by almost never giving him pocket money. Every day, Taiko saw people riding in cool cars, buying expensive things, and eating delicious food. In this regard, Kyudai restrained him so that this greed for material things would give him motivation to do something, and not sit on their necks.
First, he needs to get to know the features of his quirk better before relying on it. Maybe they will throw him some work. After all, it means something if he is able to kill an entire bear, albeit not alone, but with the help of his quirk. Taiko began to fantasize and imagine himself as a cool samurai who crumbles his enemies into thin lines.
Akiko liked it when Taiko smiled, even if she did not understand what he was talking about.
-But first, you need to clean up a bit and get your first money from somewhere. You can't do without it.
Taiko started cleaning the rooms from the multitude of dust, and he threw out the old and torn furniture. Akiko helped clean the windows and take out the trash on her own initiative.
-Phew...-Taiko said tiredly after a couple of hours of cleaning. -What a clever girl you are, Akiko. - he stroked her cheek, making her blush. Taiko folded the old furniture, or at least broke it, and took it outside, except for the heavy sofa.
-Taiko, how are we going to get rid of these cockroaches?
-I'll eat them all!
-Ugh! Well, tell me!
-I'll call a huge bee, whose pollen will cleanse this house of cockroaches while you're at school.
-Wow. And where is the big bee-san, the cockroach-killer, now?
-In my pocket.
-Really?
-Check. -Taiko opened the pocket of his sweater. The girl bent down to look, and Taiko quickly tickled her.
-Taiko...s-stop, ha-ha-ha!