-...Ahem...Get the children away from the screen. This footage was delivered to the police station this morning. It shows two mutilated bodies, presumably two police officers working there.
The scene changed to a police officer from the same station, in shock. -Ryutaiya Kanagawa was a mentor to all of us, and Itakami was a good friend. They were both good police officers. I... I'm so sorry. - he turned to his loved ones.
-They were probably killed on the outskirts of Musutafu, where it is not uncommon to meet members of the Yakuza. Who do you think did it?
-Whoever it was, we will catch them and bring them to justice. There will be no mercy for this monster. - said the chief of the police station, Kenji Tsuragamae.
-Pha! Is this a dog standing on two legs... - Taiko laughed, watching TV and having breakfast with Kuin. -...and in a jacket, a business dog. Ha-ha!
-He looks funny. - Kuin laughed with him, having a toast with honey for breakfast.
Having completed the contract, Giran announced a good result, in addition, Taiko managed to earn a sinister reputation and decent money. All For One was also happy with this result, but Taiko assumed that raids on groups would only intensify from this, while he, a loner, would remain in chocolate. What did he care about the fucking yakuza? Somewhere deep down, Taiko understood that the image of Grimm would send the police's wrath specifically to the yakuza, perhaps this would have its own consequences and they would want to deal with Grimm, but he threw this thought out of his head, celebrating his triumph.
Taiko began to arrange a training ground in the basement of the house, where he would train with heavy weights and practice punches. - "Martial arts are a show, real fighting skills are born and tempered directly in combat conditions." He often wondered why he continued to fight and live? Where did he get so much strength from? And the answer was immediately found, looking at Kuin, who gave him a reason to live. A ray of hope, for which he would do everything in the world.
Soon, Taiko will visit the almost completed Gigantomachia in order to reprogram it to his commands. He had one method that he learned from beekeeping. Those same pheromones that bees alone can have a dozen of. This is a kind of communication between them. And so Taiko thought, what would happen if he convinced Gigantomachia that he was a giant hornet controlled by his king. It sounds strange, but if you make him instinctively obey when Taiko's pheromone appears...
By the way, he was hidden in the forest and made to wait. All For One placed a bunch of quirks in him. In general, this mutated piece of flesh still retained part of its memory and reacts to All For One's voice. In fact, Taiko could not change absolutely every Nomu to his orders. The most suitable for this were the new Kurogiri and Gigantomachia, whom he regularly kept in pheromones secreted by his hornets and then rewarded them with praise. Since Sensei and Kyudai were poor in praise, hearing them from Taiko was much more pleasant under the influence of pheromones.
Surprisingly, hornets have a very powerful pheromone, which can even affect sensitive individuals of other species. This does not work on people, but the pheromone of his hornets, by the way, can scare the beast, from which people with animal mutations can feel the influence.
About a year has passed. Kuin began to sometimes behave arrogantly and willful towards other people, but everything was smooth with Taiko. He taught her to hide it and mimic people. The money is approaching its end and Grimm goes hunting again, much better prepared. From the latest news on the heroic world: All Might is officially the top one in Japan. Raids on the Yakuza and a successful war with gangs. When all the criminals found out about the connection between All For One and Grimm, he again lost a decent share of influence.
Grimm with such a blow provoked the anger of not only the police, but also the criminal world, setting up business, or maybe All For One did it on purpose to get rich or gain influence in another way? In any case, his motives are unknown.
Due to frequent use of the quirk and training with the hornets, he adopted some of their qualities, approaching recognition from them. So his body began to change: his hand was covered with a blackening durable chitin, and his fingers turned into quite sharp claws.
Kuin did not see any problem in this, even though she found these changes strange, but gradually she began to understand the nature of Taiko. Once she even read about hornets on the Internet, they seemed scary to her, and then carefully asked the question:
-Can you show them?
Taiko was not embarrassed by this, but on the contrary, was proud of his swarm. Something quickly flew in through the window and a large hornet appeared in front of Kuin, who began to carefully fly next to Kuin and study her. She could not move from the spot, simultaneously restrainedly afraid and looking with curiosity. Dense and proud wings, powerful jaws (mandibles) and a very loud, sometimes terrifying buzz. The hornet sat on her, and nearby were her bees, who were getting used to the friendly pheromone, studying the guest. Since Kuin and Taiko were very close to each other for a long time, bees and hornets are not enemies. She felt the warmth from the hornet's belly, and felt protected by Taiko - the Hornet King.
- He is so cute. So pressed...
-"Of course, they are bloodthirsty hornets that eat people, they did not know what love and closeness are before."
Taiko took Kuin to school. Recently, the kidnappings resumed again after a year-long break, so Taiko stayed to watch (stalking) Kuin. In particular, he himself had a desire to catch whoever it was and cruelly deal with the entire Internet. Let them hate, as long as they are afraid. So he walks along the bypass road to school early in the morning, this is exactly the way they would kidnap some child. This road led from a bad area and a neighboring city. Many things matched, including the missing victims who lived nearby.
Having asked this uncomfortable question to Kyudai, he began to make excuses and say not: -But these are children! - but -Children make unsuccessful Nomu. -Which really made Taiko raise an eyebrow. Had he really experimented on children before? In any case, his interference was disproved.
Walking for half an hour, from the shadows he noticed a schoolboy late for class and a suspicious van slowly approaching. -Come on, is that you? -Taiko was already rubbing his hands. But contrary to his expectations, the van drove on. He began to lose hope, as he turned back and really brazen hands climbed out of the van to take the boy.
-Got the bastards. -Taiko couldn't describe why he was so lucky with criminals, apparently he really guessed the location. The van sped up, and Taiko ran after it. Now he really ran faster than before, and his stamina was enough for many times more than his previous runs around Musutafu. In order not to lose them, he followed them until they arrived at a house, which, oddly enough, was in a bad area. A couple of fucking streets from Taiko's house.