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Chapter 4 - Chapter 4: Torture and Freedom

(2212 - October the 4th, Sunday - Midnight: Location - Japan - Unknown)

Somewhere in a dark room with only a small tv lighting it, two men sat while having conversation. "Master, I know you've been planning to kill the {Symbol Of Hope} but only needed his location, which we were able to achieve because of getting access to his child's medical documents when he cane for a power examination.... But what I fail to understand is... Why keep his child alive?"

The person the man just was referring to was none other then AFO himself. The man... no, the {Demon Lord} just smiled and said. "For power my good doctor. You see, I had my suspicions that {Symbol Of Hope} of hope was a god, because no normal human mortal other then All Might could have the power to go toe toe major God's, and even then All Might is a unique case because of [One For All].... But that man Shinra has faught the strongest this entire universe has had to offer and still won. He's man of legend, he even won against two previous users of the [Divine Dividing] and [Boosted Gear] in their juggernaut forms."

"And his child, that form he was briefly took on.... I did not let it show, but.... It made me feel death for the first time in my life. It was like I was about to be burnt into absolute and pure nothingness. And that child is only 7 and only awakened his power today, yet he still made me feel death. ME! THE DEMON KING! THE GOD OF THIEVERY AND DARKNESS! IMAGINE HOW POWERFUL I WOULD BE IF I TURNED THE CHILD INTO MY DOG!?! HAHAHAHAHAH!!" AFO laughed like a man possessed while screaming in both ecstasy and anger.

All the while the good doctor sat there in silence while staring at All For One in awe. Yes his master was right! Oh! How could he be so foolish as not to see the bigger picture! The child was still young! He could be brainwashed like Tenko and be turned into AFO's loyal guard dog! Oh! What a magnificent picture that sas to imagine!

*Knock* *Knock* "Master, I have brought something that might be of use in your plans for the devil's child" A man said from behind the door of the room, AFO just let out a hum, indicating the man could come inside. The man came into the room carrying a box, the out on the table where the good doctor and AFO sat and said. "This box was where the Kusakabe's were and it seems to have been a present to the devil's child Master."

AFO smiled at that and said. "Ah, of course, the best way to train a dog is by throwing them a bone after all, you did some good work..." AFO said with a smile as the man's hear exploded into nothing but blood and brain matter before continuing. "But, I can't have pest who betrays their lead so easily. If you could betray heaven so easily as you did, then you could betray me just as easily." AFO then turned to the good doctor and said. "Doctor, use fallen's body as you please, it might help in that little project you've recently started working on."

The doctor thanked AFO and took that as his cue to leave, so he stood up at grabbed the body of the fallen as he started dragging it on his way towards the door, but he stopped and asked AFO something he was curious about. "Master, if I may ask, what happened to those other swords we stole?"

AFO just smiled and said. "Ah, your talking about {Excalibur Nightmare}, {Nothung}, {Caliburn}. Well if you must know, I used one of my alchemy and smithing quirks in conjunction with transmutation and alchemy spells to merge all those swords with the {Artemis Blade}, I even killed the a grim reaper and infused it's soul and weapon into the {Artemis Blade} as well to ensure that the {Symbol Of Hope} would be weakened enough so I could kill him with the forbidden righteous killing spell that took so long to get the materials for and prepare."

The doctor just nodded and made his way out the door while AFO turned towards the tv and switching towards the news and smiling as he saw the headline. 'Death of the {Symbol Of Hope}, Shinra Kusakabe, The {Devil's Smile}'

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It was cold... so cold.... It was so suffocating. That's how Izuku felt, he opened his eyes but couldn't see, and helt so trapped, like something wanted to desperately escape from deep within his soul, but couldn't. He can't remember what happend.

Let's see, he was having a picnic with his parents... His parents... His.... parents... -SNAP- "ALLLLLLL FOOOOOOR OOOOOOOOOOONNNEEE!!!" Izuku's feet ignited in flury of green flames and then..... he felt it, something deep inside soul was starting slip through the cracks and it did, but he didn't know what it was yet but just before whatever was giving him this suffocating and caged feeling intensified 100 fold on his soul, while his physical body felt free once more, but because of that, whatever it was that was giving him those feelings suddenly not restraining him physically anymore. The flames on his feet sent him flying into something hard. *Crash*

*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* "To think you would be able to almost break free from the heavenly chain Enkidu, or as I like to call it Addregdu, since you know, it's fused with the scales of Albion and Ddreg. I'm getting off topic, but I must say, I'm glad I stole that soul integration quirk, it one of the more unique and complicated one's in my possession, it's what allowed me to seal Addregdu in your soul to stop.... Whatever it was that tried to escape just now. Now Izuku I ha-"

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Izuku couldn't stand this *Monster* talking anymore, so what if whatever the man was talking about was sealed in his soul, he still had his flames. So with that conclusion, Izuku fired a torrent of flames from beneath his feet and shot at AFO like a bullet, with one leg out stretched behind him, he ket loose even more flames to to boost the power of his kick that was aimed at AFO's head. Izuku didn't know how he knew how to fight, but he went off of purre instinct to let it guide him. Unluckily for him tho, AFO had been alive for many many years, so what may have looked like a speeding pullet preform a kick at mock speed, seemed like an old man trying to eun in the eyes of AFO.

AFO thus just simply caught Izuku's leg and gripped hard. *Crack* "AHHHHHHHHH!" Immediately, Izuku stopped producing flames in favour of trying to grab his broken ankle in hopes of soothing the pain as he choked back sobs while looking at AFO hatefully.

AFO didn't smile at this, he simply looked at Izuku with cold, dead emotionless eyes before slamming him on the ground hard enough for Izuku to spit blood and break his spine and a lot of different bones, but not hard enough to kill him. AFO then proceeded to let go of Izuku's ankle and held out his hand with his palm towards Izuku's legs and then.... *Shing* That was the sound of something slicing through the air and cutting off his legs. **"AHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGHHHHGGGGGGGG!?!?!"** Izuku who was barley conscious was now fully awake and awere of what was going on as he screamed like he has never before, it was such an agonizingly and painful loud scream that it could be heard all across of the complex AFO was operating.

This screaming not only destroyed Izuku's vocal cords intensifying his, it also made him thrash around anything he could still move and adding even more pain to Izuku.

But AFO didn't stop there. For the next 3 hours, AFO would subject Izuku to the worst torture possible. He would cauterize Izuku's wounds by burning the cut appendages with fire, only to freeze said appendages, then he would, with a healing quirk active, dissect Izuku like a fish. Doing things like cut out his lungs so that he couldn't breathe, only to restore them completely then he would use a quirk to create acid and pour it down Izuku's throat, only to remove the acid and heal him. Such inhuman and godly unholy acts of torture would continuously happen to Izuku. All in the hopes to break his mind and will.

But there was something unexplainable that prevented Izuku's mind and will from shattering which only annoyed AFO, causing him to increase to torture Izuku even more harshly. AFO started getting mad and started to repeatedly stomp on Izuku while screaming. "WHY?! WHY DO YOUR EYES BURN SO BRIGHTLY JUST LIKE HIS!?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!"

AFO the seemed to regain his senses and healed Izuku somewhat so that he stayed alive, but he still looked like a mutilated corpse that was burnet, sliced and frozen with severed limbs . "Tch, I almost killed you, you useless devil..... Yes, that will suffice, it will suffice nicely." AFO said with a twisted and disgusting smile as he put a hand on Izuku's face and said. "Rejoice you useless devil, I'll be granting you a quirk I don't need, what is it I here you say? Well that's simple, it's called [Cursed Restoration], it'll heal all your injuries, as well as automatically restoring or regenerating your lost limbs but.... It will leave the scaring and will increase the pain you feel by 5 times.... Ah, did I mention it also puts you in pain when you heal?" AFO said while forcing the quirk on Izuku, Izuku could do nothing but stare in confusion and helplessness of what the man ment, giving someone even possible? Izuku quickly found out that, yes, yes it was, if he's screaming and thrashing were anything to go off.

After 2 minutes, Izuku was fully healed with his limbs restored, but he was covered in gruesome scars, AFO just look at him coldly and said. "Remember this you useless devil, from now on I am your master and you are my dog, and a dog that attacks it's master will be put down, this is your only warning. Do you understand?" AFO asked while staring down at Izuku. Izuku just stared back at AFO before spitting at him.

"Mmmmm, looks like you still need to be taught some manners since it seems you're a bit disobedient.... Ah, I know just the thing, Kurogiri!.... Get the box." After saying that, out of nowhere, a small misty portal opened

right above AFO as a smallish box dropped from the portal and directly into his hands.

Izuku's eye's widened as he saw the box in AFO's hands, it was the box his father had given him earlier that day, his last reminder of his family... his hope. "GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT!!!" Izuku yelled at AFO, well that was until a ball of what looked like something collapsing in on its self appeared in AFO's hand as he said. "I'll give you 2 choices child, be my dog and I'll give you this box, or you can get this box, but you'll be my personal test subject. So either way, you get the box. Quite generous if you ask me, but if you don't like those, I can kill you and destroy this box... So think carefully child, you have 10 seconds

Izuku was stumped, what should he do? He didn't want to die, but he also didn't want to work for this man, and although he didn't know what AFO ment by becoming his dog, but he guessed it was something similar to a pet, and that didn't sound like the greatest thing in the world. So with a heavy heart, Izuku said. "Test, I'll be your test subject."

AFO smiled at that, because this child made a huge mistake, at least as AFO's dog, he would be treated decently, but as a test subject, he would no longer be treated as human, this caused AFO's smile to widen and to laugh. "HAHAHA! Very well, but a good test subject should be marked, but unfortunately I don't have anything to show what I can your test subject, mmmmmm... Ah! I know, I'll just brand you but the question is what to brand you as. Oh, that could work, I've been calling you a useless devil for a while, so that will also be your new name from now on."

AFO then flipped izuku on his back as his hand transformed into weird symbols and took a metallic sheen and started to glow red hot as he pressed down onto the centre of Izuku's back. "AHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGG!" Izuku screamed at the burning sensation on his back and the pain was also intensified by the strange quirk had given hik while it was trying to heal the burn. This lasted for 5 minutes before AFO took his hand off and leaving Izuku with a healed burn scar on his back with four symbols <[木偶悪魔>].

"Mmmm, yes, let that and all the scars be a good reminder why you should not anger me." With that, AFO turned around to walk away into a portal Kurogiri opened up for him while placing the box on the ground. Izuku was now in the clutches of the Demon King, and his time here would not be a pleasant one.

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((2214 - October the 4th, Tuesday: Location - Japan - Unknown)

Just like that, 2 years since Izuku had chosen to be AFO's test subject and had not been pleasant. Izuku was subjected to inhumane experiment every single day without rest and had to fight to survive, why?

Well it's simple, it was because of the abominations made from his DNA, you see, Dr. Garaki or the good doctor as many called him, had been trying to create bio engineered humanoid monsters, but not just any any monsters, but one's out of different supernatural races.

Why you my ask? Well that's because the human body is weak and frail, and can't contain a multitude of quirks, but, supernaturals on the other hand? They were perfect, the only problem was that they didn't follow the human's evolutionary pattern, which made them quirkless, well unless you count human hybrids, but they were rare. But speaking of rare human hybrids, that's exactly what Izuku was.

Except, the only problem was that the race Izuku was, was unidentifiable, but one thing was for sure, he was part God in some way or form, that was also a unknown and uncertainty, but the boy did have divinity of some sort or, use to. You see what happened was, that when AFO sealed Addregdu in Izuku's soul to contain whatever it was that wanted to escape, it also had the added benefit of sealing any divinity he had, but still left him with a extremely strong body. This was proven by constantly taking and returning the cursed restoration quirk AFO had given the boy where as the goons they picked up from the streets and did this too just died.

But now back to why Izuku had to fight to survive, well that's because, whatever his race was, had the added effect of making anything injected with his DNA to combust into flames and rampage. It didn't even matter if the creature or person had fire resistance or not, they all burst into flame like demon's that the doctor dubbed [Infernals], and it was Izuku's job to destroy these monsters. Why? Well, AFO said that if it was made by Izuku's DNA, then it's his responsibility since his race was the cause for them to become monsters in tue first place.

But all that is beings us to this moment. Exactly 2 years after he was kidnapped and turned into a test subject, the good doctor had finally managed to somewhat succeed in mixing Izuku's DNA into another being, or more specifically, thing's called a NOMU. It was apparently a human that had too many quirks pumped into it, causing it to mutate and and go brain dead, but apparently, Izuku's DNA, when mixed with the brain dead NOMU, became somewhat sentiment, able to take orders, control flames, reason to some degree, and had perfect control over the quirks it was given had a more solid body that wasn't so demon like and almost entirely on fire. These new beings were called [Nofernals], real original, I know. But that brings us to now.

Izuku fighting one of these [Nofernals] with his life, why with his life? That's because AFO had the habit of stripping the [Cursed Restoration] quirk from him whenever he had to fight these abominations, why? Izuku didn't know, all he knew was that he had to fight. So with that, Izuku let a small steady green flame pool out of his feet, allowing him to hover has he analysed the [Nofernal].

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'Mmmmmm, let's see, it has rather muscular build, which means it definitely has a strength quirk, and despite the big size, it seems to have rather powerful legs, seeing as their the biggest part of the body. So that means it has a leaping quirk that allows it leap like a grasshopper or rabbit, which means it probably also has a speed quirk..... Nothing to fancy but I need to be careful, these things have started to get more resistant to my flame's, still this will be quick.' Izuku analysed in seconds and then said "The flame is the soul's breath... The black smoke is the soul's release... Ashes thou wert and art... May thy soul return to the great flame of fire. Latom." As he bust forth at incredible speed, appearing behind the [Nofernal] in a second and placing his foodlt on it's back before unleashing a powerful stream of green flames, sending it into the air and then appearing under it with his leg outstretched before flames shot out like a rocket and boosting his kick, making the [Nofernal] fly high into the air.

Izuku then appeared high above the [Nofernal] with his leg stretched outwards opposite of his body and slightly bent, before letting flames spew out of his feet making him spin like a top and landing a kick on the [Nofernal] that sent it crashing into the ground in a instant. Izuku then stretched his leg high above his his head and let flames be spewed out once again from his foot, making look like a spinning wheel of firey green death and land a kick dead centre on the [Nofernals] chest, right where the heart would be, killing it. All this happened in the span of 6 seconds. And not once did Izuku allow the Nofernal to use its legs or strength, because despite it seeming to have speed and strength, it didn't have the reaction speed to react.

*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* "Mmmm, that was your fastest time yet {Dema}, although that Nofernal was strong and fast, it didn't have the reaction speed to react to your movements and respond in kind. Doctor, remind me to add a reaction speed enhancing quirk next time." The good doctor just nodded at AFO as he made notes on a clip board and Izuku made his was to AFO to regain his [Cursed Restoration], as was routine. But before Izuku made it to AFO a loud boom and crash shook the complex they were in, accompanied with a boisterous laughing and booming voice.

*BOOOOOM!!!* *CRASH!!*

"HAHAHAHA! I AM HERE! ALLLLLLLL FOOOOOOOR OOOOOONE! PREPARE TO FACE DEATH FOR THE CRIME OF KILLING THE KUSAKABE FAMILY 2 YEAR'S AGO!" A massive man with an equally muscular and well-defined physique appeared with his design resembling a typical Western comic book superhero. He has chiseled features on his face with a strong jawline, pronounced cheekbones, and bushy eyebrows. He has short blond hair, swept backward, with two distinct tufts sticking above his head, leaning slightly to each side. His robust features regularly cast a dark shadow over his face, hiding everything but his bright blue eyes. And lastly, this massive man had a massive smile that never seemed to faulter, until now, because there was no smile on his face, and despite his laugh and joyful booming voice, his face was set into a scowl.

"Ah! If it isn't Nana's protege! The {Symbol Of Peace}! All might!." All for one said mockingly. "KEEP MY MASTERS NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH ALL FOR ONE!!" All might yelled before appearing instantaneously infront of AFO and launching a powerful punch aimed at his head that AFO defended against with a forcefield and protecting the himself and the good doctor, but not Izuku because he was to far away, making him get pushed back into a wall from the wind pressure of All Might's punch.

"Kurogiri! Teleport the good doctor out of here! I'll deal with this pest by myself." Just then, a portal opened up under the good doctor while a distorted voice said. "It has been done master."

But before AFO could respond to the mist man's voice, Izuku appeared out of nowhere and kicked AFO with all the force he could muster, making AFO's concentration momentarily falter, resulting in his forcefield weakening and getting destroyed by All Might's punch, sending AFO crashing into the far side wall of tue complex. All Might then looked at Izuku and said. ""THANK YOU YOUNG MAN! BUT WHO ARE YOU?! AND YOU SEEM FAMILIAR! MMMMM, YOU REMIND ME OF-!""

Before All Might could finishing talking, an angry yell came from the direction of where AFO crashed into. "{DEMA}!! HOW DARE A DOG ATTACK IT'S MASTER! I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU!" All Might looked at Izuku and said. "AH! SO YOUR NAME IS DEMA! DON'T WORRY DEMA-SHONEN! STAY BEHIND ME AND I'LL PROTECT YOU!" All Might said, while seemingly ignoring the fact that AFO said that Izuku was his dog. But before Izuku could respond.

All Might leapt at AFO, and what happened next could only be described as two God's of destruction or Titan's clashing. Just the shock waves of those two resulted in earthquakes, while the wind pressure that shot into the sky caused hurricanes and thunder storms. This could be felt all over the world. And poor Izukubwas caught up in the middle of it, he had to use his maximum output of his plue flame's just to not get flung away, but he was quickly getting tired. But one thing this fight infront of him taught him, was that he was nothing but a ant infront of these two Godly Titans, making him realise just how weak he was compared to AFO, this made him feel extremely bitter, but before he could get lost in his thoughts, the air around the two Titan's shifted, it seems their fight was about to reach its climax.

Both All Might and AFO brought thier fist back's and spoke, All Might being the first. "All For One, remember this moment well, because I'll show you what giving it your all really means!" While AFO grinde and said. "Same here Toshinori! Remember this moment well! Because it will be your last!"

Then, both of them thursting thier fists forward while screaming. "PLUSSSSSSSS ULLLLTRAAAAAA UNIIIIITED WOOOORLD SMASHHHHHHHHHHH!!!/ REINFORCEMENT X100, STRENGTH MULTIPLIER X500, DARK ATOMIC BOMB, AIR BLAST, NUCLEAR CORROSION!!!" Then, their fists ment each other's bodies, and.... Silence, that was all that could he heard, before what sounded like 100 nuclear bomb's going of at the same time resounded across the world while it shook violently. But All Might's fist had contacted AFO'S head, causing it to explode into a gruesome mess, while AFO'S fist had contacted All Might's torso, ripping a massive hole through his stomach and lungs and one lung, causing him to caughe out a ton of blood whilst bleeding profusely. And poor Izuku was launched back head first into a wall, but, just before he was enveloped by darkness, he had one final thought. 'Finally.... Freedom...'

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