Author's Notes: Chapter edited and corrected by Scott Fellman.
Izumi Pov.
"How did you know?!" Trickster growled as she took a step forward, trying to look threatening. I smirked at her.
"Wow, calm down, Krouser, I'm sure you don't want to put on such a show in front of your boyfriend, I don't think Mr. inhardt would like it." I said with a wide smile as I watched the male version of Noelle shudder slightly and take a step back. Trickster stood in the middle as she glared at .
"Shut up!" Trickster growled, and I laughed lightly. Really, Trickster had a terrible personality; it was quite easy to annoy her and get her off her rocker.
"Hey, I'm just making small talk. After all, I'm tied up and kidnapped. I don't have much to do. Besides, I'm really curious. I an, you're all a long way from Madison, Wisconsin. It's rare to find you in Japan." I scoffed. Trickster flinched slightly, as did the others.
"How do you know all that!?" Trickster growled. I laughed once again.
"Oh, I know a lot of things, like that you're missing a friend, where is she? Did you abandon her?" I asked with a sadistic smile, which only grew when most of the Travelers shuddered. Perfect, so Perdition is a woman, too. "Ah, they abandoned her. I wonder where she is. Wait, Gasp! You sold her to the Chinese, to the Yangban as a slave!?" I asked, feigning surprise.
"Did he just say, Gasp?" Dabi muttered with an amused smile.
"Shut up!" Trickster growled, getting angrier and angrier. I laughed lightly.
"Oh yeah, I guess Accord's help was worth far more than her friend's life. As long as they could help Mr. inhardt, everything would be fine, right?" I asked with a mocking smile, looking at Trickster. "Besides, I must applaud you. Two birds with one stone."
"Quite manipulative of you, if I must say, I'm sure your... friend, had a romantic crush on Mr. inhardt, and you didn't like her. You wanted inhardt for yourself, you removed her from her school's eSports team, turned her friends against her, and when you found the opportunity, you got rid of her permanently."
"Bravo, I would applaud you slowly and sarcastically, but as you see, I'm at-"
"Shut the fuck up!" Trickster growled as she interrupted . I saw her coming with so much ti to react; it was pathetic. Trickster took long strides towards and punched in the cheek. I didn't even flinch. My neck and head didn't even move.
I just stared at her with a broad smile despite her fist on my cheek. I could see the other Travelers sway slightly as they stared at Trickster as if they couldn't believe what they were hearing.
"Thanks for the confirmation," I said playfully. Trickster roared and reached back.
"Enough!" Cinder interrupted forcefully as she grabbed Trickster's wrist. "I don't care about your troubles, but the boy must not be hard until he frees the prisoners within his shadows." Cinder said as she pushed Trickster.
"What a party pooper, I didn't even get to the important part, about inhardt's broken quirk. Tell , did All For One promise to help you with that?" I asked, amusedly, while tilting my head slightly. 'Noelle's eyes widened slightly.
"She already did." Trickster mocked before clicking her tongue and walking away, grumbling. I suppressed a shudder. Having AFO help with inhardt's quirk was terrifying, depending on the implications.
If I simply take away his Quirk, then... well, I don't want to think about the implications. Now, the question was why and how they got here. Although she answered sothing I'd been wondering about, his Quirk was broken here, too.
And there were no broken quirks in this world, but… There was sothing that was very similar.
"What a sha to be a victim of the Quirk Singularity, a Quirk too strong for your small body. How terrible, isn't it, inhardt? How many did you hurt? How many did you eat to satisfy your hunger?" I asked lightly, I could see 'Noelle' visibly tremble as she turned completely pale. Bingo. "I suppose Accord put them in contact with AFO, with Kyudai Garaki, the author of the concept-"
"Enough." Cinder interrupted with a frown. "Let's stop playing gas, free Shigaraki, Kurogiri, and Ragdoll, you can keep Mandalay and the boy." Cinder said suddenly, I just blinked in her direction.
"Excuse , and who the hell are you?" I asked boredly. Cinder just raised an eyebrow at and scoffed.
"I guess your information didn't cover , I'm Cinder -"
"Cinder Fall!" I exclaid suddenly, interrupting her with a huge smile. Cinder blinked and smiled slightly. She seed about to speak, but I interrupted her. "I almost didn't recognize you without your slave collar!" I said with a huge smile.
Cinder froze, like, completely frozen, like her brain had short-circuited. I smiled.
"How are Mada and your stepsisters? I must say, they did an excellent job keeping Glass Unicorn, a pretty nice hotel." I said playfully, and Cinder finally seed to react; her aura exploded, and her hand went to my neck without hesitation.
"Wow, wow, wow, leader, calm down." rcury interrupted as she grabbed Cinder's wrist and stopped it a few inches from my face. I could see her hands glow and emit intense heat. Cinder looked at with an enormous amount of hatred. I just smiled widely at her.
"They're dead, my dear mother and my beloved sisters, they're dead, and you will be too if you don't do what I just said." Cinder hissed dangerously, and I smiled and laughed lightly.
"Well, kid, I'd do what she says. I don't think I could stop her a second ti," rcury said with an amused smile.
"Ah... rcury Black, no?" I asked lightly, and rcury just raised an eyebrow at . "How was your... mother? Is she still rotting where you left her body after killing her? I understand she left you a nice gift." I said while looking at her prosthetic legs, amusedly, before looking at rcury.
Her smile had already vanished, and she had an almost empty, emotionless look. After looking at for a few seconds, she shrugged and raised both hands while releasing Cinder, while smiling again.
"All yours, boss. Make him suffer." rcury said lightly, though I could hear the tension in her voice. I just laughed lightly.
"How sensitive, they should be more like that street rat, she doesn't really have any sad backstory, just the bad luck of being born on the streets." I scoffed as I pointed my chin at Esrald. Esrald glared at .
"Stop playing gas, the hostages, now." Cinder said imdiately.
"Calm down, Fall, don't get all worked up. I just want to chat, I haven't even started with them yet." I said playfully, pointing at the mbers of the League of Villains.
"As if you know anything about us." Dabi mocked, my smile growing almost sadistically.
"Look what we have here, Endeavor's long-lost daughter." I said playfully.
Dabi's eyes widened slightly before she growled. Her hands moved, and my body was engulfed in blue fire almost imdiately. I coated my body with Haki and my aura to resist the fire until it finally went out. Once I was no longer engulfed in flas, I began to laugh.
"Wow! What a temper! Just like your mom!" I scoffed playfully. Dabi let out a guttural noise and started moving once more.
"Enough!" Cinder growled, stopping her in her tracks. "Wait until that bastard releases the targets! Then you can do whatever you want to him!" Cinder exclaid. Dabi glared at with intense hatred before clicking her tongue.
"Don't ntion Endeavor again," Dabi spat. I scoffed.
"Poor thing, throwing a tantrum because Mom hurt her." I mocked Dabi, and she gritted her teeth. "And the rest of your family? How was the reunion with your sister? Should I tell her about you?" I asked playfully, and I could feel the heat starting to rise.
"Ah! It's hot! Please calm down, Dabi!" Twice exclaid suddenly as he walked away.
"Twice." I said playfully, and twice flinched, looking at while shaking.
"It's my turn!? I don't want it to be !" Twice squealing in panic, I shrugged.
"Calm down, I'm not going to say anything about you." I said dismissively. Twice froze and looked at , confused.
"Oh no? Why not? Ah! You can't tell who I am because of my mask!" Twice chirped. I snorted in amusent before smiling sadistically.
"No, it's not that, I just don't talk to clones, I want to talk to the real Bubaigawara." I said mockingly. I could see Twice freeze in place.
"clone? I'm not a clone, I'm the real one, I'm Twice, I'm the real one, I'm the only one! No, you're not! You're a clone! Shut up! I'm not a clone! I'm the real one! I killed all the clones! They all turned into clay! Not ! Are you sure? Perhaps it's part of our quirk: we turn into clay when we die. Shut up! You shut up !"
I blinked for a couple of seconds as I watched Twice basically have a ntal breakdown, well… that was easy… almost feeling pity as I watched her argue with herself, she was clutching her head and shaking it from side to side.
I frowned slightly as I imdiately wrapped my neck with haki, just in ti for a knife to clash uselessly against my armor haki.
" Aaww … I wanted so of your blood." Himiko said as she appeared behind , hugging lightly before attempting to stab my chest once more. I used Haki once more to avoid the stabbing.
Himiko tried several more tis in different places, only to get the sa result.
"Are you done?" I asked, almost bored, as I looked at her out of the corner of my eye. Her face was practically glued to mine as she pouted.
"You're no fun. You're quite handso. Can I have so of your blood, please?" Himiko asked with a shy smile and a slight blush. I raised an eyebrow at her.
"Himiko Toga… I really feel sorry for you. You didn't deserve anything that happened to you as a child." I said honestly. Himiko's smile imdiately disappeared.
"You're lying." Himiko said imdiately, I sighed as I shook my head.
"Believe what you want, your parents were wrong, you're not abnormal, nor a monster, you're just a cute, normal girl, with a taste for blood." I said simply while shrugging my shoulders.
Himiko stared at for a few seconds before her face exploded red. She brought her hands up to her face and covered her face.
"Is-is this love?! I'm in love?! A boy likes ?!" Himiko squealed in embarrassnt as she looked away. I blinked and ntally groaned. Great, that wasn't what I was trying to do. I really felt bad for Himiko's situation; out of all the villains present, she was the one who least deserved to be on this side.
Everyone else was a complete idiot. I an, I can understand them to a certain extent. Endeavor was an idiot and deserved everything that happened to her, honestly. Still, Dabi decided to go nuclear and burn everything in her path, not just Endeavor, but anyone she found, including her family; anyone she encountered was fair ga.
Like Mada's death at Cinder's hands, it was understandable, but the escalation after that was ridiculous. Cinder had taken on so much of Mada's personality that it was almost laughable if it wasn't sad. Cinder could have walked away and simply lived her life quietly; instead, she decided to seek more power by any ans possible.
The backstory of Trickster and the Travelers still left sowhat confused, for one, there is no Simurgh here, so they do not co from an alternate world, as in canon, and are not lost with a broken and uncontrollable power in an unknown world.
So the question was, why did they beco villains? What happened to everyone's family? And the only thing that cos to mind is that Trickster pushed them down that path. Like I said, she was a manipulative bastard when she wanted to be, and she—she now—loved "Noelle" so much that she wouldn't take no for an answer the first ti and ended up wearing her down over ti with her "good boy" attitude.
I'm sure Trickster wants to position herself as Noelle's savior in so way, so that, thanks to her, they were able to find a cure for Noelle, and Noelle would be grateful to her. I almost felt sorry for Noelle if my thoughts were true.
The others were simply followers of Trickster's plans.
I really wanted to kill Trickster.
Returning to Himiko, she was one of the few whom her parents and society in general failed. She wasn't the first, nor the last, to have a specific Quirk that generated so strange impulses. If she rembered correctly, Himiko was admitted to Quirk therapy. They should have identified the root of her problem there and provided her with the help she deserved. Instead, they made her repress everything until she exploded.
I an... she was a social outcast, and I'd say Spinner would be the sa, but Spinner was an idiot. Yes, she was part of a great deal of racism and discrimination in this society, and yes, it's sad, but the mont she saw Stain on TV, she jumped on the super-terrorist love train.
So yeah, I had no love for Spinner, but Himiko was sothing else, or well, she was for the mont, the more she joins the League of Villains, the more hypocritical she becos, like when the heroes kill Twice and she blas them for everything, and she's just another villain, really a sha.
"Hey, why do you praise her and rub our traumas in our faces?" rcury complained, I snorted.
"You guys decided to be idiots, not so much her," I said dryly. "I an, Magne is just another villain and murderer. On the other hand, I don't dislike Compress that much. He's the great-great-grandson of the Peerless Thief. He just joined to fight against a corrupt system and heroic injustices... It's a sha he joined the League of Villains, really." I added with a sigh.
And it was true, Compress was easily the one who had the least problematic mbers, really, until he joined the League of Villains, I an, he started monologuing about his past and his history, right after Shigaraki destroyed an entire city, that no longer had anything to do with wanting to change society.
I sighed once more. Really, I had enough problems with the Villains of this world.
"Wow, I didn't know this generation rembered my great-great-grandfather," Compress said, almost sounding cheerful.
"Can we get to the point? Why are we letting him keep talking?" Trickster growled, sounding almost furious. I rolled my eyes.
"What a killjoy, Krouser," I said boredly.
"Even so, she's right, release Shigaraki and the others at once." Cinder said, finally.
"Shut up, slave. Your superiors are talking." I mocked her without even looking at her. Her hand found my jaw, and she activated her quirk. I used my armor haki and protected myself from her. I stared at her with a mocking smile.
"You're a damn pest. I'm sure everything you have in your shadows will co out once you're dead." Cinder growled furiously.
"Are you sure that's what's going to happen? I wouldn't do it if I were you. You wouldn't want to upset your boss, would you?" I asked playfully.
clap clap clap clap clap clap
I flinched slightly at the sounds of applause coming from the television. The BOSS was here.
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