Location: Tokyo – Might Tower
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
The secure command room was loud and packed. People were yelling over each other.
Sir Nighteye's logistics team and the HPSC cyber-agents were crowded around the glowing monitors, typing frantically to manage the massive hero operation.
At the center desk, the hard-light projection of Kaito Arisaka was typing fast.
The clone acted perfectly human. It nodded, adjusted its headset, and kept the radio channels open to coordinate the teams.
KRRSH.
"Command, this is Hawks," the radio crackled over the main speaker. "I already bagged Mario ten minutes ago. Just used the shoulder-slice thod on the rest of these guys. We have twelve more Tartarus escapees captured alive and breathing. Send the transport choppers."
"Copy that, Hawks. Choppers are on the way," Kaito's clone replied smoothly, tapping a few keys to route the vehicles.
KRRSH.
"Kyoto is secured!" Endeavor barked over the line, breathing heavily like he just finished a marathon.
"Indeed," Best Jeanist added calmly in the background. "I have completely restrained the mutated targets with carbon-fiber threads. They aren't going anywhere."
Before the projection clone could answer, more voices flooded the channel in rapid succession.
Crust yelled loudly about shielding a large group of hostages from falling debris.
Yoroi Musha reported in a calm, ancient tone that he just sliced through a League vanguard unit.
Gang Orca confird the docks were completely bagged and the civilians were moving to high ground.
Then, a secure sub-channel clicked open.
"Base, this is O'Clock," the Number Four hero panted. "Skycrawler and I just finished up. Number 6 is officially down and detained."
"Good work, O'Clock," the the Kaito smiled, typing out a dical dispatch on the keyboard. "Take a breather. dics are en route to your location."
Agent Yui ra stood near the main wall monitors, holding a tablet against her chest.
She watched the projection of Kaito managing the Top 10 heroes like it was just another regular Tuesday at the office.
She walked over to her brother, Yokumiru ra, and nudged his arm.
"Hey," Yui whispered, keeping her voice low so the other panicking agents wouldn't hear them. "Watching him work like this... you rember that old investigation from when he was in high school?"
Yokumiru dragged a hand down his tired face. "Don't remind ."
"The higher-ups were so paranoid back then," Yui chuckled softly. "They really thought this kid had a secret connection to Hero X. We monitored him for years."
"And we found absolutely zero biotric evidence," Yokumiru sighed. "I'm just glad we officially cleared him. Can you imagine the headache if we didn't? He's just a normal guy who's really, really good at paperwork. Let it go."
Yui nodded.
She turned her attention to the live TV feed in the corner of the room.
"This guy is literally a God right now. I can't believe soone could stop it. I was really prepared to die" Yui sighed in relief and thankful that this vigilante save Japan.
The news showed Hero X in his glowing white suit, standing casually after fixing the Japanese coastline.
"Speaking of Hero X," Yui muttered. "How is the Commission even going to handle this? He just saved the whole country on live television. We can't just slap an arrest warrant on him now."
"We haven't called him a criminal since the Sky Egg disaster," Yokumiru replied quietly. "You can't arrest a guy who turns monsters or disasters into drawings."
"What?"
"We classified him as an 'Unregistered Mythical-Class Asset' under the Ergency Managent Act," Yokumiru explained, leaning against the desk. "We fake the paperwork. If the press asks, we just say he's a deep-cover consultant for the governnt. It's a total lie. But if the public realizes they don't actually need the Commission to survive, we're all out of a job."
Near the back door of the room, Lady Nagant stood perfectly still.
She wasn't paying any attention to Kaito or the ra siblings. Her eyes were glued to the TV screen showing the white suit.
Huff-puff.
Looking at Hero X, her breathing hitched. A sudden, incredibly sharp mory hit her.
She rembered the rusted silos in Osu Ward years ago.
She rembered the sheer, suffocating pressure radiating off him. It had felt like an entire mountain was crushing her chest.
He had teleported inches from her face, grabbed her chin forcefully, and made her look him dead in the eyes.
'Listen to carefully, Janitor.'
She rembered the crisp sound of his snap. Her quirk had instantly turned into a flurry of white flower petals blowing away in the midnight wind.
Just thinking about his glowing white eyes and that absolute, undeniable dominance made a giddy shiver run straight down her spine.
It was a weird, intense mix of deep-rooted fear and a masochistic thrill.
'What is wrong with ?' Lady Nagant crossed her legs slightly, a small, hidden smile forming on her lips as she watched the mythical figure on the screen.
The room was starting to feel a little victorious. The heroes in Japan were winning. The disaster was contained.
Then, a young HPSC cyber-agent sitting at a side terminal suddenly stood up. His chair knocked backward and hit the concrete floor hard.
CLATTER.
"Sir!" the agent yelled, his voice cracking in pure panic. "Sir, look at the WHA global grid! Right now!"
Yokumiru frowned and walked over fast. "What is it? Did a local server crash?"
"No! The threat-detection sensors are maxing out!" the agent shouted, frantically pointing at his monitor with a shaking finger. "All of them! San Andreas! The Mariana Trench! The Gibraltar Strait! The seismic data is going completely off the charts!"
The main global hologram map in the center of the room violently flashed red.
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
The secure channels from the overseas hero ministries instantly hijacked the room's speakers.
The radio exploded with pure chaos.
"This is the Arican Vanguard!" a voice scread over the static. "The fault line just exploded! We're experiencing an earthquake right now. A Tsunami alert was given."
"Europe command!" another voice yelled, gunshots echoing in the background. "Black warp gates are opening in the cities! We have dozens of unidentified creatures pouring out! They are forcing the defense lines!"
The vibe in the room flipped instantly. The victory in Japan didn't matter anymore. The entire planet was tearing itself apart.
Lady Nagant gripped her arms, her eyes going wide as she looked at the flashing red alerts on the global map.
"What the hell did that villain just do?" Yokumiru whispered, his face turning completely pale as he stared at the screen.
_-_-_-_-_
The television screen in the living room showed Hero X standing on the Shizuoka mainland.
He stomped his white boot down, and thick glowing stitches zipped the massive fault line completely shut.
The violent shaking beneath Grandma Saki's house stopped instantly.
The teacups on the coffee table went perfectly still. Outside the window, the blaring tsunami sirens abruptly cut off, leaving behind a heavy, stunned silence.
Then, absolute chaos erupted in the living room.
Kimiko dropped her head onto Kenji's shoulder and burst into loud, gasping sobs.
She clutched baby Emi tightly, her whole body shaking with pure relief. Kenji wrapped both arms around his wife and daughter, burying his face in Kimiko's hair.
"We're alive," Kenji choked out, tears spilling down his cheeks. "It's over."
Right next to them, Shoko Haimawari and Kazuho's mother threw their arms around each other.
They practically collapsed onto the carpet, weeping openly.
"Thank god," Kazuho's mother cried, holding onto Shoko. "Thank god for him. Our kids are going to be okay."
In the corner of the room, O'Clock's teenage daughter, Tamao, jumped up and pointed a shaking finger at the massive flat-screen TV.
"Mom, look!" Tamao yelled, her eyes wide with shock. "That's him! The guy in the white suit! That's the exact sa man who saved the Sky Egg concert!"
O'Clock's wife covered her mouth with both hands, staring at the screen in pure disbelief. "He stopped a ga-tsunami... just by snapping his fingers. It's a literal miracle."
Grandma Saki watched the mothers crying and hugging each other.
She shared a brief, very quiet look with Makoto Tsukauchi, who was standing by the hallway wall.
"I'll go get us all so water," Saki said, her voice steady. "We all need a drink to calm our nerves."
Saki walked into the kitchen.
Makoto imdiately followed her, letting the swinging door close behind them to block out the noise of the living room.
PUUF.
The second they were out of earshot, Makoto let out a massive, shaky breath. She leaned back against the kitchen counter, her face flushed red.
"I can't believe it," Makoto whispered, keeping her voice incredibly low. "I know he's strong, but Saki-san... he just folded an entire apocalypse like it was a piece of origami. He isn't even breaking a sweat out there."
Grandma Saki leaned against the sink. She pulled a handkerchief from her apron and wiped a real tear from her wrinkled cheek. She wasn't scared anymore. She was just overflowing with pride.
"When he was a little boy, he cried because the world told him his quirk was a biological rejection," Saki whispered back, a proud smile spreading across her face. "He wanted to be a hero so badly, but the registry and their strict rules pushed him away. He chose to live a quiet life."
Saki looked toward the kitchen door, listening to the news broadcast playing in the other room. "But look at him now, Makoto. He doesn't need a governnt license. He is saving millions of people entirely on his own terms."
Makoto nodded silently.
She didn't say anything else, just staring at the floor. She was completely awestruck by the sheer, unearthly magnitude of the man she had a crush on.
Miles away from the coast, the scene was even louder inside the massive, underground evacuation do.
The concrete bunker was packed shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of terrified civilians.
But the mont the giant projector screens showed the flat, calm ocean and the sealed fault line, the panic vanished.
WAAAAAAAHHH!
The entire do absolutely exploded with noise.
Strangers grabbed each other, jumping up and down and screaming at the top of their lungs.
People dropped to their knees, praising Hero X.
Inko Midoriya threw her arms around Izuku, hugging him so tight he could barely breathe.
"Izuku! We're safe!" Inko sobbed uncontrollably into his shoulder, her tears soaking his shirt. "The wave is gone! Our ho is safe!"
"I know, Mom. I know," Izuku hugged her back tightly, rubbing her back.
But his wide green eyes were locked dead onto the giant broadcast monitor.
He stared at Hero X. He watched the man casually adjust his golden glasses after rewriting the laws of physics.
Izuku was completely starstruck again. But his brilliant, analytical mind was also racing.
Izuku looked down at his lap. His family and partner cat, Kuro, was sitting calmly on his legs, completely unbothered by the screaming crowd around them.
Izuku rembered that rainy night in the alleyway years ago. Before he beca a vigilante with Kuro.
He rembered the giant, mutated cockroach. And he rembered how this tiny black cat had suddenly transford into a two-ter-tall, muscle-bound titan to crush the monster and save his life.
Izuku leaned his head down, putting his mouth right next to Kuro's ear so his mother couldn't hear him over the cheering crowd.
"Kuro," Izuku whispered, his voice shaking with a sudden realization. "Normal quirks can't do what you do. They don't let a cat turn into a sothing based on imagination. It defies everything about biological quirks..."
Izuku looked back up at the screen, staring at the reality-warping savior.
"The man on the television," Izuku whispered to the cat. "Is he the one who saved you? Is he your benefactor?"
Kuro looked up into Izuku's eyes. Kuro's amber eyes were sharp, filled with a terrifyingly human intelligence.
OW.
The cat gave a soft, very deliberate sound. In their unique, passive way of communicating, that single ow explicitly told Izuku 'yes'.
But Kuro purposefully didn't reveal anything else, keeping his benefactor true identity an absolute secret out of gratitude. After all without Kaito, he would still be a Monster Cat who turned into a bus and maybe died at the end.
Izuku's chest tightened with overwhelming emotion.
He looked back up at the TV screens. Both shows the ongoing fight of Captain Celebrity and All Might and on the other side was Hero X saving Japan.
He squeezed Kuro gently against his chest, watching the broadcast in pure awe.
_-_-_-_-_
Location: Shizuoka Mainland – The Nankai Fissure
The ground finally stopped moving.
The massive crack that nearly split the prefecture in half was sealed shut.
Thick, glowing 2D pixel-tape locked the broken tectonic plates together like a giant zipper.
Hero X stood near the edge of the patched asphalt.
He pulled his hands out of his pockets, casually brushed so concrete dust off his white sleeve, and adjusted his gold glasses.
High above, Hideki Sato's news helicopter circled the area.
RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT.
The chopper blades chopped through the wind. Sato leaned out the open side door, shouting into his microphone.
"The Nankai Trough is completely stable!" Sato yelled to the caras. "The fissure is closed! In just a few minutes, Hero X stopped the entire disaster!"
A news drone hovered a few yards away, aiming its lens right at the man in the white suit.
Hero X didn't even glance at it.
KRRRZT. SCREEEEE.
A loud, piercing blast of static suddenly blew out the helicopter's external loudspeakers.
Sato flinched, pulling his headset away from his ear.
"Studio, what's happening?" Sato yelled over the engine noise. "Did we lose the connection?"
"It's the WHA!" his producer shouted back from the Tokyo control room. "The World Hero Association just bypassed our security! They hijacked the broadcast line!"
Before Sato could react, a new voice blasted out of the helicopter's massive speakers, echoing down to the quiet fault line below.
"Hero X! If you can hear this broadcast!"
It was the Arican Hero Commander. He sounded breathless and completely desperate.
"The disaster bombs in Cascadia and the San Andreas fault just went off!" the commander yelled. "The tectonic plates are completely shattered. The ocean is pulling back right now, and the ga-tsunamis are forming. We have millions of people still stuck near the beaches!"
Before he even finished, another voice cut through the channel.
"We can't hold the lines!" the European commander shouted. "The Gibraltar Strait is collapsing into the ocean! They dropped dozens of unidentified creatures right into the middle of our cities. Our top heroes are getting completely overrun trying to fight them off and evacuate the civilians at the sa ti!"
Through the massive speakers, the sounds of explosions and gunfire echoed from the foreign command centers.
"We saw the live feed in Shizuoka," an Asian commander pleaded. "Our local hero systems aren't enough to stop this. We don't have the ti. Please. Save our countries."
Down on the stitched asphalt, Kaito heard every word through his suit's audio receptors.
He didn't look up at the helicopter. Kaito already knows what happened back in Might Tower. His projection clone after all was connected to him.
He just stood there, letting the wind blow past his white suit.
Inside his head, he simply processed the situation.
'Are you kidding right now?' Kaito complained ntally. 'My shift was supposed to be over. I already did save Japan. Now that idiot throws a worldwide temper tantrum because he's losing a fistfight, and I have to work overti across the entire planet.'
"Fuck. All For One" Kaito muttered softly.
Hero X just reached up and tapped the side of his gold glasses.
The data stream from his projection clone at Might Tower synced directly into his vision.
A global map booted up in his lenses, showing ten blinking red dots across California, Europe, the Philippines, and the rest of the targeted fault lines.
He had the coordinates.
Hero X raised his right hand and positioned his fingers.
SNAP.
A blinding burst of neon pixels flashed across the cara lens.
_-_-_-_-_
Location: Tokyo
Hideki Sato leaned so far out of the helicopter that the wind nearly ripped his headset off.
Hero X was gone.
The white suit had vanished in a burst of pixels, leaving the Shizuoka coast completely quiet.
"Studio!" Sato scread into his microphone, his voice cracking. "Where did he go? Did you lose the visual?"
"He's gone, boss!" his producer yelled back over the earpiece. "The local drones can't find him. We have absolutely nothing on the radar!"
Sato slamd his fist against the side of the open chopper door.
He couldn't let the broadcast drop now. The entire world was watching, and the panic was still raw.
"Get on the WHA channel right now!" Sato ordered. "The World Hero Association has military satellites tracking the disaster zones! Ask them for the feed!"
"Are you serious Boss?!" the Nagi shouted. "They're a global governnt entity! They won't just hand over secure satellite feeds to a news station!"
Before Sato could argue, a loud voice cut directly into the studio line. It was the Arican Hero Commander from earlier.
"Give him the access!" the commander yelled. He sounded completely out of breath, ignoring every single political rule in the book. "Open the main grids! I want every satellite cara pointing at those coordinates right now! If that man is going to save us, the whole world needs to see it! Give Sato X News Company the feed!"
"You heard the man!" Sato cheered, a wild grin spreading across his face. "Patch it through! Put it on the main screens!"
Inside the massive evacuation dos across Japan, the giant projector screens suddenly split into multiple feeds.
Millions of people held their breath as the grainy satellite visuals cleared up, locking onto a massive neon energy signature flashing on the other side of the planet.
_-_-_-_-_
Location: San Andreas Fault – California, USA
The coastal highway was completely split in half.
A massive magnitude 9.5 earthquake had ripped a fiery chasm straight through the asphalt.
Hundreds of civilian cars were sliding off the tilted road, plumting into the dark void below.
Down on the crumbling ground, Cow Lady was bleeding from a cut on her forehead.
She grabbed the bumper of a hanging minivan, her muscles straining as she tried to pull it back up.
"I can't hold it!" Cow Lady yelled, her boots slipping on the cracked pavent.
To make things worse, a loud, guttural roar echoed from the cracks.
Fifty giant, four-ard Nomus lunged out of the chasm, their purple skin glowing as they charged straight at the exhausted local heroes.
FWOOSH.
High above the clouds, a squadron of Arican Vanguard fighter jets tore through the sky.
Star and Stripe stood on top of the lead jet. Cathleen Bate had just rushed all the way back from the Italy raid, pushing her pilots to fly at maximum speed.
"Drop right here!" Cathleen yelled into her radio, her cape whipping violently in the wind. "I'm going to set a rule on that fault line! Get ready to bank left!"
But she was one second too late.
FLAASH.
A blinding flash of neon pixels lit up the entire canyon.
Hero X materialized right in the middle of the empty air.
Since he hadn't actually moved his body around as Hero X in years, Kaito decided to have a little bit of fun with his entrance.
He rembered reading old comic books in his last life.
Instead of just snapping, he spun his body into a high-speed blur.
SHINK. SHINK.
Concentrated, blinding neon pixel-beams shot straight out of his eyes.
He used a perfect homage to Superman's heat vision. The bright lasers swept across the canyon in a fraction of a second.
The roaring Nomus didn't even get to swing their fists.
SLICE. SLICE.
The lasers sliced right through them.
Instantly, the monsters lost their 3D models and flattened out into harmless paper cutouts that fluttered uselessly down into the chasm.
Then, Hero X raised his hand.
SNAP.
The collapsing sky under the highway instantly turned into a massive, glowing 2D neon trampoline.
The falling civilian cars hit the neon surface, bounced softly, and landed right back on solid ground.
BOING. BOING. BOING.
Down on the road, Cow Lady just dropped the bumper of the minivan. Her jaw was hanging wide open.
"What the hell just happened?!!"
Up in the sky, Cathleen blinked hard, staring at the white suit hovering below her jet.
"What... Is that Hero X?" Cathleen stamred over the comms. "Did he just shoot lasers from his eyes?"
Hero X stopped spinning.
He floated in the air and rubbed the back of his neck with a gloved hand. He didn't look heroic. He just looked annoyed.
"Okay, the laser eyes look really cool in the comics," Kaito muttered quietly to himself, rolling his shoulders. "But spinning around like that is a massive pain in the neck. It's way too much work. I'm just going to stick to snapping."
He didn't wait for the Aricans to thank him.
SNAP.
He vanished in another burst of pixels.
_-_-_-_
Location: Coastal Visayas, Philippines
The satellite feed instantly switched to the other side of the Pacific.
The Mariana Trench detonation had just unleashed an absolute nightmare.
A hundred-ter ga tsunami was roaring toward the low-lying islands of the Visayas region.
The dark water was so high it completely blotted out the sun.
Down on the wet sand, local Philippine heroes were standing in front of terrified families.
They had nowhere to run.
"Soone help us." They just squeezed their eyes shut and held onto each other, bracing for the impact.
SWOOSH.
Hero X dropped right onto the beach. He stood between the crying families and the massive wall of water.
He didn't bother using lasers this ti. He just looked up at the roaring mountain of water, raised his right hand, and pinched his fingers together.
SNAP.
The entire tsunami violently lost its depth.
The massive, 3D wave instantly flattened out into a colossal, 2D sheet of blue cardboard.
FLAP.
Instead of crushing the city, the giant cardboard wave hit the beach with a dull, hollow smack.
Hero X walked up to it, grabbed the corner of the blue cardboard, and gave it a casual shake like he was straightening out a bedsheet.
The cardboard rippled, turning back into completely calm, flat seawater that gently washed up against his shoes. Sa thing that had happened back in Japan.
The local heroes opened their eyes. They looked at the calm ocean, then looked at the man in the white suit.
THUD.
People fell to their knees right there in the sand.
"SALAMAT!!"
"BUHAY PA AKO!!"
They burst into hysterical tears of pure relief, screaming his na over and over again as he teleported away.
_-_-_-_-_
Location: Global Feeds
The pace accelerated.
The satellite feeds kept switching rapidly on the global broadcast while Sato scread play-by-play comntary from Tokyo.
In Sumatra, Indonesia, a massive volcano was spewing boiling magma straight at an evacuation do.
Hero X dropped right into the thick, black ash cloud.
SNAP.
The boiling magma instantly changed shape.
The deadly lava turned into a massive swarm of harmless 2D cherrys blossoms that fluttered away into the sky.
The terrified Indonesian crowds cheered wildly, pointing up at the glowing insects.
A second later, he flashed to the Gibraltar Strait in Europe.
A massive mountain was collapsing, threatening to crush the crowded shipping lanes below.
SNAP.
The millions of heavy, falling boulders suddenly lost all their weight.
They turned into flat, floating orange leaves that drifted slowly onto the water like an autumn breeze.
Over the WHA audio feed, the foreign commanders were just stamring.
"What the hell!"
"Unbelievable!"
"Is he still even human?"
They couldn't even form complete sentences.
What they thought was the literal end of the world was being handled like a minor cleanup job by a bored janitor.
_-_-_-_
Location: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland
RUMBLE. CREAK. CREAK.
Hero X appeared on top of a violently shaking glacier.
SNAP.
He cleared a small group of Nomus with a quick snap, turning them into paper shreds.
But then, he stopped.
The WHA threat sensors were still flashing back on Might Tower.
The tectonic plates in Turkey, New Zealand, Nepal, and Chile were still vibrating out of control.
And there were still hundreds of Nomus running wild across different cities.
Kaito let out a loud groan.
"I am not flying to five different countries just to do the exact sa thing," Kaito complained loudly. "That's a complete waste of my ti."
The global satellite feed zood in tight on his figure.
Thud.
Millions of people watched as the Mythical Vigilante crouched down on the shaking ice.
Hero X raised his right hand high and slamd his open palm totally flat against the frozen earth.
BAM.
A blinding, global shockwave of 2D pixel-energy erupted straight from his hand.
SWIISH.
It didn't break the ground but acted like a massive reality-anchor.
SSSSS.
The glowing neon grid shot outward at lightspeed, wrapping around the entire planet like a digital net.
It was a world-knock.
The glowing grid locked every single fault line on Earth instantly.
The violent rumbling stopped in Turkey. The avalanches froze in Nepal. The ground settled in Chile.
At the exact sa ti, as the neon grid swept across the continents, every single remaining Nomu on the planet instantly glitched out.
SKRRT.
FLUTTER. FLUTTER.
They all flattened into 2D paper cutouts simultaneously, falling harmlessly to the ground.
TAP. TAP.
"That should do it." Kaito stood up and dusted off his hands.
_-_-_-_
Location: Ground Zero – Ruined City Streets
KA-BOOM.
BAANG
BAAM
SWOOSH.
The floating bedrock was totally gone.
The fight had crashed straight down into the cratered city streets, and it was an absolute, world-breaking stalemate.
All For One was a walking nightmare.
He was fully buffed by the Seven Crowns. His mutated body throbbed with dark energy and thick, glowing red veins.
But All Might was not backing down.
He was using the exact chanics Kaito taught him.
The internal Blackwhip cables wrapped tight around his bones to keep them from shattering.
Purple Smokescreen vented rapidly from his skin, acting as a high-pressure coolant against the intense air friction.
Fa Jin absorbed the violent recoil of his own attacks.
All Might used Gearshift to completely delete his own inertia.
He threw zero-distance, maximum-impact mach punches.
KAA-BOOOOM.
The air shattered into massive sonic booms.
All Might hit the villain right in the chest. All For One countered instantly using Kinetic Redirection and Giantification, throwing a massive punch right back.
"UNITEED STAATES OOF SMAASH!!"
Every single ti their fists collided, the shockwaves leveled the remaining city blocks around them.
Captain Celebrity hovered a hundred ters away, staying just outside the quirk-theft deadzone.
He used his aerodynamic shield to lift massive, shattered office buildings. He removed their friction and hurled them like missiles to keep the seven crowns boxed in.
FWOOSH.
CRASH.
Neither side could gain a single inch. It was a terrifying deadlock of pure power.
Inside the One For All vestige plane, it was pure chaos.
The past users were shouting tactical warnings non-stop. Kudo and Nana frantically tracked All For One's seven crowns to keep All Might perfectly in rhythm.
"Shift gears now!" Kudo yelled. "He's dropping his right shoulder!"
"Watch out to that stealth clone attack, he is coming!" En added.
Suddenly, a panicked, high-pitched scream buzzed straight through All For One's earpiece in the real world.
BZZZT. KACHA.
"Master!" Dr. Garaki shrieked from his lab. "He stopped everything! They are completely gone!"
Before All For One could even process what that ant, a massive, planetary phenonon hit the battlefield.
It was the exact split-second that Hero X slamd his palm onto the ice in Iceland.
The entire atmosphere over Japan suddenly went completely, terrifyingly silent.
The violent air pressure simply died. A massive shockwave of reality-anchoring energy swept right over the combatants.
All Might, Captain Celebrity, and All For One all froze mid-strike.
They felt the sheer, incomprehensible pressure of the entire world stopping all at once.
Then.
SNAP.
A crisp, loud sound cut right through the dead silence.
Hero X appeared.
He stood perfectly balanced on the edge of a bent, rusted transmission tower.
FLUTTER. FLUTTER.
The wind gently fluttered his white suit that didn't have a single speck of dirt on it.
YAAAWN.
Instead of striking a heroic pose, Hero X raised a hand to his mouth and let out a loud, incredibly lazy yawn.
He stretched his shoulders left and right like he just woke up from a nap.
SNAP.
He teleported straight down.
Thud.
He landed casually in the dirt, stepping right in the middle of the 500-ter gap separating the three old tirs.
SWISH. SWOSH.
Hideki Sato's local news drones were hiding on the periter.
The second Hero X landed, the drones instantly sward out, pointing their caras at him and broadcasting his arrival live to every screen on Earth.
Deep inside the Quirk Plane, the past users went completely silent.
It wasn't just reverence.
It was absolute shock. The mist stopped moving.
They could physically feel the terrifying, heavy pressure radiating from the man who just casually stopped the entire planet for a split second.
Out in the dirt, Hero X casually adjusted his golden glasses. He looked over his shoulder at the two heroes.
"Long ti no see," Kaito said, his voice completely informal and relaxed. "You guys look like absolute hell."
HUUF-PUFF.
All Might let out a heavy, exhausted breath. His glowing red veins pulsed under his torn suit.
"Thank you X-shonen," All Might said, standing up a little straighter. "Thank you for saving Japan.. No the entire world..."
Kaito turned his head back to the front.
All For One recovered from the planetary pause. He didn't say a word at first.
His glowing red eyes locked right onto Hero X.
The villain's gaze was full of a ravenous, hungry, creepy expression. He stared at the vigilante like a starving man looking at a massive feast.
He was completely obsessed with stealing his reality-warping quirk.
STEP. STEP.
All For One stepped forward, his dark aura flaring as he tried to take control of the mont.
"Ah, Hero X..." All For One started, his voice booming over the ruined streets. "You finally arrive. I have prepared for this exact mont for years. This body, these quirks... they are all specifically designed to devour your—"
"Stop staring at like that, you creep," Hero X interrupted flatly.
"....."
He didn't even let the villain finish. Kaito physically cringed. He looked visibly grossed out by the stare.
He pulled his hands out of his pockets. He casually dusted a speck of concrete powder off his white sleeve.
"I thought you and All Might had an exclusive love-hate relationship going on," Hero X complained, pointing a thumb over his shoulder. "Don't look at like a piece of at."
"..." All Might.
"..." Past OFA users.
CRUNCH.
All For One's jaw clenched. The intense heat from his anger turned the concrete beneath his boots straight to dust.
SIGH.
Kaito didn't even flinch. He just sighed, looking profoundly annoyed by the whole situation.
"You threw a massive, global temper tantrum just because you couldn't beat an old man in a fistfight," Kaito said casually. "You made work overti across the entire planet. It was incredibly annoying."
Kaito looked the Demon King dead in the eyes. He tilted his head slightly.
Kaito continued. "And honestly... right now, you are still so weak."
Kaito raised his right hand. He didn't strike a fighting stance. He just positioned his fingers.
SNAP.
The space around All For One and his Seven Crowns violently glitched.
"What th~~"
Before All For One or any of the seven crowns could even move, his massive buffed body instantly lost all of its depth, together with the clones he created.
CRUMPLE. SKRRT.
The Demon King and his clones flattened completely into 2D drawings.
Hero X casually made a crushing motion with his hand.
SCRUNCH.
The 2D drawings of All For One and the Seven Crowns were instantly crumpled up into a tight, useless ball of paper.
Thump. Thump.
Kaito picked up the paper ball from the air. He looked over his shoulder and casually tossed it right at All Might's chest.
SWOOSH.
All Might caught it in his giant hands on pure instinct.
"....."
Captain Celebrity lowered his arms. Both he and All Might just stared at the crumpled paper ball. They were completely speechless.
Inside the One For All plane, Kudo, Nana, and the rest of the past users just dropped to their knees in the mist.
Their jaws were hanging wide open. Nobody knew what to say.
The terrifying, 25-minute, world-ending battle was just folded like a piece of trash.
Hero X shoved his hands back into his pockets.
"Well, my shift is over," Kaito said, giving them a lazy wave. "See you guys later."
SNAP.
.....
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