My Hero Academia: Killer Quirk!! - Chapter 101

Repressed memories… A psychological phenomenon in which traumatic experiences are subconsciously blocked from a person’s conscious memory. Mr Yamisagi’s quirk Recall allows him to target an individual and force them to revisit their most traumatic experience as long as the person gave him their permission.

Controlling his breathing, Aiden sat in a lotus position and gave Mr. Yamisagi his permission.

“Do it.”

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Feeling reality distort around him, Aiden felt a weird senses of cloudiness as his eyes were forced to shut.

After what felt like an eternity, clarity slowly made its way back into his mind as he felt a sluggish feeling wash over his body.

“Mmm…”

Forcing his heavy eyes open, he was mildly shocked to see the interior of his old home. While he knew about Mr Yamisagi’s quirk, never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that it would look so… life-like. Unfortunately, his nostalgia was cut short by the yell of a nearby female.

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Sitting on the concrete floor in the torn down building, thick beads of sweat gathered on his forehead while his body trembled lightly. Unknown to Aiden, while he was in this dreamlike state, he had subconsciously started revolving his astral energy around his body causing purple light to emanate from his body.

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“HAPPY BIRTHDAY AIDEN!!!”

‘Huh?’

Waking up from his shock, he looked around the room and discovered that he was surrounded by a large group of kids wearing party hats while a large cake with 4 candles sat in front of him.

‘Its… my birthday?’

“C’mon Aiden!! Blow out your candles!!” The kids cheered and look at the cake with eager eyes.

“My… cake?” Looking at the large birthday cake sitting in front of him a sharp pain struck his head as he felt a feeling similar to banging his head against a metal rail.

“Aiden? Are you okay honey?” A calming voice sounded out from beside him.

Slowly panning his head to the side, time seemed to slow down as a rush of once lost emotions suddenly surged into his ċhėst. Standing besides the small boy was a tall black haired woman with jet black eyes and a loving smile adorning her beautiful face. Staring at the figure looking down at him with concern in her eyes, he didn’t notice when it had happened but tears had started to uncontrollably run down his face with no sign of stopping.

“Aiden?” The woman said with some confusion.

“M-Mom…” He whispered looking up at the black haired figure.

One of the drawbacks of Mr Yamisagi’s quirk “Recall” was that it not only returned the subject to the time period they experienced their traumatic event, it also had the side effect of resetting the individual’s mind and emotions to the version of themselves that first experienced the trauma.

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“Haha!! Aiden’s crying!!” One of the kids yelled causing the other kids to laugh. But to Aiden they might as well have vanished into thin air as the only thing in his eyes was the woman standing before him.

“Mom…” His voice cracked with emotion.

Seeing her son’s tears, the black haired woman slowly bent down and gave him an encouraging smile.

Feeling a large hand pet the top of his head, the teary eyed Aiden looked back only to see a dark skinned man in his early 30s that his tanned skinned older counterpart resembled staring down at him.

“Dad…”

Feeling the warmth from the hand resting on his head, Aiden couldn’t help but choke up as a stronger wave of emotions suddenly gushed out of him.

‘Its him… They’re really here.’

Unable to believe that they were really here, Aiden raised a small shaky hand and touched the hand on top of his head.

‘I can feel him! He’s here! My dad’s really alive!!’

Trembling at the feeling of his father’s hand atop his head, a feeling of immense joy, sadness and loss consumed him all at once.

Standing up from the chair with shaky legs, the young Aiden pushed himself into his mother’s embrace and breathed in her scent.

“Mom.”

Not understanding her son’s sudden actions, Aiden’s mother did what any good mother would do when they saw their child hurting. Lowering her hands, she wrapped them around her child’s back and pulled him into a loving hug.

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After finally managing to calm down, Aiden reassured his parents and their guests that everything was alright and that he was fine.

Restarting the party, he blew out the candles and let the events of the day play out just like it had been in the past.

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“Thanks for coming, I’ll see next Thursday at the soccer game.” Aiden’s mother said to a guest that was departing.

Holding a large black bin bag, Aiden’s father hummed a tune while walking around the living room picking up all the trash and dropping them in the bag.

Sitting on the sofa playing with his newly gifted action figures, Aiden had a big smile on his face. All memory of future events seemingly forgotten.

Seeing that he had an unopened card near him, he decided to stop playing and open it up. Although his mind and emotions may have been reset along with his reading ability. Part of future Aiden’s subconscious mind was still there and translated the words that birthday Aiden couldn’t.

To Aiden D. Cross

Happy Birthday!!

I hope you have a fantastic birthday buddy

Lots of love from your best friend in the world Kyren!!

Smiling at the superhero images on the card, Aiden went and placed with the other cards. But for some reason, a sudden feeling of dread overcame him. But being the 4 year old that he was, he easily shook it off and went back to playing with his action figures.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

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Stuck in the dreamworld, Aiden didn’t know that his body in the real world was undergoing a weird change. Sitting in his lotus position, the purple astral energy around his body seemed to be spreading out and warping the space around him. To go along with this weird change, the purple tips at the end of his hair started to glow and spread slowly towards his the top of his head by a couple of centimeters.