My Hero Academia: Killer Quirk!! - Chapter 117

Shifting through Mei’s hug, Aiden made sure to keep his distance from the pink haired girl.

“Don’t get close to me, you’re dirty.”

“Ha!” Standing covered in what Aiden could only presume to be oil, Hatsume Mei stood in her tank top shirt with a large smile on her face. “Who has time for baths? Its my baby’s time to shine!”

Looking at the large robot she was referring to, Aiden couldn’t help but smile at the girl’s passion.

“You do you Mei.”

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Strolling around a bit more, he eventually found himself standing on the school roof overlooking the students.

Watching them from his position, a weird feeling overcame him. He felt like he was an outsider, someone who didn’t belong.

‘Is this another side effect of my trauma?’

Considering everything he’s went through, it wasn’t hard to understand why he’d feel this way. He was fundamentally different from the people below him. While they’ve known nothing but love and security, he’s known only loss and pain. Even now he was unsure just how long this peace would last. With his track record for tragedies it was only a matter of time until someone he cared died.

‘*Sigh* Why can’t I have normal teenage problems?’

[A/n: Because no one would read it.]

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-Late night-

After smashing Ms. Ashido until she could no longer move, Aiden returned back home and was notified that The Gentle criminal had uploaded a new video.

After watching it, he couldn’t help but shake his head. According to Gentle, his next video would be a wake up call for society.

‘How laughable.’

“Hey Aiden!” Christina called from downstairs.

“Yeah?”

“Wanna watch a movie?”

“…What genre?”

“Up to you.”

With nothing better to do, he turned his computer off and joined Christina downstairs.

“So… Where were you earlier?”

“…Fucking the neighbor.”

“Pfthahahahaha, an anti-social guy like you? Ha! If you said it was a prȯstɨtutė I might have believed you.”

Shrugging his shoulders, he picked up the remote and put on a random action movie.

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A couple days passed and it was the final night before the cultural festival. Considering that he was the class rep, Aiden decided that it would be best if he stayed at the dorms to make sure that everything was okay.

Sitting downstairs with the rest of the class besides Momo who had already gone to bed, the group went over their positions and equipment.

“The rope’s frayed.” Deku muttered after looking at the rope they had used for practice.

“Hmm? Why don’t we get Yaoyarozu to make us one tomorrow?” Denki replied.

“She’s done enough.” Aiden suddenly spoke up. “Lets let her enjoy the festival, I’ll get the rope tomorrow after dropping Eri off.”

“Eri’s coming?” Mina asked in shock.

While she may not have met the child in person, Mina and the rest of the class were aware of what she went through from Deku and Kirishima’s explanation.

“Yeah.” He nodded.

“Do you want us to take care of her while you’re gone.”

“Nah, I’ve got someone else to cover for me.”

—

“No.”

Looking at the slothful freeloader laying on his sofa, Aiden’s eyebrows furrowed.

Knowing that she wanted him to see her as a friend, he used this fact to blackmail Christina into agreeing to take care of Eri while he was gone.

Now that, that problem was dealt with, he went upstairs a lay on his bed. Putting his earphones in, he lost himself in the music.

Closing his eyes, he let his astral energy flow. Seeping into his skin, the energy turned him into a purple man. But unlike the previous time, the current shade of purple was much darker. Darker to the point that it resembled midnight purple. To make matters even weirder, his clothes took on a very light shade of purple and had energy radiating off him.

Controlling his breathing, Aiden noticed these changes happening in his body but didn’t try to stop them. Ever since he came out of the dreamworld he felt that he was just beginning to understand the true potential of his astral energy.

Circulating the power throughout his entire body, he didn’t notice that his hair was starting to stick up and defy gravity. Feeling a slight sensation of pain in his mouth, he felt his canine teeth grow and sharpen. Opening his eyes, the world was completely different. Unlike what it would normally look like, his current sight made it feel like his astral vision was on despite him not activating it. Frowning at this fact, he got up and looked at his reflecting in his window. To his surprise he found that his eyes were completely purple. No iris or pupils could be seen. All that could be seen was a glowing purple light that contrasted with his midnight purple skin.

‘What the hell?’

Drawing closer to the window, he saw that he had glowing purple tattoo like symbols on his face. Not knowing why, he opened the window and jumped down to the floor. Without activating the light stepping technique, his body absorbed the fall damage but he felt none of that. Feeling suspicious about his current change he started experimenting.

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-3 hours later-

“I see…”

After experimenting for three hours straight, Aiden found that his current state brought him more than just a physical appearance change. In his current form, his speed, strength and dexterity had been enhanced to a new level. It also seemed like the light stepping technique, astral vision and other techniques were this forms natural state. When he tried running normally, he felt his body was instinctively activating the light step burst. And to make it even weirder than it really was, he could still consciously activate the technique and improve his speed even more. His astral gravity also improved to the point that he didn’t need to form wings in order to fly and maneuver in the same manner.

And while he wasn’t completely certain yet, he felt like his endurance and defensive ability had been upgraded.

“Weird.”

Taking to the skies, the light of the moon encapsulated his entire figure and gave him a weird sense of divinity.

“I guess I’ll call this the Astral State.”