My Hero Academia: Killer Quirk!! - Chapter 123

“Where’s your mother?”

Standing inside Saki’s messed up room, Aiden did his best to keep her calm as he asked her some questions.

Sitting on her bed with her arms hugging her knees, Aiden could practically see the dark aura gathering around her.

“She… she had to work late…”

“I see…” He nodded to himself and started thinking.

“M-My father… Where is he?” Remembering the last moments she spent with him, Saki had trouble uttering the word father.

Looking into her eyes, Aiden could see her childish naivety slowly fading away. Not wanting to hasten the process by telling her the dark truth, he decided to protect her innocence and lie to her.

“He… left after I threatened to call the police.”

“Oh… I see…” Unsure whether he was telling the truth or not, the dark aura around her person thickened.

“Saki…”

*Deep Breath* “I’m fine.” She showed him a bright smile.

Unable to hold it back any further, her body started to tremble uncontrollably while tears streamed down the side of her face.

Watching this happen from the sidelines, Aiden sighed and pulled her into a hug. Having suffered from years of trauma, he could see that Saki’s psyche was on the brink. Not wanting her to become as withdrawn as him, he did the first thing he could think of and pulled her into his embrace.

Thinking about it now, his mother used to do this to him whenever he felt troubled.

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Having fallen asleep in his arms, Aiden gently laid her down on her bed and looked up at the destroyed ceiling. He was actually quite lucky that the neighbors hadn’t called the police over the sound of his arrival.

Looking down at Saki’s sleeping face, he couldn’t help but feel for the poor girl. From what he was able to get out of her, her father had recently been laid off and the family was struggling to pay their bills. This was one of the reasons her mother had to pick up additional late night shifts.

Sighing lightly, he opened up Saki’s ŀȧptop and used his minuscule amount of hacking knowledge to bypass her passwords and log into her bank account. After making sure that everything was alright, he log into his own account and wired some money into hers. Using a dummy account that Dark Star had created in the past, he was practically untraceable online so if anyone wanted to look where the money came from, they’d suffer a serious headache trying to figure it out. Of course this was only possible thanks to his resident hacker Christina.

Now that the Yoshida family’s money problems had been taken care of, all that was left was dealing with Saki’s current state of mind and coming up with an excuse to Mrs Yoshida as to why her husband had suddenly disappeared.

*Sigh* “This is not how I saw my night going.”

Calling Christina, he explained the situation to her and had her erase any footage of the area from the last 3 hours. After hearing about how Saki was almost rȧpėd by her own father, Christina quickly agreed to help and told him not to leave until he was sure that she was stable.

But since he didn’t really have much experience in dealing with someone else’s trauma, he had Christina look up people with memory manipulating quirks. Once she found some, he went and kidnapped them, blindfolded them and forced them to blur Saki’s memories. By the time she woke up, all she would remember was coming home and going to bed.

Since he didn’t want them messing with her head and accidentally screwing something up. Instead of having them remove the memory, he had them bury it as deep as possible.

Now Saki’s mental state was taken care of, he found a couple Saki’s father’s handwritten letter and used Catch these hands to copy the handwriting and wrote a suicide note. He left it quite vague but said the reason he was doing it was due to being unable to handle the stress of losing his job.

He even went the extra mile and e-mailed a construction company to fix the hole in Saki’s roof for the next morning, he claimed the reason for such a hole being there was due to the collateral damage of a hero chasing a villain through the area. And since the camera’s were missing three hours of footage, they had no one to refute the claim.

By the time he left the Yoshida household, Saki’s mother finally returned and was in for quite a shock.

But since he had left them with enough money to survive the next 10 years, he no longer considered this his problem. And thus, he left the area.

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While Aiden was off on his nightly escapade, a fatigued Deku who had spent the day completing basic endurance drills and some One For All training found himself inside a weird dream. In that dream, everything except his right hand (Wink, wink) and everything above his nose was made of black mist. Standing next to him was a beautiful woman in a yellow cape. Besides her there were other people that he didn’t recognize. But weirdly enough, out of all the figures standing there, he seemed to recognize a hazy looking All Might. But what really got him was the realization that this was the echo of not only the past users of One For All, but also the birth on One For All.