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Izuku Midoriya was having a bad day, no a bad life. As he was walking to his home after the torture that is called school, he thought about his life so far. 'For the past 6 years people has been treating him as an animal and not a human being. Why? Because he didn't have a stupid power called quirk, for the people in his life it seems that not having a stupid useless power is somehow a crime worthy of punishment. His first and only friend- no former friend Kacchan, his neighbors', his school teachers and his classmates all treat him like scum for wanting to become a hero without a quirk. The irony that the majority of his abusive classmates has quirks that is absolutely useless for hero work or anything is not lost on him. Sometimes he felt that the entire world is against him and his wish to be a hero like All Might who was his inspiration since he has not seen his father in his life. His another inspiration was his friend Kacchan but after today even he couldn't accept Kacchan's abuse anymore as anything other than villainous. To suicide bait a classmate is nothing short of villainism'.

As Izuku walked thinking, he came to an underground pass and starts crossing it. There was a nasty smell coming from the man hole in front of him, but Izuku was in his own thoughts and didn't care about it. As Izuku reached the man hole suddenly it was thrown up and hit Izuku's head and he flew backwards.

A slime monster came through the hole and looked for a human body to hide in and escape his pursuer. Slime monster saw Izuku crawling away from him and saw the perfect target. As Izuku was crawling away dazedly from the monster he prayed for his life. Suddenly the Slime Villain was on him and Izuku struggled to no avail. Izuku took a deep breathe just before the Slime crawled to his mouth and lungs. Pain unlike anything crawled through Izuku's lungs, but he held on for consciousness and to fight for his life.

There was a whistling coming through the open man hole and a gigantic muscular hand came through it first followed by a gigantic figure in yellow.

"HAHAHA, Fear not, child, Why? I AM HERE!!" All Might exclaimed and punched the air.

Izuku lost consciousness seeing All Might as he was already breathless. The Slime villain was blasted apart from Izuku and splashed throughout the surrounding walls, from where All Might collected every drop in a glass bottle he had with him.

All Might looked frightened at Izuku's fainted body and thought the worst that he was dead. All Might approached Izuku and checked the pulse and thankfully felt the normal pulse. All Might passed a sigh as he was sure that the gap between the Villain escaping through the manhole and him coming through is more than 4 minutes and enough time to kill a small skinny 10 year old. All Might deduced that fortunately for the child, he had taken a breath just before Slime Villain try to enter his lungs. As picking up the bag of the kid for looking into identification card or something for contacting his parents All might came upon a note book title 'Hero Analysis for future No. 10 'intrigued he speed read through the entire book. He signed a free page and contacted the boys mother.

All Might shook Izuku awake after checking for any other injuries.

"Impressive observations, Young man, need to have some more work, but easily remedied if you have guidance or with difficulty if you yourself work towards it. Alas I am not that person for it"

Izuku was completely frozen due to surprise at seeing All Might and after hearing his praise toward a quirkless hero wannabe like him.

"Sir, Al.. All.. All M..might, I am your biggest fan and I need an autograph" Izuku exclaimed quickly.

"I have already signed; child and I have called your mother to come here and pick you up. I can't reasonably let you leave home alone as the Slime was in your lungs and there may be residue which may need treatment. Anyway, wait here for your mother. I have to go now. No time to waste" All Might said hurriedly and started walking towards the exit.

Izuku was surprised by the sudden exit and shouted " All Might, please wait, I have a qu..."

"No time, young man, bye" All Might said over Izuku without turning back.

Izuku started running towards All Might and just as he reached the exit All Might jumped and Izuku also jumped and caught All Might's leg.Startled All Might looked back and saw Izuku holding on for his dear life. Now annoyed and afraid for the child's life, All Might landed on a rooftop of a high building.

"That was extremely foolish young man and dangerous. Never repeat it. Even for me this level of fanaticism is not good." All Might said and walked towards the edge

Izuku was sad hearing the scolding and shouted "please, All Might, answer my one question, CAN I BE A HERO LIKE YOU? CAN I BE A HERO EVENTHOUGH I AM QUIRKLESS?"

All Might suddenly stopped hearing that turned to see Izuku on his knees and bowing and crying his heart out. Suddenly steam started to pour out of All Might and he lost quarter of his size.

Startled Izuku raised to see what caused the steam and saw a All Might with shrunken face, without his trademark grin or hair style and shrunken as he has fasted for months.

"Young Man, this is my true form. Do not post it on internet or anything."

"of course not, All Might, your secret is safe with me. What happened?"

"You asked me whether you can be a hero? This is the answer young man." All Might said as he lifted his shirt to show his non existing stomach and scars that no man would have survived without the advent of quirk healing and modern technology.

"2 years ago, there was fight with the absolute worst villain and this is the result. Currently the quirks are getting stronger, every new hero has a strong quirk. Similarly, villains also show strong power. Even with my power I have to suffer pain and injury. This career is dangerous and for to tackle it without no power of your own to backup in fight is very bad for your life and loved ones. So, the answer is NO. The media doesn't show the blood and gory details. You are only ten and a young child, without the knowledge to know the deep details of the various professions. If you want to be a hero there is the job of fire fighters and police officers. Even before quirks they were the normal people's hero and even now, they are heroes for people who are not fooled by the glamorous Pro Hero life shown by media. I advice you to look into it and choose wisely. Of course, I am not all knowing, as you can already see the effect of not knowing something, this is my honest opinion." All Might finished seriously and walked out to take stairs for exiting the building.

Izuku was devastated and heartbroken. The number one hero himself said no and destroyed his dream. Everything came to his mind at a rush.

'Sorry, Izuku, I am so Sorry'

'Worthless Useless Deku'

'You cannot be a hero without a quirk'

'2 years ago, there was fight with the absolute worst villain and this is the result. Currently the quirks are getting stronger, every new hero has a strong quirk. Similarly, villains also show strong power. Even with my power I have to suffer pain and injury. This career is dangerous and for to tackle it without no power of your own to backup in fight is very bad for your life and loved ones. So, the answer is no. The media doesn't show the blood and gory details. You are only ten and a young child, without the knowledge to know the deep details of the various professions. If you want to be a hero there is fire fighters and police officers. Even before quirks they were the normal people's hero and even now, they are heroes for people not fooled by the glamorous life shown by media. I advice you to look into it and choose wisely. Of course, I am not all knowing, as you can see the effect of not knowing, this is my honest opinion.'

'Take a swan dive of the roof and wish for a quirk in next life'

Unknowingly he was at the end of the rooftop and looking down at the traffic and ant like people walking in ground. He was about to jump when the face of his mother came to his mind.

'No, I cannot repay my mom's kindness and love for me with my death. She sacrificed her marriage, life and works twice as much for make ends meet for me. I have to take care of her' Izuku thought to himself and walked away.

Little while ago.

Tom, a homeless man was having a stolen smoke in leisure while sitting in an alley and thinking how bad his life is. 'A quirk so weak that it as well not exists. No job. No money. Nothing. At least I have this alley to myself and not share it with smelly Rodrick now'.
Suddenly a glass bottle fell in front of him from above and only a life of street thug and crime saved him from pierced glass to face or worse the absolute nasty smelling shit to face. Cursing to heavens and the one to throw it,Tom got up and ran away from the smell. Minutes later the black goop started moving and joining each other.


Inko was worried, as she was walking as fast as possible to reach the under bridge the hero mentioned Izuku was. The only respite she had was the confirmation that Izuku was safe. As she passed a building a homeless man was ogling her and spat a mouthful of foul-smelling cigarette smoke at her face. Inko didn't respond and started walking even faster. Inko couldn't believe that the thug has the guts to trouble her like that when the heroes and media and police were in the opposite side of the street after defeating a villain and trying to stop a fire from spreading. As she was passing the opening of the alley from where the thug came from, a slime monster emerged and grasped her leg. Seeing the villain, she screamed so loud that the glass almost cracked in the entire street. Startled the heroes, media and police turned and saw a monster enveloping a helpless woman.

Izuku was walking down the streets to his home when he heard a surprising scream in the air. The sound was familiar and Izuku ran forward to see what was happening. Izuku saw a crowd in semi circular watching a moving and crashing black goop. Familiar black goop. The Slime Villain. The villain was trying to kill the hostage and takeover the body of a woman. Izuku was devastated as he came to the conclusion that the bottle must have fell out of All Might's pockets when he jumped and caught his pants.

Izuku ran to the front to see the hero Death Arms standing stoically and watching, Kamui Woods controlling the crowd and Backdraft still trying to put down the fire in front of the camera even though it had stopped spreading.Izuku saw the women struggling and loose stones and items hitting the black body with some force. It was at that moment Izuku saw the eyes of the women and understood that she was his mother.

"MOMM" Izuku shouted and ran towards the black sludge avoiding the barricade by Kamui Woods to rescue his mother. Izuku knew only solid point was eyes and threw his bag at the monster's eye.

In another universe, seeing a 14-year-old boy running towards a villain and danger to play a hero, the hero Death Arms will not move and scoff internally at the foolishness and watch on. The boy may have reached the monster itself, saved the hostage himself and inspire Yagi Toshinori himself to be All Might and bulk up to finish the job. But alas, this was not that universe.

At that moment, seeing a ten-year-old son of the hostage running toward a monster, Death Arms moved and caught Izuku to save the little boy from assured death.

The hostage was not rescued by Izuku. Yagi Toshinori,watching from the crowd was not inspired by anything and was deep in depression due to his injury and ever reducing time limit. Yagi Toshinori only cursed himself and his vanquished foe for the scene in front of him. Yagi only felt pity towards the young powerless child trying to fight a monster and self hatred towards himself for his limitations.

Izuku tried to leave the arms of the heroes who waited for rightful quirk and save his mother. He screamed and shook himself to leave the arms but he was overpowered.

Izuku turning to the heroes and shouted "Kamui Woods, use your wood to pierce the villains' eyes, it's solid, Backdraft use your power to hose down the slime it's liquid everywhere else. Please save my mom."

Everyone including the media and heroes were surprised by the suggestion from a 10-year-old.

"I can't kill the villain and piercing eye seems a legit way to do it" Kamui Woods said.

"The fire will spread" said Backdraft and the slight fear is heard in the voice.

Death Arms was livid and shouted "shut up, you stupid boy, first you run up to a villain and endanger everyone in a hostage situation and now commands the heroes on scene when you know nothing of the villain and how powers work."

Izuku saw red.
"it's not a hostage situation, you pathetic failure of a hero, the damn slime is fucking trying to kill my mom by drowning her in slime and take over her body you idiot. I know it because I was its first victim and almost died before All Might showed up and saved me. He must have escaped the glass bottle All might put him after splattering it with a punch."

The heroes, media, public and everyone watching online starred at disbelief at the boy. 'A villain escaping All Might-impossible.'

Death Arms ignored the boys shouting and watched the villain situation and tried to talk to the villain. The villain is distracted by the quirk of the victim and thrown bag of the boy and this allowed Inko to stay alive.

The Villain was angry as ever by the pain in his eye and started pressing harder and the victims struggle was slowing.

Seeing this Izuku shouted at his mother and raised his hands to reach her, to save her. His legs were constantly trying to move, but he was in the air held up by DeathArms.

At that moment Izuku wished for a quirk or any power to reach his mother. He wished for attraction with every fabric of his soul so he can summon his mother and save her.

Izuku saw through his tear-filled eyes as his mother drowned in front of him. As the liquid slime moved and pressed a gap occurred in it and for seconds Izuku's eye met his mother's eyes. The same eye's he sees every morning when he wakes up and before falling asleep every night.

The eyes still express the kindness and love for him. The same kindness and love Izuku's eyes had for the world.

The eyes still had a Light...

Izuku stopped struggling looked at the eyes and understood the silent message in it. "Izuku, I love you and live. Live happily".

Then, the light starts fading...

The struggling stops.

"NOOOOOO...." A scream of immense pain and sadness that broke the hearts of everyone in the public was heard.

As the light flickered and died in the eyes of his mother something broke inside him. The light in his eyes, showing love and kindness to the world that kept burning even after years of abuse, suicide baiting, punishments and even his hero's scorn, died.

As the light left a void began forming in his heart. Izuku's entire body started burning up as a power rose. His outstretched arms that were trying to attract his mother trembled as a green light from his mother flew so fastly that no one else sees it and entered his arms. It travelled through his veins towards the void in his heart.

The next moment the black goop started shaking and the body of Inko Midoriya flew through the liquid like a rocket towards the outstretched hands of Izuku. Seeing this Death Arms dropped Izuku and went after the villain.

Izuku caught his mother's body with surprising strength and put down in gentle manner and closed the eyes without the light.
And he started crying…

Chapter 2: The Aftermath

Yagi Toshinori watched from shadows as the kid cried over his dead mother. He cursed Death Arms for not listening to the kid. He cursed the kid himself for jumping to his leg. Above all he cursed AFO for the injury he suffered, but the most he cursed himself for not pushing the transformation and rescuing the woman himself. He had trusted the heroes on the scene to handle it and to save the woman. He watched as the villain shout in absolute fury at the kid for taking his new body from him, just after killing for it. He watched as the villain was defeated as suggested by the kid. Backdraft used water to liquify the Slime, Kamui Woods scratched the eyes and block the view of the villain and Death Arms throw a huge block of concrete from the earlier fight and splattered the liquid further. The Heroes collected the liquid Villain in bottles and finally end the threat and the crowd clapped loudly in praise. It seems that the common public and the media had not understood that the women held by the Villain was dead. Yagi started slowly retreating, he had to get to his hero office. He was in Musutafu only to visit Recovery Girl in UA and was outside when he heard about the Slime Villain through Hero Network and started the chain of events.

As the tears slowly dried up, Izuku heard applause from the crowd for the Heroes and absolute fury arose in him. 'His mother was dead because of their incompetence and they are praised for it'. Even then, as it was not the time for fury and so Izuku didn't said anything. He just kept staring at his mother's face his usual fast thoughts racing even more faster.

After collecting the villain, the heroes were approaching Izuku to process the victim situation. The Media, the police and the crowd was watching as Death Arms approached Izuku and the women. As soon as Death Arms reached Izuku he started shouting at Izuku for jumping to the scene, for using his quirk illegally, and for shouting at professional heroes in a tense situation. Izuku doesn't even turn and respond. "You are a little kid and quirk usage shall be forgiven and now move aside let me check her pulse and carry her to medical ambulance over there, she must have fainted due to the inability to breath, move aside kid." Death arms finished and bent down to touch Inko's neck.

"Do not touch her dead body, you absolute failure of a professional hero. Your foul foolish hands is not worthy of it. Touch her and you lose your hand." Izuku yelled in absolute fury and hatred. The sound was so loud that the entire street heard and a silence descends the street. The crowd and media were surprised that the hostage was dead and even the heroes were surprised. Death Arms was frozen by the declaration and the hatred in the little kids' eyes.

The Media and crowd started murmuring of incompetence, death of a mother, how the villain was defeated as the kid said, how Death Arms shouted at the kid and how Death Arms caused the women's death.

Death Arms was absolutely livid. He was already having a bad day, with it being 3 fights already and suffering 2 burns from earlier. "How dare you? You foolish child, you are no Doctor or nurse to declare a person dead now move aside" Death Arms shouted.

"I am not a little child. I am almost 11 and I know how to check pulse. She has none. I hope I am wrong and you are correct. The medical professional behind you can check on her. I only want YOU, the reason she is dead, not touching her." Izuku replied in a cold emotionless voice.

The Medical Professional approached and confirmed Inko Midoriya has been dead and by drowning. The sludge was in her mouth.
The Crowd again started blaming the heroes for the death and incompetence. The Head Police approached the scene to take the body and to survey the scene.

Death Arms was shocked and afraid. A death under his watch, more over, easily avoidable death and to fuck things further the child of the women has said how to save her and he didn't follow it. He looked around and heard the media and crowd slowly turning against himself, if the media reported the incident as it is, then his hero career and extravagant life is over. He needs to change the story. He needs to change the crowds and media attention. He was a Hero and his words has value. If he said something it's the truth for the media. He needs to blame someone else, and who to blame other than the victim's 10-year-old child who used his quirk in front of everyone.

"You Kid, you are under arrest for illegal use of quirk and vigilante charges for interfering in an active crime scene" Death Arms exclaimed.

Death Arms expected cold shout of fury from the kid as a response like earlier, but only response was a cold apathy and disgust towards him. The Kid was cold and composed more restraint than he thought. The Crowd and Media was surprised by the charge, but nothing else. So, looking at Izuku, Death Arms needs more so he continued "kid, also there may be accidental murder charges also, because your mother may have died from the shock of the attraction you used. We can't be sure without the post mortem results, so that charges will also be applied" the moment Death Arms finished, he knew he committed the biggest mistake of his life. A mistake that will shake the society to the core and change Japan itself.

Even though the public and media started blaming the kid the crowd came to absolute silence in a minute. Hearing the failure,blaming him for escaping punishment Izuku absolutely lost it. The void in his heart started expanding and having a pressure like a black hole.

There was a pressure in the air. Many people saw a green wave of pure hatred, fury and killing intent spreading throughout the entire street. Even though the green wave disappeared in a second that many people later assigned it to imagination, the pressure was still there.
Heartbeats started rising. Sweats started to fall down their spines. Fight or flight response was triggering and the only winning one was flight.

Death was in that street.

The cameras shooting Death Arms and the kid started trembling and world went on watching as a 10-year-old questioned their entire society.
Killing Intent so potent hit Yagi Toshinori as he reached the end of the street that he almost thought that AFO has been resurrected. For the number one hero the pressure was nothing. He has faced the Symbol of Fear and won and so he quickly turned around to check who was responsible. The sight before him was astonishing. The killing intent of such fury was aimed at Death Arms by the 10-year-old. As Yagi reached near the end of the crowd, Izuku started talking.

"You absolute piece of shit stain, you scum, actually has the courage to blame me for my mother's death, when it was caused by your sheer pride and incompetence. When the crowd and public came to understand you caused her death you want to mislead them and want to blame me, so your ranking will not be affected. Don't you have a little kindness? I almost let you and your hero friends off from the murder of my mother as a mistake committed, but you don't care about my mother or me. You don't care about the people you are protecting. So, from now on I don't care about the heroes or hero culture." Izuku turned from Death Arms and looked at the crowd and camera. Every single person's heart flattered a second due to fear. The sheer will through which Izuku spoke to Death Arms was frightening.

"What does it say of our society when you and every one in the crowd and media started blaming the 10-year-old for the death of his own mother just because a villain under the guise of a hero said to you to blame me to escape from his own failure. A society so deep in love with heroes that their words are like from God himself that you all trusted even when everyone saw the truth for themselves... A society so Foolish and lead through a false reputation of heroes as good people. Today I paid a deep price to understand that heroes don't protect you. They are also human like you and me. Heroes protect their own life, pockets and morality. My Mother is dead because Kamui Woods doesn't want to risk becoming a killer, because Backdraft was afraid for his own life as he doesn't know whether if diluting the sludge may increase the villain's power or not or villain may spread through the water and kill him too and finally because Death Arms was so afraid for his reputation and strength and wants to wait for hero with an appropriate quirk. Until my mother's death, I want to become a hero like All Might to save people with a smile. It was written in my soul, the dream to become a hero for only to help others. Well, viewers, what they say is true. Never meet your heroes unless you want to suffer disappointment and heartbreak. I kept my dream even when everyone except my mother told me that a quirk less person like me couldn't be a hero. I kept it until, All Might himself said I cannot be a hero without power when,even he,himself has suffered an injury from a fight 2 years ago. Even then I wouldn't give up my dream. I would have applied to UA at 14, I would have passed the entrance test and I would have become the first quirk less hero, not to prove All Might wrong, just to help others, but it seems that fate has other plans for me. So, here I am, only 45 minutes after hearing from All Might himself that the quirk less nobody like me couldn't be a hero or helpful to others and now quirk less no more and helping the whole of Japan to understand the rot that has spread through the very soul of our society, where the teachers encourage the students to use their quirks on useless quirk less Deku's like me or on weak quirks or on mutant quirks, where the heroes blame the child of the murdered women for inconsequential use of quirks in national television and get away with it. Today I paid the price with my mother's life so that every single one of you can think yourself about the rot in our society and how backwards the laws and culture regarding quirks is. A child is abused for his quirk or for not having one, but the child can't use his quirk unless he is a hero and has a license. Why does it matter, if one has a quirk or not for an average citizen, when you can't even use the damn thing even legally in daily life. Think about the lies the society has fed you about the heroes. Today I paid the price for their folly. Tomorrow it maybe you or your loved ones." Izuku finished talking to crowd and the camera.

The sheer impact of the impromptu rant turned speech was humongous. The crowd, heroes, police stood still because of the sheer from the killing intent, but the passion in which the speech was delivered even impacted them even through the fear. For the people watching through media, the charisma was over the roof and the impact was life changing for many people.

Izuku calmed down forcefully and the killing intent was released, even though he doesn't know he had it in the first place. Izuku turned to the police and said "Officer, the person called Death Arms with a hero license has accused me of vigilante charges and murder charges. The vigilante charges are bogus since I just manifested the quirk because of the traumatic event and checking the quirk registry will prove my point. As for the murder charges, please release the post mortem report to the public so that the initial report made by the trained medical professional shall be confirmed and the false allegations made by the person holding hero license shall proven a lie and be liable for professional misconduct." The crowd, the media and even the police was surprised by the sudden adherence to rules and procedure, but that thought was a bit premature as the next word proved.

"Officer, furthermore, I wish to file a complaint against person's holding Hero License with the names Death Arms, Backdraft and Kamui Woods for Willful murder, abetting a known villain, Professional misconduct, Negligence, Professional License misuse, misuse of public image to incite public violence, emotional, psychological and physical abuse of a child of 10 years old. Additionally, I am also filing a complaint against the person holding professional hero license in the name of All Might for, Professional misconduct, Criminal Negligence, Professional License Misuse and accidental murder." Izuku finished and the cameraman almost dropped the camera hearing the charge against All Might the Number One Hero. First time in the career of All Might there is a case against him for professional misconduct and murder.

The officer shook himself from the shock and asked "All Might? What has he got to do with it?"

"Oh, Sorry officer, you didn't hear earlier" Izuku said "I was the first victim of the villain. In an underbridge near my school the villain trapped me. Upon seeing the liquid form, I knew drowning was possible and I took a deep breath just before being trapped and allowed me to stay alive till All Might arrived. He defeated the villain and collected him in a glass bottle and kept it in his back pocket. He didn't wait for the arrival of my mother to arrive at the scene to take me to a hospital, whom he called there. My wellbeing was his responsibility as I suffered from a villain attack, until actually the police or a medical practitioner arrives at the scene, whom my mother is not a member of. He left me there and flew off during which, I assume, the Glass bottle fell down, broke and my mother was captured. So, there you have it- Number One Hero blunders and foolishness from the number one hero lead to my mothers death."

Hearing this Yagi Toshinori was horror stricken about, what his carelessness has led to. His foolishness has led to a 10-year questioning the hero system itself in national television and worst part was he or the crowd has no answers for the boy except acceptance to what he said.

As Izuku sat frozenly in the medical van, he thought to himself, 'what happened to my stutter? what happened to my fear? I never stuttered when I was talking in front of the crowd and their frozen reaction is also perplexing. Dhuh whatever... I really don't care' and then Izuku's eyed widened as he got his answer. He already lost the only reason for his continued life and for not taking the sweetfull swan dive. Now as he doesn't care or fear about being a hero or what other people think or do, he doesn't need to filter his fast thoughts and self-muttering. What does he have to fear in this world, when he faced death itself in the rooftop and walked away with a smile because of his mother and suffered the greatest pain by loosing the mother minutes later.

Chapter 3: Reaction

Sir Nighteye

Sir Nighteye was having a normal day in his office. The Yakuza was slowly moving again and there were mentions of Trigger being available in the streets. The Yakuza has cleared the streets of opposing factions and owns the street. He was going to look into the reason behind the current resurgence of the old villain group, when his intern ran into room and exclaimed;

"Sir, you have to come and see this news, right away. It's horrible and All Might is mentioned couple of times." Sir Nighteye was very surprised and for a second, he remembered his prediction of his friend's death, but remembered it was not so soon.

"Be concise, what had happened?" Nighteye asked as he started moving to the hall in which the TV is running.

"Sir, A Slime Villain had taken a women hostage and Death Arms, Kamui Woods and Backdraft were on the scene when a 10-year-old boy ran yelling something, overcoming the barricade and distracted the monster by attacking Slimes' eye when Death Arms finally caught him. He started giving orders about attacking eyes, using water and how he was its first victim and almost died before All Might showed up and rescued him, put the villain in a glass bottle and flew away. Hearing about All Might, I came to tell you."

Sir Nighteye nodded and started analyzing the scene in the TV. The woman was dead or at least fainted and rescued by the kids Quirk. He looked for Yagi and he saw him standing in the back of the crowd. Sir Nighteye watched gravely as Death Arms tried to blame the kid and shift responsibility of the death under his watch to recover popularity and he watched amusedly as the Kid tore him and the hero society a new one.

'Whoever this kid is, he is incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable in current affairs of our society, but what troubles me is the killing intent the kid already has, even the camera is shaking and the entire crowd except Yagi is frozen.' Nighteye thought to himself.

But two minutes later Nighteye lost all his amusement as the kid levelled murder charges against All Might of all people in National Television. The most harrowing part for him was he could see Yagi in a horror-stricken face in the background frozen too. As the crowd dispersed slowly, Yagi hadn't moved, he was staring at the kid who was walking toward the medical van. The moment Yagi took first step Nighteye knew his friend was going to apologize in national television and in front of the media.

Nighteye doesn't need to use his Quirk on himself to know the impact in Japan if All Might showed himself at this scene. He was horrified, at All Might's short sightedness regarding the matter. Nighteye ran to his office and closed the room so that no one will hear the following conversation.
Yagi Toshinori stared at the kid with regret, even now many people didn't want to believe that he would drop a villain like that. He started walking towards the alley to turn, when his phone ringed with a specific ringtone. A ringtone for his former sidekick and friend, Sir Nighteye. All Might doesn't regret not following Mirai's suggestion for retirement, even though he misses his friend and the analyst of his office whose meticulous plans allowed him to save so many people without many setbacks.

"Now is not the time, Mirai." Yagi picked the phone annoyedly

"On the contrary, now is the perfect time, All Might. Do not approach the scene now, whatever is the truth of the matters is, it doesn't matter, the situation needs a proper thought-out response made calmly and rationally, not your emotional one, if you fly there now the damages will be catastrophic."

"How many times, I have to say to you not to use your Quirk to look into my future Mirai, and if you are wondering, everything the kid said is true about me, The Villain escaped due to my carelessness, even though it was because the kid jumped and grabbed my leg when I jumped to the air. I have to apologise and give him some support now"

"How, foolish of the boy. I don't need to use my quirk to predict about this, All Might, please listen to me, if you go to there now, your good name will be dragged down the mud. "The Symbol of Peace" is not allowed to commit such a rookie mistake like loosing the villain and not looking for him without just cause. Unless you are willing to disclose your reduced form and limit, there is no justifiable way to reason your presence there minutes later after the death and capture of victim other than simple carelessness. The kid is now very emotional as you see, even I can't predict how he will react if he knew you were on the scene and did nothing. He has used the situation to express the truth of our society in a spectacular manner that no amount of false propaganda by the HPSC will wash away the results of that charismatic speech. We can prepare an official statement and you can apologise on national television after thinking things through, please All Might, I am begging you to walk away for now, as your former sidekick and your friend, please trust me." Nighteye finished passionately and in a desperate tone.

All Might thought about the plea by one of the brains behind his attack on AFO's empire and decided to follow through the advice. "OK. For now, I will not respond, meet me at UA. I am going to meet Principal Nezu and Recovery girl, whatever our response will be they knew I was in Mustafu and they should be kept in loop." All Might replied, cut the call and walked away without turning back. A lone tear was slowly dripping down his face.
1 Hour Ago

All For One was resting when The Doctor came running through the door. AFO was annoyed that his rest was interrupted " Doctor, you should have a very good reason for barging into my room at my rest time. You know the pain I am under, so what is it?"

The Doctor cursed himself for not knocking and said; "My Lord, the invisible drone following your son is displaying very interesting visuals, your son was attacked by a Slime Villain and rescued by All Might minutes ago. I have connected the visuals to the display in this room. It will be live in 5 seconds."

AFO was surprised by the curveball that hit his plans regarding his experiment. AFO and the Doctor started watching the situation very carefully.

50 Minutes Later…

"Hahaha…" AFO laughed so hard that the headache he had turned into a migraine. "Well, this is a golden opportunity my dear Doctor. My son has made the first impact against the hero society even without realizing it and it doesn't even need any manipulation from me. That honest oaf will confirm what my son has said and the impact will be huge and if he didn't, then as a proud father I should support my dear son by releasing this video anonymously. Thank you, Doctor, for your vigilance and making sure I saw this in live."

Doctor was happy by the praise; "My Lord, what about the boys future, he has your quirk even a upgraded version as he doesn't need to touch to take them."

"Upgraded version? You can't say that without studying it Doctor, My quirk All For One is a Class 6 first generation quirk, Inko's was a fourth generation quirk and surprisingly a Class 3 quirk, the difference in quirks generation and class is very large. Even I can't predict how it has combined. There is also the problem of adaptation, I can maintain this many quirks because of practice and my body is used to handle the strain of quirks. It took me quite a bit of time to become so. Izuku will also take time".

"I see. What should be done now, my lord? Should we let Izuku go to whatever the will of the women was or an orphanage?" The Doctor asked in curiosity.

"I think it's time for Izuku to meet his dear old loving father and to be groomed as my perfect heir." AFO said with a cruel grin his face.

The President

The women known as Madam President of HPSC was having a normal day. She was content with how the society has been going on and happy that the mess about Lady Nagant was finally over. Finally, she has ascended to the rightful place for her. The most powerful position in the government- President of Hero Public Safety Commission, the Government branch that controls the Heroes, and Japan is blessed with the one of the most powerful men and women in the Top 10 and she controls their fate. The only single hero outside of her control is All Might himself. Any other hero she can sink their fortune and the heroes know it. She is especially happy with herself because she inherited a position, that is almost secure. The new Prime Minister and the Diet owes her for coming into that position, the Eternal Terror called All for One is dead in the hands of All Might, all her enemies have been secretly killed of by using the foolish President and his pet assassin, the she herself manipulated Lady Nagant in offing the former President without anyone being wiser. Everything was perfect in her world as it should be. The only imperfection was UA, it's Rat God and All Might himself.

A knock came from outside and she bid them enter. It was the director of PR and Crisis Management together and she understood that something was wrong in her perfect world.

"What is it? Has All Might finally kicked the bucket for you two to come together?" Madam President asked.

"Madam, I think you should see this news, it's only ended just now and it's viral in every social media and news outlet. Even the international news has started reporting it because All Might is involved."

"Ok, let me watch it." Madam President said and watched the entire video twice.

"So, what is the initial damage and who the hell is this kid? He speaks like he has a quirk for public speaking or for charisma."

"Initial damage is as expected. While the public is heavily debating whether the involvement of All Might is true or false, the public and media surprisingly is in the Kids side regarding Death Arms, Kamui woods and Backdraft. After the speech went viral, as expected social media is getting bogged down by people who is discriminated for their quirklessness, mutant quirk or villain quirk or for having weak and useless quirks but the surprising thing is the amount of messages in for the amendment of quirk laws and to make quirk use legal and daily use of quirks in job and even to save their on lives. In Short, this is the most dangerous thing to occur after the death battle between All Might and the unnamed Shadow King two years ago that leveled a city." Crisis finished

"As for the kid, his name is Izuku Midoriya, age 10, formerly quirk less and studies at Aldera Middle School. I pulled his records, quite average in every subject and records is full of punishments for being nuisance in class and for general troublemaking. The dead woman is his mother Inko Midoriya, quirk: Attraction of small things, no known family. The kid had no quirk, everything in the video is pure natural talent, even though I still don't understand why the speech was allowed to be given in the first place itself or why the camera is shaking as if the camera man is trembling in fear when shooting a 10 year old. The heroes or the police should have stopped him long before he named All Might for the whole world to notice." The PR director finished.

"What about his father? Who is he?"

"Now, this is where things get interesting, Father's name is Midoriya Hisashi, quirk: Fire Breath. Works in America for a company. All education records show average mark. No records for any illegal activity, not even quirk use or being in a villain scene. Nothing. Everything is so unremarkable and not noteworthy that it became remarkable and interesting." PR finished.

"Regulate the Internet and try to curb the negative messages. Make sure our representatives mention the entire speech as foolish due to misunderstanding of the kid due to his age, in the late-night news debates. Contact All Might and enquire what he plans to do? Try to make him give a statement denying everything. Let the police start procedure against the heroes as usual, the public should know we are doing something and tell our investigators to dig into his father. Give the heroes fully paid leaves, for compliance and please allow no more interviews with the kid. Inform the media to cease trying to talk to him again in the follow up, if needed give minority as a reason." Madam President ordered.

As the directors left her office, Madam President cursed herself for thinking everything was perfect as things immediately went downhill. She hoped that no more curveballs hit her and the society she envisioned in the future. She got her envisioned society for 4 years before wrecking balls started falling in it.

Re-Destro commonly known as Rikiya Yotsubashi was preparing for a meeting with top generals of his Meta Liberation Army when, his hacker and online manager came to the room in a hurry and showed him a video of a villain attack involving 3 heroes, a kid using his quirk to try save his mother, to an impassioned speech and the final nail in the coffin, a police complaint in national television. After thinking through Re-Destro said; "Make our online presence start noise about the quirk laws. Create momentum for the voices that will raise in support of the kid and pay our lawyers to represent for the kid as concerned citizen's charity for justice and truth."

Skeptic only nodded with a smile and left the room.

Chapter 4: Response

UA
Nezu, a being of unknown species, commonly known as 'The Principal' was having a normal day. Only difference between yesterday and today was All Might's visit. Nezu was eagerly playing in three different chess games online, while the big screen TV shows various live videos from his school's classes. The computer screen is divided into 3 gaming screens and 3 tabs regarding news about Villain attacks and economic updates. He has to follow the economic updates for opportunities and it has been good choice since he is currently the sixth wealthiest being. Nezu was finishing all the game in a win when the Slime villain attack pinged the news channel.
Since the game was finished and no immediate concerns to attend, Nezu started watching the villain attack in full screen and started a game of prediction. When there is an opportunity to watch live, Nezu usually make a game of the Villain attack with how the villains will be defeated and the results within minutes. He predicts how much time the Hero will take and usually he was correct about it. Seeing the heroes on the scene and villain's power, Nezu predicted the take down to have Kamui Woods attacking the eyes for causing pain as a distraction and Backdraft using water to liquify the slime, but alas, he again didn't take the Human emotions into consideration and his prediction of easy take down and the women being rescued becomes wrong. Nezu was not surprised by his prediction becoming wrong as human emotions are still a thing he can't get right every time, but he was very much surprised by the events after it.

Nezu was very much intrigued about the intelligence shown by the kid and started looking him up, he started with the public records and then into Aldera school's record about the kid. The results were very much conflicting with the details he has already deduced about the kid by seeing the video. His school records were average across all subjects. Intrigued, he started with latest results and went back to earliest and every result was average without any difference, even the marks across all subjects were almost same every year, except for the first publicly available result. That year Midoriya was among the top 10 across Japan Schools and first in Aldera. Seeing that he confirmed outside interference in the results and flagged Aldera for closer inspection.

Nezu pressed a button and the door to his office opened before Recovery Girl could knock and said, "Come in, I was expecting you, All Might will reach here in 10 minutes. Let's have some tea while we wait for him."

"Oh, how many times I have to say to never startle me, I am an old woman, you could lose the best asset you have and would have to follow the safety regulations other Hero Schools as to follow." Recovery Girl said mockingly.

"I don't have that worry, Recovery Girl, I am sure you will even outlive me." Nezu said while pouring a hot tea for themselves.

"So, what is the situation? Will All Might acknowledge the kid?" Recovery Girl asked.

"Of course, he will acknowledge him, I am sure of it. He is probably mired in guilt right now about failing to save the women." Nezu replied and opened the door for All Might to enter the room.

All Might nodded at the Principal, Recovery girl and Sir Nighteye who has joined through video call.

"So how much is true?" Recovery Girl asked

"Everything Midoriya said is what happened. The only thing he missed is the reason I missed the bottle holding the villain falling from my pocket is due to the kid jumping and holding my leg as I jumped, to ask me a question. I didn't want the kid to fall off and die." All Might replied and he informed them of the rest of the conversation with the kid.

Recovery Girl smacked All Might with her cain and snapped " You absolute idiot, after landing when he asked whether a quirk less could be a hero , You, Yagi Toshinori, told him he couldn't be a hero without a quirk. I never expected such hypocrisy from you, Yagi."

"I told him he couldn't be a hero without a quirk and I standby it. You are my healer and you have seen my injury. I have one of the most powerful quirk in the world , I am one of the strongest hero right now, and I only escaped death by a hair's width. Now, my hero time is lessening day by day and moreover I am weakening. What do you think I should have told him, when there are Villains like AFO, Dragon out there? How could he fight them without any power? All Might snapped back.

"He could be a hero with power and you know it, Yagi. He is young enough to take under your wing and mentor him, and if he seems good enough, he could even be the next holder of One For All after you. I mean you are after all in a time limit as you just said. Your time in your strong form is lessening and you are becoming weak. You should have at least encouraged him like once Nana did for you, you Oaf. It was a chance meeting between you and Nana, and Nana saw in you a determination, a will to do good, bordering on being insane and she mentored you and later gave you One For All. I see the same determination in that kid, bordering being insane, as he jumped and grabbed you as you flew off in Mach speed. I strongly believe that your meeting with him was not by mere chance, it was fated to be, just like Nana meeting you in that river side talking alone to a tree of all things." Recovery Girl finished in a sad tone.

"I was not even looking for a successor, Recovery girl. The pain of the injury and stress that I can't be in the streets was eating at me as I left UA, and it never occurred to me over the meeting. I only saw a reckless fanboy, albeit one very intelligent in analyzing fights and quirks overall and after he saw my true form I didn't connect any similarities between our situations." All Might said regrettably.

"The past is in the past, and there is no benefit for crying over spilled tea, All Might. After today I don't think he even want to be hero anymore. A considerable loss to hero society if his intelligence and skill was as you said. As of now the heroes are filled with flashy and powerful quirks, more over everyone want to fight and show off, there is a shortage for support heroes. Heroes who investigate, who plans and destroy the clever villains. Heroes like me and Sir Nighteye." Nezu said.

"Speaking of Nighteye, why are you not speaking Mirai? You stopped me from approaching the scene earlier by calling me." All Might asked.

"I was just thinking things thorough and for the record I completely agree with All Might saying no to the kid. Fighting against villains is a risky affair even with quirks. They may quote me as example and say that I am quirk less for 23 hours of the day, but they all forget that I never uses the entire 1 hour at the beginning of the day like a fool. I only use it sparingly, in fact I have not still fought a villain without predicting his moves till now and Recovery girl, an insane 10-year-old is not worthy of OFA, even if how similar to origin of All Might it is" Nighteye said.

"You have your opinion, Nighteye, I have mine" Recovery girl replied.

"I have not come here for arguing. I am going to have a press meet in 2 days' time, accepting responsibility and to apologise. I want to do it in a way that is least damaging to the hero society as a whole and the kid. Whatever will be the consequences I have to face, it doesn't matter, I will face it gladly." All Might said with conviction.

Nezu looked at All Might gravely and said, "All Might, if accepting responsibility is what you want to do I will support you and help you in preparation, but you have to know that the consequences will be faced by whole of heroes. For the public, All Might, you are the Hero Society. Whatever you want to tell the public is okay, but you absolutely should not say that you were in that scene as a bystander. If the public knows that, then it will be a very serious blow to the society. You should deflect and not tell anyone where you were at time. Now, let's discuss what you should say, how to say with least damage happening and what to say to utilise the situation and actually improve the hero society while we are at it by taking down the Demoness of HPSC a peg." As Nezu finished with a blood thirsty grin All Might suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

2 Days Later

Midoriya Izuku was currently resting in a hospital room. After he sat in in the medical van, the adrenaline left his system and he crashed like he has never done before. The emotional and physical tiredness of the day was exhausting like nothing else. It took 24 hours of continuous sleep and many bottles of IV to awake from his slumber. After he woke up today, the first thing he saw was Auntie Mitsuki and Bakugo.

"Izuku, I am so sorry for the loss of Inko. We will be there for you." Auntie Mitsuki said with a tired and sad voice. Izuku could see that both Bakugo's were crying recently.

"I don't know what to say, Auntie. Thank You for being here. You were always a good friend for my mother" Izuku replied.

"DEKU, Sorry about Auntie", Bakugo shrugged "eh whatever, when where you going to say you have a quirk to me. Were you laughing at me you bastard and what the hell are you doing by talking shit about All Might?"

Mitsuki slapped Bakugo behind his head and said, "now is not the time to say that you idiotic brat."

Izuku looked both Bakugo's in the eye and with intense stare at Katsuki he said, "I am sorry for saying this in front of you Auntie Mitsuki, Bakugo, as you have told me a million times, I am not your friend and I am really sorry for trying to force my friendship to you when it was unwanted. It will not happen again and please follow the minimum manners with me, from now on, I don't want to entertain your self-delusion of being a number one Hero when you are number one only in inferiority complex and bullying others to make yourself feel some self-worth. So, never call me Deku again, if you know what's good for you and please get out, I don't want to be in a room with the same person who told me to take a swan dive of a roof and die for getting a quirk in next life."

Izuku stopped for a couple of seconds and continued "Ah what do I know, you were correct, after All Might left me in the rooftop and I stared at the abyss for several minute. The only reason I didn't jump is because of my mother and a almost couple of minutes, I got my quirk. Thank you and Get out."

Bakugo was so angry and shocked that he couldn't even move. By the time he was lifting his arms to blast the smug grin off Deku's face, Mitsuki slapped his head hard and dragged him and threw him out of the room.

"I didn't know, Izuku, I am so sorry about him. So, you won't be coming and living with us, right?"

"Of course not. I don't want to live with him and I don't know where I will live anymore, foster homes I guess" Izuku said.

"Ah, then I am happy to inform you that, not to worry about your living situation as your father has arrived from America and looking into sort things and take you with him. He is currently downstairs handling the investigation and medical bills." Mitsuki told him.

Izuku was bewildered that his bastard of a father who abandoned his family when his quirk less status was confirmed, came back for him. The only thing he knows about his father is he sent enough liquid cash in post to my mother for our upkeep if spend conservatively.

"Ok then, I will wait for him." Izuku said.

After almost 30 minutes, a tall imposing man entered the room. Izuku stared at the man mesmerized, not because of the support equipment mask in his face or the fact that this was his father but because of the bright lights in his heart, His heart has a void similar as Izuku's but it was filled with so many lights. Ever since he woke up, Izuku could see and feel the quirks of people near him. He could see the quirks focusing on Bakugo's hands, he could see Quirk covering Auntie Mitsuki's entire body and similarly the hospital staffs quirks. He could feel the quirks and a connection to them if concentrated, and finally he understood yesterday that he didn't manifest his mother's quirk, he manifested something much more powerful. He manifested the power to take, use and maybe give quirks away. A power of a God in this quirk infested world. He hadn't told anyone about it, knowing that he will be jailed and experimented if it's known and finally the answer to how he developed this godly power is in front of him- His Father.

"Oh Izuku, I expected many things from you when you see me for the first time, mainly anger and sadness, not this surprise and happiness." With a silky charismatic self-assured voice his father said.

"Oh, I am not at all happy seeing you sir. I am happy that finally I got an answer to my query ever since I woke up." Izuku said in a false respectful way and tried to took hold of his father's quirk entirely, but found it impossible to cover. So, he found an interesting colour in the Void and took hold and give a powerful tug to indicate the meaning of what he said and of course to take a new quirk without the officials knowing.

The reprisal came in a swift painful way. His father's Quirk latched on to the tug, and pulled inwards to take it. Pain unlike anything hit Izuku and a cruel glint was visible in his father's eye. Izuku then and there understood the truth, His father is not there for him, not there because his wife died, his father is there only because the Quirk manifested. For 10 long years Izuku was powerless and he shall rather be dead than not again be quirk less, so Izuku fought back and finally escaped His Father's grasp.

"Ah, impressive, my son, to say things to hurt without saying, to fight against overwhelming force for what is yours just like 2 days ago, to give such passionate speech that everyone has to be influenced by with it. You prove to be my son, well ever since your quirk manifested." His father said mirthfully.

Izuku only give a fake smile as reply. Auntie Mitsuki looked between both of them with open curiosity to know what the hell is happening, but she got no answer from them.

"Anyway, it's time you come with me young man. I have been busy and the fruits of my labour can be used now. I have arranged for you to transfer to the prestigious Soumei Junior High School from that atrocious public school where your mother sent you to be abused." Hisashi said.

"What? No, my mother doesn't know anything and she loved and cared for me unlike someone I know. I will come with you and I need answers to many questions and anyway it's not like I have any other choice, after all You are my father." Izuku replied resignedly

"Oh, don't worry young man, why, because I am here now. I know a way to make you happy." Hisashi said and turned on the TV to the news channel. "Here, is the result of your wonderful speech 2 days ago. There is going to be live Press Meet called by All Might himself, where he will apologise to you. Now, Mrs Bakugo, thank you for watching over Izuku, you can go and rest now."

As Mitsuki left, Izuku stared at his father with an intense expression and asked, "Why are you mocking All Might, not a fan? and how are you so sure he will apologise, it is not like you know him or something as you were in America for almost your whole life."

"Oh, my sweet innocent child," All For One smirked with open cruelty and spoke. "You have to learn so many things, Izuku. All Might and me go way back. We were very old acquaintances; I saw him first time when he was only 17 or 18, I guess. Then for a long time, we couldn't meet up." As the cruel smirk in his father's face grew, Izuku knew he was infront of a dangerous individual and whatever is his father alluding to was very dangerous.

"… then, we met 2 years ago, you know, it was very memorable meeting for both of us. There were many gifts exchanged that will last a lifetime. You already know what gift I gave him, don't you My son, I can see it in the fear, horror and anger in your eyes, after all you saw the gift yourselves 2 days ago." All For One finished with a cruel mocking sound.

Izuku was beyond scared now. His father is a villain, no his father is The Villain, that All Might was afraid of, that injured All Might and made him crash my dreams in fear of injury.

"I see, Father, let's talk about that friendship and our shared genetics later in a private spot, let's watch what All Might has to say" Izuku said in a fake calm voice to not show weakness in front of The Villain. Both father and son concentrated on the TV as All Might arrived at the stage. The ever-present smile was there, but it was a forced smile and there was seriousness and a forced nature to it. Izuku knew all of All Might's smile as a former fanboy.
Immediately there was huge shout over and above others echoing different questions. All Might raised his hand for silence and in 1 minute the crowd became silent.

All Might started talking, "Thank you, everyone, for coming to this press meet when called. Now I have called it, to response to the allegation against me and the complaint with the Police against me. There shall be no questions, till I finish talking and than I will ask for the questions."

"Now," All Might continued, " The first thing I have to say is to Young Midoriya. Young Midoriya, I am deeply sorry for your loss. I know, the loss of your mother, is not something that one can compensate with a sorry, I personally know the loss of a mother, and I can say nothing but apologise and say that wherever she is, she will be incredibly proud for you standing up for yourself and exposing something wrong in our society to whole of Japan, even when heroes were blaming you."

When All Might said about the personal loss of a mother figure, there was a loud cruel snort from Hisashi. Izuku looked inquisitively at his father and Hisashi said "His mother was his mentor and predecessor, Nana Shimura, we met like I told you earlier when All Might was young. I gave her a gift and unlike All Might, she didn't want to stay here for anymore gifts." Izuku paled at the open admission that his father killed All Might's mentor.

On the screen All Might continued the speech not knowing that the reason for the speech was watching it with his arch nemesis. All Might apologised again and continued, " Now, there was high amount of arguments about whether the boy lied to you or not about my involvement as no one reported seeing me in Mustafu. Today, I like to confirm everything the boy said about my involvement is true." At this the crowd started to whisper worriedly and the sound started increasing second by seconds.

"Silence," All Might said loudly and continued "Let me finish. I was in the area for personal reasons, when the alert for The Slime Villain went up in Hero Network, with my speed I tracked him down and he escaped to the underground drainage. I followed and caught him when the villain was strangling Young Izuku, who bravely held his breath till help arrives and the rest happened as the boy told you. The only thing he missed out due to the stress of the situation is that the conversation didn't happen in that underground bridge. I left him there and was going to submit the villain to the police, but as I jumped to fly away, Young Izuku, jumped and caught my leg to ask his question." The crowd was dumbfounded that the boy even could catch the leg and hold on without loosing the grip.


"Unfortunately, within the seconds I felt him holding my leg, I was already above the skyscrapers. It was very difficult to manoevre, to get a hold on the boy so that he didn't loose the grip and fall down to his death. Landing was also difficult as he was holding my legs. The bottle containing the Villain was dropped during that time, and since my complete concentration was in landing safely, I missed the drop. It was a careless mistake on my part that should not have happened and I deeply apologise. After the conversation I left the rooftop and it took me sometime to find that the bottle is missing, by that time everything was over. I also request the media and public, who is portraying the boy as a liar and attention seeking brat to stop it immediately. Attacking and abusing someone who opposes your worldview is not the right thing to do. To be a hero is to be honest and true to your own heart. I can't be a hero, if I didn't admit my mistake honestly and take responsibility for it. Thank you. You can ask any question one by one."

Izuku was surprised that All Might took responsibility for his mistake and didn't lie.

"So, Izuku are you happy to see the man humiliated in the national television, the reason for your mother's Death." Hisashi asked

"It doesn't matter whether All Might take responsibility or not, I don't really blame him for my mother's death. I blame the other 3 bastards for not doing what they were supposed to do. All Might may have been the indirect reason for dropping the bottle, and by that logic even I am indirectly responsible, but my fury and hatred is for the ones who were directly on the scene. They could have saved her and didn't do it. The only reason I filed a complaint against All Might to the Police is for to get the needed attention for the case against other heroes. I know even if All Might actually was on the scene and did nothing, the law will not touch him, but now since All Might is involved and actually innocent the other 3 will not escape just with a slap on the wrist, they will suffer real consequences so All Might can be freed without any public outrage." Izuku explained

"How intelligent of you, the skill in manipulation is just like me. Good work my son." Hisashi said enthusiastically, but Izuku understood that his father hadn't liked him saying All Might was innocent or that he didn't hate All Might himself.

As the more fresh reporters finished their almost irrelevant questions, Chitose Kizuki aka Curious stood up to ask her question.

"All Might, I have three questions for you about the things you have glossed over your talk right now that Midoriya mentioned. What is your opinion on the following statement by Midoriya "Today I paid the price with my mother's life so that every single one of you can think yourself about the rot in our society and how backwards the laws and culture regarding quirks is." Is it time to allow people to use their quirk in their daily life and change 200-year-old law made by the quirk less majority at that time?"

"The Second question is, what is this secret injury you had 2 years ago that he spoke of? The major fight you had was with that chainsaw man and you had no injuries in that fight. Why did you destroy a quirk less boys dream of becoming a hero when you have said anyone can be a hero many times over the years, was it all for show and ratings? I mean you have never stood up for any issues over the years, you have avoided all political comments in your media interaction. Are you secretly quirkist? Is that why you never stood up for quirk less or discriminated groups?

The third Question is what you have to say about the complaint filed by the boy against you."

After hearing the questions All Might looked at Curious and rest of the media and public intensely, suddenly there was a pressure in the air, almost similar pressure those who were in present for Izuku's speech felt. All Might nodded to himself like he had decided something important and started speaking.

"Very relevant questions there and the answer to all 3 questions begins the same. I am All Might, I have been a hero for 40 years and a Symbol of Peace for 35 years. In all my years of service, I have never cared for the Hero Rankings. I have never introduced my self as All Might, The Number One Hero of Japan. Truly I consider the Number one position given to me as a gift to me by the people of this country and nothing more. The only dream I had was peaceful streets and when the common man can go outside without fearing for their lives. 40 years ago the situation was quite dangerous, you youngsters can enquire the history records or ask your elders. The problem was there was no one to rally around, the heroes were afraid, no one wants to risk their lives and I decided to become a symbol, a symbol of peace, that the people will feel protected and safe when they see me or my smile. 5 years of hard work and I succeeded and I kept it till now. Now, this is the history of my hero career everyone knows about or can learn very easily, let me tell you about my origin."

"I am an orphan and I grew up in a very dangerous neighborhood. I had no one, until I met my mentor the Pro Heroine Nana Shimura. She was one of the greatest hero, now you may not recognise her from any rankings as she didn't cared for it. She only cared about saving people and justice. It was her, who taught me to smile. When she heard about my dream of becoming a symbol of peace for the public, she didn't laugh like everyone else, she trained me and encouraged me. I still remember her words that inspired my smile. She told me "When you have to save someone, they're usually in a scary situation. A true hero saves not only their lives, but also their hearts... That's what I believe. So, no matter how scary things get, give 'em a smile, as if to say, "I'm a-ok". The people in this world who can smile are always the strongest" and I still follow it. Similar to her I never give any political statements till now. I know the influence I have over the public and such power is overwhelming and could cause untold damages if misused. So, I avoided it till now, I never cared about the rankings, I have never acted in any advertisement or movies till now, I have never promoted any political ideologies. I have never profited from any merchandise or movie about my likeness. All royalties I get go to charities and orphanages. Now with this background you can understand my answers to the questions you have raised."

"The easiest one is the complaint raised by Young Midoriya, over my 40 years of commitment to heroism I have earned every certification there is to be a Pro Hero. I have earned my Basic Detective License so that I can investigate, I have fire fighter license, I have rescue license in any scenario and similarly I have obtained Emergency medical nurse certificate so I can identify the injuries and save people efficiently. The case of Young Midoriya was not any emergency and I could come to that judgement just with my 40 years of hero experience not even the medical certificate is necessary. The rest of the charges filed by Midoriya is under investigation and if our justice system is of the opinion that I am guilty, I will follow any punishment as any citizen should do."

"Now for the first question, I have no comments to make on that political issue. You have taken a genuine statement from Young Midoriya and interpreted it as you want."

"Now for the second and most difficult question. The injury I suffered is from a Villain with Class 6 quirk and the details are classified and cannot be given at this time. I am not secretly a quirkist, until recently I never knew that the situation has been worsened to such dangerous levels and the main reason for is that my presence as the number one hero for decades. I always have supported them through my charities and since more popularity is not what I need,I never said anything. As you, yourself told in the question, I never meddle in politics due to the inherent influence I have and of course because of my mentor, whose footsteps I followed, but it seems that my own silence itself is a statement and created many problems. So today I like to change it…

"I do not view flashy, physical quirks as the heroic quirks. In reality there is no heroic quirk or villain quirk, only heroic hearts, it's your determination, will power and desire to help others make you a hero, not the rankings, not the money, not the fame."

Everyone watching can feel the pure passion in which All Might expressed his opinion and many powerful people in Japan was quite upset by it.

"I also like to announce that from tomorrow onwards my agency shall operate a 20 telephone line for asking for help, if you are discriminated for your quirks, caste, sex, preference or colour. I shall also appoint only quirk less people for this job, so that every case shall be taken seriously. I shall also provide a vocation and fund education of people who couldn't get it because of quirk discrimination. They can also contact the same telephone number. Thank you everyone, Any more questions?"

"All Might, you avoided my question. Isn't quite hypocritic to say that the hearts make the heroes, not the quirks and to destroy Midoriya's dream." Curious asked.

"There was no hypocrisy involved. Let me make it clear for all the quirk less children who wants to be 'Pro Heroes' like us. It has been 20 years since Principal Nezu allowed Quirk less applicants in hero course of UA at my recommendation. Since, then no one has passed the first year of the course and only five people have passed the entrance test. They all dropped to general, support or business course because they understood the truth. Having a quirk is an advantage that cannot be overcome by normal means and since every quirk is unique, you can't even plan around every scenario. Now you may think that he could use support equipment's, he could learn martial arts and learn to fight from a young age and everything, but everyone forgets one thing, the villains who have powerful quirks can also do this and your advantage is lost. I am sorry to say this is the plain reality of our world. Being a professional hero is not something a quirk less person could be."

Now, I didn't destroy the dream of becoming Hero of Young Midoriya. I only told him he should not pursue Pro Heroship and choose other ways to become a Hero. I only told that his talents will be wasted by trying to become a Pro Hero. I encouraged him to become a Police officer or fire fighter. I consider them the real heroes of our world. They have been protecting us even before quirks and they will protect us even after quirks. In fact, my best friend is not Endeavor or Principal Nezu, it's a detective. I understood from the note books maintained by him that Young Midoriya's intelligence, determination and passion could do wonders for our society if he became a Police officer or become a politician or business man. Whatever he becomes I could see changes in the society and he proved me correct within an hour even though the cost was very high. His intelligent observation of our society, and impassioned speech opened even my eyes to the blight in the peaceful era I built with my sweat, blood and tears and I will work hard to remove it root and stem and continue the peaceful era even after my retirement. I hope everything is clear now, and Young Midoriya, if you also understood that I told you can never be a hero, I meant a Pro Hero, and I apologise for not making it clear then. In my eyes you are already a great hero now. Thank you." All Might concluded

"Retirement All Might? Are you planning already?" A reporter asked

"I am not a young man anymore. 40 years is a long time for fighting and even if my heart wants to fight the good fight, the body is not willing. Officially, I am not planning retirement for the next decade, but you can't predict the future, may be a villain may be too much for me, anyway, no one needs to worry for now, Why? Because I am here!! All Might finished with a bright smile and the crowd erupted in overwhelming cheer.

Izuku was bewildered that All Might himself consider him a hero. Whatever problems he had with All Might, he is a great hero and for him to say that is a great honour for Izuku.

"So, have you decided to betray me to All Might yet, now that he recognised you as a hero and help you achieve your greatest dream." Hisashi asked venomously.

"Words are wind father, as you should know. Let me see whether there is any change in status quo. I have not decided yet. I don't want to inherit a feud or hatred like All Might did against you. Similarly, I don't want to inherit your hatred for All Might too. If I want to hate someone or destroy someone I will do it for my own reasons not someone else's." Izuku said.

"Good for you. As your father I will give you a single advice, 'If you come at the King, you better not miss'." Hisashi said mockingly "Now, let's leave this hospital and settle you in your new home."


AN
I wonder what Endeavor's reaction was when he saw All Might's press meet. To realise that your entire life's goal was against an opponent who didn't even care he has it in the first place. What a fate.

this was published in FFN/Ao3 a year ago. posted here now to make ease of access. Going to continue now. First here and then as usual on free sites.