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Midoriya hops into his room as he taps on his mask and it disappears into many particles as he says, “unequip”. He repeats this with his armour that was invisible to the normal person. His invisible armour consists of a chest plate that covers his shoulders and chest, gauntlets that cover his hands to his elbows along with his black dagger that he forgot he was holding.
His chest plate was a bulky piece of metal with ridges cut out on the shoulders to allow for easier movement. It was a deep grey color and made of a tough material. It grants him ten extra vitality points which he found out is his health, two attunement points which is the rate he recovers his mana, and five extra sense points. The sense skill is one of the skills he finds is most important as it increases all of his five senses. The chest-plate’s name is the Chest plate of Zar. He was the boss from one of his first ‘jobs’ from the system. He was a living suit of armour that nearly killed Midoriya.
His gauntlets are silver with red gemstones imbued in each knuckles The fingers on the gauntlet are extended almost like a claw and it is great at slashing enemies if needed. Black metal is on the back of his forearm that is used to block blows. The metal right there is much stronger than the silver metal. This armour grants Midoriya with five extra points of strength, Vitality, and agility. They are called gauntlets of Khan as he had received them as a gift after he defeated the Troll king Khan.
Lastly his dagger is the dagger of Arabrax’s, a land serpent larger than a train. That fight left him completely exhausted and he was lucky enough he hadn’t used his status recovery as by the time he got out of that job it was time for him to go home. His dagger is black from handle to blade but the edge of his blade was an eerily blood shade. There was writing inscribed on the blade that he didn’t understand and hadn't found anything that related to it. It must be the language from the world that these ‘jobs’ send him on.The handle of his dagger was shaped and wrapped like a twisted serpent with the cracks between each scale being red. The blade itself was serrated near the handle before the handle. The dagger also has a debuff of poisoning and paralysis. He still remembers the first day when his ‘quirk’ developed. (Can you call this a quirk or a gift from the devil himself?)
“No point in thinking about this right….” He mumbles under his breath and collapses on his bed after removing his shirt. Finally removing his fake right arm and sitting it on his bedside. Nightmares plagued his mind that night like every other.
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“As third year students it is time to think seriously of what you want to do with your futures.” Mr. Tokobashi says as he has his place on his lectern looking over all of his students. Midoriya doesn’t look up from his notebook as he continues to write notes on the hero fight he saw this morning. Mr Tokobashi grins as he stands straight up, his strict features made his grin look evil. Midorya wonders if he was secretly a villain. Technically he was as he lets Kaachan and the other students abuse Midoriya everyday. Even encourages it. “I could pass out career aptitude tests but I know all of you want to go down the heroic tract,” As their teacher says this everyone stands up and cheers, quirks being released and Midoriya just hides further into his desk.
Midoriya remembers how much Ryo’s rock hand hurts when getting smacked by him. Almost broke his jaw, not like it would have mattered much but it still would of hurt like a mother fucker. The flames from Lila’s quirk heated up Midoriya’s right side beside him, he is just happy that his prosthetic is heat resistant.. The school uniform also hides his arm, thankfully, besides his metallic grey hand. The color of his arm reminds him of his Zar Chestplate.
Midoriya tenses up hearing Bakugou speak, “Don’t lug me in the bunch of these useless losers. I’m the real deal these extras will be lucky to end up as sidekicks.” Bakufgou leaned back in his chair with his legs propped up on his desk. Two of the four chair legs were on the ground. That had to be a safety hazard. No one cared though since Kaachan was ‘special’. The classroom bursts into rage at Bakugou’s words as Midoriya quietly closes his notebook and puts it away in his bag. when the others get mad, his stuff gets destroyed. That was just how his life went being ‘quirkless’.
“Oh yeah Midoriya. Don’t you also want to go to the U.A?” His teacher says and the poor green haired boy tenses up as the class begins laughing. Only reason he was able to dodge the incoming explosion was due to his ‘jobs’. His eyes widened as he stared at his old best friend.. Why was this blonde scarier than even Arabarax?
“Listen up you damn Deku,” Bakugou growls at Midoriya with a feral grin. “You’re worse than this other worthless reject you are dumb quirkless cripple,” Bakugou closes his hand into a tight fist to punctuate his anger at the idea of Midoriya even thinking about trying out for U.A.
Midoriya raises his hands quickly as he backs away from his ex best friend. “You got it all wrong,” He yells quickly before quickly adding, “I’m trying for general education! I know I can’t be a hero!” Mainly because he is suddenly taken away at the drop of a hat due to these ‘jobs’ of his. “I’m not trying to compete against you!” Bakugou walks towards the boy with his hand raised with small popping explosions bursting from his palm. He had murder in his eyes and Midoriya briefly wonders how good of a hero Bakugou would make before shaking the thoughts out of his head. Of course Kaachan was going to be an amazing hero!
“That is enough Midoriya. Stop antagonizing Bakugou.” The teacher says and MIdoriya tenses up once again and looks at the door to hide the ice cold glare, not noticing the way Bakugou pauses as he sees the glare. Bakugou saw the mask slip but chose to ignore the ‘fluke’.
Midoriya’s glare was quickly hidden as he stood up and grins, “I’m sorry sir.” He goes back to his seat robotically which some kids laughed at, it paired well with his robotic arm he guesses.
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After school Midoriya sits at his desk as his classmates leave the room scrolling on his phone, looking at comments about the fight that morning. He smiles softly to himself as he reads them. “I guess the fight got more attention ‘cuz of the up and coming heroes Mount Lady and Kamui Woods.” he starts rewatching the fight while writing down more information in his hero analysis notebook. He sees some pointers that he can send to their agency. He smiles more as he goes to put his notebook back into his bag but it was suddenly snatched out of his hands.
He tenses up and slowly looks up at Bakugou. Bakuogu waves the book slightly in front of him as he says, “I don't know what you are doing, Deku, but I’m not dumb.” Midoriya reaches out slightly like he wanted to take his notebook back but he knows he can’t. It’ll just make Kaachan even angrier.
“What do you have there Bakugou, his diary,” one of Bakugou’s followers asked as he walked over to them with his hands in his pockets and his body slouched forward. Bakugou turns the book enough for the kid to read the front. Kataro starts laughing when he reads it, “Is that notes on how to be a hero?” He starts laughing even harder while saying, “That’s so pathetic!”
The other henchman on Bakugou’s other side rubs the back of his head while saying, “he’s delusional.” The boy sounded empathetic and ‘worried’ for Midoriya’s mental health. The green haired boy had to restrain from glaring at them as he just watched Kaachan with wide eyes. Begging he doesn't do anything destructive in his head. He doesn’t want to rewrite everything.
“R-real funny guys! Please just give it back,” As soon as he said the last sentence Bakugou slammed his hands together and exploded it. ‘Fuck’ was the only word running through Midoriya’s head. “Gaahhh!” Midoriya was what Midoriya actually yelled due to the shock. “That’s so mean!” He yells at his ex friend before the male throws the book out of the window. He just stood there in shock as he watched his book fall down.
“Most mainstream heroes show potential early on,” Bakugou says as Midoriya looks over at him slowly. His eyes were still wide, not shocked anymore. This wasn’t as shocking to the teen, It was more of annoyance and anger. “If I am the first student to make it into UA from the crummy middle school. Then people will start talking to me like that.” Bakugou smiles cockily as he adds, “They’ll realize I'm the real thing. That isn’t egotistical, that is reality.” He looks to the side as he smirks. Midoriya still stood there with wide eyes, his arms held out slightly, just looking at the window. Bakugou puts his hand on Midoriya’s right shoulder, where he didn’t have his automail, and starts burning him. MMidoriya bites his lip slightly as he ignores the pain and just watches the hand. His mind registered the threat in front of him.
“Here's a word of advice Nerd,” Bakugou says as he grins coldly at Midoriya, his eyes still closed. “Don’t even think about applying or else.” Midoriya stiffly looks back at Bakugou as he holds back the groan of pain that threatened to spill. As the three bullies start to walk out laughing, the two henchmen go out first as Midoriya stares at the ground shaking. Bakugo pauses at the doorway and looks back at the green haired boy who was trembling, “If you want a quirk so bad, why don’t you take a swan dive off of the roof and pray for a quirk in your next life?” He says laughing as Midoriya fully stops shaking and looks at Bakugou with an icy gaze. The explosive blonde pauses but clicks his tongue and leaves the room.
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“Why did he have to destroy my notebook….Now I have to rewrite everything….” Midoriya mumbles as he walks through the underpass. Not paying attention. That is a deadly mistake.
“You’ll make a great flesh suit~” Was the only thing he heard before being submerged in slime as it wrapped around his body and mouth, preventing him from screaming. Midoriya begins struggling, pulling at the slime as the villain just laughs. “Struggling will only make it hurt more~” the Villain’s sing-song voice made Midoriya tense up in fear. Why was this so scary? He fights monsters daily, this should be nothing! Midoriya’s mind was racing as he tried to think of a way to escape but there was nothing he could do. If someone sees him pull out a dagger suddenly it'll cause questions to rise up. Everyone knows him as the wimpy quirkless kid.
He can’t breathe now, he is going to die due to the fear of his 'gift' being discovered. How pathetic. The last thing he hears before passing out is the villain’s laughter….
Something or someone smacking him in the face. Midoriya jumps up and back quickly as he keeps his body low, his knees bent and his hands loose but tense. Ready to attack if needed. His sleep idle brain slowly started to catch up with his eyes as he looked at green pants and slowly looked up at a white shirt then at the guy’s face who was smacking him. All Might, it was fucking All Might. Stars practically appear in the vigilante’s eyes as he stands up nervously. “A-all Might sir! You saved me!”
All Might gives a boisterous laugh as he places his hands on his hips. “Of course I did, Young man! I was chasing this villain for a while. I’m sorry you got hurt because I wasn’t able to catch him fast enough!” All Might has a large grin on his face as he spoke.He was loud, is the only thing on Midoriya’s mind. Midoriya picks up his destroyed notebook to ask All Might for his autograph but notices it was already signed. He grins as he looks up at All Might who was getting ready to leave.
“Wait,” Midoriya yelled and went to stop All Might but tripped and grabbed the first thing he touched which was the hero who was in the middle of taking off. Midoriya looks down at the passing building with wide eyes. He isn’t used to seeing the city during the day.
All Might finally realized his passenger and started shaking his leg. “You need to get off of me,” The hero yells but the teen’s grip tightens, and yells back, “If I let go I’ll die!!” That was a lie it would only hurt a lot and maybe break a few bones but All Might didn’t need to know that. All Might finally seems to realize this as he lands on the nearest building, Midoriya instantly letting go and backing away from the hero. “That was very dangerous,” All Might reprimanded him.
“I didn’t mean to,” The teen quickly says while waving his hands, the sun hitting off of his metallic right hand that catches All Might’s attention quickly. “I tripped!” He holds onto the ground on his knees as he cries in relief at not becoming a pancake on the sidewalk. His attention is brought back up when he hears All Might coughing and sees him coughing up blood. “Ahhh! All Might sir, are you okay,” Midoriya asks quickly while standing up.
“I am fine, but what is it that you need?” All Might asks and Midoriya could see his strained grin but doesn’t mention it. It was none of his business after all.
Midoriya stands up straight and looks his idol in the face as he asks, “Do you believe a quirkless person can be a hero?” He watches his hero's grin slowly melt away as he looks at Midoriya with pity. He knew it, even All Might who preaches anyone can be a hero doesn’t believe in him. He doesn't want to use his ‘gift’ for legal hero work. Not only will his extracurricular activities become known, but his gift defies logic.
“I’m sorry Young Man but I don’t believe a quirkless person can become a hero. The job is just too dangerous.” All Might sighs while shaking his head. “You’ll just burden the other heroes.” He looks at Midoriya’s automail arm, “You are also missing an arm.” He turns around and steps on the edge of the building. “Try being a cop or doctor instead. Those are safer options. Try knocking on the door too to get down.” All Might jumps away without even saying bye and Midoriya glares at the spot that hero once stood. He does as told as he goes to the door and knocks to get down.
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All Might glances back at the building he just left as he drops his buffed form. His shoulders slowly un-tensing. Those were not the eyes of a teenager, those were the eyes of a soldier. The hero shivers at the thought of what a young kid like him must have gone through to even put All Might on edge. The hero had to fight hard to keep his form up as the quirkless boy was dangerous. He might need to look into him, that is if he remembers.
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Midoriya sighs dejectedly as he walks down the street, heading home but he hears an explosion from a couple of blocks away as he looks in that direction quickly. He activates quick search as he can feel and almost see everything as he scan the area, anything with a pulse would vibrate and sounds filtered in too as he can almost see Bakugou trapped inside some sort of sludge as he sets off explosions and curses and the heroes were doing nothing, just trying to put out the fires. Midoriya glares at nothing as he looks around him as he stops the ‘quick search skill’.
After deeming that no one was around him he easily jumps up grabs the edge of a window sill on the third floor and pulls himself up before jumping onto the roof of the neighboring building, it was about four or five more stories up. He’s happy he has so many points in agility and strength, it is only twenty five points in strength and thirty three points in agility. It still was amazing what he can do because of his 'gift'.
Midoriya runs along the roofs until he makes it to the scene. He crouches on the edge of the roof and holds his hand out, one of his many rocks appears in his hand. “That is the sludge creature from earlier….” He mumbles while looking over his gelatinous body. “All Might most of dropped him during our flight….Based on his body, his eyes must be his weak point as they are the only solid thing…” He positions the rock in his hand, the rock resting on his pointer finger his thumb pressed behind it. “Ready…aim…fire.” Once he mumbled out before he flicked the rock at high speeds right into the villain’s eye. That gave the explosive teen enough time to breathe as the villain reels back in pain, screaming out cusses for whoever did that to him. The green haired teen sees a puff of smoke and All Might stepping forward so his work here is done as he slips away from the scene and heads home happily. He didn’t have time to go out tonight anyways.
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‘You have a new job Midoriya Izuku.’
Midoriya glares at the screen that appeared at him. He’s beginning to hate the color blue as he stands up from his bed and equips his armour but keeps his dagger put away for now. He looks at how long until he is summoned into that world. Five minutes. He has five minutes until he has to fight for his life, but he might get some good gear from this to use as Miasma. He gets out of the bed and starts stretching his body, getting ready for one of the most annoying things about this ‘gift’ of his. The jobs.