Ch 36 – A Mysterious Group

Entering his room, Braun glances at the room that is pretty clean considering how he is currently inside a love hotel, taking a sniff, he didn't even find a hint of the scent of cum, sweat, or any of that sort.

Walking inside, countless plans played in his mind to find some optimal paths of growth, dropping down his bag to the ground, he plops his body onto the comfortable large bed while his head got swallowed by the soft pillow.

Closing his eyes, he lists out many things in his mind while taking into account his current materials and possession.

'Hmm, I'll deal with personal power later, for now, I have to increase my money and buy an apartment.' Braun thought, pushing his body off the bed into a sitting position and grabbing his bag, taking out his newly bought laptop and quickly making an account for some online trading websites he could use along with a programming app to quickly make an AI designed for trading automatically for him, an easy task for someone of his caliber.

In mere minutes, he connects his account that holds his money to the trading site along with the AI and boots the AI up, smirking, he watches the line go up and down while the AI accurately buys and sells cryptos and stocks mere moments before he would lose money or will gain money.

Leaving it alone, he stands up and crouches down on the floor where his bag resides, taking out the materials he bought less than an hour ago.

'Do I make a villain gang? An AI army? Transcend past mortal flesh and upload myself to the internet? Or what about something more grounded, it's better to stay lowkey considering the secrets this world and universe holds as of now, hmm, I'll just join an underground fighting ring to train my combat mastery with this new body along with making some concoctions for physical growth.' Braun thought, quickly forming some plans he finalized and quickly following through with them, taking out multiple plastic bottles along with strange liquids, raw meat, vegetables, pills, fruits, and more from his bag that cost him a bit of money but that was quickly being earned back by his AI working hard on his laptop.

Taking out a mortar and pestle, he mushes down the meat, vegetables, fruits, and medicine into a weird reddish mixture while the scent of medicine wafted through the air. Dumping the goopy mixture into a makeshift plastic beaker, he grabs the energizing drinks and pours them into a bottle along with some milk, nutritional drinks, coffee powder, powder milk, along with other foods that created a monstrosity of a drink in a singular plastic bottle that he dumps straight into the food mixture residing within the plastic beaker.

As the two concoction mixes with each other, he bites his finger and pours a few milliliters of his blood into the concoction, and watches it dissolve into the new white liquid that has no smell coming from it, a miracle considering the materials used to make it.

Grabbing it with his right arm, he chugs it down and felt the thick, creamy, white, tasteless liquid flowing down his throat.

"Fuwah!" Braun exclaims, wiping the leftover white liquid that made a fake mustache over his mouth. As he feels his body becoming energized and invigorated, he looks at the TV on top of the wall showing how the UA Entrance Exam is about to start.

Turning it off, he puts on a new set of clothes and prepares to go to the gym and train his body juiced up to inhumane levels.

(A Few Hours of Later)

"I'm home!" Leo shouts, walking through a white wooden door while taking off his shoes to see a certain girl sitting on the living room's couch with long black hair that reaches her waist, wearing a black hoodie and a black skirt, her pale white legs catching most of Leo's attention but that was soon disrupted when he heard her shout.

"What the fuck?! Does he have a precog quirk or something?!" the girl shouts, her whole body slumping back into the couch while she rubs her forehead in annoyance.

"What's happening?" Leo asks, walking towards her and standing right behind her to see what was going on but it was just the same old interface of the stock market bullcrap the girl was on most of the time earning most of the group's money to use in this world.

"Tsk, this guy FB just appeared out of nowhere in the trading scene and he instantly became a sensation in a few hours. Many people in the community ranging from Twatter, Metube, Bluedit, and all that stuff are talking about him and how he's basically the second coming of Jesus Christ in the trading world. Everyone is literally buying what he buys and selling what he sells, you could even say he dictates the whole economic scene because now, if he were to even buy a single stock, the value of that single stock would skyrocket into the stratosphere in mere minutes, and if he were to sell something, the value of the stock would plummet to the ground, killing a whole company with a single click to a button," the girl explained while metaphorical smoke erupts from Leo's ears.

"Huh?" Leo said, staring at the screen with blank eyes trying to comprehend whatever the girl said.

"Chloe is basically saying that FB is a God who can make the value of things rise and fall on a whim with the popularity and credibility they gathered, and Chloe, how do you even know FB is a guy?" a man said from the door Leo walked through, having a tall figure, his muscles seeps through his black shirt covered in sweat while his sharp black hair was damp with sweat, his thick muscular thighs throbbing in pain showing his lightly tanned skin that makes him look like a model.

"Alex! Welcome back, how was the gym today?" Leo asks, scooting Chloe away from the sofa so he can also sit.

"It was pretty normal, though I did meet an interesting guy over there, his name was Freidrich Braun, he gave me a protein shake that I could only say was divine. I'll try to ask for the recipe later if he goes back to the gym later," Alex said, walking towards their conditioner to freshen himself up.

"Oh, well the exam for UA went well. And I also got One For All already," Leo nonchalantly said causing both Chloe and Alex to choke on the air, surprised at what Leo suddenly said.

"You already got One for All?!" Alex said, wiping his sweat away with a fresh towel while his hair sways with the conditioner's cold wind.

"Yeah, didn't I tell you guys yesterday at dinner that the ceremony would start tomorrow?" Leo said, raising his eyebrows at the duo.

"Well that doesn't matter, how did it even work anyways?" Alex asks, walking toward the duo and sitting on the opposite couch to them.

"I gained One for All by swallowing All Might's hair, and now I am able to exert 8% of One for All shown by the system. I don't know what the current stats I need to exert 100% but my body is at 13 already which is athlete level, I'm debating on whether I should increase my Body or Mind with my current stat points bought," Leo said.

"Chloe, what do you think Leo should do?" Axel asks, glancing at Chloe with raised eyebrows.

"I think he should dump it all into Body, though Spirit might contribute to it, maybe even making it stronger," Chloe said while Leo went deep into thought.

"I'll just add 3 into Body, 1 into Mind, and 1 into Spirit considering I spent 500 points for Stat Points," Leo decides, and without hesitation, he went to dump 5 points into those stats and as if something magical has occurred, his body suddenly got filled with more lean muscles while his aura somehow got stronger.

Closing his eyes, light red electrical sparks zap all around his body.

"20 percent, whew, that's a big leap in power!" Leo shouts while the electrical sparks around him dissipate into the air after he deactivates his quirk.

"That's pretty high, how strong is that even anyways?" Alex asks while smirking.

"I don't know, I haven't tested it out yet," Leo said while letting out a groan.

"You want to test it out?" Alex said, standing up with a grin plastered on causing a smile to creep up on Leo's face.

"You're on!" Leo said while sparks zap all around him.

"Stop right there you two, remember to do it in the forest or something, we don't want to be fined again due to your recklessness!" Chloe said causing both of the duo to rub their heads in embarrassment.

"Yes ma'am!" the duo said, walking out of the house, both got into the car while Alex sat on the driver's seat, as both decides on their location which should take a few minutes to drive over there, both stayed silent at how anticlimactic the event suddenly became.

After a while, the car stops in the middle of the forest as Leo gets out of the car and watches Alex park it far, far away from the both of them to not damage it.

Slamming the door open, Alex walks out while two guns manifest in both of his arms, grinning, the duo walks far away from each other.

Cracking his neck, Alex's guns suddenly light up in blue light along with a strange power suddenly fluctuating from both of his arms akin to something like magic.

In response, Leo's body got covered in glowing red veins while light red sparks cover his body, crouching down, he picks up a small pebble and flicks it into the air, as their muscles tensed waiting for the pebble to drop, both prepared themselves for the oncoming battle between the two.

*Plock*

With a boom, two bullets of searing hot flames shoot out of Alex's guns while Leo pushes his feet on the ground, leaving a loud boom in his wake as he easily doges both bullets and rushes at Alex at drastic, inhumane speeds leaving behind a trail of light red sparks behind him.

Grinning, Alex suddenly disappears in his visions while he hastily jumps into the air, glancing below him to see multiple searing hot bullets shoot where he was previously standing.

Hastily looking around to see where Alex is, he suddenly felt something akin to cold hard metal touching his nape causing his eyes to widen.

"HA!" Leo shouts, twisting his body midair and swinging his fist up above him only to see a flicker disappear, his fist sending strong air pressure towards the leaves above him.

Gritting his teeth, he drops down to the ground at a rapid pace while he nears the tip of his legs to a nearby tree, preparing to go all out and use a technique he made on the spot.

'Whatever the fuck this technique is!' Leo shouts in his mind while he lowers the percentage output to manageable levels for what he is about to do, kicking off the tree, the whole world around him slows down and with multiple kicks off multiple trees, he became a blur jumping from one tree to another, dodging multiple bullets shooting everywhere around him, from air bullets, fire bullets, water bullets, electricity bullets, and earth bullets, he dodges them all while he slowly adapted to this movement style.

Glancing around, he looks at the accompanying blur around him that appears from one point to another in rapid succession, using his Mind that became better due to the 1 extra point he invested into it, he calculates where the blur would next appear and found a series of trees that blocks most of his vision but could allow multiple bullets to shoot towards him.

'I got you now Alex!' Leo shouts in his mind, shooting forward off the tree he was on, his body flings forwards through the trees right as the blur appears, destroying the trees behind him and appearing right in front of Alex who smirks at him.

"Checkmate," Alex said, and with another flicker, Alex suddenly disappear in his vision and appear right above him, multiple air bullets shoot straight out of his two pistols onto his back causing his back to arch, knocking him out due to the multitude of bullets.

"Hahaha! You really thought you could defeat me?! Alex?! Oh boy, Leo, you really became arrogant with that quirk of yours, I've been in this business far longer than you have been Leo boy, hahaha!" Alex maniacally laughs while both of his guns disappear into blue flames, crouching down right beside Leo, he raises a middle finger at him and picks him up from the ground and brings him back home so that Blondy could heal him.

AN: This is 2182 words, you're welcome.

Fucking hell, singing with my girl voice is so hard! But also, I noticed that the volume of my voice goes lower, I'm naturally loud but when I constrict my throat to talk with the grill voice, the amplitude of my voice goes low.

Writing is hard, so send me some powerstones.

(June 3, 2022 – 191st day of writing)