5 The grind & First victim

[[Pov : Takahashi]]

After convincing mom that me going to gym will actually help me in being safe , i went to the nearest quirk gym.

Which luckily for me the gym was within 200 meters of my house , since our family was actuallt kinda rich we lived in the Hiroo residential are which was at the centre of Shibuya-Ebisu-Roppongi triangle.

It was a place where the crime rates were farely low as this area housed majority of international community in japan.

Still considering that all for one was in his prime it didn't actually mean shit since you weren't safe anywhere in Japan.

Arriving at the gym which had a fairly mordern design and machines that looked far different and complicated to use than the one's i was familiar with , despite this the machines were hyper optimised to match the needs of as many quirks as possible.The concept of each machine was the same even after more than a hundred years.

I wasn't really a gym guy in my last life and my knowledge of it was lower than the collective iq of a room filled with twitter users but i knew the basic concept of what to do for building strength.

So i decided to go with the one's i knew were what i needed squats, Planks, Pull-ups, push-ups, lunges and basically anything that used my body weight.

Once i felt comfortable enough i decided to use external weights Bicep curls, Bench press, Deadlifts ,over-head presses.

Hours passed without me noticing , i was too absorbed in this feeling of exhilarating growth , at the beginning i was struggling to hold my own body weight now i can life 10 times that.

Whenever i upped weights i would use i felt pain and tension in my muscles but after doing repeatedly for some time the action would feel as natural as lifting my finger.

I could feel my physical body changing in real time, i probabaly burned a lot of fat and my body felt a lot less chubby and more muscular.

I decided to stop for today since , i didn't actually know from where i was consuming energy from after all my limits and conditions of immortality weren't explained at all.

Vampires needed blood to function properly but i am not a vampire, i jave yet to feel any need for external source of energy but i will still eat food just in case.

I might be absolutely immortal with no need for external energy but i don't want to test my limits right now.

After putting the weights down i noticed a group of people looking at me with ashen expressions and hopeless eyes as if the whole world was a lie.

"What?", i decided to probe their reason for doing so.

I get no reply for a few seconds untill a person with a completely forgettable started yelling like he was going through a mental breakdown ," What! , is that the only thing you have to say ? What kind of monster does something so ridiculous within a day huh! Its not fair Damm it "

'Is this some kind of unavoidable npc event ?' I thought with a sweatdrop

"What did you expect me to say ?", I decided not to entertain this talk for any longer.

The guy could only fumble under my cold eyes , deeming the talk completely useless i decided to leave the gym and head home.

Arriving late at home earned me a furious and tearful glare from Mother dearest.

"I'm sorry i forgot to check the time this will not happen again", i started the conversation by fully surrendering and accepting my mistake.

I might have never had a mother but i knew enough from the people i interacted with is to never argue with your mother, you will lose the arguement.

"You better not make me worry like this again" ,she said it like it was supposed to be a threat but that tearful gaze and hurt voice only made my resolve even stronger.

We ate dinner in silence , simply enjoying the food without a single disturbance.

I knew she was a little off in the common sense department , not that i am any good but me going missing probably permanently scarred her psyche even more however her care for me was as genuine as things get in this world of lies.

I couldn't be more thankful for that even if i am just another messed up person who is just taking her real son's body as a meatsuit, i really needed that .

All my life i never actually felt any form of love at all even if the love is just because of this face , i don't care even if its just one sided i love this feeling this care and i will be selfish enough to take all this for myself.

But i will make sure to pay my dues i will protect her at all costs even if it costs me my immortality and i will make the people who killed Kitoshi Takahashi pay with their lives .

Then and only then would i consider this life truly my own after all after the "absolute" kiyoshi Takahashi was the person i owed everything currently in my life.

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[[Pov: Takahashi]]

I stood at the top of a hotel building in the Adachi ward stalking my first victim.

A hero who vent by the name "Pyrich" , ranked 39th . He usually works with the fire department. He has a fire type quirk called [Pyro-Maniac] , it allows him to control already existing fire in any shape he wants.

My reason for attack , very simple i need his quirk and it will be better in my hands than it could ever be in his , it honestly hurts my brain how heroes and villains of this worlds are so stupid that they forget to use basics of scientific theory in their attacks.

Majority heroes just go for the hit as hard as you can or be a side charachter till someone who can hut harder appears approach.

I guess its true that tik tok brain-rot made the younger gen stupider.

Taking him down will be easy since he is doing night patrol and alone at that however my biggest threat is not from him but from other heroes coming to his rescue and some device catching my identity.

So i came prepared with items to protect my identity, nothing much just some 3D printed helmet and complete body suit ,so that nothing of my facial features and DNA gets exposed.

The material i made this with was special as it contained my blood and flesh , allowing me to effectively insulate me from thermal imaging and use my quirk flexibly , it also contained considerable amounts of lead and heavy elements to prevent ultrasound & x-ray imaging too.

[Image: Temporary suit]

This whole thing would have cost anyone in the 21st Century considerable amount of money to make but now i could make this stuff at home with advanced 3d printers and its also because our family was rich enough to keep items like that as auxilary devices.

Of course it wasn't some industrial grade stuff and the whole thing was 20 percent my own cells with crude structure with almost no defensive capability , it served its purpose well enough.

My plan was simple once he gets directly below the back side of the hotel i will shut off his quirk , land near him, punch him two times in the throat and the lungs , extract the quirk and burn the evidence till nothing is left.

The security cameras worked on infrared imaging so all thwy would record is a distorted image of a super hot humanoid.

Strangely enough i felt nothing for what i was about to do to this unsuspecting little hero , even though i saved the guy who gave me a lift to tokyo i never felt that i wanted to be a hero , the only reason i saved him is because i didn't want to be ungrateful to a person who despite knowing the dangers of villains decided to help me.

I respected those who put their life on the line for making the world a better place but i didn't want to be one of "those people" , why ?.

Because my respect doesn't mean i actually cared about what they did i just respected their courage to do what i never did in my life , actually do what one believes to be the right thing.

Right now my power has only two ways to develop either be a good person join the hero side don't take people's quirk and the other option is trample enough people's lives and future and gain enough power to ignore the world around you.

Being a hero doesn't appeal to me at all , All might as a symbol may have achieved reverence of people only beaten by a few people but him as Toshinori Yagi was a complete failure , he sacrficed his life for the good of others worked till he was basically dead and encouraged millions to do the same.

In contrast All for one probabaly had a better life than any hero could ever hope to achieve he may have lost to heroes but till the end he did what he believed was the best for himself.

Did that mean i was going to be a villain ? Not at all , i wished for none of these things the only thing i wish for is power in both forms physical and influence.

After some consideration i decided that becoming a politician is the best choice of profession since my job would be to basically give speeches and lure the sheeple into believing in the righteous cause.

Villains ? Heroes? What are they gonna do to the Prime Minister , once i have enough money i can retire and live the rest of my life living however the fuck i want.

My musings ended when the hero with the terrible name neared the spot of my planned assault.

With a look i shut off his quirk and jumped off the building in a vertical descent , it took approximately 2.1 seconds for me to land 3 meters beside the target.

I sacrificed one leg to keep instant functionality , my bones in the left leg were completely crushed, it took 1.6 seconds to recollect my thoughts by this time he had noticed my presence.

Using the right leg i lunge towards his throat ,delivering a punch straight into the windpipe.

His face contorts into an expression of pain, ignoring the already halfway healed leg's pain .

I hold his right arm and drive my punch into his left lung feeling about 5 of ribs getting completely pushed into his lungs.

'5.8 seconds'

Still holding the hand i pull him towards me red veins pulsing grow into my hand and onto my suit.

'6.5 seconds'

I hold his face feeling the blood coming out of his mouth and the tears of pain , the veins pulse and grow into his body and i gain an unfamiliar limb that i never knew i had .

'7.3 seconds'

At this instant i held complete power over the hero's body ,his consciousness of the completely gone.

His body became an extension of me like a remote limb i could control, a limb i didn't need.

'7.9 seconds'

'Complete quirk transfer over'

In an instant the same veins glowed with power , transferring heat into his body and the moment i remove my hands his body bursts into bright blue flames.

'8.1 seconds'

His body or rather whatever remained of his skeleton fell on the ground burning and breaking apart , i force my quirk to instantly adapt to his quirk.

A few drops of blood come out of my nose , i push his quirk into a state of quasi awakening , taking control of the flames burning his body i create multiple spinning circles , around my hand roating around different rotational axis causing the hot gases to converge on one spot.

'10.3 seconds'

The hot gases aided by my quirk quickly compress into a ball of flames resembling plasma , getting fuel for its temprature directly from me.

I manipulate a small part of the flames beneath my soles to be used as a launch pad and jump into the sky.

'11.2 seconds'

I force the ball to form an arrow, the asphalt beneath my feet already bubling due to the immense temprature , using one hand to aim the arrow towards an abondoned warehouse one ward away filled with rusted iron machines and aluminium equipments.

'12.8 seconds'

The arrow leaves my hands as i give it a horizonatal velocity higher than sound, whiring with a sound akin to rockets it zooms towards the warehouse.

'13.6 seconds'

By the time the explosion's sound reaches me i had already landed on the ground , the explosion itself may not be desteuctive but it was flashy as along with the arrow itself the rusted iron and the 2 tonne powdered aluminium and sodium oxide i graciously left there , caused probabaly the biggest thermite reaction in human history.

'Target accomplished within the planned timeframe'

Without looking back at the giant upward fountain cracker of doom , i ran in the opposite direction avoiding public cameras , i quickly find an alley without any surveillance and use it to change my entire outfit.

The pre-booked cab waiting in the alley parallel to this one , i walk to it with a joker mask on my face the armour stored in a trolley bag , hands covered in latex gloves.

I open the door and sit down in the back seat with my bag by the side.

The driver looked at me like i was a weirdo for a second but ultimately shook his head and asked ,"Shall we go sir ?"

"Yes" i replied in an altered deep voice.

Internally smirking for the succesful completion of the mission.

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My first actual fight scene, a bit technical but thats how Mc veiws things.

And for anyone wondering , yes the mother is a Yandere.

Do not hesitate to point out any mistake you see in any way , if it is in canon lore or grammatical.

If intentional i will tell you so if not i will correct it.