Chapter 21: Five O'Clock

"Weeeeee~"

"Weeeeee~"

"Weeeeee~"

Toga had a bright smile on her face as Shin pushed her on the swing, he calculated the amount of force needed to have the swing go as high as possible without Toga falling off.

"Hehehehehe~" Toga laughed, swinging her legs like they were walking on air.

'If the Sukowa are trying to corner the underworlds market, why are the Inawa not stepping in to stop their monopoly? Say they aren't interfering on purpose, what path are they intending on taking that would be worth letting the Sukowa have such an advantage?' Shin was lost in thought with everything that had happened recently

It has been a couple of hours since Shin met with the two at the abandoned building, ever since he had taken in the recent influx of information he hadn't stopped analyzing it and constantly going over what he had obtained.

"YAAAAY!" Toga happily held her arms into the air as Shin accidentally pushed her too far, becoming too engrossed in his thoughts.

'Oh shit.'

"AHHHH!" Toga slipped out of her seat from being pushed up too high, she closed her eyes and shrieked.

"Shin!" Toga called out instinctively though all of sudden she didn't feel a feeling of falling anymore.

"Sorry Toga, I lost focus." Shin caught the still closed eyed Toga and apologized.

"Huh? Oh, it's ok!" Toga looked around and after comprehending what Shin said, she gave him a heartfelt smile.

"Do you want me to push you again?" Shin asked and Toga shook her head violently in agreement.

"Yeah!"

Toga smelled Shin before hopping down from his embrace while scurrying back over to the swing.

"Swing swing swing swing." Toga plopped down onto the seat, then shook her head side to side singing her swing song.

Shin didn't even flinch when she sniffed him since he had gotten used to Toga's antics, walking up to the swing Shin began the cycle once more.

"Weeeeeee~"

Shin instantly became lost in his thoughts again trying to figure out the next course of action while simultaneously paying more attention so that he doesn't exert too much power causing Toga to fall.

From the corner of his eye Shin saw Inasa walking outside, his haggard appearance was the first thing Shin noticed seeing the gloomy aura he was emitting.

The bags under his eyes weighed heavily appearing like he aged five years, looking around he spotted Shin before he moped over to him.

"Hey Shin." Inasa greeted with a slumped posture.

"Didn't get much sleep?" Shin asked, already knowing the answer.

"Yeah I-I couldn't sleep." Inasa nervously chuckled, rubbing his arm as a flash of sadness resonated across his eyes for only a second, though for Shin it was clear as day.

"I understand the feeling." Shin reassured, causing Inasa to gaze back at him.

"Really?" Inasa's voice contained a hint of hope as he never imagined Shin would ever have a sleepless night and especially couldn't imagine anything ever bothering him.

"Of course, I used to have nightmares all the time." Shin recalled a certain part of his past as a look of disgust formed on his face before forcing it down with a smile.

"Wha-how did you stop having them?" Inasa instinctively took a step forward as Shin always seemed to know everything.

"Well nightmares are usually formed by stress, anxiety, or a traumatic event and after I learned of this I decided I would stop letting it control me, and of course it didn't work immediately but gradually these nightmares stopped haunting me." Shin subtly tried to help Inasa without using his powers to forcefully suppress them since it would not be good for his progression if Shin always saved him when he was in need.

"Stop letting it control me." Inasa silently muttered, rubbing his chin as he walked over to a nearby tree and sat down repeatedly recalling Shin's words.

'Now that's done back to my main focus.' Shin resumed his thinking about the current events.

Another part that he had been primarily focusing on was the memories of the smaller gangs and their sudden power increase.

'It's weird how these gangs had so many vials of trigger.' Shin focus always circled back to this sentence.

The members only received these shipments and had no dealing with whoever was selling them these vials and it rubbed him the wrong way as it seemed off how they recently got an influx of trigger.

All they did was receive the shipments and carry out the expansion of the territory while solidifying their hold over it.

'If I don't hear anything from Dabi about the Yakuza around 5pm then I'll just pay a visit to the leaders of these gangs and look through their minds.' Shin concluded since he already knew the bases of these five gangs and the leaders that controlled them.

Shin had also been carrying his phone with him everywhere and had constantly monitoring even the slightest vibrations.

*Sigh*

"I need to be patient." Shin shook his head knowing that being this anxious would do him no good.

"Yay!" Toga happily yelled out reaching the peak height of the swings trajectory until she slowly fell feeling the momentum before repeating the process again.

Gazing around him he decided to turn off his mind until five o'clock and relax, Shin continued to push Toga on the swing until she got bored and hopped off.

"Alright my turn to push you!" Toga ran over to Shin while jumping up and down.

"Toga I-"

"Please!" Toga gave him puppy dog eyes and he just shrugged.

Moving towards the swings, he sat on the swing and Toga started to push him however unlike what she thought would happen an entirely different thing happened.

Shin weighed around 80 pounds from constantly condensing his muscles and some would think he would be way less but condensing them did not make him lighter because of the conservation of mass; meaning the number of atoms remains the same no matter how they are rearranged or condensed.

"Why can't I push you~" Toga whined, only able to push Shin a miniscule distance.

"Toga try bending your knees." Shin suggested, Toga tilted her head before bending her knees and trying again.

"I did it!" Toga cheered seeing Shin move upwards, in reality he just used whirlwind to push himself while making it seem Toga was doing all the work.

"Push push push push!" Toga happily sang to herself while 'pushing' Shin up repeatedly.

The day passed slowly and no messages were received throughout the day as the clock slowly turned to five o'clock.

Shin turned his head towards the clock before smiling, walking to his closet he grabbed a larger set of clothes.

"Are you leaving?" Toga stood at the doorway with a sad expression on her face knowing that whenever Shin grabbed those clothes he always left her.

"Yeah, but I'll be back." Shin gave reassuring words to Toga who ran into his embrace.

"When." Toga's muffled voice was heard barely as she dug her face into Shin's chest.

"Probably around ten o'clock, maybe later." Toga cocked her head up showing him the puppy dog eyes that worked on him earlier.

"Nice try Toga." Shin chuckled, patting her head making Toga immediately pout.

"Why~" Toga whined and Shin unbuckled her hands around him.

"Don't sleep by the door, it's bad for your back." Shin waved while lecturing her before jumping out the window knowing if he left through the front then Toga would hold onto his leg while making her body limp.

"Shin!" Toga rushed to the window sill and upon arriving she saw Shin perfectly fine waving at her.

"Remember not to sleep by the door." Shin repeated his words while walking out of the orphanage gate.

"Stupid Shin." Toga huffed watching him until he disappeared completely from her sight.

Puffing her cheeks she crossed her arms while waddling over to Shin's bed, seeing it neatly assembled she jumped onto it and rolled the comforter around her making herself a comforter burrito.

*Sniff*

"Shin." Toga plopped her face down into the comforter and took a whiff and when she lifted her face she saw Inasa at the doorway looking at her with disgust.

Toga stuck out her tongue having no shame and Inasa scrunched his eyebrows, he never understood why she always sniffed Shin's things.

"Toga go back to you-"

"No." Toga interrupted Inasa before he could finish.

"Shin told me not to sleep at the doorway while waiting for him so I'll sleep in his bed and wait." Toga stated and Inasa just sighed.

"Y'know what, I'm too tired for this." Inasa held up his hand signaling his surrender and crawled to his bed.

"Hehehehehe." Toga chuckled to herself snuggling herself deeper into Shin's covers.

Shin through all of this had already transformed into his adult looking form while changing his hair/eye color to brown resembling a future version of himself.

This was all thanks to the quirk Bulk that expanded his muscles, the skill 2 feet had a small defect being it only grew his height and nothing else.

That meant his body didn't properly fill out making him appear like a thin skeleton which was the reason he wore such baggy clothes but now with bulk he could fully look like a normal adult.

Shin was walking in broad daylight with a black face mask covering the lower part of his face, right now he was making his way towards the Baipa's gang's main hideout.

The main hideout was located in an abandoned mental hospital, all of the hideouts of the Baipa gang were located in abandoned buildings for some reason.

The second Shin foot stepped into their territory, eyes were immediately placed on him and even though he noticed it he wasn't bothered in the slightest.

Shin knew that the whole gang in general was probably on edge since one of their hideouts and prominent figures were all destroyed in a day thanks to Dabi and Atsuhiro.

Each and every step he took resulted in another piercing gaze settling upon him until someone walked out of the shadows no longer being able to take his ignorance.

"Stop and state why you entered Baipa's territory." A man with a buzz cut with a leather jacket with viper spitting venom spoke out.

Slowly people started to appear from the surrounding while gathering all around Shin who showed a calm smile.

"I would like to have a conversation with Venom." Shin told them his intention and the man scoffed.

"Venom isn't taking meetings right now so leave." A few others chuckled behind him as the man showed a mocking smile.

*Sigh*

"Why does it always have to result in me mass murdering people, I mean don't you guys value your lives?" Shin showed a distraught appearance while shaking his head in sadness.

"What are yo-" Instantly the ground coiled around him and all others in his surroundings.

"What are everyones quirks?" Shin asked out to the whole audience present, not just the ones in front of him.

"I can make my body odor smell horrific."

"I can form spikes from my elbows."

"My quirk gives me hands for feet."

All of the people started to give their quirk descriptions and all of them were useless including the arrogant guy in front of him whose quirk was acid saliva.

"Wow this gang motto is really quantity over quality." Shin chuckled, causing the people to become livid.

"Do you kno-"

*Splat*

"Yes, I know who I'm dealing with." Shin crushed every person in his hold into mush not wanting to deal with any cliche speeches.

Lifting himself off his feet he propelled himself forward with the wind after checking search to see if any others were in the vicinity

Stopping the wind he gently descended onto the ground in front of the mental hospital and the guards located in the front immediately started to reach for something.

Shin formed two metal spikes from his hand calculating exactly what was needed for them to arrive in their intended spots.

*Splat* x2

The spikes flew at immeasurable speeds piercing straight through their heads causing them to explode from the overwhelming force.

Strolling into the surroundings he surveyed the run down hospital, then realizing it would be a hassle to personally go around the whole hospital and wipe out every person.

Knowing it would be a waste of time to do it himself when he took his next step all of sudden earth golems started to form behind him, they appeared exactly like the ones Pixie-bob formed to surround him in the forest fire.

When Shin copied quirks he also had a habit of unconsciously copying the user's proficiencies for the quirks which was why it was always so easy for Shin to understand a quirk right after obtaining it.

"Kill the grunts but if they manage to inflict any damage onto you, bring their bodies to me." He ordered and the golems dashed in all directions.

*BOOM*

The golems didn't care for doorways and plowed right through the walls disregarding their own mortality.

"What the!"

"Shoot them! Shoot them!"

*BANG*

*BANG*

*BANG*

"Bullets don't work!"

"Fuck! Someone tell the bos-AHHH!"

Blood painted the walls as these horrid creatures ruthlessly tore through the grunts with ease, their defense shouldn't be so formidable since they were made from dirt however by using fortify on them it made these golems a force to be reckoned with.

Opening the worn down entrance Shin stepped into the hospital and saw the dead bodies that littered the ground all around the lobby.

"Help! He-AHHHH!" A man rushed out of a nearby room only to be pulled back forcefully by a golem.

He screamed as his nails slid on the floor resulting in a trail of scrape marks forming in his wake until he was completely pulled into the darkness as sudden silence ensued until a golem ran outwards into a different direction confirming his death.

On the second floor of the common area

"Reinforce the door!" A woman tattooed head to toe ordered at the grunts who quickly listened, positioning their bodies against the double doors.

"Boss, what do we do!" A man who was crawling on the ceiling urgently spoke out.

In the center stood the man known as Venom clutching his head hearing the screams and agonizing cries of his underlings outside the door.

"Fuck!" He cussed out pushing his hair back trying to think of something before setting his eyes upon one of his underlings who was attacked but made it inside before they started the barricade.

"What are those things! Who's attacking us!" Venom shouted at the man holding the shoulder wound that was caused from one golem ripping his arm clean off.

"There monster, monsters!" The grunt was shivering heavily with tears streaming down his cheeks curling himself into a ball.

"Dammit what are they!" Venom grabbed the grunts collar and started shaking him vigorously.

"Monsters their monsters!" The grunts repeated out in a heavy sob.

"Useless!" Venom threw the grunt to the ground.

"Those with quirks start consuming trigger!" Venom ordered to his underlings with quirks who immediately nodded their heads.

Venom too rushed towards the nearby boxes and took out three medium grade trigger vials he had been saving for a threat like this and immediately downed them.

"Urgh!" Venom grabbed his heart as his veins started to turn purple.

"Boss." Two women ran up to venom grabbing him before he could fall.

"Mist, Ink take these." Venom put two vials in each of their hands and they hesitated as he stumbled back to his feet.

"But Venom their for em-"

"This is an emergency." Venom could tell the door wouldn't hold for much longer and hearing all the pleas his gut was screaming at him that this was the real deal.

Both Mist and Ink nodded their heads downing the vials before immediately falling to the floor, Venom calmly watched the two's bodies convulse seeing the veins becoming more transparent on their skin.

"What a rush, so this is what medium feels like." Mist was the first one to make her way to her feet, becoming intoxicated in the feeling.

"Hahahaha!" Ink started laughing crazily holding herself in a hug feeling an overwhelming power surge through her.

*BAM*

"AHHH!"

The golems burst through the front doors decimating the barriers in their wake, right away they started their assault on the grunts in front of them tearing them to pieces and massaracing them without a second thought.

"I can finally unleash all my babies at once!" Ink roared as the tattoos on her skins started to walk into reality detaching themselves from her body.

"I'm going to envelop these monsters in my poisonous mist!" Mist body started turning into a purple haze losing its previous solid state.

"These monsters don't know who they're messing with." Venom hissed as a purple liquid started forming from his body while he controlled it to spin around him at fast speeds.

"Let's show them what happens when you mess with the Baipa gang!"