24 Day Off
Waking up the next morning, Aiden ruthlessly kicked the boys out and felt at peace once the house was empty. Due to the USJ incident yesterday, the school was temporarily closed. Since he had a day off, Aiden wanted to spend it chilling in his room reading manga and playing a couple of computer games.
*Ring!* *Ring!*
His phone rang and knocked those thoughts out of his head.
"Hello?"
"WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL!!" Rumi's loud voice came from the other side.
Pulling the phone away from his ear, he waited for her to calm down before putting it back.
"Hello to you to."
"Don't hello me you brat! Why didn't you tell me you were attacked by villains!"
"I handled it." Was his reply.
"I don't care if you handled it or not! I'm asking why didn't you call!"
Hearing the worry in her voice caused Aiden to feel warm in his chest.
"My phone was dead." He lied.
"Oh..." She was not expecting that reply and swallowed back her words.
"*Sigh* Good morning Rumi."
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"And then the heroes showed up." He explained what happened back at the USJ.
"Tch, the staff at UA are so fucking useless!" She scowled hearing that no.13 basically took herself out.
"Aizawa's actually pretty good against non mutant type fighters."
"One teacher doesn't represent the entire school Aiden." She shook her head.
"It sounds to me that you basically dealt with the main threat."
"Yeah." He nodded. "It wasn't that hard."
"Ha! And you did it all by yourself. So much for UA's teamwork." As someone who believed in personal strength, hearing that Aiden soloed a boss type villain by himself made her feel like her philosophy was right.
"In all fairness, some of the other students who were warped away dealt with some of the other villains by themselves." He said after hearing about what Todoroki did.
"Yeah but they were grunts. You fought something designed to beat All Might!"
He ignored her comment and asked. "What happened to the Nomu anyway? The heroes wouldn't tell us anything."
"From what I've heard, its been taken into custody."
"Huh? Didn't it resist?"
"That's the funny thing. After that Shigaraki guy left it turned docile."
"Docile?" Thinking about it now, the Nomu only moved after Shigaraki ordered it to. Without him giving it any orders it wasn't too far fetched to imagine that it wouldn't attack others.
"I see..." He nodded to himself.
"So how'd it feel to take down a monster made to kill All Might?"
"Not as satisfying as you'd imagine." He replied.
"Huh!! But that's huge! Why aren't you happy?!" She was somewhat stunned by his dull reply.
"I only beat it because I was the worse type of opponent for it. Not to mention that I exploited the weakness in its regeneration quirk. Speaking candidly, I didn't put in too much effort."
Hearing his reason, Rumi wanted to refute him but found no flaw in his reasoning. Sighing at that fact, she moved the conversation along.
"So did you use your super move?"
"You mean the slash?"
"Yeah! What are you gonna call it anyway? All super moves need a cool name."
"Isn't slash good enough?"
"Of course not! Its to simple, think of something else!"
"....Astral Slash?"
"...."
'Why do I bother with this guy?'
The Astral Slash was a move he created during his training. After realizing that he had no way to damage opponents like the 0 point robot, he thought of ways in which he could kill them with one attack. Unlike what people thought, the Astral Slash wasn't a slash of energy. Since he only knew how to use his energy to construct his knife and pole, the astral slash is the result of him constructing the blade of his knife and condensing it to be as thin and sharp as possible. Its sharpness even surpassed his normal knife constructs.
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"So what's your plan for today?" She asked after giving up on him calling his super move something cool.
"Chill."
"Wow, you didn't even think of visiting me. How cruel." She said in a sad tone.
Rolling his eyes, he knew she was trying to guilt trip him.
"I'm going to see you during the internship. No need to rush our eventual reunion."
"*Sigh* Would it kill you to not be so logical?"
"No, but then I'd be a fool like everybody else." He answered.
"Why do I feel like I was included in that group?"
"Must be your imagination."
"...."
"...."
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After finishing his conversation with Rumi, he spent the majority of the day lazing about and ignoring Mina's attempts to contact him.
It was only after realizing that he ran out of food that he decided to leave the house.
Going to a nearby Japanese 7-Eleven (They exist), he picked up some food and quickly left. On his way back he decided to take a detour and visit a park that Mina had once shown him.
By the time he got there, the sun was beginning to set and a girl had already occupied one of the swings.
'Fuck it, I came here to swing so I'll swing!'
Walking over to the girl he realized that she was wearing a school uniform that he had never seen before. The uniform consisted of a white dress shirt with a dark red bow tied below the collar, over which is a dark blue blazer and below is a pleated gray knee-length skirt, below-the-knee socks and plain brown loafers.
The girl's appearance caught his eye as she had really pale blue hair that bordered on being silver. She also wore a pair of triangular glasses with thick dark frames. And her eyes were gray in color and had a spark of intelligence in them.
"Beautiful isn't it?" The girl suddenly said.
"Eh?"
"That cloud." She pointed to the sky.
Raising his head a bit, Aiden saw a rabbit shaped cloud floating in the sky. It reminded him of the conversation he had with Rumi this morning. Staring at the cloud, memories of the 7 months he spent with Rumi surfaced in his mind.
"Yeah, its beautiful."
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[A/n: About the criticism of Aiden freezing during the USJ incident. I want you guys to understand that this is an Aiden that hadn't seen a villain in 10 months! And no he didn't freeze due to fear or an unreasonable urge to protect his classmates (GTFO with that beta shit) it was his training and resurface of his hatred kicking in. Heck he only used the excuse of protecting his classmates so he could kill the Nomu and say he was defending them.
