Chapter 5

Timeskip 1 Year

I am now six years old. A lot has changed in this year. I finally have chi! The amount is pitiful at best but still it's one step forward.

So what is chi? Chi (also spelling as qi or ki) it is kind of electromagnetic life force that flows through our body nourishing it. The reason why it took so long for me to get initiated on the path of a cultivator was due to the fact that there was no spiritual energy present in the air.

You see cultivation is simply taking in air along with the ambient energy present in the atmosphere, mixing it with the nutrients of the body that continually flows through the body.

In Chun Yeowun's world along with spiritual energy there were also herbs that would have accelerated the process which would have taken a few months at best but due to the lack of ambient energy and the herbs this process took a whole year.

On an another note, I have been getting pretty popular around the dojo as a genius in fighting. I can easily stomp through kids 2 years ahead of me.

The head instructor is very enthusiastic about my skills and pushes me to improve a lot. I have also improved a lot in terms of my telekinetic power. I can move around 12 decks of cards simultaneously while doing some other work.

This is so that I can unlock parallel processing which would elevate my abilities even further. I can now extend till 14 meters from myself. I am almost at the cusp of unlocking telepathy which would be pretty useful in the future.

Timeskip 6 months

"Have you enrolled in a dojo Hidaka-San?" Midoriya asks me.

It's lunch break now and all the other kids have formed a clique of their own. I do talk to them and interact with them in general but it's all for putting up an act so that my parents don't start worrying about my social skills.

"I s-saw you when I was out shopping with my mom that is when I saw you in a dojo uniform" he says timidly.

"Well yes it's been a year since I joined. By the way, Midoriya you haven't yet gotten your quirk right?".

Just like in canon Midoriya was quirkless. It broke the kid that he couldn't be like idol All Might. Bakugo unlocked his explosion quirk and people have put him on a pedestal.

He is starting to act like there is no one better than him and starting out on his douchebag personality. Even when I was watching the show I always hated the fact that Midoriya wanted validation from Bakugo his childhood bully. Well let's try to change the plot shall we?.

" Umm, y-yeah I still haven't gotten the quirk?" the boy replied with a downtrodden expression on this face.

"And you still want to become a hero? I ask.

" Yes! I will never give up on it" Midoriya said with literal sparkles in his eyes. Ehh, anime logic.

"Well why don't you join the dojo and learn how to fight atleast that would help you in reaching your goal. Rather than crying about your situation you should take action no matter how insignificant it might be".

I honestly want him to be better prepared than he was in canon for the plot simply due to the fact that I am here. That would mean there are bound to be changes happening to the plot and I am not that overconfident that I could deal with everything on my own.

I am also a human being and can make mistakes which in this case could cost me my life. So helping out Midoriya is an insurance that he would support me when the time comes besides shonen protagonists are easy to convince anyways.

" Wow, you are right. I will join the dojo" he said with renewed vigor.

"Well then I will see you in the dojo" I say as I walk away going for my daily round of snooping around people's mind.

Reading children's mind was frustrating because they are way too hyperactive or plainly dumb to read their thoughts. So I usually practice them on adults like my parents and teachers in my school. This would help me gain secrets and potential blackmail material in the future.

I wasn't a bad person per say in my old life but when you know what's out there and have power to compete with it then as a famous grandpa would say it's all for the "Greater Good".

Thinking about all the mind games, I realized that even if I have an attacking source my own mind is left unprotected. So I started to remedy that.

In my previous world there were techniques like the mind palace one that people used for memorization and visualization. So I will be doing just that but with the help of the mental energy.

I sit cross legged and focus on the mental energy. Due to my training regime my mental reserves have grown exponentially. I imagine a shroud of mental energy covering my brain or my thoughts from leaking out.

[Thoughts have been successfully contained].

Well that was very easy pretty sure without my mental energy it would have taken way too long. Now I get to making my memory palace.

I imagine my house, the layout, the structure and everything. It's more difficult than I thought as once I lose even a tad bit of focus the images shatters. Looks like one more item to be added in my daily routine.

With all that's been going in my life, it's hard to believe that I have come so far. So I take time out of my schedule to relax and enjoy life as it is without worrying too much about the future.

As long as I prepare well I would be able to take on any challenges. I have thought about my purpose in this life. Intrinsically I am not a heroic person but in this world you are either a hero or villain or background character.

So I choose to be a hero as no matter how 'cool' it might be a villain I know that I wouldn't want to deliberately cause harm to anyone. The no kill rule that this world follows is cumbersome because I am of the belief that sometimes some people cannot be saved or redeemed.

They are far too gone in their delusions and beliefs. I don't know if I would be able to kill someone but if it's between my own life and the other person's life I would gladly pick my own life every single time.

I would have to take measures regarding this. An alternate villain personality maybe? If I had a clone type quirk I could have pulled it off. But without it I am not taking too many chances considering the fact the people here have a variety of quirks which would expose me very quickly. Let's take this step by step one at a time.