Turning point

[Issue1: I wasn't really pleased with the last chapter, so I will go over it a again for just a bit.--Issue2: I will not go into detail about other characters' perspective in certain events. You know what happens to others from the Canon.--All the guesses: Yugi Muto and Atem, Yuji Sukuna, Ichigo and White/Zangetsu, Naruot and Kurama, and Moonknight.(All wrong)]

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'The air attacks don't manipulate the air. Slashes displace the air by pushing it away. This displacement is also a form of sharpness. We realized this and started utilizing the air into our attacks. We turned the wind into a blade,' Zoro thought to himself, watching through Ryoto's eyes as he was defeating dozens of level 1 and 2 robots.

Before facing the level 3 gunslinger robot, Ryoto had defeated 33 level 1 robots, 19 level 2 robots and 1 level 3 robot. All equalled to 74 points. But, neither Ryoto or Zoro calculated nor counted. One was focusing all of his attention to fighting, while the other one was yawning mentally.

Zoro, being inside Ryoto's mind, felt the sensation Ryoto experienced. And because he wasn't controlling the body, he could selectively choose which sensation he would focus on. One example, Zoro saw perfectly with Ryoto's peripheral vision.

In the peripheral vision, he saw a few interesting kids. One being a chrome-colored boy that had a strong body, the other one being a girl with green vines for hair, which she used to defeat a couple of robots.

Focusing back on Ryoto, Zoro saw just how much he had improved in the last few months. The weak and shy kid had become very close in resembling him. Ryoto stopped filtering his words and spoke his mind. He also lost sympathy and did not idolize Heroes as much as before - this would make his life as a Hero-course student harder.

And speaking of Heroes, Ryoto and Zoro looked at all the countries' Top 10 Heroes, only to find a handful of individuals who carried swords and fought with them. The other thing they came across while researching, a statistic that showed the percentage of Villains using bladed weapons, '28 percent,' they thought as they read some time prior to the entrance exam.

'It's still half-assed, but with me on his side, it was enough to get the earing I wanted - a silver, thin and long earing that symbolized the mastery of the one-sword style.'

There were more techniques to be learned that would require more strength and the mastery of the two-sword style, but it was too early for that and Zoro hadn't even told Ryoto about his Quirk's arsenal of possible strength.

"Raven Hunt!" Zoro deflected the rubber bullets of the level 3 robot by cutting them. 'I knew this was a two-sword style attack. It was quite close...'

After the hundreds of small robots gathered into a giant hive-minded robot, the time came for the examinees to run back to training ground Zeta's entrance.

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"Good job, students," a Hero known as Cementos praised the remaining examinees. "You will get your results in about a week. And for those who pass, I look forward to seeing you in class."

The examinees panted in exhaustion, all except Ryoto and the chicken-head. Taking the bus back to U.A main building, Ryoto waited for his friend Bakugo to arrive as well.

"Made me break a sweat these robots," Ryoto greeted the dishevelled-looking Bakugo.

"They did? Of course they did. They couldn't make me sweat at all,' Bakugo said in a confident tone.

"Oh yeah? Hahah!," Ryoto and Bakugo shared a laugh before going home together.

"We will probably see each other in class again, then. I think I will skip the Fridays until school begins. There are some things I need to take care of," Ryoto informed Bakugo inside the train.

"Hm... What is it," Bakugo asked, curious to know about the matter that would take his sparring partner away.

"My dad. I need to tell him about the school I will be going to. He doesn't really want me becoming a Hero. You know the time I told you that my bamboo sword broke?"

"Yeah."

"Well, he broke it over my head, saying that Heroes become the enemies of everyone once they displease other Heroes as well. I wonder what he was talking about. He once was a Hero, too. He went by the name of Cutthroat and worked as Yoroi Musha's sidekick. I don't know about anything after my birth, it's all a mystery to me."

"HAA?! Are you a pussy or what? You should've cut you father up for hitting you," Bakugo yelled in his usual, angry tone. But he did not mean that. He, too, was being hit by his mother regularly. And it hurt him. "If... If you need something, call me."

BING

Bakugo offered to help his friend. Before Ryoto could thank him though, the train came to a halt at Bakugo's station.

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Instead of going into his apartment, Ryoto went up to his building's roof, the place where Izuku and All Might suddenly appeared months ago.

'The roof of revelation, let's call it that,' Ryoto talked the same way Zoro did.

'Why did you come here,' Zoro asked.

'There are some things I did not tell you. And they are about you, not me. And I think that you deserve to know about yourself.'

'What are-," Zoro realized that Ryoto meant his previous life's memories.

'These past few months, I've been seeing images and sensations of your past life. You deserve to know about yourself, so I will tell you.'

'Don't,' Zoro told him not to revive the memories of his past life.

It was too late. Zoro's subconscious was already a part of the shared brain. Zoro subconsciously looked for his memories even if he didn't want to. It was inevitable - the fact that he would learn about his previous life and change to a worrying degree, putting both Ryoto and Zoro's goals at risk.

'Alright, if you don't want to. I will just learn from your mistakes,' Ryoto said as he prepared to go down to talk to his father.

The second Ryoto stepped inside the apartment, his father grabbed him by his collar and threw him at the living room wall.

"I knew you went to U.A High! Didn't I tell you to forget about being a Hero?!"

PAT

A slap reached Ryoto's face. Then, a small drop of blood flowed from his lip. Normally, a slap like that wouldn't even bother Ryoto, yet, something was different with it.

'He used his Quirk on you...,' Zoro revealed.

The boy was in denial. Not once had he seen his father use his Quirk. And now, 'the first time he uses it was to hurt me?!'

A drop in emotion - Ryoto's scared face dropped. He looked at his father, neither disbelieve nor disappointment visible. He was simply uncaring about that fact now, just like his father was uncaring to him.

A plan came to Ryoto's mind: Provoking his father until he gave in to his emotions and started throwing him around the place and cutting his body as he did.

"I don't care!" Ryoto yelled, being thrown at the other side of the wall the second his words left his mouth.

His shirt's collar ripped into pieces and cuts appeared on Ryoto's neck and shoulders. "Help me," the boy yelled, clarifying the neighbours' suspicions about the noise that came from his apartment.

His father fully enraged, did not hear his son's cries for help. Activating his Quirk, the father's clothes were cut all over from the sheer sharpness his body radiated. He then grabbed his son's wrist, slightly cutting into it and causing him to lose dozens of ounces of blood.

"Help!" Ryoto cried out for help once more.

Minutes later, the apartment's door was kicked in by the Hero Kamui woods and death arms.

"Holy shit!" Death Arms spoke out loud, seeing the cut-up kid's blood splattered across the whole living room.

Now pale and still in his father's lethal grasp, Kamui Woods acted as fast as he could to prevent Ryoto from getting hurt even more and bleeding out.

"Wood prison!"

Ryoto's father was trapped inside of a wooden coffin. Ryoto was freed from his father's grasp and was immediately carried away by Death Arms to the ambulance that waited outside the building.

Walking down the steps of the multiple-floored building and being seen and recorded by Ryoto's neighbours in the process caused a lot of uproar on the internet.

The video of a cut-up and bleeding out teenager gained the same attention as Bakugo did when the slug Villain attacked him months prior.

Learning about what happened to his friend, Bakugo blamed himself for not going with him and helping him out.

"SHIT! I should've gone with him! How can I become a Hero when I can't even save my friend..."