First murder

Having made a decision, I moved towards the shelter. No matter how sad it was, but by law, I was obliged to live there.

And this despite the fact that I was already earning enough to rent a place to live, or even buy a good apartment. Of course, I could have escaped and settled quite comfortably in the gray zone, renting a place for myself on not very legal grounds and working not particularly officially.

But I still wanted to become a Hero. And no, I didn't want to become one to help people. In general, I have never been a humanist, and I didn't care about others.

The main reason why I was still ready to take on this dangerous work was because of money and rights. In addition to very high salaries, Heroes received simply a lot of benefits in the legislation.

They were like the privileged class in the Middle Ages. It was just convenient to be a hero!

- "Hehe! Baby, today is clearly not your day." — In one of the dark gateways, and yes, in principle I prefer to walk in those places where there are more shadows.

 on a deserted alley, a masked man with bloodshot eyes appeared in front of me. A whole wave of bats swarmed near him, and in his hands was a camera. — I really hope that you can show me at least a little something new for my Shock Content series. Actually, I wanted to find the twins, but you'll do just fine for now." — His voice was mechanical, and quite frightening.

- "What? Wasn't this maniac talked about in the news? "

I was pulled out of my thoughts by the sudden mechanical sound of a system notification.

[You have received a new urgent task.]

- "What?!"

Suddenly a quest window appeared and opened by itself, without additional commands.

[Urgent Mission: Eliminate the Enemy! Do it immediately.

An intruder who dared to encroach on the Player's life was discovered nearby.

Objective: eliminate the intruder and protect the system player. If the task is not completed, an appropriate fine will be imposed.

Number of enemies to be eliminated: 1 person

Already eliminated: 0 people].

I froze.

— "There was something similar in the novel! Well, exactly, this System did not stand on ceremony with the main character and demanded that all those who wanted to kill the main character be killed."

A stream of flying bat is targeting me!

A whole wave rushed towards me.

I turned my body into a shadow and simply merged with one of them. Only, unlike them, in the state of a shadow body I could attack, while remaining completely invulnerable to physical damage, but this absorbed a lot of mana

Suddenly, several words became distorted, blurred, and then new words appeared in their place.

[Urgent Mission: Eliminate the Enemy! Do it immediately!!!

An intruder has been discovered nearby who has dared to encroach on your skin. Objective: eliminate the intruder and protect yourself.

If the task is not completed, your heart will stop.

Number of enemies to be eliminated: 1 person

Already eliminated: 0 people].

My pupils constricted.

- "This System! She... She really wants me to kill."

In the original story, I remember I greeted such a plot twist with a can of beer raised up and the words:

"Well, finally, the hero kills other people without much snot!"

However, now, finding myself as Song Jin-Woo, I realized how inadequate the force I had chosen was relative to the world that had befallen me.

"The world of My Hero Academia is a world where heroes don't kill villains. Here murder will almost always be considered a crime. So…"

I looked at the masked man who attacked me, he was clearly panicking. The Evaluation worked immediately and gave me valuable information.

- [Name: Tatsujo Naotada

Villainous Alias: lord of the bats

Fad:

— Animal control

Mood: Scared, doubtful, mad.]

- "So he's able to control more than just bats... But what's the difference?" —During this time, although my mana had not recovered, I decided to take some from the tattoo seal—"I fight with shadows, so criminologists are unlikely to suspect me of killing this guy if the marks on his body are from a knife."

While I was thinking, a blade pierced the maniac right in the heart.

The blade of the simulated knife entered his body.

- "What..." - He fell dead, and the camera fell out of his hands. And a message appeared before my eyes.

[Number of enemies to be eliminated: 0 people

Already eliminated: 1 person]

[Urgent task: Eliminate enemies. Status: completed.

You received a reward for completing the task.

Do you accept Rewards?] - (Yes/No)

- "I accept. — I sighed heavily looking at the maniac's corpse. - "Well, with his death, this world has become a little better. Another thing is that if the police find me... No, they are unlikely to put me in prison. After all, I'm only twelve and a half years old!"

But All might is unlikely to pass on his quirk to me.

Although this bastard really is such a piece of fruit!

He never even met me!

Although I saw that he talked with the children in the orphanage, telling them what is good and what is bad in this life.

After talking with him, they really began to behave extremely nobly and with dignity, as if a couple of words from Hero Number One changed their personalities into naive idealists ready to sacrifice themselves for the common good."

[Your level has been increased!]

[We have prepared the following rewards for you:

Reward 1: Full restoration.

Reward 2: Attribute Points, +10

Reward 3: New Skill: Fear

Do you want to accept everything? Confirm.]

- "Are the rewards for murder so generous? "-With these thoughts in mind, I first discovered a new skill.

— "I hope I don't get caught like this again, otherwise I don't want to become a serial killer."

[Fear - 1st level

Belongs to the category of active skills.

Mana consumption: 100 units.

Strong energy capable of putting an opponent into panic for one minute. You can apply this skill to several selected targets at once.

"Fear" effect: Reduces all opponents' abilities by 30%]

— "Ashborn's powers are great and multifaceted." - I chuckled mentally, accepting the reward and searching the corpse with the help of shadow tentacles. However, I didn't find anything useful or compromising myself.

The dead man had money, but I didn't take it. Still, I earn quite well enough to still risk running into some kind of fad with predictions.

Although I don't think that anyone will really try to find the killer of this vile maniac who fed children to animals in order to bring him to justice. They'll probably just call me a vigilante.

A sort of Hero without a license and the right to be a hero.

After checking to see if there were any witnesses to my murder nearby, and if there were any additional cameras, I decided to leave through the shadows.

So, returning to the orphanage, and as usual ignoring my three neighbors, I took the laptop from the nightstand, and threw a canopy of shadows that enveloped me, my nightstand, where the lamp and bed stood.

However, my fatigue has not gone away, so today I will sleep in class.

It was only when I found myself in a math lesson, and having settled comfortably on my desk to sleep, that it finally dawned on me that I had actually killed.

For the first time in two lives, I took someone's life.

This thought should have been significant, but I pushed it aside, convincing myself that, firstly, I didn't have much of a choice, and secondly, I was only doing everyone in this world a favor.

With these thoughts, I fell asleep during a math lesson, but I didn't sleep for long, because during the lesson the villainous teacher decided to conduct some kind of test.

Teachers generally like to give tests and force me to work.