Heroes arrive

Shielding Eri's eyes from Chisaki's corpse, Aiden felt her go limp in his arms.

'...It seems the whole experience was to taxing for her...'

Looking down at her sleeping face, a small smile crept onto his face as he felt like he had avenged her.

"*Sigh* The heroes are gonna be here any minute."

Looking at his phone, he saw that he a small window of time to get back to his base, change into his hero costume and return back here.

"This is gonna be a close one."

Thankfully, Eri's ability had restocked his astral energy reserves and allowed him to move at full speed.

---

"What happened here!?"

Looking at the destroyed underground area, Sir Nighteye and the rest of the heroes stood in confusion.

Dropping down into the giant hole, they looked around for any clues about what might have happened.

"Nighteye!" Mr Brave called.

Running over to his position, Nighteye was frozen in place as he looked at the body of the deceased Chisaki.

"What the hell happened?"

---

"Found her!" Aiden called carrying an unconscious Eri in his arms.

"Medic!!" Mirio called after seeing the little girl.

Luckily for Aiden, during the time he spent making it over from the Yakuza HQ to his hideout, Eri had woken up and was told what to say when she woke up again. Toga and Twice on the other hand seemed to have completely vanished from sight.

---

"A rival gang?"

"Do you think it was the league of villains?" Aizawa asked Nighteye.

"Possibly." Nighteye answered touching the large sword scar.

"Whatever group did it... They were out for blood." Turning to look at all the body bags, Nighteye found it worrying that an unknown force had silently taken out a group like the Yakuza without alerting anyone.

But what worried him even more was the fact that whoever killed Chisaki and the rest had left Eri alone. He didn't know if it was because they didn't know that she was the key to the quirk removing bullets or because they didn't see her value. If it was the second possibility then he couldn't imagine just what sort of power this group had.

'This needs investigating.'

---

"Can I go with her?" Aiden asked one of the paramedics.

"You want to come?"

"Yeah." He nodded. "While she was barely conscious when I found her, she was lucid enough to see me and understand that I was here to rescue her. I think it'd be better for her to wake up to a familiar face."

Understanding the logic in his words, the paramedics agreed to take Aiden along with them.

Looking at the crowd and the police gathering around the Yakuza estate, he was reminded of the time when he was taken to the hospital after the heroes subdued the villain who murdered his parents.

"Somethings never change."

Climbing into the back of the ambulance, Aiden sat by Eri's side with a small smile on his face.

---

Seeing Aiden get into the ambulance, Toga who was in disguise separated herself from the crowd and regrouped with Twice.

"How's it looking out there?" Twice asked.

"Good. From what I could gather, Aiden finished off Chisaki."

"Never doubted him for a second!"

Rolling her eyes, Toga continued.

"The girl on the other hand is being taken to the hospital with Aiden watching over her."

"Quite protective isn't he." Twice joked.

"Hey Twice." Toga called his name in a serious voice.

Hearing her call him in that tone, a shiver went up his spine.

"Y-Yes!"

"Do me a favor and don't tell Shigaraki about Aiden's involvement."

"Eh!? Why not?"

"That girl... lived in a horrible life, she deserves to be happy. We may be villains but... we're better than Overhaul... Besides, did you see how angry Aiden got when he found out we worked under Chisaki!? Imagine what he'd do to us if he found out that Shigaraki had his sights on her."

"Hmm... I see your point."

"Good!" Toga smiled and turned to him in a creepy manner. "Now, we just need you to take that mask off."

"What! No!"

---

"The power to rewind huh."

Sitting at her bedside, Aiden indulged himself in his favorite pass time, recalling previous battles.

Looking at everything that happened, he concluded that her quirk gave her the ability to rewind something back to a previous state. The limit to this however was unknown. Could she rewind objects? Or was it just people? When she activated her quirk on him, she kept rewinding his body to the state it was before all his Astral energy had been expended. But then that begged the question, what was her limit? Could she rewind a person into single cell organisms? To the point before they even existed? Did she even have a stop point?

If that was the case, then he was really lucky that she collapsed when she did.

Looking at her now, he noticed that the size of her horn had returned to its previous size.

'How curious.'

Thinking about it now, considering what Chisaki was using her for, it'd make sense that her quirk was Rewind. But what he didn't understand was exactly how Chisaki was able to make the drugs in the bullet target their quirks and nothing else?

'Well whatever, the girl's safe, Chisaki is dead, and those bullets have been destroyed.'

This rescue operation was a success.

The only thing on his mind now was what Toga and Twice would say to Shigaraki. The two of them knew he had killed everyone and if Shigaraki found out he might use it against him. So what he needed to do now was create an alibi and come up with multiple backup plans. While he might have good will towards the two of them, it was better to be safe than sorry.