3 Chapter 03: Growing Power.
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The two would often go to Morgan's house since their farm was huge and was big enough to play however they like.
Kara didn't like to play with other girls and would prefer to play football and all the other things a boy would like to play instead, a helpless tomboyish girl yeah…
Morgan didn't say anything either and just got along with her, playing everything with her.
Meanwhile, her dream was to become a superhero and eventually beat the Japanese hero, All Might! An impressive hero known for his strength even in America!
Even Morgan who wasn't particularly into hero and stuff had a lot of admiration for All Might.
Time passed again and they rapidly became ten years old.
Kara became the center of attention with her Quirk and most of all the Gentle Big Boss or so.
She once explained to him that she could absorb the sun's energy to display various kinds of abilities, like running fast, flying, and other things.
However, her parents forbid her from telling the teachers and could only use her super strength and super speed.
Anyway, the two became inseparable best friends, doing every stupidity together.
However, every good thing has an end.
One day, Kara told him that her family was going to move out because of a problem.
"What? But… but…" Morgan just couldn't accept this reality, it was way too sudden. His face was one of revolt and sadness.
"... I'm sorry…" Kara lowered her head.
Looking at her, Morgan felt bad about it.
"It- It's fine, even if we can't see each other, we are still friends right?" Morgan exclaimed and brought his pinky finger forward.
"...Of course!" Kara's eyes lit up with a smile as she took his finger with her own and shook it.
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The next morning, Kara and her parents left, and Morgan completely lost contact with her and became 'friendless', not having any best pal anymore. He slowly isolated himself from kids his age.
Since then, his father took him to train his body by working at the farm with him. It was extremely exhausting though, plus Adam would even add other things to do.
Meanwhile, without Kara by his side, bullies tried to bully him. But Morgan was cute, not defenseless and so he would just fight back even more fiercely.
His parents, seeing him so lonely every day decided to do something.
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*One day, in the afternoon.*
"Hey, Mom, Dad, I'm home!" Morgan said as he pushed open the door and was gonna head directly to his room when he noticed something from the corner of his eyes and forcefully halted in place to go back on his track.
"What's that…?" In the living room, there was a sort of green cage or something, and in this cage, a black small dog was sleeping quietly…
And perhaps because he lived most of his life on a farm, but Morgan always loved animals, especially dogs.
And so…
"Hey there…" Morgan crouched down near the cage. "Who are you? Did Dad kidnap you? Or was it Mom? Nah impossible…"
"Oh, you're back?" Adam calmly entered the house and headed toward the fridge.
"Yes, hey dad, what's that?"
"It's a dog…" Adam took a bottle of milk and drank directly from it.
"Yeah, I see that, but-..."
"It's yours now…" Adam said plainly.
"...what? But you said that I wasn't ready yet…"
"Then, prove it, prove that you can do it," Adam said and gulped down milk again.
Smack!
"Take a glass, wild man!" Kaede arrived from behind and slapped his head. "Where did you learn those manners…?"
"In a farm…?" Both Morgan and Adam replied at the same time.
"..."
"Anyway, so this puppy is mine?" Morgan re-asked just to make sure.
"Yes…"
"Of course…"
Morgan was 12 years old that year and his parents brought back a cute golden retriever puppy for his birthday after he came back from school.
Morgan loved the puppy at first sight!
"It's decided, I will call you Enma!"
Three whole months passed by and the golden retriever rapidly became his best friend, accompanying him whenever and wherever he would go, sleeping on the same bed and all, playing football and baseball with him, etc...
Anyway… Kaede and Adam couldn't be happier to see him like this and so left him to play with the newly named Enma.
However, that was when the disaster happened…
One day, Morgan quietly sneaks away to go and play by himself with Enma. He reached a small house that he used to go to with Kara.
However, it has been quite a while since he got to play there again.
He was running happily with Enma pursuing him but Enma was still way too small to catch up with him, so Morgan would from time to time glance back at the puppy and slow down.
"Hey what's up Enma-?" Morgan asked his pet while still running when…
Pah!
Morgan didn't get it but he hit something and fell butt on the ground as he then raised his head to look up.
"Hmm? Well well, what do we have here…?" A strange guy with a lot of tattoos on his face said as he looked at Morgan.
"Well, what a cute little boy…" Another guy filled with tattoos said.
"I, I'm sorry, I didn't see you…" Morgan backed off a little, seeing a lot of other punks with them.
"Hey, where are you going? You came here to play, didn't you? Let's play…"
"No no, sorry I have to return home…" Morgan smiled wryly and stood up to walk back when…
"You stay here!" One of the punks suddenly raised his voice in anger.
When he heard this, Morgan sped up and ran for his life like a madman while two of the punks pursued him too.
However, in the crisis, Morgan forgot a detail and didn't anticipate that…
"Grrrr!" Emma, the little puppy, had stayed behind to seemingly block off the punk's way.
"Damn dog! go away!" One of the punks exclaimed and gave a kick to Enma, sending him a couple of meters away as he cried out in agony.
"No, let him go…!" Hearing Enma, Morgan who was already heading rushed to him and punched one of the punk.
"Pfff! Hahaha, is that all?" The violet-haired punk said as his hand turned to rock and he slapped Morgan.
"Argh!" Morgan stood up with much difficulty and rushed at the rock hands punk but was stopped by the other one who shot some hard string binding him.
"Let him go!" He didn't why or what those people would do but he knew he had to fight back or else...
One of the punk then picked up the small Enma and lifted him in the air.
"Heh, how cute, you came back just for him…?"
"Pl- please… let him go…"
"So cute… but… nope…" One of the punk said and then added.
"I will teach you a lesson kid…" A crazy light appeared in the punk's eyes as he approached Morgan.
"You Can't Fight Fate…"
At that instant, Morgan for the first time in his life encountered the embodiment of the word Cruel.
He felt the despair and the need for help…
A hero… Why isn't there a hero!? Why? Where are they? Dad! Mom! Someone!
Help… Just save my dog at least...
Morgan watched on as the punk in question took a knife out from his pocket and stabbed Enma…
'...No…'
Sleek! Splurt!
Blood spurts out and soaked the dusty ground forming a pool of blood. The pool of blood was so close that Morgan rapidly was soaked in it.
"...No..."
He watched on as the guy threw Enma near him and the other guy finally released him.
Morgan crawled his way toward the corpse and slowly kneeled as he slowly took Enma in his arms and held him tight….
I'm...hic, I'm… I wasn't strong enough...
His body was quickly covered in blood due to Enma's corpse…
Morgan slowly started to mumble on his own.
"Why…"
"Why do people like you exist…?"
"Just die already…"
"And disappear forever…"
In his despair, Morgan heard a cold voice ranging out in his head.
[Activation of the System… Complete!]
[Synchronization of System with the two Concepts of Powers… Complete!]
[Extraction of the former System's data…Complete!]
[Update of System, Adaptation to current host… Complete!]
[Beginning of quest: Growing Power…]
Unaware and uncaring about what was happening, Morgan didn't notice that his eyes were turning a pure blood-red glow while from his body, a weird shadow-like mass of darkness was expanding out.
The field they were in, was slowly dying out, turning to ashes while the weather was slowly turning awful, with clouds hiding the sun.
"Hey hey! What the hell is happening!?" One of the punk exclaimed as he looked at his buddy in panic.
"How would I know, you dumbass! You're the one who killed his dog, it's your shit, not mine!"
"F*ck you, you participated too…"
"Then, then let's just kill him!"
"F*ck, okay let's do this!"
Swish! Both punks jumped on the occasion and took their knives to kill Morgan.
Seeing that, the twelve years old Morgan slowly closed his eyes in sadness and despair as he held his now dead buddy.
Peng!
However, contrary to what he thought would happen, he only heard the sound of metal clashing against each other.
Opening weakly his eyes, he first saw a large man clad in full-body knight armor, a long cape, and a helmet with long red hair like an ornament and was also shrouded by dark and bright blue light around him.
The black knight turned around to look at the tearing Morgan and watched him with a stunned expression.
'My… liege?' The black knight then took a very careful look at the kid in front of him and then at himself and noticed something.
'I am back to knight grade?'
The knight thought and looked at Morgan who also looked at him back.
The confused Morgan totally mistook the black knight for a superhero as he said sadly.
"They… they killed my dog…" Morgan said with a hazy mind feeling a sense of weakness overtaking him.
Meanwhile, the group of punks exclaimed in anger.
"Who the f*ck are you?!"
"A hero? *spit*" One of them spit and pointed his knife at the black knight.
"You better get the f*ck outta here or else you're dead!"
"Hear that?!"
"..." The black knight didn't reply as he took a glance at Morgan and then looked back at the two punks.
'Although… he may not be my true master… you do not possess the qualifications to hurt him…' The knight said as he took his sword and...
"Hey, wait I was kidding no wait!"
Slash!
Spurt! The knight cut out the punk's arm and then his leg before beheading the other one.
Drawn by the cries, a lot of other punks arrived and exclaimed.
"Wha- what have you done?! You bastard!" A dozen of punks ran to attack.
While the black knight turned toward them and…
SLASH!
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In the mid-time, Morgan had fallen unconscious and the last thing he heard was…
[Mana has fallen to zero, host will fall asleep…]
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