chapter 9

Current time 10 AM.

Two kids where next to a bed. On which bed was a child sleeping in a fetal position.

"Igarashi! wake up!" said the little girl closest to the bed.

She was reaching out to him with both her hands, pushing him gently so as to wake him up.

"Come on Aki! You have been gentle for a couple minutes already! Put more strength in the push. Or else we will be here for hours." said the other child behind Aki, obviously dissatisfied with her approach to the issue.

The girl turns around and glares at the boy. Akemi.

"No! Your method might hurt him! He is still a baby and needs to be treated like one!".

Akemi was annoyed at the girls reasoning. His eyes rolled to the side as he titled his head to his 4 o'clock.

"Oh come on. Igarashi is really tough. We all know that. And even if he wasn't just pushing him more wouldn't hurt him!" pleaded the boy. He was unable to do anything since he was holding Igarashi's food for a couple minutes, but since Igarashi hadn't woken up yet his hands where tired. And he didn't want to continue waiting until he wakes up to Aki's gentle 'push' that was more like a rub.

"No!". The girl was really adamant. She realized that her method isn't good enough but she wasn't willing to use more 'violence' to wake him up regardless.

Igarashi hadn't woken up earlier when it was time to eat. And no matter how much Jess tried she couldn't get him to wake up. Its been a couple hours, so Akemi and Aki where given a plate of food and where entrusted with feeding Igarashi. But he still wasn't waking up.

Akemi sighed as he started thinking of another method to wake him up. His eyes lit up as he came up with a idea.

"Just grab his tail! He will wake up fast if you do that!".

The girl got even angrier and her stare harder.

"Are you stupid? Remember when Eric did that? You want us to end up like him?"

Hearing her Akemi took a trip on memory lane back to that incident.

It was a similar situation where Igarashi wasn't waking up. So Eric grabbed his tail, which was very sensitive.

He grabbed the tail by the base and squeezed it slightly. The moment he did the tail moved rapidly and hit him on his side.

Eric fell on the ground with his hands clutching the point of impact and cried.

A chill passed through Akemi as he realized the outcome of his previous proposition. Yes Igarashi would wake up undoubtedly, but the danger of they would be put though wasn't worth it.

Aki saw his reaction and smuged, she just one upped him in her mind.

She turned back to the ever peacefully sleeping Igarashi and went back to pushing him gently.

"Lets get back to waking him up, he must be very hungry by now." She said with slight worry.

Akemi shrugged and looked down, on the plate of soup that had gone cold. It wasn't a good soup, but it was edible, and it didn't smell bad either. The orphanage doesn't have enough money for them to continuously eat better food, but at least they wont go hungry.

Akemi's eyes widened yet again. He walked to the other side of the bed, where Igarashi was facing and pushed the plate close to his face.

"What are you doin-- OOhhhh!"

Aki was visibly confused at Akemi's movements but realized what he was doing.

"IIIIgaaaraaashiii. Cooome oon, foooood is waiiting~". Akemi was speaking slowly, in hopes of his words sinking in better for Igarashi.

Igarashi's nose twitched slightly as he sniffed, the smell causing him to wake up slowly.

His eyes opened slightly as he raised his head, looking at the soup.

He used one of his hands for support to raise his body up and grabbed the spoon with the other one.

"FINALLY!" Akemi couldnt help but exclaim. His hands where finally free.

"Igarashi woke up! I should have thought of it sooner, he is such a foodie. jess calls him that to! He he." Aki was happy too that they finally woke him up.

Igarashi's eyes opened more as he started eating.

Akemi, being finally over with his job left to go and play with the other kids.

Aki didn't though, instead she moved over to Igarashi's side and spoke.

"Igarashi. Let me feed you!" She placed her hand on his and tried to take the spoon from him.

He took his gaze of the soup and looked at her.

"No"

He shrugged her hand of and went back to eating.

Aki was looking forward to feeding him so she was very sad because of him shrugging her offer off.

"Please! I want to feed you. Come on? Please?" She pleaded, almost about to cry.

Igarashi looked at her yet again.

'what a bother. She is gonna start crying crocodile tears if she doesn't feed me aint she?'

"Fine."

He gave her the spoon.

" He he!"

A smile reappeared on Aki's face as she started feeding him.

A little while later, Igarashi went outside. He quickly flew to the top of the building and started training until dawn.

PoV: Igarashi

I Finished training for today. I did a lot of exercises with custom training objectives so as to farm SP. Training without weights or correct equipment isn't effective when you are this strong. So my main goal right now is to get as much SP as I can and start training for real in the training space.

I only took a break when I had to go and eat. I didn't completely stop training even when i was fatigued, i just trained my ki control.

I wasn't able to complete the daily training objective because I cant run 10 kilometers on a roof like this without people eventually seeing me.

In total I farmed 10 SP. custom training objectives dont give as many SP as everything else does. Its the slowest way to get SP. But at least they are repeatable.

In a couple hours when everyone is sleeping I will leave and complete the 10 kilometers that re required to get the other 8 points. And maybe I will get points by fighting villains as well because they will be considered as tasks.

During noon when we where all sitting at the table and eating. On the news my appearance and some of my actions where brought up. But they only showed parts of the footage, and a general description of my abilities.

A summary of what they said is :

Size of a grade schooler

Wears a cloak with a hood

Possesses high physical capabilities.

Is a capable fighter.

His quirk is unknown, but is considered as a physical augmentation until proven otherwise.

Potential fighting prowess is estimated to be higher than the majority of pro heroes.

Extremely dangerous. Report on sight.

I'm relieved that they have no more info on me. Its good that they didn't spare a lot of time on me too.

It means that I'm probably not taken as a serious threat yet. So I can keep up my activity for a while more. But I have to keep it lower profile compared to yesterday. Just to make sure nothing goes wrong.

I rested for a while while training my ki control to keep my ki from draining when I strengthen myself with it. I can control it well enough so that there isn't any drain during subtle movement but I cant keep it up during hasty movement yet.

When it was night I came back into the building and pretended I was sleeping until it was clear for me to leave.

And so began another night out running and periodically beating criminals up.

This time I went to the opposite direction that I did yesterday, and run a little faster.

My ki sense mastery was upgraded greatly yesterday night and with todays training. It was currently level 25. I can currently sense a normal person at football field distance. If its someone stronger/ stronger ki I can sense them from even further away.

If the person is close I can get a clear image of their body and movement. A useful ability when you cant see or the enemy is too fast for me to follow with my eyesight.

But right now my reaction speed isn't high enough to do keep up with someone that fast regardless.

A little while later I pass by a large scrapyard. I guess I should take a look there. Secluded and inactive locations like these are great spot for organized criminal activity.

I take a turn from the buildings and start running on top of the metal scraps.

And just as I guessed, seconds later I feel the presence of a group. I use ki to make myself lighter and lower my speed. I need to be silent to not alarm them. I need to make sure they are criminals to and not just a group of drunks having fun with friends in a quiet place.

I hid behind a mountain pile of cars and peaked at them after making sure they where not looking at my direction.

It was 2 vans with a total of 5 people. 4 of which were standing besides the vans. 3 of them have guns and the last one has a machete. There is another person sitting at the side and scrolling through his phone. The 4 of them are the goons obviously and the last one is the head.

By ki sensing I see that the only one with higher life force/ki is the one with the machete. He is slightly stronger than Jeff. The other ones had the body of a slightly trained person. He has a pony tail and some tattoos on his face and arms.

Because they have guns I'm not gonna be stupid and exhaust my ki like goku did in DBSuper and got grazed by the bullets.

It wont end in a graze when I get hit.

By using circulating my ki as normal I should be impenetrable to regular bullets. With a slight bit of enhancing I will be basically invincible to them.

So there is nothing to worry about with the guns. But the machete wielding guys quirk is unknown, so I shouldn't be completely careless even though he is physically weak.

"Hey boss. Where they not supposed to be here already?" The Maw Hawk said with a bored tone.

"Yes, but it seems that because of some incident yesterday a couple newbie heroes have come to this part of the city. And the other party is trying to avoid them by taking a different route to not risk attention. So they are gonna take a while longer to come here. We can only wait patiently until they do."

The boss made a sigh and responded. He never once stopped scrolling on his phone.

"Oh come on, I wanted to go out tonight and taste some Japanese cuisine. And what incident happened yesterday that is serious enough for more heroes to patrol here?"

"A strong vigilante seems to have appeared. He beat up a slightly famous duo of villains single handedly. The due had a brute called Joe that was quite strong, steel breaker joe is his nickname. And all this while managing to keep his identity secret and his quirk unclear."

He got up and raised his phone screen to mawhawk's face, giving him a look of the videos that where shown in the news. Jeff being knocked out almost instantly and Joe being made quick work of by a small figure dressed in a hood.

Seeing the cuts of the footage mawhawk laughed.

"Damn the small guy is quite good! And he is not only fast but he packs quite a punch as well! Wouldn't expect that strength hidden inside that small body."

The boss nodded at his reaction.

"Yep, and he has been categorized as extremely dangerous because of these feats. Coupled with the fact that he didn't show any signs of damage or tiredness in the whole duration of the footage. Hence it has gathered attention of heroes, some strong but most are newbies that want to make a name for themselves by apprehending someone strong."

"pfft. The newbies dont seem to know the word danger it seems. Shouldn't they be scared of fighting a guy like him?"

"Well, the blame can be put on japans symbol of peace. All might. Some seem to have the belief that because they are heroes in the country with the lowest villain activity in the world everything will go well. Stupid f*cks, the moment they face cruel reality is where their worth will be actually shown. But it is true that the ones that preserve in the hero line of duty become quite decent heroes.

Because of all might's influence many youngsters pursue a hero carrier, especially the ones with strong quirks. Many that would turn in to villains in other countries instead turn into heroes. Mostly because of money and fame, but the fact that they work as heroes doesn't change.

So in the end japan boasts the best hero force in the world. With high quantity and a number high quality heroes."

"I see... quite different from my home land, brazil. Crime is running rampant, becoming a hero is a death sentence there. Rarely does someone become a hero, even more so survive for long. Ha Ha."

Mawhawk laughed at his own words.

The boss sat down and started scrolling again.

CHAPTER END

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2287 words

Ok this chapter was boring as all h*ll.

I took a while to update because I re-wrote the chapter 2-3 times.

I was confused if I wanted it to be a time skip or if I should continue from 4 years old.

In the end I wanted to put in a little more content.

Now as for the bullets, it is generally a big issue because of DB inconsistency. So I ended up with the mc being highly bullet resistance, and him not exhausting his ki he is impenetrable, but scratches would remain. So with strengthening himself with ki he is invincible to regular bullets. But they wont ricochet of him since his muscles are stronger than iron, and with ki strengthening it makes them stronger than steel, but skin and muscles are more elastic compared to steel.

Hope it was decent enough of a explanation.