Chapter 22

On All Might's recommendation, I decided to choose Gran Torino for my internship. But, what had me worried was the fact that I knew next to nothing about him. Also, from All Might's reaction, Gran Torino was a scary individual. I mean, someone who's name could make the number one hero tremble in fear was bound to be scary, right?

There was something else that was also bothering me. Since our first day in U.A. I, Uraraka and Iida had been leaving the school together. So we were pretty close friends. When we were about to board the bullet train to reach our various destinations, Uraraka and I approached Iida as there was something off about him.

"Iida, if it gets too much and you need to talk, you can call us. We'll be there for you."

"... Sure."

Even though I wanted to help him in some way, I couldn't find words to soothe him. The look on his face, it was something I was familiar with. How could I not be? I had seen the same look on my face in the mirror when Tetsuo was killed. Iida wanted revenge for his brother. But given the number of lives the Hero Killer had claimed, Iida's chances of succeeding in his pursuit to avenge his brother were bleak. Before I could say anything else to him, Iida had already left.

Forty minutes later, I reached my destination. I walked towards the address on the slip in my hands and opened the door of the dilapidated house, only to see an old man lying in a pool of blood.

"Aaahhhhh!!! He's dead!!!"

The dead man looked up at me and said, "I'm alive."

"He's alive!!!"

... Stop laughing at me! What kind of reaction would you expect from someone in that situation?

Anyway, the old man continued, "To slip and fall while carrying ketchup covered sausage links, how clumsy of me! And who are you?!"

Startled by his sudden question, I fumbled and replied, "I-I'm Midoriya Izuku from U.A."

He tried to get up by using his walking stick but dropped down with a plop.

"I want to eat lunch. Lunch!! Who are you?!"

'He's All Might's teacher? I knew he'll be old but this is too much.'

The old bag of flesh and bones perked up as he fiddled with the suitcase that had my costume in it and exclaimed, "Toshinori!"

"That's not my name! It's Midoriya Izuku!"

Right when I was about to leave and talk to All Might about it, the old man spoke in a tone which felt different than how he was behaving a few seconds earlier, "Fire off an attack! Show me your 'One for All'. I'd like to know to what degree you can control it."

It was so sudden that it took me off guard, "...Huh?"

"Nice costume. Put 'er on and come at me... Who are you again?!"

Gah!

With a frustrated sigh, I said, "I'm sorry sir, but I don't have time to deal with someone who can't even remember something as simple as my name, much less teach me to improve my control over 'One for All'."

As I was about to leave, I heard a sound of feet crashing everywhere around the room with high-speed gusts of wind blowing all over the place. I immediately used observation and was shocked to see the same old man standing in front of me with feet planted on the wall.

Gran Torino did not look like a clueless old bag of bones anymore. With a challenging and unnerving snark, he said, "Then I'll tell you once again. Come at me, you zygote! You recently recieved 'One for All' from that justice-obsessed muscle head. He can't watch over you properly, so I'll have to do it in his place. So put on your costume!"

'The same phrasing, same way of playing dumb, he's definitely All Might's teacher.'

As I observed him more, I found out that he was a great deal stronger than he looked.

"Alright."

(BNHA)

For two days he trained me as I worked on expanding my use of armament. 'One for All' had improved my armament to such an extent that it would have taken me decades to achieve the same kind of results.

Even my observation had improved by leaps and bounds. I was able to spread it all over a city.

On the third day of my internship, Gran Torino decided to take me with him to apprehend villains. Our destination was Shibuya as the population density there was high.

'We'll be passing through Hosu city. The place where Ingenium was attacked by Hero Killer Stain. Iida will be there too. I just hope he doesn't go seeking out Stain... Who am I kidding? He sure will.'

We took a taxi to the train station and boarded the bullet train to Shibuya. While I was sitting idle, I randomly decided to exercise observation. And that was one hell of a decision.

Just on the outskirts of Hosu, I sensed a huge figure throw someone towards the train I was riding in. Upon observing further, I was shocked to find out that the huge figure's will was just like that of Nomu from the USJ villain attack.

(A/N: The Nomus have a will, but it's not theirs. Smart ones will be able to figure out.)

Immediately getting up from my seat, I ran towards the seats that would be hit and threw the panicking passengers towards Gran Torino, who was yelling at me for going crazy.

But I ignored him and prepared myself. A hero came flying through the side of the train but I grabbed him and put him aside.

Then it entered through the hole in the train, a Nomu. Which meant only one thing, Shigaraki was in Hosu and had attacked the city. Without wasting any time, I activated armament and rammed my knee in the Nomu's face, throwing him out. I quickly flew after it.

Gran Torino was pretty pissed off and yelled as he followed me, "Kid! stay inside the train!"

"No! That's a Nomu, similar to the one captured during the USJ attack! That means the League of Villains is attacking the city. I am strong enough to handle these things. Please, let me come with you!"

Gran Torino hesitated and after a lot of persuasion, I was able to convince him. Spreading my 'will of observation' all over the city, I looked for any villains that were attacking alongside the Nomus.

But what I found, froze me in the middle of my flight.

Iida was being attacked by none other than Stain. Somewhere on a tall skyscraper, Shigaraki was observing the city along with Kurogiri. Two Nomus were attacking civilians but were confronted by heroes. At another corner of the city, a little girl was struggling to get away from a crazed man who had the worst intentions in his mind. A family was about to be massacred by a group of goons and a kid was being kidnapped by some foreigners.

So many crimes happening all at once, I was overwhelmed by them. It was simply too much to sense so much negativity all at once. Caught in a struggle to make a decision on who to save first, I lost control over my will. Powered with 'One for All', my will blasted out of my body as 'Conqueror's will' bent the space around me. Within the next moment, I had the rapist's head in my palm and I flew away with him, leaving the panicked but relieved girl behind.

As the rapist struggled to free himself from my vice grip, I growled, "You're going to jail, you scum!"

I threw him towards the police station before I jumped through space to my next destination.

... The bullets from the machine guns never reached the family as the goons lay dead miles away in a warehouse...

... The kid sat alone in the van as his kidnappers suddenly vanished, only to be found dead, their torn bodies floating in the sea...

I landed in front of Stain as he was about strike Iida with his Katana. Before the villain could react, he found himself flying across the alley as a sharp pain erupted from his core. He gurgled blood from his mouth as the force of my punch tore a hole in the back of his costume.

Shocked at my sudden appearance, Iida exclaimed, "M-Midoriya!"

He flinched as I turned towards him and look into his eyes.

I couldn't put the blame on him. If I looked at myself in the mirror, I too would have reacted in the same way.

I had gone berserk.