Side Chapter: 1. The Rise Of Grape

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It's been three days since the incident. Mineta Minoru was laying on a bunch of cardboards near an abandoned place called Yamishibai studio. He hadn't eaten anything decent in days and the only water he drank, was the leftover water from the bottles, people threw away into the rubbish.

He wanted to return home, but once he saw two police cars patrolling the area, he ran away as fast as he could. Nowhere was safe, not even this area was.

*Schh*

He turned his head, looked towards a trash bin next to him, and saw a duo of rats, eating his lunch. He stole that fish from the storage room of a restaurant he broke into last night, but he can't eat it now since the rats just ate it in front of him.

"Leave my food alone!" Mineta scared them away but didn't manage to recover the fish.

He raised his voice and shouted,

"Damn it! I can't be living like this anymore! I can't take it! I need to eat something delicious, sleep somewhere safe and warm! An otaku like me can't be living outdoors! I wasn't constructed this way!"

His voice echoed throughout the whole complex, bringing two uninvited guests to him.

"Ey...Who do we have here? A child?" An adult man with spiky hair asked his partner.

"The boss told us to clear this place out completely, we should take care of him." A man with a slightly smaller stature replied to him and revealed a sly smile.

Mineta could tell at the first glance that those were not the people he should trifle with. They were either gangsters or worse, villains.

Mineta quickly stood up and apologized, "No no no, I am sorry! I won't be bothering you! I am on my way out of here... Please don't hurt me!"

Mineta has lost everything, but his life, and he didn't plan on losing that as well. He still wanted to create a harem, full of beautiful girls that would obey all of his commands and fulfill all of his inner desires.

'I need to get away from here.' With that thought in mind, Mineta tried running away, only to slip on a banana peel and fall onto the ground a few seconds later. His body was weak and malnourished, he could barely even move. There was no way he could run. Not eating anything proper in three days left his body in a terrible state.

The duo of villains looked at each other and bursted out laughing.

"Seems like his escape plan didn't work!"

"I wonder what he tried to do, just now?"

Mineta stood up from the ground and started crying. Blood ran down his nose, due to his clumsiness and exhaustion. He somehow managed to hit his nose so hard, that he started bleeding.

'I want to go home...' Mineta thought as he watched the two villains laughing at his situation.

One of the villains went forward and pulled out a knife. He looked at his ally and said,

"Leave it to me... I love to cut open children."

His villain friend just shrugged it off and thought, 'If he ever gets into prison, he will have a problem.'

Most people don't believe it, but prison is a nice place. It's not like in the movies where they rape and kill each other. However, the prisoners had a certain amount of unspoken rules that they followed. For example, if you were a rapist, child abuser or in the worst case, child murderer, then you will definitely be jumped by every man and his black cousin.

The villain walked in front of him and kicked Mineta's face. Mineta was too weak to guard against it in his current state and flew through the air like a ball until he hit a nearby pillar.

"Haha! Too weak! Let me see the color of your organs, kiddo!" The villain put his knife on Mineta's lower part and said, "I will cut you open from your groin all the way up to your throat. How does that sound?" He revealed a sadistic grin and expected Mineta to panic but instead, Mineta didn't show any kind of emotion as he was thinking about his words.

'I already knew I might die here... But to die by such a gruesome death?! I won't accept it! He better stab my heart or something!' Mineta grabbed the last strength he had and tried running away.

The man smirked and said, "You won't be able to escape, don't you remember your last attempt?"

Mineta ignored him and pulled five balls out of his head, his head started bleeding and he had a terrible headache, which was not helping his current state, but he still managed to run and hide behind a pillar.

The villain spun his knife in his hand and went towards the pillar, "So, we are playing hide and seek now? Good! It's the best feeling when my prey tries to struggle."

Mineta was silently praying, not to God or Budha or someone else, he didn't need such a thing. He was praying to a God of harem itself, to grant him the power to survive this ordeal.

'Oh, almighty God of the harem, give me the strength to win this fight by any means necessary.'

Mineta knew that due to what he did, he could never be a hero anymore, but he didn't plan on dying without a fight either. He looked at the five balls in his hands and smiled, 'Seems like I need to rely on my defective quirk again.' He looked at the ground and noticed a shard of glass.

'I can use this.' He picked it up and placed it into his pocket.

As the villain was coming closer, Mineta jumped out from his hiding spot and with great accuracy, threw his purple balls onto the villain's legs, successfully trapping him or rather, sticking him into the ground.

"What the hell is that?! I can't get these off!"

He swung his knife around and tried to stab Mineta, but he dodged, pulled out the glass shard out of his pocket and pierced his hand with it. As a result, the villain dropped the knife and Mineta calmly picked it up. Noticing that he fucked up, he turned to his buddy and shouted, "Don't just stand there! Help me!"

The other villain was too dumbfounded to move, as he watched it all unfold in front of him.

Mineta stepped forward to the trapped villain and said, "I cannot be a hero anyway, so it doesn't really matter now. It's just for my survival... yes... survival..." The villain noticed that Mineta's eyes changed and begged for mercy, "I-I was just joking! I-I... just wanted to scare you away... I surrender! I will even go to the police station!"

But Mineta couldn't hear him, because, for the first time in his life, he was concentrated on what he was doing. He was in the zone, where all unneeded thoughts disappear, and his body did everything automatically as if he did it on instinct.

"L-Listen... I've got money! We ca-" The villain couldn't finish his sentence, as Mineta stabbed him into the heart. A few seconds later, he fell on the ground and twitched until he finally stopped moving.

"Raiga!" The remaining villain woke up from his stupor once he saw his friend fell on the ground. He dashed towards him and opened his mouth widely. His quirk was fire breath, and even though it sounded cool, in reality, it was really weak.

Fire quirks aren't rare in the world whatsoever. However, there are different stages of firepower and fire control. Endeavor, the flame hero, reached the highest fire control in the world, but his firepower is only second to a thirteen years old kid, who lives in America. He was discovered to have such a violent flame, that the kid hurt himself by using it. Endeavor was always trying to reach that kind of power but never managed to do it, as he wasn't strong enough for the violent blue flame to awaken.

This villain was just a regular fire quirk user that can at most set Mineta's clothes on fire. But his quirk was still lethal as you could easily get second-degree burns from him.

Seeing that something lightened up in the villain's throat, Mineta plucked out a bunch of purple balls and violently shoved them into the mouth of the villain.

'I... can't breathe!' He tried to take them out of his mouth but instead, his hands got stuck on the balls and he couldn't do anything to stop his asphyxiation.

Mineta looked down at the fallen body of his enemy, which was still struggling for air and thought, 'I am insane. I am insane. I am insane. I am insane. I just killed two people. I am insane. I am insane.'

The words repeated and repeated in his mind.

As he repeated those words, he remembered the sensation he felt when he killed them. No resistance, so easily accepting killing people, without even once crying.

The knife in his hands dropped on the floor and Mineta fell on his knees.

'What am I going to do now? Am I even allowed to live?'

*uo, ogh*

Recalling the image of him, killing them, Mineta was finally hounded by the urge to vomit.

His bile surged up, burning his throat. But he couldn't spare even the time to puke as he didn't even have enough food in his stomach to throw up in the first place.

Once again, everything was Mineta's fault and Mineta's crime.

"Interesting, little man."

Mineta shook in horror as he heard someone's voice behind him, he turned around and saw two men. One of the men was tall, and he was equipped with a creepy black mask, resembling a skeleton. It looked like some kind of breathing gadget. The other man was young, probably a teenager who had creepy hands all around his body.

'More villains?! They look strong as heck too! Damn it! I should have run away when I could!'

He plucked out more balls from his hair and threw them at the tall man. However, a feeling of dread overcame him as he noticed that the man just shook his hand and they fell off of him without any resistance.

"What?! Why are they not sticking on him?!"

The tall man smiled and replied, "Do not be surprised, child. There are plenty of things in the world you have never seen." He looked at the bodies of his minions and said, "Oh well...What are you going to do about them? I hired them and yet, you disposed of them. They aren't cheap, you need to reimburse us somehow. How about I take you with us?" He extended his hand and waved in front of Mineta's face. Using his unknown hypnosis quirk.

Mineta felt sleepy and his eyelids slowly closed. He was exhausted and couldn't defend himself from the man's quirk. The tall man picked him up and together with the teenager, exited the building, leaving the two corpses to rot.

The teenager shook his head and asked, "Why are we bringing this trash with us? Are you planning on using him as another monster experiment, master?"

The tall man smiled behind his mask and replied, "Tomura, we need capable people into our ranks. We don't have strong people who can help you with our goal. We only have a lot of cannon fodder. Those third rate villains won't be even able to touch weak heroes, much less All Might. I sense great potential in his quirk. Maybe if we used the new drug on him, we might see how an ugly duckling, grows into a terrible monster."

Tomura thought about his words and replied, "I understand."

He was with master ever since he was little and he never disappointed him. He trusted him and relied on him as if he was his father.

Remembering his family, Tomura Shigaraki furiously scratched his neck and tried to forget about the unpleasant memory.