The one who wanted to help others. 

Oki then saw darkness for an hour around him, and after that, he saw Merlin transmigrated into a new world.

Merlin, after her death, woke up on a rough floor littered with splinters and other broken ceramics.

'Where am I?' Merlin pondered as she stood up and walked towards a broken door. The scene she saw made her suffocate and her guts puke out, but there was nothing that the body had inside.

Merlin then noticed that she was turned into a kid. 'What happened to me?'

Merlin bolted out of the building and saw that the whole area was destroyed as if there was a fierce battle. The streets were littered with corpses and guts. 'Where am I?'

Merlin tried her best to feel mana. 'No!' but there was not even as much as a drop in the air. Merlin heard some sounds coming not far away.

'Should I check it out?' Merlin asked herself, 'What in the name of Astrea had I gotten into?'

Merlin ran with all her might towards the sound's direction and saw a man fighting an elephant. No, not an elephant but a hybrid of a human and an elephant.

The fight soon came to an end as the man knocked the human-elephant hybrid.

The man felt the gaze of Merlin and turned towards her. "Are you one of the survivors?"

The man had a chiselled body, with a piece of long cloth made his pant while the upper part was naked. He had gauntlets that resembled a tiger.

"Are your parents with you?" The man asked, but Merlin couldn't understand anything.

'what is he speaking? Should I speak to such a barbarian?'

"*Where am I?*" Merlin asked in Astrean tongue and know the man didn't understand Merlin's words.

"Seems like you got a trauma." The man sighed, "Well, I will get you to a hospital now then." The man waved his hands for Merlin to follow.

'Should I?' But her thoughts were interrupted by her rumbling stomach.

"Seems like you haven't eaten anything HAHAHA!" The man laughed and bent down, showing his back. "Come on, get on my back,"

Merlin was trying to understand what the man was doing, but then her eyes went dark as she fell down.

"Kid?" The man heard a *Thump* sound and turned and saw Merlin was unconscious. 'Damn, these people. They didn't even show mercy towards a child.'

The man carried Merlin on his back and started walking.

After half an hour, the man reached an old building.

He laid Merlin on a small mat, and took a fizzing drink and started jugging it down.

After 2 hours->

Merlin woke up and saw that the man who she met moments ago was asleep on a couch. Merlin got up and started exploring the house.

'What is this contraption?' Merlin took a watch and saw that it was something new, 'Why are there three needles? Why is one needle moving so fast? Why aren't the other two moving? Wait, it just moved!'

Merlin then observed the watch and noted that every time the thinnest needle reached the '12', the longest needle would move, and the shortest needle would move slowly with it.

'Seems impressive. I can feel that it is made of many parts. Seems like this is a masterpiece. I guess the dwarfs here are more talented than the Yellow Nation.'

Merlin then checked other things, and when a tin box fell down, the man woke up and saw Merlin was missing. 'Where is she?'

Then he saw that Merlin was curiously observing books.

"You know how to read?" The man asked as his gauntlets fused with the skin. "I mean, you seemed not to know English."

Merlin pointed at letters.

"Are you saying something?" The man bent down and looked at the book. "... You want me to teach you?" He asked.

Merlin didn't understand it but then gestured again.

"Well, wait for a second. I will get a piece of paper." The man walked towards a room and got a pen and a book. "Well, then." The man sat in front of Merlin and started teaching her alphabets.

"Youar name?" Merlin asked

"Mine?" the man pointed the finger at himself, to which Merlin nodded. "Well, Grint... Grint Pendragon."

"Grent?" Merlin asked to which the man shook his head.

"No, not Grent but Grint."

"Grint?"

"Yup, there you go. So now your name?"

"Merlin"

"Merlin, hey! Seems like we have names of legendary people HAHAHA!"

"Legendary people?" Merlin asked cluelessly.

"Well, first, let me make dinner." The man walked out of the room. "I totally forgot you were starving a few hours ago." Grint sweatdrops,

Merlin sat there and started thinking. 'This world feels... not fresh. I can't feel mana in the air, and it seems like I have something else instead.'

Merlin thought of a dagger, and a beautiful dagger emerged in her hands.

Though Merlin was unable to witness the beauty as she fell unconscious.

Grint, who made some soup, came back only to find Merlin unconscious.

'No-no-no!' Grint hurriedly placed the soup aside and laid down Merlin on a couch. 'I surely am an idiot... just like Yoichi.'

Grint fed the unconscious Merlin and then walked out as his gauntlets re-emerged. 'Time to quell things a little.'

Grint locked the house and started parkouring buildings. He soon saw a glowing man blasting energy beams at people.

'Dragon's Breath!' Grint from his gauntlets unleashed a powerful beam that knocked the man. The man didn't even see the attack coming.

Grint landed in front of injured civilians. "Don't worry, the 'Dragon' is here!" Grint yelled, lifting his hands and flexing his muscles.

The civilians were wary of Grint, but Grint didn't bother about it. He then heard people screaming not far away.

Grint climbed a phone pole and parkoured his way towards the screams. He saw a faceles- no, a man whose face was at his stomach rampaging through the things.

"Stop there, you villain!" Grint yelled as he reached the site of chaos.

"Me? A villain? kekekeke!" The man/ thing turned around and saw Grint, "I have heard about you. You call yourself 'Dragon, ' right? Well, I call myself 'Face'! KEKEKE"

"Dragon's Breath!" Grint sent a beam towards the man who had his face on his stomach, or the one who called himself 'Face'.

Face opened his stomach-mouth as all the energy seemed to be absorbed. "My oh my!"

Face said with excitement, *Burp*

"That was the tastiest attack I have had in a long time." Face then sent the attack back through his stomach, which Grint neither dodged nor countered but stood at the same place. The attack missed Grint by 3 feet.

"You need to practice your aim," Grint said with a smirk.

Grint then seemingly disappeared and was above Face. "Dragon's Slash!"

Grint's gauntlets seemed to have morphed with his hands with claws as Grint's hands. The energy radiating from Grint's arm seemingly brought Face to his knees and, followed by a powerful slash, knocked him out.

"Don't worry, citizens of Birmingham, I, the 'Dragon', will protect you!" Grint then disappeared as cops soon filled the site.

'How does that young kid even do this stuff? Despite no quirk.' Grint thought while on his patrol.

After 4 hours of patroling, Grint returned to his house.

'Damn you, Yoichi. Your brother's thugs are getting on my nerves!' Grint's gauntlets then seemed to merge with his body as they started fading away.

(A/N- Grint is talking about Yoichi Shigaraki, and the quirkless kid is someone else entirely.)

Grint poured himself some soup and checked Merlin, 'Phew, she is asleep.'

Grint then sat down and enjoyed his soup.

"I just want to help others just like him..." Grint then slept on the floor.

The night passes, and morning arrives.

Grint woke up yawning and checked on the couch, and his pupils constricted.

'What was her name again?'

"Merlin!" Grint stood up and started searching the house. 'Where is she!?'

When he reached the second floor, he saw Merlin soaked into reading books. 'Do children these days even have an interest in reading?'

*Fake cough*

"Ahem, Merlin?" Merlin was still reading the books without care. "Ahem... Earth to Merlin?"

"Huh!?" Merlin noticed Grint looking at her.

*Trauma kicks in*

Merlin started shivering as the images of the past events appear.

"Merlin?" Grint ran forward and shook her. "Hey!" Grint saw Merlin was hyperventilating.

"Kiddo!" It took some time for Merlin to get back.

"I-I'm sorry!" Merlin said with teary eyes.

"Well, it's good that you didn't die," Grint said, sighing. "I don't want to see a kid die again."

"Huh?" Merlin, who heard what Grint said, was now confused. 'Me? A kid... Oh!'

"Well, get yourself ready. We shall go shopping," Grint said, smacking his knuckles.

'This man is a barbarian. I have to make sure I keep my new power secret.' Merlin thought as she arranged the books on the shelf and ran downstairs. 'and what is shopping anyway?'

"Hey, kiddo, have some soup!" Grint cried.

Merlin walked towards Grint and saw a Grint pouring out contents from a packet. 'Is he trying to drug me? Men and humans are always the same!'

"Here you go kido" Grint handed out a bowl of hot tomato soup.

"I-I don't why it."

'Why it?... Oh! Want it."

"Aren't you hungry?"

*Merlin's tummy rumbles*

"HAHAHA, don't worry, I made sure to follow the instruction clear on the packet," Grint said, flexing his muscles.

"..."

"No, need to be shy. If you want seconds to ask me, I shall pour you some more. There is plenty of dry packets in there. I will teach you how to use the stove so you could make yourself some soup whenever you want." Grint said with a thought full expression. 'It should be safe.'

Grint placed the bowl in Merlin's hands, and she could do nothing but empty it in seconds.

'Yum... tasty. So this is soup, huh! It tastes like the Apom berries curry that I had once.'

"HAHAHA, you seem to have more space in that little tummy of yours. Want some more?"

Merlin was flustered, but she did hand the bowl to Grint for seconds.

As Merlin was enjoying the bowl.

"Hey, Grint. What do you do for a living?" Merlin asked as she read that there were many professions in this world called Earth, and there were many new to her.

"I... I am not sure." Grint said, scratching his neck.

'Don't tell me he is a lolicon!' Merlin was about to move away.

"I don't think you remember anything besides your name." Grint's word made Merlin thoughts stop.

"After the emergence of paranormal things happened that changed peoples lives," Grint said.

"Paranominal?" Merlin asked

"No, 'Paranormal." Grint corrected Merlin. "It has been 10 years since it started."

"What is it about?" Merlin asked as info was something important.

"Well... this paranormal gave powers to people."

"Powers?" Merlin asked with visible confusion, but her thoughts were entirely different. 'Is the power I have something related to paranormal?'

"Yes." Grint nodded and showed his arms which was slowly radiating a golden glow, and a gauntlet appeared. "This is my power. I can summon these gauntlets that give me inhuman speed, strength and stamina, along with some odd powers."

'Interesting', Merlin thought of her power and Grint's powers, 'Seems like they are unique.'

"But, humans always feared things that seemed abnormal and seems like you were the victim of it," Grint said with a sad tone. "These paranormal powers are blessing for a few and curse for others. The one who thinks of these powers as a curse goes on a rampage, or some think they have attained power that makes them do whatever they want."

Merlin looked at Grint with little to no emotion.

"And, I lost everything by these people," Grint said as Merlin could make out tears. "So, I made a vow that I would stop others suffering. I may not be able to save everyone, but saving a few would make a difference, you see." Grint said with a smile.

"Why?" Merlin asked.

"Huh?" Grint's face was showing that he was confused. "What do you mean, kiddo?"

"Why try to help? Why not use the power and dominate?" Merlin asked, but Grint heard them as his sight was fading.

"Why not kill the ones who caused this?" Merlin's voice echoed in the darkness.

"Well, I never thought a kid like you would be asking about killing," Grint said with a sigh.

"Answer!" For the first time, Grint felt 'Killing intent' and 'Blood lust', and he didn't know what it was.

"I ju-just don't want to spread hatred," Grint said, shivering as he felt his body cooling down.

"Hatred?" Merlin's voice echoed.

"Well, you may not understand it, but what makes you think that I haven't killed?" Grint said as his breath was now releasing smoke due to cold. 'Is this really a kid I am talking to... No, I feel like... wait, it must be her quirk going haywire!'

"I can tell." Merlin's voice echoed. "So explain."

"I just want to be different from the people who kill. If I kill, then there is no difference between the killer and me."

Grint gets his sight back, and as soon as he does, he looks at clueless Merlin.

"Is that your power?" Grint asked, turning towards Merlin.

"My power?" Merlin played dumb. 'Well, seems like hypnosis and other negative emotion emission works on him.'

"I see, so it is out of control, huh," Grint said as he started tapping his lips, then visible happiness and excitement appeared on his face. "You know I almost peed in my pants... but that power of yours is scary so try to control it."

"What power?" Merlin was still playing dumb. 'Are you really a man who has muscles for brains?'

"Well, we will try to get your powers under control tomorrow."

"Huh?" Merlin felt awkward. 'He is a barbarian through and through.'

"Hey, Merlin!" Grint called out. "If you want to know why. Then the reason as to why I am doing this is because I want to be the one helping others like a hero!"

'Seriously! I am quite sure that I am playing dumb here!' Merlin was fuming.

"Oh! Forgot. Seems like you don't know anything, huh?" Grint said, awkwardly scratching his cheeks. 'Seems like she really doesn't know what happened.'

"teach me," Merlin said as she bolted upstairs.

"Well, looks like she is interested in book a lot more than you, Merlin," Grint said as he was looking at a photo in his wallet, and the picture had a lot of resemblance to the now Merlin. 'Same name and almost identical features...sigh. How long has it been since I lost you.'

Grint tears were about to burst out.

Grint closed the wallet and headed upstairs.

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(A/N)- Serious events are about to take place, and I hope you look forward to it and I hope you enjoyed the chapter.

And, yes. Grint has met Yoichi Shigaraki.

Next Chapter: The Blade Queen! (Might change the chapter title)

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