Chapter 77

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Chapter 77

Title: Destiny...

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When will it stop? Why do I feel so unsatisfied even when I am one of the strongest people in this world? 

Is this what it means to be human? Always unsatisfied with no matter what we have. I say that I am okay with death at this time. But what about when I grow old again, will I still want to escape the inevitable? 

How strange… 

Eri… an innocent child. How far will I go to do something? If I step over the line once, then my bottom line will extend. That is something I can understand clearly.

For the first time in both lives, a fear of my greed was born. Will I one day find excuses to use the people around me as tools and nothing more? All along, the unstable factor in my plans has always been… me. 

My desires change as time goes along, when I have something, I want something more. In my first life, there was a limit to how much I could get and things were harder to get. But this time, I have way more power and know too much about the people around me, so no matter what, in the end, I can still manipulate their actions to my advantage.

"Kaminari -san." Eri's voice interrupts my thoughts. 

I look at her and smile widely. "How can I help you Eri?!"

Even the enthusiastic way I speak has been changed to kind of mimic All Might, but have my twist. The previous One For All user is someone who can do this instinctively, but sadly, all I can be is a copy… but no rule says that a copy can't be better than the original. 

"Uhmmm…" she seems embarrassed about something. "Could come and live with you and the others in your dorms?"

"Of course!" I give her a thumbs up. "That would be so cool!!"

"So cool!" She tries to imitate me by smiling and giving a thumbs up. Bahahahah, what a cute kid.

"Also I know a guy who will bring you a lot of toys and stuff," I explain to her while thinking of Akira (my clone). The guy can be my errand boy, he has a speed Quirk too and for me doing something menial like this is a waste of time. He is like an unpaid intern, doing things for me that are too menial for me.

Though he doesn't like fighting and though he has my Quirk… he isn't exactly good at using it. Even if I didn't use my Quirk, his attacks are simple enough to be predicted, like a kid's.

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Two hours later and look at him as we meet up at his shop. The whole place is filled with banners of weed and protest signs, meaning that Akira has had another idea to capitalize on the market.

I look around and see that it is no longer a shop with merchandise about me. Well, I did kind of shut that whole thing and told him not to do it.

He is wearing some hippie clothing that makes him seem like he is a homeless guy.

This isn't exactly a better idea. But whatever, he can do anything that he wants.

Once he sees me, he immediately charges electricity and changes himself into a more presentable look. "Oy, sup original, wanna buy some weed?"

"I don't think that is legal in Japan." I look at him with a questioning look.

"Well, it should be!!" He yells out with a voice full of passion. 

I sigh at this. This guy… he is just a whole other deal. "So? You should know that if the police capture you or something, I will kill you."

Well, I don't want his face which is similar to mine to be in police records. So I will disfigure and kill him before that. 

"Hahaha," he laughs at that. Which makes me a little angry. But seeing the look on his face, I see the depressed look on his face. "Well, it doesn't matter, I will die soon anyway."

What is he talking about? He has a regeneration Quirk… it is hard for anyone else other than me to kill him. "Explain."

He looks at his hand and I can see a look of despair appeared on his face. Which makes me feel weird about it since that face is so similar to mine.

"I am gonna die soon." He starts. "No matter what, I am just a clone. Our aging was accelerated, so we will die quite soon. I bet that I have at most a month or two."

He shows me his hand and I see some spots on it, ones that old people get. 

I see, so his body is rapidly breaking down… 

"Yeah, I had a whole existential crisis on my hands here." He lays down on his chair.

Well, I guess a clone can't be a perfect copy of me or there would have been thousands more of them. Due to the clones having my DNA too, theirs could be harvested to create more. But sadly they seem to have accelerated aging and won't live over half a year. So if they harvested the clone's DNA to create more clones, then the 2nd generation clone would die in a couple of days tops as he too would age rapidly and die faster than the 1st generation clone like Akira.

"At least you will get to see how you will look when you are older." Says the clone, trying to make a joke of a dark situation to make it funny so he won't have to face the inevitability of his fate. "You know, weed should definitely become legalized, it helped me go over my existential crisis, bahahaha…"

*drip* *drip* *drip* *drip*...

Though he laughs, tears drop down his eyes. Usually, I wouldn't believe him, but with an electromagnetic pulse, I sense his vitality is weakened and he probably can't use my Quirk over a couple of seconds since it also hurts his body.

"Don't worry too much about it," I reassure him. "No need to overthink this, everyone will eventually die."

What a sad fate he had, the least I can do is reassure him. Mostly because he feels like a younger version of me in 1st life. It seems like I am watching myself breaking down, so this is a little more than just distressing.

"Hey… Kaminari…" For the first time, he calls me by my name. "Do you think I deserve to exist? I was created by bringing pain to everyone around me… even you…"

I smile at that. "Nah, no need to feel so down. Since we are technically blood-related, you are my family."

Once I say that he looks up and his gray eyes lock into mine. "Bahahaha… Kaminari, you should act like your usual cold self. You sure you are not an impostor?"

I huff. "Oy, since I am older than you, shouldn't you stop saying bad things about me?"

I don't know how to act like a family with someone. I had a horrible one even in my past life, I failed as a son and father… but I do know someone who was a good brother.

"Bahahahaha," the clone laughs "I have some money saved, wanna go spend it?"

*bzzzt*

I sent a small electric shock to his head. "Save the money idiot, who told you that you can die unless I tell you to."

"C'mon now man," whines Akira. "You are a control freak."

"Everyone is a control freak, just at different degrees." I do the usual, by making myself seem normal and saying something that applies generally.

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We spend hours talking like that and joking around, and eating junk food. 

I truly pity him, I could try and have Eri save him. But sadly I don't care about him that much, even if I do connect with him. He could also be frozen and that would slow down the aging process till it can be figured out what to do.

Sadly, he has to die. That is his fate… because I want it to. Unlike in stories, one can't change their fate even if they want to.

In the end, Akira asks me one more question. "Can you kill me? At least this way it's painless. The wait is way more stressful and already I can feel rigidness as I move. Soon I will be paralyzed and live in stillness…"

I don't try to change his mind on this and my hand moves towards his face.

"Hehehehe… I guess I shouldn't have wasted so much of my time being a corporate slave… I kinda regret it." 

"Don't we all…"

*bzzzzt*

I shut down his brain casually, giving him a painless death. 

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A/N: Kaminari already predicted something like this and saw through him. Also a power like that doesn't come for free, a clone can be stronger, but it can't be perfect.