CHAPTER 40

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Looking at the clock, he grimaced before stopping his teachings of the Four Gods to Denji.

"Sorry, I have to go. Time for teachers to make their rounds."

His eyes widened before quickly following suit, getting up from the ground.

They were practising the Four Gods, with Gohru teaching him as much as he could.

"I'll message you if anything happens."

Gohru told him before starting his journey back.

"Right, and Gohru."

Looking back to the boy, he scratched his cheek before clearing his throat.

"Thanks, for teaching me the Four Gods... Wanna hang out whenever?"

He said awkwardly as Gohru just grinned at his shyness.

"Shizuoka right? I'm close by there, so I'll come to visit you! Just text where and when and I'll be there."

Denji returned his grin with a smile as he waved at the boy.

"Alright then, see you then!"

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"You're in a good mood, what happened?"

Jiro asked as he sat down with a bowl of freshly cooked miso ramen, courtesy of the staff. Grabbing his chopsticks and wishing thanks, he started eating.

"Stuff happened thankfully my way."

"Morning..."

Toga strolled over and sat at their table with a bowl of tonkatsu ramen as they both greeted her.

"Also, did you feel the tremors last night? News says that it was mini level 2 earthquakes."

Stopping for a brief moment, he sheepishly grinned before continuing his meal, totally forgetting that he was throwing out techniques after techniques to teach Denji the Four Gods.

Toga, the observant stalker/girlfriend that she was, saw the grin before raising her eyebrow, making him look the other way and started trying to whistle.

"Anyways! Where are we going today?"

Toga asked Jiro who showed her the plans that they made in advance.

"Sapporo, I'm hoping to get some nice souvenirs for my Pa and Ma, then maybe look around for a nice music store to get him a guitar or something."

"Wait, a guitar?"

He asked, blinking in confusion since that wasn't the plan.

"Oh, I - er - wanted to get a new guitar since mine is getting quite old..."

"Oh, I wanna try playing a guitar! Jiro, can you teach me?"

"Huh? Me?! Er... Alright... But I never tried teaching before so..."

"Waaa! Thanks, Jiro!"

Jiro looked away with a faint blush while Toga just grinned at her as Gohru just continued to eat his breakfast.

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Looking at the phone, he raised his eyebrow at the message.

Daewi: Wanna hang out later?

Typing back his response, he looked at Toga and Jiro who were looking at the souvenirs that the store had.

Mori: Isn't today your final day here?

Daewi: Yeah, but I want to talk to you about my Quirk moire since I never did yesterday.

Mori: Huh.

Mori: I forgot too.

Mori: Alright. When?

Daewi: 4 smtg?

Mori: I'll try.

Mori: Where?

Daewi: I'll send you the address later.

Turning the phone off, he walked to the two and looked over their heads at the item that they were looking at.

"A guitar pick?"

"Pa plays the guitar in his band while Ma plays the keyboard, so I'm thinking of buying it for Pa since he breaks them really often with his Quirk."

"Ooohh, this one looks real nice!"

Toga said as she showed Jiro a black pick that had the symbol of a purple heart in the middle.

"Hey, this one's not that bad..."

Jiro looked at the pick closer as Toga looked around before bringing out a thermos from her bag, walking a bit further away from Jiro before opening it, revealing the scent of blood from the thermos. More specifically, his blood that he stocked up for her.

It seemed that she was scared of losing Jiro as a friend from her Quirk.

I should help... Nah, she has to overcome this herself. Besides, he didn't even know what to do to help her.

She's strong, she got this.

No, he wasn't trying to run away from his duties just because he was scared of the confrontation, no he wasn't.

But confronting people sure is terrifying and awkward, both in this life and his past.

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While they were looking at the diverse options of musical instruments in a music store that they somehow found, Gohru briefly told them that he was going somewhere and told them to buy him whatever before exiting the store to the location that Denji sent.

Using the map app on his phone, he followed it until he reached a cafe. Entering it, he saw Denji's chocolate and spiky hair so he walked to it.

"Yo."

"Sup, wanna order something?"

"Sure."

Leaving his bag on the seat opposite of Denji's, they walked to the counter to get a cup of coffee.

"What can I get you two?"

The cashier said with a slight blush at the handsome appearances of both of them who were oblivious to it.

"What'd you think is good here?"

"How'd I know, I just searched for a cafe nearby and chose this one."

"Ugh, really?"

"Beggars can't be choosers. Anyways, I'm taking a cup of espresso, also add chocolate to it."

The cashier nodded as she prepared a cup and wrote down the specifications.

"And you, sir?"

"I'll get a mocha, with more chocolate too."

"Coming right up, just need your names..."

"Daewi and Mori, thanks."

Denji answered for him before grinning at Gohru's "really?" face.

"What?"

"Sigh... Nothing."

Sitting back at their spot, he asked.

"Where's your sister?"

"Out walking with our group. They don't like me much since I can't seem to vibe with my classmates."

"I get it, man. Me too with my classmates."

"Sigh... Anyways, about my Quirk. It's registered as "Gravity Manipulation". I'm able to manipulate an object's gravity and gravitational pull at the cost of stamina... That's what it's recorded anyways."

He said before picking up a tissue from the table, suddenly his right eye glowed red, his iris forming into a yellow 'X' as the tissue slammed onto the table.

"As you know from the webtoon, the Wisdom of the Sage grants skills like creation, healing, and the manipulation of the fundamental forces. I can only use the fundamental force manipulation version however, as the full version was about 70% of my KP."

Gohru's eyes widened at the price.

"Holy shit, 70%..."

"Yeah, expensive as fuck but I managed to grab only the manipulation at a small price. Moving on, Fundamental Force Manipulation. They drain my stamina every time I use any of the Fundamental Forces. Now for Gravitational Manipulation..."

"This is Gravity. It increases or decreases the gravitational force on enemies or myself, and I can either do it like this or reverse it to make things float. The max range that I can use it in is about 15 meters."

Suddenly, the tissue started to rise from the table.

"I can only use Gravity up to times 30 for now since it will drain my stamina reserves too fast and may even start the recoil."

"Hold up, what is the recoil anyways?"

"My right eye bled heavily from overexertion if I use up all of my stamina, and the eye might go blind if I continue to do so. Even with Body of the Sage active and with its 10% reduction, it doesn't recover stamina at all so I can't prolong it."

Huh, that sucks. Honestly thought that his ability would make his eye's active time increase, but hey at least it heals other parts of the body fast.

"And the risk of losing the Quirk increases per recoil since it may be connected to your right eye, I get it."

"Now moving on, Strong Nuclear Force."

Resting his palm on his face, he drags it as he sighs.

"Honestly speaking, I've never tried using Strong and Weak Nuclear Force before, didn't have the best locations to test it out."

"Understandable, that means that we need a larger space to test it out when we meet up again."

"And lastly, Electromagnetic Force. I can use this to control electricity, I tried with my parent's leftover equipment that they had, or create electricity myself, thought the current for it was weaker than I thought.

The range of it when controlling electricity from other sources is about 5 meters, while the electricity from myself is 2 meters."

After collecting his thoughts, Gohru's response was a whistle.

"But god-damn, your Quirk is such a cheat."

He chuckled as he leaned on his arm that was resting on the table.

"It is quite OP, huh?"

"No shit. Gravitational Manipulation can just win you most fights since most people can't stand under 10 Gs."

"Yeah. Anyways, your Quirk's kinda weird, no? You say that it's Adaptation, so I'd expect it to be like one of the X-Men's abilities... I forgot his name, but he could do weird stuff like turn his body into real steel to tank bullets or whatever. Actual adaptability."

"... My Quirk isn't ACTUALLY adaptability to survive, but rather sort of like a Zenkai Boost from Dragonball. My body doesn't actually transform to survive like Darwin, that's the X-Men's name by the way.

Instead, it adapts to the harsh conditions that I set and changes it as internally and humanly as possible, like reducing my Melatonin hormones at night so that I sleep less to train or changes my muscle fibers from Type 1, the normal muscles everyone has, to Type 3, a new muscle type from my Quirk, which allows for more explosive force and speed without the fatigue from Type 2x's.

So yeah, it's kinda weird, but TL;DR is that my Quirk adapts my body internally instead of changing my overall appearance, capsice?"

"Yeah, yeah. I get it, it's more like an internal adaptation instead of a physical. Neat."

He said with a grin as he leans back in his seat, making Gohru snort when suddenly the cashier from earlier walked by with their coffees.

"Here are your coffees, sirs!"

She places them down as Gohru thanked her. She bowed before walking back to her station while Denji drank his espresso.

"Woah, this is good. Oh, and also I forgot!"

He digs into his jacket's pockets before bringing out a ticket that looked as if it was made out of gold.

"Here."

Taking it, he examined it as Denji explained.

"It's the 'Item Gacha Ticket'. I'm giving one to you."

"What? You used KP for this, I can't take this. It's yours!"

"No no, take it. I haven't even used mine yet, and my luck is trash in gachas anyways. I feel like this would serve you better than me."

Looking at the ticket as if he was holding the rainbow, Denji stood up from his seat and pats his shoulder.

"Think of it as an investment, you know? With it, Ochaco would be safer when in UA, since we decided to join 1-A right? And besides, our bond is different from the people in this universe. Like you are the only person that can understand me, you know? I want to keep our current relationship, maybe even be Bros."

He said while looking away with his ears a tint of red, making Gohru chuckle in defeat before keeping it in his pockets.

"Alright, I'll take it. Thanks, Denji."

"No problem, man."

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Walking back to the dorms, he was greeted by two girls who were glaring at him. Sighing in defeat, he prayed to both White and Black orbs for luck before surrendering himself to the rage of angry women.

'Lawd, have mercy.'

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