"Let's show these brats what we're made of."
Oro dashed forward, attacking the three Nomus. "Light Spreading, Full Body: 100%!"
Mirko jumped and dodged a Nomu's attack. "You've trained in the time we haven't seen each other, haven't you, Hikaru?"
"Of course I have!" Oro dodged another Nomu's attack.
I can't hit them anymore... am I getting tired? the Number One Hero wondered. No, it's not that. They're the ones who are getting smarter and smarter! Very interesting, I must say.
Mirko leapt on a wall and then jumped away. My goals are that old man and Shigaraki!
"She's trying to reach the doctor again," said a Nomu.
"SMAAASSSH!" Oro kicked the Nomu in the head, almost crushing it. "I'm your opponent now, you stupid dumbass!"
However, the Nomu managed to attack Mirko, who barely got hit. Another Nomu grabbed her hair, but with an inhuman struggle, she managed to break free.
Oh, dammit, I can't even imagine the pain of ripping your hair while someone's pulling it... Oro thought. "Out of the way, Nomus!"
Oro slipped under the Nomu's legs, then punched him away and ran. You're not going anywhere without me, Rumi... I won't let you die on me!
"I've got your back!" Oro exclaimed.
"Thanks, baby!" Mirko replied. "Now, let's save your brother and stop Shigaraki!"
Oro and Mirko jumped in the air and reached the incubator capsules where Mato and Shigaraki were.
"Nooooo!" Garaki exclaimed.
"Give me my brother back!" Oro exclaimed. But then, suddenly, he got stabbed in the shoulder by a Nomu's attack.
No, I can't give up now! I'm the Number One hero! Oro thought. "WORRY NOT, OTOTO! ANIKI IS HERE FOR YOU!"
"LUNA ARC!"
"LIGHT SMASH!"
Mirko damaged Shigaraki's incubator capsule. Oro destroyed Satoru's incubator capsule. The two heroes were then brought back by the Nomu's attack.
"Dammit!" Mirko exclaimed.
"Wait a little longer, Ototo, I'll get you outta here..." Oro muttered. I can still fight. I'm not so injured as Rumi. I can afford to fight a little longer.
Oro rolled on the floor and finished next to Endeavor, who had finally arrived.
"Oro! Mirko!" he said. "Don't tell me you fought all those Nomus alone..."
"Enji, don't hold Rumi like," said Oro, getting up. "I'm jealous, y'know."
"Act serious, for once, please," said Endeavor.
"Anyway, cauterize her wounds, Enji," Oro said. "I can still fight... my brother is still in that room..."
Ototo, I don't even want to imagine what they did to you... Why were you in that incubator capsule? Why were you next to Shigaraki? What did they do to you...?
"I owe you one, Mirko," said Endeavor.
"You don't owe me anything..." Mirko muttered while holding a handkerchief in her mouth. "It's Oro the one who owes me a dinner..."
Oro sighed. I guess she'll never change...
Oro bandaged his shoulder.
"Oh, the Number One is back!" a Nomu said from up above. "Let's fight again, please!"
Eraser, Present Mic, X-Less, and Crust arrived.
"Oh, you're all here, I see..." Oro muttered, panting. "Mic, X-Less, move on. We'll handle this. Stop Shigaraki and save my brother, please..."
"What about you?" Present Mic asked.
"I'll stay here with the others and fight these Nomus," Oro replied. "I'm counting on you, Mic."
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Present Mic and X-Less arrived where Shigaraki's incubator capsule was. With a scream, Present Mic shattered it. Shigaraki fell face up on the floor, next to Satoru.
"DJ Punch!" Present Mic punched Garaki in the face.
X-Less checked Shigaraki's and Mato's condition. "Their hearts aren't beating."
"They're in suspended animation to reduce the burden on their bodies during the transfer," said Garaki. "That receptacle is to accelerate and maintain the transfer and also contains the device to revive them!"
"X-Less, I'm taking him with me," said Present Mic, grabbing Garaki.
"Got it," said X-Less.
In that moment, though, something snapped in Satoru's mind.
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Mato found himself in a blank space, surrounded by flying debris.
"Where... am I?" he wondered, taking a look around.
He heard a voice. "Hey, Ototo!"
Mato turned and saw his brother Oro on a flying debris. "Let's go home. I came here to save you."
"Aniki..." Satoru muttered.
"Listen, Satoru," said another voice. Mato looked up and saw his mother, Mitsuki.
"Okasan..." he muttered. "I've never met you. How am I seeing you?"
"It doesn't matter now," said Mitsuki. "You know, you inherited your Umbrakinesis Quirk from your father. You look like him so much..."
Mato's eyes slightly widened.
"Every kid dreams of becoming a hero. Why don't you?"
Mato's fists clenched. "Because you decided to die before I could even speak! That's why I don't want to become a hero!"
"Satoru!" Mato's father, Kagehiko, appeared. "How dare you talk to your mother like that?!"
"Shut up, Otosan! You did the same things as her!" Satoru shouted. "You died and let me be raised by a villain, and now you want to bring me back? Shut up!"
With a gesture of his hand, Mato stabbed Kagehiko's chest with a dark spine, and his memory fade.
Then, another voice. "Satoru."
Mato turned and saw All For One. "Zen. You look like Kurogiri-san."
"Come here," said All For One.
Satoru walked closer. "Just know I'm doing this because I want to get stronger, not because I care about you or anything. I know you manipulated me and killed my parents, you're responsible for my trauma, too!"
Suddenly, Oro and Mitsuki grabbed him from behind. "Don't do it, Satoru!"
"Stop that," Satoru broke free from Oro's and Mitsuki's grip. "I'm doing this willingly. I want to be strong, so my villain friends can live in this world properly. And... I will be able to protect Himiko-chan."
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(There's something All For One hadn't said to anyone. Predicting his fall, he decided to give everything to Tomura-nii and me. Right now, All For One and I have a copy of his Quirk, while Tomura-nii has the original Quirk, which he got from All For One himself. Though this doesn't mean mine is weaker only because it's a copy. It's perfectly equal to Tomura-nii's.)
Stop that. Stop denying... what I am.
Mato's body jolted forward in a sitting position. "..."
"What the..." X-Less muttered.
Shortly after, Shigaraki woke up too. The first thing he did was to place a hand on X-Less, killing him.
"So you are awake... Tomura-nii."
Shigaraki stole X-Less' cape. "It's cold... too cold."
I feel like I am a totally new being, thought Mato. I feel... new.
"Tomura-nii, now that we're awake, whaddya say we cause some trouble?"
"Yeah, sure..." Shigaraki laughed, putting on X-Less' cape. "Let's cause... some trouble."
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Oro was in the other room alongside all the heroes.
"I've got him!" Present Mic shouted.
"Where's Hideki?" Hikaru asked.
"X-Less is bringing him here!" Present Mic replied. Suddenly, though, the heroes felt something. The door in front of them shattered, and if it wasn't for Gran Torino arriving just in time to save them, Present Mic and Garaki would have turned into ashes.
"LET'S RUN AWAY, GUYS!" Oro screamed, acknowledging that Shigaraki had woken up.
The heroes ran away, trying to escape from Shigaraki's Decay. However, Oro noticed something: there were dark waves alongside the Decay ability.
Satoru...?
"Oro, grip on my leg!" Ryukyu shouted. Hikaru did. They all escaped the hospital.
Shigaraki... has woken up, Oro said, looking from up above. Wait... if everything was destroyed... then this means Satoru died too!
"Wait! My brother could be dead!" Oro shouted.
"I'm sorry, Oro," said Ryukyu. "But if he really was there, then this means he's already dead."
Oro held back tears. No, I can't cry in public...
What Oro didn't know, though, was that his brother was alive and well.
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Shigaraki and Mato were both standing on the debris they had created.
"Dammit, they're almost all gone," Shigaraki said, taking a look at the anti-Quirk drug. "After everything the doctor did to keep them... Overhaul wouldn't be happy at all."
Dammit, my head's spinning like a screw... Satoru thought. If mine's spinning... then Tomura-nii's about to explode... he's the one with the original All For One, after all...
"I can control decay at will," said Shigaraki.
"That's great..." said Mato. "So now I can high-five you without the risk of being disintegrated."
"As far as I can see, the situation is not exactly in our favor," said Shigaraki. "They said that everything would have started after we had woken up, right?"
He grabbed a walkie-talkie. "Come here, Machia. Let's begin with the others. Now... we'll destroy everything."
You can say it loud, Tomura-nii... Satoru thought. We're going to destroy everything.
Chapter 62 - End