“SHIT! SHIT! HOOOLY SHIT!!!”
All Might’s hands were shaking so badly they looked ready to fly apart. He had come looking for the person who had turned his successor into that kind of muscle monster, and he had never imagined that his own true form—the nation’s greatest secret—would be exposed instead.
“F-first, I need to deny it...”
“A-ahahaha! What a funny joke! There’s no way a skinny guy like me could be All Might, ahahaha!”
“R-right, Hakuji-kun! This person is just, um... a p-patient who got badly hurt after getting caught up with a Villain!”
“So All Might was hurt that badly? That’s quite serious.”
It backfired.
Instead, now that even his injuries had been exposed, All Might was drenched in sweat from head to toe, his teacup trembling in his hand.
But after squeezing his eyes shut for a moment, All Might finally let out a sigh.
“Haa... That was my mistake for letting my guard down.”
“......All Might. I’m sorry...”
“No, Midoriya boy, this isn’t your fault. It was my mistake for ignoring the possibility, however slim.”
All Might set down his teacup for a moment and looked at Hakuji.
Where the yellow eyes from just moments ago had gone, only sky-blue eyes remained.
“So his eye color changes when he activates his Quirk, I see.”
It was a little odd that such an incredible body came with a sensory-type Quirk, but there was no doubt it was an excellent one.
“Hoo... I had completely cut off contact with Heroes who had detection Quirks because I was worried something like this might happen, but you really caught me off guard.”
All Might gave a dry laugh. He had never imagined a student who wasn’t even a Hero could see through his condition.
“So? How did you figure out I was All Might? Some kind of Quirk?”
Curiosity flickered through him, and All Might asked Hakuji quietly. If he had figured it out from a specific clue, then maybe he could hide that clue.
“Fighting spirit.”
“Huh?”
“I once saw Izuku and Endeavor. Endeavor’s blazing fighting spirit was impressive as well.”
Fighting spirit.
It was the force that made life struggle to survive.
Even a newborn baby had fighting spirit, and the stronger a person was, the sharper, more brilliant, and more magnificent that fighting spirit burned.
“I don’t think there are two people in the world with fighting spirit like yours.”
But this one was on a different level.
To Hakuji, All Might looked like a mountain.
It was such an enormous mass of power that he almost wondered how a single human being could contain that much fighting spirit.
And yet...
“What a shame. The vessel is already damaged.”
To Hakuji, All Might looked like water held in a cracked vessel, barely kept from spilling only by surface tension.
That was why Hakuji could suppress his battle instincts.
If they fought, it wouldn’t last long before the vessel shattered.
He really did want to test himself against All Might.
But the man wouldn’t hold up.
He might be able to fight at full power, but the most likely ending would be All Might’s vessel breaking to pieces.
“Cough! Cough!!”
Even now, just a few fake coughs were enough to make him cough up blood.
Hakuji, who didn’t want to fight such a patient, wore a deeply regretful expression.
“Ahem. About that fighting spirit thing—can it be hidden somehow?”
“You would need to reach a state of no-self.”
“Like those martial arts novels?”
“...All Might reads martial arts novels...?”
While Midoriya, sitting nearby, added another note to his All Might fanboy notebook, All Might’s head was starting to ache.
He wasn’t some martial arts master. Reach a state of no-self? What was that supposed to mean?
“Th-then what about you?”
“I haven’t reached it yet either.”
“......”
In this hopeless situation, All Might concluded that unless he went into the mountains and trained under a waterfall, there was no answer.
“...Please keep this a secret. This is a secret among secrets! Top secret.”
“I don’t particularly intend to tell anyone.”
“That would be a relief.”
All Might let out a sigh, then immediately got a headache thinking about reporting this to various people.
“Come to think of it, I heard all of you boys are aiming for U.A.”
“Yes!”
“That’s right.”
Hakuji and Midoriya nodded, and after looking at them for a moment, All Might spoke again.
“Hakuji boy, would it be all right if I interfered a little with Midoriya boy’s training?”
“I don’t mind.”
“Eh.”
That day, Midoriya remembered the humiliation of rolling on the ground while vomiting.
He remembered the pain of his muscles tearing as he repeated bulking and cutting over and over.
All Might had been helping with Midoriya’s enhanced training for two months now.
With the government, All Might’s mentor, and several others advising him, the inheritance of [One For All] had been set for three days before enrollment. And now, All Might was building Midoriya’s muscles, reflexes, and flexibility.
“All Might, the succession ceremony needs to be delayed until your successor is old enough to enter U.A. or the Hero Course, considering the social upheaval that would follow your retirement.”
“B-but I should pass it on early and start training...”
“No. Passing it to a third-year middle schooler is too early. At the very least, he needs to be old enough to receive proper Hero training.”
All Might felt a little guilty as he watched Midoriya diligently cleaning up trash on the beach.
“GRAAAAH!!!”
Grrrrr...!!
Where else in the world could you find a third-year middle schooler who could just push a one-ton truck loaded with an enormous amount of trash using nothing but his bare hands and body?
Watching Midoriya push the truck with his back muscles and calves bulging as if they might burst, All Might let out another sigh.
He wanted to hand over [One For All] right this instant and watch that boy, his successor, soar...
“Midoriya boy aside. But Hakuji boy is...”
All Might’s gaze shifted to Hakuji, standing at the edge of the trash-strewn beach in front of a huge lump of metal—an anvil, abandoned there by who knew who—taking a stance.
“Haa... Hup!”
Clang!
With a single strike, the anvil was instantly crushed into fine metal powder.
“......Oh my goodness...”
Only now realizing that Hakuji actually had a Quirk specialized for hand-to-hand combat, All Might wiped away a cold sweat.
“Attack power at the level of a one-hit kill, plus endless regeneration and infinite stamina. And on top of that, that strange technique for sensing an enemy’s fighting spirit...”
Having an immortal body that wouldn’t die no matter how many times you hit it was already broken enough, but with detection abilities that made ambushes useless and attack power that was nearly a one-hit kill...
“Hakuji boy is practically invincible, isn’t he?”
If they met as enemies, there would truly be no answer.
Honestly, the best he could do would be to keep struggling while getting beaten until he died.
Even All Might couldn’t think of a way to deal with him.
The only real path to victory would be to unleash as many attacks as possible in the shortest possible time, with maximum force, and destroy his entire body down to the cellular level.
If it became a prolonged battle, even All Might couldn’t guarantee victory.
“If I were to fight a Villain like that... unless I had someone at the pinnacle of an elemental type, like Endeavor, it would be tough.”
If you used fire or ice to block regeneration at the cellular level and overwhelmed him with sheer firepower, then maybe he’d be manageable.
Of course, that was only...
“Hup!”
Sshhk!!!
...something you could say only after surviving that kind of attack power, where he sliced through steel bars with his bare hands like they were daikon radishes.
And apparently, that wasn’t even him using his Quirk.
When he fully activated it, his destructive power and precision rose to absurd levels, making him truly monstrous.
“......U.A. is going to be quite lively next year.”
All Might smiled faintly as he watched Hakuji smash every bit of trash into pieces and Midoriya carry it all away one by one.
tmi.
1. Today’s tmi is that there is no tmi.
2. Unfortunately, there will be no extra chapter today...
‘SHIT! SHIT! HOOOLY SHIT!!!’
All Might’s hands were shaking so badly they looked ready to fly apart. He had come looking for the person who had turned his successor into that kind of muscle monster, and he had never imagined that his own true form—the nation’s greatest secret—would be exposed instead.
“F-first, I need to deny it...”
“A-ahahaha! What a funny joke! There’s no way a skinny guy like me could be All Might, ahahaha!”
“R-right, Hakuji-kun! This person is just, um... a p-patient who got badly hurt after getting caught up with a Villain!”
“So All Might was hurt that badly? That’s quite serious.”
It backfired.
Instead, now that even his injuries had been exposed, All Might was drenched in sweat from head to toe, his teacup trembling in his hand.
But after squeezing his eyes shut for a moment, All Might finally let out a sigh.
“Haa... That was my mistake for letting my guard down.”
“......All Might. I’m sorry...”
“No, Midoriya boy, this isn’t your fault. It was my mistake for ignoring the possibility, however slim.”
All Might set down his teacup for a moment and looked at Hakuji.
Where the yellow eyes from just moments ago had gone, only sky-blue eyes remained.
“So his eye color changes when he activates his Quirk, I see.”
It was a little odd that such an incredible body came with a sensory-type Quirk, but there was no doubt it was an excellent one.
“Hoo... I had completely cut off contact with Heroes who had detection Quirks because I was worried something like this might happen, but you really caught me off guard.”
All Might gave a dry laugh. He had never imagined a student who wasn’t even a Hero could see through his condition.
“So? How did you figure out I was All Might? Some kind of Quirk?”
Curiosity flickered through him, and All Might asked Hakuji quietly. If he had figured it out from a specific clue, then maybe he could hide that clue.
“Fighting spirit.”
“Huh?”
“I once saw Izuku and Endeavor. Endeavor’s blazing fighting spirit was impressive as well.”
Fighting spirit.
It was the force that made life struggle to survive.
Even a newborn baby had fighting spirit, and the stronger a person was, the sharper, more brilliant, and more magnificent that fighting spirit burned.
“I don’t think there are two people in the world with fighting spirit like yours.”
But this one was on a different level.
To Hakuji, All Might looked like a mountain.
It was such an enormous mass of power that he almost wondered how a single human being could contain that much fighting spirit.
And yet...
“What a shame. The vessel is already damaged.”
To Hakuji, All Might looked like water held in a cracked vessel, barely kept from spilling only by surface tension.
That was why Hakuji could suppress his battle instincts.
If they fought, it wouldn’t last long before the vessel shattered.
He really did want to test himself against All Might.
But the man wouldn’t hold up.
He might be able to fight at full power, but the most likely ending would be All Might’s vessel breaking to pieces.
“Cough! Cough!!”
Even now, just a few fake coughs were enough to make him cough up blood.
Hakuji, who didn’t want to fight such a patient, wore a deeply regretful expression.
“Ahem. About that fighting spirit thing—can it be hidden somehow?”
“You would need to reach a state of no-self.”
“Like those martial arts novels?”
“...All Might reads martial arts novels...?”
While Midoriya, sitting nearby, added another note to his All Might fanboy notebook, All Might’s head was starting to ache.
He wasn’t some martial arts master. Reach a state of no-self? What was that supposed to mean?
“Th-then what about you?”
“I haven’t reached it yet either.”
“......”
In this hopeless situation, All Might concluded that unless he went into the mountains and trained under a waterfall, there was no answer.
“...Please keep this a secret. This is a secret among secrets! Top secret.”
“I don’t particularly intend to tell anyone.”
“That would be a relief.”
All Might let out a sigh, then immediately got a headache thinking about reporting this to various people.
“Come to think of it, I heard all of you boys are aiming for U.A.”
“Yes!”
“That’s right.”
Hakuji and Midoriya nodded, and after looking at them for a moment, All Might spoke again.
“Hakuji boy, would it be all right if I interfered a little with Midoriya boy’s training?”
“I don’t mind.”
“Eh.”
That day, Midoriya remembered the humiliation of rolling on the ground while vomiting.
He remembered the pain of his muscles tearing as he repeated bulking and cutting over and over.
All Might had been helping with Midoriya’s enhanced training for two months now.
With the government, All Might’s mentor, and several others advising him, the inheritance of [One For All] had been set for three days before enrollment. And now, All Might was building Midoriya’s muscles, reflexes, and flexibility.
“All Might, the succession ceremony needs to be delayed until your successor is old enough to enter U.A. or the Hero Course, considering the social upheaval that would follow your retirement.”
“B-but I should pass it on early and start training...”
“No. Passing it to a third-year middle schooler is too early. At the very least, he needs to be old enough to receive proper Hero training.”
All Might felt a little guilty as he watched Midoriya diligently cleaning up trash on the beach.
“GRAAAAH!!!”
Grrrrr...!!
Where else in the world could you find a third-year middle schooler who could just push a one-ton truck loaded with an enormous amount of trash using nothing but his bare hands and body?
Watching Midoriya push the truck with his back muscles and calves bulging as if they might burst, All Might let out another sigh.
He wanted to hand over [One For All] right this instant and watch that boy, his successor, soar...
“Midoriya boy aside. But Hakuji boy is...”
All Might’s gaze shifted to Hakuji, standing at the edge of the trash-strewn beach in front of a huge lump of metal—an anvil, abandoned there by who knew who—taking a stance.
“Haa... Hup!”
Clang!
With a single strike, the anvil was instantly crushed into fine metal powder.
“......Oh my goodness...”
Only now realizing that Hakuji actually had a Quirk specialized for hand-to-hand combat, All Might wiped away a cold sweat.
“Attack power at the level of a one-hit kill, plus endless regeneration and infinite stamina. And on top of that, that strange technique for sensing an enemy’s fighting spirit...”
Having an immortal body that wouldn’t die no matter how many times you hit it was already broken enough, but with detection abilities that made ambushes useless and attack power that was nearly a one-hit kill...
“Hakuji boy is practically invincible, isn’t he?”
If they met as enemies, there would truly be no answer.
Honestly, the best he could do would be to keep struggling while getting beaten until he died.
Even All Might couldn’t think of a way to deal with him.
The only real path to victory would be to unleash as many attacks as possible in the shortest possible time, with maximum force, and destroy his entire body down to the cellular level.
If it became a prolonged battle, even All Might couldn’t guarantee victory.
“If I were to fight a Villain like that... unless I had someone at the pinnacle of an elemental type, like Endeavor, it would be tough.”
If you used fire or ice to block regeneration at the cellular level and overwhelmed him with sheer firepower, then maybe he’d be manageable.
Of course, that was only...
“Hup!”
Sshhk!!!
...something you could say only after surviving that kind of attack power, where he sliced through steel bars with his bare hands like they were daikon radishes.
And apparently, that wasn’t even him using his Quirk.
When he fully activated it, his destructive power and precision rose to absurd levels, making him truly monstrous.
“......U.A. is going to be quite lively next year.”
All Might smiled faintly as he watched Hakuji smash every bit of trash into pieces and Midoriya carry it all away one by one.
tmi.
1. Today’s tmi is that there is no tmi.
2. Unfortunately, there will be no extra chapter today...
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