Tachibana Palace

The Super drug

The door to the warehouse swings open with a loud sound echoing further inside, Ryujin sighs as he lets Ackerman follow behind him.

"You see, years ago when I was 25 years old I met a friend who had a special ability, he could manipulate people's memories and I used to think it was amazing while he constantly called it a curse. I didn't have an ability of my own so I could never really understand where he's coming from.

"I started searching for the cause of this sudden occurrence of abilities and came up empty it's all a mystery, but then I realised that I didn't really care about that what I wanted was an ability of my own, so I started paying the best scientists in the world to make that a reality."

Ryujin takes Ackerman underground to a make shift lab with people in white coats running around working tirelessly.

"You mentioned something about Kaminari blaming you for his untimely death, what's that all about?" Ackerman asks as he looks around waiting for an answer.

"Like I said, I paid the best scientists in the world to make that a reality for me. The scientists  than engineered a whole bunch of devices and drugs, but the drugs yielded more fruitful results when combined with a power egg. I'll explain that to you later.

"The first drug we called it A-cup, don't judge I named it drunk, but that was a complete failure since the subjects all died, so we went on to B-cup and it failed as well resulting in my reluctance to complete the research, as well as reluctance to drop the project."

Ryujin walks through a red door and it's full of people under quarantine, "This last drug worked but the more you use your ability the more it kills you. I finally had a break through when we studied the twins' steal and destroy ability that allows one to steal someone's ability and allows the other to destroy it.

"What we discovered is that all Supers have what we named a power egg.

"When the twins steal someone's ability they extract the power egg that looks like a small round glow that's only a centimetre small, the stronger your ability the bigger it is, and we would extract it from people who wanted to be cured of their abilities giving it to those who wanted them."

Ryujin pulls the list of people who gave up their abilities and who received it, "As you can see here some responded differently to the drug, some of these people are fine while the unfortunate ones like myself and Kaminari were slowly dying with our bodies deteriorating slowly but surely."

Ackerman stays quiet so Ryujin can keep explaining further but he already gets the basics, Kaminari is dying and now wants Yuno to fix him due to some drug and surgery that implanted an ability in him when he was born without an ability.

"Yuno is the only one who can fix this we were going to ask her to do this the right way but Kaminari got desperate. So far the other healers could only keep us alive, but Yuno cured me completely though the sacrifice for that is great, she flushed out the egg from my body."

"What was your ability?"

"Memory Manipulation, I'm not proud of what I did tricking and lying to my friend the way I did, but I used his ability to get where I am today and it hasn't been easy staying at the top without it.

"For some reason the abilities effects are wearing off and Kaminari has been working with the vigilante group to cover his tracks but I can't do that. He wants to sweep this whole mess under the rug. All those involved or who know he has been silencing one by one."

"Tachibana doesn't know anything about this."

"He's keeping Yuno from Kaminari and that's enough to set a ticking time bomb like Kaminari off."