The Shadow Monarch Izuku Midoriya

Ch 5: The System Part 1

"Talk"

'Thought'

[System]

Izuku blinked his eyes and even rubbed them but it was still there and Izuku thought, 'It hadn't been a long time since I started hearing weird things, but now, I'm even seeing them, too....' Could something in his head really be broken? The doctor did say he was completely fine though.

There was a condition called PTSD, after all. People who experienced a huge accident or a traumatic event usually suffered from this condition. It was only what felt like a few days ago since he witnessed the deaths of many of his comrades, not to mention he himself nearly died as well, so it would not be so strange to hear or see weird things as a possible side effect.

However, there were a couple of things that prevented him from dismissing this out of hand. Izuku's sight lowered to his leg the leg that got cut in half by the shield of the stone statue was now all fine and dandy.

The voice he heard out of the blue inside the underground temple hidden within the depths of the dual dungeon; his completely cured leg; and now, those words floating in front of his eyes. Too many weird things were happening all at once.

Once the confusion in his heart died down and he felt calmer, he became quite curious about the contents of those so-called unread messages. There might be answers to his questions found within those messages, after all.

In order to confirm the messages, he reached out towards the words. And his hand simply went past them.

Izuku thought, 'It's not touch-operated?'

It seemed that he got way too used to how a smartphone worked. He couldn't think of any other way to access the messages other than tapping on the 'icon', though.

Back then, he could only get his intentions across to that unknown voice by 'talking' to it. So Izuku thought, 'Just like back then, I should either form the words in my head or speak it out loud.' Thinking that this must be the case, Izuku then began to mutter the potential combination of words one by one.

"Confirm."

"Messages."

"Confirm messages."

"Check messages."

"Reading."

"I want to read."

"I want to look."

"Hey, show me already, will ya?!"

"Open?"

Tti-ring!

Izuku smiled and said, "Finally!"

[There are two unread messages.]

– Congratulations on becoming a [Player] (unread)

– [Daily Quest: Preparations to become strong] is now available. (unread)

To prevent eyewitnesses intruding on him, he even locked the door. Finishing with his preparations, Izuku sat on the bed and read the titles of the messages available to read.

– Congratulations on becoming a [Player] (unread)

– [Daily Quest: Preparations to become strong] is now available. (unread)

He thought that the first message sounded familiar, as if he heard it before from somewhere so Izuku thought, 'Where have I heard it from? I know I have.'