vampire king: izuku

Chapter 25: Will You Break Your Back Against the Mountain?

Izuku began his preparations for what could be called the current hardest fight of his life. Fighting against the Symbol of Peace would be hard enough on its own, but now if you were to add the fact that he would have to contend with a classmate who despised him/could barely work when close to his person and you had yourself a recipe for a disaster to occur and a catastrophic defeat staring you in the face.

The vampire was far from happy. He spent the last of his day trying to come up with strategies to fight the Top Hero in Japan, working his brain into overdrive to come up with a solution. So far Izuku had arrived at a few paths that he could take, his mind forgoing traditional thinking in favor of winnable odds:

His first idea was that he could forcefully mind jack Yaoyorozu, making constant use of his [Mesmerize] to guide the girl akin to a puppet. She would mostly play support, creating traps and distractions to aid him while he tried to use guerilla tactics against All Might. It was one path he could take he if was ready to stomach truly becoming the boogeyman that the rich heiress feared him to be, but it could allow Izuku to set a permanent foothold in the girl's mind, granting him an obedient puppet whenever he desired.

He could skip the fight altogether and search for other alternative methods of winning, as UA surely wouldn't be expecting him to win in a fight against an experienced Pro hero, much less someone of All Might's scope of power. No amount of Plus Ultra would get him an edge against the blonde. This method may seem cowardly or not fitting for a hero, but for Izuku so long as he could save lives and avoid loses, then he could handle some shade thrown his way. He had dealt with flak like that since his childhood years, he had resistance to it.

He could somehow strike a deal with his class president and convince the girl to work alongside him for the time being, allowing them a much better shot of incapacitating All Might or buying time for their escape. Guerilla tactics would also be much easier, considering Yaoyorozu's [Creation] quirk and Izuku's ability to move unrestrained through terrain and his movement options in [Blink] and [Warp]. This was the path with the least chance of success, considering Izuku's current "relationship" with the raven-haired girl.

A couple more ideas bounced in his noggin, but these were the most fleshed out ones that Izuku could think off. It didn't exactly help that he had a "watcher" eye him from the resting couch inside his office, the vampire occupying his own desk while he tried to formulate his plan of action. Eventually he could not ignore it any longer.

"What is it? Spit it out already." His voice had some venom in it, but he restrained his mood where his annoyance could barely be picked on. The girl that happily watched over his work smiled like Cheshire cat, lightly kicking her legs in the air.

"Izu-kyun is so serious and diligent and stuff. It makes me feel all tingly and stuff when you get that whole Prison-Planner look." Himiko Toga, the villainess that Izuku was housing in his gym/warehouse, spoke in her usual tone. The blonde girl was dressed differently from her usual school sailor outfit, sporting a crop-top and tight spat shorts as she had been working out before his arrival.

Someway somehow, the villain had been behaving herself appropriately. Ever since Izuku bit Himiko, she had been truthful to every single promise she made for the vampire, going so far as to draft a plan to infiltrate the League of Villains and work as a double agent for him. Suspicion at her proposal was high for him, so the vampire didn't give her the go-to, merely deciding that she remain in the warehouse, watch over it and don't get into trouble.

The girl had done just that, serving as a rather good staff-member for it. Izuku still hadn't opened the gym for proper use, mostly using it himself; that had not changed, but the place was now being maintained by Himiko (who was surprisingly good at housework), the cameras in the building always having her in their sights. She would always message him if she went out, going so far as to send him her live-location so as to assure him that she hadn't gone into a murderous spree or a robbery or anything else that she used to do before. It was worrisome for an entirely different matter, since the vampire was being shown definitive proof that Himiko had not been lying when she offered her proposition to him.