I Don't Run An Orphanage!

Chapter 54

It was now that Yami fully understood why D.O.C. was afraid of his quirk.

Yami's opinion on his quirk hasn't changed much throughout his life, despite the massive changes in his life over time.

At first, it was just a thing he had. A tool he was born with to help him survive. Like his arms and legs.

Back when he lived in the wild, he didn't really have much time to think about it. Occasionally when he had eaten well, and was near a river and gazed upon his own reflection, he would wonder why he was the only one in the forest that looked the way he did. That could do the things that he could, and he'd wonder if he would ever meet something else like him.

And then he did.

When he saw Izuku and all the other children, he saw not only beings like himself, but beings who felt things other than negativity. He saw love and happiness.

This of course led him to his new life.

As another kid in the orphanage, Yami still viewed his quirk as but another tool, one that he would now barely use.

He no longer needed to fight for survival, so why would he need to create more Grimm? At first, when he got here he just wanted to lay back, and relax, meaning he only really needed his Grimm to carry him around.

It did kind of freak him out a bit when he realized just how much of a power gap there was between him and the other kids. Back in the wild, he was the apex predator, the one on top. But here, not so much. Many of the kids could easily tear through his Grimm, and kill him if they wanted to.

However as time went on he got more and more comfortable, as the knowledge that they wouldn't do that sunk in.

But then Izuku asked him to create some more Grimm. To help him around the house, and to act as security.

And who was he to refuse the man who had given him everything? So he did.

By watching Izuku work with these Grimm, he began to realize that he could use his quirk to help Izuku out more. By learning about the world around him, he could create new Grimm that could help Izuku out in new and different ways.

So he started doing just that.

This caught the attention of the other children, mainly Kiba, who further led him into the rabbit hole of Grimm making.

Still, it was limited. And despite his Grimm being useful, most of them weren't overly powerful. Sansan, Kiba, Shiruku and many of the other children could still rip through them in seconds, and it made Yami wonder why he was classified as an O.P.C., and why the world apparently feared him.

Not that it bothered him. Most of the kids weren't super resentful of their status as O.P.C... Except for Fu, whose negative emotions flared up a very tiny bit whenever it was brought up, and Kioku, who was oh so full of hate.

It was just confusing to him. That he was given the same classification as his powerful siblings.

And then the U.A. a trip happened. Or rather, that's when his trip around the city happened.

Yami had only been outside the house, once, to go to the amusement park. And it was surprising to see just how many people there were, but overall it was a place of fun and joy, so he didn't get a good understanding of how much more powerful he could become when he was around large numbers of people.

But his drive around the city opened his eyes.

In just a few hours, he had gained more negative energy than he had ever had in his life. Much, much, much more.