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Chapter 29: Number One

Its been a week since the Cultural Festival happened and people could not stop talking about it. Civilians, students, heroes and reporters who attended were posting pictures and video's of what transpired with Izuku's performance taking center stage. This amazed the people and impressed many heroes from different countries, some even commenting that he was currently the strongest hero of today with the UN discussing plans on adding him to the international hero ranking since he showed great strength and compassion to saving any and all people no matter the obstacle.

Progress on the Shibuya case has been slow since this was a new kind of disease, if you can call it that if it could mutate an infected person into something still human but not fully there. The concerning part is that people with mutation quirks show visible changes with them looking more beast than man but the none mutant types were slowly shifting to have animal like characteristics. Shibuya was than classified as restricted until further investigation has been conducted, but Izuku feels like something was very off about how they were transforming.

"Unknown biological contagion has been detected within the residents of Shibuya which is in the hundreds of thousands. The cause of the infection is not fully known but during an investigation, we managed to find out there was a shipment of a very popular drink that was manufactured in the South East of Asia, we suspect the disease was injected injected into the drinks there by infecting the most prominent drinkers which was unfortunately Shibuya. 

We were able to precure a sample of the drink and did some analysis which was done by Izuku Shigaraki Midoriya and Inko Midoriya. What they found was concerning due to what exactly it was made of:

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Hormone (hCG)-this is normally found in a mothers blood and urine during the first trimester of pregnancy. When given to a human in high doses there will be a significant change in their chemical makeup, making them more feral and hostile to anything and everything.

IGF-1 (Insulin-like Growth Factor 1)-this is a hormone that manages the growth rate of muscles, the body naturally produces it but if there were to be an abnormal amount there could be detrimental effects that range from animal like tendencies, over aggressive behavior and pack mentality.

Modafinil-this is a stimulant medication that is generally safe but there are risks of the brain slowly devolving. A excess amount of this medication can force the brain to regress due to too much brain activity where the body cant simply keep up.

Chemical X-this is an entirely new and alien chemical that has ever been discovered but we have concluded that it should be dubbed Chemical X. It does not resemble any known chemicals that have been discovered through history but what we do know is that it didnt come from Earth.

We are still investigating further into this disease and we hope to get to the bottom of the cause before its too late"

On Mei and Melissa's end, progress with the internal components with the device Izuku brought blueprints for were going smoothly, most of the materials needed could be found locally or needed to be imported from different countries. When it came to getting the metal from the moon, the shuttle they borrowed filled with bots landed on the moon with zero problems and as soon as they landed they got to work with building the recharging station and transport shuttle for the metal, some even built more of their bot brothers to help with mining and that would hopefully cut down on the time needed to transport the metal.

With the family, they've been enjoying the peace Izuku brought to them. Eri has been smiling more often and laughing at a lot of things they would do, she's been having fun with each member with her playing video games with Tenko, bonding with the female members of the family and even learning from them, pranking them with help from Spinner and Twice, Touya acting like an older brother with threatening to roast anyone who dared to hurt her and helping her Papa with basic stuff around the house and sometimes complex stuff like helping him organize the documents in his office into labeled filing cabinets.