My Hero Academia Untold: The Knights of Fafnir (Izuocha)

XVI

We now returned to our regularly scheduled programming.

Welp, the results from the last upload was pretty much how I suspected things would pan out. I'm looking forward to seeing if anyone has figured out what is going to happen. That being said, this story is planned out, and I felt clues in prior chapters can help you solve the puzzle if you pay close attention.

Anyway, we have arrived to Arc II proper.

Old readers, expected a more refined experience. New readers...buckle up, because shit is about to get real in this arc.

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My Hero Academia Untold: The Knights of Fafnir

Saga I: Dusk

Arc II: The Incident

Chapter XVI: The First Move

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"They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters.' I have; indeed written many."

-J. R.R. Tolkien

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Overhaul didn't enjoy being led by the squat, seedy little man. One of Giran's creatures, the Yakuza Boss had reasoned with little doubt since the information broker himself has been notably scarce as of late in the Underworld. While the little man himself apparently didn't know who had attacked his crew. He did claim to know people who did, which led Overhaul to a warehouse on the outskirts of town in the dead of night.

"Right this way, Lord Chisaki." the short man wheezed, opening the warehouse door with the lowest bow his large stomach could allow. The inside of the warehouse was poorly lit. Yet, Overhaul already knew who was there, the heir-apparent to The Emperor: The Pale Prince, Tomura Shigaraki.

"Lord Shigaraki, I have brought your guest," the man called out with another deep bow before taking a few steps back and closing the door behind him.

Overhaul wasn't afraid, and though their first encounter from a couple weeks ago hadn't been the best, no fight had broken out. Yet, a line had been drawn in the sand, representing the divide between the new and old guard of the Underworld. Although its name may have changed over the years. It was always the same organization led by the one the Yakuza often referred to as either The Emperor of Darkness or the Cardinal Emperor for those aligned with the Four Cardinal Kings.

An appropriate title as it was one that many Yakuza Lords believed he earned when he had surfaced all those years ago, usurping power from them in the Underworld. Becoming mightier than the Four Cardinal Kings, the greatest of the Yakuza. However, no name was ever given from this Emperor, for he simply went by the name of his illness: All For One.

As Overhaul stepped further into the large building, his beak-like mask helped filter some of the stale, dusty air of the warehouse. However, the germaphobe still couldn't help but feel a bit more agitated the deeper he went inside it. His golden eyes began to scan the room when he finally spotted him.

Tomura Shigaraki simply sat there, sporting his signature black-blue outfit with fake hands all over his body. He was sitting on a small wooden chair in the center of the warehouse, with a small light hanging over his head like a spotlight. As Overhaul moved to face Tomura, he kept a respectful and healthy distance from the Hand-Covered man, knowing that one wrong touch from either could mean their untimely ends.