The Hedley Kow Nomu

Chapter II

Use whatever is at hand, be it friend or foe.

- Ootori Kyoya (Ouran high school host club)

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The raiding plus an unexpected rescue came to an end 5 hours later.

The police, Naomasa, and All Might escorted the rescued boy into a room after they arrived at the police station. As they left the boy in a room next to them after they finished wrapping his injuries. Despite this, the boy's injuries didn't need to be patched up. All Might had assisted that the boy should be patched up as caution.

The boy relented and did as he was told.

After that, Naomasa and All Might converse about the boy and the evidence from the raid in a separate room. They both did not expect that they would have to save a child during the raid. Nonetheless, to engage in a fight with the boy was a death march to All Might. A stroke of luck was bare enough to save the boy, himself being controlled in the end.

But the main question was what to do with this boy. Which was the biggest hurdle that Naomasa and All Might had to decide.

"So we don't have any information on the boy? Not even info about his parents or relatives?" Toshinori asked in his skeletal and civilian form while talking to Naomasa. Naomasa shook his head.

Despite that, they had secured the underground lab. The information about the boy was very vague. Even the senior scientist that Naomasa managed to arrest mentioned that the boy was a clone, meaning that the child was likely parentless and dead. So there was no way that Naomasa and the authorities could put the boy in the orphan system.

The boy was a replacement if they sent him to the original boy's home and his parents. And the parents wouldn't be able to take care of a clone that looks like their son.

As the mentioned boy continues to stare at the wall that he was facing. Naomasa noticed that the boy didn't move or spoken ever since they took him out of the lab. He acted like a wallflower blending in the wall so quietly that none of the police noticed he was there and thought he had escaped. Like he had vanished in plain sight. Even though the boy wore a yellow fluffy cardigan over him, he still blended in with the white walls.

It irks Naomasa so slightly. That the boy was a clone, an empty husk waiting for an order to do something. All Might and Naomasa didn't know what to do with the boy as they pondered on their next move.

"This will be a problem. We can't put him in the orphan's system since the villain organization and maybe 'you know who's already targeted him after we took him in custody." Naomasa nodded in agreement.

(Sir All Might, this is not Voldemort or Harry Potter series.)

Naomasa replied, " Well, 'you know who', had covered all the tracks and their escape. And the only things that we found were his last name and medical entries about the original boy as it was from the only file in the lab that was found, the rest is either lost or taken out of our reach. But I want to discuss this with you more than the higher-ups in government and others."

He gazed at the boy for a while. The boy had tattoos that probably represent the term of subject 9 on the left side of his neck which Naomasa knew the boy was the awakened test subject to be called by that name. And the only one alive.

Due to the raid, All Might accidentally collapsed some of the undergrounds. That included the other test subjects that were already dead before. However, Naomasa wondered if any more victims were suffering like the boy before they laid their lives down.

His stomach churns as he remembers witnessing the horrific treatment of the boy. He never wanted to remember that again.

" What will we do now? Who will watch and care for him in the future? We can't leave him here in the police station." said All Might.

"For now, the boy will stay here for the night until we find a solution for who will hold custody of him," said Naomasa as they both left the room.

All Might stop in his footsteps. "Just one thing, what's the young boy's name?"

Naomasa flipped over the documents and research raided from the lab that they gathered before he stopped at one page and said," It doesn't say but a paper wrote a name for the original boy which is Izuku Midoriya."

"Then, he shall be called Izuku for now." Leaving the discussion unfinished.

As the two men left the police station with the police members. They told 'Izuku' that they would come back and pick him up tomorrow morning. They already knew that the boy didn't care but they needed to say it out loud. As they left the boy with some bedding. He was left alone after that. Voices echoed in the room as they told the boy.

"̷̭͇̼̯̳̋̎͊̔̈́͒̊̉̊̏́̐͘A̴̡̫̪̠̪̝͆͐̏̌̏͂v̸̼̳̠̖̼̞̪̲̀̅͗̈̔̽͒͋ͅͅe̵͎̟̭̲̔͛̽̑̌̈́̉̌̓͛͗n̵̲̲̪̲̦̫͔̗̞̭͕̈̈́͐͛͆̈̿̆g̸͎̪̯̤̖̻̩͙̺̱̳̊͛̉̈̂̒̏̕ệ̶̛̛̜̤̭̙̭̬̖̞̙̱̟̯̬̤̀͊̐̋̍́̐̔̔́͝͠...̵͎̺̟̼̟̭̫͕͎̘̟̈̑̀͘͝͝.̵̨̢̢̭͎́̒̈́̉͑̽̇͐͋̏̇͝ͅǘ̸̥̩̤̳̜̰̦̒͗̊͗̄̀̈͂͝ş̷͚̙̳͕͓̺̺̓͂̍́̓͊́̓̄̈́̅̇̆...̸͔͇̲̹̖̜̰̘̈̽̾͒́͆͌̂͜"̸̡̮̪͓͔͍̙̘̦̯̠̞̤̲̍̽̋̓͆͜͝

No one heard it but the boy as he sat on his bedding.

He smiled at no one. Everything that 'he' had lost on the day to that man, 'they' were there. 'He' will have his revenge served with a plated meal when the time comes. 'He' will have to use anything to his resorts, even his saviors no matter what. Regardless.

'He' may be cold and ruthless in his plan. But 'he' was free to 'do' whatever he wants now.

Even if he was not a chess piece anymore. It's still a game that 'he' still plays regardless or not. To get to the other side of the chessboard. 'They', too, are waiting for revenge. 'Izuku' and his quirks yearned for the blood of their killer. He needs to survive for now.

Yes, survival is the key to this game.

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Noted:

1,000 words completed.