The Green Valley Twins

Untitled Part 75

"Don't leave me!" More than ten years ago, she changed his entire world and all she did was think of him.

"Rokuro! Wake up damn it! Or else, I'll—"

"Quite your screeching," his voice felt like knifes in his throat, his eyes felt heavy on his face, his sight blurry from the previous darkness he bathed in. "I'm up," he glared at the person beside him. Izumi was sitting there, eyes clued to her knees, looking stiff and uncomfortable. As if she were about to be scolded by her parents for doing something she knew she shouldn't have done. Beside her was a woman with short auburn locks and metallic cat-ears, dressed in a skimpy but colorful outfit he couldn't describe because he found it hideous.

"Tch, I'm leaving." The woman glared and hissed at him, spinning on her heal and marching out with her metallic tail flipping angerly behind her. Izumi didn't even twitch with the woman's cold words, she just sat stiffly beside him; as if she dreaded what would happen next. He turned his eyes away from her, he hated how much she looked like Shai but he knew he couldn't hate her for long.

"You put everyone in danger," he mumbled, staring at the pale ceiling and waiting for her agreement.

"So my studies in chemistry needs work," Izumi grumbled, an audible pout to her usually cold voice. "How was I supposed to know that granite becomes explosive with certain acids?"

"so that's how they got the drop on you?" he questioned, "What about the monsters?"

"They appeared in the forest about the same time the student's entered it." Izumi informed him, "I noticed them first because of my quirk." He didn't respond, he still felt it hard to believe that she did nothing against those monsters. For someone who noticed the cellular make-up of an individual, he found it hard to believe that she hadn't noticed how powerful those monsters were. "There were fifty in total, ya k now... the monsters I mean." He just breathed, trying to ignore the fire burning in his chest and the ache slowly pounding its way into existence. "I noticed the unique properties of them first and the fifteen with the strongest regeneration-quirks I drew to myself... I guess their handler noticed what I was doing because as soon as those ones were close by all the others warped out of the school. The guards were able to kill one of the monsters and the seven that you took down weren't dead, just seriously hurt. They got warped out of school too." She paused, waiting for his response. Then, as if knowing what he was feeling, she reached over and pressed a button; he sighed in relieve as ice flooded his veins and the dull throbbing eased.

"You looked scared," he looked at her, his eyes still feeling heavy as he stared at her pale face.

"It took a lot of concentration to draw those monsters towards me," Izumi smiled but it looked empty and condescending. "I was trembling because I was in physical pain trying to move those monsters near me. Manipulating other living organisms isn't easy you know."

"Can't relate," his bombs were inanimate objects and rarely moved out of his strict control.

"There was also the problem that... once they were near me I had to release control before I killed them. But once that was done Yaoyurozu-san was unconscious and you had just killed the second monster." She looked up at him, her smile small and sad, looking too much like Shai's goodbye smile for his comfort. "In order for me to cure your poison, I needed those monsters alive. They all had powerful regeneration-based quirks, so I emphasized that hit that sent you to the tree to knock you out." He jerked with the declaration, he hadn't been aware she was conscious with that last hit he took; he just thought those monsters were stronger than the one that killed Shai and that was why he lost.

"I...I," she turned away from him, looking as if she might cry. "honestly I wouldn't be able to stay sane if you started screaming. So, I knocked you out before I did the operation."

"What?" there was no way to disguise his disbelieve even if he tried.

"You might've noticed that I notice things in people's blood right?" she wasn't expecting an answer and he wasn't about to give her one. "My quirk power is... its ah... atomic manipulation." She was biting her lips and refusing to look at him. "Soooo...uh... I... I," she hesitated, rethinking her approach to the subject. "I noticed those monsters were genetically-enhanced war machines, they weren't even human anymore. They had computer chips in their brains that told them what to do and when to do it. They were basically organic robots." She glanced at him then, as if seeking approval for what she apparently had done that she wasn't telling him about. "so... I kind of... ripped them apart." She looked meek, unsure and hesitant, so different from her usual confidence. "and integrated their regenerative-quirks into you." His brain failed, there was no other explanation for what he was hearing.

"I... don't understand."

"I manipulate atomic atoms," she held out a hand and the wind swirled into her palm, producing three wobbly looking orbs; one blue and two red. The two red orbs were smaller then then the blue one and where moving rapidly around it, almost too fast for him to track them. "I can turn air-atoms, into say, carbon dioxide." He watched as the atoms shifted and moved, bubbling and fracturing like a geyser struggling to burst. Then the blue orb split in two and the two-red orbs merged into a large orange orb, the two blue orbs started swirling around the orange rapidly.

"Which means that I can manipulate blood-cells," the display of atoms shifted into the uniform picture of the human genome, "including genetics." She dropped her hand and stared at her lap. "that's how I integrated their quirks into you."

"...That kind of power," he was frowning at her, "how do you stay sane with all that information buzzing around you?"

"...honestly I have quirk restraints," Izumi smiled bitterly at her hands. "They were designed specially for me. My teacher, Best Jeanist, found away to turn the quirk-inhibitors from the attack seven years ago into a thread-form. That's why my hair is blue instead of the traditional green. At first it took a lot of concentration and occasionally Best Jeanist had to fix the strands but I can keep the quirk-inhibitor-threads in my hair on my own now." She glanced up at him, looking like a shy child for once since they met. "The threads limit the usage of my quirk, not nullify it. So though my quirk is powerful, it is only powerful within a certain range of my person. Right now, that range is ten-feet. As I get older and my quirk becomes more powerful, that range will increase and the strength of the quirk-limiters will need to be increase so I can function like a normal human being."

"...you're telling me that you're so powerful you have to have powerful quirk-nullification technology in order to function like a normal human being?" he asked, staring at her as if she lost her mind.

"Trust me, feeling everyone's emotional status, pain receptors, drug-usage, or hormone-levels is no fun," she smiled at him, as if relieved. "Why do you think I try so hard to keep my distance from everyone? Soon enough I won't even be able to touch other's without feinting from the massive info-backlash."

"Your quirk strengths that quickly?"

"It's a lot of information to handle," she smiled again, sadly this time. "That's why my doctors don't think I'll live past twenty. My quirk is too powerful for my body to handle."

"...you said gave me those monster's quirks," she bought up her head and smiled at him. "can't you do the same thing with yours?"

"huh?"

"I mean, can't you manipulate your own genetic code to weaken the strength of your quirk?" he stared up at her, for once staring into her jade eyes unperturbed by their similarities to Shai's. "Can't you use it on yourself, to weaken your own strength to a manageable level?"

"if only I had that strength," she smiled at him. "a cyan can not influence their own cellular structure."

"can one cyan influence another cyan's cellular structure?"

"even if that's possible, its still impossible," Izumi chuckled at him. "I'm the last living Cyan."