My Hero Academia: A Hero's Will

Chapter 34

As All Might burst in through the door, the villains were overwhelmed within a blink of an eye.

The heroes were fast. Kamui Woods acted quickly and captured the villains with his special move. When a villain tried to burn the wood holding him down, Gran Torino swooped behind him and knocked him out with a kick behind his head.

All Might said in his booming voice, "Between the sturdy Kamui Woods and the speedy Gran Torino, the villain alliance stands no chance... For we are here!"

The heroes rushed in one by one. Edgeshot took an instant to mess with Kurogiri while I was holding his head and took care of him. I could sense that more had surrounded the bar and with Kurogiri incapacitated, all paths of escape for the villains were closed.

I watched with silent triumph as Shigaraki began losing control. He was absolutely terrified at the sight of All Might.

But, the fight wasn't over. In all the suddenness of the retaliation by the heroes, I dropped my guard. It was a grave error.

Suddenly, I could feel some form of liquid rising from my throat. It was extremely unpleasant. Unable to keep in inside, I vomited the liquid out. Similar things were happening with the villains. Out of nowhere, numerous Nomu appeared out of strange portals made of the same liquid that I was vomiting out.

The realisation dawned upon me but it was too late as I was whisked away from the bar along with the rest of the villains.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself in ruins of what looked like a lab. The whole place was saturated with the imposing and intimidating aura of the man standing in front of me.

One by one, the villains also fell out of the portals. In the meantime, I spread my observation to the surroundings and found out that I was at the place where they manufactured Nomu.

Yes, manufactured, because the sheer number of those incomplete Nomu boggled my mind. It felt like the villains were creating an army. But all that could wait. The man in front of me was being addressed as sensei by Shigaraki.

I narrowed my eyes and decided to test his will and when I did, a lot of things suddenly made sense.

The man's will was the same as the that controlled all the Nomu I had encountered. Every single one of them was controlled by him.

I pushed on, there was something else... something horrifying...

The man had numerous fragments of wills of other people...

"Midoriya Izuku, you really did a number on Tomura during our incursion in USJ."

He had stolen those fragments from people, subdued them and shackled them to himself.

Stolen fragments of wills...

Shigaraki's sensei...

Control Nomus who had multiple quirks...

When I finally realised who the man was, my breath stagnated as my thought process halted.

He was the mastermind behind the League of Villains.

The nemesis of every One for All user.

All for One.

I immediately activated my quirk, ready to fight even though I knew I was nowhere near his strength. His will... was indomitable. It felt like an impenetrable shield with the strongest chains ever holding the fragments to it.

Among the fragments, I could feel a fragment from Ragdoll... he had stolen her quirk!

My breath got erratic and I zoned out, unable to hear what anyone was saying. Such was the extent of the effect his aura was having on me.