Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 82 - The lost and the silent

"Nighteye? What's going on?" Nezu glanced at his screen, quickly downloading the files of the Eight Precepts that were to be given to the Hero Commission. Moashi and Awata had tried to hack into their database before, trying to get more information on the supposed quirk destroying drug, but they had always been unsuccessful since there was always someone keeping an eye on the files, and kicking them out whenever they tried.

They decided that while the heroes were conducting the raid, and the yakuza were preoccupied with the heroes presence, it should theoretically be possible to use that opportunity to find out more about the plans of the Eight Precepts. And while they could download the information after the raid was over, they didn't know the entire layout of the underground, and they didn't put it past Chisaki to have some sort of self destruct protocol in order to destroy all the evidence. They had enlisted Nezu's help in hacking and information downloading, and while it wasn't necessary for him to attend the meetings about the raid itself, he had requested that Sasaki and Aizawa should update him whenever convenient.

"Eraser Head?" Nezu tried calling Aizawa, but he was either too deep underground, or his communicator was broken; all he was getting was static.

He was getting particularly worried about Midoriya and Togata, especially Midoriya; according to Sasaki's last update, those two had run off on their own to chase after Chisaki and Eri. And with what that drug was capable of, Nezu couldn't help but be worried.

Apparently, the drug doesn't just damage the quirk factor and prevent the quirk from being used, but it rewinds the entire quirk out of existence. Quirks are said to be the next stage of evolution in the human race, and are thus considered mutations. No matter how the quirk manifested, either through natural means, or through trauma, it was still a mutation, and the drug rewinds those very mutations back to it's unmutated state, effectively rendering a person quirkless.

Chisaki had also done his own research into trauma induced quirks, as rare as they were, deeming them as anomalies and wanting to ensure that his drug could erase any kind of quirk. And while he was never able to test the drugs on people who did have trauma induced quirks, there weren't many biological differences between normal quirks and a trauma induced ones, leading to the conclusion that the quirk destroying would rewind them out of existence all the same.

Nezu wasn't too sure if One for All would be destroyed, given that it wasn't reliant on a quirk factor if a quirkless person like Yagi could inherit it from Nana, but at the very least, Togata had a sense of self preservation.

Midoriya did not. The only thing that kept him alive through the attack on UA and Kamino, as well as all his previous suicide attempts, was that quirk. While losing the quirk might help improve his mindset and solve some psychological issues, given that the quirk was most likely actively making him hate himself and urging him towards suicide, Nezu was worried that Chisaki would very well end up killing Midoriya, given that the greenette'd speciality was close combat, something that could be very fatal against the quirk that Chisaki possessed.

He could only hope that everything would turn out okay.

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Chisaki growled, and attempted to grab the boy, but Midoriya used his mask to blow more fire in Chisaki's face, blinding him temporarily, before twisting through the gaps between his four arms.

Suddenly, there was an explosion from above, as the ceiling caved in, with Tatsuma tackling Katsukame into the ground, with Uraraka and Asui behind her.

"Uravity!" Asui stammered, looking towards Sasaki, who had a stone spike poking through his gut, as he desperately watched an injured Midoriya trying to get to Eri.