Chapter 80: One More Reason to Leave
Aoi then rang the doorbell. They waited a little while. After some time, the door opened. He saw Fuyumi and Shoto, who were surprised to see Aoi and Nemuri.
Fuyumi said, smiling:
—Brother and sister-in-law! What are you doing here?
Aoi smiled and said:
—Well, I came to talk about an important matter with the old man. Is he in?
Shoto said:
—Well, it must be important for you to be willing to come looking for our father.
Fuyumi said, lightly scolding:
—Don't talk like that. He's our father. Well, come in, you two, so we can talk better.
Aoi and Nemuri entered.
Fuyumi said, smiling:
—He's in the office. But you'll have to wait a bit because he's in a meeting with the Public Safety Commission for Heroes.
Aoi, hearing that name, said:
—Those pieces of trash... Damn it. Having to talk to them is really exhausting. That bunch of old men greedy for power and control. When I was weak and just a genius and didn't pose a threat, they didn't care much about me. But after getting stronger and on top of that having money and intelligence, I started being seen by them as an unstable factor. And I bet that in some of the assassins and mercenaries that tried to kill me, it must have been on their orders.
Fuyumi said:
—Brother, you can't talk about them like that. Someone might be listening.
Aoi said:
—Sister, since you help Mom and our brother deal with the company, you must already know how rotten they are, right?
Fuyumi fell silent and said:
—That's true. But saying it like that takes away Shoto's excitement about being a hero.
Shoto said:
—I don't mind. I want to be a hero because I admire heroes like All Might and my sisters-in-law. I know politics is dirty. After all this time in this family, I'm not a naive kid.
Fuyumi, hearing that, sighed and said:
—That's true. I wish you were just a normal kid your age.
Shoto said:
—But I'm still more normal than my brother here.
Aoi said:
—Well, I can't deny that.
They then sat on the veranda.
Fuyumi said:
—Well, while Dad is busy, you can tell me the reason you came here today.
Aoi said:
—I don't see a problem telling you guys. But Shoto, don't tell anyone in class about what I'm going to say, okay?
Shoto said:
—Alright. I won't tell anyone.
—So what is it?
Aoi said, smiling:
—You're going to be uncles. Nemuri and Rumi are pregnant.
Fuyumi said excitedly:
—Really? Big sister, I'm going to have a nephew?
She got excited while hugging Nemuri.
Nemuri smiled and said:
—Yes, you are. But let go a little—you're leaving me without air.
Fuyumi said:
—Sorry, I was so excited.
Shoto said excitedly:
—Then I'm going to be an uncle too. Cool.
He then noticed the detail and looked at Aoi and said:
—So what's the reason for telling this to our father? I don't think if it was just that you'd go to the trouble of coming here to talk to him, right?
Aoi, smiling at Shoto, said:
—You're getting smart.
Aoi then looked at them and told his plan.
Shoto said:
—I understand. So since the side of big sister Nemuri was resolved with the principal's help, you came here to resolve the side of big sister Rumi, right?
Aoi said:
—Well, that's it. Well, to be honest, I only came to try. But I don't have much hope it'll work and that he'll help. I already have a plan 2 in progress in case he refuses. So I won't lose anything.
Shoto nodded in confirmation and said:
—Yes, it's better to have another plan so as not to put all hopes on him.
Shoto looked at his brother and asked curiously:
—But brother, why are you so worried about the Public Safety Commission for Heroes? Even if you're very strong, there are still people stronger than you, brother.
Aoi looked at Shoto and said with a serious face:
—It's because I don't have the human factor.
Shoto asked confused:
—Human factor? What is that?
Aoi looked at him and said seriously:
—You know, Shoto, even the greatest heroes currently are just humans. Even if they have a quirk that can destroy the world, at the end of the day they're humans. They don't keep that power on 24 hours a day. So if you do a stealth attack, you can kill a hero with a gunshot to the head. That's the government's guarantee of control over powerful heroes that if they get out of their control, they can use their firearms, war tanks, and missiles. In other words, that's the human factor. But with me it's different. And that's why they're afraid.
Aoi paused, looking at his own hands, and continued:
—I have 55% of All Might's strength at his peak, but unlike him, I don't use a quirk for that. This power is generated purely by my physical body, 24 hours a day. For me not to tear myself apart when using this strength, my biology had to change completely.
Shoto listened attentively, and Aoi explained simply:
—Think of my skeleton not as ordinary bone, but as titanium beams. If a car hits me, the car bends and I don't even move. My muscles aren't flesh—they're like braided steel cables from a freight elevator; they have the strength of a hydraulic piston in every fiber. My skin? It's like tractor tire leather reinforced with armor nothing cuts or pierces easily.
Aoi pointed to his own chest:
—Inside, my heart is a high-power engine and my lungs are jet turbines. And the main thing: my nervous system is like ultra-speed fiber optics. I don't need to "activate" anything, Shoto. I wake up already being a biological war tank. The government is afraid because there's no "off" button on me. I'm a weapon that's always cocked, and they know their normal weapons wouldn't even scratch my skin.
Shoto was silent for a moment, absorbing the scale of what his brother had just revealed. The weight of having a body that is, by itself, a force of nature.
Aoi then realized something and said:
—Shit, damn it.
In that moment, he looked at him who started swearing.
Shoto, who finally snapped out of the shock, looked at him and said:
—What is it, brother?
Nemuri and Fuyumi also looked at him worriedly.
Aoi said with a serious face:
—You know, Nemuri, that plan we were going to discuss at home about whether to do it or not?
Nemuri said:
—Yes, I remember.
Aoi looked at her and said seriously:
—I just realized we have no other option but to do it. I just found out that I'm the number 1 enemy of all the governments in the world.
Nemuri said scared:
—What are you saying? Are you delirious? You're strong, but not that much—to make the world turn against you.
Aoi said:
—It's not a matter of strength.
Aoi looked seriously at Shoto and Fuyumi, adopting a tone of someone explaining an inevitable reality:
—Shoto, Fuyumi... the government doesn't hate me for being "a better human." They hate me because I broke their fundamental rule of control. The hero system only works because there's the fear of death. But I used my cellular healing to rebuild my biology in a way their science can't even explain, let alone contain.
He paused, looking at his own hands with cold calm.
—I'm not just a strong guy. I turned myself into the first seed of a new species. And that's where the problem starts for the world's governments:
—First: I'm the end of their dependence. The government controls society through security. But if I'm someone who can't be hurt by conventional weapons, missiles, or poisons, I'm outside their jurisdiction of force. For a politician, a being that can't be coerced or killed is a system error that needs to be deleted.
—Second: Hereditary Evolution. That's where their fear turns to panic. Unlike All Might, whose strength dies with him or needs to be passed to a successor, my strength is biological. It's in my genetic code. My children with Nemuri and Rumi won't just "have a power"; they'll be born as this new race. They'll come into the world with titanium bones and indestructible tissues.
Aoi looked at Nemuri and then back at Shoto:
—Imagine what that means for rulers. In a few generations, my lineage could walk through bullets and explosions like it was rain. I'm the beginning of a lineage that makes any country's army and police obsolete. They don't see me as a hero, Shoto. They see me as the progenitor of a race they can't govern.
—They know that if I'm left alone, the world will never go back to being for ordinary humans. I'm the enemy of the world because my existence is the beginning of the end of their absolute control. They're not trying to arrest me for crimes; they're trying to prevent humanity from being replaced by something they can't put on a leash.
Shoto, Fuyumi, and Nemuri were in shock when they heard that.
Nemuri put her hand on her belly and said:
—You mean our baby will be that strong just by being born?
Aoi looked at her and said:
—Well, stronger than common babies. The kind that even if after birth the doctor drops him face down on the floor, he'll feel it like a pat on the butt. But the scariest thing about him isn't the power he has when born it's the limit he can reach. Like, if a normal human is born a kitten, the max he can reach is an adult cat. But our child is born a tiger cub. So he can reach an adult tiger. And even if he doesn't inherit any quirk from us, he'll still have my physical peak from when you got pregnant. In this case, it's 50% of All Might. That is, this kid just needs to try a little and that level of strength is already guaranteed for him. Genius is that cruel he's already destined to be strong before he's even born.
Everyone was in shock hearing that.
Nemuri put her hand on her belly and said:
—I understand now. I know the seriousness of the situation. And I finally understood what you meant by you and our child being practically a different race from ours.
She then looked at him seriously and said:
—What is your plan? After all, you yourself said all the governments in the world are your enemies.
Aoi smiled and said, while pointing to the sky:
—Then let's create our world.
Nemuri, Fuyumi, and Shoto were in shock.
Aoi then looked at them, smiled, and said:
—Yes, we're going to terraform a planet.