'Why is this bullshit a thing…?'
That was Isshun's train of thought as he waited for the homeroom teacher to introduce him and another transfer student.
Apparently, the school Kako had enrolled him in didn't rotate students between classes every year and kept the same homeroom teacher for all six years of elementary school.
Unfortunately, that meant the cliché transfer student introduction Isshun despised was about to happen.
If there was a silver lining, it was that he wasn't the only transfer student.
Isshun had heard(eavesdropped) that the class Isshun was transferring into had a few students transfer out for bullying.
'Bullying…?'
'Oh. My mom has quite literally chosen the worst school possible.'
Still, it was the closest elementary school to home, so complaining wouldn't get him anywhere.
Why were elementary schoolers bullying each other anyway?
What has society come to?
"Helloooo~?"
Isshun glanced to his right… and found himself face-to-face with nothing.
Not even a ghost, just empty space where he expected a head. Like an invisible mannequin wearing a sailor-style uniform. It took him a second to realize the girl herself was invisible.
Sight, for Isshun, was more of an auxiliary sense, something he relied on mostly out of habit rather than necessity.
So when he'd been expecting a messy-haired, bright-eyed girl, he instead found visually nothing at all.
"...Hello."
"Hi!" The girl smiled. "You're a transfer student too, right?"
Isshun nodded.
"What's your name?" she asked brightly. "I'm Hagakure Toru!"
'Damn. I think I know who this is.'
When Isshun had watched My Hero Academia, he wasn't great with names, usually remembering people by standout features or their Quirks.
Still, there was that one running agenda he remembered about Hagakure.
Is that a beam attack?
"My name's Shunkan Isshun."
"Nice to meet you, Shunkan-kun!" Toru spun in place, as if proudly showing herself off. "My Quirk is Invisibility, if you couldn't tell, hehe!"
"I couldn't."
Isshun wasn't particularly eager to make new friends, but he knew that since Nejire had moved away, his parents were worried he'd end up isolated at school.
And while he was introverted, he wasn't allergic to social interaction.
So he decided that at least one acquaintance would be enough to keep his parents from worrying.
Connections usually formed through shared circumstances anyway. Becoming acquaintances with Toru would check that box.
"Not much of a talker, huh? But yeah, people usually—huh?" Toru paused before realizing what Isshun had said, then gasped. "Wait. You can see me?!"
Isshun nodded.
Once he realized Toru was visually undetectable, curiosity had kicked in, and he'd instinctively focused his Omniscient Domain on her.
For the record—
Isshun's maximum high accuracy range was a two-kilometer radius in every direction with a theoretical maximum of four.
That meant his Domain covered roughly 33.5 cubic kilometers normally.
The level of detail he perceived depended on how concentrated his focus was. Compressing his Domain down to a volume of five cubic centimeters effectively gave him something like a 600,000 times zoom.
Seeing individual cells only required about 400x zoom.
Just based on the 'Beam Attack' agenda he had chuckled at, Isshun could assume that Toru's Quirk wasn't just Invisibility as she had introduced, but Light Refraction.
This curiosity prompted his investigation.
Looking closer, he saw that each and every one of her cells possessed a unique Mutation: a secondary membrane surrounding the plasma membrane that refracted light.
That membrane had a limit, though—there was only so much light it could redirect before it was fully saturated, like a battery hitting maximum capacity.
In theory, if that membrane were overloaded, Toru would become visible for a short time until that stored light depleted naturally.
Regardless of all that technical detail, Isshun already knew what she looked like.
Before Toru could say anything else, the teacher stepped back into the room.
"Hagakure-chan, Shunkan-kun! You can come in and introduce yourselves!"
"Oh…" Toru followed the teacher in, clearly disappointed at being interrupted.
"Yes, ma'am."
As Isshun entered the classroom, he was met with the stares of curious children.
Ignoring Toru, who was supposed to be focusing on her introduction that she had prepared for but kept glancing at him every few seconds, Isshun bowed.
Their names were already written on the board, so all he needed to do was speak.
"Hello. My name is Shunkan Isshun. My Quirk is Mathematics."
That was the name they'd settled on.
Originally, Isshun had proposed Personal Reality, but Genzai thought it sounded too metaphysical. Since Isshun used mathematical formulas to teleport, "Mathematics" was vague enough to work.
It was ambiguous enough to encompass a wide variety of subjects.
Letting other people speculate about what his Quirk actually did was part of the strategy.
Toru wore an invisibly confused expression—at least, visible to Isshun. "Mathematics" didn't exactly explain how he could see her.
The teacher led the class in applause, and Isshun stepped aside so Toru could introduce herself.
If invisibility had one perk, it was that no one could see your expressions.
So no one noticed how Toru snapped back to attention, and the small blush on her face as if she was caught being distracted.
Well… with the sole exception of Shunkan Isshun of course.
"Name's Hagakure Toru! Nice to meet you all!" Since she was invisible, Toru exaggerated her movements to get her emotions across.
"As you can see—or can't see—my Quirk's Invisibility! Please take care of me!" She finished with an over-the-top bow, earning noticeably louder applause.
"Nice to meet you both," the teacher said, gesturing toward two empty seats by the window. "You can decide which one you'd like."
"I don't mind either one," Isshun said immediately.
Now both of them looked at Toru, who hummed in thought, before picking the window seat.
As they sat down, Isshun ignored the lingering stares from his classmates.
"You might be excited to have new friends," the teacher added, "but please save your questions for after first period."
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"How… Interesting."
Nezu stared at the information displayed across the database he had quietly hacked into.
While the Police Force hadn't requested his assistance—even with a vigilante running rampant through Musutafu, the very city U.A. was located in—Nezu couldn't suppress his curiosity regarding this new figure.
There were several reasons for that curiosity.
The first was simple wariness.
All Might had only recently fought All for One, and though the battle ended in victory, it had been a pyrrhic one. If All Might couldn't recover, then the public safety of Japan was under threat.
Now, a vigilante with a Spatial-Type Quirk powerful enough to capture three hundred criminals in the span of two weeks had appeared.
In Musutafu, no less.
That alone was enough to prompt Nezu to begin his own investigation.
Yet aside from narrowing down Blink's general area of activity, there was little else to go on.
Nezu had analyzed every accessible camera in that region, reviewed timestamps, cross-referenced incident reports—
And still, all he could do was quietly applaud the efficiency of Blink's Quirk.
There were no errors, traces, and no predictable patterns other than location.
Unless new information surfaced—or unless Nezu resorted to a brute-force investigation that would take far too long—he had reached a dead end.
However.
That Monday, Blink had vanished.
Or rather—he hadn't intervened in a single crime that day.
Even accounting for the natural dip in crime rates during daylight hours, Nezu had been monitoring every camera within Blink's usual operating range. Petty crimes still occurred.
Normally, that was when Blink would strike.
Yet, today?
There was nothing.
Nezu thought of every possible reason behind this absence before thinking of the most probable.
As an educator, it was a time of month he knew all too well.
"...Is Blink," Nezu murmured softly, a smile slowly curling across his face.
"Perhaps a student?"
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A/N: I hope nezu's conjecture isn't an asspull cause its still just a guess. Also, while Nezu is introduced here, it'll take longer to him to offically be introduced to mc. Cause even if he has a probable lead, its like narrowing a multiple year search to like a one to two year search.
Also, just cause hagakure is introduced does not mean this is harem. One person all the way, remember that. Its just the the process and end is still under development.
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Small Author Q&A Section
I saw some comments about why big ps goals for small chaps and why some ps goals are so high and increasing?
I thought I explained it but i guess i wasn't clear enough. The reason I enjoy writing is to see everyone's comments and readers growing attached to the story.
One of the ways i can see that is ps and big numbers make me feel nice and creates determination, and giving extra chaps in return gives me a feeling of giving back to my supportive readers!
Extra chaps in my opinion are supposed to be a nice reward after everyone puts in their hopes and dreams(or something like that) and evolve beyond the person they were a minute before!
The first goal is supposed to be reachable, and the second is the one where you guys break your limits!
I don't know why yall's determination so strong tho
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Why are my extra chaps short?
I think my extra chaps are similar in length to my normal chaps so idk what you mean by short.
I don't have the attention span to write for so long cause i type slowly in addition to college stuff. So unless its a blue moon then chaps will unfortunately naturally be shorter than others. Also, short chaps like these stress me out less when writing.
Most of these decisions are done to prevent me from burning out and disappointing myself and you guys!
I don't mean to be disrespectful but isn't 3 chaps a week normally decent?
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Sorry for the somewhat long author's note but just wanted to get it out there I won't repeat in a future chap. The rest of the author's notes should be way shorter.
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2700PS - Not Complete
4900PS - Not Unlocked