Today's Hero Basic Training is apparently a rescue exercise. While I am relieved that I won't be sidelined again, I cannot say I am exactly looking forward to it. I want to fight, yet a "Hero" is expected to be proficient in rescue as well? It seems I truly must master the output of Reverse Cursed Technique… though I haven't the slightest feeling that I can achieve it.
During the two days I was absent, it seems the class found its leaders: Iida and Yaoyorozu. Apparently, my "underling" put himself forward for the role, but such a thing is beyond him. I don't mind him raging against Midoriya, but that tunnel vision is exactly why he lost.
I shall have to lecture that boy eventually. Since the Bakugos entrusted him to me, I cannot simply leave him to his own devices. But how to go about it? Should I break his spirit with overwhelming force? No, given his drive, that might have the opposite effect. I've taken a troublesome man as a subordinate, I'll give him that.
"So, what actually is Madoka-chan's Quirk?"
We were on the bus headed to the training grounds when Hagakure posed the question. Explaining it is a chore. Trying to describe Cursed Techniques and Cursed Energy to a "Non-Sorcerer" is the height of tedium. I'll just tell them I manipulate blood; that should satisfy them. It has to.
I suppose I should give them a visual aid.
"…Observe. It looks something like this."
I drew blood from the tips of my right fingers, suspending the liquid in the air. I set it spinning into a perfect sphere, then unspooled it like a length of rope, shaping it into something resembling Tokoyami's Dark Shadow.
"Whoa! Blood?! You can control blood?!"
"Incredible! That's the same as Vlad King! Does that mean you use it for binding? What an amazing Quirk!"
"Is that so? I should like to test ourselves against one another someday, to see whose is superior."
Honestly, Midoriya. Must your eyes sparkle quite so much? And do not lean in so close. Why are you so excited? Surely you do not share the same… "tastes" as Himiko?
I won't give it to you. The only one allowed to drink my blood, now and forever, is…
…Stop. Enough. This is not the time to be thinking of Himiko. I've been completely tainted by her. If I lose my mind as well, who will be left to keep her in check?
"But wait… if that's your Quirk, what was that black light from yesterday? That didn't look like blood at all…"
Midoriya, I beg of you, do not touch upon that. That was a mere accident. Black Flash is a miraculous fluke.
I've made a mess of this. I should have stuck to my technique during the fitness test… how do I lie my way out of this? Should I spin some plausible-sounding theory? No, what possible connection could blood have to a flash of light? At this rate, it might actually be easier to tell the truth… especially since the brat sitting nearby is clearly listening in and looks far from convinced.
"That… is called Black Flash. It occurs when I use my Qu—my power… with a margin of error of less than a millionth of a second from a physical blow. It is exceptionally rare. To aim for it and pull it off is utterly impossible."
Even across two lifetimes, I have only experienced it twice. If I could unleash it at will, my tactical options would expand ten-fold, but there isn't a sorcerer in existence who can land a Black Flash on command. Perhaps Sukuna could. If so, that man cannot even be called a monster anymore.
A sorcerer who can freely manipulate the Black Flash would be the definition of "The Strongest." Its power is devastating. It is not something that should be used lightly.
"…Oh? Is… is that so?"
"It is… indeed… so."
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