Chapter 15
“I mean, yes, you can make whatever and that’s that, but… There has to be a way to improve on that, right? Something for you to work with,” Kazuki pointed out as Yaoyorozu and him talked between each other. They were two of the five people currently in the room, the others being… The boy with the bird head, the one with the scar on his face and… ‘Iida, was it? I should really start remembering everyone’s names,’ he thought to himsel...
2023-07-06 17:52:51 +0000 UTC
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Mt. Moon I
Pierce held back a groan as he pushed himself up with his arms before going down again. Push ups sucked, he decided for what felt like the hundredth time that day. Exercising as a whole sucked, actually, but it wasn’t like he could stop, really. Not only would Narcissa have something to say about that, but keeping up would set a good example for the other two…
‘Although, I don’t think they need it, really,’ he thought wryly, ...
2023-07-05 17:52:14 +0000 UTC
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Ain’t No Mercy for the Heartless
[Raynare]
She couldn’t believe what she’d been reduced to. The attack dog of a human, of all things. She was aware, to her dismay and her disgust, that she’d been barely more than that before too, but at least then she’d served people stronger than her, people higher than her. The Cadre of Grigori were who she admired, who she wanted to ...
2023-07-04 17:52:33 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 14
With a… sort of battlecry, Kamakiri jumped over the plates of Kazuki’s Boarbatusk. The boy had found that his blades couldn’t quite cut through the plating of the summoned creature, and had thus started just outright avoiding it until there was no other option. For the moment, he seemed to be focusing on dealing with the two Beowolves that accompanied the other Grimm.
Off to the side, Kazuki found himself sparring with Yaoyorozu. In contrast with ...
2023-06-29 17:53:58 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City XVI
“I’m almost gonna miss the ponyta,” Lily said, smiling widely as she patted one of the aforementioned pokemon on the back after picking out its hooves. “Almost, but this is a little more work than I really want to do, honestly. Besides, most of it is not really spending time with the pokemon, which is the good part.”
“I mean, Arnold’s company is good too,” Pierce pointed out, groaning as he stood up and stretched his back. “All do...
2023-06-28 17:51:52 +0000 UTC
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Taking Time, Just One Step Forward
“Sometimes I wonder if Kunou is the only child here,” Yasaka mused out loud, drawing a chuckle out of Joshua. She couldn’t fool him, after all, especially not with the smile on her face. Besides, she couldn’t have made him feel bad no matter what, not with Kunou giggling happily in the air above him.
As it turned out, he’d been talking about one of his exp...
2023-06-27 17:51:53 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 13
“I-Er, can I offer you something? I don’t have much but… Er, I have coffee, pretty sure there was tea somewhere and, um, water?” Kazuki asked, unsure of what to do with All Might in his apartment. And that wasn’t even taking into account whatever weird shit was going on with the man’s body and the pain he was feeling.
“Water would be fine, Young Endo,” the man said and Kazuki scrambled to get a pair of glasses and a pitcher with...
2023-06-22 17:52:50 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City XV
A whole new day had come already and Pierce found himself sitting at the stands with a snack in hand. The tournament was on its last stretch and it showed. There was a significantly larger amount of people there for it that day, which made sense. The final matches were much more important and exciting, Pierce guessed.
Which was… kind of funny, because watching as Lily battled her opponent in the semi-finals, he couldn’t help but think that some ...
2023-06-21 17:54:04 +0000 UTC
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I Stand Here Right Beside You
[Xenovia Quarta]
“You didn’t have to help us, Joshua,” she heard Griselda say. She couldn’t bring herself to look at her though, least of all because she was standing right in front of Davis. Xenovia wasn’t sure why, precisely, but she just didn’t feel comfortable looking at the man after the things she’d said to him and how his familiar sa...
2023-06-20 17:54:24 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 12
All Might wasn’t getting better and Kazuki knew it. He could feel the man walking around in just as much pain as he’d been before. ‘Why hasn’t Recovery Girl healed him or something?’ he wondered as he walked through the corridors of U.A. If the Number One hero was intent on staying like that for whatever reason, then Kazuki had half a mind to go and ask him what the fuck was going on. That shit was difficult to ignore by itself, ne...
2023-06-15 17:53:20 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City XIV
“Really glad about that,” Pierce mumbled, getting an agreeing feeling from Cygnus. There had just been an announcement that the guy that had been using Self-Destruct nonstop had been disqualified and that their pokemon were fine and being looked after by the Pokemon Center staff for the moment. It had been very reassuring to hear but Pierce couldn’t help but wonder if it would have been better for them to intervene before it got to that point. Then...
2023-06-14 17:52:46 +0000 UTC
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Feel the Weight of What We Owe
[Kalawarna]
“What do you want from me?” she asked desperately “Please, don’t do this. There has to be something I can do, please!” she continued pleading, her words falling on deaf ears while the human continued doing his own thing.
Davis seemed to pay her absolutely no mind as he started setting up his spells, wards and hexes both. She ...
2023-06-13 17:55:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 11
Kazuki could barely sleep that night.
For once, that wasn’t a bad thing, however. Instead of being kept up by his empathy feeding him emotions that kept his brain from drifting off, he was kept up by the giddy realization that he’d acted like a hero. He was still riding that high even the day after. He’d fallen asleep late and he’d woken up awfully early, but that was fine.
Being so… proud and happy was a new experience for Kazuki and he...
2023-06-08 17:53:01 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City XIII
Pierce was once more sitting at the stands for the tournament battles with Cygnus sitting on his shoulders. There wasn’t a whole lot of conversation going on, however. Since the abra had been training the previous day, he’d been exhausted that day. Especially considering he’d pushed off his sleep quite a bit. Truly, having only around six hours of activity in a day was a bit limiting, but it was how it was. Pierce was certainly not gonna push his ...
2023-06-07 17:52:17 +0000 UTC
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Push to Keep the Dark From Coming
Meals had become a bit of an awkward affair with the Fallen Angels living at his place now, since they ate at the same time and at the same table as the rest of Asia, Jeanne and him. They knew not to do anything, of course, and he kept a close eye on them at all times with his wards and senses, but that didn’t change the fact that they were. None of them could quite put ...
2023-06-06 17:52:45 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 10
“Agh,” Mineta cried out after Kazuki kicked him in the chest and sent him flying back until he fell on his butt. The negative sensor didn’t have much time to celebrate that small victory though, because he was trying and failing to catch a glimpse of Hagakure’s gloves or boots. But the time he saw one of them, he was hit with a fist to the face.
“Fuck… That’s annoying,” he grumbled after his head snapped to the side and back. Turning to ...
2023-06-01 17:52:41 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City XII
“One of my friends is gonna be participating in the tournament,” Pierce said, sitting across from someone in the Pokemon Center. It was a little strange to see the place empty, admittedly. Most trainers, after all, had moved to where the aforementioned competition would be held. The only people still in were him, the person sitting across the table and a handful of Center staff that remained. Many of those latter ones had moved to provide assistance ...
2023-05-31 17:53:08 +0000 UTC
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We Couldn’t See It, but We Created
Light spears were shot towards him, but Joshua needed only to raise his hand to block them with Neutral Shields, and sometimes not even that. If he was in the middle of motions or just didn’t feel like it, he’d use the Blessing of Set and just let the attacks pass through the parts of his body that turned into sand. The two Fallen fighting with him had already reali...
2023-05-30 17:53:28 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 9
It hit him like a wrecking ball against his whole body. It washed over him like he’d been thrown into one of those pools in frozen lakes. His body started shaking immediately, his breathing becoming erratic and the world around him started swirling.
Panic.
Fear and nerves and desperation and anxiety and-
Panic.
Kazuki’s stomach twisted and turned. He started sweating and breathing was a struggle. There were screams all arou...
2023-05-25 17:53:18 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City XI
“Two,” Lily said, looking at him incredulously as he just shrugged with a sheepish expression. “I leave you alone for a bit and you don’t get one, but two new pokemon? You trying to show me up or something?”
“I mean, I’m as surprised as you, probably more,” Pierce replied with a wry grin, running his fingers through his hair. “Honestly, I really didn’t see that coming, but I guess that’s what happened.”
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2023-05-24 18:00:45 +0000 UTC
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-Fanning the Flames
“... You’re already doing great, it seems,” Joshua commented, looking over the circle that had been modified by one of his students. More specifically, the woman that had only recently joined his class. From what he was gathering by looking at the original thing on another piece of paper, she’d done a relatively good job.
That was mostly how he dealt with it when it came t...
2023-05-23 17:53:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 8
‘The press is at the school’s entrance because of All Might,’ Kazuki read on the screen of his phone, which made his insides turn unpleasantly. ‘I’d recommend you don’t say anything at all and just get to class.’
That was the message he got from one of the UA teachers. If anything he appreciated the warning, and also the fact that they recommended he not talk. They could have just as easily demanded or ordered...
2023-05-18 17:52:01 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City X
“I still can’t believe you got a class from a Gym Leader,” Lily said, throwing her hands up in the air.
“Lily, you got a class from a Gym Leader, you were right there with me,” Pierce commented, giving the girl an unimpressed look. “Hell, you asked more questions than I did.”
She looked away then, her ears turning red.
“Sorry about that, I got excited,” she mumbled, still not turning to face him.
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2023-05-17 17:52:19 +0000 UTC
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Pouring the Fuel-
“Joshua.”
“Griselda,” he replied in kind after the teleportation was finished. On his shoulder, Margalo chirped her own greeting cheerfully while Cheshire did accordingly in her lynx form to his right. “I’d say it’s good to see you, but…”
“The situation is less than ideal, indeed,” she said with a smile on her face that seemed to try to hide a grimace. ...
2023-05-16 17:52:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 7
“Hm, I’d say,” All Might started, with a fairly quiet voice that took Kazuki off guard. He was sure he hadn’t heard the guy speak that low… ever, really. “THE BEST IN THIS MATCH WAS YOUNG ENDO!” he announced, much more loudly. ‘That’s more like it,’ Kazuki thought with a grimace, before he blinked as he processed what their teacher had said. “WHO KNOWS WHY?!” All Might asked then, as he shuffled.
“Nervous?” Toru whisp...
2023-05-11 17:53:47 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City IX
“I can’t believe you didn’t tell me it was your birthday until today,” Pierce said accusingly as he glared at his sheepish traveling companion across the table. “And I can’t believe you are nineteen.”
“Hey, what’s that supposed to mean? Trainers start at eighteen,” she asked him, looking very much offended by his statement. Well, that had been a piece of knowledge that had somehow escaped him until that moment. ‘No...
2023-05-10 17:52:17 +0000 UTC
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It’s Gonna Get Harder From Here
[George Pickingill]
He sat there, waiting nervously as his teacher went over some of the notes he shared with him. Why someone as high up in the magical community as Joshua Davis wanted to learn more about his magic, George didn’t know. It was a bit baffling, all things considered, really.
Don’t get him wrong, he liked Recovery Mag...
2023-05-09 17:54:33 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 6
“The fuck are you wearing, Tiny?” Kazuki asked, giving his first friend an unimpressed expression. Well, an argument could be made regarding Bubbly, but the point stood. “Why does your costume have diapers? I know you are kind of a coward, but still, man.”
“It’s a bowl,” Mineta growled at him, eye twitching. “It’s bowl, and my hair is the grapes, don’t you get it?”
“I mean, after you say it…” Pinky muttered unde...
2023-05-04 17:53:36 +0000 UTC
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Pewter City VIII
“Both, Narcissa, at the same time!” Lily called and Pierce looked on in interest, holding a cup of tea in his hand. On his lap was a notebook and next to him a small pile of books he’d gotten to study from. Most of them were what he’d picked up for his First Aid License but there were a few others that held very interesting information too.
As he studied a bit before having to go check on the onix, Pierce had decided to sit on the sideline...
2023-05-03 17:52:56 +0000 UTC
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To Make Sleeping Giants Wake Up
“Misteeta, come on!” someone cried out before Joshua nicked them a handful of times with his daggers. With a groan, Gandoma deflated, letting himself fall to the ground. Almost distractedly, the human then blocked a sword to his back, courtesy of Kiba.
“I’m trying goddamnit,” Sairaorg’s Bishop replied then, waving his staff around. “He has too many tricks...
2023-05-02 17:53:30 +0000 UTC
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