Today is the last day for us on I-ISLAND. Dad didn't have to do anything today. So he planned to spend all day with us.
"Good morning, Aska. Go brush your teeth," Mom walked into his room
*yawn* "Good morning mom" Aska said as he walked to the bathroom, sleepy.
After he brushed his teeth. The whole family headed downstairs to get breakfast. After breakfast, Aska's dad wanted to visit the showrooms of other companies. Aska went along because he wanted to see if there was any other cool equipment.
And to put it simply, there were a ton of different gadgets. from vehicles to simple ropes. Anything a hero could need was available. There was equipment for people with all kinds of quirks. His mom also seemed to be excited about the new technology, almost as much as his dad was.
'It's really impressive. All of these are actually helpful in one way or another,' Aska thought as he looked at some of the equipment around.
After walking around a bunch of showrooms and even trying some of their inventions, it was already 3 pm. It was lunchtime, so they decided to stop by one of the restaurants nearby.
"What do you want to eat, Aska?" Mom asked
"I want to eat pizza," Dad chimed in
"I asked Aska, not you!"
"Aska, my dear son, could you please tell your mother that we want to eat pizza?"
"Aska, don't listen to him. Pick anything you want," Mom cut in
Before he could answer, his dad already had some snarky answer ready, and he couldn't stop the two from having their usual arguments. It's actually heartwarming how the two are so open to each other like that.
(1st Person POV)
I decided not to stop them, but I subtly changed my walking direction while they were arguing, and they just followed me.
By the time they were done, we were at a plaza that had different stores that offered different types of food.
"Dad, you can get pizza if you want. See, there is a pizza place over there," I said while pointing at one of the restaurants.
"Alright, I'll get pizza. Do either of you want pizza?" Asked dad as he was ready to head to the pizza place.
"Let's see... oh, there is a ramen shop over there, I think I'll get ramen. What about you, Aska?" Mom looked at me
"Not sure yet. I want chicken, but not sure how I want it... Oh, I think I'll get some fried chicken." A Korean fried chicken joint caught my eye.
"Alright, let's go get our food, and then meet up in this area with the tables," Dad pointed at an area in the middle of the plaza with tables and chairs for people to sit and eat their food.
After that, we split, and I went with mom. There was a Korean food place near the ramen shop, and I got my fried chicken from there.
After we got the food, we sat together and enjoyed our meal, that was until mom took one of dad's pizza slices.
Well, after some snarky comments back and forth, she gave him some of her ramen, and it was all settled.
"Alright, Aska, it's your turn to pick what to do." Mom turned to me
"Why don't you pick, Mom?" I wasn't sure what I wanted
"Huh? Well, I already had fun in the showrooms this morning, so you pick," Mom shrugged her shoulders.
"I tried all of the courses yesterday, so I'm not sure what to do."
"What do you mean you tried all of them? The ones you tried were focused on attacking aspects and people with attacking quirks. There are more courses with different aspects like accuracy, maneuvering, and more." Mom smirked at me
"Really?!" I couldn't help but be surprised.
"Yeah. Do you want to go there?" Mom asked with a smirk on her face.
The feeling I had. I still remember the feeling I had yesterday with lightning around my body, running at a speed I could never dream of in my previous life.
"Yes, let's go there."
We started walking towards the courses mom mentioned before.
When we got there, there were a bunch of other kids trying to go through the courses. We were walking along the path with all the courses.
There was even a puzzle, and some kids tried to solve the puzzle together, but it looked like they struggled to solve it, even after working together.
Aska looked at them once and didn't bother with them anymore.
"I take it, you think you know how to solve it," Dad said after he saw the look on my face.
"Of course I do," I shrugged my shoulders.
"Really? Tell me then," Dad stopped, and he looked at the puzzle. I can tell he's solving it in his head right now.
Say what you will about my dad, but one thing everyone agrees on, he is a genius.
After hearing my dad's question, I looked at the puzzle again.
It was a hollow cube. It was opened from all sides; it only had the frame. It was about four feet by four feet. There were 10 wooden pieces, numbered from 1 to 10, that had to be put inside the cube in a certain way to fill the cube entirely.
It was technically a 3D Tetris game. The only issue is. The pieces are cut in a way that it looks like they would fit together in any combination, but there was only one, maybe two combinations that would actually work.
Aska was able to work it all together in his head and then said, "Piece number 9 is supposed to be bottom front right corner, number 3 in the left back corner… and lastly, number 4 will be in the center of everything without touching any of the corners" -Aska.
"That's close, but not quite right. Number 4 and number 7 look quite similar; the only difference is that 4 is a perfect square, 7 has one of the sides a little wider than the rest." Dad said with a smile on his face.
"Yeah, I know, that's why number 7 won't work as the centerpiece," I retorted back.
"You're not considering the other pieces around piece 4" -???
"Of course I am! Piece 7 works perfectly in the top right corner because the other pieces around it make a perfect fit. If we switch their places, then piece 8 won't fit with piece 4," I retorted again.
Didn't even notice the new person in the conversation.
After going back and forth with this mysterious person who butted into our conversation for some more time, I finally took my eyes off the puzzle and looked at who it was.
'Wait, she looks familiar! But I don't know her name.' I kept a cool face, but I think I recognized her from the anime.
"So are you finally convinced?" -???
"Of course not. I know I got the right solution."
"Let's go down there and solve it then" -???
"Fine. I'll show you that you're wrong, and I got the right answer" -Aska
After that, we went towards the puzzle. And we started to work on solving the puzzle.
She solved the puzzle her way first, which was correct. So I tried mine as well, and it was also correct?
"Congratulations, you two! you found the two ways to solve the puzzle!" shouted the conductor with joy.
After we looked at each other, she had this half approving look on her face, so I returned the same gesture.
"Nice to meet you, my name is Aska Minamoto."
"You're not half bad, Aska. My name is Saiko Intelli."
'That's why she looked familiar!' Aska remembered her. She was one of the few side characters he remembered from the show for one reason. In his previous life, he thought that if he could get one quirk from MHA to his world, he would go for hers.
Think about it, having a quirk that would give superintelligence in a world full of technology would be better than any other quirk. Besides, he would be the only one with a quirk, so he wouldn't have to worry about villains.
'Maybe I thought that because I had exams coming up when I first saw her in the show?' -Aska thought to himself.
"Well, anyway, it was nice talking with someone our age who is actually smart enough to hold a conversation without throwing a tantrum," she said as she walked away.
"Sure thing," is all I said before she was gone.
After she left, I started to look around me to see where mom and dad were. I was so focused on the puzzle that I forgot to keep track of them.
Thankfully, they were just standing on the sidelines watching me and the other kids solve the puzzle.
I walked towards them
"So how was it?" Dad asked when I got close to them.
"It was easy."
After dad and I talked for a bit, we decided to continue walking. While walking mom saw a place that sold Ice cream, and she bought us some.
We continued walking until we saw another area with courses.
There was one where a boy with, what I can only describe as telekinesis, was moving objects with different shapes and trying to fit them in a slot in a wall, each slot was shaped to match one of the pieces.
He kept trying till he was sweating. It took him some time, but he did it. After that boy, another one stepped up to do the same task.
The second boy had red hair. He stretched out his hands, and purple sparks came out, and then the shapes started to move.
'That boy is using magnetic force. Interesting.' I stopped walking and watched the boy.
'It feels like he is using lightning, but almost like a different wavelength.'
I stood on the sidelines at the closest point to the boy and then focused my observation haki solely on the boy. I observed everything, from his muscle movements to his breathing pattern, and even his body stance.
After observing for some time, I sat down cross-legged and started to take deep breaths.
Seeing me focused on what I'm doing, my parents were confused.
"What are you doing?" Dad was the first to ask
"Aska, is everything ok?" Mom sounded a little worried.
"I'm ok," Is all I say before tuning everything out.
'If I go off the wavelength of his magnetic force, I think I can match it.'
I kept sending out a slight electromagnetic wave, coupled with my observation haki, that I kept focused on the boy and the wavelength coming from him.
It took the boy an additional 11 minutes to finish the course; the whole time I was meditating, and trying to match my wavelength with the boy's. When the boy was done, and stopped using his quirk. I opened my eyes.
I held my hand out, and purple sparks danced around my fingers.
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Hello everyone, I hope you like the chapters so far.
Thank you to everyone who recommended names for the MC.
The first is the most popular choice, the second was a reader's recommendation, and the third was one I found online. Anyway, please pick one of the three below.
1) Raijin
2) Kirin
3) Haywire
Also, how do you all feel about Saiko Intelli? I thought maybe they would run into each other during the license exam and have a rematch of wits. Who knows.