Kael had walked across battlefields that spanned universes.He'd seen suns die in silence, felt the slow collapse of timelines like fading ripples in water, and rewritten events that would have ended reality a thousand times over.To him, the world was not a single thread — it was a weave of infinite strands, each representing a different possibility, a different reality.And in the center of that weave was him — or more accurately, his Anchor.
The Anchor was not a thing you could touch. It was not metal, stone, or code.It was an abstract constant, a fixed point in the chaos of infinite timelines.Every Kael in every reality was connected through it, their consciousness pooled into one singular awareness.He existed everywhere at once, aware of every version of himself — but controlled from here, from this body, in this timeline.
Through the Anchor, Kael could bend the weave.A hero's attack? Rewritten into a harmless gust of wind.A city on the brink of collapse? Adjusted so the buildings never fell.An enemy too strong? Simply erased from every timeline they existed in.
The only cost was… nothing.At least, nothing Kael cared to admit.
To him, altering the multiverse was like jotting down a grocery list.And lately? He was bored.
The pro hero Eraser Head — Aizawa Shouta — had been tracking strange spatial distortions across the city.People didn't notice them. Events would almost happen — disasters, accidents, crimes — but they'd just… resolve.It was like someone was erasing mistakes from the world before they were even made.
That someone was Kael.
When Aizawa finally found him, Kael wasn't hiding.He was sitting on the roof of an abandoned high-rise, legs dangling over the edge, watching the sunset as if he had nowhere better to be.
"You're the one causing the anomalies," Aizawa said flatly, scarf ready.Kael glanced at him and smirked.
"Anomalies? That's one way to describe fixing your broken game."
Aizawa narrowed his eyes. "You're coming with me."
Kael could have vanished from every possible timeline before Aizawa could blink.Instead, he tilted his head, grinning."Alright. Let's see what happens."
And for the first time in centuries of existence, Kael let himself be caught — simply because he thought it might be fun.