"Ughh..."
Adam lay on the sand, his eyelids trembling, his vision trying to autofocus like a broken camera lens.
He blinked once and Twice then shot upright with the reflex of a student who realized he is late for the exam that decides his entire life.
"What!? Where!? The sun is setting! ALLAHU AKBAR, how long was I out!?"
His head throbbed as memories surged back in shattered flashes.
"That rune… that cursed rune… that _EX-rank_ gacha… the doomsday glyph that looked like it wanted to delete my existence… then it entered my head like a missile, then information bombarded my already fried rotten potato brain as if a USB was shoved into my skull… and… and those enormous gates… and that voice…"
He grabbed his head with both hands from the splitting headache, his eyes were wide and his breathing was fast, the terror and the excitement of that moment is something he will never forget.
"THAT WASN'T A DREAM, RIGHT!? RIGHT!?!"
He slapped his own cheek.
SMACK THAT
"Ouch! Okay, Not a dream. YESS!!! Not a dream!"
His chest throbbed with a wild chaotic excitement, the type you get when your favorite anime character finally undergoes a transformation, or experience an intense emotional moment and unlocked a new power up… except you are the anime character this time.
"So… so the EX gacha… I actually… I ACTUALLY GOT A POWER, or a CURSE!? IT DOESN'T Mater, as long as it's supernatural, I'll take it! As they say, there's no righteous or evil power, only righteous or evil people. And I, Hantakour-Sama, will use this power for the greater good of humanity!"
He could barely sit still. His soul was vibrating. His legs were jittering.
Adam closed his eyes.
"Okay Hantakour-Sama… calm down...NO, DON'T CALM DOWN! THIS IS A SUPERPOWER!"
"BISMILLAH!"
He reached inward, toward that strange new "something" inside him.
Don't let your mind wander, he is talking about the power!!! you hear me, the power!!!
He didn't know how to summon it.
He didn't need to know.
Just like you don't know how your stomach digests food and dump it out, you just… do it.
His instincts pulled, His guts clenched.
And then...
A swirling, devouring ink-black darkness burst around his right hand. It swallowed it whole, making him look from a distance like someone missing a palm.
It's Not the darkness of shadow, But the darkness of complete absence of light, it doesn't reflect, it's pure black, darker than the dark, black than the black, nigger than the niggers.
"Ya(oh) Latif (The Gentle/Gracious One)...SUGOI!!!"
Adam's jaw dropped open.
His face broke into the most idiotic, joyful, proud grin a man has ever worn in human history.
"MOM LOOK AT YOUR SON!!! HE HAS A SUPERPOWER!!!"
Adam stared at his right hand, His heartbeat pounded in his ears in a symphony of joy, he swear he could hear it playing the overtaken ost of one piece!
He curled his fingers slowly, watching the inky black darkness shrink and expand at his will.
A laugh escaped him, A shaky, disbelieving, joy-drunk laugh.
"Heh Ha Ha...I… I FINALLY have a REAL SUPERPOWER!"
It burst out of him louder than he intended.
He fell backwards onto the sand, right hand raised, looking at it, then looking up at the sky with wide, wet eyes.
He felt like something inside his chest broke open, not painfully, but like an obsession that had formed a knot in his heart, finally that knot was opened.
"Ya Rab… after all this… after everything… Just when i thought it's impossible...I finally… I finally got one."
For a moment, he didn't move.
He just let the feeling wash over him.
A future suddenly grew in his mind, a life that wasn't pathetic, invisible, hopeless.
'With this power...A foothold… I Can have a foothold in this alien world…'
He could survive now.
Grow.
Become stronger, become richer, become a hero.
Not a nobody hiding in a junk filled coast.
Before He got the Hero system and This power, He tried hard to suppress the unease about the future, about how to survive, as a 15yo foreigner boy with no identity, homeless, poor, the future was dark, but now, he not only saw hope of surviving, but even hope of returning home.
And then...his imagination jumped straight off a cliff.
"…Wait… if I become strong… really strong…"
A slow grin spread.
"I could… I could have a halal harem, right?"
His brain immediately betrayed him.
Cat girl wife… dog girl wife… bunny girl wife…
All wearing hijab, of course.
All good Muslim alien girls.
The future Adam was imagining looked like someone fused My Hero Academia with Monster Musume and then added Islamic law to balance it.
"Bro… BRO...For some reason I don't want to return home."
His smile got stupidly wide.
"This world has so many species, I could..."
SLAP
He smacked himself so hard his cheek burned.
"ASTAGHFIRULLAH! OI! YOU UNGRATEFUL THING, YOU DARE TO THINK OF SUCH SINFUL THINGS SO SOON? YOU HAD JUST ACQUIRED THIS POWER! DON'T LET THE POWER CORRUPT YOU! DON'T FAILL IN THE TEST! I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL TO GOD FOR GIVING ME THIS POWER AND THINK OF USING IT TO DO GOOD DEEDS NOT TO FULFIL MY DIRTY DESIRES! CONTROL YOURSELF!"
He shook his head violently kicking away all the dirty thoughts, his Focus came back.
"…I shouldn't be thinking about that...at least Not now."
If his mother saw him thinking about cat-girl wives right after receiving a miracle, she would smack him into the stratosphere.
"I can't… I can't disappoint them. Not like this."
He took a deep breath, grounding himself.
Then, slowly…
A calm, proud smile formed on his lips.
"Let's test it."
His excitement began creeping back in, stronger now, but clearer.
"This is my first superpower. My FIRST!!!"
"Nega-Kun, You took my superpower V card, Yamete kudasai Nega-kun...Ahh!!! I love you Nega-Kun!"
"GAY!!!"
A sound resounded through heaven and Earth waking him up from his hentai filled excitement.
His fingers trembled.
Not because he feared the power…
Because he had waited for this feeling his entire life.
Memories clawed up from the depths of his humiliating teenage years:
Hiding in his parents bedroom, the only room that has door that can be closed, at the day, when nobody in home.
not to do something dirty, just the usual Nen training.
Performing Nen water divination with a glass cup with leaf on it, hoping the water would overflow because maybe, just maybe, he had Nen.
Practicing breathing techniques from fake qigong masters on YouTube who promised "awaken your inner Qi in five days."
doing Naruto hand signs until his wrists cramped.
He rolled on the sand, covering his face with both hands.
"What kind of idiot was I…? Wallahi, the obsession was crazy…"
The obsession became even outrageous when he discovered xianxia novels.
He had spent nights imagining himself sensing Qi, Absorbing it through self made up breathing exercises and chaotic movements.
while real life stayed painfully normal.
He wasn't different.
He wasn't special.
He was just a guy who loved anime and novels a bit too much.
But now...
Adam sat up, wiping his face.
A soft, trembling smile.
The kind that comes from the soul.
"I'm… I'm really different now."
His hand ignited again in that impossible, ink-like darkness.
He stared at it with shining eyes, the eyes of someone who had finally, finally tasted the thing they chased since childhood.
for the first time in years…
He felt alive.
Adam Looked left and right, he was surrounded by sand, sea shells, pebbles, water, he was a little bit far away from the junks area which is in his opinion the best testing ground, but he was too lazy to go back.
He randomly grabbed a pebble.
"hmm...what properities i should try this power on, According to that Voice, i can only affect physical phenomenon, so i can't do crazy sttufs like affecting causality, time, etc...,"
"A Pebble had a small weight, smooth surface, it's hard to break, oh! i got it! hardness!!!"
Finding a suitable target, Adam held the pebble in his right hand.
Focusing on the property he targeted, Hardness, he said.
"This pebble isn't hard."
The power didn't rely on words, but speaking helped him enforce his will.
The blackness seeped into the pebble, coating it completely.
Then Adam felt something being extracted from him.
"dame un Grrrrrrr...."
His already empty stomach growled like a furious beast.
as if complaining : 'You didn't even feed me and now you're stealing my hidden energy!? take this!'
A dizzying wave of hunger hit him, the kind that makes a person feel faint and weak.
He hadn't felt this hungry except when he fasted without having suhoor (suhoor is the food you eat before Adhan al fajr (dawn prayer) in order to fast the whole day till adan al maghrib (sunset prayer))
"ugh..i feel like eating a whole cow... slurp "
He wiped his dripping saliva and forced himself to ignore the hunger.
"It's just a small pebble and it consumed this much?… Or is it because I was already hungry? Well, let's see the effect...please don't let me down."
The blackness around the pebble faded.
The pebble looked normal as if nothing had changed.
But when Adam pressed it gently between his thumb and index finger…
…the pebble simply... gave up!
It didn't crack, Nor it shattered, It Just simply… collapsed, like it forgot how to be solid.
It sagged like overcooked dough, squishing outward in slow motion, slumping between his fingers as though its insides had turned into grey pudding.
The pebble's structure was still there, its atoms still together, but the rigidity, the thing that let a solid stay solid, was turned off by His negation power.
"This is… Dangerous" Adam gulped down his nervousness as he watched the shapeless blob ooze onto his palm.
He felt a chill at the thought of something like this happening to a human, it will be horrifying, disguisting, and ptsd inducing.
"that voice said, anything under the physical phenomenon i can negate it, although hardness look like an abstract concept, but it's within my authority, within my perception, touch, and understanding, that's why i can negate it."
hardness wasn't some mysterious idea. It was physical, Something you could touch and feel.
A pebble is hard because its tiny particles lock together tightly, forming a rigid structure, having Strong bonds means having Stronger resistance, That's all hardness is.
So when Adam negated "hardness,"
everything that made hardness real inside the pebble
every little force, every tiny bond, was turned off.
Like removing the beams from a house.
The house doesn't explode.
It just collapses.
And the pebble did exactly that.
"But I doubt if it gonna work on conceptual Hardness, Like Hard Times, Hard Heart, Hard feelings, or Hard Excalibur, NO... probably it will work, it is still physical! DAMN, don't think about it, just the thought about it sent chills running through my spin... but i doubt about the others, as they either fall under abstract concepts or spiritual phenomenon."
Adam flicked the mushy grey lump off his fingers.
"…well, I don't think i have the energy to do other experiments, let's go hunt for food now."
As much as he wanted to experiment more with his new power, Adam understood his priority. If he dared to use it again now, he would end up in a dire situation, no energy to hunt for food, and possibly dying from starvation.
"I remember seeing a fishing net… I hope it's still usable."
Adam stood up and walked toward the junk area.
"BANG!!!"
The sound of a huge explosion reached Adam's ears.
"Damn!!! Explosion? I just got a superpower and now they're gonna put a terrorist label on me if they catch me!"
Adam followed the direction of the explosion and saw a black cloud rising into the sky.
"This world isn't peaceful at all… as expected of this alien Japanese superpowered world. Almost like the anime I used to watch. Japan being the center of conflict as always. Well, it has nothing to do with me. I just want to eat something to fill my stomach, train my ability, and until I can deploy a defensive barrier that negates any damage around me, I won't leave this safe zone!"
Adam was about to continue on his way, only to notice something supernatural happening.
"Titan woman?! SO BIGGG!!!" Adam's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. He saw a female titan growing in size until she reached the height of buildings, running straight toward the explosion area.
Even from afar, he could hear the impact of her footsteps shaking the ground.
"Wait… why does she look familiar…"
Adam closed his left eye, it had astigmatism, and opening both reduced his sharpness. He used only his right eye and pressed his fingers around it to shrink the viewing area and increase clarity.
The titan woman had blonde hair and wore a purple, beige–white hero costume with a mask that covered her eyes and formed purple horns on her head.
Adam rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
"No… she can't be… no way… she's just in an anime… yeah, just a resemblance… no way I'm in an anime…"
Adam looked back at the junk area and recalled the familiar feeling he always had, that strange sense of déjà vu that bothered him but he could never pinpoint.
*DING*
[Incident requiring heroic intervention detected.
Collecting environmental data…
Scanning…
User's hero level too low for full analysis.
Cross-referencing user's interdimensional knowledge…
Match confirmed.
Issuing mission.]
{ MISSION : RESCUE BAKUGO KATSUKI }
Difficulty: E
Description:
Bakugo Katsuki, classified as a high-potential hero candidate with projected A-Rank ceiling. has been taken hostage by a villain possessing a sludge-based quirk. The villain is attempting to forcibly assimilate Bakugo and acquire his quirk.
If successful, projected threat scaling:
Short-term: District-level
Mid-term: City-level
Long-term: National-level
Your objective is to prevent this outcome by rescuing Bakugo.
Additional Data:
• Multiple Pro Heroes detected on-site.
• All Might, One Of The Strongest Heroes in this world is present, overall risk drastically reduced.
• User possesses an Ex rank ability with cross-level combat potential.
• User's physical condition: below average.
• User's current state: severe hunger, low energy reserves.
→Punishment exempted.
Reward: 1000 Merits — 1000 Exp
Punishment: None (user condition classified as critical).
As if to confirm his worst suspicion, the Hero System drove the final nail into doubt.
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A Message to My Readers
Thank you all for following this story. I want to be honest with you, I'm taking my time with the next chapters.
Not because I'm lazy, and not because I lost motivation, far from it. It's because I'm tired of seeing the same tropes repeated in every My Hero Academia fanfic. The same formulas, the same plot beats, the same predictable twists. I don't want to write something you've already read a hundred times.
I want to build something different.
Right now, I'm plotting carefully, slowly, because I want this story to break the mold while still respecting the original world. I'm doing deductions, running through different scenarios, and searching for ideas that are unexpected yet logical. Something that fits My Hero Academia's setting, but still surprises you. Something that makes you say, "Yeah… this is new."
So I'm taking my time because I refuse to be "just another fanfic."
And I hope you're here because you also want to see a different Hero Academia.
InshaAllah, I won't disappoint your trust. I'll give you the best My Hero Academia story I can write, the one that stands apart.
Thank you for your patience, and thank you for believing in this journey.