The fire spread quickly, creating a miniature fire wall that separated Keita's group from Diego and the rest.
"I can't believe it, he dodged it," Keita said, staring at Diego in denial.
The rest of his group had arrived beside him, all with the same expression as Keita.
"What do we now Keita? He's the fastest one we've seen so far; he's no ordinary freak." One of them asked worriedly.
The group was experienced in combat and had killed several people with quirks, though all of them were weak and basic. All sorts of outcomes ran through Keita's mind in an instant as he bit his fingernails nervously.
'We should run away, no, that's dumb, he's definitely not going to let us leave after what we just did. A fight then? no he's superhuman, we'll lose badly and maybe even get killed, fuck, fuck, there's no way out of this...unless.' A mischievous glint flickered in his eyes.
"We fight, boys!" Keita shouted, raising his bat.
"W-What, Keita, are you trying to get us killed?"
"No way, he's too strong."
"Were out of our depth here."
Several disagreements rang out from the group. They looked at Keita, who had his head down, but then he turnt around suddenly with tears on his face.
"Think about your family. If we run away now, that monster would still be out there, ready to kill more innocent people. We have to fight!" He gripped his shirt tightly, pleading desperately, but inside, he was laughing.
"Keita." The one in front of him said in shock, he had never seen Keita tear up.
"Think about your daughter, Inaki," Keita said, grabbing the dude now named Inaki by the collar.
An image of Ino smiling with a mouthful of cake on her fifth birthday flashed through his mind. His previous nervousness was replaced by a fierce determination to kill Diego as he stared him down.
The same thing happened to the rest of the group, flashes of loved ones that they desperately care for and would do anything for pass through their minds. They gripped their weapon tightly as they briskly walked around the fire to a now standing Diego.
There were no words that needed to be exchanged. It was clear to Diego that there was no reasoning with them, so why should he waste his breath pleading, he thought.
Diego was even more clueless when it came to fighting than the average person, but knowing that his strength and that his opponents were most likely some random schmucks gave him the confidence he needed to fight.
They surrounded Deigo, Kani, and Neko, forming a small circle and then attacked as one. Diego intercepted all attacks aimed at Kani and Neko using his speed. He was like a blur from the point of view of everyone except him.
He broke their weapons and sent multiple flying with a punch to the gut, knocking the wind out of them. In just a few seconds, only two remained out of the original 12. The last one left looked around at his close friends, who were knocked unconscious and spread around the area.
They never had a shot in the first place; it was never a fight.
"M-Mons-"
Before he could finish his statements, Diego knocked him unconscious with a casual punch to the face. He wasn't trying to kill them after all and was holding back, so he didn't accidentally crush their skulls. Neko and Kani stared in awe at Diego, he was there real life superhero, they thought.
"Hm? Where is Keita?" Diego looked around at the group, and none of there face matched Keita's. He then looked ahead, fifty meters in front, Keita was running as if his life depended on it.
He had abandoned his friends and used the fight as a distraction to escape; that was his big scheme.
"So you're not only a scum but a coward as well," Diego spat out.
He crouched down and then jumped up high in the air, cracking the concrete. He rose to 100 meters in the air before landing in front of a surprised Keita. Before Keita could plead for mercy, Diego punched him with a right hook to the jaw, knocking him out.
'I already gave you enough chances.' Diego thought.
He ran back to Neko and Kani, who were still staring at him in wonder, but eventually snapped out of it.
"Thank you for saving us again, you're our hero!" They both said simultaneously, smiling.
"I'm no hero." Diego looked down, clenching his fist, still vividly remembering eating that poor man. "Anyways, I'm a bit new around these parts, could you tell me what's going on? Why are people attacking you guys?" He asked, looking back up at them.
"You don't know?" Kani asked in disbelief.
"Well, he does look like a foreigner; maybe the war hasn't hit his country yet," Kani added.
She looked Diego up and down, noting his golden hair and golden eyes, but she also noticed his unusually pale skin. She had been so starstruck by his beauty when he first turnt around that she didn't spot it.
"Your skin is really pale. Are you okay?" She asked, concernedly.
"Yeah, it's just a skin condition." Diego lied.
"Oh, okay, that's good to know, but to give you a rundown on what's going on, people have started being born with meta abilities, which are basically superpowers, and it's created a divide between the non-metas and the metas."
'Meta abilities? I feel like I've heard that before.' Diego thought, trying to remember.
"The first instance of someone being born with meta abilities that the world knew of was born in China, twenty years ago, in 1966. They were known around the world as the Luminescent Baby, but recently they've been killed, and nobody has a clue who." Kani said gravely.
She and Neko had just heard the news recently and was devested by it. The Luminescent Baby had started a movement of over 10 million people around the world to call for peace and return to a safe society. They looked up to him and even planned to join his movement before his untimely death.
'Oh my god, I really am in My Hero Academia, and in the chaos era no less, which means I'll have to deal with All For One.' Diego's eyes widened in realization.
His original plan was completely thrown off, which was to simply explore this world and his vampire ability, but no fighting was going to be involved; it wasn't that he wouldn't fight, but he just didn't see it as necessary.
But now he couldn't just explore; he had to settle in Japan for a while and fight All For One, and stop this war, but a thought flashed by his mind.
'Do I really have to get involved in this war? I don't know anybody in this world; I wouldn't be fighting for anything except my own safety. What exactly would I be fighting for? Peace? But it's going to get sorted out anyway, and All Might would deal with All For One in the future. I really don't have to involve myself in anything and could just chill, but that's not right, is it? If I have the power..I should be doing something, but I'm not sure.'
Diego was facing a dilemma on one hand, he didn't want to involve himself in a war he had no attachment to or risk his life fighting All for One, he wasn't sure if he was truly immortal and he didn't want to test that out but on the other hand, it was the right thing to do - with great power comes great responsibility like the great Uncle Ben said.
'If I leave All For One alone and the war, it would be the option I would feel most content with, but I would lose my freedom, I wouldn't be able to live in a society that I so desperately wanted to, it's hard enough that I'm a vampire but now I got to deal with quirk manics and racist manics on the daily while trying to get some milk.'
Freedom was the most important thing to Diego; if he wasn't free, then he wasn't himself. So he made a choice that would change everything and affect everyone for centuries.
'I'll stop this war and defeat All For One.'
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A/N: I'm starting the first powerstone goal, make sure to drop some PS and add this to your library.
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