131: 𝑇𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑑
Kira fought without getting tired.
She fought without pain or immediate consequence.
She felt... Nothing. She hated it. She wondered... How Tammy had managed to live like this. What was the point? The height and depth of emotion, the highs and lows of life is what made it... Exciting. Worth living.
Kira felt no adrenaline. Even though her life was on the line. She felt no fear, even when staring into the eyes of death itself. It... Bored her.
While everyone else was awestruck.
The fight was too big. All for one grew in size faster than Kira could cut him down. His only advantage was the fact that he had the ability to completely morph his shape. All while not allowing Kira to get close enough to touch him for more than a few seconds.
Worst of all his quirks were still completely active. Anything was possible. Shigaraki stretched beyond Kira's reach. Hands reaching to touch anything. To destroy everything.
Feathers whizzed around. Cutting him apart according to her will. But that wasn't the only thing stopping him.
Bang
Bakugou Katsuki made it his mission to keep any hand-like part of this monster from touching the ground.
Bam
Precisely aimed cannon balls tore through him as well. Manned by Momo with the help of Hagakure from afar.
Zap
Aoyama shot his navel Lazer straight at all for one. Or Shigaraki. Or whoever it was they were fighting. All supporting Kira, all feeling the rush of the fight.
Kira didn't.
"You're so boring compared to earlier..." Her opponent hissed. She barely heard her.
"I'm sick of this." Kira whispered under her breath. Maybe he heard her, maybe he didn't. No one knew. "Thousand spear attack."
A combination attack. Kira's first. The blade quirk came from her hands, another: spear-like bone formations came from her arms and legs. She was pretty sure that had been all for one's mother's quirk. Feathers multiplied. Stabbing while unconnected to Kira's wings. Which spread backwards.
A small mistake.
A ball of light came towards Kira. The wings she had been using as shields were unable to come forward due to the amount of obstacles created by her attack.
She impaled Shigaraki a thousand times.
Her wings flapped desperately to lift her up. If she had been just a second faster she could have escaped completely.
If she didn't have corpse... She would have felt the unimaginable pain of losing both her legs to fire.
There weren't any screams from Kira. But her allies cried out in horror as they saw her sudden lack of appendages.
Shigaraki was pinned to the ground by her attack. He wasn't dead, there was no way it would be that easy. But he was down. The heroes used this chance to destroy as much of his artificial body as they could. All trying to expose his actual body. Hoping that someone could bear the final blow.
Kira fell. Parts of her wings either were destroyed or were being used to hold Shigaraki down. Like a bug pinned to a spreading board. Her legs were bleeding severely... At least they would be, if Kira had that much blood left.
She was dangerously low on it. But corpse kept her going. She didn't need it.
"Corpse, reanimate." Tammy whispered. Kira felt something slightly... The smallest tingle where her legs were supposed to be.
She flapped her wings a few times to try and get back up. Despite her lack of pain, her body wasn't functioning as it should.
"Super regeneration."
As she fell she heard the whispers of the vestiges. Using the quirks at their disposal to not only heal her... But rebuild.
She was caught.
Her eyes widened, suddenly aware of how exposed her hands were. If this was an ally... She could take their quirk accidentally.
She was held as they landed on the ground. Softer than she would have on her own. Being held from behind.
"I can't control it- I'll take your quirk-" she started but was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"A little too late for that."
Midoriya. Izuku Midoriya. He spoke with a humorless chuckle. He sounded dry and regretful.
"Don't stop now. Take his quirk and end this Kira." He panted. Kira was sitting on the ground laying against him as her attacks were replaced by her classmates. Fighting Shigaraki in her stead as she laid on the ground.
Her legs were coming back, she had knees again. The bones grew first before the muscles knit themselves around them. Tendons slithering between and skin crawling over. It was actually interesting to watch. To Kira at least, with her lack of natural fear or disgust.
"Everyone was right... This was always supposed to be your fight. Not mine." Midoriya whispered. He had a small smile on his face as Kira stood on new legs.
"Thanks for letting me play pretend for a little while..."
Kira looked back at him. He was... Crying. Kira's brain was going foggy. Like the more corpse worked... The less her own mind did. Her own emotions.
What an odd time for him to be crying.
Was it because he wasn't the one fighting anymore? No... It was deeper than just that. Kira didn't understand like she usually could. Like her empathy was slipping.
"You're wrong... I couldn't have carried the weight that you did..." Kira whispered. "Even now... I'm not certain if..." She stopped.
"What?" Midoriya whispered, standing up.
"... Nevermind... It doesn't matter anyways." Kira whispered, clinching her fists. Tears running down her cheeks, even though she couldn't feel a thing.
She didn't matter. No matter how numb she felt. How corpse reanimated her heart, only to turn it to stone. She felt herself slipping. As though she was... Losing her humanity.
She took off, her wings carrying her towards her cousin. The fight. She would win. Logically she knew she would. Though that doesn't mean she'll survive. She'd be dead all over again if it weren't for corpse. She was going to lose it eventually... She knew that. If she had emotions then she would be afraid of the unknown.
She wished she was afraid. Flying right towards death itself. She wished she was in pain, or anything at all. Any emotion that could prove she was still... Alive.
Shigaraki started to get up, but he had to separate from his extra limbs. His body stabbed through with her shards and feathers. He looked at her, also without fear or much emotion. He wasn't human either. He wasn't alive.
Kira didn't want to win like this. Without the rush of victory or satisfaction or even adrenaline... She felt hollow, staring at the fight.
She stretched out her hand towards him.
She had lost it all hadn't she? As she sped towards him again she realized she barely knew what this was for again? She felt nothing... What was worth this?
Japan? A bunch of people she didn't know?
The world? The sick and twisted world that they all were stuck in? With sickness and death and pain?
"Stop. You're slipping I can tell. Stay on track."
Tammy said to her. The other users were going quiet. As though they didn't know what to say. Could they hear her thoughts? She hoped not.
"Tammy... How could you live like this?"
Kira whispered. Inches from All for one's face. To her surprise he didn't counter. He just... Stared at her.
"Find something to feel." Tammy told her.
"I don't think I can."
"Remember why you're doing this... You want to save people."
"...why?"
"I can't answer that for you."
Kira closed her eyes. Her hand suddenly pressed against All for one's face. With these quirks and vestiges Kira had found her head too busy to focus on thoughts. But once she touched his head she felt his...
Theirs...
"I thought I had destroyed him! I thought he was gone... Damn you Tomura! Let me move!"
"He saw me... Grandma... Saw me... But... The itching hasn't stopped... Maybe... If I hold still enough..."
Kira opened her eyes. Feeling pure pain from someone familiar... From her cousin. He was... Fighting against All for one. She thought his consciousness was gone... that All for one was in full control.
"Will death... Stop the itching?... Will it stop my pain?"
Their eyes opened at the same time. His red eyes staring into her own red eyes. The moment was still and slow. Her hand pressed against his forehead.
"Kill me... Cousin. Just make sure the league... whoever survives this knows..."
He took a breath. Closing his eyes.
"I... I fought to destroy... Till the very end."
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