Chapter 16: Kuinn Hachisuka
Taiko glanced at his watch. Bored and finishing his drink, slightly drunk Taiko saw how the guy started smoking outside. He attracted the predator's gaze. The music was no longer so loud, even through the window you could see how people stopped dancing and tiredly went to bed, stoned and drunk on various substances.
Without revealing himself, he turned on the light of the lantern. Taking a drag, the guy noticed it.
- Hey! The party is already over.
The unknown man in the mask slowly appeared, inviting the guy to get nervous with each step, but the silhouette of insignificant height continued to look at him condescendingly.
- Halloween is long gone, weirdo. Take off your mask, you little shit.
- Come on, I came so fashionable to the party. Is there no place for me? - Taiko improvised, slowly portraying.
- No, I don't think so. Only guys from Matsurada High and Middle School are here. And you, like, ran away from kindergarten? ha-ha... Ah-ah... - having approached the stairs in the house, almost right up to his interlocutor, Taiko delivered a sharp blow to the open neck. The guy with a face like a hedgehog and the same thin hair grabbed his neck and tried to get Taiko, who had already moved away, holding a bloody knife in his tense hand.
- Ah... oh you... bitch... - he fell, his gaze began to dim with every drop of blood that flowed out. He could only regret that he went to this evening and did not say goodbye to his family.
- Ten... eleven, twelve... - Taiko was counting the time it would take for the guy to lose consciousness.
No one noticed. Coming closer, Taiko searched his body. He took a wallet with a couple thousand yen and a bag with a suspicious narcotic substance. It wasn't grass, some white powder, similar to cocaine mixed with crystals.
Taiko called Kyudai and teleported the body. Taiko pressed the button, a black liquid appeared, taking the body, and then himself.
-Baa... stinking black liquid. -Taiko appeared from the portal already in the lab. Next to him lay the body of Johnny and Kyudai. -No offense, Johnny. -He just jumped, seeing Taiko often walking with him in the lab, because Johnny is afraid to walk alone.
-Good work, Taiko. No one noticed you?
-Of course not. There is not even a police station in that area, I don't think I saw a camera either. -Kyudai immediately began to stop at the hospital.
-And what did you stab him with? -the scientist asked rhetorically.
-Do you need him alive?
-Okay. I have an interesting change, we can come up with something.
Leaving the scientist alone, Taiko went to the shower, showing blood and remembering the faces of the victims, frozen with primal horror. He was shaking all over from his first criminal case. He probably shouldn't have done it, maybe it was an option not to do such terrible things, but, what's most terrible, he liked feeling strong and confident, while also having a quirk in reserve. He still had to learn about his quirks some of the intricacies of the upcoming training.
Everything in order. After getting enough sleep, Taiko and Kyudai brought in the furniture with the help of movers and cleaned the house. The old man discharged Akiko. In honor of this, Taiko bought her toffee flowers, whose pollen and smell she and her bees liked. Now they are ready to meet with the support service. As soon as they were visited by a woman from the guardianship service, Kudai, as if on cue, turned on his mask of imperturbability.
The woman saw a well-kept and clean house, with flowers and new furniture. The girl, like Taiko, was dressed and well-fed. Akiko liked everything, and her now older brother constantly looked after and looked after her. The woman left happy, giving the go-ahead for guardianship. After that, Kyudai quickly left them, removing the more or less changeable grimace of everyday life, routine and simplicity. Akiko also changed her name to Kuin, she thought that it was better suited for her quirk.
-Hooray!!! - Kuin climbed to hug, knocking Taiko to the floor.
-Akiko, ha-ha! Oh, now you're Kuin.
Already lying together on the fluffy carpet, Kuin kissed Taiko on the cheek, which made him blush.
-T-thank you for the flowers. They smell delicious.
You can only dream about it. He was lying on a soft carpet, essentially in his own home, clean and warm, next to her, for which he would not regret his whole life. Taiko realized that, as is well known, he strongly condemned her, sometimes this condemnation frightened him, more than anything in the world he was afraid of losing her, that someone would destroy this good relationship with the devils. What would happen when he had a strong enemy or rival who would strike at his weakness? How much he was afraid of suffering without her, because of her. He began to cry.
-Taiko?
-"Well, I noticed..." -Don't cry, Taiko, everything is fine. - she began to console him, holding him very close, and the bees of worry buzzed around.
-"I will not allow anyone to come between us."
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-"It seems that Kyudai has planned something grandiose." Taiko watched as the scientist mummified the enormous carcass of the one killed before the Giant. Sensei began to appear in the laboratory more and more often.
- I wonder why the body hasn't rotted in a year? Probably some tricks of Kyudai.
Kuin successfully went to school, where socialization and healthy life began, so Taiko could spend more time training physically. Lately, he read several books about martial arts and beekeeping, this topic became much more interesting to him after the previous events in the house with the party.
In the forest, Taiko felt much more confident since his last visit, when he was caught by a bear and almost torn to pieces. He wanted to test his quirk while training at the same time. Around him, each time, he felt those same hornets with blood-black coloring lurking in the forest better and better. They called him, quietly sang, urging him to do something.
The hornets asked for flesh, and also to become a part of him.
- It seems that only I can subdue you.
They couldn't get any closer because the Queen Bee's pheromones had a strong scent on him, he was constantly around her, so it was soaked in.
"I am your king! Submit to me! I created you!" A swarm of hungry hornets flew out of the forest, their large bodies flying straight at Taiko. He understood that he couldn't be afraid of them, he had to accept them. Hornets were hunters and predators of bees by nature, so they were hostile towards each other, but now their King was ordering them to essentially accept Kuin's pheromones.
Every single hornet landed on Taiko's body, covering him from head to toe. The hornets formed a tight ball, protecting the user from everything. The pheromones mixed and now the hornets accepted Kuin and Taiko. He had yet to prove his superiority over them, but this was the first step. Taiko felt his connection with them grow, and now he can see them with his eyes and feel the subtlest vibrations from them.
He trained and hardened himself physically until midday, then went to pick up Kuin from school, sharing his impressions of the day. She did not yet know about his quirk, although they were unconsciously drawn to each other, having a similar nature. Taiko had a unique pheromone scent on himself, a combination of a friendly bee and a friendly hornet.