MHA: Living as a Mineta is hard

His work started at eight in the morning, and he hadn't stopped even if he had worked for three hours. He focused on the stone in front of him, carefully shaping it into the shape he wanted. Even so, he was still able to answer the people around him and hear their voices.

Yet no one interrupted him. His figure that put all of his soul into his work astonished and mesmerized them. Even if his t-shirt was soaked with sweat, he never stopped his hands and kept working, never looking away, staring at his work, even a millimeter.

He planned to finish this work tomorrow morning, even though it wouldn't be weird for one to take a month or so to finish it.

As for why it took so long for other people, it was because this sculpture would be massive.

The marble stone had the shape of a square. The length, width, and height were about five meters. While it might seem small, especially when many action figures were able to reach 15 meters or more, this one was done by hand, so naturally, it would take a long time to finish it.

Still, this stone should be expensive, but as expected, with Nezu's money, everything was possible.

Nezu, Ibara, Kendo, Kodai, and Yanagi didn't bother him and kept watching since they had to say it was more fun than they had expected. The speed he shaped the sculpture was so fast, even if the tools in his hands were traditional ones.

Honestly, with technology, it was easy to make a sculpture, especially with 3-D printing. As long as one had the design, making a sculpture would only take a short time—even one with a massive size.

However, even if 3-D printing was convenient and fast, Nezu had to say it lacked a soul. However, Mineta's was different. Even if his sculpture hadn't been finished, he could see many different emotions emitted from it.

Sadness, fury, greed, envy, empathy, pain, loathing, faith, crying, and more.

The combination of good and sins created a strange yet fit, perfect-like balance.

The roar of injustice and the roar of the struggle. The thought of revenge and destroying everything with madness.

Nezu could see how Mineta perfectly put that emotion into his sculpture, yet his life wasn't all that struggling and hate. He also received love, faith, kindness, and many others. In his life, there was no longer hate or anger. There was also love, trust, and compassion.

He didn't realize that his eyes were full of tears.

"It's amazing."

He turned and saw Chiyo Shuzenji, the Recovery Girl. He smiled and said, "I can't wait for the finished product."

"Me too. I wonder when it will be finished." Chiyo was curious.

"It should be tomorrow morning," Kendo said when she heard Chiyo's question.

Chiyo looked at Kendo and asked with a gentle smile. "Are you his girlfriend?"

"....."

When this question fell, everyone was in silence.

Kendo was in an awkward situation, but she tried to smile and said, "I am not. I am... his friend. His girlfriend is here." She pointed at Ibara, telling Chiyo, who was Mineta's girlfriend, with sadness in her heart.

"Oh..."

Chiyo didn't know what to say for a while before she apologized to Kendo before looking at the young man, who was still in the middle of sculpting as if he didn't hear anything. She stared at him and somehow understood why he was so popular, but she had to say it was hard for other girls, especially when he had a girlfriend.

"Do you want candy?"

For the good girls, she was going to give them candy, but for him, who was a bad boy, she wasn't going to give him anything.

However, if Mineta knew what Chiyo was thinking, he would stare at her in silence since he remembered what kind of deviant thing this old woman had done to him.

"By the way, how long has he been working?" Chiyo asked curiously.

"About three hours, 12 minutes, and 34 seconds," Yanagi said calmly.

".........." Everyone.

Chiyo stared at Yanagi for a while before she said in a low voice, "His stamina is good."

While Yanagi, Nezu, and Kodai nodded in agreement, Ibara and Kendo blushed and lowered their heads shyly since they had to agree to Chiyo's statement.

---

Even with their previous conversation, Mineta didn't stop his work. He stopped for a while when he was pulled by Ibara's vines to have lunch. While he wasn't hungry, he was forced to eat. She was ready to feed him even if he didn't want to.

While he didn't mind being fed at his house, he was quite embarrassed when she did it in public.

"Why are you getting shy?"

"....." He stared at Ibara speechlessly, wondering whether this girl wanted to be punished. Still, he was right since this girl wanted him to punish her, so she teased him.

Still, Kendo watched this scene thoughtfully. Her time with Mineta might not be as much as Ibara's, but she could learn and might try to feed him when they were alone.

When lunch was over, he continued to work without talking, only focused on his work.

This was the work of an artist.

Right now, he was obsessed with this sculpture, and he wouldn't waste his time. His only thought was only at this sculpture since he felt after he finished this sculpture, he would realize something, especially after he heard Nezu's story.

Nezu's experience was something that he would never expect.

Nezu might be one of the wealthiest men in this world, but in the past, he was nothing but an animal. He didn't have any rights, and every day he was tortured, but today, he was no longer an animal, and many people looked at him dignified since his power wasn't something that could be ignored any longer.

Nezu rose from nothing.

Yet what had he done?

Mineta had a system, and his face was no longer as bad as before, but he was still hiding in fear, worrying about a villain or traitor that might come out anytime.

Now the question was, why should he fear them when they were an ant he could crush anytime?

The fear in his heart slowly changed into a fury. His rage was uncontrollable, and he just wanted to unleash them.

Still, when the night came, his body was pulled by Kendo.

He also stopped and looked at Kendo, who was holding him in her giant hands.

"Take a rest first. Eat and take a bath. You're so sweaty," Kendo said helplessly. While he was reliable most of the time, when he was on his art, he ignored everything like he poured his soul and being into it. She felt she couldn't leave him alone and needed to take care of him.

"...okay."

He felt he needed to calm himself since his emotion fell too deep. He ate the curry quietly before he walked to the bathroom to take a bath.

Inside the hall that was prepared by Nezu, everything was complete.

There was a room, bathroom, toilet, kitchen, and many others. Each was also the latest, new, and had just been bought.

Yet he didn't care about that since he felt he was about to realize something. This feeling was important, so he knew he had to finish his sculpture as soon as possible. Still, someone suddenly entered the bathroom, and he was dumbfounded.

"Huh? Ibara? What are you doing here?"

They were in the fucking school!

Why did this girl suddenly appear here?

"Don't you want to punish me tonight? Come on!"

"...."

If there was something that he was glad about, he was glad that Nezu didn't put cameras in this hall.

---

"Where is Ibara?" Yanagi suddenly asked.

"........."

Kendo and Kodai fell into silence for a while.

"She should take a bath, right?"

"Mm."

Yanagi looked at the two and asked, "Are you sure?"

"....." Kendo and Kodai.

"What's wrong?"

Suddenly, Ibara walked into the room where everyone had prepared dinner.

"Where is Minoru?" Kendo asked.

"He is taking a bath." Unlike her previous appearance, Ibara's appearance was more beautiful than before. Her skin was tinted with a cheery-like blush, glistening like covered in morning dew. She had been holding back early, but she was satisfied now. While she wanted more, the thrill of doing it at school made her body even more sensitive.

"Hmm..." 3x

The three of them stared at Ibara at the same time in silence.

"Wh-What's with that expression?" Ibara was slightly nervous.

"Nothing~." 3x

While the three didn't intend to entangle in this matter any longer, they let out a helpless sigh, feeling jealous of Ibara.

"Ibara, is he always like this when he is sculpting?" Kodai, who had always said, "Mm!" asked.

"Yes." Ibara nodded and told them how he usually was when he sculpted, telling them about her experience taking care of him in Kamakura.

They also listened carefully and asked questions from time to time.

No one thought that he was weird. He was an artist.

Like a hero, who used their life to protect others, an artist also poured their soul into their works.

"What did you talk about?"

He entered the room and saw the four girls talking to each other, seemingly talking and laughing. While his eyes were good, his ears were normal.

"It's nothing."

The girls seemed to reach a tacit understanding and didn't mention anything to him.

"Here's your favorite curry. Eat it first." Ibara moved closer and wanted to feed him.

"....."

He was speechless and then glanced in Kendo's direction.

Kendo smiled, but her smile was rather forceful. "Are you going to sculpt again?"

"Yes."

"Are you not going to rest?"

"It's okay. I can work several days non-stop."

"Is it only me to have your stamina getting better?" Ibara asked curiously. While his stamina was good, this time, his stamina was monstrous.

"Probably? After I was hurt, I felt stronger now."

He said some bullshit, and they started to show concern again, but he told them he was okay. The attack on the villains had previously changed how he viewed this world. He felt this world was sick, and it was better to make it better, especially after his conversation with Nezu.

He is no longer a previous Mineta Minoru. If his "Quirk" was still that sticky ball, he would become a so-so-popular hero and live a normal life. A life where he would marry Ibara, have a child, and be targeted by the villains that he had caught. He might die and might not die. Even if he didn't become a hero, he might be targeted by a villain since no one knew what was happening in the future.

However, it is different now.

The system changed his life, and he had power.

He could change everything.

If Nezu could change his life and become one of the wealthiest men in the world, why shouldn't he?

Still, he was different from Nezu and what he sought wasn't money but a peaceful life.

It was dawn at three in the morning.

Mineta finished his sculpture, which basked in the light from the moon and the stars.

Under the moon, he felt boundless energy and power, enough to control anything. His fear was no longer there, and that humanoid monster meant nothing to him now. He knew what he should do now. He knew nothing would happen when he did nothing, so he needed to do something.

If he couldn't have the peaceful life he sought, he had to grab it.

If this world was a scary place to live, then there was one thing that he had to do.

'I have to change this world.'

It might sound cringe, like a protagonist of some stories or movies, yet if he wanted this world to be more comfortable to live in, so to do that he had to change this world.

Still, before that, there was one thing that he had to do.

"Is it the finished sculpture, Minoru-san?"

He turned and saw Kodai was there. "You haven't slept yet, Yui-san?" He killed his heart, hardened it until he didn't feel anything. By this point, he didn't hesitate to achieve his ambition, even if he entered hell.