38: Curiosities?

Curiosities?

Six hours of sleep was enough for him to get started with his day. Felix looked for the vampire girl, but she was still sleeping; with how much hormones and stress her body endured a few hours back, no wonder why she will probably slack off for six more hours, that's let him some time to investigate her quirk and a lot of other stuff.

Currently, his work was mainly focused on himself, to strengthen up, build up relationships, man up, and whatever up, but if he genuinely wants to achieve his goal of rebuilding society to re-establish women and men more in touch with their primary nature for each person to know their place in society and end up working together instead of throwing ominous gaze at each other, so that these individuals can detach themselves from ideals corrupted by right-thinking. We don't change the world for the better through conventional means; Leonard da Vinci is one of these prominent examples, same for the first vaccine created by the Chinese people around the 17th century by taking the pus from the dead killed by malaria, boiling it in saltwater and inoculated people with it. And it goes with every war too. All findings and new ideas searchers found ended up in these three steps: Ridiculous, then dangerous, then obvious, and this during a matter of years or decades.

Bad times or morally grey methods give way to new technologies, worldviews, and solutions. That is what most people today seem to forget at the expense of their minds and egos, which are flayed by the most insignificant oversight committed by anyone or anything.

Thanks to all this, giving men and women their actual difference, and therefore complementing each other instead of competing, they would finally undertake responsibility for themselves and stop being simps, cowards, smooth talkers, thots, or gold diggers. For this, it was vital for him to reach beyond himself and his surroundings; that's when his company project seemed like the perfect way to solve this issue. Mt. Lady paid him a rather large sum of money on top of all the cash he had previously collected for the assignments he handled back then.

His bank account was growing steadily and was now close to $27,000, which is more than enough to launch a start-up... but founding it alone as a Japanese citizen with a foreigner's face and no degree wouldn't appeal to many customers. Before making it completely official, he planned to wait for the certificate of Chiyo—a.k.a Recovery Girl—certifying his abilities. A document from her was worth a hundred times more than any other diploma, so Felix was confident. He also hoped to be able to contact Mei Hatsume again to discuss a possible partnership when she became an adult, and why not before that, supposing that she worked a few hours less than an ordinary employee, what he was looking for with her was to make her a co-founder: a medical department, an invention department, wasting such a tremendous potential only for heroes would be moronic.

Considering the young lady's demeanor, she wouldn't be difficult to convince as long as he had exotic building materials, money, and a passion for research. He was pretty sure that she wanted to join U.A.'s support faculty, which made things easier.

—All the vials I left for testing expired… The only thing I have left is a super-hormonal remnant of Chiyo. I procrastinated a tad too much.

He sighed before glancing at the comments he wrote so far, stopping for over a week before starting again only a few days ago. His logbook was already all mapped out, his skill ideas noted to facilitate the use of his quirk in the months to come. These were the only skills they could create for the moment, but this was only a non-exhaustive list. He knew that he could do much better or simply power-up these hormones, especially if he created or synthesized glands with the capacity to produce his said hormones:

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—Offensive & Defensive

[Temporary Buff.]

[Temporary Debuff.]

[Hormonal Curse.]

[Lethal medication.]

—Medically Approved

[First Aid.]

[Gentle Medication.]

—Not Safe For Work

[Sexual satiety.]

[Love Potion.]

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Since he learned how to produce and use his pheromones, he needed to search about them more to manipulate them with ease. He didn't include [Metabolism Overdrive] since he achieved this without wanting it. Now, ideas weren't lacking; if he managed to attract customers and patients, it would be a considerable feat. The money would flow pretty easily. He was working on androgen hormones, which are responsible for hair loss and hair growth. With enough training, he could prevent hair loss, regrow hair from a bald man, and make white hair grow back with its natural color. This alone would attract not only Japanese people but men and women from all over the world.

By producing and forcing the production of certain hormones, such as testosterone, estrogen, or estradiol, he could make infertile people fertile again. To facilitate significantly people's weight loss thanks to cortisol, brain natriuretic peptide, and progesterone. He could also make men looking for an easy solution to their facial problems become more masculine and feminine for women. The possibilities are almost endless as people's issues are different, complex, and varied.

Before setting up his project from scratch, he needed a solid supporter so that his business wouldn't be easily undermined and an exhaustive list of things that he would be able to offer to customers. The best would be to meet some well-known personality, even a celebrity, to show the results of his work if it could even be shown on TV, it would be even better. However, for the moment, it seemed complicated. The project was dormant, but as they say, one must beware of still, stagnant waters because, from the moment his company is created, the HPSC will have no impact on him nor any other person while he will have control over a good number of peeps without even asking for their help.

Felix worked hard on planning the business, from the name of the company to the materials he would need, as well as starting his care plan for those in need, women being the ones who need it the most due to their menstrual periods causing their hormonal levels to spiral, he started by establishing different levels of care, whether it was for pain, hot flashes, too much blood, dizziness or menopause. Being a woman is not easy, but men have other problems that are not necessarily better but less painful.

He labored like this until 10 a.m. when a voice startled him out of his torpor.

"You're working at home?" asked someone from the living room.

When he turned his head toward the person, he was choked for a moment to see himself wearing the clothing he put next to Himiko so that she could dress adequately. He grasped who the fuck that was but was still dumbfounded; Toga was walking around almost naked, with girl clothes using a copy of his own body.

"More importantly than me working, what the fuck?"

"What do you mean?"

"Why the fuck are you looking 100% like me? Is this your quirk? It would make sense why you manage to imitate Rumi's moves after drinking her blood." he said while avoiding looking at her… it was a bit unsettling to see himself like this.

"This is my quirk, yah! If you lemme explain, it's pretty basic, but if I drink the blood of someone, I can become this person for a while, but I can't copy their quirk, though…" she explained, looking at the copy of Felix' body. "That said, it been a while I've been inhabiting your body, and I'm not coming back to my normal me… I don't think I took that much blood from you…"

"Are you sure you can't copy someone's quirk…?" Felix asked, remembering [Metabolism Overdrive] and how it triggered its creation. The more the body and quirk are exposed to danger or stress, the more life wants to find a way to survive, it's how quirk awakening happens… with how much she got beat into her entire life, how much blow she took from him and Mirko and now how much super-hormones she took directly from his blood, and her quirk being related to blood, it could have just like him, unlocked something inside her… "Come here, and shake my hand?"

"Okay… but why that…? You still want to punish me for trying to kill you?"

"No, plus if you wanted to kill me, you had more than one opportunity to try, and you didn't," he responded, taking her hand in his palm. "Try to visualize a ball of light and send it toward me by the hand."

"I-I'll try…"

She did as he asked; Felix was immediately surprised by what happened. He felt a minimal flow of hormones going his way; he widened his eyes and realized that it was better to have Toga on his team and that he had done well to coax her rather than scare her. He chose to keep quiet about it; for now, it would be better if she learned about it by herself than thanks to him, especially since he didn't know what to think about this girl. Judging by her dexterity, agility, speed, and super-power, she's a top-tier spy and hand-to-hand fighter; her lack of strength is countered by her throwing skills and her capacities to handle knives. Spying on people thanks to someone who can look like whatever she wants is something every influential asshole would want to have. In a way, he was kinda sure some of the people tracking her wouldn't give her to her parents or the police but sell her to the highest bidder.

"It's all good. You might have something new into you, but nothing to worry about; you'll see for yourself."

"Are you saying I'm pregnant?!"

"No, what the-"

"That's so uncool-"

"Argh, shut up. It's not it; it's about your quirk," Felix growled with an annoyed expression. "By the way, it looks like you're starting to melt."

"Oh, that? It just means I'm coming back to my normal body, but it took a while. I don't know why, and I guess it's related to what you said just a second ago."

"I'm not aware of this, it's maybe related to what I was talking about, but you'll have to see for yourself; I don't have the time to train someone; I'll do that next year with other people, so now isn't the time."

Toga, who almost finished transforming back to herself, looked at his computer screen; she checked the name of the email he was reading when she arrived.

"From Nezu…" she muttered. "This name definitely reminds me of someone…"

"You're done looking at other stuff?" Felix said, closing the tab, gazing at her with annoyance. "I'm not angry or anything, but you sure are loud and intrusive."

"Wait… Nezu! I know! It's this little rat from Yuei… or U.A, whatever it's called!" She saw Felix sigh but continued her monologue cheerfully. "Are you really going there as a teacher or as a medic? That's hella cool! I mean, I always wanted to check people going at this high school; mine was a lame private school on the outskirts of Tokyo."

The ex-con did his best to hide his irritation and patted her head to signal her to stop. The email she had just scanned was the famous interview, the famous job offer that Recovery Girl promised him. Nezu, principal of the world-famous high school, had sent him a date for his interview for his potential internship with Chiyo. He would have the ability to care for the students and provide medical support to all the school members without having authority over anyone. In itself, this was not a problem; all he needed was a nudge to help the new generation become what they really are and not what society would have them believe they should be. If he makes allies among the students and their parents, it will be for the best, so he intends to be as honest as possible to avoid any problem that his foes could exploit.

The interview was scheduled for early next week.

Felix's phone started ringing, and Toga picked it up without letting him look at who it was; she answered the voice on the other side of the phone with a playful voice, incapable of knowing who Yu Takeyama, the name on the screen, was.

"Hello?~"

{Who the fuck is on the other side of the phone?} Abruptly inquired Mt. Lady. {It's not Felix, and it doesn't sound like Mirko's voice at all.}

"Give me that, you idiot!" Felix snapped, snatching the phone out of her hands and then putting his finger over the microphone holes so Mt. Lady couldn't hear. "You're going to be here a long time, one, it's too risky, you'd have to change your style and hair color, and secondly, you're invasive."

"I have to go back to Giran anyway! I think you and he would get along well; I can arrange for you to meet if you want! He's an ex-broker, and he's still dealing at that!"

"Whatever… Take your breakfast and do what you have to do; here's my number if you need something."

"Thank you!~"

After waiting for her to go to the kitchen to help herself, he put the phone to his ear and apologized.

{She sounded pretty annoying. Who was that again?}

"A booty call."

{Ah...} sighed Yu. {I'm not even surprised. I don't see what women have with you. Drawn like fishes around a bait.}0

"I guess you're the only one who resists this much; it's almost impressive." He congratulated her with a joking tone. His theory on the reason for the giant heroine's resistance lay in her super-hormones and probably her super-cells capable of growing several million times their size while his hormones remained at the same size. Mt. Lady's geantified system even crushes the super-hormones he sent her. "If you ever feel adventurous, don't hesitate to ask me; I've got to tell you that you're beautiful and sexy... if I forget the fact that you're a thot."

{You think you're funny, asshole?}

"I'm trying to be; it's a hit or miss, unfortunately. But it's not my fault you're so funny."

{Sometimes, I wonder why I'm still talking to you.}

"Because you love me?"

{Ah, you wish!} she sneered. {I was calling you about the contract we signed previously. Since it was dismantled because of our bullshit and the Hero Public Safety Commission and I had provided a substantial amount of money to have you as an ally, I wanted to know if it was possible to make an appointment with you to talk about a new contract to treat heroes, not just me. Crust, Ryukyu, etc., everyone could benefit from it... And also so that my money doesn't go to waste...} she concluded by mumbling the last sentence.

"You're basically offering me a job."

{Congratulations, Sherlock, do you want a medal?}

"Why not? I'm free next week, right now I have work to do. Is that okay?"

{I have to investigate with other heroes about a guy named Stein... it takes a lot of time. Worst case scenario, I'll call you back and set it up for next week.}

"Stein? Never heard about that guy. Dangerous lad?"

{He's killing heroes.}

"Nice, God can't do all the work by himself."

{Wow, nice one, I laughed. Once again, so funny.} she grunted with the same tone that someone use when their roll their eyes.

Felix doesn't get the time to answer before his doorbell starts ringing with no one he can think of wanting to see him so early in the day.

"Seems like someone paying me a visit. Sorry but I have to end the call, it's maybe for the taxes since it's the end of the month... I forgot to complete the document..."

{Oh well, nothing serious. I'll call you back later. See you.}

"Later."

Standing in the corner of the room with a toast of butter in her mouth, Toga looked at the door, ready to hide in another room.

"Maybe it's the blue-skinned woman I've been watching you stalk for the past week..."

"Kaoruko?" he whispered, raising an eyebrow while thinking what Toga just said was a tad ironic.

When he opened the door ajar, he saw nothing and no one, just emptiness on the doorstep, but a voice coming from in front of him drew his attention.

"Psst! I am here, under the "invisibility veil," someone is here with me; it's a quirk allowing me and him to be invisible, so don't freak out." explained the voice as a blue hand creeped out darkness as her whole body appeared partially in front of the door frame. The woman had black sclera and blue eyes with pinkish hair.

"You're that reporter from the other time..."

"Yes, it's me! Yes, it is! Chitose! If it's only me who's coming inside, would you be so kind as to give me some of your time?"

"How the fuck did you get my address..."

"I can answer you if you let me in," the woman said with her index pointing up.

"I'm too busy for that, sorry."

"Really? That's too bad. I'm inquisitive about how a foreigner got the Japanese nationality so quickly and how you ended up in such a mess during your capture by the Utsushimi... Not to mention the fact that you met All Might," she uttered, a grin on her face as she saw Felix change expression upon hearing her words.

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