[MHCISQD] Chapter 114: Depressed Shigaraki

At the central area of the first floor of the shopping center, near the benches, Shigaraki held onto Midoriya's neck with his right hand, his middle finger hovering over Midoriya's throat. If Midoriya made any sudden movements, his middle finger would press down and activate his Quirk, causing his neck's skin and organ tissue to decay.

"That guy Stain, no matter how good he talks, in the end, he's just destroying things he doesn't like, what bullshit. Do you think there's any difference between me and him? Midoriya..."

Listening to Shigaraki's words whispered in his ear, Midoriya couldn't help but hold his breath and remain still, hoping that a passing Pro Hero or mall security would notice the situation. Unfortunately, not even his schoolmates had passed by. Actually, it might be better not to be noticed, the situation could worsen.

In just a few short seconds, Midoriya abandoned his initial plan and began to think about how to escape from this situation. Suddenly, he noticed a strange figure in front of him.

The person wore a black hoodie similar to Shigaraki's and also pulled up the hood.

However, the person's face was covered by a skull-like mask, making it impossible to see their features. In an instant, their eyes met, and Midoriya froze. He felt like he recognized the person, but couldn't remember who they were; there were too few distinguishing features.

But the next moment, something miraculous happened.

The person in front of him pulled out a blue mechanical-looking device and inserted a sea-blue USB device into it. The device then transformed into a flying object and flew toward him.

What on earth is that?

"Hmm?"

Shigaraki had wanted to continue speaking, but he noticed Midoriya's unusual behavior and looked ahead. Then he saw a palm-sized flying object with a pair of mechanical wings flying toward him. Before he could react, the central part of the object opened, emitting a sudden sound wave.

*BUZZZ!*

"Fuck!"

Shigaraki, who was caught off guard by the sudden attack, could only release Midoriya's right hand, cover his ears, and stand up, trying to destroy the object by facing it head-on. But the machine clearly had high agility, immediately rising into the air and avoiding Shigaraki's right hand.

The next moment.

*JOKER!*

A black figure with a gust of wind appeared in front of Shigaraki. The dark-red compound eyes on the black helmet stared at him, and a punch was thrown directly.

Shigaraki widened his eyes and dodged the punch at the last minute, but the hem of his clothes was still shattered by the powerful wind.

At this point, the abnormal situation here was finally noticed by the surrounding people.

"This person is... the black-armored person who appeared in the news!"

"What's going on?!"

"Isn't that a U.A. student?"

"Is there another attack?"

"Call the police first!"

Feeling the gradually tense atmosphere around him, Shigaraki kept stepping back and grumbled, "What a 'lucky' encounter, running into someone like you who's always been ruining my plans, the mysterious Joker."

"Hmph, should I feel honored to be talked about like that by you, Shigaraki Tomura?" Renault's voice under the helmet carried an obvious electronic tone, making it difficult to distinguish his original voice. "But I'm also lucky to have met you here. Can you tell me your purpose for being here?"

Tightly clenching his fists, Renault charged straight at Shigaraki.

Shigaraki took out a disgusting-looking hand from his pocket and pressed it against his own face. With a serious expression, Shigaraki dodged a sweeping leg whip by leaning back and then went straight for the helmet with his right hand.

*SNAP!*

However, he missed the helmet as Renault's left forearm, lifted up to block the attack, intercepted him. Originally confident in his armor, Renault was surprised to find that the Rider System gave him a warning the moment he came into contact with Shigaraki.

Realizing this, Renault immediately jumped back to create some distance. The black armor on his left forearm had turned into scattered powder and fallen off, revealing his skin underneath. But in the next second, new armor grew from the edges of the surrounding armor, repairing the damaged area.

"It's truly an amazing Quirk. I didn't expect it to be able to damage my armor."

"Are you okay?" Midoriya's voice came from behind. Renault turned his head and saw Midoriya had already come to his side, assuming a fighting stance.

"What do you want to do? You're a U.A. student, you can't fight without permission."

"But..."

"No buts." Renault raised his hand to silence Midoriya, then looked at Shigaraki in front of him. Behind him, Kurogiri had silently appeared.

Standing behind Shigaraki, Kurogiri glanced at Joker and Midoriya on the opposite side and said helplessly, "Your luck is really bad."

"Shut up, it's time to go."

Shigaraki was extremely depressed now.

Meeting Midoriya by chance was supposed to be a pleasant surprise. Although he didn't intend to do anything, he just wanted to scare the boy and make him slowly crumble. But he never expected to run into another big fish, one that was difficult to deal with, besides Midoriya.

All the good mood he had from having the upper hand over Midoriya was gone.

Shigaraki gave a cold glance at the two people in front of him and slowly backed away into Kurogiri's Warp Gate, leaving the shopping center.

Renault also chose not to pursue them. If he did, Kurogiri had prepared a large number of people on the other side, and the shopping center was likely to become a battlefield, which was not worth it.

"Well, I should go too."

With the problem temporarily solved, Renault had no intention of staying. He had already seen the people who fled around him calling the police, and the police were likely on their way. He still had to find a place to change back his disguise.

Midoriya looked at the mysterious person who ran far away from him without paying any attention to him; he opened his mouth but finally didn't say anything, feeling full of doubts.

"Izuku-kun!"

Uraraka's voice came, and Midoriya turned his head to see Uraraka, Iida, Kirishima, and others running toward him nervously.

"Hey, Midoriya, what happened just now? That black guy, was he the one who appeared on TV?" Kirishima asked excitedly after running over.

Midoriya nodded and calmed down his nervousness from earlier.

"I ran into League of Villains' Shigaraki Tomura, but fortunately, that mysterious armored person saved me."

Before he could explain in detail, a series of police sirens came from outside the shopping center.