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Izuku woke up with wide eyes, his brain instantly turning on as he realized something that he had been happening a lot to him recently. He didn't remember how he got home. He beat...the fishbowl guy, then wanted to go home, only to wake up in his bed. 'Ah...that was a nice bit of sleep.' he thought while letting out a long yawn before reaching to scratch his back, 'I feel fully refreshed. My back still hurts a bit...but I was expecting that fight with fishbowl yesterday to make my back feel worse.' He then glanced to the clock on the side of his bed, only to go wide-eyed as he saw the date, 'Or maybe its because that fight was two days ago. Maybe that's why I'm feeling so good, getting that much sleep.'
He did a small stretch before going to the bathroom, quickly doing his morning routine. A few minutes later, he sat down at his desk, his eyes going over two things. One was the blood dart, and the other was the fragment of the fishbowl helmet. Taking the fragment, the teen put it under a small scope he had, his eyes darting over every little thing. 'Incredible. That fishbowl guy was a nut, but this tech is something else...unless someone else made it for him. Hmm...this gives me some ideas.'
Pulling out a notebook, Izuku began to write page after page of notes, not noticing a pair of eyes glance into the room. Another pair appeared above it, revealing to be Inko and Himiko. Seeing this, Inko patted Himiko's shoulder before pulling her away, "Leave him alone for now." she whispered.
"What's he doing?" Himiko asked. "I mean, he slept for a full day and now he just woke up and started doing that?"
"He's...well, he's in his inventor mode." Inko chuckled, "Don't worry, it happens every now and then. Want to help me make some breakfast for him?"
Himiko blinked at her before nodding, "Okay!"
And as they walked into the kitchen, Izuku finished another page before glancing up at his computer. There, he saw a notification, making him grab the mouse and click it, only to reveal it was a video on Gentle Criminal's channel. 'What's this?' he thought as he saw the video's title: A Thief's Finale
Clicking the play button, the video changed to something Izuku had never seen before in the villain's videos. He had watched them all before, all to study the villain to capture him, but he had never seen one taped inside Gentle Criminal's apartment. And he wasn't doing some grandstanding or performance. He was just standing there, a plain background behind him as he spoke up.
"Greetings, my viewers. I am Gentle Criminal." He did a small bow before continuing, "As you can probably see by the title of this video, I am here to say that this is my final performance."
'Final performance?' Izuku thought as he leaned back in his chair.
"For several years now, I have been the modern chivalrous thief, one that has stolen from and exposed the corrupt. I have no regrets in this path, as I wanted to show the world what I am and to not be forgotten. However, that ends today." He glanced down at this, his face showing a downtrodden expression, "For you see, after this video, I will be turning myself in."
Izuku went wide-eyed at this, putting a hand to his face as he remembered yesterday, 'That's right. After everything that happened, I forgot he promised to turn himself in...'
"If you are wondering why I am doing this, it is because of Spider-Man." Gentle's expression slightly softened at this, "I have encountered the vigilante twice, and thanks to our most...recent interaction, he has shown me the error of my ways." He did a slow bow at this, "For my private reasons, I will not explain why, but I will say this: Thank you, Spider-Man. Thank you for helping me realize what I need to do."
Izuku slumped down in his seat, shocked at the man's words, 'I...I did it.'
"And to my loyal viewers, thank you for following me for so long. Thank you, and please remember to never give up on your dreams."
And with that, the video cut. There was no flashy ending like the villain always did, no crazy editing or special effects. The video just cut, and there was nothing else.
But that was all Izuku needed as a smile appeared on his face before grabbing another one of his notebooks, this one being over the villains he had fought. And as he flipped over to Gentle Criminal's page, the smile on his face grew as he wrote: Case closed.
'I did it. I actually did it. I...I saved a villain.' he thought before turning the pages, staring at the other villain notes. Izuku felt a rush go through his brain, confidence filling him for the first time in a long time. But then he got to Mister Li's entry, one that was still mostly empty before turning to the Kingpin entry. The teen put the notebook on the desk at this before going to his computer and switched the screen to all the photos he took in Li's secret room. 'And now, I'll fulfill what you were trying to do Mister Li. I think I'm ready to find this...Kingpin.'
The sound of students talking rang out as Class 1-A walked into their classroom. The group of Ochako Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui, Mina Ashido, Eijirou Kirishima and Toru Hagakure had just walked in, only for Denki Kaminari and Jiro Kyoka to stride up to them. The yellow-haired teen waved as the group walked in, "Yo!"
"Morning!" Ashido replied with a big grin.
"Morning, kero." Tsuyu added.
Denki responded by flashing his phone at the four, "Did you see this?! Its been the talk of everyone online!" The girls all blinked at this, now seeing the footage of a certain spider themed vigilante fighting a fishbowl wearing villain.
"Oh my." Uraraka commented as she saw Spider-Man punch one of the illusions away.
"Yeah..." Jiro sighed, the girls turning to her as Jiro rolled her eyes, "He's been super excited about it all morning."
"Well of course I am!" Denki chimed in, "I mean, look at it! Its awesome!" He glanced back down at the phone, "It happened two days ago. Spider-Man fought this villain guy and its been on all the channels. They say it was broadcast across the whole country!"
"Really, kero?" Tsuyu asked while putting a finger to her chin.
"Heck yeah!" Kirishima exclaimed, the group turning to him as he shined a grin at Denki, "I watched the footage yesterday! It was so manly! Spider-Man whooped that villain!" He slammed his fists together, "Man, I would have loved to be part of that fight!"
"Ugh...boys." Mina rolled her eyes before giggling and looking back at the phone, "Still, that's some fight. Wonder if we'll ever have to do something like that when we become heroes."
"It does look rough though." Hagakure added, her clothes making it look like she was tapping her fingers together. "Wonder how we could train for something crazy like that."
"UA could probably build it, kero." Tsuyu commented, "After all, they can make mock cities here. They could probably make a..." She put her finger to her chin as she squinted at the phone, "What looks like a big fake carnival."
"Definitely an interesting place to do a fight." Uraraka continued while staring at the phone, only for her mind to go back to the last conversation she had about Spider-Man. "I wonder what Midoriya thinks of this..."
Ashido turned to her with a big grin, "Oh? And why are you so interested in his opinion?" she asked while her eyebrows hopped up and down.
That is, until Uraraka turned to her with a blank look on her face, "Because he's a supporter of Spider-Man." She glanced back down at her phone, "I should text him and ask what he thinks."
Ashido blinked at her for a second before sighing, "Ugh...you're no fun."
Uraraka looked up at her before tilting her head at the comment, the girls soon switching subjects. But as they did this, their previous discussion had not fallen on deaf ears. It had hit most of the classroom, each making different responses from the remaining students. The ones known as Momo Yaoyorozu, Shinso Hitoshi, Koji Koda, and Mezo Shoji were all completely silent. Tenya Iida tried to remain calm at the mention of the vigilante, only twitching at the name. The others were the same with the exception of two.
Shoto Todoroki's usual calm, emotionless face started to show a tiny smile at the mention of the vigilante. Though not saying anything, he was happy to hear the one he looked up to being praised by his classmates. He knew he wasn't close with any of them, and had no intention of making friends, but he did like what he heard.
The other was Katsuki Bakugo, who was showing his usual anger filled face and was thinking two things. One thought was 'Stupid extras. Gushing about that worthless vigilante extra, Insect-something or the other. Don't they know vigilantes are just failed loser heroes?!'. But it was the second thought that was really reeling in his head. It was about the comment one of them made, making him turn and glare at a certain girl.
'Round Cheeks.' he hissed in his mind. After all, extras had no right to their names. As such, his teeth grinded as he stared at the back of the girl's head. 'How does she know Deku?! Is he still trying to interfere with my origin story?!' Ever since he had heard them talk at the sports festival, Bakugo had made it his mission to find Deku at UA. He checked every class, from general services to support, the idea of having to waste so much time on the piece of trash making him more and more angry.
And despite that, he found nothing. Deku wasn't here. Deku wasn't at UA.
And that was good. That was how it was supposed to be. He was destined to be the greatest hero of all, one that would surpass All Might. One that would go to UA, make them realize that he was the best, the rest of the class would be tossed aside, and he would hit Number One in the ranking right after he graduated.
And Deku wasn't at UA.
All was right with the world.
But then he heard that those extras knew Deku. And they just mentioned him again. He began to tap his fingers on his desk, tiny explosions popping in his palms as he began to stand up and walk over to Round Cheeks to give her a piece of his mind until-
"Good morning everyone!" exclaimed a voice, making them all turn to see the R-rated Heroine Midnight stroll into the room. Everyone quickly zipped into their seats as she walked up to the room's podium. "Aizawa has a meeting with Nezu, so I'll be doing homeroom for you this morning." The students all shared glances at this, Midnight seeing a few about to open their mouths for the most obvious question. As such, she quickly added, "And before you ask, I don't know why the principal called for him. Instead, let's focus on homeroom..." She slowly licked her lips at her next words, knowing it trigger a response. "And the rescue exercises we'll be doing today."
Meanwhile...
Like always, Aizawa was not having a pleasant morning. For one, Nezu had told him to go to his office first thing in the morning instead of going to his class, stating he would have another teacher take over. That was irritating, as he was planning on expelling scaring his students with a multi-part rescue exercise to show them that a hero must always be alert and if they aren't for even a second, they don't deserve to be here. Instead, he has to go listen to the rat. So annoying.
It also didn't help he hadn't had his coffee yet...or any sleep for the last ten hours due to being called in to bust a drug deal happening in his district. After that was a bunch of questioning and other paperwork nonsense....which is what he suspected was going to be today as well as he entered the stoat's office. After all, the stoat had gone silent after the 'Mysterio incident' and the commission's president's following reaction, causing the rat to take a whole day of no response.
Normally, that was wonderful for Aizawa. The stoat not talking or interfering with his life? That's a dream come true! That means he can actually run his class with no interference or stupid criticisms. And if he could finally get rid of All Might, which he was still angry that Nezu hadn't gotten rid of him due the hero being the literal reason why his class was attacked by villains, then his life would be perfect! But it wasn't. It wasn't perfect.
He also knew that silence was not going to last, which meant a bigger headache was coming, the headache known as Spider-Man. As such, as he walked up to Nezu's office with a scowl on his face, a look that could kill some just by the sight of it, and he opened the door. There, he saw that detective Naomasa was already inside, a small frown on his face as he looked up at Aizawa.
"Morning."
"Meh." Aizawa grumbled as he sat down in a nearby chair.
"Sounds like someone isn't in a good mood this morning." Nezu commented as Aizawa turned to him, seeing the stoat tap furiously at his desk computer's keyboard.
"You know I'm not a morning person."
"I know." Nezu responded in a firm tone, one that made Aizawa raise an eyebrow.
"Oookay. You're usually a lot more cheerful in the morning. What's up?"
"I'm not cheerful. Someone is interfering with what I want." Nezu replied before tapping one last key. He then turned to the two, a somehow visible cold stare coming from his beady little eyes. As he did this, he hopped onto his desk and walked to the edge, placing both paws behind his back as he spoke up, "Gentlemen, I'll get straight to the point this time. The hero commission has put a bounty on Spider-Man's head, and has put him in the villain registry as a B-Rank villain. This ranking is due to him not committing any truly atrocious crimes, but merely his media presence as a vigilante. The ranking is skirting on being illegal, but the commission president was able to get the backing. As such, I legally can't get Spider-Man into UA due to this."
Aizawa and Naomasa shared a slight glance before Naomasa asked, "We kinda figured due to...what happened with you and the commission president the other day. What do you want to do about it?"
"Simple. I want to get the bounty lifted."
The two just blinked at this, Aizawa responding, "I'm sorry, but isn't that impossible?"
Nezu tilted his head at this, "Why would you say that?"
Aizawa flatly stared back, "Nezu, villain bounties don't go away unless the villain is caught, or the villain is declared falsely accused of being a villain. And that only happens with like...F-Rank villains. Spider-Man is neither of those things right now."
"But he's innocent."
"No, he's not." Aizawa instantly countered, "He's committed a lot of acts of vigilantism."
Nezu let out a slight hum, "That is true, but that sort of thing doesn't qualify for him to have a B-Rank bounty on his head. That is considered at most for a E-Rank."
"He still did the crime, Nezu." Aizawa replied, "Look, I know I've personally worked with vigilantes before, but the stuff Spider-Man has done...its much higher caliber than the average vigilante."
"That may be true, but-"
"Hold on." Naomasa interrupted, both turning to see the detective raising a hand, "Nezu, no offense, but the hero commission has decided this, and they removed the police department from the case." He showed a huge frown at this, "I know you want Spider-Man, but if you go for him, you will be breaking the law, and if they find out you have him at UA-"
"I know." Nezu replied, his expression slightly darkening. The sight made the two almost flinch as they heard the stoat's tone lower, "I...I'm just a bit angry." The principal then took out a cigarette and lit it, taking a puff before continuing, "As such, I've spent the last day and night coming up with an idea to get the bounty lifted. Its a ridiculous idea, and if I'm honest...if I have Spider-Man do it, I'm not sure what the consequences will be."
The duo shared a glance, Aizawa slowly asking, "What do you mean by that?"
"Gentlemen..." He took another puff of smoke, "When I make plans, true plans to take on villains or make school year finals, I go over all the possibilities. I look into everything, every possible prediction and path that could happen. Its how my quirk works." He sucked on the cigarette for a bit before letting out a giant puff, "The best plan I can think of to obtain Spider-Man is...simple, yet complicated."
Aizawa slumped back in his seat at this, "And that's a bad thing, isn't it?"
"Incredibly so. And yet, I believe only Spider-Man can do it." Nezu responded as he put the cigarette in an ashtray, "Here's my idea."
And as he began to explain the plan, the two went wide-eyed. They couldn't believe what they were hearing. Their jaws began to drop, stupefied by what the stoat was saying before Aizawa yelled, "That's impossible! You...you can't possibly believe he could do that! No one has been able to do that!"
"That's where you're wrong." Nezu responded as he took out a remote and pressed a button. Footage of Spider-Man fighting Mysterio appeared on a screen, showing the vigilante outthink the illusionist before the footage changed to him fighting other villains. "He's the one." The stoat spun around at this, a cold glare on his face, "I need to go over some data with my quirk to be sure. As such, we will go and meet Izuku Midoriya tomorrow...and he will decide his fate."
It had taken some time convincing his mother, but Izuku was now webswinging through the streets as Spider-Man. There was a smile on his face as he fired a webline and swung down to almost street level, 'Man this feels good.' he thought, 'I gotta say, I just love swinging like this.'
He then did a flip before spinning around, soon landing on a rooftop with a single roll. After this, he went to the edge and pulled out a notebook, 'So according to what I found on Mister Li's map, that one district was run by Tombstone, but he didn't really have anything for the others...including this one.'
The teen had just gotten to the outskirts of Musutafu, glad webswinging made it so easy to get there, only to find himself in a part of the city had never gone too. It was a more...rundown part of the city, complete with litter-filled alleyways and abandoned buildings. 'Definitely a place to hide stuff.'
With that, he began to swing around, a few hours soon passing. He slowly checked some buildings, mainly looking in broken windows and other nooks and crannies. Despite this though, he found nothing else in the few blocks he swung around.
'I'm not finding anything.' he thought as he went down another block. 'And now all the buildings are starting to look the same. Maybe I'm in the wrong place...or I have no idea what I'm doing.' The teen let out a long sigh, 'If only I had another clue. Too bad Mister Li's stuff just had guesses and nothing else.'
He landed on another building at this, checking his web shooters for a second before refilling them. And as he did this, the police scanner rang out on his phone.
"This is Musutafu police. We have a mobile villain going down Agamar Avenue. Any heroes, please respond."
"Agamar? Am I close to that?" Izuku took out his phone at this, about to tap it, only to hear a screeching noise. "Huh?" He turned to the street to his right, only to see a car speeding by...along with a police car chasing the vehicle.
'Or I could try and help the police here.' he thought before firing a webline, quickly switching into a swing. And as he did this, he saw a person hang out of a window on the car being chased, which was a thug wearing a purple and gray outfit. He pointed his arm at the police car, the teen now seeing a gauntlet on the thug's hand.
BOOM!
A shockwave shot out of the thug's hand and slammed into the police car, sending it flying upward.
"WHOA!" Izuku yelped before reflexively pointing his wrists at the now flipping vehicle. Before he knew what he was aiming at, he fired out a giant web, quickly catching the metal machine. Seeing this, Izuku landed on a street light, letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "Whoa..." He glanced down at his hands, "I did that like it was...nothing. Was that my spider sense too?"
Another car tire screech rang out at this, making him glance back and see the fleeing car take a hard right. "Oh yeah. Better catch those guys."
He fired another webline, quickly switching into a webswing. 'You know, at least I can do stuff like this. I mean, stopping random criminals is something a hero does, especially a crazed driver and some guy who shoots shockwaves.' His eyes narrowed as he did the right turn the car had just done, 'Let's do this.'
As he took the turn, he saw that the fleeing car swerving around other vehicles, slowing it down. The sight made Izuku smirk before firing two weblines and pulling on them, quickly slingshotting himself right at the car.
THUD!
"What the-" one of the thugs yelped as they felt their car suddenly shake. It sounded and felt like something had landed on the vehicle's roof, only for all three in the car to yelp as they saw a masked face appear on the windshield.
"Hey fellas!" Spider-Man said as he did a small wave, "Say, you don't mind doing a small detour to jail, do you? No reason."
"Aaaah! Its Spider-Man!" one of them screamed, "Shocker, get him!"
"Shocker? Why does that sound familiar?" Izuku raised an eyebrow under his mask, only to shrug, "Eh, whatever. Listen fellas, you need to-"
Danger!
"Die!" yelled a guy dressed in purple as he leaned out the right window and pointed what looked like a metal gauntlet at the vigilante. Spider sense blaring, Izuku quickly cartwheeled to the left side of the car just as a shockwave shot out of the gauntlet.
"Whoa!" Izuku commented as he crawled back up to the roof of the car, his eyes staring at the man's gauntlet. "Nice tech. Let me guess...the gauntlet like, super charges your shockwave quirk, right?"
"Shut up!" the thug screeched as he leaned almost completely out of the car at this, pointing his weapon at the vigilante, "DIE!"
"Don't have much of a vocabulary, do you?" Izuku quipped as he pointed his wrist at the man, webbing instantly covering the gauntlet a second later.
A shockwave began to come out of the weapon after this, only for the gauntlet to just shake a few times, knocking off a bit of webbing...but not enough to make an attack come out. "What?!" the thug yelped, only to feel a hand grab his shoulder.
"Guess it still needs some work." Izuku added before focusing his grip.
ZAP!
"Urgh..." The man moaned as he slumped over, Izuku webbing him to the car next to make sure he didn't fall out.
"That's that." Izuku commented, "I better stop the car now." He leaned over the windshield again, "Hey fellas, I took out your muscle. You don't mind stopping now, do ya?"
The other two saw this and then glanced back to see Shocker's legs dangling from the car window. "Gah! Shocker, you idiot!" The driver growled before glaring at the thug in the passenger seat, "Do something!"
"Uh...uh..." The thug panicked, his eyes darting around, "Um..."
"Use your quirk, you moron!"
"Right!" he replied, "I'll-"
ZAP!
"Ugh..." moaned the one in the passenger seat as he slumped onto the glove compartment, the driver glancing back to see Izuku had reached in from the still open backseat window to zap the thug. He then heard a bit of shuffling on the roof before the vigilante's head now appeared in the driver's window.
"So...wanna give up, or do I need to break into the car and stop you?"
"You little-I'll kill you!" the driver roared as he reached into his pants and pulled out a gun. But as he did this, he saw the vigilante just pointing ahead, "Huh?" The driver looked back at the road, only to see himself about to run into a semi. "AAAAHHHH!" He slammed his foot on the brake, the car's tires screeching to a halt.
"There we go. That makes this even easier." Izuku chuckled as he jumped off the car and landed just outside of the driver's door before pointing his wrists to two of the car's tires, webbing soon covering them.
"That's it!" Izuku glanced back to the see the driver now pointing the gun at him, "I'm gonna-"
In response, Izuku thrust his fist right into car's window, the punch instantly shattering glass before smacking the driver in the face. The blow immediately knocked him out, the thug falling back with his tongue hanging out. "Yeah...that's the end of that." Izuku commented as he pulled out a card from his hoodie, "I think I'll just leave my calling card and have the police handle the rest."
A minute later, he leapt off the car and fired a webline, soon swinging away. 'If only it was that easy all the time.' he thought as he went down a block, soon landing on a higher up building. He glanced up and saw that the sun had already set, the moon now shining in the sky. 'Hmm...I'm guessing this district is a bust. Though to be honest, I'm still not even sure what I'm looking for.' The teen reached into his hoodie and pulled out his phone, flipping to a few photos, 'Says here in Mister Li's notes that there was something here...' He let out a long sigh before putting his phone away, 'But I don't think I'll figure it out in one day.'
"Time to head home." Izuku commented as he leapt off the rooftop, soon swinging away like he was the wind itself.
Just two streets over...
The sound of heavy boots stomping rang out as a large bulky man in a brown leather jacket with a bear logo on the back walked over to a silver-colored car. He wore a giant frown on his face with his blonde hair, and many people would remark he could never look friendly in all the years of his life. Despite this, he knew people he could get friendly with, including the one in the car ahead of him.
As he walked up to the vehicle, the back door opened, the man quickly getting in. The smell of a cigar instantly hit his nose as he turned to see the other in the back seat. It was a man with a thuggish face, and a flat head. "Hammerhead."
"Grizzly." Hammerhead replied as he took out his cigar and let out a puff of smoke. He then tapped the back of the driver's seat, "Go."
"Yes sir!" the driver barked before hitting the gas.
Hammerhead turned to the man called Grizzly and put the cigar back in his mouth, "Well? What do you got for me?"
"Its as you thought. Spider-Man is onto us." Grizzly replied as he crossed his arms, "About six different punks said they saw him swinging around one of our safehouses...but he didn't find it."
"So he only knows its around here." Hammerhead commented as he let out another puff, "Guess our hunch was right."
He then gave the other a glare, Grizzly shrugging in response as he asked, "You want me to kill him? He can't be that big of a threat."
Hammerhead put the cigar down on a small ashtray in the car, "We have a way of handling heroes and police, but vigilantes are...outside the loop. We'll also have to wait and see what the boss wants to do first. According to you know who, he's wanting to do an operation tomorrow, and because Tombstone is gone..."
Grizzly glanced away at this, "You're out of the loop, which means I am too." He grinded his teeth at this, "Tch. And here I was hoping for some action."
"Eh, that's how it works." Hammerhead chuckled as he leaned back in the seat, "Don't worry, we'll get a good score soon. We just have to wait on the boss."
"What's his new operation?"
"Something big." Hammerhead replied before pulling out a phone, "Something really big."
A thin trail of smoke drifted up to the ceiling of the room, its origin being a cigarette at the end of a vintage cigarette holder. Pearly white teeth were clenching down the holder, two glaring eyes above it as they stared at the man before them. On the other side of the desk was a purple masked man in a white suit, a small purple rose pinned to his lapel. He was neither smoking nor drinking, but had something in his right hand. They were sitting on both sides of a marble desk, the lights in the room dimming the area.
"I had the boys try out these out." The masked man said as he lifted a briefcase onto the desk before opening in front of the smoking man. "They all worked, one hundred percent. They nullify quirks for six hours." A small sucked in breath followed this. "I believe this will change things."
"Agreed." The smoking man put his cigarette down onto a small ashtray, "Those yakuza...you would think relics of a bygone age would realize their place. Even now, they act like the thugs on the street, believing that some special quirk thing will allow them to gain power. So pointless."
"I could not agree more." the masked man replied before lowering his head, "What would you like me to do?"
The smoking man stared at the box of bullets before taking one in his hand, squeezing it in his fingers, "Get rid of them. Take their method for making these bullets...and their Trigger formula. I'm tired of playing the drug game with other groups."
"And after I get both?"
"Kill them all." He put the bullet back into the case, "And do it quickly, Rose."
"But of course." Rose replied as he snapped his fingers, a second purple rose appearing in his hands. "I shall make quick work of the Shie Hassaikai."
The purple masked man named Rose stood up at this, taking the case of bullets before walking out of the room. And as he did this, the smoking man leaned back in his chair, "I do not like this. It feels like the underworld is about to change again." He reached out to the cigarette holder, taking out the cigarette before putting in a new one, a small trail of smoke coming from it a second later, "This is only the beginning." He put the cigarette back on the ashtray, its ash leaning into the bowl as he reached over for a small glass of whiskey. "I won't let you win, All For One. This country belongs to me."
And as Rose closed the room's doors behind him, a small smile appeared under his mask as he stared at the sight in front of him. There was five men in the room with him. From left to right, there was a bald man with a full black suit with a lightning zig-zag pattern just below his neck. Next to him was a man wearing a bowler hat with a dusty brown suit and tie. After that was a man in a brown suit with green necktie, complete with a white stetson hat on his head. The fourth was a large muscular man with a big handlebar mustache and was wearing a wide multi-green shirt.
Rose's eyes drifted over the four, his grin still shining behind his mask before turning to the final person in the room. This one was wearing a full-length white suit and a black oni mask, along with a sheathed sword in his right hand. The sight made Rose want to chuckle, only for him to clear his throat instead.
"Gentlemen, we have a job to do." He pulled out a folder and placed it down on a small table, "Who's ready to kill some old school yakuza?"