Ch8 – Celebrity Status

Ch8 – Celebrity Status

Read ahead: /bloooog

A/N: Smut starts next chapter. :)

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"""It's Shiki-kun!!!"""

"Ssssh," Yoshiki held a finger to his lips, and the three fangirls went silent, staring at him with their faces flushed. "I'm on my way to a photoshoot, but if you want get a picture together... we'll just have to get make it quick, okay?"

"Y-Yes!" the girl at the front yelped, pulling out her phone.

"Give Gekka your phone," Yoshiki ordered, gesturing towards their bodyguard.

"O-Okay."

Fumika watched as the girls huddled around him, getting a little too grabby. Since Yoshiki hadn't said anything, neither her nor Gekka stepped in.

She watched as her little boy threw up two peace signs.

"It was nice meeting you three, but I have to go," Yoshiki deflated, and Fumika rolled her eyes as she watched the girls swoon. Her son was a damn good actor. "Just wait a few hours before you post that, alright? It'd mean a lot to me..."

"O-Of course!"

Fumika still wasn't exactly sure how it happened.

Yes, her boy was cute. That much was certain. In fact, Fumika was pretty sure that her little boy was the cutest in the whole wide world... but that was her opinion. Or rather, Fumika thought that that was just her opinion. Somehow, nearly all of Japan now saw her little Shiki in the same regard that she did.

It all started with Eto, Ichiharu's father, reaching out to meet them. But instead of being interested in her husband, Eto had been far more interested in Yoshiki... to the point that he made her little boy a business proposal.

And just like that, Yoshiki became a model.

In a matter of weeks, her little boy was in photoshoots. He was in commercials. He was on the covers of magazines. His kind and warm personality was an instant hit. In fact, his modeling career had such a great start that he was pulled out of school for it. Fumika had been against the whole thing at first, not wanting to take away from her little boy's childhood...

But Yoshiki took to it like a fish in water.

In a sense, it was like her little boy was born to be a celebrity. Never nervous, never wavering, projecting a constant warm smile the entire time...

Fumika could tell. Shiki was happy.

But then, just a few months back, Yoshiki got his first acting gig. Fumika knew her little boy was talented. Even if he was as cute as a button, he was far smarter than he had any right to be. That was why Fumika was certain that Yoshiki would excel at anything he tried, acting included, but she never would've expected his first performance to be so gut wrenching.

It was just your normal TV Drama, and he was just a minor role.

Just a single episode where Yoshiki witnesses the death of his mother, and then provides a police report. That was it. Except... the emotions that his performance had evoked were extraordinary. She could feel the sadness, the despair, the anger. Fumika didn't really know all that much about filmmaking, but at the time, she could tell.

Her boy was going to be a star.

To be a celebrity nowadays, you were almost required to be a hero. Nearly every single model and actor were, at one point, heroes. Heroes were popular, and practically the entire world looked up to them by design. Just being a licensed hero made you famous to a degree, and top heroes could easily become world renown.

Case in point, All Might was the most famous person. Ever.

But through a mixture of marketing, Eto Enokawa's connections, and her little boy's ability to captivate everyone around him, he somehow pulled it off.

Yoshiki Enokawa was on its way to becoming a household name.

That was why they rarely went in public anymore. Her little boy's black hair and blonde tufts were so distinct, it only took a few minutes of walking down the street for him to get recognized. They first learned that the hard way when they went out to eat, and then were consequently swarmed in the parking lot.

Knowing that their were thousands of girls out there that would do anything just to get a glimpse of her boy, some of them even going as far as to stalk him...

Blank, Cost, Notepad, Identify, X-ray Vision, Lightcraft, DNA Lock, Sincerity, LC_decoy, Rapid Aging, Dismantle, Upgrade, Ideal Body, Healthy Body, Hyper Gains, Hyper Senses, Fast Recovery, Near Perfect Memory, Body Talent, Archive, Alert, Observation, Mutual Attraction, Hypercog, Warp, and Linger.

Yoshiki didn't have OCD, but that was a still a bit much. Enough to the point that he finally decided to do something about it. All of them had their uses, and Yoshiki wasn't going to get rid of any of them just yet... but that was no reason to leave himself feeling so bloated.

Merge was his answer to that.

Merge: Combine any previously specified sub-Quirks into one. May cost Energy depending on whether or not adjustments need to be made. *Meta.

First to go were Cost, Dismantle, Upgrade, and Merge itself.

Revise: Upgrade, dismantle, or merge any sub-Quirk(s) of choice. Know the exact Energy cost of any potential sub-Quirk and/or revision. *Meta.

Ideal Body, Healthy Body, Hyper Gains, Hyper Senses, Fast Recovery, and Mutual Attraction were next.

Divine Body: With phenomenal physique, beauty, growth, health, and recovery, you are perfection in human form. You are undeniably attractive. *Passive.

And then Near Perfect Memory, Body Talent, and Hypercog.

Divine Mind: Grants you unprecedented levels of intelligence, perception, comprehension, and recollection. You are exceptionally talented in all endeavors. *Passive.

Even though Yoshiki had definitely splurged a bit here and there, like he had with Linger, as well as... those powers, he hadn't stopped training. Being a model and a blossoming actor normally would've cut into that time, but after switching to private tutors, he had plenty of time to train his mind and body.

Constantly honing his sub-Quirks and skills.

With each passing day, his long term goal of destroying Garaki and All For One seemed more and more feasible.

He was, unfortunately, spending less and less time with Izumi and Katsumi, but that was always inevitable. They might be fun to be around, but sitting in a classroom everyday with twenty hyperactive children, all with superpowers of their own... yeah, fuck that. Yoshiki was more than happy to just meet with a handful of tutors twice a week.

Since he had Hypercog, Yoshiki was downplaying his intelligence a lot, but he was still 3 years ahead minimum in every subject.

But most importantly...

"Shiki, are you ready to go? Should we stop somewhere to eat?"

[ Fumika Enokawa. Proud, Jealous, Aroused, slightly Ashamed. ]

Yoshiki gave his mother a onceover, licking his lips. He reveled in the way that Fumika flushed at his obvious interest in her, despite not daring to acknowledge it. Yoshiki knew that she desperately wanted to claim him, but she couldn't. Fumika just wasn't brave enough to cross that last boundary... but that didn't matter now.

He had waited years for this, years to take what was rightfully his. Something as trivial as societal norms weren't going to stop him.

Yoshiki dismantled Rapid Aging.

"I'm fine," Yoshiki smiled. "But I could probably use a bath."

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Yoshiki's Sub-Quirks:

New: Hypercog, Warp, Linger, Merge

Dismantled/Merged: Cost, Dismantle, Upgrade, Merge, Ideal Body, Healthy Body, Hyper Gains, Hyper Senses, Fast Recovery, Mutual Attraction, Near Perfect Memory, Body Talent, Hypercog, Rapid Aging

Revised: Revise, Divine Body, Divine Mind

Index: Blank, Notepad, Identify, X-ray Vision, Lightcraft, DNA Lock, Sincerity, LC_decoy, Archive, Alert, Observation, Warp, Linger, Revise, Divine Body, Divine Mind

Total: 16