MHA/BNHA react to For The Want of A Nail by Clouds part 1

V:TGG 36 Berserk

Real life was so much scarier.

Kaminari: I'd disagree but... but yeah...

Hagakure: Aizawa-sensei's totally right...

"Jun Hamasaki, my name is Detective Tsukauci and this is the pro hero Eraserhead." Tsukauchi said, feigning calmness and hiding the slight tremor in his voice behind a thick layer of professionalism. "We've met before. My quirk, Lie Detector, will be active during the course of his interview."

"Die!"

Mitsuki(snorting): He sounds like he's been listening to Katsuki for too long.

Well, at least he was still capable of coherent speech, though Shouta wished his first understandable words had been something a little more useful.

(everyone snorted)

"Do you know who did this to you?"

Hamasaki growled, "Kill! Kill everyone!"

Spinner: How helpful.

Tsukauchi wrote something down, "Did they threaten to kill you?"

"Kill!" Hamasaki lunged at them again. "Kill! Destroy! Everything hurt me! I hurt everything!"

Everything? Why didn't he say 'everyone'? If it were Shouta, he would want to hurt everyone who hurt him, but attacking everything went beyond simple revenge, didn't it? He glanced at Tsukauchi, who looked equally confused.

Endeavor: Conditioning...

Shouta thought for another moment, watching the way that Hamasaki fought against the restraints. When the next level villains recovered, none of them remembered the experimentations. The leading theory was that it was the trauma, but the next one was that the villain factory had someone with a memory modification quirk. If Hamasaki couldn't remember who it was that hurt him, he might lash out at everything... or they might have conditioned him to turn his anger to other targets.

"Did they tell you to be angry at the world?" Shouta asked. "Did the people you were with make you believe that it was everyone else that hurt you, not them?"

"Everything hurt me!" Hamasaki yelled. "Sensei said so! Sensei don't lie!"

Shigaraki(bitterly): Apparently he does because he told us we were changing the world for the better when he actually was just looking for people to manipulate.

Tsukauchi scribbled something else, "Sensei? That's the one that hurt you? Do you know his name?"

Hamasaki shook, "Sensei help me! Kill you!"

Mirko: Those restraints aren't going to last very long.

Shouta glared him down, "Who is sensei?"

"Kill!"

Hamasaki lunged again, and Tsukauchi and Shouta had to take a step back as one of his wrist restraints finally snapped under the continuous pressure. He continued struggling, apparently too far gone to think to use his free hand to undo the other bonds, but Shouta didn't want to be around by the time he figured that out.

Mt. Lady: Get out of there!

"Get out of there!" The head doctor slammed the door open and gestured for them as she yelled to her team. "Prep the air filtration system for a tranquilizer."

Shouta and Tsukushi ran from the room and the head doctor locked the door behind him. Shouta looked through the window just in time to see a cloudy gas flood the room. Hamasaki fought even harder, managing to snap another restraint before the tranquilizer took effect. His fighting grew weaker for a few minutes before he finally slumped down on the bed unconscious, prompting everyone outside to breathe a sigh of relief.

(everyone sighed in relief)

Momo: Sensei's okay...

All Might: And Tsukauchi...

"Sensei. Do you think that's the symbol of evil that he mentioned before he disappeared from custody?" Shouta asked.

"I..." Tsukauchi swallowed. "I don't know. But why would he be so loyal to the person who hurt him?"

"The pain of being experimented on combined with whatever memory eraser they're using would have made him extremely suggestable." Shouta said. "They've effectively brainwashed him into being loyal to them."

Toga: This is... wrong...

Dabi: Says the girl who drinks her crushes' blood.

Toga: A you don't get bothered by this? (Dabi chose to not continue arguing when she's obviously right)

Tsukauchi gave a frustrated sigh, "Which makes things even more complicated, doesn't it?"

They were interrupted as Tsukauchi's phone rang. He took one look at the caller ID and answered, "Hello, Chief Tsuragamae. You're on speaker with me and Eraserhead."

"How are things going with that next level villain that Ingenium apprehended?" The chief asked. "Have you gotten any useful information from him? Woof."

Kaminari: 'Woof'?

Todoroki: He talks like that.

Tsukauchi: Part of his quirk.

Tsuakuchi and Shouta shared a look. It might have just been a theory, but Viridian had been right when he said that the villain factory might be moving onto the next phase of their experiments, because Hamasaki was definitely not an instant villain.

"Not much." Tsukauchi said finally. "He mentioned a person named Sensei, but Eraserhead believes he's been brainwashed into being loyal to him. Most of what he said were just threats."

Mitsuki: I've gotten worse from Katsuki on a normal day.

"He's not back to normal? Woof?" Tsuragamae asked. "It's been days, shouldn't the trigger be out of his system by now like it was with the others?"

"That's the problem, he's not like the others." Shouta sighed. "Hamasaki represents the next phase of the villain factory's experimentation. He's not a next level villain and, according to the doctors, he most likely won't be recovering like they did."

Kirishima: So his brain's just going to... keep atrophying?

Recovery Girl: Yes...

Tsu: He's going to be braindead, ribbit... like the nomu...

There was a long beat of silence on the other end as Tsuragamae processed the new information, "Woof...if he's not a next level villain, then what is he?"

Shouta looked at Tsukauchi. They needed some name for this next evolution, because Shouta wasn't naive enough to think that there wouldn't be others. But what to call them? This next phase was defined by the sheer amount of anger and rage they displayed, so something with that? Like Ingenium had said, Hamasaki had gone completely berserk from the experiments.

"He's something else entirely." Shouta said finally. "He's a Berserker."

Midnight(trying to break the tension): ...I didn't expect Shou to come up with a surprisingly cool name.

Aizawa: Really, Nemuri?