Beyond The Worlds: I'll Chase After You

The bustling city of Tokyo is always filled with many activities. People filled many roads by just their sheer numbers. But this day however, the road was clear, free from any people that would hinder a speeding vehicle.

The engine of a speeding car made noise bearable all throughout the city along with the multiple sirens following the source of the commotion. "Out of the way, dumbasses!!" Screamed a man, his raspy voice had a sense of excitement. He had half of his body out the window, vigorously shooting his pursuers with his quirk, and spittig fire out of his mouth to anyone that hinders their escape. People quickly move away from the line of fire once they saw a stream of flames coming at them. Meanwhile the hero Anima, taking the physical characteristics of a cheetah, followed closely at the running vehicle, but whenever she is about to stick her claws on the villains' car, the fire breather would quickly turn his head around and spit fire onto her.

Having no choice but to gain distance, and focus on minimizing any damages caused by the villain. She yelled though her breaths are heavy "Get away citizens!" Her voice carried a hint of anger.

Where was their sense of danger? Years of being comfortable under the protection of pro heroes have been engraved into their minds that they will be okay as long as there is a hero nearby, especially if it's All Might. They would run into danger just to witness their hero fight and defeat a villain. Such insanity were unnoticed even by the normal mind of man. Only when their lives are in actual danger, only then they would run as their lives depended on it.

"Lead the villains to the designated road." A radio coming from a reinforced police car just behind the runaway car of the villains. "We have already evacuated the civilians nearby. I repeat lead the villains to the designated road to safely engage them in combat without civilians." the driver picked up the radio and replied in agreement.

They had already planned on where they would arrest the villains, and evacuated the area. All there's left to do is to manipulate where the villains would go.

The four police cars maintained a discreet distance behind the villains' vehicle. Anima, the hero, followed at a controlled pace, neither gaining nor losing ground, while nimbly dodging the fiery blasts the masked villain spewed. She waited patiently, her hand hovering near the radio, anticipating the signal for a sudden burst of speed.

"Squad A3 has successfully blocked the road. We're awaiting the villains' arrival," the radio crackled. A policeman leaned out of his car, his voice urgent. "You heard that, Anima? Get 'em!"

Anime smiled maniacally, even though she is already tired from all the chasing. She mustered up the last bit of her strength and did a mad dash towards the running vehicle. The fire spitter, couldn't react on time to keep Anima under control. Anima slashed the tires of their car, making them spun out of control and towards the barricaded road of police officers and heroes.

Their visions blurred, and dizziness seeped in, but that was only for a moment. Having snapped out from the sudden confusion the group of four villains grabbed their duffle bags full of money, hoping that their plan B will be executed perfectly. They hopped out of their broken car, with ski masks over their head.

They could see that they were outnumbered by the dozens of officers and four heroes preparing themselves for combat.

Anima, who wore a skin tight suit of white and beige in color, with gold accents complimenting her suit. Is already dead tired from all the chasing she did, her four other pro heroes partners wasn't suited for a chase, their quirks doesn't allow for a long term mobility. And is now unavailable in the remainder of the operation.

The partners in question were riding different police cars in order to catch up and help minimize the damages, and help the individuals who couldn't get away from the reckless attacks by the fire breather.

Blossom, The Cherry Hero, moved from her position and activated her quirk. A quirk that basically makes people drunk and less aggressive. Sending waves of visible pink pollens from her hands towards the group of robbers.

Her costume was designed with a sleeveless tight top, with a white scarf wrapping around her neck. She also had a belt with multiple gadgets incase she is against tricky villains.

She was hoping that her quirk is enough to sedate them, but unfortunately for her, the villains managed to wear gas masks, nullifying her quirk.

"Tch." She clicked her tongue, figuring that this will probably be a tough battle since the villains are seemingly prepared for when they face against them.

Blossom managed to safely repositioned herself at the less protected areas of the barricades, since she can't do much up close with all the quirks the villains had. Especially when they still didn't know what the three of the fire breather's companions have at the moment. She took this chance to gain more information about the robbers, as her co-heroes engage them in a brawl.

Meanwhile, Cracles, The Controversial Hero, also repositioned himself at the opposite corner of Blossom, surrounding the villains. The reason for why Crales was given the title "The Controversial Hero" was probably because he only goes around in an underwear, showing his strong and bulky muscles to the the world. Most likely because his quirk allows him to charm people with his bulky and strong muscles that are as hard as metal.

Temu, and Yetice engaged the villains in a close combat, with Temu's quirk he can make whatever he's in contact with spin uncontrollably. And Yetice's quirk formed a bubble of slowness— seven meters in radius.

The villains gave each other a look in the eyes, as if they are having a silent conversation. One of them held his hand out asking for an object to be handed to him.

It was a belt of 5 grenades, his team handed him a belt of grenades. The villain who seemed to be the leader pulled all the pins out and threw the grenades at the incoming heroes. Who were forced to step back and duck to try and save themselves from the incoming explosion and shrapnels, they braced themselves along with all the personel active in the area hiding themselves in their shields and doors of their police cars.

But the expected explosion never came, instead it was smoke, large amounts of smoke, enough to cover half of the block. Seeing this, the heroes immediately spoke out with untold confidence, ignorant of what's at hand.

"Hmph! We already got you surrounded villains!" Temu spoke out with pride first. "It's no use playing tricks against us!" Blossom followed up "You may have nullified my quirk but you are all facing multiple heroes and cops all at once, surrender peacefully!"

"Shut it ya bitch!" One of the villains spoke, his voice was raspy and sounded irritated "Boss!". The fire breather wanted to act independently and teach those hypocritical heroes a lesson, unfortunately he was stopped by their boss with a hand "Don't ruin the plan Konoa." With an authoritive tone. "Let me do the talking" his voice was low as to not be heared by the heroes and the police.

"Unfortunately, we didn't wear these gas masks in order to nullify your quirk Blossom." His tone was a cheery one, He smirked, though he couldn't see them he can clearly feel their confusion "Don't think we don't know! YOU should really use a deodorant!" He snickered. Blossom though cannot be seen, gritted her teeth, red from embarrassment and humiliation from her secret being found out. There was a reason as to why she chose a sleeveless upper, it was because her quirk actually comes out from her under arm, and it was a topic she is incredibly sensitive about.

"YOU!! You think you can hide away using a smoke screen!?" she growled, "ah, ah, ah~ I would clam down if I were you~" the leader didn't give anyone the chance to speak out. "This isn't just your ordinary smoke screen you see. I though want to correct you that this isn't even smoke," the leader looked back at his team of robbers, seeing that they already gave the signal that they successfully reached their second escape car. He slowly moved to their location. The officers and heroes also took advantage of their exchange by slowly moving closer to the villains words without making a sound.

"This 'smoke' as you call it is made up of combustible materials turned dust, and are mixed with..." He stopped for a bit, letting everyone digest the first half of the information first while he makes his way towards their second car. The heroes and the cops immediately got the idea of what's coming but it was already too late as the villain finished his sentence "Carbon monoxide!" His voice was already away from its original position, and the sound of a car driving away to the distance followed by a gun shot from where the car sounded from.

Then all hell broke loose, as a large body of fire replaced the smoke with a loud explosion.

"WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" The villains escaped, screaming and celebrating their victory against the heroes and the cops. Especially the fire breather Konoa.

"WE'RE RICH BABY!!!"

Their leader sadly didn't follow their current excitement, instead he quietly sat on the front seat besides the driver while looking out the window. He could see people walking by the streets peacefully living their lives, free from any discrimination unlike them. He took a deep breath as they drove back to their base, he didn't forget to open up his phone tap a few buttons and pressing send before focusing on the road, looking out for any potential recognitions from the heroes that are walking along side the pedestrians. He doesn't want to be arrested now after escaping the most stressful car chase he'd ever experienced.

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A phone buzzed at the table of an office, a curious eye picked up upon the sudden notification, deciding to check what the notification was, a firm hand turned on the phone and at the lock screen, the floating message that read.

⌈ From: 042-XXX-XXXX

Your plan worked, we successfully got away from the cops and the heroes with all the money. As per our agreement, I'll be sending you 30% of the money we've earned to your account. It should be arriving in 10 seconds or less.

11:18 A.M ⌋

Aizen's eyes narrowed under his glasses, focusing on a certain word on the screen. "Earned?" He muttered while laughing inwardly as another notification popped up on the screen

⌈ From: HeroPay

You have received ¥8,979,324 from 042XXXXXXX. Your new balance is ¥44,896,620 on 06-11-XX, 11:19:02 A.M. Ref no. 265826409972.

11:19 A.M ⌋

Aizen smiled, as he saw the money being added to his personal account. He had been growing his money for a while now, using multiple secret accounts to amass money without being suspected by the cyber police.

Aizen swiped the notifications to dismiss it so that any potential incidents that he doesn't want to happen, happen.

"Aizen-sensei!" A girl screamed his current persona's name. Snapping his attention back to the girl, his current editor, Umemoto Chiasa.

The moment Aizen looked back at her, he saw that the short, green haired girl is already red, probably from embarrassment, having suddenly yelled, making everyone from the vicinity stare at her.

"Ah, my apologies." Aizen quickly apologized, "There was a scam text that popped up on my phone again, I double checked the text just to make sure if it was or not, haha" He gave a quick excuse to Chiasa Hoping that she wouldn't dwell too much on the subject.

"Another one!?" Chiasa, gave a worried expression to Aizen. "This is the third time this week! Those annoying scammers are so annoying!!" Chiasa took a few moments to calm herself.

"A-anyway, are you sure Aizen-sensei?" Chiasa asked, she wanted to make sure that Aizen knows exactly what he's doing.

"That's right, all of them are done anyway, so why not release the whole Fate mangas at the same time? Plus I've already been working on another work of mine." Aizen assures her.

"But your manga is already been doing well with weekly updates! Think about it, if we publish all four of Fate, the readers will have trouble choosing which one to read first, and I know for sure that someone will probably binge all of them. It'll overwhelm the readers!" Chiasa gave her all in order to try and stay Aizen from that idea, which thankfully she succeeded, as she made Aizen silent for a moment before he took a thinking pose.

"... You're right, I suppose it would quite confusing." He said in resignation, He remembered how the nasuverse could be quite troublesome to start with, and how long it'll take to binge all of the routes, thankfully he didn't plan to make all of nasuverse here.

"How about releasing 2 chapters a week? That way we can give them bitesize content while also giving them twice their need for the chapter? That way we can quickly start releasing the three routes." Aizen wanted to create a big name for himself on the surface, a double life of a double life so to speak. He had made a new identity in the underworld, named Ayano, who wears a noh mask, a classic japanese theatrical mask that resembles that of the Plunderer's. So whenever he takes off the mask he is known by few that he is Aizen Sosuke, and when he wears the mask he is known as Ayano.

Chiasa put on a thinking pose for a moment before answering Aizen, "That could work, I'll talk to the chief about it." She earned a nod from Aizen. "Now that I thought about it, Aizen-sensei. How are you so confident that your work is going to be received well even though many publishers were hesitant of serializing your manga? Aren't you afraid that you potentially wasted time finishing your manga?" Chiasa asked, Aizen momentarily paused before returning to his signature smile. "Umemoto-san, I too am a reader. So when I got tired from reading the same formula over and over for years, I suddenly thought to myself, "heh, I bet I can do better than this." Thus the start of my journey as a mangaka and a writer."

Umemoto heard quite the story, she gave a quick *pfft* sound before giggling cutely with a tear in one of her eyes. "That was quite arrogant of you Aizen-sensei, hehehe" she stated, Aizen gave a small smile before a small laugh got out of his mouth. "I guess I was huh?"

It took a moment for them calm themselves, "Anyway, Aizen-sensei. You said something about working on a new manga?" Chiasa asked, wanting more details of the manga Aizen is currently working on. "Ah, yes." He said, seemingly remembering the subject he brought up earlier. He reached down for his bag, taking out a pile of papers full of drawings and notes "Here it is, the manuscript of the manga I'm working on." He handed them to Chiasa, the latter quickly skimming through the papers in high speed.

"It's still amazing how you managed to make a masterpiece as your debut work." Chiasa began a small talk with Aizen as she doesn't want to the a silent atmosphere to suddenly pop out.

It took about a minute or two for Chiasa to fully analyze the manuscript that she read, her expression turned deadpan, making Aizen feel awkward a little. "Uhh, is something wrong?" He asked, worried that he may have written something wrong in his manuscript, which he highly doubt because he had [Great Sage] helped him make it.

After a few seconds of silence, with Chiasa staring him down as if trying to find a flaw in his appearance and judge him because of it. "WHY ARE YOU MAKING AN ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL MANGA!!!" She screamed in fury, as she leaned forward to scream it directly to Aizen's face, which made the latter leaned backwards in shock.

Chiasa didn't bother with the people around looking at her, as she had her attention fully focused on Aizen. The latter returned to his previous position, and with a head tilt he said out loud "Eh, controversial?" In a seemingly confused tone.

Which only made Chiasa's red face only become more redder. She grabbed the collar of Aizen's clothes and shook his body while scolding him "Don't "Eh?" Me! The protagonist is evil!! Too EVIL!! You planned for him to kill thousands of people!! Aren't protags supposed to be heroic!? Why is this one a villain!?" Because of the sudden aggressiveness of Chiasa, Haruki, for the first time broke character and gone into an informal way of speaking.

"C-calm down! Even if you try to convince me to change it, I won't budge!" He struggled to speak, "So you CAN talk informally, Anyway CHANGE it!" She demanded, Haruki stood firm, not letting her change his mind "No."

"Why!?" She let go of Aizen's collar and grabbed a piece of paper and pointed at a text, a name to be exact. "This guy is PURE EVIL, WHY is he even the main character!?" She questioned, "Okay, he's not that evil, compared to Griffith, who started The Eclipse. He is around B+ tier in my book." Haruki rebutted, "He IS as evil as Griffith!– wait wait, who's Griffith? And what Eclipse?" Chiasa's fury was replaced with confusion, that Haruki setted up.

'Is it some sort of reference that I don't know of ?' Chiasa thought to herself.

Aizen sighed in relief, thankfully he managed to confuse the aggressiveness out of his editor. "Ahem, anyway let's never talk about Griffith, nor The Eclipse EVER again. Okay? Okay. Glad that we came to agreement and moved on." Aizen didn't let Chiasa ask anymore question "Hey, Don't–" It took a few moments before Haruki gone back to act as Aizen's character, He thanked [Great Sage] for helping keep the hypnosis from breaking.

"Fine..." Chiasa sighed in defeat, she couldn't find a way to convince Aizen otherwise, she could only hope that people won't get mad or be upset at the manga Aizen is trying to make, or else she would have to say goodbye to the company. She had no other choice but to put faith on Aizen, because he is the only reason why their company is slowly gaining profits back.

"What even is the name of this manga anyway?" She asked

Aizen gave a gentle smile, his eyes giving off a warm aura. He opened his mouth, and his voice followed, saying "Death Note."

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