News of AFO

After encountering wild boars, Uraraka Shige hesitated repeatedly but ultimately decided against continuing his original plan to traverse the mountains. Instead, he returned to his city via the same route.

As dusk approached, a cool breeze swept past his ears, causing Uraraka Shige to shiver involuntarily.

"Sigh~ Now the plan has to be changed... Since we can't go to Hosu City, it wouldn't be bad to inquire about AFO in this city."

Uraraka Shige sighed softly, sounding somewhat somber.

"But where can we get information about AFO..."

Then, he began to ponder again.

"As for AFO, he hasn't been defeated by All Might yet, which means he should be an 'enemy' in the open right now, not someone who faked his death and went into hiding... In that case, do the 'heroes,' the police, or those thugs from the Gray Rat Society have any information about AFO?"

Just then, at the end of the road where he was standing, Uraraka Shige spotted a somewhat blurry but vaguely familiar figure walking towards him, especially the tuft of Granny Gray at the very top of the figure...

"How... how did I run into this guy again?"

Such a coincidence inevitably made Uraraka Shige somewhat resentful, but she had to admit, this Granny Gray hair...

"He's arrived just in time! If I remember correctly, this guy used to be one of those thugs, and while his information isn't all true, he seems to be quite well-informed..."

Uraraka Shige recalled the information that the Granny Gray had once told him, and made up his mind.

"Why don't we ask this guy and see if we can get any information about AFO from him..."

Thinking this, Uraraka Shige walked towards the figure of Granny Gray.

On the other side, the Granny Gray didn't initially realize that the short figure walking towards her was actually Uraraka Shige, with whom she had some entanglement. She just felt that the small figure looked somewhat familiar.

When he later realized that the somewhat familiar figure was actually the kid he disliked but had been entrusted to keep an eye on, he was quite surprised by this coincidence.

"Huh? Kid, you're... here specifically for me?"

Granny Gray feigned surprise and asked Uraraka Shige this question.

Uraraka Shige stared at him for a while, but finally realized that she really didn't have a good impression or feeling about this Granny Gray hair, so she simply said her question directly.

"Do you... know about 'AllForOne'?"

Uraraka Shige was unaware that because she still had doubts in her heart, she appeared somewhat hesitant, just like in her previous life when she secretly asked her friend, "Do you know Amway?"

Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as 'Amway' in this world. Although there are similar methods to 'Amway is direct selling', it hasn't become a widely circulated meme. So, when this Granny Gray- haired guy saw Uraraka Shige's appearance when he asked the question, he didn't make any related associations. Instead, he just started thinking about Uraraka Shige's question.

"AllForOne"

Granny Gray seemed quite puzzled by this name.

What is that?

So he looked directly at Uraraka Shige, who had asked him that question, and continued to ask.

"Kid, where did you hear about this so-called 'AllForOne'?"

Granny Gray considered himself to be fairly well-informed, and his future life goal was to become a qualified underground information broker... or something similar. Therefore, he couldn't help but be somewhat concerned about this news he was hearing for the first time.

Furthermore, since he had no prior knowledge of the so-called 'AllForOne,' he now even doubted whether the 'AllForOne' mentioned by Uraraka Shige truly existed, or whether Uraraka Shige had simply heard some false rumors and believed them to be true.

Out of professional ethics as a news broker... not yet... but a future news broker, he felt it necessary to find out whether the news was true or false, as it might come in handy sometime.

Uraraka Shige was actually a little surprised that Granny Gray knew nothing about 'AllForOne', since Granny Gray had always acted as if she was 'extremely well-informed'.

Therefore, when Granny Gray asked Uraraka Shige in bewilderment, "What is that?" and "Where did you learn about the so-called 'AFO'?", Uraraka Shige, who had expected to gain some insights from him, was actually somewhat disappointed.

Even though Granny Gray had expressed an attitude of "I don't know anything about this," Uraraka Shige was still somewhat unwilling to give up. Under the influence of this unwillingness, Uraraka Shige even began to wonder why Granny Gray, who should have far more information than herself and was a former hoodlum, would know nothing about "AFO" in the "underworld."

Ultimately, he concluded that the most likely explanation was that Granny Gray had heard about 'AFO,' but he didn't know that the news was about 'AFO.' Perhaps the name Granny Gray knew was different from the name 'AFO' that Uraraka Shige mentioned.

If that's the case, then it's possible that Granny Gray didn't connect the two actually related pieces of information.

Having realized this, Uraraka Shige, after a brief silence, asked Granny Gray again:

"So, do you know anything about the possibility of stealing 'Quirk,' and the idea that a stolen 'Quirk' can reappear in another person's body?"

Sure enough, when Uraraka Shige used AFO's "Quirk" as a key point in her questioning, Granny Gray's expression changed drastically.

"You mean that uncrowned king who reigns supreme at the pinnacle of the nation?! That tyrant who can bestow others' 'Quirk' upon his subordinates?! That strongest 'enemy' who even the 'heroes' are powerless against, and who controls all evil throughout the country?!"

Granny Gray's face showed undisguised astonishment; clearly, he hadn't expected that the 'AFO' Uraraka Shige had mentioned would be such a person.

Granny Gray's words elicited Uraraka Shige equally incredulous expression from him, even though he knew that the 'AFO' in the original story possessed immense strength, and that All Might had been severely injured in a battle with him.

However, even so, he still did not expect that the 'AFO' at its peak, in Granny Gray's words, would be such a terrifying existence as 'the uncrowned king at the top of the nation' and 'the strongest enemy who dominates evil'.