About My Sister's Quirk Development Path, and...

Uraraka Shige deactivated his Quirk, letting the cushion pressed against the ceiling fall, and caught it as it came down.

He then gently tossed the cushion in his hands toward Ochaco and picked up the one that had startled him awake earlier. Just as he was about to throw it, an idea suddenly struck him.

Wait, come to think of it, when my sister first appeared in the original story, she was one of the important supporting characters. She was even conceived as the heroine, but later she gradually faded into the background and even lost to Kacchan. Wasn't the root cause that her Quirk was never properly developed...?

Having learned from being startled awake earlier, Uraraka Shige kept his hands moving as he thought, tossing the cushion absentmindedly toward Ochaco.

And now that I'm her little brother, I should naturally change all that. At the very least, I should make her distinctive enough that she won't fade into the background so much... Besides, didn't I come to this world to stir things up? Don't those two things go perfectly together?

Whoosh...

Uraraka Shige casually caught a cushion Ochaco had thrown at him. Though his eyes appeared to follow the cushion the whole time, a closer look would reveal that his gaze was actually fixed on the air about an inch in front of it.

That was the best proof that he wasn't concentrating on this "pillow fight" with his sister.

Still, he was doing it out of consideration for his sister, so even if he was distracted and absentminded while playing with her... he could be forgiven... right?

But my sister's Quirk is different from mine. It has too many restrictions, and it's harder to improve, never mind developing those "skills"...

This troubled Uraraka Shige considerably. After all, in many respects, Quirk skills were the result of developing a Quirk's potential, and they could also show how much of that potential a person had tapped into and how well they had mastered it.

But as he had been thinking, his sister, Ochaco Uraraka, was different from him, Uraraka Shige. His Quirk was excellent: he could use the "lines" that only he could see to manipulate gravity within a certain range of himself. Besides making physical contact, he could also do this through thought alone, so the key to his Quirk could be said to be his ability to see the "lines."

His sister's Quirk, Zero Gravity, sounded like it differed from his Quirk, Gravity, by only one word, but the key to it was completely different.

Ochaco could only use her Quirk to put objects into a state of Zero Gravity by touching them herself, and she had to touch them with the pads on her fingertips. There were also major restrictions on the weight of objects and the targets she could affect.

Under those circumstances, many of his ideas for developing his own Quirk couldn't be applied to his sister's. It was precisely because of the many restrictions on her Quirk that he had to put aside so many ideas after coming up with them.

"Phew..."

Uraraka Shige caught another cushion and let out a long breath, feeling somewhat frustrated. He was a transmigrator, for goodness' sake...

No, wait, how am I about to fall into that old habit again?

He suddenly grew alert. He had almost made the same major mistake that had cost him his arm before. He wasn't a protagonist favored by fate, so how could he afford to be arrogant? He had to be cautious!

That's right, I shouldn't think too much about it. Since I can't find a way and don't have any good ideas now, I'll think about it later. What I should be thinking about now is how to make my sister and myself stronger...

At that thought, Uraraka Shige's eyes lit up.

He had an idea!

I was planning to balance exercise with rest and not rush ahead recklessly. If I put the "heavy shackles" I apply to myself with my Quirk on my sister while I'm resting, so she can train and improve her physical condition, wouldn't that let my body rest while also making her stronger?

His thoughts began to flow, and they only grew smoother from there.

Not only that, but when it comes down to it, building up the body isn't the only way to get stronger. Developing Quirk skills and techniques isn't the only way to strengthen a Quirk, either. You can also strengthen the Quirk itself and increase its potential! For example, in the original story, my sister's Quirk had a weight limit of three tons, and using it on herself made her dizzy and nauseous. But what if she started training systematically right now?

As Uraraka Shige thought about it, he became more and more absorbed, gradually ignoring the cushions thrown at him again. Ochaco grew very bored. He had clearly agreed to play with her, but halfway through, her little brother had suddenly spaced out and left her to herself.

At that moment, a flash of inspiration crossed Uraraka Shige's mind, and he caught hold of its tail.

Besides, it's not as though there are no clues at all about Quirk skills and techniques! In the original story, didn't my sister remove the weight of a load-bearing pillar and use it as a weapon? And there was the rain of stones she deliberately created from rubble when she fought Katsuki Bakugo...

Ochaco put down the cushion in her hands, unhappy. She stared at Uraraka Shige for a long while, but her little brother still showed no sign of paying her any attention. Thoroughly upset, she finally got up off the couch, climbed down to the floor, and ran back to her little room, bouncing along in her pink slippers.

She didn't want to pay any attention to her little brother anymore!

By now, Uraraka Shige was deeply immersed in his thoughts.

Then what if I had my sister use a heavy weapon like a spiked club in close combat... and some small, heavy objects for ranged attacks... Maybe one day she could even be like the Hulk, lifting a car in each hand and using them as boxing gloves to smash people!

But as Uraraka Shige came up with this "heavy-armored cutie" idea, he ran into another problem.

What small, heavy objects should she use for ranged attacks? And how would she launch them? A gun? But this isn't North America; guns are prohibited here... Could she use a slingshot to fire compressed metal balls?

A scene surfaced in Uraraka Shige's mind-

A cute girl with short brown hair and rosy cheeks, who looked utterly adorable... his sister, Ochaco Uraraka.

She wore a suit of heavy armor made entirely of metal and carried a heavy weapon such as a spiked club or a meteor hammer... like a gender-swapped Master of Metal, the Iron Revenant, Mordekaiser...

Then, when someone tried to use a kiting strategy against her, she gave a charming smile and pulled a small slingshot out of her clothes... This...

The image was too beautiful for him to look at...

Uraraka Shige shook his head, seemingly trying to shake the bizarre idea out of it. After all, if things really went as he imagined, this so-called ranged weapon would at least have to be something like Jinx's Fishbones rocket launcher, Iron Man's portable miniature missiles, the Z-Gun from Gantz, a gravity gun, or even a Super Mega Death Rocket! Failing all that, an ancient siege crossbow would do, wouldn't it?

But this little slingshot was generally used for hunting birds or hunting birds...

"Heh heh heh..."

Uraraka Shige gave a couple of cold chuckles, then sighed mournfully.

All right, forget it. Since he couldn't think of anything suitable...

He would think about it another day. There was plenty of time ahead of him anyway, at least three years... That was enough!