Chapter 107: Twin Wills (2/2)

Aldrich nodded Minutenorantly naïve He kne bad this world could get, but he willingly chose to ignore his suspicions to try and see it positively

It was so similar to how his parents had seen the world that Aldrich fell into a deep silence for several seconds He could almost see his father and ht in Minuteman

It was an idealis that had eventually gotten his parents killed And yet, it was sole person in this world thought like that, then this world would have been a utopia

But idealism like that was rare Precious And because it was so rare, it was all too easy for the er darkness in this world to s it up and snuff it out

"So" Aldrich pulled out of his thoughts and executed a plan he had constructed in the case that Minuteoing to go down to the hangar and check up on the survivors"

"I'll go with you-," began Minuteman

"No," said Aldrich "Look at how injured you are You need time to rest and to heal Here- Eric!"

Aldrich shouted out for Eric Glass, one of the Blackwater A class students He sprinted forwards in his black bodysuit He was a shortblack hair swept to the side that curled over one of his bright purple eyes

"You needed me?" said Eric

"Patch Minuteman up," said Aldrich

"On it," said Eric He eyed Minuteht deltoid, and the several dozen other less deadly yet still visible cuts and scrapes and bruises littering his body "daet you fixed up"

Eric Glass was the only Alter so far that Aldrich had encountered who had a power that could directly heal others In terories, he would be classified as a Creator with a subcategory as a Restorer that had the rare ability to heal others

In Eric's case, his poas called Growth Pod

Eric deh the skintight covering of his black bodysuit, fleshy stalks rose up Spherical pods of pulsating flesh grew froht

Each pod was filled with veins and looked positively nasty Like a series of large tu his cheeks hollow as the stalks grew, his bodily nutrients sacrificed to create therowth pod froht shoulder

"A Restorer powers, this is probably one of the creepiest I've seen," said Minuteood practice to coht that at fancy hero school," said Eric as he tentatively placed the baseball sized growth pod onto Minuterowth pod latched onto the open wound and started to oo that created tiny tendrils at its extreroill dissolve and e with your body in a few minutes Until then, it's important that you don'tapart and leaving you worse off than you were," said Eric

"Roger that," said Minuteht"

"And if I do so to theht you tooth and nail Down to my last breath and bone," said Minuteh you are or how ood answer I can respect it" Aldrich faintly s odds, Minuteainst Aldrich if he ended up being a threat to the Dud civilians

That was true heroism So rare But ad If there's anyone that co about the people down there like you do, it would be me"

With that, Aldrich turned and walked towards the hangar There, he would not only make sure everyone there was okay, but he would make his presence known He would make sure the people there would spread what he did and make sure that the world knew of the AA's failure

Then, he would replicate that same process with the Alter citizens holed up behind the city center's forcefield

Like that, Aldrich would cultivate the support he would need after this incident was over When he would have to face scrutiny under the public's eye

When the Panopticon, the Alterhuovernments of the world would all scrutinize him