Halcyon times fly by; in the blink of an eye, they were gone—and so was he. A boy disconnected from the world he was once a part of, mutable and incorporeal as the morning dew or flash of lightning.

The applause was deafening, the audience cheering louder than any before as he steps on the stage, walking past Toshinori Yagi and beside Izuku Midoriya. A hand briefly falls on the shoulders of both, as he settled between them. All for One takes a bow; the curtain call of a final act centuries in the making.

Unbalanced. Unequal. Unequivocally, irrevocably lost. Torn asunder from each other; his better half, gone. A Wayfarer's wroth to light the dawn. Deliverance has come for Mankind. Or, in which Aether has reached his long journey's final destination.

Thirteen times she had watched over him, beneath the starry night skies.

Uncertainty. Civil Unrest. Genocide. In an era marked by over three centuries of relentless conflict, the Quirk Wars continue to rage on with no sign of abatement; a treacherous blood-feud between the quirked and the quirk-less, and the schism between so-called heroes and villains. Or in which, the 8th holder of One for All was not enough to stop All for One and the 9th is hunted.