"You know I'm gonna hate this, right?" Izuku asked, hand-in-hand with Yaoyorozu as they made their way to school. Setsuna had already gone on ahead of them.

"It'll be awkward, that's for sure." Momo replied, walking down the street as the procession of students came into view.

For a brief moment they were able to blend into the cavalcade. They were just another face in the crowd. But most of the students there were also Awakened. Every single one of them could sense the presence of a true monster in their midst.

Slowly, heads turned to scan the crowd, looking for the strongest Japan had to offer. And eventually, they caught sight. To say the students parted like the Red Sea would be cliche... but it would also be perfectly accurate. For a moment, no one said a word. It was just a second of uncomfortable silence with everyone staring at them.

Then, like air rushing back in after an explosion, Izuku and Momo became crowded amongst the students once again. Many asked for autographs, some asked for phone numbers, and some even shouted marriage proposals.

It may have sounded crazy, but in the advent of Awakened Humans, something called a "Power Marriage" came into popularity around the world. This resulted in families marrying away their sons or daughters in exchange for power, money, and influence. With Awakened Humans being the new pinnacle of humanity, they represented a "desirable" or even "superior" demographic.

These were essentially arranged marriages, and they resulted in a lot of abuse. Physical, verbal, emotional, and sexual all happened under the pretenses of these marriages, and most governments refused to step in. Of course, there were always exceptions to the rule and some Power Marriages went quite well, but the vast majority were... repulsive, to say the least. Those immoralities were ignored by the legal systems around the world as politicians were apart of many Power Marriages, and directly benefited from the suffering of their children and others in these positions.

In other words, many students, male and female alike at UA, had been asked... or rather ordered, by their parents to marry Izuku or Momo. The news that Izuku was open to polyamory opened the floodgates even further than they would have been otherwise. There was the chance for several students to marry into the relationship and some siblings even made these foolish attempts together.

Of course, neither Izuku or Momo cared for this blunt tactic. They openly detested it for obvious reasons and made sure to fix stern glares at the ones who thought they could just snap their fingers and get one of the two to fall for them. It wasn't entirely their fault, they were just misguided children after all, but it sent a message. .

This didn't deter any of them, especially not the lower Ranks, some of whom only came to UA in order to attempt Power Marriages with other more powerful classmates.

Izuku knew that some would see him as a womanizer the second he took another partner. They thought he would be captive to the whims of sexual appeal as he was "clearly" only interested in beautiful women. They had no idea he had very powerful reasons for choosing the women he did.

As a result, he had to direct his eyes upward as many female students flashed their panties, or less than that, at him. It was getting out of hand, and just as he was about to call upon the Shadows to disperse the crowd, a voice washed over it.

"I'd assume you kids had somewhere else to be..."

The voice was quiet, but it carried far. And it was accompanied by a sensation that the UA students were far too familiar with. A Quirk that limited the flow of Mana through the body by looking at them.

The smart ones scattered immediately, just hoping the owner of the voice and Quirk hadn't seen them directly. The ones too obsessed with obtaining something of worth from Izuku or Momo were blinded by greed, too much to think of self-preservation. They would all receive...

"Personal advisor meetings with your parents and Principal Nezu."

That sentence seemed to snap most of them out of it, and they ran for their lives, but Shota Aizawa was not a man with a faltering memory. He'd keep his promise. The more egregious offenders would likely be expelled.

"Professor," Both Momo and Izuku greeted, bowing to him and the two guests behind him.

"You two are a handful," He focused his ire on Izuku. "Did you have fun in Maui while your classmates worked hard?"

Izuku's voice caught in his throat. But thankfully, Aizawa's guests stepped up for him.

"Hey, he's done a lot these past few months, all in secrecy. He deserved a little break." It was Sung Jin-Woo and his wife.

"I'm not going to punish him, but that doesn't stop me from berating him."

Sung Jin-Woo chuckled and looked down at the two, who were just raising themselves up from their bow of respect. "Man, I imagined some grizzled faces under those masks, not kids."

"Uh... well..." Izuku was too awkward to handle the situation. He had operated much better under the veneer of secrecy.

"What are you guys doing here?" Momo asked. Sung Jin-Woo spoke Japanese, but Cha Hae-In didn't, so he was there as the interpreter.

"We're here to give first hand accounts to the Commission about Jeju and Endeavor. Since we were in the 'neighborhood' we thought we'd stop by to see our Heroes' faces in-person, for the first time," He responded with a smirk. "Your professor here was helping us out."

"I see... uhm... hello?"

"Thank god you haven't done any real interviews yet," Jin-Woo responded, translating what his wife said upon witnessing Izuku's awkwardness. "Maybe you need to do a class on public relations, professor."

"We do. Midoriya is not our brightest student in that category."

Thankfully, UA had an extremely proficient security perimeter that stretched beyond their school walls. Journalists were known to harass the students, and the school took drastic and effective measures. Izuku was also good at evading them thanks to his stealth and teleportation abilities, but it was no less annoying.

However, eventually Izuku would need to get used to it without a mask or helmet. He could still use the helmet, but refusing to take it off would look weird now that everyone knew his identity.

"Class starts in 30 minutes. I'll expel you if you're late," Aizawa threatened, walking away, leaving the two sets of lovers behind.

"Sorry, we came at a bad time, huh?"

Izuku brushed Jin-Woo off, "We can teleport, we'll be fine. How was the wedding?" Freed of Aizawa's glare, he was able to speak much more freely.

Cha Hae-In showed off her wedding ring, a glimmering black diamond inlaid with a band of Magical metals. Izuku could feel waves of Mana from it alone. It might've been one of the most expensive wedding rings in the world. "It was amazing! Although my dad got drunk... Wait, maybe don't translate... that..." Sung Jin-Woo trailed off as he caught up with the words from his wife.

"Well it was still a great time," Jin-Woo concluded, grinning awkwardly. "So, is it kinda weird going back to school after already saving the day more than a few times?"

"Not really. I have a lot I want to learn and catch up on," Izuku answered.

"And I'm the sort of nerd who loves school," Momo added.

They could've dropped out right then and there. There would have been no consequences and they would continue to live luxuriously thanks to their sheer power. But school was more than just the Heroics to them.

Sung Jin-Woo nodded appreciatively at that. He could respect their continued thirst for knowledge, even if he didn't resonate with it himself. The second he Re-Awakened, he dropped out of school. And now he was rich and married to the woman of his dreams. That was all he needed.

"Sorry about the secrecy," Izuku said, trying to make up for the awkwardness.

But Jin-Woo just laughed. "We're the last people you need to apologize to. You saved our lives. Besides, sometimes I also dream about being able to avoid the fame my face draws. Can't blame you for any of that." He quickly looked around to make sure no one was watching them. "Also, I've got something special for you guys." Hae Cha-In pulled a pair of envelopes from her purse. "Word already spread about your discoveries in the scientific community. You two have been invited as prime speakers at I-Island during the Inter-National Summit in a couple of months. You were obviously invited to begin with, being National-Ranks, but very few Heroes ever get the chance to speak in front of everyone."

While Izuku didn't seem too impressed at first, likely because he was dealing with the idea of speaking in front of a massive crowd. Momo, however, was euphoric. "This is like... this is like a Nobel Prize..."

Sung Jin-Woo nodded. "Everyone agreed your work was worth more than a Nobel, which you'll probably also be receiving at some point. The work you've both done... well I don't fully understand all of it, but it's apparently pretty earth shattering to the scientific world."

"M-My work?" Izuku asked in disbelief. "Not just Yaoyorozu's?"

"Don't underestimate yourself." Jin-Woo translated for his wife, "What you've uncovered about the Soul and Magic is pretty exciting."

"She's smarter than me," Jin-Woo added.

While Momo had discovered the source of Magic and already used that info to cure a disease, Izuku was hard at work trying to understand the Soul. Using Momo's discovery, his own knowledge of physics, and his powerful Dark Magic, he began concocting a strong theory that helped explain the Soul and the origin of Magic. And theories won awards all the time, that was how science worked after all, theories.

"Wow..." Izuku was now just as dumbstruck as Momo.

The Inter-National Summit was a yearly gathering of Heroes and scientists from all around the world. Notably all Heroes above S-Rank were invited, with the National-Ranks having their own special council of sorts.

Taking place on I-Island, it was a chance for all experts to come together to discuss the Gates and their war against Chaos Inhabitants.

Being well above National-Ranks, Momo and Izuku were obviously going to be invited, but this was on a completely different level. The world already knew about them, and their exploits had been well documented, but nothing about them screamed "unique" aside from their Shadows. Outside of Japan, they were just another pair of National-Ranks, of which the world already had several. Reporting on them was just repeating the same info citizens had heard dozens of times. Most countries reported only on their own National-Ranks or reported on the others very lightly.

In other words, Izuku and Momo were not special to the rest of the world yet. They gotten attention for sure, but with this, they'd evolve from mere Heroes into scientific revolutionaries. Some of their research would change the world in ways that could only be comparable to the industrial revolution.

The group talked for a while longer before Momo and Izuku excused themselves. They agreed to meet up later, but they wanted to see their classmates before the bell rang. So they teleported up to 1-A.

"Well if it isn't Emperor Meiji himself!" Kaminari shouted the second Izuku opened the door, referencing the last Japanese Emperor to have more than one consort.

"Hey there he is!" Mina shouted.

"Midoriya!" Uraraka and the others raced over.

"Were you really the Shadow Monarch all this time?!"

"Hold on a minute, that means that it was you who saved us on Europa!"

"And the Recursive Gate, Setsuna wasn't telling the truth was she?!"

"Uh wait... one at a time?"

"So how many wives are you taking?!"

Most of the class was just excited. There was no ulterior motive or bad blood, they were just curious. Of course, there were a few that didn't look quite so amicable. Shoto, as always, looked cold and unapproachable, but there was something strange in his eyes.

Ibara looked ready to kill Izuku, for more than just raising the dead. Taking a second wife was pretty blasphemous in her own eyes, and she'd never really gotten along with him, citing a "Sinful Mana." Of course, "Sinful Mana" was just a made-up insult that religious groups used to condemn others. Izuku's Mana sense was way stronger than Ibara's and there was no such variation in Mana that could be classified as "Sinful" versus "Virtuous."

Finally, there was Bakugo, who was averting his gaze with a fervent scowl. He was still reeling from such a revelation and while he had followed Brandon's advice to try and make friends, notably with Kirishima, it was another thing entirely to address the past.

"Alright alright!" Iida walked over to the crowd. "This is too much chaos! We'll handle this one question at a time, please take your seats and I'll direct the questioning." No one was happy to be pulled away, but by this point, they knew Iida was immovable as class president. This was just how they'd have to do it.

*******

As the day began to wind down, Izuku found himself in the Mana Lab, where students could use measurement devices and items of varying qualities to record differences in levels. This data, in the past, was combined with traditional theories of physics in an attempt to understand it. In many ways it was like the radiation labs of the 1940s and beyond, just without the dangerous adverse effects.

"Hey, pretty boy!" A voice called from the back of the lab. Her pink curls bounced up and down as she ran over to him. "What're you up to today?!"

"Evening, Hatsume," He greeted politely. He'd gotten used to her boisterous personality long ago. "It's just some boring data compilation. My Shadows have different Mana readings compared to Mana in humans or items. I was just creating a guide between them, comparing Rankings and such."

"Fascinating," She responded blankly. "Ya know what's even cooler, I knew you were a False-Ranker long before you revealed yourself!"

"I suppose because everytime I came in here, the readings from the sensors changed quite a bit, and they varied each time?" He wasn't all that surprised. It was always just a matter of time before his identity was revealed. There were too many factors in play.

Hatsume nodded, clearly proud of herself. "Yep! And I falsified the data each time just so you wouldn't be caught!"

Izuku felt like doing a spit take at that. "Excuse me what? Why?! If that came out it would kind of be a scandal right?"

"Nope! See Nezu took one look at my transcript and saw a whole host of red flags!" Izuku could understand that, she rarely behaved herself. "But he made me a bet, if I could fool him by the end of the first couple months of school, and outsmart him in some way, he'd let me stay regardless of the complaints from faculty! I paid off one of the professors to tell me what he said in private meetings, and apparently he's been agonizing over this, so as soon as you revealed yourself, I took the data to him, proving I knew the Shadow Monarch was under his nose the whole time! I even had data from your Shadows! So now I have complete freedom!"

"Scary..."

"Well I guess I should thank you for keeping it secret that long..."

"I was gonna spill before my test period was up, so it's good luck you revealed yourself anyways!"

Izuku wasn't even sure what reaction to have by that point, so he just laughed and got to work compiling his measurements.

No Applicable Comparison: E-Rank

No Applicable Comparison: D-Rank

No Applicable Comparison: C-Rank

Normal: B-Rank

Elite: A-Rank

Knight: Low S-Rank

Elite-Knight: S-Rank

Captain: High S-Rank

Colonel: XS-Rank

Commander: National-Rank

General: High National-Rank

Marshal: No Applicable Comparison

Grand-Marshal: No Applicable Comparison

Lord: No Applicable Comparison

Higher Being: No Applicable Comparison

Primordial: No Applicable Comparison

Izuku was a little upset by the amount of non-applicable comparisons there were, but he wasn't sure what to do about them. For the higher Rankings, how would anything a human was capable of compare to those? So he decided that those were the Ranks past National-Rank, starting with Marshal. A Marshal would be many times stronger than a National-Rank, but honestly most of the comparisons weren't fair to begin with.

For example, a Commander had National-Rank level energy, but a Shadow at that Rank would completely trounce any National-Rank since they were unkillable. A General would barely notice the breeze from a National-Rank, and a Marshal would just squish one with their thumb.

On the flip side, there were the three lowest Ranks. Beru suggested naming them, from strongest to weakest, "Weakling," "Pathetic," and "Infant." For a number of reasons, Izuku rejected those names. But in some ways, Beru wasn't wrong with his suggestions, the mere existence of a title called "Normal" implied a status as less than normal.

"Maybe I'll rename that Grade as well... not like I use it much..."

Mortal: E-Rank

Brawler: D-Rank

Warrior: C-Rank

Soldier: B-Rank

They weren't perfect, but Izuku needed a name for those lower Ranks at the very least. These were the best he could come up with.

[Reformatting Grading.]

The System, surprisingly, acknowledged these changes. It made Izuku wonder if Raia was doing this, or if the System had a baseline artificial intelligence that could handle these things.

Once he had that done, setting one of his notebooks to the side, he moved on to compiling his Soul data into their respective charts. Size, brilliance, number of Skills, etc. Thankfully, UA gave him access to a lot of people, whom he could call in to interview for this data and visually inspect with Soul Magic. Of course, he had to convince UA in the first place that he could even see Souls with Dark Magic, which was unproven at the time in order to start his thesis.

"I knew I'd find you here! You never came to greet your favorite professor!" Izuku knew, just by the smell of leather and perfume, who was standing behind him.

"Sorry Professor Nemuri," He said, using her first name, which she requested of all her students. "It's been a busy day." He spun around to see her holding a small present in her hands. "What's this?"

"If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise!" She said, winking at him as she took a seat in the nearby chair.

He just chuckled, taking the small box and unwrapping it. Inside was a small folded sheet of paper.

"It's my mother's secret recipe for the perfect breakfast in bed," She explained as Izuku unfolded it.

"Where'd this come from?" He asked. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I love gifts! I'm just curious."

Midnight folded her hands in her lap. "It's a little early, you're still just a freshman here, but I see all of my students as my children. I... still haven't found the right one, so I feel like a proud mother when I watch you kids move forwards with your life! Especially when you're moving forwards with a few special someone's," She said teasingly. "It's hard to pick a gift for the man who has everything. But I wanted to give you something."

Izuku nodded gratefully. "It's perfect." And he meant it. He needed an excuse to get better at cooking anyways. It was the thought that counted most. "I'll make sure to put it to good