The Emperor's Dragon

Rhetorical Questions

"Your training is going well, my Little Dragon," All For One told his son.

"Gigantomachia has lots of ideas!" Izuku told him.

Hisashi smiled. He knew what his body guard was like. When it came to fighting, Gigantomachia was surprisingly adaptive. And since, when he fought for real, he displayed no mercy to anyone regardless of age, stature or ability, he knew how to fight lots of different opponents. Izuku's education would not be skewed towards fighting people of Gigantomachia's stature, though his son was probably already aware of that, at least peripherally.

"I'm glad to hear it but do you remember your lessons with me?" All For One asked.

"I remember!" Izuku insisted.

All For One laughed. He knew his son remembered. "Well, today's lesson is a question," he told Izuku.

As usual Izuku was cautious. During the time when they were hiding, they had discussed many things. Ethics, business, hero versus villain fights, everything. So Izuku knew there was always a purpose behind his questions.

"How would you take over the world?" All For One asked his son.

Even with his poor vision, he could see the way Izuku blinked at the question.

"You can use any means necessary," Hisashi added the stipulation, "but they must be realistic."

"The world, or Japan?" Izuku asked.

All For One chuckled. It was a good question. Tomura hadn't thought to ask it. "Let's start with Japan then, before we get ambitious," he allowed.

Izuku nodded and Hisashi could tell his son was thinking and soon enough he was listening to his son's muttering as he worked at the problem.

"How do you take over a country? If it's Japan we have a parliament so you could get voted into that. But you'd have to be a member of a party. And is there an age limit on that? I probably can't do it now. I'd have to wait until I was older. Does it have to be me though? It could be someone who worked for me. That would have the effect. They'd still have to join the party, and then work their way through the ranks and get to be Prime Minister before they could suggest laws.

"Actually no. They can suggest laws when they are a member of the party but no one would take notice of them. It's easy to counter.

"How else can you take over? Tomura's games always show someone fighting their way, and killing the Demon King or the General or someone but... That doesn't seem right. Do I have to take over with power? Fighting here wouldn't really mean you'd taken over. You could take over with a large enough fighting force but how do you maintain peace after that?"

All For One suppressed a smile. His Little Dragon was drawing some good conclusions and he thought that Izuku would ask him for more parameters soon. It was interesting that Izuku's first thoughts were to enter parliament. It was not what he expected. He had expected the more straightforward force that Izuku had seen in Tomura's games to be the first reply. His son was wise enough to see some of the pitfalls there.

"Take over. Take over how? I could take over the Heroes by becoming the Number One Hero. Or I could take over the media. That would give some control."

Izuku shook his head, coming out of his thoughts. "Daddy, when you say take over, what do you mean?"

This time, Hisashi didn't bother to suppress his smile or the chuckle that accompanied it. "That is a good question. As you've already surmised, there are many ways of taking over a country. In this case, I want you to think about how to take over Japan so that you make the rules, or at least take it over such that rules you want are made," he explained.