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Chapter 4
Hajime was glad he and Chiaki were still together when they entered through the gates of Hope's Peak Academy. All of the freshmen of Ultimates were finally gathered together making it hard to move around. Hajime was beginning to feel uneasy actually being in the same room as these Ultimates who had been blessed and born with their own Talents. Meanwhile, Hajime barely knew anything about "Ultimate Hope" and could only remember one piece of advice Shining Hope or Makoto gave to him. He tried to remember what it was but a loud voice scared him back to reality.
"EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU! STAND UP STRAIGHT AND BE QUIET!"
Hajime and everyone else straighten up and turned around to the loud speaker standing above them on a bridge on the higher floor level of the school. A man who appears to be in his mid twenties, wearing a metal mask covering only his upper face as his eyes and short dark greenish gray hair were visible. Added by a heavy dark-colored green jacket with thick fur trimming and a red crest on his left shoulder with a white muscle shirt underneath, black pants, and long black boots.
"LISTEN HERE! I'LL ONLY ANNOUNCE THIS ONCE! SO CLEAR THE EARWAX OUT OF YOUR EARS!" he shouted. "YOU ALL WILL LINE-UP SINGLE FILE AND ENTER ORDERLY THROUGH THE DOORS TO THE AUDITORIUM AND SIT DOWN IN ANY EMPTY SEAT IN EACH ROW UNTIL THEY'RE ALL FILL UP."
"UNDERSTAND!" He shouted out again like a commander to his newbie of soldiers.
Everyone, including Hajime nodded as they started lining up single-file. Hajime managed to get one last look at the man on the bridge. He gasped seeing the metal masked man was staring back down at him.
"Dude, I can't belive they allowed "Juggernaut" to be one of the pro-heroes in this school."
"He must be here on security duty, he is one of the most frightening and strongest heroes out there"
Hajime then remembered about hearing about Juggernaut. He was on the list of top 10 Pro-Heroes and a member of the most Iconic Hero Organization in Japan.
'The Future Foundation'
After every student sat down filling up all the seats and rows in the Auditorium. All the lights suddenly turned off expect for one as it then shined down to a large stage in the center of the Auditorium. Then, a elderly man with silver upswept hair and wearing glasses came up to the podium.
"I like to welcome everyone to our academy! As you all must know the main goal of "Hope's Peak" is to raise and teach you all to become Hero's of Hope and to pass down that hope to the future" The old man began speaking into the microphone. "My name is Kazuo Tengan, I am the headmaster of Hope's Peak...until today that is" he said.
A couple of students started chatting quietly among themselves but Kazuo kept wasn't finished speaking.
"I decide to resign my duty as headmaster as of this year, I can't fool myself anymore and pretend my age hasn't caught up with me" he said. "However, don't be afraid as my successer will come to fulfill my title when the school year officially starts" Kazuo said before turning around to see a man wearing a white fedora walking up to him.
"Now then... that was all I wanted to say as my companion can handle the rest of this orientation smoothly" The retired headmaster said as the fedora man took the microphone off the podium stand.
"Thank you Chairmen! I'm Mr. Kizakura" he greeted them all by doing a little bow.
"Adding onto the Chairmen previous statement, all of you must also know Hope's Peak Academy is a government funded school created for the purpose of raising and teaching our students to control and fully develop your Talents. Also to inspire hope in all of you to one day become future heroes and shape the future" Mr. Kizakura said.
"Yet, you all probably knew that so I should move onto explaining the real entrance exam" Mr. Kizakura started until he saw a single hand raised up in a single seat out of rows filled with thousands of other Ultimates.
"Yes! You there! Raising your hand in the very far left front row" he said allowing the student to stand up.
Hajime saw the person, it was a boy around his age with wavy white hair standing up not to far away from him.
"Yes, I have a question about this entrance exam" The white hair boy said. "I did some research about the school before coming here today. I found out that the school never did entrance exams and their students were scouted out... by I assume you? " he asked out loud.
"Yes that's right, go on" Mr. Kizakura replied.
"I guess what I'm saying is... It seems this is the only year the school is doing a thing like Entrance exams. Why is that?" he asked out loud again.
Mr. Kizakura tipped his fedora up to reveal his eyes staring up at the white hair student. "I admit... I'm shocked to hear someone actually confessing to doing some research about the school before hand" he said. "I will answer your question since that's a easy answer but perhaps you already know it?" Mr. Kizakura questioned him.
The white hair boy then held one of his fingers up to his chin and started glancing around at the students in the seats all around him.
"Is it because... This is the biggest group of students Hope's Peak Academy ever received and having a entrance exam will determine which students make it into the school or not?" he answered as some students let out some gasps and others muttering to their friends.
"Am I wrong?" The white hair boy asked a little concern in his tone of voice.
Mr. Kizakura was quiet for a few seconds before tipping his fedora again. "I'll be damned, you are one interesting kid but you're right" he said smiling a little.
Suddenly Hajime hear the whispers of the many Ultimates all around him talking exclusively about the white hair boy.
"He must have a talent that can read minds!"
"Or allows him to always be right?"
"No that's just plain stupid!"
The white hair boy then became embarrassed hearing some of the students talking about him.
"Really? It was honestly just a lucky guess, I'm sorry" he said before sitting back down.
"Lucky guess... my ass"
"It has to be mind reading or he's just playing dumb"
No matter what the students around him said. Hajime was shock, not at the purpose of this entrance exam but it was like the white hair boy had some kind of mysterious aura surrounding him.
"Do you know who he is Chiaki?" Hajime asked her.
"Chiaki?" Hajime asked again not hearing her reply to him.
"Mhmmm... zzzzzz" Chiaki replied to him in a snore as some drool dripped down her mouth.
'Now she picks the time to be sleeping?' Hajime thought to himself.
Mr. Kizakura cleared his throat before speaking into the microphone. "As you all just heard from your soon to be fellow classmate, this entrance exam is to determine who makes the cut" he said. The screen behind him then turned on to reveal boxes labeled A-F as the bottom center box was labeled "You are here" to mark the students.
"Depending on the course you apply to is the type of test you will be up against so let's start with selection A: The Hero's course" Mr. Kizakura said making the screen zoom in on the A box. It then show pictures of little child-like shadow silhouette's fighting robots.
"The rules are simply: You'll be experiencing a ten minute long mock cityscape maneuver but beware as the site is filled with three kinds of villains bots and points are awarded for defeating each according to their difficulty level." Mr. Kizakura explained. "The goal here is to use your talents to disable the villains bots to earn points but don't forget to be heroic at the same time too" he added.
"I understand! It's like a basic level of Super Mario. Use your power ups to defeat the enemies in your way to get to the end with the most points" Chiaki suddenly said fully awake.
"Wow that was fast! Also you still got a bit of drool hanging from your mouth" Hajime whisper to her.
Chiaki quickly wiped the salvia away with the sleeve's of her hoodie.
"Also before I forget to mention there is a villain bot that's worth 0 points. So think of that as a road block to make things challenging" Mr. Kizakura fully explained.
"So this whole exam is like a video game! Awesome!" Chiaki said very excited now.
'Can't say I didn't see this coming from someone praised as the "Ultimate Gamer" huh?' Hajime thought smiling seeing her reaction.
"Now then, Hero course students you better get moving and head to the exam site. I'm sure Juggernaut will answer any lingering question you may have left" Mr. Kizakura said as he traded the microphone back to Kazuo Tengan.
"I wish you all good luck and may Shining Hope shine down on you all!" Mr. Tengan said to them in a grandfatherly tone.
Hajime was allowed time to change into a black jumpsuit as he stood in front of the entrance exam Area: A. He looked around to see both Chiaki and Natsumi was here with him. Chiaki was wearing a pink colored jumpsuit and Natsumi was wearing a short sleeve black T-shirt with gray pants to match.
Hajime looked up at the site that would be his last attempt to gain acess to Hope's Peak. He clenched his fist and took some deep breaths feeling a familiar feeling of stress and fear coming over him.
"Hajime"
Chiaki then grabbed a hold of his shoulder with her hand making him lean down.
"What is it Chiaki?" Hajime asked trying to keep calm.
"Let's team-up! I can see your very nervious that even your legs are shaking" she told him as he become a bit embarrassed.
"Plus I can rank up enough points for both of us to pass" Chiaki offered him.
After hearing that, Hajime was speechless about her offer. 'Was this allowed? Mr Kizakura never did say we HAD to work alone. Still both me and her could get into big trouble If the school finds out' Hajime fought a big battle with his thoughts.
He then looked down at her before shaking his head. "I appreciate that offer a lot Chiaki...But I need to prove that I deserve to be here with you and everyone else for myself if I want to become a Hero" Hajime told her.
She had a look of disappointed for a few seconds before smiling up at him. "I figure as much from you Hajime and you're right, this isn't a Co-op game but Instead a single player battle royale" Chiaki replied.
"So you better get on the scoreboard no matter what!" Chiaki added as Hajime could only nod at the gamer's enthusnatium.
"Y-yeah! Definitely" Hajime agreed.
Chiaki nodded too as she then reached down into her pockets taking out a small game cartage. Next she then licked it with her tongue before shoving it back into her pocket.
Hajime tried to ask her what that was all about. Until he felt another hand grab his shoulder out of nowhere.
"Agh!" Hajime shouted out turning around to see the wavy white hair boy from earlier in the stands.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to scare you" He said the concern in his voice still there.
"It's fine, I did overreact a bit" Hajime said before he extend his hand to him.
"My name is Hajime Hinata, yours?" Hajime introduced himself.
His hand was quickly grasped by both of the white hair boy's hands. "It's nice to meet you too Hajime! I'm Nagito Komaeda" Nagito introduced himself too. He then saw Chiaki by Hajime looking at him.
"...Hello" Nagito said ending the handshake as he waved at Chiaki.
She waved back at him without saying a word.
"Hey Nagito, If you don't me asking what are you doing here? The exam's about to start and I don't think now's the time to make introductions" Hajime said. "Also why are you still in your school clothes?" Hajime asked seeing Nagito was still in a high school uniform.
"Oh that! You see... I woke up late today and while being in a hurry, I grabbed a bag containting power tools instead of my gym clothes bag by mistake" He said giving a small laugh at the end.
"As for why I'm here... that's for my own reasons of wanting to talk to people before we have to start the entrance exam" Nagito replied as he then looked down at the watch on his arm.
"Anyways, the exam is about to start and all I want to see is every Ultimate student here including you and Chiaki shine with "Hope". He told them as he begun walking away.
"He's seems nice even if he's a bit creepy" Hajime said.
"He also knew my name when I didn't tell him" Chiaki added.
"What?" Hajime asked her realizing she was right.
"We'll talk about it later Hajime, right now we need to pass this exam" Chiaki told him. Then in a blink of a eye, Chiaki ran off at sonic speed with a trace of blue light behind her.
"Huh?" Hajime gasped looking behind him to see the gate to Area A was open. 'Oh crap! The exam just begun and I'm already dead last' Hajime thought as he ran into the exam site trying to catch up to the other Ultimates ahead of him.
'Relax! You have penlty of time to catch up and get some points! After all, you have Shining Hope's talent now' Hajime thought remembering his talk with Shining Hope back at their training ground.
...
Hajime tried not to spit out in disgust after swallowing the hair he received from Shining Hope.
"Good! You swallowed it" Makoto said.
Hajime then looked down at his body "I don't feel any different yet" Hajime replied.
Makoto nodded, "Yeah you have to let the hair process first" he said. "It should take about a day to process fully" he added.
"It was still gross" Hajime muttered putting his shirt back on.
"Wait! Before you go, let me warn you Hajime, you may have build your body up to a acceptable level but the real training begins now" Makoto told him. "The physical backlash of "Ultimate Hope" is still a huge risk so be careful when using it"
"Oh that's right! How do I use Ultimate Hope?" Hajime asked him.
Makoto thought for a moment "I can't tell you how to use all of it's power but I have faith there is one technique you can pull off and that's-"
...
"Target locked! Must Destroy!"
A building next to Hajime was smashed through as one of the villains bots came out from it.
"It's a 5 pointer!" Hajime shouted out.
The robot began speeding towards him at a fast rate.
'Crap! I got to dodge it and use Ultimate Hope!' Hajime decided preparing to dodge it.
Right when he was about to dodge the robot. A large buff tanned skinned, young women came soaring out of nowhere delvering a mighty kick to the robot.
"Gotchu" she smirked looking down at the damaged robot. She turned around to see Hajime speechless and a bit frighten of the scene that had just occurred.
"Get lost! All these robots are mine!" The buff women said before leaping away.
Hajime felt like collapsing right here on the ground but he shook his head.
"No! I can't give up now!" Hajime told himself slapping both his cheeks together with his hands.
"I got to focus on just getting one point!" Hajime said running again.
Inside Hope's Peak Academy, in a very high tech room with too many monitors to count. Many teachers including Kazuo Tengan and Koichi Kizakura were watching the Examines struggle or breeze through the entrance exam.
"A lot of promsing candidates for the Hero Course this year" Kizakura said watching the hero's course video board cast.
"I agree Koichi, especalliy the top three on the score board at the moment" Tengan replied looking at the Area A scoreboard above them.
"In third place we have Akane Owari" Kizakura said opening his left hand and looked down at it. "Her talent is Ultimate Gymnast: Which means she has the ability to amplify both her muscles and strength' he read off his left hand before looking up at the second place.
"Next in second place we have Chiaki Nanami, her talent is Ultimate Gamer: By licking a game cartage she's able to use the power ups from the game. Right now she's using a power up from the "Sonic The Hedgehog" series" Kizakura read off his hand again.
"Finally in first place we have Nagito Komaeda, his talent is Ultimate Luck and that's all it says" Kizakura finished closing his left hand.
"Those three are most interesting and do have some great talents to become great future heroes with" Tengan replied looking at the monitors.
Kizakura then glanced over at him "I can tell your not as nearly interested in them as you are with the other two candidates are you?" he questioned the old headmaster.
Tengan let out a small laugh "I wonder who really are the other two candidates you suspect me of having my eye on" he replied.
Kizakura then looked over to the other montiors showing the other two candidates as he read off their nameplates on the screen.
"Hajime Hinata"
And
"Natsumi Kuzuryu"
"Ms. Kuzuryu has a record of being apart of the Reserve Course department until she withdrew from it three months ago" Tengan spoke quietly through his fingers over his mouth so only Kokichi could hear him.
"As for Mr. Hinata on the other hand, there is no record of him at all, almost like this is his first time being here at Hope's Peak" Tengan continued seeing Kizakura had heard every word he had said.
"Do you think that's strange?" Kizakura asked him with his eyes showing interest.
"No... I was just curious since it seems Mr. Hinata is desparetly trying to get himself a single point" Tengan answered. "Now for Ms. Kuzuryu, if she did posses a talent all along then why place her in the Reserve Course?" he added retracting his fingers from his mouth.
"Hmm... You do have a point that is weird" Mr. Kizakura replied looking up at Natsumi with his left hand open.
"I don't see her Ultimate Talent but she has the ability to control the element of Ice from her body, directly from her hands" Kizakura read off.
"I see...Well Atleast she is managing to get some points and is on the score board to pass" Tengan replied seeing her wreaking some villains bots by freezing them to weaken them and then destroy them with a strong kick and punch.
Kizakura didn't say anything as he thought about something Tengan had said about Hinata. He secretly looked up at Hajime while keeping his left hand slightly opened. When he glanced down at his hand there was nothing written about him on his left hand.
"Hard to believe the entrance exam is about over in 2 minutes" Nagito said looking at all the other examines fighting the villains bots to either higher their own scores or get on the scoreboard. Meanwhile, He was sitting down with legs crossed and his right hand holding up his face. While his left hand held a destroyed high point Villian Bot head.
"It really wasn't that hard of a exam to pass unlike all those hard written ones in middle school" Nagito said as he then stood up. He then slid down a mountain size of destroyed villains bots.
He turned around to look at it with a smile on his face. "Yep! I really am lucky!" he said discarding the Villain's Bot head.
Nagito was about to walk away when abruptly the whole ground shook and he was engulped in a whirlwind of dust. He coughed out as the dust was fading away from the area. Nagito then looked up to see a enormous villain bot standing infront of him with it's back turned. The smile didn't fade away or disappear but instead increased more.
"Yep! I am truly lucky!" He said excited but he then heard someone else coughing from under a piece of broken rubble.
...
(A few mintues earlier)
"Come on! Where's a Villian bot at!?" Hajime said running through the city. Everywhere he looked there was destroyed villain bots from left to right. Along with the Ultimates fighting their own villians bots and winning. Plus he swore he saw a burry image of Chiaki running in a blue light and a mere seconds later more villain bots were falling. Hajime then stopped taking a break to catch his breath.
Unfortunately, his break was cut short as a loud impact was heard that also knocked him and everyone else around him to the ground. He held his head up to see a titan size villain bot looking over all of them. He didn't see a number on it leaving him with one guess.
'This is the villain box roadblock, Mr. Kizakura warned us about' Hajime thought.
The titan villain bot then brought it's fist down punching the ground below. Creating a huge whirlwind of dust as the Ultimates tried to stand their position against the strong wind. When the dust cleared, many students were screaming and running away from the titan. Hajime tried to get up as a speaker machine shouted out "Less than 2 minutes remanding before end of Entrance Exam!"
'Less than 2 minutes?!' Hajime thought clenching his fist. Time was about up and he was going to fail with zero points. His mind went back to his training with Shining Hope. All the hard work, time and faith, Shining Hope poured into him were now about to be wasted.
"Dammit!" Hajime shouted out in angry punching the concrete.
"Oww..my arm! Someone help!"
Hajime heard the voice called out as he turned around to see it was Chiaki. One of her legs was trapped beneath a large piece of rubble. Plus she had a mask of pain written on her face holding one of her arms that must've been broken.
"So you better get on the scoreboard no matter what!" Her voice echoed through his head. The Titan villain bot was approaching her fast and she couldn't move. Hajime jumped up to his feet then started running towards her.
"Come on! I'll take this hunk of junk down!" The buff tanned women from earlier shouted out. She was in Hajime's way and seeing this was no time to be polite. He shoved past her extend his arm out to push her back.
"Sorry!" he shouted out pushing her out of the way. However, Hajime didn't notice his hand was glowing green when he touched her buffed arms.
'I need to move faster!' Hajime thought seeing he was still a good distance away. When suddenly both his legs muscles increased giving him a boast of speed and adrenaline. When he was close enough to Chiaki and the Titan villain bot. He then leaped up into the air soaring above Chiaki and to the upper body of the Titan villain bot. He managed to pass through the opening in the Titan's robot huge fingers. In that moment, he then remember Shining Hope's words perfectly to him.
"I can't tell you how to use all of it's power but I have faith there is one technique you can pull off and that's to concentrate the power of Ultimate Hope throughout your entire body into both your index and middle fingers" Makoto told him.
Hajime held out his right hand and curled it up only leaving out his index and middle fingers. He felt them getting very warm as a blue light surrounded them.
"Next, is to picture in your mind a target icon so you can find your aim"
Hajime was getting closer to the Titan's villian's face. He focused hard trying to image a target icon floating around until he was able to make one materialize right on the center of the Titan's face.
"When both those steps are complete, then pull the trigger in your mind and yell from the depth of your heart!"
"SORE WA CHIGAU YO!"
A strong gun blast of energy shot out from Hajime's finger tips. Hitting the Titan villain bot dead on, knocking it far back causing it to crumble and explode from the inside by the overwhelming force of the gun blast.
"I see..." Nagito began speaking as he sat in a corner not to far away from the sight.
A large smile was on his face as he saw the Titan fall into pieces and Hajime rising with his right index and middle fingers burned and smoking.
"That is the true potential of your hope, Hajime Hinata"
End Of Chapter 4
To Be Continued.