Chapter 24: U.S.J (Part 2/3)
Ochako could only watch in awe as her classmate defeated those villains like they were pest. How can Hitobashira do this? Wasn't her classmate scared? She knew that the girl was amazing since she tied with Bakugou who scored the highest in the entrance exam but doing well in the exam, did not mean that she could go into battle like it was something normal.
"Hitobashira is terrifying," Sero declared as their classmate dodged a villain's axe and smashed her hand against the man's chest. The brown-haired girl glanced at her classmate. "We barely graduated from middle school and here she is, defeating these villains like they are nothing."
"It's because she has experience." Thirteen said as Aizawa wrapped his scarf around the villain. "How do you know Sensei?" Ochako asked.
The hero did not answer immediately instead his eyes were fixed on their classmate, who barely flinch as a large villain towed over her. Despite the fact that the man looked like a mountain gorilla compared to their tiny classmate, the girl kicked the man in the stomach and sent him flying to a wall.
"The way she fights and her confidence shows someone that has experience with fighting villains," Thirteen pointed to Noroi's stance. "Most beginners would be shaking in their feet or would have made more careless mistakes. The girl is still fighting like a champ and no other villains can keep up with her."
"You think that she's been in battles before like you and Aizawa-sensei?" Mezo asked.
Thirteen grimaced. "It is hard to tell but she is not a novice that much I can confirm. I think that with more training, she could surpass a lot of pro-heroes. Now I can see why Eraserhead insisted that she fight with him but it is still reckless of her to do this."
'Hitobashira is not the type of girl that is reckless.' Ochako thought to herself as she stared at her classmate that is going through the villains like a tornado. From her battle with the girl, it had been obvious that all of her actions were calculated. (Even thou she acted the villain role a little too good.) She made traps when no one thought that she would and she kept the strength of her quirk a secret. It just made no sense for her to be reckless.
In fact, Deku always pointed out that their classmate is very secretive and manipulative which suites her. She never spoke about her quirk to anyone or show it to them because she knew that they would analyze its strength and weakness. When they tried to talk to her about it she avoids the question with finese. This was what her friend presumed and looking at their classmate, she agrees with him.
"Well I'm glad that he did." Sero declared as Noroi locked her legs around another villain's head and twisted it. Ochako agrees because if it was not for her then they would be screwed. But they saw the villains move away from her. Hitobashira was looking above which they also did. They saw dozens of beads right above her. Then the next thing they knew a loud explosion occured.
Sending them to the ground due to the blast. They quickly got up and saw that the place where Noroi was standing at exploded. Without realizing they had screamed, "Noroi-chan!" "Hitobashira!"
Noroi's POV.
'*Cough Cough.* Aurgh... It fucking hurts. Damn, note to self never underestimate fucking tiny beads again.' Noroi slowly stood up thou if you look closely you can see her legs trembling. She faintly hear her classmates yell out her name. She turned her head towards their direction, clenching her right hand into a fist. She points it towards the sky and gives them a huge smile.
Thirteen and co. were looking at her with shock and awe. "What is she thinking?!" Mina screams. "You idiot!" Sero screams as well. "Hitobashira-chan!" Uraraka yells. Thirteen looks at her bloody and beaten form and realizes. "I think she's sending us a message." They all looked at Thirteen waiting for him to explain.
"She looks like All Might. With her fist like that and giving us a smile. Saying "I'm fine!"." Her classmates looked back at Noroi still smiling at them. But turned her gaze back to the villains and continues fighting. 'She's in a tough situation.' 'But she still has the guts to assure us who aren't even fighting.' 'Noroi!'
With the number of villains decreasing, Noroi began to notice that there was one villain that seemed to be standing by the side. 'Was he the mastermind of this whole stupidity?' She rolled her head to the left, grabbed hold of the other villain's arm and sent him flying to the air.
"You're the boss?" Aizawa-sensei asked, sending his scarf towards the young man, who seemed to be muttering to himself. The young man grabbed hold of the scarf but that did not put her teacher off. Instead, the hero was running towards him, ducking the attack of the last remaining villain before elbowing him in the stomach.
"It is hard to tell when you are scampering around, but there are moments when your hair falls in front of your eyes," The man said and to Noroi's surprise, he had grabbed hold of her teacher's elbow. There was a chance that the man could attack her teacher. "Every time you finish a given move, your quirk usage gets shorter and shorter."
To her horror, her teacher's elbow was slowly starting to disintegrate. 'Shit, his quirk allows him to disintegrate people?' She grimaced and readied herself to fight the man. How could someone have such a dangerous quirk? God, how the hell did that man find out of his quirk?
She smashed her fist against the approaching villain and then stared at the villain in front of her. Her teacher moves away, creating some distance between him and the creepy villain. But is quickly surrounded by a few villains. The villain with hands all over his body continued talking.
"Your quirk isn't good for long, group battles?" The man pointed out. "This is kinda different from your usual work isn't it? You specialize in quick sneak attacks yet you jumped right into this fight in the hopes of making the kids feel safe. By the way hero, I'm not the boss here."
Just as soon as he finished declaring those words, a large monster appeared infront of her. There are no words that could describe how ugly it was but there was one thing that Noroi was certain about, it was the fact that it was not human. 'How dumb can you be Noroi?! With an apperance like that? Of course its a fucking monster!'
She could hear the screams from her classmates and turning her head slightly so she still has the monster within her eyesight, Noroi could see Thirteen being ripped apart. Right next to her, she heard her teacher scream her name. But she froze where she was standing. She couldn't move because the monster infront of her is squeezing her neck.
While the monster is squeezing her neck only one thought entered her mind, 'I'm fucking screwed.'
The rest of the class were fighting the villains to the best of their abilities. And when they were about to be attacked a barrier protected them. But even as they were fighting they couldn't help but think about Noroi.
'She's being targeted by villains...' 'And yet she's still...' 'The one protecting us.' 'Noroi.' Aizawa is thinking about Noroi who is being held by the purple villain. He continues fighting and then Noroi decides to attack the one holding her making the villain release her. She then created enough distance between them. But is surprised by the villains speed.
'It's fast!' And then it launched its fist and attacked her. 'I can't dodge!' Noroi got hit by the villain hard in the chest. She coughed blood and felt a couple of her ribs break. She then sent a couple of exploding seals at it and activated it. Resulting a large blast, strong enough to blow her away too. 'Damn... I didn't expect for it to break my ribs.'
Aizawa seeing Noroi coughing blood made a motion to run towards her but is stopped. Noroi created enough distance from the villain while holding her chest. "Damn... It hurts." She look at the spot where she blown up the villain and waited for the smoke to die out. And when it did she saw the villain wasn't there.
All of a sudden she was sent flying to the ground hard. And when she looked up she saw the villain was regenerating itself? Noroi slowly stood up and released her quirk. She took a gun from her pouch and said. "Curse activate: Bloody Rose!" She shot the villain a few times, dodge its attacks the best she can and waited for the curse to activate.
While dodging she mumbled a quick Barrier spell and let the villain hit it. But with each blow she could feel tremendous power behind it. Then she waited for it to stop but all of a sudden various cracks are showing around the barrier. 'Oh Satan's holy ass! This villain is really strong! The barrier won't hold out for much longer.'