Outside the U.A. Stadium

As Kuroi Niriyama walked towards his upcoming match, he saw a figure in a shadowy alcove. She stepped out, and it was none other than Akabayashi Kemochi, his next opponent. She looked very fiercely determined.

"I don't know what this is, but everything can be settled on the battlefield" Kuroi replied flatly, and tried to walk past her, but she blocked his way. "What do you want?" he continued.

"Look. I know you guys must think of us Class B heroes as not as good. I just came to say I'll change that view in this match!" she said seriously.

"Ok. Sure. Move." he replied and walked past her. Akabayashi looked at him, muttering under her breath ominously.

U.A Stadium

"HE'S DESTROYED ALL HIS COMPETITION SO FAR WITH PURE POWER! FROM THE HERO COURSE: KUROI NIRIYAMA!"

"SHE'S A PATRON OF POWER HERSELF, AND YOU DON'T WANNA SEE HER ANGRY! FROM THE HERO COURSE: AKABAYASHI KEMOCHI!"

The competitors stood a good distance from each other. Akabayashi was glaring at Kuroi, who looked on passively.

"START!"

"Frenzy, 20%! Akabayashi immediately shouted, and she was surrounded by red mist, with grown horns. The crowd was shocked. This was already the level at which she had incapacitated Kido. Kuroi remained unfazed.

"This doesn't change what I have to do" he said remaining calm.

One second Akabayashi was at the other side of the arena. The next, she wasn't. Kuroi predicted correctly however, and he looked down to see her punching tentacles he had created in front of his stomach.

"Headstrong, but foolish" he said, grabbing her arm with one tentacle and throwing her across to her starting area.

"OH, SHUT UP! Frenzy, 30%!" she shouted and the red mist around her started crackling with lightning. She tried to zigzag towards Kuroi this time, and he calmly walked slightly forward to stay away from the edge. She started running around him in a circle. Kuroi decided to erect 4 tentacles on his cardinal sides from the ground. This still gave Akabayashi small holes in his defense to slip through, but it was better than nothing, significantly reducing her angles of attack. He heard a loud crash on one of the tentacles, and he sighed. So, it was true. Her intellect was largely reduced in this state.

"This is just sad. What good is power if not combined with a working mind?" he said genuinely. Nevertheless, it was taken as a rude comment all the same.

"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP" YOU WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND" she screamed, and kept piling into the tentacles. However, at one point, she managed to slip in diagonally. Kuroi saw it but had very little time to react, getting clipped by her first, and the pain was staggering.

She barely tagged me…and I'm this overwhelmed!? If I didn't have my guard up, would I have been knocked clean out… he though with alarm, but resumed his tactic. Akabayashi kept occasionally slipping through the diagonals, and Kuroi dodged most, but got clipped by the occasional pass. He was starting to feel weak in the arms and knees, and had a light headache. He dropped his arms and looked down.

"GOTCHA" Akabayashi yelled and passed through a diagonal straight to Kuroi. He sidestepped it swiftly, grabbing her as she passed as if it were a martial art and threw her into a tentacle, escaping the walls at the same time. "No, it is I who has predicted this outcome."

It was brutal. She bounced across the walls and ground as if she were a projectile or ping pong ball, and lay on the ground shaking after. The ground was covered in small human sized craters. Akabayashi got up slowly and shakily, but she was covered in bruises and cuts.

"Your strength is also your greatest weakness – specifically momentum." Kuroi explained, but Akabayashi had lost it.

"FRENZY, 40%!" she screeched, and her horns grew larger, and her eyes became completely red. The crowd was hushed and quiet. "YOU DON'T KNOW! YOU DON'T KNOW!" she screamed in pain.

In her past, Akabayashi had been put in a home at a young age, as her parents were scared of her Quirk. Her mother had an Adrenaline Rush Quirk, and her Father had a Pain Resistance Quirk, and it seemed that these combined. However, Akabayashi was prone to fits of anger, and she was deemed unsafe in their household. They had tried to love her, and they just could not.

This had a jarring affect on her psyche. At the orphanage, all the other kids were scared of her, and despite her attempts to make friends, she was shunned. From the age of 5 to 14 she had lived this life. However, when she was 14, a man came to see her.

"I know you're not gonna hurt me….and I see you are hurting. I think people are wrong about you. Painfully so. I think you have the heart and the making of a great Hero. There are just things we need to work on".

That man was a behavioural psychologist, and he had taken her in for a year before her application to U.A. He taught her how to control her emotions, how to act in groups and also personal interactions, and how to be liked. He also showed her the Hero society and all the love they received. She was enamoured. They'll all like me…. if I save them! And from there her path and conviction was set.

Akabayashi was at 40%, and she started losing what psyche she had. She zipped all over the stadium, smashing the ground. Kuroi calmly walked right to the middle of the stadium…and sat down. The crowd gasped.

"You don't want to do this do you? It's a pitiful Quirk really…I can sympathise. But you have to fall, for my success." Kuroi said loudly from the middle of the Stadium. Akabayashi roared and beelined for him from the edge of the Stadium. He wasn't dodging this from his position. The crowd was deathly quiet.

The moment Akabayashi was near Kuroi, she tripped and rolled across the ground as a fast speed. All the way out of bounds, crashing into the concrete walls. Kuroi had a sad but serious look on his face.

He had lain small tentacles like they were footholds all around him. His gambit had paid off. In that form, Akabayashi had not just low intelligence, but also low perception. She was a purely instinct based warrior. This was great for reacting to others or straight out slugfests. But when she had to make the first move, it was easy to counter her effectively.

"…..A-AKABAYASHI IS OUT OF BOUNDS! KUROI NIRIYAMA TAKES THIS ROUND." Present Mic announced, but the crowd was awkward and quiet. It had been a match filled with anger and sadness.

As Akabayashi was approached by medics and lifted onto a stretcher, Kuroi lamented his role. I wish I could let you achieve your dreams I guess…but I'm not gonna sacrifice my own goals in the process. Not like that fool in the year above.

He was referring to the match between Midoriya Izuku and Todoroki Shoto from the previous year, which he had seen before he attended U.A.

"Well…no matter. I will win this tournament." He thought fiercely.