Chapter 16
Everyone in the room was speechless after what they saw during the episode, through the monitor they witness, Midoriya was unconscious after having a double damage dealt to him and Iida being knock out from shockwave.
Shirou lay Iida just beside Midoriya so that it would be easier for the automations to place on the stretcher and carry them to the infirmary, now comes the next problem…which is Bakugo pent up frustration from having lost the game and to Midoriya himself, ready to explode at any time.
He turns and saw him twitching around in his own thoughts about how Midoriya was able predict his right arm during the last confront and even more able to win the war.
He clenched his lost hand in exasperation and was about to explode until a hand was able to stop snap him out of his trance "Come back, Young Bakugo. It's time to review the results."
Shirou breath out in relief, seeing All Might managed to calm him down cause if he had intervene, it would not end well for the both of them "Whether you win or lose, looking back and learning from your experience is a part of your life."
After transporting Midoriya to the infirmary and Iida waking up already, they head back to the monitor where the class was waiting, team A and D stood by one side and Rin went to Shirou side "So, did you have fun in this training…?"
Shirou to see Rin smiling to him waiting for his reply "Yeah, I guess I did feel great in this mock simulation."
"I'm glad, this really serves as a good mediation from the whole servants war thing going on."
It was time to review the result and the scoring was one to zero and All Might said in conclusion "Well, even if I say that, the MVP for this battle was Young Iida!"
Iida and Rin look up to him in surprise and shouted, and she had to asked, "Hold on, why wasn't either Shirou or he the MVP?"
"Hmm, well…Why is that?" All Might raise his hand in effort to pick someone "Does anyone know?"
A person raises her hand up her "Yes, All Might sensei… "and everyone look to "That is because Iida adapted the most to the context of training. From watching the match, it appears Bakugo acted on his own because of an obviously personal grudge. And as All Might sensei said earlier, it is foolish to launch a large-scale attack indoors. In the same way, taking into consideration the damage he received, Midoriya plan was also Emiya Shirou, although he has perfect instinct, he recklessly charges into the hideout and with Bakugo on his tail, endangering Midoriya, Iida and the bomb at the same time." That Rin could agree, this isn't the first time Shirou had charge without thinking just to save people, but that had always put Rin to ease as she knew she could always count on him.
"And Iida had prepared for his opponent's arrival and assumed it would be a fight over a weapon, which made him late in responding to the final attack."
Iida was looked way too please with himself that he sparkles like a lightbulb and the others had to move a bit from him.
"The hero team only won because they took advantage of the fact that this was training. They were practically breaking the rules."
Everyone just looks at her and All Might had nothing to say as she had just stated everything he had to say. But when student is looking to him as a role model and as a teacher, he needed to say something "W-well, Young Iida also has parts of that could be more relaxed, but well, this is correct! "he gave a thumbs up to her.
"We should always start with the basic to develop depth of learning. We must strive to devote ourselves wholeheartedly. Otherwise we cannot become top heroes."
Everyone was shocked and impressed to hear a quote coming from Yaoyorozu momo, one of the four students admitted to the hero course based on recommendations and Rin gave a facepalm "I can feel a headache coming already…"
Shirou laughed "Hahahah…She's just like you Rin, a school model…"
"That's why I can feel headache coming, we are so alike."
"Yeah but with no switch of a tsundere or acting high and mighty."
Hearing that, Rin grab Shirou by his collar and went to shake him out of his life in embarrassment and anger "What did you say? Take that back!"
"No way, how can I take that back when I'm saying the truth…!" Rin grumble and letting go, she gave a mean stare at Shirou "That's it, when we are going back, I'll definitely make you regret saying all those words!"
"All right everyone, let's change locations and start the second match. Tackle this training after thinking about what we just talked about."
Battle building B…
In the second match, Rin and Uraraka was team B and against them was team J whom consist of tape Quirk and Rock harden guy, Team B was the Villain and Team was the hero.
"Argh! that Shirou…!" Rin was fuming behind and Uraraka was worried whether if it was her fault.
"Erm, Rin-san, if you do not like this match up with me…"
"AH no," Rin waved her hands "it's not you who I'm angry with."
Uraraka was relieved and smiled happily "I'm glad, I thought you would be angry with me…huh wait, then who are you mad about?"
"And none of your business as well."
"Ehhh…" Uraraka was pouting.
"Now, let's start the second indoor person to person combat training match!"
The ring bells rang and the both heroes went to charge in through the front door and all the way to the villain's hideout "Since I'm not as intelligent as Bakugo and the others, charging in is the only thing I can do!" the harden boy speak as he harden his whole body from top to bottom.
"And don't forget about me!" The tape boy shot out his two tape towards the two. The two dodge the tape and during that instants, the harden boy made a beeline for the bomb.
Flooding her magic circuits with prana, a small shockwave occurred as she slides in between the bomb and the harden boy "What!?" he did not expect her to be so nimble.
"One…" using the form of a sumo stance, she thrust her hand to his abdomen, causing him to spatter from the blow "Two…" she gave a spinning kick to the harden boy in the gut one more time and that was his downfall. He was sent back to ground and the tape boy look at him in stun.
"And three!" Rin rushed towards the tape boy, he did not react properly as he was in fear and she punch him in the air, and with that the two have fainted and the victory goes to Rin and Uraraka.
Uraraka look to stupefied to say anything and Rin swiped her hand "We're going back, Uraraka."
"Ah, yes!"
Everyone in the room really had no words to say and Shirou scratched his cheeks "Maybe I shouldn't have teased her too much…"
"W-wow!"
"In just three moves, she killed them off…"
"Is she a monster?!"
"All right, everyone gather round for a review of the second match. Next, we will begin the third to the last match!" During those matches, the student was able to show off their Quirk and use to their advantage, there were those with strong Quirks able to level a building or so and some got side effects written on them. Shirou and Rin marveled at well their combination, though some also need to work on it as well.
After everyone was done with their matches, all gather at the exit of battle center and All Might went to brief on them "Good work, everyone! We didn't have any major injuries other than Young Midoriya, either!"
"You guys took this seriously! You all did a good job for your first training!"
He gave a thumbs up, but the frog girl wasn't convinced "To have such a proper class after Aizawa's sensei class…it's kind of anticlimactic…" Everyone nods their head in agreement.
All Might cheer them up saying that they're free to have proper class as well. And with that he waves goodbye to the class "Well then, I must review the result with young Midoriya! Change and return…to the classroom!" he made a dash through the hallway with smoke brazing up and shockwave blowing them off.
Everyone was in awe at how quick he was "All Might's amazing!"
"Why was he in such a hurry?"
"So cool…"
Rin and Shirou sweat drop at easily they were fool "You guys have no idea…"
As All Might was running, he turns his head around and eye at Bakugo, noted his unusual behavior "Young Bakugo is a mass of pride and there's nothing more fragile than a heart that's swelled to bursting."
"As his teacher, I must counsel him well. But right now," Smoke risen up from All Might, indicating his transformation becoming undone, he shut the door close and breath heavily "if I teach a class…I barely have enough time. Shit!" and he reverted to his normal form.
Everyone had gone back to class, Rin and Shirou decided to check up on Midoriya so they skip class and went to the infirmary. They open the door to find Recovery girl and All Might in his unmuscle form talking to each other before they saw them "Shirou, Rin…what are you guys doing here? Shouldn't you be in class?"
Rin greet All Might with her hand raise "Yo, we came to check up on Midoriya condition and we skip class."
All Might was about to protest, but Rin stopped him "Don't worry we kept your secret safe, so you don't have to worry about society going into the wrong hands."
Rin and Shirou went to Midoriya side "How are he?" Shirou asked.
"On top of his total exhaustion, he suffers broken bones. I did the first aid treatment already, so after the IV is finished, we can only wait for his body to heal slowly overnight."
Shirou whiff of relief "I see…that is good to hear."
Recovery girl gave All Might another lecture "Jeez, I know he's your favorite and that you passed on your powers to him, but that doesn't mean you should spoil him!"
All Might regrettable have nothing to say due to being part of his fault as well "Because I want to consider his feelings, I hesitated to stop the training match."
"Even so…Will you please not talk about One For All so loudly?"
"Yes, yes, Mr. Natural-born hero. Mr. symbol of Peace." Recovery girl just dissed him off.
He went on to clarify that only a certain among the U.A. teacher and a certain group of pros, but his Quirk, One For All, is known only to you, the principal, his close friends, these two and Young Midoriya.
"I know it's not like you want to rest on your laurel at the top, but is being a "Natural born hero" or the "symbol of peace" really that important?" Shirou and Rin waited for his answer "if I no longer am, then the superhuman society will be seized by evil."
Shirou scratched his head in confusion "Wow, I never thought this would be complicated."
"Yes, this is the responsibility entrusted to us." Recovery Girl sighs and give up her persuasion "if that's the case, then it's important for you to learn what it means to guide someone."
"Yes, ma'am"
Shirou and Rin left the infirmary to let All Might have some alone time with his student, they walk back to the classroom "Something on your mind?" Shirou turn and look to Rin "Nah, I was just thinking about Kiritsugu."
"Your father?"
"When Recovery girl say about guiding, it made me think about Kiritsugu and how he molds me into a better person after the fire in Fuyuki. Before he died, he passed on his dream of becoming a hero of justice to me…"
Rin put her hands up and Shirou discontinue what he was speaking "I already know what you want to say, you want to help him."
Shirou ruffled his hair, admitting that she had known him all along "I can't leave him alone if he he's going to suffered like that."
Closing her eyes, she move forward in front of Shirou with both her hands on her hips "Well…since we are in this school, we might as well teach him a thing or two," She etched her upper body towards him "But don't forget we still have our mission of retrieving the holy grail…"
Shirou beckon his head in agreement "Yeah, of course I still remember."
"Then that's good enough for me." Shirou gave an innocent smile which when Rin saw, she blushes and immediately turn away. Shirou had question marks appearing on his forehead and Rin stutter her words up
"L-let's go…I'm sure our teachers will not be happy when they see us skipping their class."
"Yeah, let's go." they silently walk through the hallway all the way until the classroom.
Back at the Hotel… (Simulation training room)
Morgan and Astolfo were in combat with one another, while Sieg and Gray were on the sidelines watching. El-Meilloi ll was the meditator the training.
Like a graceful swan, Astolfo extends her whips to cover the distance with sword that moved like a slither snake and targeted her. The chains lock her hands with her body "Got you!" and he pulls her midair. At the same time, Morgan call out her dust swords and launches it towards her. "Wuahh!?" Astolfo got jump scare by the torpedo's swords aiming for his face. he jumps to his left and ran as fast as she could, dodging multiple swords as it bashes into the ground, in doing so allowed Morgan to break free of the chains.
The dust swords dispatch to dust and Morgan slowly land on the ground, with the chain sword retracting to its original form.
"Hey that's not fair, why can you shoot sword out of thin air!?" Astolfo protested lying like girl on the ground.
Morgan had no idea why he would make such a fuss over this, but as an evil alignment, it would be fun to tease him "Swords?...oh you mean those swords I summon, well it's simple actually…I just concentrate all the elastic energy into the sword which serve as an rubber band to strike my foes down,"
"But I didn't think Astolfo, one of the twelve paladins of Charlemagne would be complaining about trivial things." She grins evilly.
"How is that trivial?" He shouted, annoyed by her egoistic tone "You could at least warn me the next time you use those!"
"Why should I?" she shrugged her shoulder "You should know how battle are fought…Or maybe you are just afraid I would beat you." It had a superiority written on her face.
he's too overly optimistic to be bothered by her harassment "I'm not afraid of witches like you!" he thumps on his chest, extra confident of his self, for he is the famed Astolfo who had already lost his reasoning up at the moon "I'm so weak, you wouldn't even feel satisfied by just having to beat me!"
The three couldn't help but baffled at the comeback he chose for the argument "Is he always like this, so lively?" Gray couldn't help but asked.
Her query was confirmed by Sieg "By lively, you mean her weird sentence so to speak? Then yeah, we will be seeing more of this from her for a while."
"I see…" her ever bright face diminished after having to hear from Sieg himself.
As the two were bickering to no end, El-Meilloi ll saw fit to end the training between the two "Alright, you two, time to switch."
"Ehhh? Is that all!?" Astolfo was pouting with his hand waving like a snow angel "But we still haven't settled on who number one!"
"That can be arrange…!"
Astolfo cocked his head slightly in confusion when Morgan came charging towards him. When he realize that she was going for the kill, he shook his hands quickly "H-hey wait…!" but he couldn't react in time and Morgan use this chance to go in for the victory, she grabs her collar shirt and toss him down to the ground.
Knock out on the ground, Astolfo eyes was spinning and Morgan dust her hand before touching her waist "Now then…I believe it was one of your turn, right?" she looks at both.
Sieg and Gray stared at each other, no knowing what to do after seeing her quick initiative of passing the torch to them "do you want to go first?"
Gray shook her face and closed her eyes "I don't wanna go up against her." especially when she had been on the receiving end of Morgan punches.
"Alright, I will go then."
El-Meilloi ll dragged unconscious Astolfo to the side to make way for the next participants.
Sieg stood face to face with Morgan on the center of the room, El-Meilloi ll and Gray was waiting with anticipation as to see how both will tackle their opponent, with usually head-on clash or with a strategy they produce in mid-battle.
In any case, it will be fascinating to watch them have at it.
Sieg draw out his sword out first and wait for her preparation to finish. Being a sorceress who thread's around like a snake waiting to strike at its weak spot, she had not seen what was Sieg fought like during the battle with Jeanne Alter…maybe she shouldn't have kick her sister to the far side of the forest…she would have gotten a glimpse of his power in action but the past is the past and now she had this chance to analyze her opponent right now.
Edging him on, Morgan lift her hand "Would you care to show me what you have got!?"
"Of course, that's what I have been planning to do from the start!"
The battle was underway when Sieg leap forth with his sword sparks with Morgan dust sword. Both were on standstill with their swords pushing with all their might. Both could see they had about the strength in their swords and such there's no gaining of advantage between them, they pull back their swords.
Sieg use his force movement as a source of strength by charging through and forwarding his strike, his sword charge swung a few times, jumping in all directions. For Morgan case, she just moves fluidly around his assault, angling her sword just enough to parry his sword, for she was analyzing her opponent.
Her eyes were shifting around, looking an opening around his combat style and at the same time monologuing to herself "This is quite a childish form of fighting…but nonetheless an effective one as well…" Using momentum as a source of power to its advantage, he would gain enough force to thrust through his opponent.
After seeing plenty of Sieg stylish combat, she decided that it was time to end this…Sieg pushes his sword up pointing towards her head, Morgan dodge it by pivoting to the side.
Morgan evil grin manifested as when Sieg was in a state of shock, both El-meilloi ll and Gray could only give him condolences as they knew what was coming next.
His quick facing to her with an anxious face and sweating profusely, his one last ditch attempt has been dealt with swiftly by kicking him in the gut, causing him to slide down through the floor.
The outcome of the match has been decided. After decelerating, Sieg lay on the floor and El-Meilloi ll and Gray went to give him a hand. Sieg took their support and stood up, he saw Morgan strolling over to his area.
It was frustrating, seeing how easily Morgan turn the tide with just an inch of movement while he had given his all, probably more so with his battle against Jalter, he would need to train until on the same level or even more if he were to stand a chance against them.
"It's my loss …" he gracefully accepted defeat.
Morgan stared at Sieg like a statue not saying a word.
Sieg was befuddled and look at El-meilloi and Gray who have the same look as him, confuse by her stoning "Is something wrong?" Sieg asked.
"I've decided…"
"Decided what?"
"I would take you on as my apprentice! I will train you from the bottom up until you would make a fine knight, of course in service of and for me and Master!"
The three of them were clearly in a state of shock when Morgan just announced her apprenticeship with Sieg, El-Meilloi was the first to snap out of his trance "Hold on, you can't just do that!"
"Why not? His movement are sloppy and easy to predict, it's a miracle he survives to this day and you aren't even making him a student, you have her by your side"
"But still, you haven't even told Shirou about this yet and I have the summoning circle ready to summon more servants to boost our defenses !"
Morgan turn to Sieg and demanded an answer "So, what's it gonna be, are you going to reject my offer and be weak and useless or become strong and defeat anyone that stand in your way?"
Sieg knew in his heart she was speaking the truth, if it weren't for Astolfo unleashing Akhilleus Kosmos to absorb the Vasavi Shakti or winning against Amakusa Shirou using Blasted tree, he never would have won against servants and survive the whole ordeal.
Right he needs to gain more power, in order to protect his master and those dear to him "Alright I accept your offer, but on one condition…"
"Name it."
"I will obey you when it comes to protecting Shirou and everyone else, but if you order me to kill someone of your own desire, I will not perform that command, that is only my condition."
"That is acceptable, considering Shirou would want to save everyone." Morgan inhale a bit of air before continuing, she held her hand out "Anyways, good choice on accepting my offer, you will gain power like never before, enough to stand up to a servant."
Sieg took her hand and they shook on it, El-Meilloi ll sigh out "I hope you know what you're getting yourself into, just know that when you do gain power, you must control that power, not drown in it."
"Yeah, I know."
"Then that's good enough for now."
"The next problem is" El-Meilloi ll turn to a sleeping Astolfo "How to wake him up."
"Huh? How did this happen?" Astolfo was fuming about when Sieg woke him and told him about his partnership with Morgan "You have me as your servant and you can still can summon more servant, what for would you still want gain power?"
"Sorry Saber, I know that I'm being selfish and all, but I realize I need the power to stand on my own two feet." He did not tell him about the reason.
Astolfo gasp and got back to his cheery self "Well, I did tell you to become selfish, didn't I?"
"Oh, did you? Sorry, it must have gotten lost in my memories."
"Moh, how can you forget about that!?"
Everyone was snickering about and a door opening sound was heard from afar.
Everyone turns and saw Shirou and Rin on the other side and walk towards them "Welcome back you two!"
"Yeah, we're back."
El-Meilloi ll instantly shouted out "You two came at the right time, we can start right now!"
Both were dumbfounded at his proclaim "Start of what?"
"Isn't it obvious!? The start of the summoning ritual…!"