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~{The Old Warehouse}~
Dabi had an eyebrow raised as he leaned back on his old couch, intrigued by the explosive battle between Izuku and Todoroki.
"That got pretty intense."
He curiously stared at Izuku and Todoroki, heading out of the stadium together.
"Shoto Todoroki... His flames aren't blue like mine." He scoffed.
He then looked left, "What do you think Tog- hm?"
Toga was no longer sitting next to him on the couch and was instead was laying on the ground. She had her head planted in her hands, and she flailed her legs in the air.
She stared at the television screen with a small smile on her face, visibly interested in something.
Dabi noticed her creepy smile. "What's up with you?"
Toga's smile turned into a creepy grin.
"That boy…"
She stared at Izuku and his broken arm that had a few drops of blood going down it.
"He's pretty interesting."
"You're only saying that because he's bleeding a bit..." Dabi sighed in disappointment.
"I wonder how he would look with more blood on him. Hehehe... He would look so cute."
"Don't mutter your fantasies around me… It's gross." Dabi's eye twitched.
"But aren't you interested in him too, Dabi?" Toga asked as she turned her head back at him.
"Not in the way you are, you lunatic…"
"You're mean Dabi!" Toga said with a pout.
She glanced forward at the television screen again.
"Aw! He's gone!"
"He left to get treated... I would too if I blew my arm up." Dabi rolled his eyes.
"Eh? But I wanna see him!" Toga whined, crawling closer to the screen.
"Then wait..." Dabi sighed. He watched as the screen showed the next battle that would be occurring.
"Enso Ureshi…"
~{Recovery Girl's Temporary Nurses' Office}~
"Sit yourselves over here, dearies." Recovery Girl instructed Izuku and Todoroki as they helped each other inside.
Izuku sat on one of the beds and let out a breath of relief.
"Phew... You alright, Todoroki?"
Todoroki sat down, holding his chest, "You're asking me that? You have a broken arm and finger?"
Izuku didn't understand. "...and?"
"He means that you shouldn't be asking that!" Recovery Girl shouted angrily as she whacked Izuku on the head with her syringe cane.
"Ow!"
"This is the fourth time you've been here with an injury you caused to yourself!" She complained.
"S-Sorry! I-I felt like it was the only thing I could do at the last moment!" Izuku shielded himself from the elderly heroine.
"If you keep thinking that 'it's the only thing you can do,' then it'll be worse than that!" Recovery Girl shouted as she walked over to Izuku.
*Chuuuu!*
She kissed his arm, healing it and even his left hand's finger up.
Izuku felt only some of his stamina get taken, but the pain he was feeling disappeared.
"Thank you, Recovery Girl," Izuku said as he started rotating his arm.
Recovery Girl walked over to Todoroki, kissing his arm and healing him as well.
"There are spare gym clothes in that cabinet over there. Get changed, you two." The nurse pointed.
Izuku looked down at himself, noticing his shirt had been incinerated during the collision of explosions he and Todoroki did.
Todoroki, on the other hand, only had half of his shirt burned off, caused by using his left side.
"R-Right..." Izuku got up from the bed and went to the cabinet, grabbing two pairs of uniforms and tossing one at Todoroki.
"Thanks." Todoroki nodded as he peeled off what was left of his shirt.
"Hold on sonny, I almost forgot." Recovery Girl said to Izuku. "We still need to bandage that arm."
"O-Oh..."
Todoroki finished changing as Izuku sat down and stuck out his arm for Recovery Girl.
He stared at the emerald boy while still standing, his curiosity building up as he recalled many questionable events during the festival so far.
"Midoriya."
"Hm?" Izuku looked up, "Yeah?"
"That power you used against me during our fight. That was the other part of your quirk, was it not?"
"Other part?" Izuku blinked as he wondered what he meant. But his eyes widened as he realized what he was talking about, "Ah! You mean Ikari!?"
Todoroki tilted his head with a question mark over it. "I…kari?"
Izuku realized that he didn't actually tell any of his other classmates what he decided to name the additional power he had.
"I-It's what I call it. I…Um, well... I don't really know how to explain it, though..."
Todoroki sat back down on the bed across from Izuku. "From what I hear, you tell everyone else that not even you understand it completely. Yet... I swear I saw you bring it up multiple times during the festival."
Izuku's eyes widened and slightly leaned forward. "Multiple times!? B-But I don't even remember doing any of them! I-I barely remember bringing Ikari up one moment during our battle!"
"Hold still sonny, I'm still wrapping these bandages around you." Recovery Girl reminded him.
"Ah, sorry."
Todoroki looked down. "There was a moment during the obstacle course race, Ureshi was going to take the lead from you, he was clearly going faster than you. And yet... he backed up because something got in his way for a split second."
Todoroki recalled the flash of black.
"It was... black flames. They were only there for a second, yet it was enough to scare Ureshi to retreat."
"That's why Enso backed off!? Why didn't he tell me about it!?"
"Then there was the cavalry battle. You had left your team to take back the ten million points. You reached your arm out, but... you grabbed the wrong headband. You grabbed the top one, but I had purposely moved the ten million to the bottom."
Izuku was shocked.
"S-So I really did grab the wrong one? I-I knew that I did... B-But then, how did I get the ten million back?"
"I don't know, the only I know is that I saw something else... Red eyes."
"R-Red eyes?" Izuku repeated.
Todoroki nodded, "I think they were eyes..."
"Are you sure they weren't mine?"
"I don't know for sure. They weren't the same eyes that you had during our fight... But the next thing I knew, the ten million headband was gone."
Izuku looked down with fearful thoughts going through his head.
"I activated Ikari so many times without realizing it? And I even used it while fighting against Todoroki? That's so dangerous without knowing how I can control it! What if I did to Todoroki the same thing that I... did to Kacchan?"
Izuku shivered at that thought.
"All done, sonny." Recovery Girl said as she slowly finished wrapping up his arm
"Ah, thank you..."
Izuku stood up from the bed, still feeling insecure about using his own power without even realizing it.
Todoroki stood up and went to the door.
"I don't know what you're dealing with that power of yours, but I hope you get a hold on it..." He left outside the room and slid the door closed.
Izuku stared down into his hand as he thought about it.
"I have a bad feeling about this..."
A moment into thinking, the door slid open.
"Young Midoriya! Good job there!" Toshinori praised as he walked in with a smile.
"A-All Might!?" Izuku uttered.
"Is he always surprised when he sees me?" Toshinori sweatdropped.
Recovery Girl walked over to Toshinori and stomped her cane on his foot.
"Ouch!" Toshinori jumped on one foot and held his other in his hands.
"That's for being such a bad influence! Tell him to stop breaking his limbs!" Recovery Girl fumed, before heading back to her desk.
"R-Right..." Toshinori mumbled, sitting down in a chair. He saw Izuku looking unsure about something, but he already knew what.
"I'm assuming you're thinking about Ikari?" Toshinori asked him.
Izuku nodded. "I-I didn't even register that I was using it until right after it faded away... I-I'm not controlling it. I used it during the other games, but I didn't even know it."
Toshinori sighed and rubbed the back of his head, "Well, young Enso said that Ikari most likely activates to protect you from a life-threatening situation, or because of the emotional distress you feel... In this case, it must've been Todoroki not using his full power that triggered it."
"But there wasn't that much emotional pain during the other two times it came out during the festival..."
"Other two times?" Toshinori exclaimed.
"Yeah, during the race and cavalry battle, Ikari activated two more times, and I didn't realize it." Izuku confessed.
"Interesting..." Toshinori put a hand to his chin. "What were you thinking about during those previous times?"
Izuku looked up, "When Enso was about to pass me, I just thought... 'I can't let him pass me,' and then he backed off. As for during the calvary, I thought about the ten million points and how important it was for me to get them back... For me and my team."
Toshinori had a thought, "Those just sounded like things you just really wanted during critical moments..."
"What I... wanted?" Izuku repeated.
"Yes, this also includes before. When you fought Bakugo, you wanted to live and beat him, and during the USJ event, you wanted to live desperately as well. Ikari activated both times, and these new episodes might not be so different."
Toshinori leaned forward, "During the race, you wanted to keep Enso from passing you, during the cavalry battle, you wished to obtain the ten million points back no matter what, and during your battle with Todoroki, you wanted him to use his left side by any means."
Izuku saw where he was going with this, "D-Do you think what I really want manifests as Ikari?"
"During crucial moments only it seems. Otherwise, you probably could just will Ikari to be active." Toshinori clarified.
Izuku looked down into his palm, feeling his hands together.
"Is it really...?"
"The ice is nearly gone, folks! We're gonna have our next battle in just a moment!" Mic's voice came from the television screen.
Izuku got up.
"Enso's battle is next..."
"You should get a move on." Toshinori suggested.
Izuku bowed before rushing out of the room and closing the door behind him.
Toshinori saw the next battle captions being Enso fighting against Iida.
"If young Enso wins this, then he and young Midoriya will be fighting against one another in the next round..."
He looked down.
"Why does that worry me?"
Izuku ran down the hall in a small hurry, making it back to his seat, but along the way, he thought about something.
"I haven't talked to Enso ever since the first round... Maybe I should go wish him luck."
He was about to turn the corner before he heard someone call for him.
"Hey, Midori!"
Izuku stopped and looked behind him, seeing Mina waving to him with Hagakure following her.
"Mina? Hagakure? What are you two doing here?" Izuku asked them.
"We came to see you after watching you blow up your arm... again." Mina chuckled.
"But it was so cool!" You were so badass in that fight, Midori!" Hagakure said while sticking her invisible arms in the air.
"You made even made Todoroki use his left side! You made him let out his all against you!" Mina said with a grin.
Izuku blushed from the praise and hugged his head with his arms while looking away. "U-Um, th-that was... I-I just wanted him to help him use his full power..."
"Darn right you 'wanted' him to. You even brought out that black stuff during your fight! I'm glad you didn't do to him what you did to... Bakugo." Hagakure said, remembering that fight.
"I'm glad too..." Izuku said with a partially troubled expression, remembering the injuries his childhood bully suffered.
Mina looked concerned, "Hey, Midori. What was that exactly? Your eyes were... like mine. But... scarier."
Izuku flinched when he heard her say that. The last thing he ever wanted to be called scary, as he wanted to be a hero that could smile and reassure others around him.
Hagakure noticed Izuku's reaction and tried to reassure him.
"Sh-She means the cool kind of scary! You know, the kind that strikes fear into villains to stop right in their tracks, but makes the rest of the innocent civilians cheer for you!"
"Oh…," was all Izuku could utter out. He could clearly tell that Mina didn't mean it that way, but decided that it was better not to think about it.
Hagakure seemed to be trying to change the mood too, because the next thing Izuku knew, she was behind him and grabbing the bottom of his shirt.
"Another thing Midori. What's with-"
She then yanked his shirt up, revealing his dense muscles.
"-this!?"
Mina once again formed a lilac tone on her cheeks as she saw them.
"H-H-Hagakure!?" Izuku uttered out, completely shocked and turning red.
Izuku quickly pulled his shirt down and backed away from Hagakure.
"Wh-What was that for!?" He cried out.
"I never knew you were so ripped, Midori!" Hagakure completely ignored his question.
She rushed over to Izuku's right arm and pulled up his sleeve, revealing more muscles.
"Why were you hiding these guys all this time?"
"H-Hagakure! Y-You're too close!" Izuku shouted as he took a step away from her while the invisible girl took steps forward.
"Your fault for never showing them off!" Hagakure teased. She then noticed that Mina wasn't joining her in on this, and looked somewhat nervous about something. Puffing her cheeks and arms behind her back as she looked down.
"Oh, right, I almost forgot why we came here for!"
Hagakure backed away from Izuku and got behind Mina.
"Hey, Midori! Mina, here has something to ask you." Hagakure said as she gently pushed the pink-skinned girl forward.
"Wha-Toru!? I-I don't think I'm-!" Mina uttered as she was moved closer to Izuku.
Hagakure pulled her close and whispered in her ear.
"Come on, Mina, you were finally mustering up the courage during Midori's fight, don't back out now." She whispered.
Izuku curiously tilted his head to the side.
"Why does Mina look so... so nervous?"
Mina walked over to Izuku and tried to act like her usual self, smiling despite the blush in her cheeks.
"H-Heya Midori! Ahem... I was wondering… if you'd like to… you know…" Mina's cheeks turned into an even deeper shade of lilac, and she looked down at the ground.
Seeing the girl acting this unusual, Izuku didn't know what to say.
"U-Um, is something wrong?"
Mina fiddled with her fingers, nervously, "No, there's nothing wrong... But w-well… after the festival is over… do you wanna…"
An invisible vein of irritation emerged on Hagakure's head.
"Oh, for crying out loud! Midori, Mina wants you to go on a date with her after the festival is over!"
Izuku's mind immediately went to chaos the moment he heard her.
His head exploded in red and steam, and his eyes widened with sweat forming on the side of his head.
"Wha-Wha-What!?"
Mina slightly panicked from Hagakure's sudden outburst and blurted even more words out.
"D-Don't think of it like that! W-Were just g-gonna be two friends hanging out!"
Hagakure sighed, "Is she that embarrassed to admit it?"
"Mina... Come on, you don't want to me just straight out tell him that you-?"
Mina suddenly clapped her hand upward over Hagakure's face to keep her silent.
"... That's not my mouth." Hagakure corrected Mina's hand position.
Mina moved her hand lower on Hagakure's invisible face.
"Mmph."
"There we go."
"S-So, what do you say, Midori?! Wanna go somewhere with me later?" Mina asked again.
Izuku nervously scratched his chin and looked down, "I-I mean… I-If you're okay with me… S-So it'll just be the two o-of us?"
Mina twirled her hair with her other hand, "Well… yeah…" she mumbled.
"Mmph mmph!" Hagakure tried to say something, but Mina firmly covered her mouth.
"Wh-what do you mean by date? Or a-are we're just going to h-hang out?" Izuku asked.
"Yes! I mean no, I-I mean-!" Mina didn't know what to say and somewhat panicked.
"Just tell him it's a date-date!" Hagakure shouted in her head as she tried to pry Mina's hand off her mouth.
"What are you three doing here?"
They turned their heads to the new voice and saw Enso walking towards them.
"E-Enso? What are you doing here?" Izuku repeated the same question back to him.
"I'm... heading for my next battle?" Enso said in a somewhat confused manner.
"Ah, that's right, your next fight is next against Iida." Izuku remembered.
"So, what's happening here?" Enso asked.
Mina and Izuku both blushed.
Hagakure backed up and managed to get Mina's hand off her face, "Hey, Ureshi-!"
"Enso." He corrected.
"...Enso then. This is something between a guy and a girl!" She stated.
"But…there are two girls…and one guy..." Enso pointed out.
"...Oh."
"Well, whatever. I won't pry into it."
Enso walked passed the three and headed for the entrance to the arena, but Mina called to him.
"W-Wait, you could help me!" She ran up to Enso.
He looked back and raised an eyebrow, "With what?"
"I-I mean, I asked Midori out on a date, b-but I-um, he-well, got the wrong idea! Y-You know what I meant, right?" Mina said, hoping that Enso would say something.
"..."
Enso stared at her while Mina stared up at him with pleading eyes.
Izuku just stood with a deadpanned expression. "What is even going on?"
Enso sighed and pulled up his watch.
"Definition of 'date.'"
His watch lit up blue, and a robotic voice spoke.
"Date: the day of the month or year as specified-"
"Next definition." Enso interrupted.
"A social or romantic appointment or engagement."
Mina quickly turned back, but nervously pointed finger guns at Izuku.
"Y-Yeah! A social appointment! That's what I meant to say!"
Enso rolled his eyes, "So obvious..."
Hagakure facepalmed, yet no one was able to see it.
"Mina, why is that even though you're so excited for romance when it comes to others... you're so timid when it comes to yourself!?"
Izuku felt awkward now, but hearing Mina 'clear up' what she had said did somewhat calm him down a little.
"W-Well, w-we could meet up later if you really want."
Mina smiled from ear to ear and looked visibly excited now.
"Great! I'll see you after the festival! I can't wait!" Mina visibly jumped in place, then happily running off with flowers around her head.
The three stared as Mina disappeared around the corner before Enso turned around.
"Well... I'm off." He kept on walking.
"G-Good luck on your next match!" Izuku called out as he left.
"You don't need luck, just skill…and good abilities."
"Just be quiet and go..." Izuku sweatdropped.
Enso walked off, leaving Izuku and Hagakure alone.
Hagakure was a bit annoyed.
"I went through all the trouble of bringing her to properly ask him out, but now she made Midori think that it was just a friendly meet up..."
"Hey, Hagakure?"
"Hm?" She turned to him, "Yeah, Midori?"
"Um, I've been kind of wondering, have you and Mina known each other before?"
Hagakure chuckled, "Yup! We've known each other since we were little! You could tell?"
"Well, you both kind of give off that cheery, bubbly personality, and are both in sync a lot. Y-You even call her by her first name."
"Heh, heh, yeah. When we met in elementary school, we immediately hit it off and became best friends! Although, Mina was a bit wilder than me."
Izuku smiled, "It's nice to grow with someone really similar to you..." He looked down and thought about Bakugo. Despite both of them aiming to become heroes, it was clear that there were much more than a few differences between them.
Hagakure, on the other hand, looked down with a sad smile. A smile that Izuku couldn't see.
"Being really similar can really have a lot of... problems."
"Eh?" Izuku detected the small sadness to her voice. "What do you mean?"
Hagakure realized that she had mumbled that and rapidly waved a hand.
"Nothing at all! We should get back to watching the tournament battles! Enso is next, right? Let's see how he'll do against Iida!"
Hagakure grabbed Izuku by the hand and started pulling him back to the seats.
"Wha-Hagakure!?" Izuku nearly tripped as he ran but managed to regain his footing as he ran.
Hagakure kept her head down as she dragged Izuku away.
"Since Mina and I are pretty similar, we've ended up liking the same things..."
She pulled Izuku up the stairs.
"The same food..."
She pulled him around a corner.
"The same hobbies..."
She was near the entrance to the bleachers.
"But I didn't think that we'd even like..."
Her head turned back at Izuku, the boy unable to see her looking at him.
"The same guy."
"Awesome fight Midoriya!" Sero gave Izuku a thumbs up as he walked over towards his seat.
"Th-Thank you." Izuku said nervously. He turned his head to Hagakure, who had already left for Mina and sat down next to her.
"There was something... 'off' about Hagakure."
Izuku didn't think much about it and started walking over to his seat, getting many congratulations from his classmates as he did so.
He looked left and passed by Todoroki, who was looking down and staring into his left hand.
"I guess he's still thinking about having used his left side..."
Then he noticed that the girls were acting rather... odd.
When he passed by Jiro, she blushed and turned away from him. Tsu seemed to be staring intensely at him, and Ochako and Momo were both blushing as well with their heads down.
Mina and Hagakure were just chatting away in their seats.
"U-Um, hi." Izuku awkwardly spoked as he got to his seat.
"O-Oh, hey Deku! C-Congratulations on making it to the semi-finals!" Ochako stuttered, although not looking up.
"Y-You really did do a great thing... Making Todoroki use his left side." Momo added.
"Ochako and even Momo are stuttering?!" Izuku thought nervously.
He sat down between them and turned from one to the other.
"U-Um, is something wrong, you two?" He asked them.
"N-Nothing..." Ochako answered.
"Y-Yes, nothing at all..." Momo answered as well.
"They're flustered because they didn't expect you to have such defined muscles. Kero." Tsu bluntly spoke.
Ochako and Momo flinched, and their shades of red deepened.
"Eh!?" Izuku looked behind him and saw Tsu there with a small blush despite looking so calm.
"Your shirt got burned off in that giant explosion near the end of your battle with Todoroki. Everyone saw your rather muscular build, and it caused quite the commotion."
Izuku heavily blushed and looked down.
"I-I-Um..."
"So, how long have you hidden them from everyone?" Tsu then asked.
Izuku looked back up at her in embarrassment, "Wh-What? I-It's not like I purposely tried to hide them! M-My clothes weren't ever just... burned off."
Tsu blinked and turned her head to the side curiously.
"But why didn't his shirt get burned off when Bakugo blasted him? Surely the flames would've burned off much more than before..."
"Alrighty, everybody! All that ice and cement caused by those crazy kids have been cleared out! Now we can finally move on to the next match!"
Izuku blinked with a blank expression.
"He called Todoroki and me crazy..."
"Are you up for another battle folks!? We got our next two combatants up now!"
Izuku looked down at Enso and Iida walking out from opposite entrances of the stadium and onto the arena, staring each other down rather serious.
"On one side, the 'gotta go fast boy' that got ultimately used as an advertisement for the support course! From the hero course, it's Tenya Iida!"
"Do not describe me in such a way! It was humiliating as it was to be in that scenario!" Iida shouted in frustration.
Izuku sweatdropped with a small smile, "He's gonna be sour about Mei using him for a while..."
"On the other side! He may have not done anything too interesting yet, but he's one of the best of the best! From the hero course, Enso Ureshi!"
"May we give it our all!" Iida said to his opponent.
Enso just nodded.
"Enso-kun! Over here!"
Enso's eye twitched, and he looked upward to the left to see a familiar chef in the bleachers. He held up two small flags reading 'Enso-kun' and energetically waved them around.
"I couldn't see your first match because I had to cook for lunch, but now I can cheer you on all the way! Do your best!" Lunch Rush shouted as he waved his flags at him.
Izuku deadpanned.
"He's like a high school cheerleader!"
Enso sighed and rubbed his eyes.
"Since when did they get so close?" Aizawa mumbled too.
"Looks like someone clearly has a favorite!" Present Mic joked. "But anyway, let's get started!"
"Snipe Style" Enso got into a fighting position and shined yellow.
"Nobody blink!"
Iida crouched into a track runner's stance.
"FIGHT!"
Both fighters blasted at each other with blinding speeds, swinging their legs upward.
They met in the center of the arena, both of their legs colliding in high kicks that bouncing off of one another.
They landed a few feet away from each other and stared.
"You're fast." Iida said, rather serious.
"So are you, but..." Enso disappeared in a yellow flash.
"He didn't even have to start up!?" Iida though in shock.
He suddenly felt a leg slam into the side of him and sent him flying back a few yards away. He rolled on the ground but managed to jump back up to his feet.
"You're reaction time isn't as fast." Enso remarked.
Iida gritted his teeth, then blasting forward towards Enso and swinging his leg at him.
Enso leaned back and let Iida's kick go over him, allowing the boy to pass by.
Iida landed and didn't waste any time to dash back to Enso, jumping up an attempt to perform an overhead kick on him.
Enso turned back and saw Iida coming at him.
He moved his body back and caused Iida to miss, to which Enso then used his hands to momentarily grab Iida and toss him away.
Iida landed on his back and felt a sharp pain in it.
"Damn, he saw me coming!" He forced himself back to his feet, using both of his arms to push himself up.
Enso got into another fighting stance, waiting for Iida to come.
Izuku looked with peaked interest.
"Enso is in his Snipe Style to match Iida's speed, but Enso's reaction time is much faster than Iida's..."
Iida knew this as well, crouching down and taking a deep breath.
"I have to move faster than he can react!"
Iida's legs then started to shake.
"Recipro..."
Enso saw this coming and changed stances.
"Punk Style" His aura turned blue.
Izuku was surprised.
"Why did he switch into Punk Style? I would've expected him to change into Brute Style at least to try and take Iida's attack."
Iida' as engines ignited in blue flames.
"...Burst!"
Iida exploded forward towards Enso in blinding speeds.
"Punk Style- Calm Mind"
Enso closed his eyes and pictured a single drop of water landing into an entirely still ocean, the ripples spreading and detecting anything around him.
He saw, no, he sensed Iida charging forward right at him.
Enso sidestepped and leaned his head to the side, narrowly avoiding a lightning-fast kick from Iida that nearly grazed his face and even created a scratch of blood.
Iida landed past Enso but was quickly ran around to hit him again.
"I have about ten seconds before my engines stall! I have to win it at that time!"
Enso turned to face Iida, his eyes still closed.
"I'm not as fast as before, I have time this perfectly..."
Iida came at him and jumped while swinging his legs sideways at blazing speeds.
"Now!"
Enso took a deep breath.
"Punk Style..."
"He's doing another move that close!? What could it be!?" Izuku thought as he leaned in his seat.
Everything went by quick.
Enso ducked under Iida's kick right on time, the boy's leg grazing some of his hair.
At the same time, Enso's eyes snapped open, and he raised his fist in an uppercut.
"Spirit Breaker!"
Izuku's eyes widened. "Spirit breaker!?"
Enso's fist connected between Iida's legs.
Iida's engines stopped, he turned comedically black and white, and he fell to the ground while clutching his delicate area with a more than pained expression, including a foaming mouth.
Everyone turned white in silent, Mic's glasses dropped like everyone's jaws, and Aizawa's eyes enlarged behind his bandages.
"He-He just-!?"
Enso stood up straight and let out a sigh.
Midnight shivered in fear as she shakingly raised up her whip.
"I-Iida is... more than immobile! U-Ureshi wins!"
All of the other boys and men instinctively placed their hands on their precious area and shivered, while many girls stared in what seemed to be disgust.
"How brutal..." One said.
"That's so evil..." Another added.
"Enso-kun! That was a little mean, but at least you won!" Lunch Rush laughed.
Others around him sweatdropped.
Izuku, on the other hand, sprang up from his seat and pointed downward at the otherworldly teen.
"ENSO! YOU'RE NEVER ALLOWED TO USE THAT ON A GIRL!"
Enso heard him yell and looked up at him.
"What makes you assume that I would do that?"
"YOU KNOW YOU WOULD!" Izuku didn't hesitate to scream.
"..." Enso looked away. "Tsk, fine."
"HE THOUGHT ABOUT IT!?" The entire audience screamed mentally.
Kamui, Mount Lady, and Death Arms all stood with widened eyes.
"You know... Maybe you're right. Maybe he is evil..." Death Arms said.
"I do not want that to be what convinces you..." Kamui's eye twitched.
"What the hell is up with this guy?" Shigaraki irked after what he had just seen.
The other voice on the line laughed, "That was really is quite amusing. Enso Ureshi... He isn't anything like I've ever seen before. He was able to keep up with someone who's quirk is centered around speed. It's no wonder he was able to match the pace of your Nomu."
"He killed Nomu by himself... There's no way a brat could do these things... "Shigaraki scratched at his neck in frustration.
"It's clear that he is no normal child. But neither is that other child..."
"Who Sensei?"
"Izuku Midoriya, the one that interfered with you offing one of the students. His quirk seems... interesting."
Shigaraki could practically picture the grin on his sensei's face based on that tone of voice.
"So, I've finally found you..."
"Sensei?" Shigaraki asked in a confused manner.
"Tomura, Ureshi and Midoriya are fighting in the next round... correct?"
"Y-Yes... After the remaining battles of this round, the two of them will be the first to fight."
He heard his Sensei chuckle.
"This will be very interesting indeed..."