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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter thirty-four: The exhibition battles mini-arc, part one

Kagura Hojo, the principal of Vulcan High, was a bit amused by the guests that her highly prestigious hero high school (it's prestigious if you ask her, at least), who were meeting with her in her office at her school right now. There were two guests; a woman about her age, who was the principal of a high school located over in the United States, and a twelve-year-old boy who there was no way could be a student at the American high school that the woman who was sitting across from Kagura ran.

The woman looked roughly the same as Kagura herself, except the American woman was Caucasian whereas Kagura was Asian, and the American woman also had a more slender body than the well-fed principal of Vulcan High. The woman was also dressed relatively casually, what with her loose-fitting t-shirt of pastel pink, a pair of women's jeans held up with a belt, a pair of light brown slip on shoes that showed her white socks, and around her neck a simple lanyard that had a set of keys attached to it.

As for the twelve-year-old boy, he wore a long-sleeved white shirt under an orange shirt that was open in the front, a pair of tan-colored cargo pants held up with a belt, gray socks and white shoes that had red stripes on them. The boy was Caucasian, same as the American principal woman; the boy also had snow white hair, freckles under his eyes, and a noticeable front tooth that had a bit of a chip in it. The boy stood on the American principal woman's left, his arms held behind his back as he looked at Kagura.

Wanting to get this show on the road, Kagura gestured to the American principal woman. "It certainly is both a pleasure and surprise to receive visitors from a high school located over in the United States, Mrs. Butterbean." To the piqued interest of Vulcan High's principal, the boy turned to face the American principal woman, apparently called Mrs. Butterbean, and spoke to her in English. After the boy was done, Mrs. Butterbean spoke in English to Kagura, who was a bit annoyed as she did not understand the language.

After the American principal was finished, the boy spoke up again, and thankfully he was now talking in Japanese. "Well I was aiming to prove to the school board back in my hometown that serious considerations ought to be taken to work on the quirks of the students attending Michigan schools. They agreed on the condition that I can prove that the quirked students of my school can match up against the students of Japan's top hero high school U.A., as it's one of the foremost leading examples of high schools in the world dedicated to educating and training the heroes of tomorrow's society. If my school's team wins a team battle event against whatever team that U.A. throws against us, then schools in not just our school district but in district all over the state of Michigan will be improved for the better thanks to more focus being afforded to the populace of our students who have quirks."

Kagura kept her eyes on Mrs. Butterbean while gesturing to the boy who spoke in Japanese. "I assume that this boy is acting as a translator for you, Mrs. Butterbean?" The boy turned to face the American principal and said a quick line, drawing a nod of confirmation out of her and a line of English that the boy translated.

"Mrs. Butterbean told me that it was okay to introduce myself. My name is Lincoln Loud, and I was brought along despite how I'm still in elementary school because I'm fluent in Japanese. I'm needed here to serve as a translator for those in the party that don't speak Japanese."

The principal of Vulcan High arched a wry eyebrow of amusement as she regarded the white-haired boy. Before speaking, Kagura turned her attention back to Mrs. Butterbean. "…Wouldn't the language barrier make things a bit difficult for you here?" The American principal said something in English that Lincoln ended up translating, a translation that made Kagura chuckle a bit in amusement.

"My students don't all have to speak Japanese to defeat U.A.'s team."

Both Mrs. Butterbean and Lincoln looked at Kagura in curious amusement as she chuckled. After she had calmed down a bit, the principal of Vulcan High remarked, "You guys are serious about aiming to defeat U.A." Letting out a knowing sigh, Kagura said, "Look, Americans. Even the top students of my school, the prestigious hero high school known as Vulcan High, could not stand up to U.A. in the end. What makes you think that whatever team of students from your high school, which is a regular public high school and not a hero high school, can stand up to the team that Japan's top hero high school will throw at you?"

Lincoln took a short moment to translate what Kagura had said to Mrs. Butterbean who, after she got the translation, merely smiled calmly, a hint of amusement on her face. The American principal spoke calmly as she gave her answer to Kagura, which Lincoln translated for her. "She says that she has confidence that Royal Woods High's team of ten quirked students can not only take on whatever team U.A. throws at them, but that they will still win. She says that it is a rather poor idea to underestimate 'Americans' as you have just called us."

Kagura looked like she was going to speak up, but she was cut off when Mrs. Butterbean said something in English, which Lincoln translated. "She wants to know if you're interested in a bit of a proposition."

The principal of Vulcan High, with her expression changing to show that her interest was piqued, relaxed a bit. "…What does she have in mind?"

After he made the translations from Kagura to Butterbean, Lincoln proceeded to do the translations from Butterbean to Kagura. "Mrs. Butterbean wants to know if you would be interested in an exhibition team battle between the Royal Woods High team and a team of students from your school here."

"Oh, so you want to help me show off the might of my school's top students," Kagura replied, amused by the American principal's challenge, "Well, you should have said so from the start. I bet that all of Japan would like to hear that ten of Vulcan High's best were able to defeat the ten Americans that Royal Woods High sent to face U.A."

Once more, translations back and forth were made before Lincoln spoke for Mrs. Butterbean. "She didn't mean that ten of your school's students would face all ten students on the Royal Woods High team. Mrs. Butterbean said that she wants one-hundred of your school's quirked students to face just one student from the Royal Woods High team."

Kagura could not help but burst out laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of the challenge. The scope of what the American principal was suggesting made Vulcan High's principal have a bit of amused hysterics. After Kagura had calmed down enough, Mrs. Butterbean, with a dry, serious look on her face, said something that Lincoln had to translate. "Mrs. Butterbean is being serious. She wants the exhibition team battle to be a one-hundred versus one affair."

Gesturing to Mrs. Butterbean, Kagura said, "You must be absurdly overconfident if you think one student of yours acting on his or her own can seriously match up against a force of one-hundred of Vulcan High's top students." Shrugging indifferently, Kagura continued, "But fine, I'll humor you. In fact, I can get the exhibition team battle set up and ready to go in my school's arena by later this afternoon. You can bring the rest of the party from your town by and watch as you send one of your own to their doom."

Lincoln provided the translations, and Mrs. Butterbean, looking similarly amused as Kagura but for a different reason, calmly gave her reply. Lincoln, with a mildly shocked look of surprise on his face, looked like he was asking the American principal if she was sure, to which she looked to say that she was. With a gentle shake of his head, Lincoln turned to face Kagura and told her what Mrs. Butterbean had said.

"…She says that it sounds like Allison will be having fun later today."

Over at U.A. High School, the Big Three had gathered all of the students in the 1-A and 1-B classes in the large classroom where the joint math exam was held a while ago. The trio of third years stood in the front of the classroom, and all eyes were on them. Nejire, the lone girl in the Big Three, clapped her hands together a few times to get all of the first years to calm down and focus on her, making it clear that she was the one leading the charge here.

"Okay, everyone!" Nejire said, a hint of excitement in her tone, "Now, I'm sure you all are excited because the big team battle event where a team representing U.A. will face off against a team from the visiting high school from the United States is coming up in a couple of days, and what's more is that party from the school we're competing against, Royal Woods High, already touched down on Japanese soil a few hours ago."

"If I may be so bold as to ask a few questions, Nejire-sempai!" Tenya said in a fairly formal manner, standing straight up from his seat as he shot his right hand straight up into the air. The lone girl of the Big Three giggled a bit in amusement, entertained by how 'cute' as she called it the class rep of 1-A was being, so she gestured to him with her right hand, giving him the okay to proceed. "Do we have any information available on the U.A. team that we can expect?"

At that prompting, it was Tamaki who stepped forward, standing next to Nejire as Mirio hung back. "All that Nejire, Mirio and I got from Aizawa-sensei and Sekijiro-sensei on the matter is that the team representing Royal Woods High consists of ten students. That being said, I figured that only ten of you will be needed for the team battle."

Nejire clapped her hands together, getting everyone to turn back to face her. "With Tamaki having said that, we're here mainly to determine which ten out of the combined fifty of you will be put into the team representing U.A." Seeing the surprised looks on the faces of the first years, Nejire explained, "You kids are the best of U.A.'s brightest year yet, so the boys here and I all agreed that we ought to let as many of you take the spotlight as possible, while us third years hang back and cheer you first years on."

"I was figuring," Tamaki began, "As we'll only need ten of you to face the ten representing Royal Woods High, that the first four out of you lot that will be put onto the U.A. team will be Todoroki, Yaoyorozu, Juzo and Setsuna. Those four are all recommended students, and as such are among the most logical choices to put onto U.A.'s team."

"I'm…not so sure if I would be a good choice for the U.A. team, Tamaki-sempai," Yaoyorozu said, a hint of annoyed bitterness in her tone as she crossed her arms over her chest. "I mean, there's a fairly good chance that the silver spoons shoved firmly up my ass may get in the way of the rest of the U.A. team."

"Those were my private thoughts, Momo!" Mina snapped defensively as she stood up from where she sat.

The Big Three looked at the arguing first years with varying looks of concern on their faces. "Is this related to how some Gen Ed course girls got ahold of a lot of journals from us hero course girls and read them over the intercom two days ago?" Nejire asked.

Itsuka, from where she sat, let out a resigned sigh as she stood up from her seat in the room. The class rep of 1-B nodded a few times in confirmation, although the resigned look on her face made it clear that she wished that things hadn't happened the way that they did a few days ago. "Things are still a bit tense, Nejire-sempai," Itsuka remarked. Gesturing to where Yaoyorozu and Mina were bitterly arguing with one another, Itsuka added, "Although it's mostly in 1-A, as you can clearly see."

Nejire, wincing a bit in embarrassment, remarked, "Oh, it's not just you first year girls who have to deal with that. I myself had my privacy violated that day." Turning to face Tamaki, the lone girl of the Big Three said, "Again, Tamaki, I'm so sorry if you hearing about that dream I had about you and Mirio made you uncomfortable."

"It's okay, Nejire," Tamaki replied with a resigned, very mildly exasperated sigh, "Dreams tend to be weird, but for the record I refuse to find out if what you dreamed about would actually work in real life." Jerking a thumb over his shoulder to point out where Mirio stood, Tamaki added, "And I'm pretty sure I speak for Mirio when I say that he won't exactly be in the mood to find out, either. You're really lucky that he was out sick the day those Gen Ed course girls pulled that stunt of theirs."

Some of the first years, remembering what exactly Nejire wrote about in her journal about that specific dream of hers, couldn't help but chuckle. Wanting to get things back on track, as well as get the first years to stop thinking about how she dreamed about Tamaki eating Mirio's ass, Nejire quickly clapped her hands together to get everyone to settle down and focus on her, so she could get things back on track.

"We need to focus on what all we're going to do for the ten among you all that will make up the U.A. team that will face off against the team of ten that Royal Woods High is bringing to the table," the sole Big Three girl said. Turning around, Nejire walked to the board behind the desk that she and Tamaki stood in front of; Mirio, who had been hanging back since the start of the meeting, stood between the desk and the board.

Picking up a stick of chalk, Nejire used it to write on the board, writing the names of Todoroki, Yaoyorozu, Juzo and Setsuna on the board, going in that order from top to bottom. "We'll go with what Tamaki suggested and put all four of you first years that got in on recommendation onto the U.A. team," Nejire said after she finished writing on the board and turned to face all of the first years. "Alright, then. Who should be the remaining six that will go into the team of ten that will be representing U.A.?"

Raising a hand, Juzo remarked, "I think that Midoriya's a solid contender. I mean, the dude did win that tournament against Akuma's old school a while ago, not to mention how he's been trained by friggin' All Might." Nejire turned to face Tamaki and Mirio, the latter of those two nodding briskly in agreement.

Nejire started up a separate list on the board, which she labeled as 'possible other team members for the U.A. team', and the first name she added to that list was Izuku's. "Okay, he'll be one of the suggestions that we'll consider for the time being." Turning back around to face the first years, Nejire continued, "Okay, now who else here wants to suggest someone, or volunteer to try and be put onto the team?"

"I'm surprise no one here considered the obvious choice of me!" Bakugo declared as he stood up, "I kick the most ass out of everyone in both classes! There's no way some two-bit extra high school's team will stand a chance if they have me to worry about!"

"Says the guy that lost to Izuku by ring out," Juzo muttered to himself under his breath, a look of sly, devilish amusement on his face as he spoke quietly.

Going ahead and adding Bakugo's name under Izuku's on the list of potential ideas anyway, Nejire remarked, "Yes, you're really tough for a first year, Bakugo, but the U.A. team shouldn't be all power. We're also going to be wanting some team members whose quirks will help serve auxiliary roles like support."

"Ooh!" Sakaki said as she raised her hand, "Then you should totally add Hitoshi to the U.A. team! He can very easily incapacitate members of the opposing team with his quirk, making them easy pickings for his teammates!"

"Some team members that are good with stealth may also be a good idea, sempais," Akuma remarked from where he sat in the classroom. The Satanist of U.A. crossed his arms over his chest as he wore a serious look on his face. "Girls like Hagakure, who's invisible twenty-four seven, and Tsuyu, who can use some form of camouflage, would fit those roles well. They'll be able to sneak up on the members of the opposing team and take them out."

Some of the students in 1-A looked over at Akuma, surprised that he would not only recommend Hagakure and Tsuyu like that, but speak as well of them as he was. Similarly, some of Akuma's own classmates in 1-B were surprised that he was as considerate of the potential of others as he was being; most surprised of all was Monoma, who scoffed rather incredulously as he stood up from where he sat in the classroom.

Calling out to Akuma, the blonde boy of 1-B said, "You cannot be serious, Akuma! Why would you recommend people from among that lot of cretins over your own classmates?"

Akuma, turning his head to look at Monoma, had a mildly annoyed, mildly angry look on his face. "…You're starting to remind me an awful lot of my previous principal's princely brat that I had to suffer under before I was expelled from Vulcan." Akuma held his right fist up, allowing the black flames of Hellfire to engulf it, billow ominously as he held it in Monoma's direction in a threatening manner. "You want to learn all about what I did the last time that I saw that ugly face of Yuki's?"

"Boys, settle down now," Tamaki said as he gestured to get the first year boys to calm down. Everyone sat back down in their seats, and Akuma willed the black flames engulfing his fist to dissipate. Once everyone had settled down, Tamaki went on with what he was going to say. "Stealth roles sound like a good idea to me, so we should add Hagakure and Tsuyu to the list of potential team members as well."

Nejire, nodding once in agreement, proceeded to add Hagakure and Tsuyu to the list, under Bakugo and Izuku. Nejire also added Shinso's name to the list, remembering what the fat cat girl had said about the brainwasher. "Hmm…we're looking at an awful lot of the first years from class 1-A…" Nejire remarked aloud. Turning around to face the first years, the sole girl among the Big Three said, "Who among class 1-B wants to try and get onto the U.A. team?"

"I can use my quirk to make barriers of solid air to block incoming attacks," Kosei said as he raised a hand, "I can help with defense if we need it."

"I can alter the size of objects," Yui said as she raised a hand, "I can shrink something really big, pick it up and throw it at the opposing team and change its size back to normal mid-throw. I can also make something normally small really big, like a lugnut or whatever."

Nejire nodded, a sign that she liked what she was hearing. After she added Kosei and Yui to the list of potential options, she turned back around and asked, "Any more ideas, folks?"

Kirishima, as he raised a hand, said while standing up from his seat, "Actually, I got someone who I want to recommend."

"Umm, I'm pretty sure that Nejire said that we aren't exactly looking for 1-A students to put on the list right now, Kirishima," Tamaki remarked.

Gently shaking his head, the hardening quirk boy said, "I wasn't going to recommend anyone from my class, Tamaki-sempai. I was going to suggest Itsuka's friend Kinoko." A lot of the students in the classroom all looked at Kirishima in surprise. This went especially so for Itsuka (who was amused by Kirishima suggesting Kinoko), and Yaoyorozu and Hagakure (both of whom seemed a bit unsettled by the idea of Kinoko fighting someone). Nodding once to show that he was serious, Kirishima said, "She's really good at taking out people at a distance, like what she did against Yaoyorozu in the tournament a while ago, as well as this one guy she helped me take down when those guys tried attacking U.A." Smirking a bit, Kirishima added, "Her attacks can't be seen normally, so guys on the opposing team won't see it coming."

"Hang on a minute there, Kirishima," Yaoyorozu said, standing up from where she stood. The wealthy girl turned to face the direction her manly hardening quirk classmate was in, a look of mildly unsettled confusion on her face. "…You're actually suggesting that girl because she can make people asphyxiate from a distance?"

Shrugging, Kirishima replied, "Being able to knock people out without getting into their danger zone sounds like a pretty useful thing to have in a fight. At least if you ask me."

Yaoyorozu, with a look of mild exasperation on her face, let out a troubled, annoyed sigh. "I'm sorry Kirishima, but I am having a lot of trouble seeing how having Komori on the team that U.A. will be using in the upcoming team battle event would be sane."

"Yeah, Momo's got a point!" Hagakure declared as she stood up, "There's no reason to suggest putting her on the U.A. Team!" The invisible girl crossed her arms over her chest, giving off an air of mild annoyance. "I bet that you're only willing to suggest her in the first place is because she's got a crush on you."

"Wait, what?" Kirishima asked, looking totally confused.

Itsuka, sighing in a resigned tone, stood up and turned to face where Kirishima was at. "You remember the incident a few days ago where the diaries of some of the girls in the hero course were taken and read over the school's intercom system, and how one girl went on in her diary about how much she was in love with you, Kirishima?" The red-haired boy, looking like he was starting to understand a bit, nodded tentatively in the affirmative.

Seeing that Kirishima remembered that part, Itsuka nodded in confirmation before she pointed to Kinoko. "Yeah, well the diary in question belongs to Kinoko." Crossing her arms over her chest while giving off an air of annoyance, the class 1-B rep continued, "It's not the way that I wanted for her feelings to get to you, but yes, Kirishima." Itsuka jerked a thumb at Kinoko while saying to the hardening quirk boy, "Kinoko here is very much smitten with you."

Kirishima, his eyes widening a bit, turned his attention to the mushroom girl of class 1-B. "That was you?" Kirishima asked, sounding surprised and mildly shocked. Kinoko was still very much embarrassed that her feelings, her heart, had gotten across to the boy she was in love with in a manner other than one of her choosing, and hearing him directly ask her if she really did love him overloaded her brain with embarrassment.

…However, the mushroom girl was able to pick up parts of Kirishima's tone that made it clear he was not revolted. He sounded genuinely surprised, flattered, unbelieving that she would actually be in love with him. Kirishima sounded like he had no idea what to make of the fact that any girl at all would be interested in him romantically, but the fact that said idea was now a true fact, Kirishima sounded…relieved? Happy?

Kinoko couldn't believe it, but from where she stood, from where a lot of people would stand, it sounded like Eijiro Kirishima wouldn't actually object to the idea of being in a relationship with her. Granted, he sounded like he still had to get over some shock, some surprise, but after that, then maybe, just maybe, the mushroom girl of class 1-B might finally know what it's like to be with the boy who had stolen her heart.

Once again, Nejire clapped her hands a bit, getting everyone's attention, although it was mainly because Itsuka had started something of an arguing contest with Yaoyorozu and Hagakure. "We need to focus here, everyone!" the lone girl of the Big Three stated firmly. Turning back around to face the board, Nejire picked up the chalk she was using to write with and quickly put Kinoko on the list of potential members of the U.A. team for the team battle event.

"Now then," Nejire said after she finished writing the mushroom girl's name and turned back around to face the first years, "Are there any other suggestions that any of you want to make?"

Over at Vulcan High's stadium, Mrs. Butterbean and Lincoln sat in a special section of the seats surrounding the stadium pit that the exhibition team battle would be taking place in. They were in a special sectioned off part; the section they were in were akin to VIP seats in a sport arena, if that helps to clear things up. Sitting on Mrs. Butterbean's right was Kagura, who wore something of an amused look on her face. The principal of Vulcan High turned to face her American guests, the knowing smirk on her face telling them that she felt her students had this in the bag.

"I hope that you seriously know what you're getting into here," Kagura remarked, "Asking for one-hundred of my school's students to face just one girl from your school's team."

After translations back and forth, Lincoln said on Mrs. Butterbean's behalf, "She says that she's happy you remembered how many students from your school she asked for to face Allison."

The principal of Vulcan High was starting to feel the barest hint of annoyance, thinking that the Americans here were rather full of themselves. No matter, Kagura fully intended to put them in their place by doing as they asked. Not only that, but Kagura wanted to make it as much of a show as she could manage, so she arranged to invite some 'special guests' to come by and watch the exhibition battle of one-hundred versus one.

Kagura jerked a thumb over her shoulder, pointing out the one man and ten girls that sat behind them. "…I'm just glad that you had no issue with letting the guests that I had invited to come by watch this exhibition battle," Kagura remarked.

After translations were made, Lincoln said for Mrs. Butterbean, "She says that she's surprised that you were able to convince a group of ten actresses and their manager to come by and watch this exhibition battle."

"Well why wouldn't I have the girls of Franchouchou accept Kagura's invitation?!" the lone man in the group declared as he stood up; he was a young adult man with tidily combed brown hair, a pair of sunglasses, a white long-sleeved dress shirt under a red vest that had some squid tentacle snacks sticking out of the one pocket, a black bowtie, and a black dress jacket that he wore over his shoulders as a sort of cape. He was also wearing dark-colored pants that matched his jacket (the man's pants were held up with a simple brown belt) and a pair of brown shoes.

The man, clearly the manager of the ten girls, held a hand over his chest as he addressed Kagura and her American guests. "I suppose you two from America are owed an introduction," the man said, giving off something of an eccentric air, "I am Kotaro Tatsumi, and the girls here make up the actress troop Franchouchou, who are the stars of Japan's latest prime time hit, Saga Stories!" The man, having identified himself as Kotaro, then gestured to each of the ten girls that were in the VIP booth with him, the two principals and Lincoln, introducing them as he gestured to each one. "The girls here are Sakura, Saki, Junko, Yugiri, Lily, Ai, Tae, Sigrid, Ayumu and Hikari."

"Umm, it's nice to meet you," the actress identified as Sakura remarked, looking a bit unsure of what to say. "…Umm, I never thought that I'd get to meet someone from the States, especially after what all I've been through."

Mrs. Butterbean and Lincoln both looked surprised, although for the former her surprise came after Lincoln had translated the Japanese to English. Looking to the actresses and their manager, the white-haired boy remarked, "I never thought that I'd get to meet Japanese actresses."

Kagura was a bit amused by how the Americans were shocked that she, the principal of one of Japan's finest hero high schools, had managed to arrange for straight-up legit celebrities to come and watch the exhibition battle. Granted, the Americans seemed to not be aware that the girls of Franchouchou were, similar to the beasts that had attacked a while ago, straight up monsters, but not the same kind as the attacking monsters from a while ago.

It's true. The ten girls of Franchouchou are all zombies, humans that were raised from the dead, returned to the land of the living but not walking among the number of the living (only looking the part thanks to using Monster Glamour). Given how Americans tend to be obsessed with hunting and killing most forms of undead, zombies most of all, Kagura thought it was best that the Americans here not learn the truth about the girls that are managed by Kotaro.

But all of those thoughts were pushed to the side when Kagura and the others in the VIP booth heard some doors down in the arena pit open. Looking down, the spectators saw a large pair of plain tannish metal double doors open outward into the arena pit, and after that a mass crowd of Vulcan High students, led by Kagura's own son Yuki, started to rush in. "You all should watch this exhibition battle," the principal of Vulcan High remarked, clear amusement in her tone, "The students at my school are about to show just why Vulcan High is the closest Japanese hero high school in terms of upstaging the prestigious U.A."

…

In a somewhat crowded hallway that was inside part of Vulcan High's stadium, Yuki Hojo, accompanied by his classmate Takeshi Kanemaru, was addressing ninety-eight other quirked students of Vulcan High. "Believe it or not, everyone," the son of Vulcan's principal began, "But we're about to fight in an exhibition battle where all one-hundred of us are going to go up against just one opponent."

"Just one opponent?!" a bald boy with a very buff, muscular build exclaimed in an almost incredulous manner, "You cannot be serious!"

Nodding once in confirmation, Yuki replied, "I am indeed serious. You see, a party representing some high school from the States is visiting Japan, and they are set to have a team battle event against U.A. That battle is still a while off, but in the meantime the Americans apparently have seen fit to have an exhibition battle against us."

Takeshi nodded once to the others, a sign that their principal's son was indeed correct. "From what Yuki was able to gather from his mother, it was the Americans that requested the specific setup for this exhibition battle. They wanted one-hundred of us to fight just one of them."

"Well what are we waiting for?" the chinchilla girl asked, her head cocked to the side slightly, "Let's get in there and cream whatever poor son of a bitch was thrown to us by their school!" She pounded her right fist into her left hand, a sign that showed she was ready for a scrape.

There was a red light above the double doors that separated the one-hundred student team that represented Vulcan High from the stadium's arena, but a few seconds after the chinchilla girl had expressed her eagerness to get into the fight, the red light turned green. Yuki, leading the way, opened the double doors and ran into the arena pit, all ninety-nine of his fellow Vulcan students rushing in after him.

Once the last of the one-hundred total were in the arena, the double doors closed behind them, locking to make sure everyone in the arena would not be able to get out, at least until the battle was over. The one-hundred Vulcan High students looked around, wondering where their lone opponent was at. There was some confused muttering from some of the students, some of which were asking aloud if this was just some elaborate prank by the Americans.

…But no prank it was, as not long after the double doors had closed and locked behind the students of Vulcan, they heard a powerful, commanding female voice call out from the opposite far end of the arena that everyone was in. It was Yuki, the one leading the charge, who first saw the lone opponent that the one-hundred students at his school, himself being among that large, mighty lot, were set to face in battle. Many among Vulcan's number who actually believed that they were going to fight just one person expected a tall, beefy, muscular guy with an extremely high amount of physical strength, sort of like All Might in his prime.

Instead, their lone opponent looked to be a young adult girl. She had her yellow-blonde hair in twin ponytails that fell down over her back, with said ponytails long enough to reach halfway down her shoulder blades, with the bangs framing her face. Her outfit consisted of a sleeveless thick cloth top of dark green worn under a gold yellow sleeveless vest that would have exposed her midriff if not for the green sleeveless shirt; the vest was connected only by a golden brooch that was detailed to resemble the head of a snarling wolf, with the brooch clearing being of Nordic make.

The young adult girl wore metal shoulder pads with fur trim, a belt that was composed of metal links crafted to resemble skulls and from each skull on the belt a length of leather studded with a few metal spikes trailed down, under the belt and leather lengths was a dark fur skirt that reached her knees, a skirt that looked to have been made from a bear pelt. Under the skirt was a pair of durable cloth pants with knee guards over the knees, and the young adult girl also wore a pair of fur trimmed boots that reached halfway up her shins; the legs of her pants ended up disappearing into her boots.

The young adult girl also wore a simple dark leather headband/circlet over her forehead, and a pair of fur bracers that started at the crooks of her elbows, covered the rest of her arms going towards her hands, and also covered the lower halves of the back of her hands. In the young adult girl's right hand was, to the surprise of the one-hundred Vulcan students, a four-iron golf club. Lastly, there was also a thin, black leather rectangular case worn over her back, peeking out from behind her right shoulder and left hip.

Right after Yuki had first spotted her, the young adult girl, having likewise spotted her opposition, began yelling at them in a language that Takeshi was able to identify as Swedish, even though he didn't understand it, nor did anyone else in the team of one-hundred. The way that the young adult girl yelled at them seemed as if she was challenging them. That challenging air she gave off, plus her choice in what was clearly her hero outfit, made many of the Vulcan students in the team of one-hundred feel as if they were going to fight a Viking.

…

Up in the VIP booth in the arena's seats, Kagura was confused by the shouting of the lone girl from the Royal Woods High team. Curious, the principal of Vulcan turned to regard her two American guests. Gesturing down into the arena where the Viking-esque girl stood, Kagura asked, "Do either of you know what the hell she's saying?"

"I can go ahead and tell you than neither Mrs. Butterbean nor I speak Swedish," Lincoln said as he regarded Kagura, "So I have no idea what she is-"

"I am Allison Ace."

Lincoln, as well as everyone else in the VIP booth, turned to regard Sigrid, one of the actresses in the actress troop Franchouchou, after they had heard her speak up. "Daughter of Ashe," Sigrid continued, "Niece of Sejuani. I stand before you all here today as the Viking Hero Asgardian. To those among you who lack fear in their hearts, come forward. Let us make this contest a glorious battle that will entertain the gods of Valhalla."

"You…" Saki said as she and the other Franchouchou girls all turned to regard their fellow actress, "…Understood what she's saying?"

Sigrid, her arms crossed over her chest, simply nodded once in the affirmative. "That one down there is formally challenging her foes to battle. She aims to win glory in battle this day." Sigrid turned to regard her fellow actresses, a wry look of amusement on her face. "We would do well to watch this contest, girls. I get the feeling that we are going to be in for quite the treat." She turned back around to look down in the arena, her gaze locked on the Viking Hero.

"That one down there is a warrior."

…

The one-hundred students that made up the Vulcan High team were a mix of startled and just straight up confused by Allison shouting at them in a language that none of them had any way of understanding. All confusion fled them when their lone opponent had finished shouting at them, then immediately proceeded to run straight at them. "I have no idea what that girl is thinking, but she's nothing short of suicidal if she thinks she alone can take on all one-hundred of us!" Yuki yelled to the other ninety-nine Vulcan students.

"CHARGE!" Takeshi yelled as he, running by Yuki's side, proceeded to run right at the oncoming Allison, leading the other ninety-eight students into battle. The charging of the two sides went on as normally as one would expect in such a situation. However, at around the time that the two sides were halfway to reaching one another, the Vulcan students were all surprised when they saw what had to be Allison's quirk activate.

She became completely enshrouded in golden lightning.

Spotting a fairly large boulder that was one of the obstacles in the arena, Allison ran up to it, jumped up to land on it and then, with a lot more effort, jumped from the top of the boulder and seemingly flew over the oncoming horde of Vulcan High students. The Viking Hero soared over the masses until she started to descend, falling right towards the lot of them as if she were a bolt of lightning striking down from the blue.

Allison landed approximately in the middle of the large mass of Vulcan students, creating a burst of golden lightning that exploded out from her like an exploding dome that burst outwards. Many of the Vulcan students were hit by the bursting dome of golden lightning, with most of those who were hit being knocked out automatically by the Viking Hero's massive AOE attack. And that all was just from Allison using one of her attacks, Asgard Burst, right as she landed in the thick of the horde that made up her opposition.

Standing up straight from the landing position she had landed in, Allison turned to face her opponents, immediately spotting the basset hound boy. Switching her golf club to her left hand, Allison shouted, "Gungnir Bolt!" as she conjured a sphere of golden lighting above the tips of her right hand's fingers and, making a throwing motion, thrusted the power at the basset hound boy. When she did this, the golden lightning sphere thinned out, turning into a rod-like shape.

The thinned out orb, now a spear, flew right at the basset hound boy, striking him in the gut and sending him flying away with an explosive burst of power. After she had defeated the basset hound boy, Allison was distracted when the chinchilla girl tried hitting her on her left flank. The Viking Hero arched a wry eyebrow as she saw the chinchilla girl's look of total shock that the golden lightning cloak enshrouding Allison did not so much as waver. Allison took her golf club, also enshrouded in golden lightning, and struck the chinchilla girl along the side of her head, knocking her out.

Allison looked up into the sky and, as she returned her gold club to her right hand's grasp, pulled her right fist back before thrusting it up into the air, holding her cherished weapon aloft as she shouted, "Thunderer's Storm!" A massive burst of golden lightning flew from Allison's right arm and soared up into the air, before spreading out over the airspace over the arena in a manner that made many of the Vulcan students question just what kind of insanity was happening.

Before Yuki or any of his remaining team members could get a read on what was going on, lightning bolts of gold began to fall down from the skies above.

Kagura was beyond shocked as the exhibition battle was winding down. Likewise, Kotaro and the actresses of the troop Franchouchou did not expect what they had seen. Only Mrs. Butterbean and Lincoln did not looked surprised in the least, given that the show they and everyone else was watching was going just as both of them had expected, even though Lincoln objected somewhat to the very idea of the show that the American principal had challenged Kagura of Vulcan to.

Down in the arena, Yuki and Yuki alone was the last of the one-hundred students from his team that was not knocked out. The son of Vulcan's principal was clearly cowering, shaking in his shoes, as Allison, her golf club hanging casually from her right hand's grasp, strode towards him, the golden lightning enshrouding her crackling all the while. Yuki was too scared to move, too scared to even speak, much less think.

It was because of that fear on Yuki's part that some could argue what Allison did to defeat him was an act of mercy. When she got up to him even while walking, the Viking Hero switched her golf club to her left hand, curled her right hand into a fist and then, as she said, "Thunderer's Punch," she slugged the princely student of Vulcan High in the stomach with a fist cloaked in golden lightning. Yuki coughed up his bile and lunch as he fell over onto the ground, defeated and knocked out.

With the exception of Lincoln and Mrs. Butterbean, the latter of which wore a look of amusement on her face that she could not hide (not that she wanted to), everyone who had been watching the exhibition battle was beyond shocked that not only did Allison fight one-hundred opponents all at one and on her own, but that she also won. Looking straight up towards the skies above, Allison let loose a cry of victory, a warrior's shout.

"That…" Kagura said, beyond shocked that a lone American girl had utterly humiliated the glorious Japanese hero high school that is Vulcan High. Kagura, a look of disbelief on her face, turned to face Mrs. Butterbean who, when she sensed that someone was looking at her, turned to face the appropriate direction. "…That girl is seriously part of the team that your school is going to throw against U.A."

After translations were made, Lincoln said on the American principal's behalf, "She is. Allison will be one of the ten Royal Woods High students set to face off against whatever team that U.A. throws together to face them."

Kagura, at first, had paled when she was given said news. At first, the principal had thought the Americans foolish to the point of suicidal; after all, they had arranged for an official team battle event against U.A. Even Kagura, who saw her own Vulcan as the pinnacle of Japanese hero high schools, was forced to admit that U.A. had them beat. But as it was said, the Americans saw fit to not only challenge U.A., but also challenge Vulcan beforehand, and to a one-hundred versus one exhibition match.

But now, as she saw Asgardian shout to the heavens, shout to her gods as if she were asking if she had appeased them with the show of battle, Kagura knew why the Americans were so confident that they had a shot at achieving their goals here in Japan. Kagura, after she had come to realize all of this, was at first horrified by the mere prospect someone as powerful as that girl even existing in the first place.

But then Kagura suddenly began to laugh.

U.A. High School, that pompous lot who had dared to humiliate Kagura's esteemed Vulcan High, were going to get totally annihilated by the American high school's team. Those aloof cretins over at Japan's top hero high school had no idea what was coming their way, and the mere act of imagining the looks of horrified shock on the faces of U.A.'s own made Kagura laugh in such a manner that made many of the others that were also sitting in the VIP booth think she had gone mad.

After she had been able to calm herself down, Kagura turned to face Mrs. Butterbean. "I'm really sorry, but I just couldn't help but think of how U.A. is going to deal with it when they see your student down there face off against their pampered brats."

Lincoln quickly translated what the principal of Vulcan had said, and after Mrs. Butterbean gave a response, the white-haired boy translated what she said so that those who did not speak English could understand what she was saying. "Well since the future of a lot of schools all over the state of Michigan is riding on the Royal Woods High team defeating U.A. in our upcoming team battle event, I figured that it was a better to be safe rather than sorry."

"Hey, are those kids going to be alright?" Sakura asked from behind where the principals and Lincoln sat, pointing down into the arena. Lincoln did the translations, then turned around and spoke after Mrs. Butterbean gave an answer.

"Yes, even Allison knows better than to do more harm than need be. She only did enough to knock her opponents out. They should recover soon enough."

Kagura let out a sigh of relief, thankful that her students, her son Yuki most of all, were going to be okay. Still, the principal of Vulcan found herself wanting to see the upcoming team battle event between U.A. and the Americans, if only because she wanted to watch as Asgardian took to the field of battle and avenged Vulcan's humiliation at the hands of those pompous louts that had dared to besmirch the glory that was Vulcan.

The very idea of seeing U.A. suffer made Kagura smile with delight.

END, CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

Author's notes;

Before you all go and get mad, keep in mind that things aren't going to go as what a lot of you are expecting. What I have planned will come as a surprise to a lot of you, do not doubt that. But yes, this arc is where a lot of what I had been building up with the Sacred Heritage quirks will finally start coming into play. The concept of those quirks was something that had been hinted at as early as chapter eight, and were first seen in action in chapter nine.

I know that some of you will have reservations about the idea, but they will play a vital role in this story. But more on that later. For now, 'A couple that will go down in legend' will continue to surprise you all with things none of you will be expecting, so don't go thinking that things here are going to happen in a certain way. In the meanwhile, the next chapter will be seeing Aizawa visit Ms. Joke over at Ketsubutsu Academy High School and stick around at the Smile Hero's offer to watch an exhibition event.