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A couple that will go down in legend
Chapter forty-one: Villain Siege part three- Riot Forever
"Grr…" a fodder villain in the Paranormal Liberation Front growled in annoyance as he fought who he assumed was someone with a transformation quirk that allowed them to turn into a humanoid wolf. The fodder villain swung his right fist at the humanoid wolf person in a strong right hook, only to go wide-eyed with shock when his attack was easily caught, and with such a high speed to boot.
The humanoid wolf person, wearing a casual teenager's outfit, and sporting a wild mane of black hair held back with a red band, gave a wry look of amusement as he looked at the fodder villain. "…Yeah, that isn't going to work on me, I'm afraid," the humanoid wolf explained as he threw the fodder villain back, making him stumble a bit before he regained his footing.
The fodder villain couldn't believe who he was fighting; this fellow with the wolf transformation quirk is faster, stronger and more resilient than most anyone that the fodder villain himself had ever met in the Front. "Just who the hell are you?!" the fodder villain exclaimed at his opponent, "The hell sort of abilities does your wolf transformation quirk give you?!"
"Quirk?" the humanoid wolf repeated in a confused tone, "I don't have a quirk. Never did." Seeing the look of shocked, confused surprised on the fodder villain's face, the humanoid wolf asked, "What made you think that-" Suddenly, the humanoid wolf stopped, a look of realization on his face. Suddenly, the humanoid wolf burst out laughing. "Oh shit! I get it now!" exclaimed the humanoid wolf as he pointed at the fodder villain, "You think that I'm a human with one of those fancy superpowers, don't you?!"
The fodder villain, his eyes widening more as he took several steps back, said, "H…Human?"
Crouching down into a stance that suggested he was going to take a sprinting dash at the fodder villain, the humanoid wolf said, "I think that I ought to introduce myself. The name's Ginei Morioka, and I am not a human." Suddenly, and with a speed that would make many speed quirk users blush, Ginei rushed at the fodder villain, slamming right into his front with a right shoulder ram that sent him flying until he slammed into the brick side of a store front, hitting the back of his head hard enough to crack it and result in death. As the fodder villain's lifeless form slid onto the ground, Ginei, as he stood up straight and looked down at the villain's remains, gave the foul man a disgusted sneer.
"I'm a werewolf."
"Oi, Ginei!" a male voice called out to the werewolf, making him turn to see a Crow Tengu slug another fodder villain in the face and dropping that man to the ground. Looking over to Ginei, the Crow Tengu said, "Where the hell are the other guys?"
"Tsukune's human friends from middle school are all at his place safe, Haiji," Ginei called over to the Crow Tengu, apparently named Haiji, "The fighting is all concentrated in the city here, so we don't have to worry about folks in the residential areas! As for Tsukune, Fangfang, Draco and the girls, all of them are scattered somewhere in the city!"
Haiji nodded grimily in understanding before he turned his attention to the human villains that were attacking the city. "You know," Haiji called back, "I'm surprised rather that our world's government has no problem with us attacking and fighting humans like this!"
Ginei, as he grunted while knocking out another human fodder villain, replied, "Well after the humans helped our world deal with that attack that Hirajo launched a while ago, it's only fair that we help them when the villains of their race try to start something!" Jabbing his right elbow to behind him, Ginei slammed said elbow right onto the tip of the nose of one of the fodder villains that was attacking the city. After that villain dropped, Ginei said, "Besides, a lot of those monster world laws are being amended to better serve the problems that all peoples, not just us, are in the middle of-"
The werewolf was cut off when both he and Haiji heard a loud, draconic roar sound out from overhead. Looking up, the two monster teens saw a gigantic red dragon fly overhead at it fired its fire breath at a large group of fodder villains. Even those in that group of fodder villains that had some degree of resistance to fire-based assault were quickly downed by the sheer raw force of dragon's fire.
The dragon then landed on the ground near Ginei and Haiji as its form shifted and shrunk, eventually turning into Ginei and Haiji's friend Draco, albeit with the horns, tail, hands, feet, claws and wings from his dragon form (proportionally correct for his human-sized appearance). "…At first, I thought that the city was being attacked by remnants of Hirajo's horde," Draco said in a grim tone, his expression matching it, "But not once did I see any of the attacking foes turn into some manner of warmonger monster." Looking at his classmates, Draco said with a wry eyebrow arched, "I don't suppose that I could get an explanation here, please?"
"All of the bad guys attacking the city are human villains that all have some sort of special powers that the humans have taken to calling quirks," Ginei explained, "Each quirk is different from human to human, so the powers that you'll see will vary wildly."
Draco, with a confused look on his face, remarked, "Quirks?" Gently shaking his head, the dragon in human form said, "Wow. And here I thought that-"
"Get those would-be heroes, boys!" a male voice called out right before a large group yelled out war cries, cutting Draco off and making him, Ginei and Haiji turn to see a large group of the human fodder villains rush at them. Standing near the back of the crowd was a well-dressed man wearing a black business suit blazer over a white dress shirt, pants that matched the blazer, a black tie, shiny black men's dress shoes, and a pair of sunglasses.
Ginei and his friends all saw the villain standing in the back, with Ginei wincing a bit in discomfort. "Grr…" the werewolf growled, "…That well-dressed fellow in the back. He's got some sort of pulse thing coming from him that's making my ears ring. I think he has some sort of voice quirk."
"And from the looks of it," Haiji said as he and his friends saw all of the fodder villains rush at them, "That power must be having some sort of influence on all of these-" Haiji was cut off when Draco, still maintaining his pseudo-form, rushed right towards the well-dressed villain in the back of the crowd, his right hand pulled back, the black claws and red scales shining with the light that reflected off of them.
The well-dressed villain, seeing Draco rush at him, moved to try to get away, but he barely took a step back before Draco's clawed right hand struck true, ripping right into his ribcage and piercing out of his back. In Draco's clawed, bloodied draconic hand was the villain's still beating heart, sputtering out a few last bits of blood as Draco yanked his hand and arm right out of the well-dressed villain that he had just killed.
As the well-dressed villain's lifeless body dropped to the ground in a bloody heap, the influence that his quirk had on the fodder villains that were charging at Ginei and Haiji wore off, leaving a good many of them confused enough to stop charging at the two monster teens. It wasn't until one of the fodder villains turned around and saw that Draco had done that all of the villains got an answer for what happened to their power up.
"That kid just killed Trumpet!" exclaimed the first fodder villain who saw what Draco had done, "He just killed one of the Front's lieutenants!"
Draco, with an indifferent look on his face as he saw that all of the fodder villains were now charging at him, casually dropped Trumpet's heart on the ground. "…Oh, so I just claimed the life of one of your army's big wigs, huh?" Draco growled. Transforming back into his true dragon form, Draco yelled, "Maybe I'll go on a villain lieutenant hunt, then! Doesn't that sound like a fun way to spend the day to you, human villains?!"
All of the fodder villains were surprised to see Trumpet's killer suddenly turn into a large red dragon, and barely any of them reacted in time to avoid the massive tail swipe attack that heavily injured many of the villains, knocked some of them out, and even straight up killed a few of them. Those very lucky few that were able to avoid getting hit were scattered in that area, and were made easy pickings for Ginei and Haiji.
The forces of the Paranormal Liberation Front were by no means expecting anything out of monster kind during their siege on the city this day.
Izuku and Lincoln, having been joined by the female pro heroes Mt. Lady, Mirko and Pixie-Bob, continued to fight any and all villains that they came across. With the white-haired boy's quirk that (to Izuku) was eerily similar to that of a certain hero killer's quirk, many of the villains were quickly incapacitated, either being taken care of right there and then or made easy pickings for the pro heroes, who knocked them out.
After the pro heroes, Izuku and Lincoln had just cleared out another street by defeating all of the fodder villains that they found there, Mt. Lady let out a tired, mildly resigned breath. "Hot damn, will there be any end to all of these villains?!"
"You heard the report," Mirko said as she turned to face Mt. Lady while tying up a villain that Lincoln had paralyzed, "There are at least one-hundred thousand villains in the force that's in the middle of attacking the city right now. And that number is estimated to be just the grunt force." With a gentle shake of her head, Mirko went on, "There's no telling how many are in leader roles in the force of villains, nor can we-"
The rabbit hero was cut off when a force of fodder villains turned a corner and, spotting her and the other heroes, immediately rushed in to take them on, as well as potentially free some of their captured allies. "Well shit," Mirko said as she and the others all assumed battle stances, prepared to meet the large group of villains head on, "It looks like we're up for another ballgame here, guys. Well, let's show them why-"
Mirko found herself cut off a second time when ice element attacks rushed out from behind where she, Mt. Lady, Pixie-Bob, Izuku and Lincoln all stood, going on to hit the large mass of fodder villains and freezing them all up in a large hunk of ice. "Todoroki?" Izuku said in a surprised tone as he turned around to see who he thought was going to be his friend and classmate over at U.A.
Instead, he and the others saw two teenagers with silvery purplish hair and similarly colored eyes. The girl of the pair wore her hair long, and she wore a white sweatshirt with dark-colored long sleeves, the top of a dark-colored tank-top could be seen coming out of the top of the sweatshirt, the skirt of the girl's uniform from some school, a pair of purple stripped stockings, a pair of white shoes, a belt that was tied to her left leg for some reason and rounding off her wardrobe was a simple yellow pendant.
As for the boy, his hair was in a medium-long scruff, and he wore a far simpler outfit consisting of a baggy long-sleeved shirt over a baggy t-shirt, a baggy pair of cargo pants held up with a belt, and a pair of somewhat clunky looking sneakers. Izuku could tell that both of these teens had to be connected to each other in some way, if their matching hair and eye colors were any sign that indicated that.
"Sorry if Tsukune and I butted into business that wasn't ours," the girl of the pair said, "But you guys looked like you needed some help."
"No, we don't mind at all," Pixie-Bob remarked, "By the way, those are some awesome ice manipulation quirks that you two just used." Gesturing to the two teens, Pixie-Bob continued, "Are you both from a family with a strong ice quirk line in it, or something?"
Both icy teens looked at Pixie-Bob with confused looks on their faces. "…Quirks?" the boy of the pair said, "Oh, no. Neither Mizore nor I have quirks. The both of us are snow fairies, a race of monster with natural cryomancy powers." With a mildly embarrassed look on his face, the boy added, "Although I technically didn't start out as a snow fairy…"
Gently shaking her head, Mirko said, "I don't care if you're human or monster or Hamon the fucking Monkey God." Pointing at the teens, the rabbit hero continued, "If the two of you are both able and willing to help out with fighting the villains, then we'll gladly take that help!"
"What did you kids say your names were again?" Mt. Lady asked.
"I'm Mizore, and this is Tsukune," the girl of the pair explained as she gestured to herself and her companion in that order, "Other monster friends of ours from Azu-Daioh High are also helping with fighting off all of these human villains."
Izuku and the female pro heroes nodded in understanding; they all remembered when they had to help repel the monster attack from a while ago in order to assist the monster world government, and now it seemed that said government is returning the favor to humanity. Only Lincoln looked lost on what was going on, but he was rolling with things as they came.
After Tsukune and Mizore teamed up with the quirked humans, Pixie-Bob said, "Okay, we're going to have to split up into groups in order to cover more ground. The girls will all go in one group while the boys go in another."
"Sounds fair," Izuku replied with a nod before he gestured for Lincoln and Tsukune to follow him off to find and stop more villains. "Good luck everyone, and try to stay safe!" the green-eyed boy called back as he and the boys left the girls behind. As he ran with Tsukune and Lincoln, Izuku thought that his party was a bit odd; one was a quirked boy from the States, and the other was a quirkless teen whose monster biology granted him powers anyway.
…Then again, there have been crazier things. And Izuku had a dreading feeling that things would be getting crazier still over the rest of today.
Itsuka, with her classmates Pony and Kinoko following her, were running to find someplace safe from the villain attack that was currently engulfing the whole of the city. The half-American girl was carrying an injured and knocked out Yosetsu on her back as she and the other two girls were rushing to find someplace safe to leave him. A pained moan from Yosetsu spurred the trio of 1-B girls on further, all of them worried for their male classmate.
"Girls, I'm worried Yosetsu may not make it," Pony remarked, her tone and expression conveying worry, "He very badly hurt."
Itsuka, with a look of fierce determination on her face, declared, "Like hell we're letting Yosetsu die here! He still needs to confess to Momo, and I'll be damn if I let one of the cutest potential couples in U.A.'s history not become a thing!"
"Itsuka," Pony began in a mildly confused and dumbfounded tone, "I'm glad you want Yosetsu to be okay, but I think that you have priorities really mixed-"
Pony was cut off when she and her classmates heard someone yell down at them. "Oh, and what do we have here but a small group of fledgling heroes in need of a good culling?" The trio of 1-B girls looked up and saw a large, well-fed man who was easily seven feet tall. The man, wearing only pants and a pair of sandals, stood on the edge of a roof in the area of the city that they were all in. He was fully bald, and looked rather massively fat, which made him standing on that roof without said roof going out under the strain of his weight all the more impressive. Pounding a fist into his hand, the large fat man said, "I bet the boss will like it if I kill some fledgling heroes for him!"
The girls were all scared, too stunned to move. The large villain looked over the three girls, then seemingly settled on Kinoko. "I think that I'll start with brunette bob cut here!" the large villain exclaimed in ecstatic, sadistic glee as he jumped from the roof and flew right at Kinoko, making her scream in fright as she and her friends were too rattled by the sudden appearance of the large, dangerous villain. With his big, meaty right fist pulled back, the large fat villain was prepared to deal a devastating strike to Kinoko's small, slender petite form.
…
"RED RIOT UNBREAKABLE!"
Right before his fist could break the mushroom girl, the large fat villain was stopped when his strike ended up ramming right into something indescribably hard, as well as rugged in some places. Pulling his fist back, the large fat villain saw a monstrous-looking teen boy that looked to be made entirely of a hard, rugged substance, right down to his eyes, eyes that looked angrily at the large fat villain. "…Attacking girls who were trying to run away?" the rugged teen snarled as he glared up at the large fat villain, "That's the most un-manly thing that I can think of!"
"Kirishima!" Itsuka exclaimed as she and her classmates realized who it was that had just saved Kinoko from getting hit by the villain's attack. What Itsuka liked particularly about Kirishima's action just now was that he intercepted an attack aimed at Kinoko specifically. Gently shaking her head, the class 1-B rep said, "We need to get out of here! Yosetsu here is hurt really badly!"
"Did this asshat wreck Yosetsu?" Kirishima asked while jerking a thumb at the large fat villain.
Pony gently shook her head in the negative. "Yosetsu hurt elsewhere. We try to find safe place for him now."
Nodding once in understanding, Kirishima said, "Alright, sounds fair." Turning around to face the large fat villain, Kirishima said to the girls behind him, "You three take Yosetsu and get him out of here! I'll tango with this lard load to buy you time!"
"He looks scary strong, Eijiro!" Kinoko said, practically crying out of worry for the boy who had stolen her heart, "What if-"
"I still owe you an answer, don't I?"
Kinoko, as well as the other girls, all stopped short when the hardening quirk boy interrupted the mushroom girl with his response. Kirishima cracked his neck a bit, as if to loosen himself up a bit. "…There's no way that I'm going down to Fat Gum's evil clone here," Kirishima said, "Not until I give you my answer, Kinoko." Kirishima gestured to the far end of the street everyone was on as he said, "Now go!"
The girls, not arguing with Kirishima, proceeded to run away to get Yosetsu to safety. The large fat villain tried to go for the students of 1-B, but Kirishima struck him square in the gut with a Red Gauntlet, sending him stumbling back by about seven feet or so before he regained his sense of balance. The hardening quirk boy gave the large fat villain an amused sneer, swiping against the right side of his nose with his right thumb.
"Heh…what did I say? Attacking girls who are trying to run away is hella un-manly."
Although it was just the three of them on their own, Izuku, Lincoln and Tsukune felt confident that, so long as they stuck with smaller groups on the edge of the warzone rather than go for large swaths of enemies in the thick of things, they would be able to get out of things alive when the city-wide villain attack finally came to an end. After Lincoln had paralyzed his fifty-seventh villain in the current hour and made said woman (yes, it was a female villain) drop to the ground, Izuku let out a mildly exhausted moan.
"Hey, umm…Izuku, was it?" Tsukune asked as he looked over to the green-haired cinnamon roll, having heard his tired moan. Izuku looked over to the human-turned-snow fairy, giving him his attention. "Are you okay?"
Izuku waved a hand in a mildly dismissive gesture. "I'm just really tired is all," Izuku replied, "I lost track of how many villains that I've had a hand in defeating so far today."
Lincoln, after wiping excess blood from his bowie knife off on the sleeve of a paralyzed villain that was laying on the ground, stood back up, returned the knife to its sheath on the left side of his belt. "And to think, there are over one-hundred thousand villains in the force that's attacking the city right now." The white-haired boy gave both teens a curious, mildly worried look. "Are there even enough heroes to deal with that many villains?"
Gently shaking his head, Izuku replied, "I don't know the exact number of pro heroes out there, but I'm fairly certain that the attacking force of villains outnumbers the total number of pro heroes in Japan. The police forces here can help shore up the numbers a bit, but since most of the men in the nation's police forces are quirkless, they're more a liability to the heroes' efforts to stop the villains than anything else."
"Well, at least the heroes don't have to deal with the large army of villains alone," Tsukune said, getting both Izuku and Lincoln to turn to face him. Nodding once in assured confidence, Tsukune went on, "When the hordes of Hirajo attacked the city a while ago, in their bid to start their efforts to take over the monster world and kill off my girlfriend's family, the heroes were one of the allies that helped monster kind repel and defeat that threat." Crossing his arms over his chest, the Aono boy gave Izuku a knowing look. "…And now it's monster kind's turn to help out the heroes in their time of-"
The human-turned-snow fairy was cut off when he, as well as Izuku and Lincoln, all heard a loud shout cry out, making all of them turn to see a villain that obviously had a transformation quirk, given that he was now a humanoid rhinoceros beetle the size of a (fairly small, but still pretty big compared to normal humans) RV, and that said villain was charging right at the trio of boys. The three of them all assumed defensive combat stances, ready to face this newest threat and defeat him, just as they've done with countless fodder villains before him.
"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" A shout called out, and before anyone could react, the humanoid rhinoceros beetle villain was struck by a jet-stream of red flames that engulfed him completely, making him cry out in pain as he was burned by the scarlet inferno surrounding him. Izuku, Lincoln and Tsukune all took pause when they saw the flames hit and engulf the villain that the three of them almost had to tango with, had it not been for whoever threw that fire at him. The boys were all alerted by the presence of someone joining them when Izuku, turning to see who it was, heard someone land next to him on his right.
The green-eyed boy saw someone who looked to be about his age, maybe a year or two older; he had medium-long, salmon-pink spiky hair, and he wore a waistcoat with one long sleeve on one side and was sleeveless on the other, a pair of pants that ended around the shins, a pair of sandals, and a rather interesting scarf, white with fringes at the end, and it was patterned to look as if it was made of scales. On the shoulder of the arm that was exposed, the pink-haired boy had a red tattoo whose shape Izuku could not quite begin to describe.
Wiping his mouth with the back of his right wrist, the pink-haired guy said, "You all here need a hand fighting all of these bad guys? At least until we can meet up with some of my guild mates from Fairy Tail!"
"That's the mage's guild located in Magnolia Town, Fiore," Tsukune began in a somewhat cautious tone, "And not a now-defunct group of evil monsters from the monster world, right?"
The pink-haired fire-user turned to face Tsukune. "…We use the t-a-i-l spelling, not the t-a-l-e spelling." Turning to face forward where the humanoid rhinoceros beetle villain was now lying on the ground in his regular human form, the pink-haired fire user added, "Relax, my guild mates and I are part of the good guys here." He straightened up a bit, crossed his arms over his chest as he gave Izuku, Tsukune and Lincoln a wry, amused grin. "…The name's Natsu Dragneel. I don't suppose you guys would appreciate the help of a Dragon Slayer mage, would you?"
"Yes, please," Lincoln said as he bowed his head appreciatively to the Fire Dragon Slayer mage, who he was actually familiar with. Izuku and Tsukune, both also thankful to have been joined by another ally, likewise said to Natsu that he was more than welcomed to join them.
Natsu was amused by how welcoming the guys he just saved were being of him. "Well then, let's give these villainous assholes a Fairy Tail-style greeting!" Natsu proclaimed as he banged his fists together, making embers of flame emanate from them, "All of this fighting has given me a serious fire in my belly!" Izuku and the others nodded in agreement with Natsu and, after he joined their group, they all ran off to search for more fodder villains on the outskirts of the bulk of the fighting to take out.
As the boys all ran, Tsukune remarked to Natsu, "You know, I don't know what it is about your voice, but I think it sounds pretty cool."
Natsu, amused by the complement, gave a smirk. "…I was actually going to say the same about you."
The large fat villain was socked square in the middle of his face by the hardened, rugged fist of Kirishima as their fight was winding down. By that point, Kirishima's Red Riot Unbreakable had run out of its time limit, and the hardening quirk boy had to draw on what reserves of strength and energy he had left to maintain his regular level of hardness. Even so, that punch to the large fat villain's face was enough to score the knock out. The large fat villain, having been knocked unconscious, fell over backwards, landing face up on the ground.
His foe finally defeated, Kirishima relaxed his quirk, returning to normal. His usual red spikes were down, with his hairstyle now resembling how he had it in middle school aside from the red coloring. Kirishima was even panting hard in exhaustion, a sign of how much of his all he had just given in his efforts to defeat who he's taken to calling 'Fat Gum's evil clone'. The sleeves of his hero costume were torn up and scattered, with his outfit now resembling what it looked like prior to the inclusion of the sleeves.
Kirishima was sweating a bit, and he was just about close to passing out. Even so, he felt a good rush of exhilaration. After all, he had just defeated a powerful villain, and on his own to boot. With what energy he had left, Kirishima pumped a fist into the air in a gesture of victory, letting out a victory cry that was more a breath of exhaustion. This victory meant a lot to Kirishima, and not just because this win helped him overcome some of his insecurities from his past.
By holding off the large fat villain, Kirishima allowed Itsuka, Pony and Kinoko to get away with their injured classmate Yosetsu. Effectively, the hardening quirk boy had just saved four people, one of which is the girl who, though not by her own doing, had confessed that she was in love with him. Kirishima still hadn't given Kinoko his answer, but by no means is said action out of malice; on the contrary, the red-haired boy, who was very concerned about ever finding a girl who would like him, was ecstatic to learn that there was, in fact, a girl who was in love with him. But still, due to the insecurities that he felt, Kirishima wanted to prove, more to himself than anyone else, that he was worthy of a girl being in love with him.
"…I think that this will work," Kirishima said to himself as he looked to where the villain he defeated on his own laid unconscious on the ground, "Defeating an asshat like this evil clone of Fat Gum's on my own should be enough to-"
*HTHWACK*
Kirishima was cut off mid-sentence when he was struck from behind by a large, strong arm that sent him slamming into the side of a family vehicle. Barely able to regain his bearings, Kirishima saw a large, pitch black, hulking monster of a villain, surprisingly coming out of what looked to be a custom, three-wheeled wheelchair of some kind. Kirishima's left eye was twitching a bit out of a mix of shock and exhaustion, but his right eye widened as much as possible as this new guy, Re-Destro (though Kirishima did not know who he was) just showed up.
"Well now, what do we have here?" the large villain remarked in sly, sinister amusement as he sneered down at the exhausted Kirishima, "A fledgling hero that's worn out after fighting so many of the proud men that serve under the Paranormal Liberation Front's esteemed supreme commander?" Pulling his large, black right fist back, Re-Destro exclaimed in a near hysteric manner, "I've never been one to turn down easy pickings!"
The large fist collided into Kirishima's right side, pushing him into the family vehicle he still stood next to. After Re-Destro pulled his fist back, he gave the helpless hero-in-training a potent backhanded smack with his right hand, sending Kirishima flying back until his back slammed into another family vehicle, this one an army-style van. After Kirishima fell away from that army style van, he was swatted by Re-Destro's right hand, sending him smacking right into the ground as the air was knocked from his lungs, the pain from both his exhaustion and his many injuries making him gasp for what little air he could get.
But come that air would not, as while Re-Destro laughed triumphantly at the easy, honorless win he had just scored while walking away, Kirishima, who laid front-side down on the ground, felt all of his being slowing down. His vision was fading to black as he struggled to so much as keep his eyes open. While he could still think, Kirishima thought of how he was glad that he had bought enough time for Itsuka, Pony and Kinoko to get away with the injured Yosetsu; if buying time for them to escape was not only heroic but manly as well, then Kirishima had no idea what would qualify in that regard.
But at the same time, the hardening quirk boy felt great regret when he thought of class 1-B's resident mushroom girl, the girl whose heart he had unknowingly stolen. "…Heh…sorry about this, Kinoko…" Kirishima thought somberly as his breathing, his pulse slowed down to a crawl, "…Looks like I won't be able to give you my answer after all…" With one last bit of thought, Kirishima imagined sharing a kiss with the mushroom girl as he held her gently in his arms. It was a thought that gave the hardening quirk boy some measure of comfort.
It was Kirishima's last comfort before all faded to black.
TO BE CONTINUED…
END, CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
Author's notes;
Notice how Izuku's current party is at four? Yeah, his group will be joined by one more person during the events of the next chapter. In the chapter after that, which should be chapter forty-three, Izuku and his group will have their big showdown against the very villain who had instigated the attack on the city in the first place; if you paid attention to chapter thirty-eight, as well as bits that are to come, then you will know who Izuku's party will end up facing in the climatic fight of this arc.
But before said climatic fight can take place, the fifth and final member of the planned party has to show up. There's also a few bits of fighting between heroes and (named) villains that I want to do as well, as well as introduce/hint at the reason why I had previously advised keeping an eye on Sam's paleness that cropped up in the previous chapter.