Chapter 9
The Art of Heroism
UA Academy's Sports Festival is the most important event for the entire school body. Many pro heroes come around to see the next generation of pro heroes. However, unlike last year, this year's sports festival was the most extraordinary one, to say the least.
The fighting tournament, where students who made it through the racing game fight off each other to show off their Quirk, needed to stop for the day and continue tomorrow due to an unexpected end in the last match for the second round.
However, the question on everyone's mind is how the last match ended. The last match was between two classmates of the same class, Class 1-L of Hero Course. It was between Yuki Drago, an ace student versus Kai Uno, who is the young brother of their homeroom teacher, Speed Girl, and son of the famous wed hero couple, Time Lord and Miss Galactica. The battle was intense near the end, and it seemed like Kai Uno won the round, but then, something strange happened to him.
Steam was coming out of his body and the strange machine on his bare chest started blinking in red color from green color. However, that was all everyone can remember. The next thing that happened was that Kai Uno just disappeared, Yuki Drago was taken to the infirmary, and nobody heard from either of them.
"Ms. Speed Girl!" The woman turned around to see some students running toward her. It was her entire class, including some from Class 1-A.
"Is Kai alright?" Arisa asked.
"Yeah! What happened to him, Teach?" Eli exclaimed.
"We all want to know what had happened to him," Felicia said.
"We're worried, too," Izuku admitted, representing for Class 1-A, which included Uraraka, Tsuyu, Iida, Kirishima, Sero, and Mineta.
"You guys…" Speed Girl looked around them and gave them a light grin. "Thank you, all of you. Don't worry about Kai. He will be OK. His… dad and mom are taking care of him now."
"His parents, ribbit?" Tsuyu wondered.
"Yeah…I mean, yes! His parents, well my parents are helping him right now, so you all don't need to worry, but thank you for seeing me. I appreciate it very much," Speed Girl said. "Well, see you guys later and good luck to you are still in the tournament."
Speed Girl ran away, surprising everyone. Of course, they knew that was why the people call her "Speed Girl". Her Quirk was superspeed, after all.
Later that day, Class 1-A and some members of Class 1-A gathered at a local fast-food restaurant that wasn't too far away from the school.
"Phaw! What a good meal!" Eli was satisfied as he put his food on the table. "Eating good food is a way to go after a good round."
"Eli-san, don't you put your dirty shoes on the table like that!" Iida scolded. "That's very rude and unsanitary!"
"Just relax, man. You and I will duke it out tomorrow. By the way, you have ketchup on the side of your mouth." He pointed out.
"Gah! You are right!" He gasped. "I shall wipe it immediately!"
Tenya grabbed a handkerchief out of his pocket and wiped the ketchup off from his mouth. Seeing this, Uraraka spat out and laughed.
"Bwah! You have your handkerchief!" Uraraka laughed.
"What's so wrong about that? Of course, a gentleman always has his handkerchief ready in a situation like this!" He stated.
"She's laughing at you for being so neat, bro," Eli pointed out more.
"Wish Bakugo or Todoroki was here," Kirashima admitted. "I asked both of them, but the former just yelled at me, and the latter just, well, ignored me."
"That sucks, but it's their loss," Denki said.
"I also tried to invite Junko, but strangely, I couldn't find her," Miru added.
"Perhaps she went home and went to bed. Then again, she is always sleeping," Ai commented, making some of them laughed about it.
"I was being serious…" Ai murmured.
As everyone was enjoying each other company, Arisa was in deep thought, looking a bit gloomy.
Usagi and Tsuyu noticed her gloom. "Hey, Arisa." Arisa snapped out of thought. "What's the matter?" Usagi asked.
"Oh, I am sorry! I… I've just still wondered if Kai is indeed OK," Arisa said, catching everyone's attention, causing the happy chatter of friends into a cold silence.
"Well…" Eli spoke up. "I am sure he will be fine! I mean, his big sister, our Teach said so. He's with his parents now, so he should be fine by now!"
"But that isn't the only thing I am wondering about him," Arisa said. "That look in his face… and the strange machine on his chest… I've been wondering about that since the match."
Everyone remembered it well. They didn't know what it is, and they also wanted to know more about it as much as Arisa does.
"You know." Everyone turned to Izuku. "I had the same thought, too."
"Really?" Arisa asked.
"Yeah…" Izuku admitted. "As a matter of fact, since his match with Drago, I've been wondering more specifically about his Quirk."
"His Quirk?" Uraraka wondered.
"Yes!" Izuku said. "His Quirk. From what I saw in his match, it was powerful enough to blow those fires away made by Yuki Drago. His body glowed in this green aura. Steam was coming out of his body. Whatever his Quirk is, it must be immensely powerful, and I think that strange machine thing on his chest must be some kind of suppressor or something that controls his power."
"That sounds very analytical, Midorya-Kun," Iida admitted. "Now I am curious about Kai Uno-Kun's Quirk."
"So you think the weird thing on his chest is like a suppressor for his Quirk? Then, I wonder why he has it?" Usagi wondered.
"That is the other thing I was thinking, and I think it most likely due to his Quirk being too strong to control even for himself," Izuku thought aloud.
"Then… I wonder, if what you say everything is true, Midorya-san, then that it means that Kai has a Quirk too dangerous," Arisa said, looking more worried than before.
This made the entire group looked concerned and even more silent to the point of depression.
That was when a door opened, meaning another customer.
"Oh! I had a feeling you guy would be here." Everyone turned their attention to the people who just entered the restaurant.
"Felicia! And Yuki Drago!?" Everyone gasped, surprising Felicia, yet Yuki with a stone face.
"Woah! What's wrong with you all? You surprised me!" Felicia exclaimed.
"Sorry, but we were just talking about Kai and figuring out what kind of Quirk he has!" Arisa admitted.
"Oh! Well, that is the reason why I came here with him," Arisa said, looking over at Yuki who looked back.
"Yo, Yuki dude! Are you feeling alright?" Eli asked.
"You were taken away by the infirmary, right? But we didn't find you there! We even asked Recovery Girl and the assistant nurse, but they didn't tell us anything because they don't know where you went!" Usagi complained.
"…." Yuki Drago just stared at them, which everyone stared back at him.
"…. I am sorry to make you all worry," Yuki Drago apologized.
"That took long enough to respond," Tatsumi commented, with a sweatdrop.
"I will explain what happened to me, and also… about Kai Uno's Quirk," Yuki stated.
- My Hero Academia –
Everyone sat quietly and watched Yuki Drago, looking full of anticipation about his match with Kai Uno.
Yuki Drago slowly took his extra-large cup of soda, punched his straw on the top, and started drinking through it.
Kirishima looked a bit impatient. "Hey, not to put pressure on you, but could you tell us exactly what happened between you and Kai already?"
"Kirishima-Kun, let Drago-san finish his drink first!" Iida scolded.
"I just finished it," Yuki Drago said, shaking his cup which made a cracking noise of ice cubes hitting each other, indicating that there was no more soda inside it.
"That was fast!" Ashido exclaimed.
"Holy carrot!" Usagi gasped.
"Let me start from the beginning," Yuki started.
- Flashback –
"Let the match begin!" Midnight declared as the spectators cheered for the third round to begin. The fight between Yuki and Kai began.
"It started normally. I allowed Kai to make the first move, making him ram towards me and grabbed my waist. I didn't put all my strength into it, so I allowed him to push me almost to the edge of the arena," Yuki explained.
"Why would you do that?" Usagi asked.
"Well…" Yuki showed a smirk. "I wanted to see how strong Kai is and expected him to use his Quirk."
"Oh! I see… So that is why you purposely made yourself like you were going to lose," Midoriya analyzed.
"However, I quickly saw it! He was purposely going to slip himself out of the bound to lose on purpose!" Yuki stated.
"Wait, what?!" Uraraka gasped.
"Holy carrot?! He was going to lose on purpose?!" Usagi asked.
"Oh my…" Arisa was surprised. "So that is why he tripped and almost got out of the arena."
"Because of that, I stopped him by grabbing his leg with my tail. I admit that I got very angry and upset, so I retaliated," Yuki admitted. "Though by doing that, I thought that would force him to rely on his Quirk to fight back, and my plan worked… However, it worked too well."
- Flashback Ends –
"And of course, you know the rest of the story," Yuki said.
"But that doesn't quite answer what his Quirk is, ribbit," Tsuyu wondered.
"So true…" Miru thought aloud.
"However, I can say this. Kai's Quirk, his power and ability, is no normal Quirk. It is very powerful, and I have a clue what it is," he said.
"What is it, dude? Don't keep us in the dark, bro!" Eli stated.
"After the match ended, I was taken to the infirmary, or so I thought I was. I was taken to somewhere else, a truck," he answered.
"A truck?" Iida repeated.
"This truck had a strange machine, and people were wearing a white suit with yellow gloves," Yuki explained. "They shined a light over my body by using the strange machine. They were checking my body for something. That was when I found out what they were doing, who they were, and what is Kai's Quirk."
Everyone paid close attention. Only Midoriya gulped deeply.
"His Quirk…. It is to do with nuclear radiation," he revealed.
"Nuclear Radiation?!" Everyone said at the same time.
"The strange machine that these weird people in suits used weren't normal nurses. They were real-life people who study nuclear energy I'm guessing. Perhaps nuclear physicists," Yuki guessed.
"I investigated on this further after I met up with Yuki awhile ago," Felicia said, grabbing everyone's attention. "Apparently, some people at the food vendors did notice a big truck with an atomic symbol drove through the parking lot near the stadium."
"No way…. Our classmate is a living nuclear power plant!" Usagi exclaimed.
"Woah! A radioactive-powered Quirk…. I've never heard of things like it before!" Eli admitted.
"That's sound… amazing," Momo marveled.
"But isn't it like nuclear energy dangerous? You know, like the whole radiation thing?" Toru questioned.
"I think I am understanding things more about Kai," Midoriya said. "The machine with the lens on his chest was a suppressor. It must be to suppress his nuclear energy, and when it was blinking red at the end of the fight, it must have meant that he was using too much of it."
"I was thinking the same thing, too," Felicia agreed. "Adding to that, I think the blinking red light also means that his power has reached a critical level or near it, indicating danger."
"Are you two saying that whatever happened today, Kai could've just…. Exploded?!" Eli exclaimed.
"Holy Carrot! Kai is a nuclear bomb!" Usagi gasped.
"That's… such a terrifying Quirk! And the evidence is strong," Iida said.
"Now that you mention it, Kai Uno hasn't said anything about his Quirk or show it off until today," Tatsumi said. "Plus, he's always been kind of the weirdest one in our class."
"Maybe he was hiding his Quirk all this time so that we wouldn't be worried or be scared of him or worse," Makoto pointed out.
"Poor Kai…" Everyone looked at Arisa, who looked sad. "He must have been in pain for a long, long time. Hiding his Quirk… Knowing that it is dangerous…."
"I don't know about the danger, but as I said, his Quirk may be the most powerful one in the entire school or perhaps even in the entire world," Yuki said.
"So, now that we may know his Quirk, the question is what had happened to him and where is he now?" Ai asked.
Everyone looked quiet, seldom, and sort of sad. Nobody did know the answer to those questions. The only thing they can do now was going home and get ready for the second day of the Sports Festival, especially for those who are still in the tournament.
- My Hero Academia –
"Bwah!" Somewhere in the dark alley street, a Pro Hero was struggling on the ground with blood coming out of his mouth.
He was crawling on the ground.
"How did this all happen?! For one moment, I was ready to take him down, but then suddenly…. Gah!" The Pro Hero was staved through his back, silencing him by a sharp, edgy sword.
The wielder of the sword was an intimidating, muscular man who stood with a hunch back and flat, sort of triangular face. His hair was black, and he was wearing a red headband, dark combat suit with metal armor across his body, long, black wristband, yellow bandages wrapped around his arms, and black shoes. He also wore a tattered cloth for his mask.
"That was quite a sloppy work," said a voice as the man licked the blood off from his sword.
He turned to the shadows.
"Hmph! I don't want to hear your criticism!" The man argued.
"I'm not saying that it's your fault. Rather, it was the fault of that weak Pro Hero you just killed," said the voice in the shadows, who sounded feminine. "Even though I used my Quirk over him, he still managed to give a decent fight. Of course, it is nothing like we can handle for you, the Hero Killer, and your sidekick."
"Don't go around and say that corny shit. You are more than my sidekick," Hero Killer stated. "You are my apprentice…. Reaper."
The owner of the voice walked out of the shadow when the almost full moon shined its light over the alley street. It was a tall, young female figure in an all-black suit. Around her legs showed some stripes, and her shoes or boots were the skinny types for women, almost like a high heel. A black hood covered over her head, and her face was covered with a skull mask.
Hello guys and happy belated New Year 2021!
I know that this story hasn't been updated for like second half of 2020, but I am here, I AM FINALLY HERE!
We are reaching near the end of the UA Sports Festival arc, and I gave a bit of hint for the next story arc, which I am personally excited for.
Sorry to take a long hiatus, but I still care about this story and I am attended to complete this season 2 of My Hero Academia Line of Good and Evil.
Until next time, I hope you all have a safe PLUS ULTRA day! Goodnight for now and see you later!