p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"In the locker room at school, a little while later, Eijiro Kirishima shows up. He's got this funny look on his face, like he's determined to make sure he's heard, and he goes up to my girls./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""I'm sorry!" he yells at him. "Back then, I saw you two ere in trouble, but I was too scared to act!" He's actually bowing to them, like he needs them to understand and to forgive him./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Who are you again?" "You're in class 1, if I recall?" they say. They don't even remember him. "It's totally fine, and anyone'd be afraid. Mina's just amazing, that's all," says class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"He looks really said. Like he's been wrestling with this for a while. I can tell…it's really bothered him./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"We meet up at the entrance exam for UA, the February after. We're the only kids from our school who are even gonna try, and so we sit together as the MC - the voice hero Present Mic himself! - announces our class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Welcome to today's live performance! Everybody SAY HEY!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"So many students were all sitting together, in the giant auditorium listening to the voice hero, Present Mic, explaining what we had to do. And nobody said a thing. After looking a little awkward, Mic went on./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Well, that's cool, my examinee listeners! I'm here to present the guidelines of your practical! Are yo ready?! This is how the test will go my listeners! You'll be experiencing ten-minute long mock cityscape maneuvers! Bring along whatever you want! After the presentation, you'll each head to your assigned location! Each site is filled with three kinds of faux villains. Points are awarded for defeating each according to there respective difficulty levels. Use your quirks to disable these faux villains and earn points! That's your goal, listeners! Of course, playing the antihero and attacking other examinees is prohibited!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"I tried my best tospan class="Apple-converted-space" /spancomprehend all this. I gave Kirishima a quick glance over then, to see if he was feeling OK. He seemed fine. My attention was then grabbed by a well-dressed boy with a crew-cut shouting out from a back row./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""May I ask a question?! There appear to be no fewer than emfour /emvarieties of faux villain on this handout! Such blatant error, if it is one, is hardly becoming for UA, Japan's top academy. We're all here today in the hopes of being molded into model heroes! And you with the curly hair! You've been muttering this whole time. It's distracting! If this is some sort of game to you, then please leave immediately!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"He was pointing to some school near the back row, towards a boy with wild curly hair and freckles who had, indeed, been talking to himself for quite some time. He immediately shut up and mumbled, "Sorry."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Mic, trying to reclaim the stage, spoke out then./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Alright, alright, examinee #7111, nice catch. Thanks! But the forth faux villain variety gets you zero points! He's more of an obstacle. There's one at each site, a gimmick that'll rampage around in close quarters. Think of it as a gimmick you should try to avoid. It's not that it can't be beaten, but there's kind of no point. That's all for now! I'll leave my listeners with our school motto. THe great hero Napoleon Bonaparte once said "True heroism consists of overcoming the ills of life! Now say it with me, plus - ultra!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"I wasn't in the same test site as Kirishima, so I didn't see how he did back then. For me, the whole thing was a piece of cake. Melting through wild running robots is easy to me! The ten minutes just flew by and I'd gotten all the extra points I class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"A few weeks later, and I was looking at the UA entrance exam results. I hadn't done as well as I could've - only made it to 13th place - but I noticed then, as I watched, that Kirishima was sitting in 2nd place. Well, well. Congratulations, I thought to myself. Nicely done, my friend./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""I'm sorry!" he yells at him. "Back then, I saw you two ere in trouble, but I was too scared to act!" He's actually bowing to them, like he needs them to understand and to forgive him./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Who are you again?" "You're in class 1, if I recall?" they say. They don't even remember him. "It's totally fine, and anyone'd be afraid. Mina's just amazing, that's all," says class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"He looks really said. Like he's been wrestling with this for a while. I can tell…it's really bothered him./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"We meet up at the entrance exam for UA, the February after. We're the only kids from our school who are even gonna try, and so we sit together as the MC - the voice hero Present Mic himself! - announces our class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Welcome to today's live performance! Everybody SAY HEY!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"So many students were all sitting together, in the giant auditorium listening to the voice hero, Present Mic, explaining what we had to do. And nobody said a thing. After looking a little awkward, Mic went on./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Well, that's cool, my examinee listeners! I'm here to present the guidelines of your practical! Are yo ready?! This is how the test will go my listeners! You'll be experiencing ten-minute long mock cityscape maneuvers! Bring along whatever you want! After the presentation, you'll each head to your assigned location! Each site is filled with three kinds of faux villains. Points are awarded for defeating each according to there respective difficulty levels. Use your quirks to disable these faux villains and earn points! That's your goal, listeners! Of course, playing the antihero and attacking other examinees is prohibited!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"I tried my best tospan class="Apple-converted-space" /spancomprehend all this. I gave Kirishima a quick glance over then, to see if he was feeling OK. He seemed fine. My attention was then grabbed by a well-dressed boy with a crew-cut shouting out from a back row./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""May I ask a question?! There appear to be no fewer than emfour /emvarieties of faux villain on this handout! Such blatant error, if it is one, is hardly becoming for UA, Japan's top academy. We're all here today in the hopes of being molded into model heroes! And you with the curly hair! You've been muttering this whole time. It's distracting! If this is some sort of game to you, then please leave immediately!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"He was pointing to some school near the back row, towards a boy with wild curly hair and freckles who had, indeed, been talking to himself for quite some time. He immediately shut up and mumbled, "Sorry."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Mic, trying to reclaim the stage, spoke out then./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Alright, alright, examinee #7111, nice catch. Thanks! But the forth faux villain variety gets you zero points! He's more of an obstacle. There's one at each site, a gimmick that'll rampage around in close quarters. Think of it as a gimmick you should try to avoid. It's not that it can't be beaten, but there's kind of no point. That's all for now! I'll leave my listeners with our school motto. THe great hero Napoleon Bonaparte once said "True heroism consists of overcoming the ills of life! Now say it with me, plus - ultra!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"I wasn't in the same test site as Kirishima, so I didn't see how he did back then. For me, the whole thing was a piece of cake. Melting through wild running robots is easy to me! The ten minutes just flew by and I'd gotten all the extra points I class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"A few weeks later, and I was looking at the UA entrance exam results. I hadn't done as well as I could've - only made it to 13th place - but I noticed then, as I watched, that Kirishima was sitting in 2nd place. Well, well. Congratulations, I thought to myself. Nicely done, my friend./p