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The Sports Festival Stadium...
The day erupted with a deafening, ear shattering cheer echoing across the oval-shaped stadium.
Many pro-heroes from all around the world watched the four winners standing above the podium in awe and amazement.
Those four were promising students, indeed.
Silverfang was the one who was tasked to hand over the medals over to the winners.
First, he approached King, "You did good out there, young man." Silverfang complimented him compassionately.
"I..it was nothing special really, I really spent the rest of the tournament as an idle coward.." King looked down, "I only got lucky."
"Well, you still fought through your cowardice and emerged as one of the victors of this tournament, didn't you? That's all that matters." Silverfang put the medal around his collar, "Have a taste of your own achievement. You'll need it."
"Thanks, Bang-sensei.." King bowed his head slightly as a show of respect.
He then moved onto the next winner...
"Hayato Suiryu." Silverfang's lips formed into a prideful smile, "You did quite the outstanding performance out there, Young Hayato. Your demonstration of your martial arts skill surpasses my expectations. If only you weren't unlucky enough to have Yagi Toshinori as your adversary.."
Suiryu frowned at that. I'll just avoid him for the time being.
"But don't give up so soon," Silverfang put his hand above his student's shoulder, "I'm sure you can beat him when the time comes. Remember, there is no such thing as an undefeatable warrior. Even the best of us has a weakness, all we have to do is wait for the right time to exploit that weakness."
Suiryu nodded slowly, "I'll keep that in mind, sir."
"You also forgot one important thing." Silverfang then continued, "Martial arts is about humility. You've shown the attributes of an arrogant person. Underestimating your opponent will be your downfall."
Silverfang continued before Suiryu has the chance to speak, "You've also shown me the aggressive side that you can bring when angered."
Suiryu blinked.
"The one attribute that a martial artist has to show is their calmness and rationality. React with strategy, instead of the rush to act out of the impulse to destroy your opponent at all cost. Don't. Your opponent can take advantage out of you that way." Silverfang finished, before putting the third place medal on his collar.
Suiryu only nodded, "Yes, Bang-sensei.."
Silverfang then goes onto the next winner. The most intriguing one.
Garou.
His face, he was still distraught about his recent defeat.
"Garou." Silverfang called out to him delightfully.
"I lost.." Garou muttered to himself, hanging his shoulders low in shame.
"Defeat is never the end," Silverfang suddenly said, "You can only try to be better next time."
"I know." Garou said to himself, "I'm not saying Yagi doesn't deserve his win but..I mean, I feel so embarrassed that I put my utmost confidence in my abilities from the start of this whole tournament."
"You still have shown the entire stadium the exemplary attitude of a martial artist: To never let his emotions get the better of him." Silverfang smiled, "The way you tried your best to be calm while trying to find a solution when you were being cornered by Young Hitoshi..while you barely succeeded, it still counts as a sign of a good character in my book."
Garou solemnly nodded, "I'll try my best to improve, sir."
"Good. And the way you manifested my quirk?" Silverfang chuckled, "Consider me intrigued, kid. Who knows, you might have the chance to get transferred to the hero course."
Garou was delightful to hear that, "Thank you very much, sir."
After all, that was his goal the whole time.
Silverfang was convinced that the kid held back when the entrance exam happened, but he didn't have the time to ask him about it now. Time is short, and he has to wrap this event up as quick as possible.
Oh yeah.
The next winner will be having a closing speech to conclude the event. This..this might go sideways.
The next winner, standing at the center.
Yagi Toshinori.
"Yagi-san." Silverfang called out, "While I have no advise to offer, I still have something to say about your performance."
"Yes, Bang-sensei?" Yagi listened.
"While you are undoubtedly the strongest participant to ever grace the UA Sports Festival, please, try to take your opponents seriously next time and don't hold back.." Silverfang scolded lightly, "They're here and have a goal that are equally as important as yours."
Yagi knew he couldn't argue to that. His strength is a curse to him at this point.
"I..apologise for my blunder. Believe me or not, I have been thinking about how I acted in the arena for quite a while. I'll try my best to not let that happen again." Yagi nodded.
"Good." Silverfang nodded, before putting the medal around his collar.
He then stepped back, before nodding, as if letting him know that his time is now.
Silverfang then moved to the front, raising his microphone to his mouth's level, before saying, "Attention, this year's audience! I appreciate you for your time to partake in this huge event of ours, even if you were only here as a spectator!"
The audience listened solemnly.
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"I'm sure that many of you have already known about the discriminatory practices that has been done towards the quirkless kind." Silverfang began, "For many years, quirkless people have been looked down upon by many, and sadly.." His expression turned sad, "Including myself."
"I never intended to hurt them, which is why..that I'm willing to let the sole winner of this event to share his..extremely confidential information that might turn into a controversial topic in the distant future." Silverfang then motioned for Yagi to step down from the podium, which he did.
Silverfang handed over the device, much to the other winner's bewilderment.
Except Garou. He only stared at the whole thing in an intriguing manner.
Yagi took the microphone away from Silverfang, before speaking, "I don't have much to say to you all, I'm not really used to speaking in the public but.."
Yagi continued, "I have one thing to say to you all. All the things I've shown, all the feats I've performed in this event.. it's not the work of a quirk."
This earned a collective widened gaze from all the audience.
"The truth is.."
Yagi took a deep breath, "I'm quirkless."
Silence reigned the stadium for a few moments, and frankly, Yagi didn't know how to break the silence either.
Suddenly, Suiryu screamed from his beyond, "Wait, wait, wait a damn minute!! So you've been serious all this time?!"
Yagi looked behind, only to see a frustrated expression emanating from Suiryu, "You beat me fair and square with no quirk?! How is that even possible?!"
King was about to open his mouth, but kept his trap shut. Is he going to reveal his secrets this soon?
Garou didn't try to say anything regarding the matter. He only crossed his arms, waiting for this whole debacle to be over.
But then, he had one question in mind..
"If you have no quirk," Garou interjected, "How come did you get so powerful? Why don't you tell us your secrets, Yagi Toshinori?"
Yagi gave him a thoughtful look, before moving his gaze back to the audience, "Do all of you want to know how I became this strong without the help of a quirk?"
The audience erupted with a collective 'Yes!'.
"Very well..." Yagi closed his eyes, "In truth, it took me one and a half year to be this strong. Fact is, I never thought it'd turn this way. I've always thought my overwhelming strength as a burden of responsibility. It was only a matter of luck.."
"But even if it was just a matter of luck you just gotta keep doing it, no matter how hard it gets," Yagi's eyes jolted up, the decibels in his voice rose so that the whole world can hear him,
"ONE HUNDRED PUSH-UPS! ONE HUNDRED SIT-UPS! ONE HUNDRED SQUATS! FOLLOWED BY A TEN KILOMETRE RUNNING! DO IT EVERY SINGLE DAY!!"
This statement alone shocked the entire audience like they had never before.
Yagi was seen running with his blue jumpsuit at the side of a river, many pedestrians passing him by casually.
He finished his routine by going back to his house, going to sleep as he did.
And of course, make sure you eat three meals a day. Just a banana in the morning is fine. But the most important thing is to never turn on your AC in the summer, or to turn on your heater in the winter, the purpose is to strengthen your fragile mind.
"Dammit, morning already?!" Yagi said to himself, "Haaaaa, can the night go longer than it did? It's too tiring."
He then took a peek to the clock, revealing that it was already five AM. He has a lot on his plate. First, he has to go to school, and then, after the training regimen after it.
With school schedules put on the top of my shoulders, you'll wish that you were dead already. You might start thinking...'What's the harm in taking a day off'?
"I mean..It wouldn't kill me if I just take a day off, right?" Yagi said to himself, his shoulders hung low, as he walked away from his school alone as he always did.
But for me, in order to have the ability to make a difference, I had to keep doing it. I kept doing squats even when my legs refused to move.
"GYAAAKKHH!" Yagi released a large amount of warm scarlet liquid from his mouth into the ground, his bones creaking aggresively.
Even when I spit blood,
CRACK!!! Yagi's arms failed to support him from falling, jinxing his push-ups. It hurts. Everything hurts. But most prominently, his left arm hurts!
Even when my bones were fractured from all the excessive exercises,
With a determined look, Yagi forced himself to do another push-up, even when his bones were broken.
I kept doing it, no matter how tough it got!
In a time-skip, Yagi was seeing himself in the mirror of his bathroom. One thing he noticed was-
"MY HAIR?!" Yagi screamed in panic as he noticed a decent amount of his hair that fell into the drain of the sink.
One and a half year later, There was a difference that I didn't notice until now. I started to gradually lose my hair. Mind you, this is something that just occured to my mind recently.
Yagi cracked his knuckle, before sending a mysterious being flying away into the sky with a single punch.
"HOLY FUCK!"
And besides that, I also got stronger!
Yagi's old self was seen running across a dark space, before his current self outran him effortlessly from behind with his yellow suit on, running into the distant luminescent light, his white cape obscuring his frame.
In other words, you just gotta keep training like hell till your hair falls out, that is one of the only ways for us to be strong!
Yagi finished his story, his right fist clenched in the air with a firm look on his face, "Guys that spend their time being reliant on genetic mutations will never get this far! Human beings are only strong because they have the ability to change themselves!"
W- WHAT?! Suiryu internally screamed in pure confusion in his mind.
Is this guy for real?
Suddenly, laughter erupted from the crowds.
"BULLSHIT!"
"Of course, UA had to present a joke at the end of a closing speech! Just give us the real speech already!"
"You're telling me that a quirkless reject has the power to flip the entire arena like a fucking table?!"
"Fuck off!"
"BULLSHIT!"
"BULLSHIT!"
"BULLSHIT!"
A chanting of the word 'bullshit' began to repeat again and again, filling the whole stadium with chaos and disagreement.
Yagi stood there, unflinching from all the commotion. It wasn't that surprising. After all, his target weren't the main audience. His target were the quirkless people from all around the world that were watching this event from behind a screen.
Silverfang interjected the chanting, "I humbly request for my dearest audience to cool down with the vulgar language, perhaps our winner here has another thing to say?"
The whole stadium went quiet slowly.
Yagi spoke as soon as they shut their mouth, "It wasn't a joke." He simply stated, "That's all I did. I don't have a quirk. You know, for the entirety of my life, everyone has been underestimating people like me, like you're all doing right now."
He snorted, "As if we quirkless people can't be as strong as the quirked too. I learned a very important lesson today, you know what it is? It's for me to never underestimate and look down on those who are weaker than me. You all should too."
"And for all the quirkless people out there, no, for all the people who has spent their entire life being underestimated and bullied," Yagi smiled as he lifted his clenched fist in the air, keeping his gaze locked onto the big camera that were recording him, "Keep going, will you? Never give up. Remember, if a guy like me can have all the spotlight like I do right now, I'm sure you'll all do a lot better."
The crowds were a lot tamer than before. Some of them even clapped. Maybe this thing was starting to go through their thick skulls, after all.
Some of them are convinced that the boy standing in front of them is the famous 'Vigilante whom disappears'.
Unbeknownst to them, The Hero Commission already has this information covered, but decided to keep it a secret.
Silverfang took a step forward ahead of Yagi, but before he can say anything, suddenly, the alarm sounded from every corner of the Stadium.
A panicked voice came through the giant speaker,
An invasion is occuring at the center of the city. We must cease from continuing this tournament as soon as possible. Protect the students, the mysterious beings might take the chance to kill them if left unguarded!
Yagi stared at the sky for a moment, before sighing, "None of this is going to end well, is it?"
Then, panic spread across the stadium like a raging fire.
...
After finishing the call, both the pro-heroes landed on a rooftop across the one that were occupied by the mysterious figures.
Nana observed them for a while, while Puri Puri Prisoner prepared himself in case of an inevitable brawl clash.
These figures, they were five in total.
What are they even doing here?
"The fuck you doin' here, eh, girl?" A dreadful deep voice came from behind.
Sensing the immediate danger, Nana evaded the attack without even looking, rolling her way out of the monster's reach.
She took a note of the monster's description, with a grotesque look from his facial structures, and his overweighted body.
"Hmm.." Nana hummed as she stood up calmly, as the other mysterious figures began to take notice of her presence, and in turn, Puri Puri Prisoner's too.
"Looks like we got two unlucky pro-heroes caught on the spider web." One of them said in a mocking way.
To her dismay, the monster approached her, clasping his hands together, a stream of saliva drooled from his large lips.
"Shit." Nana cursed to herself.
"You look awfully hot today, miss." The grotesque faced monster remarked, "Perhaps I can show you where the sun sets?"
Nana flinched from his attempt at a pick-up line, but she kept her composure up, "I'm gonna have to pass up on that offer, because one, that pick-up line is horrible, like, really horrible, and two, you can't ask out a girl after trying to attack her."
"Now you're gonna have to explain to me what you and your jolly friends are doing up here. You guys don't give me a good vibe, not gonna lie." Nana continued, her arms crossed.
"Oh, them?" Fuhrer Ugly pointed at his supposed 'friends', "Oh, don't worry about them. They're just a bunch of unemployed losers who happened to have me as their undisputed leader."
"Hey!" Came the annoyed voice of Homeless Emperor.
"Says the ugly guy who couldn't even score a single girl." Black Sperm retorted.
"Will you guys stop it?" The blond woman, Do-s, groaned in exasperation.
"Make me." Black Sperm challenged.
"I'm very tempted to blow this city apart along with you guys." Homeless Emperor said, his brows furrowed.
"You're not our leader, meow!" Nyan meowed aggressively.
"I'd rather suck Useless Emperor's virgin balls than to have this horny nutjob as our leader." Black Sperm added.
"Hey! I've lost my virginity more than you could count!" Homeless Emperor protested.
"Still a virgin. Got dumped a few times, didn't you? Ha! Loser!" Black Sperm stuck out a tongue.
"Didn't your previous girlfriend dumped you and took your money away when she found out that you were quirkless?" Homeless Emperor taunted back.
"Well, she did. Fortunate enough, I was too much of a champ to let that slide. I manned up and handled the situation pretty well." Black Sperm proudly stated.
"You handled it how well?"
"I killed her and her entire family. Oh, I also threw her carcass into a cage full of hungry pooches. Got them full for a while." Black Sperm stated like it was his highest achievement.
"I did too once, but instead of feeding her into a bunch of pooches, I fed her into a pool filled with hungry sharks." Homeless Emperor maniacally smiled.
Both of them erupted with a maniacal laughter.
"Fuck, let's just say we're both sick bastards." Black Sperm shrugged.
Nana decided that it was enough, "Are you all going to tell me what you're doing here already?"
"Aw, forgot that she's still there. Can we kill her? She's annoying." Black Sperm whined like a toddler.
"Let's just get rid of her." Homeless Emperor suggested.
"Boys, remember, do not instigate a fight unless the heroes does first." Do-S reminded them.
Puri Puri Prisoner was the first to make a move, "I have had enough of you cretins tarnishing the concept of love with murder!" He charged at the mysterious figures from in-between the buildings with his hands forming into an 'X', "ANGEL RUSH!"
Homeless Emperor simply swatted his hand to the front, halting the pro-hero in the air, before sending him hurling into the ground below the building with a simple motion of his hand, "Oops, my hand slipped."
"Did it?" Black Sperm smiled slyly.
"Of course! Why would I try to hurt a fellow sick bastard?" Homeless Emperor cackled, before coming to an abrupt halt, "Oh right, he tried to instigate a fight."
"I'll let that slide." Do-S said.
Goddammit, Puri Puri Prisoner.
Nana decided to not fight back, not yet. She knew she couldn't win this fight.
Puri Puri Prisoner was an absolute idiot.
Good thing she called for backup. The only thing she needed to do is stall for time. Or maybe die.
"You still haven't answered my question." Nana said, "Why are you all here?"
"Sorry miss, no can do." Black Sperm then pointed at Nana, "Also, kill her, please. I can't stand seeing her."
"Nah, I wanna keep this one alive. She's cute." Fuhrer Ugly said, his eyes widened, his malicious grin gave his atrocious intents away.
But suddenly, a large alarm was heard from the distant. Nana's lips formed into a smile. They listened.
"Oh, whoops.." Fuhrer Ugly's widened eyes turned it's gaze into the distant sound.
Homeless Emperor sighed in resignation, "Looks like our time here is over." He lifted his arm into the air, forming a ball of white energy in his palm.
Do-S replied, "Maybe we can get a better view next time."
"Wait, where do you think you're going?!" Nana yelled, as she tried to go after them.
Homeless Emperor slammed his palm into the ground, causing the others to get enveloped in the wave of energy, teleporting all of the cadre's away, leaving Nana alone in the rooftop. As she walked towards the edge of the rooftop, she noticed that the mysterious beings below were afraid and startled by the sudden sound.
They started retreating to where they used to hide. Nana still wondered about those six mysterious figures...
Who were they?
THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY'S CHAPTER! Stay tuned for the next! (Can we all agree that the sports festival arc might be the worst arc I've ever put out in the whole fic? If it is, I promise I'll try to make the next one better. I just got..burnout. Anyway..)
(EDIT: Changed some problematic things with Homeless Emperor's dialogue)
TO BE CONTINUED!