The next day Aizawa didn't abandon them to the gym for training. "I've heard some of your complaints that we aren't training you as much as say…Class B. Because of my condition unfortunately I am not able to train you…."
All Might barged through the gym door. "Do not worry! For I am here! I can train you!" He flexed. "We had something planned in advance to prepare you for the sports festival!"
Aizawa sighed. "We had one exercise planned." He gestured to a platform that seemed to be like a boxing ring. "It's no secret that if you get into the final 16 at the sports festival, you'll have to participate in a battle tournament. This is in preparation for that. Mock battles to practice for that tournament."
All Might nodded, "We thought it would be exciting for you to have one-on-one battles! Although since the sports festival is quite close, we want minimal injuries. This means if you cause any serious injury to your battle partner the win will go to your partner. Got it, Young Bakugo?" All Might seemed to be glaring at him.
Bakugo huffed and looked away.
"No injury to yourself either, Midoriya!" Aizawa called Midoriya out. "This means that if you need to use hand to hand combat instead of using your quirks. Quirkless fighting might be something beneficial to gain experience in even if you have an amazingly strong quirk. You never know when a villain will have a quirk similar to mine."
"We'll be going outside to do the exercise so that the equipment in the gym doesn't get too destroyed." All Might announced. "You won't be using your hero suits because they're all getting repairs from USJ. If you need to remove clothing items though to use your quirk you are allowed to."
"AWW YEAH!" Mineta cheered.
Yaoyorozu immediately glared at him because she realized All Might was likely referencing her and Toru. And likely Kirishima too who could not be stopped from being shirtless.
The students followed All Might and Aizawa outside to a different arena design.
"While you watch your friends battle, please be sure to cheer them on! This is just supposed to give you some experience with hand-to-hand battle." All Might got out a box filled with paper names to randomize who fought who.
Everyone seemed pretty pumped up and excited. This would be a taste after all of what they would experience in the sports festival. And most everyone thought they would make it to the final 16.
"Will we be moving up to battle the next person like a real tournament if we win?" Kirishima asked.
"No. This is just a taste as to what the sports festival might offer. We don't want there to be more training opportunities for the winners when the losers of these matches are really the people who will need extra study opportunities." Aizawa pointed out. Only the winners battling just didn't seem fair.
"Ha. So maybe those shitty losers should battle it out!" Bakugo suggested. "I could live with watching a loser battle. I'm sure Deku would be the lowest of the low."
Midoriya glared.
All Might coughed awkwardly. "We don't want to risk injury too much. And we've only been given permission for one battle for each of you by Principal Nezu. He said that he didn't want you to accidentally match up with someone you may actually face in the sports festival."
Ah yes, because too much training might mean that the principal doesn't get to send teenagers to bloodily beat each other up for entertainment. Toru sarcastically thought to herself.
"We will have the battles decided by random. Feel free to guess the results based on your own analysis before the match!" All Might smiled. He shook the box and then after a moment pulled out two names.
"First match will be Sato vs Ojiro!" All Might revealed. "Winner is the person who knocks the other out of the ring!"
Sato and Ojiro stepped into the ring together.
"It's pretty evenly matched…I think it could go either way…" Midoriya predicted. "Sato's got his super strength and Ojiro's tail seems to have his own strength. But Ojiro has a little more experience in hand-to-hand combat based on what he said about USJ."
A boring match that doesn't really matter in the long run. Toru thought as her classmates all gathered to watch.
Sato immediately ate some gummy worms he had stored in his pocket. Ojiro took a stance and waited for Sato to charge at him.
As soon as the sugar rush went to Sato's head he seemed to growl, losing part of his intelligence due to his muscles expanding. He charged at Ojiro. There was nothing for Ojiro to pull up on to escape like a monkey, but that didn't stop him. He took a martial arts stance and dodged, perfectly balanced.
His tail made a chopping motion in the air as he slid away from Sato's path. He was obviously aiming for the back of Sato's head to knock him out, but Sato's hand reached up and grabbed Ojiro's tail. He pulled at Ojiro making Ojiro lose his footing.
"Whoa!" Ojiro yelled. He pulled with all his strength to get his tail out of Sato's hands and finally managed to wrangle free. "I suppose it's time to go on the offensive."
He ran forward and Sato ran forward as well. Ojiro tried to hit numerous times with his tail, while Sato tried to hit with his hands. Each time his fists made contact with the tail, the tail seemed to soak up the damage, but eventually Sato had managed to push Ojiro closer to the line around the arena.
Ojiro smiled and took up another martial arts stance. He gestured for Sato to come forward. Sato grinned superiorly and rushed forward and this time, Ojiro managed to dodge by leaping into the sky over Sato.
Sato rushed out of the arena.
"Ojiro wins!" All Might yelled. "Nice job, both of you!"
"How did you do that?" Midoriya asked, writing in his quirk notebook. "Or did Sato lose because of his quirk diverting his thinking power into muscle?"
Ojiro looked happy that he had won. "My family runs a dojo. I've trained there ever since I was young. So I've got all sorts of martial arts moves I've memorized." He explained, "I decided it would be best to unbalance my opponent rather than rely on offense. So I tried to lure him into rushing me."
Midoriya's eyes shined. "That's amazing!" He was taking notes in a notebook.
The next match was Koda vs Kaminari.
"I'll win this! Just watch me, Jiro." Kaminari pointed at Jiro and cocked his fingers into a finger gun, clicking his tongue.
"Huh? Why am I watching you?" Jiro sounded bored.
"Well, because you thought I'd be stuck as a sidekick forever! I'll prove to you I'm not just a stupid idiot!" Kaminari had little tears in his eyes. "It'll be over in a second-" He crouched on the ground ready to shock Koda, but then he started rising. He looked at the cuffs of his sleeves and an army of birds were pulling him off the ground.
Koda looked apologetic.
"AUGH!" Kaminari started to try to struggle free. "Get off me!" He struggled and eventually the birds let go and stopped trying to lift him. He fell, right outside the line.
"Koda wins." All Might announced. "Good job, young Koda."
Kaminari sniffled. "When did he get the chance to summon his thousands of birds?"
"While you were talking, idiot." Jiro pointed out.
Kaminari just cried.
It was Jiro's turn next. And she was facing Sero.
Sero smiled. "Sorry about this." He shot his tape out of his elbow straight at Jiro's face.
Jiro's earjacks shot forward and cut into the tape strips. "I've been wanting to practice using my earjacks more, anyway!"
"I have more tape strips than you have earjacks!" Sero yelled, shooting tape out like a machine gun.
Jiro jumped backwards and hooked one of her earjacks into her stereo. She played the sound of her heartbeat and the sound made the tape stop in midair. Sero covered his ears and yelled and with that chance Jiro rushed forward and pushed him out of the ring.
Jiro had won in an easy victory. The girls cheered for her.
Tsuyu and Mina were the next fight.
Interesting. They both have decently powerful quirks. Toru thought to herself. Everyone else seemed to believe the same thing because nobody could choose a victor.
Toru decided to cheer for both of them. "Go Tsuyu! Go Mina!" She yelled.
Mina stretched. "I suppose I'll really have to try my best against you." She smiled. And with that she slid forward on her acid feet.
Tsuyu dodged before she could take a swipe at her, leaping into the air. "When it comes to hand-to-hand combat nobody can beat my tongue." She launched her tongue forward to wrap itself around Mina's fist.
Mina smiled and her arm started secreting acid causing Tsuyu to have to let go. Tsuyu stuck her tongue out pained.
"Ouch…Tongue burn…Mina that wasn't very nice…" Tsuyu was struggling to talk.
Mina smiled. "Sorry, sorry! I kinda hoped you'd be immune to my acid cuz you're a frog!"
"That's…not how biology works, Mina." Tsuyu frowned. "I suppose I'll really have to work on dodging against you though." She jumped up every time Mina tried to throw acid her way expertly dodging.
She then launched her tongue again towards Mina, aiming for her leg that was covered by clothes so that her skin couldn't secrete more acid. Mina dodged as if she was dancing and grabbed Tsuyu's hands with her tongue.
Tsuyu pulled her tongue back into her mouth trying to get out of Mina's grip before she could burn her again. Unfortunately, Mina's grip was strong, and she was sent flying towards her.
Mina used the momentum and pushed Tsuyu out of the ring with her shoulder.
Tsuyu's eyes spun as she was knocked out of the ring, primarily concerned with not burning her tongue anymore.
"You rely too much on your tongue. Use your strong frog legs more in hand-to-hand combat!" Mina suggested, helping Tsuyu up.
"Thnks Mina." Tsuyu tried to say, her tongue hurting very bad. "Tough fight. Maybe next time I'll win." She minimized her use of words, "Fun!" She smiled as she massaged the tongue she was sticking out of her mouth.
All Might crossed his arms and managed to scowl while still smiling. "Ashido…I told you no injuries! Asui, go see the nurse. The win goes to, Asui!"
Mina groaned.
"Sometimes not using your quirk is the best choice at all." All Might pointed out.
"Man, I thought Mina had this in the bag." Kirishima sighed. "Guess she's a little destruction happy too…Same as Bakugo."
Bakugo huffed. "Hey! Don't put us on the same level! I wasn't even watching that shitty fight. Raccoon eyed girl hopes to be on my level."
Kirishima pat him on the shoulder, like yeah yeah.
Todoroki vs Kirishima was next. Despite Kirishima's hardness it couldn't prevent freezing and Todoroki, as everyone predicted, finished the match in seconds by just encasing Kirishima in ice.
"Wait…It's not over yet!" Kirishima insisted.
"It looks pretty over. You can't move." All Might pointed out.
"Let…Let me just work on this…" Kirishima tried to struggle free and make parts of his body hard to chisel away at the ice.
It took ten minutes for All Might to convince Kirishima to just give up after he used his body to break free saying "Yahoo!" and then Todoroki encased him in ice again instantly.
"Todoroki wins." Aizawa finally put his foot down after 30 minutes of the same thing repeating itself. The students were no longer watching and were rather bored by the battle.
Kirishima frowned as he went back to the group.
"Heh. You gave that half and half bastard a run for his money!" Bakugo complimented. "Nice job!"
"I think if they gave me an hour or something, I'd eventually tire him out…" Kirishima insisted.
"Sure you would." Bakugo actually smiled, like he was talking to a sad puppy.
Aoyama and Iida were the next match.
"It'll be okay to cry after you are enamored by my sparkling form." Aoyama twirled and zapped with his laser navel.
Iida quickly ran, dodging each blast. Aoyama started sweating, realizing that his navel laser was not as fast as Iida.
If Aoyama was shooting at where Iida would be, instead of where Iida was currently he would be able to get him. It just takes a little luring to make Iida go into the points he wants. His laser's pretty powerful but he's not using it intelligently, he's just shooting randomly. Toru thought to herself.
"In a match of long-range attacks, speed is on my side!" Iida said and pushed Aoyama easily and carefully out of the ring. He didn't want to cause any injury after all so he was careful not to injure Aoyama's delicate body.
The match was over quickly, and All Might was happy to declare Iida the victor.
The next match was Tokoyami vs Shoji. Some people were betting on Shoji and some were betting on Tokoyami.
Shoji moved first growing arm after arm on his arms. It was as if he was trying to grow his own pair of giant wings made entirely of connected arms. He dug his heels into the ground, trying to make sure Tokoyami couldn't shove him out of his spot.
"Wise move to focus on the defensive." Tokoyami complimented, he smirked a bit.
"Unfortunately, there isn't much defense against me!" Dark Shadow popped out of Tokoyami's back and moved forward to hit Shoji.
Shoji moved his arm-wings forward to try to push back, but Dark Shadow was too fast. It took one impact for him to hit Shoji in the chest, the arm-wings offering no defense nor having enough speed to take Tokoyami out first.
The one impact was strong enough to take Shoji's heels out of the ground, he tried to flap his arm-wings as if to escape or fly away but Dark Shadow pushed him again while he was regaining his balance.
Shoji fell out of the ring, pushed by Dark Shadow's sheer strength.
Tokoyami walked over once Shoji had fallen and offered a hand to help him up. Shoji took it.
"I apologize if I hurt you." Tokoyami apologized.
"I don't!" Dark Shadow piped up as if it was an annoying pest. "I'm just such a strong quirk!"
Tokoyami nodded, "Unfortunately, he speaks the truth. I am just the stronger of us two."
Shoji smiled. "It's fine! I was just caught by surprise. I wasn't expecting your quirk to be so enormously strong. But I accept the loss." He bowed, a graceful loser.
Tokoyami had an easy win.
There were only three matches left. Midoriya seemed to be doing the math and was praying to himself. "Not Kacchan…Not Kacchan."
All Might pulled out his name. "Midoriya! And…."
"Not Kacchan…" Midoriya continued his desperate praying.
Bakugo grinned as if he was so ready to destroy Midoriya.
I guess Bakugo and Midoriya's relationship is complicated. Some people are saying they're childhood friends, but they look more like a bully and victim with this…Was Toru the only one who saw Bakugo as weird for being a hero? No? Was this just a villain thing to recognize other villains? Bakugo seemed to be cracking his knuckles and making signals with his finger on his neck like he was going to kill Midoriya.
"Uraraka!" All Might finished fishing the name out of the box.
Midoriya sighed and then immediately started sweating. "Actually, this is much worse!"
Uraraka smiled and cracked her knuckles in a way where she was trying to be MORE threatening than Bakugo. "What's wrong, Midoriya? Scared?" She teased.
Instead of looking terrified Midoriya started blushing as if a cute girl threatening him was cool and not terrifying. "No. no, I'm fine. I just don't want to hurt you or anything—"
Uraraka laughed and smiled. "You think you're going to hurt me? Aizawa already told you, you shouldn't blow yourself up! And all I need to do to win is touch you!"
"T-touch me?" Midoriya started blushing again.
"Yep!" Uraraka smiled chipperly.
Once in the ring she ran towards Midoriya.
Midoriya squeaked and immediately went on the defensive trying to avoid her. Running around the arena with his arms out as if he was being chased by something scary.
"…This is just pathetic. I was waiting for Deku to get squashed…Not whatever it is that I'm watching." Bakugo gestured.
Uraraka was laughing. "Come here, Deku!" She yelled. "I just want to give you a hug!" She had her arms out too.
Despite Midoriya's screaming it looked like they were having a great time.
All Might looked disappointed too. "At least try to beat her, Young Midoriya! Remember your competitive spirit! If you fight a pretty lady villain you aren't just going to give up, right?"
Midoriya continued to scream. "I won't! I won't! Of course, I won't! But it isn't a female villain in front of me! It's Ochako!"
Uraraka just laughed and continued running after him as if she was playing a game of tag.
Did I misread their relationship? Are they already together or something? It hadn't even been two weeks. Toru had just thought they had bonded onto each other as fast friends but the way Uraraka and Midoriya were acting it felt like they were an item. And she didn't seem to be the only one to think that.
"I didn't know they were dating already." Mina sighed. "Good on Ochako for getting a boyfriend though and then taking advantage of things in a competition."
Iida was the only one taking this match seriously and was shouting instructions to either of them. "Midoriya's trying to tire you out Uraraka! Make tighter turns!" Iida would alternative who he was cheering for and advising, "And Midoriya! Good luck running for it! Keep going, my friend!" Iida was very loud. "Go Midoriya! Go! Go Uraraka! Go!" Nobody seemed to be paying attention to him.
No, perhaps they're not already together…. Uraraka looks like she's actually trying her best to use her quirk and hit Midoriya. But Midoriya's the type to be flustered by girls and he's decided to flee instead of fighting back. It was important to clearly observe her class's interpersonal relationships so she could use them to the best of her ability. Perhaps Midoriya and Uraraka liked each other, mutually. Or perhaps it was just Midoriya's teenage hormones making him jump every time he saw a pretty girl. It would require further observation.
Midoriya tripped while making the next sharp turn. He fell towards the ground but Uraraka tapped his head before he could land.
He floated upwards and Uraraka grabbed his leg and pulled him towards the edge of the arena like a balloon. She threw him out as he tried to swim through the air.
"Release." She said and let him fall, fully losing.
"It's finally over." Midoriya breathed a huge sigh of relief.
"…Uraraka wins…." All Might sounded as if he was holding back disappointment as he made the announcement.
Midoriya avoided his gaze, fully ashamed of his performance.
Uraraka just grinned. "Awww don't be sad!" She teased, "You tried your best." She gave him a hug.
Midoriya just blushed. "I should have probably tried a little harder though…And given you the fight you deserved. I just didn't want to hurt you or me…"
"There is such a thing as hand-to-hand combat that doesn't cause bones to break." Aizawa reminded. Midoriya didn't seem to hear him.
Aizawa huffed.
There were two matches left.
Toru had done the math. Although it was amusing to think about Midoriya and Uraraka's battle there was a very real possibility she'd have to fight against Mineta or Bakugo.
It's just me, Yaoyorozu, Bakugo and Mineta left. If she got Mineta she didn't think she could purposefully lose against him. She'd squish him and just kick him until she won. But his sticky balls had a good chance of getting onto her and then he'd definitely use them to do something exploitive. And she wouldn't in her right mind be able to get undressed to be fully invisible against Mineta meaning she'd actually have to display some of her real strength if she wanted to win. And taking the loss and whatever potential groping Mineta had in store for her caused her to tremble uncontrollably.
Bakugo on the other hand caused her to seriously doubt that if she didn't try for real, she would be able to survive. He'd blast even if he had been told not to, and then she'd get seriously injured. And she knew from experience if she got burned, she'd have to heal it herself since nobody except her could see her skin. She was her own doctor.
"Bakugo and Mineta." The best possible combination came from All Might's voice and Toru collapsed onto her knees.
Bakugo smiled. "I won't even have to use my quirk for this little rascal."
Mineta looked confident. "I think you're massively underestimating me-"
Bakugo immediately did exactly as Toru had planned and just started kicking. Mineta screamed but before he could grab one of his sticky balls, Bakugo put his hand in front of him.
"Oy, careful there…If I'm not using my quirk you shouldn't either." He said in a threatening voice, his hand inches from Mineta's head.
Mineta was sweating. "You can't cause me injury…You'd lose."
"I'm not causing injury though, am I?" Bakugo replied. "I'm threatening. Nothing in the rules against threatening."
"Bakugo—" All Might started to speak.
"You won't act on it!" Mineta pointed out. Bakugo 'accidentally' stepped on Mineta's whole foot.
"Do you know that for sure? Perhaps your grape balls will give you a nice cover for me to blast you and you don't get seriously injured by it. Or maybe I just want to take my chances." Bakugo pointed out.
Mineta sniffled. Although Bakugo was acting quite villainous Toru did not judge him for it. She wished she had popcorn.
I wish I could see Mineta and Bakugo fight more often. She waved her hands excitedly watching with the rest of the class.
"I wish I could have gotten paired up against Yaoyorozu or Hagakure so I could have touched them even a little bit!" Mineta cried as Bakugo kicked him across the arena line like a soccer ball.
Bakugo kicked him extra hard at the last bit. And Toru found herself cheering just a little bit for Bakugo too.
Still don't think he's a hero though. She reminded herself.
The last battle was upon them. Yaoyorozu vs Toru.
I was planning to just take the loss, but I shouldn't lose too easily I suppose. Toru realized. Yaoyorozu would just continue trying to get her out of the hero course if she looked completely useless.
"I hope there's no hard feelings." Yaoyorozu said, unbuttoning her shirt so she could create things from her stomach.
"Nope!" Toru shook her head. "Is it okay if I don't get undressed?"
Yaoyorozu looked surprised. "You're not planning on using your invisibility to your advantage? But…Isn't that all you have to aid you in this match?" She sounded confused.
"Yeah, that's true. But it kinda sucks to have to be naked to do battle. I hope you understand!" Toru said.
"I…I do." Yaoyorozu seemed to understand Toru's pain and buttoned her gym shirt back up.
Mineta moaned. "Ah you mean I don't even get a sexy cat fight?"
Jiro slapped him with her earjack.
Toru shuddered. Mineta really is super creepy.
"I will limit myself then too. Since we both have quirks that require the exposure of skin." Yaoyorozu had respect in her eyes, "I understand your choice. It would be uncomfortable I think for us both if I had to find your naked body in this arena."
"Yep, yep! Glad you understand and we can be cool about this!" Toru replied chipperly.
"Go!" All Might shouted, signifying the match beginning.
Yaoyorozu immediately created of a bottle of black ink out of the back of her hand.
"RARHH" Toru yelled a battle cry and charged at her.
"My original plan was to throw paint bombs and ink at you to locate you, and then push you out of the arena on my own merit." Yaoyorozu explained, taking the battle as an opportunity to lecture. She threw the ink at Toru anyway. Toru moved her body just slightly to dodge it.
I am planning to lose against Yaoyorozu, but I should try a little to show her that I'm not completely worthless. Toru decided. She was definitely more adept at hand-to-hand combat than Yaoyorozu, but she couldn't let Yaoyorozu know that.
She lowered herself and made a quick strike at Yaoyorozu's feet to unbalance her. Yaoyorozu fell over, losing her balance.
"Ooh I didn't know Hagakure knew any martial arts!" Ojiro yelled from the crowd. "Unless she's good at observing like with my match—"
Toru made sure to slip after that comment. She started flapping her arms so she could try to regain her footing. "Whoa! These leg strikes aren't as easy as the ones you see on TV."
"Unless she's just imitating what she saw on TV." Ojiro finished, disappointed.
Yaoyorozu looked startled that she had been knocked down, but she quickly made her way back up. Toru made a high kick towards her stomach but made sure to slow it so Yaoyorozu could easily catch her foot with her hand.
"Nice try. But good try nonetheless." Yaoyorozu said. She pulled at Toru this time to unbalance her.
Toru let herself lose her footing, even though Yaoyorozu was nowhere near the strength of others she had sparred with.
"T-thanks! I'm trying to prove myself to you, as a hero. But you are a recommendation student!" Toru made her voice sound determined.
Yaoyorozu created rope from her neck and pulled it out. She clearly planned to tie Toru up and drag her out of the arena.
Toru made sure to try to punch and kick in a way that it led Yaoyorozu closer and closer to the edge while she tried to defend against her.
"You're doing a lot better than I would have expected!" Yaoyorozu admitted. "But I understand your dilemma of fighting when naked. As a hero you'll have to get used to it but it's not fun in anyway." She sounded as if she still didn't believe Toru should be a hero. She seemed to be heavily breathing though.
Toru realized quickly that Yaoyorozu was having trouble defending against her strikes because she could not see her arms and hands. She did not have the preparation to brace herself at each hit.
She should be able to see where the top of my arm is thanks to my shirt. Shouldn't she guess when and where I'm going to hit based on that? Perhaps Yaoyorozu wasn't quick-witted enough to analyze during a fight yet. Toru switched to kicks so Yaoyorozu could defend against them better. Also striking her too much with my hands instead of letting her dodge it might show that I do have upper arm strength. Don't want her to know I'm stronger than I said!
Yaoyorozu easily grabbed her leg and pulled her out of her position and slammed her onto the ground. She then quickly created handcuffs but froze. She stared blankly at the empty air realizing she couldn't see Hagakure's wrists to handcuff her.
Toru tried to pretend she was struggling to get up. "Ow…" She rubbed her butt pretending to be in pain.
Yaoyorozu smiled seeing her chance. She quickly tied her rope into a lasso shape and started twirling.
Toru pretended to try to put some distance between them by crawling away and Yaoyorozu lassoed her, hooking the rope around her waist. She then pulled Toru closer towards her.
"Lucky enough we're close enough to the end of the arena." Yaoyorozu smiled. And then she pulled with her final bit of strength, throwing Toru out of the arena.
"Aww man! I thought I'd really be able to prove myself to you!" Toru pretended to hit the ground in frustration. "I was working on untying this knot and didn't see your final attack."
"I've read many books on knot tying, I made it as tight as possible." Yaoyorozu smiled. "But I deserve to give you an apology. Your…strength in not using your quirk in a place you weren't comfortable is stronger than I could ever do. And your punches could easily be trained into something very tough. Your kicks needed a bit of work, but I assume that was your first time?"
Toru nodded. "I'm not taught in hand-to-hand combat, so I just moved in the way I saw it on TV." She lied.
"You did amazing then for a first time." Yaoyorozu admitted. "I have a tutor that my parents hired for me and you managed to luck into an amazing stance sometimes. Not all the time. But you did good."
She gave Toru a handshake. Yaoyorozu was smiling, probably because even with Toru trying her best, she had still won. Her classmates were cheering since all of them had guessed Yaoyorozu thinking it was a sure victory.
"Good try!" Mina clapped.
There were a lot of 'you tried your best' consultation cheers for her.
Toru smiled. It had all gone according to plan.
I think I gained Yaoyorozu's respect and possibly anyone else who wants to try and push me out of the hero course. But I do wonder if I did a little too good. She regretted punching at all in fact, but you could only prevent yourself from repeating the same mistakes in the future.
The competition was over. The winners cheered confidence brimming to their core thinking there was no way they could lose the sports festival now. The losers all had a look like perhaps they needed to train a tad harder.
It had been a productive day.
If you've noticed that Bakugo's lines have more swears in them now that's because my younger sister complained that Bakugo doesn't swear enough so I gave her some lines and she put cuss words in them. She took it very personally when Bakugo called people "crappy".
I really thought it was important to give Momo and Toru some interaction/friendship because they're the two girls who have the worst hero costumes. I want them to bond and realize their costumes suck and perhaps seek improvements. I feel bad for both of them.
My younger sister and I also talked about headcanons for all of Class 1-A's family life/families, and so I'm going to try to sprinkle that in there since we didn't get to see many of their families when Aizawa and All Might met with parents to get approval for the class to go into the dorms. So far i've only been able to sneak Ojiro's dojo in there though.