Two students are running through the forest.
"What the hell is that thing! What the hell is that!"
"Anyway, we have to get to the teachers as soon as possible...!"
I'm running as fast as I can, but the visibility is poor in the forest at night and I'm not sure where I'm going.
On top of that, a monster with a bare brain was attacking us from behind.
The two B team members had no idea what was going on, but through Mandalay's telepathy, they finally understood that they were about to be killed by a villain.
"That's the brainless guy (Nomu) from Hosu, right!?What's it doing here?"
"I don't know! Just run! if you don't..."
It's catching up with us.
There is still some distance between us now, but the other side is tirelessly pushing forward, cutting down every tree in its way.
It's been a while since we started this deadly game of tag. It was only a matter of time before it caught up with us.
"Someone..."
I caught my foot on a tree root and nearly fell.
The monster is already right behind me.
I don't think I can make it to the pro hero in time.
My face contorts in despair and fear, and my body shakes.
Even though I knew there was nothing I could do to stop it, my mouth moved.
"Help...!"
"Special delivery"
I saw something pass over my head with a swoosh.
At the same time, I heard the sound of something being blown up behind me.
"...!?"
When I turned around, I saw the Nomu who had been chasing us earlier flipped over on its back in the distance.
But what I saw before that was
"Oryou-san has arrived. You should be grateful, human. You can thank me with a frog."
Floating in the air was a beautiful black-haired girl in a sailor suit.
"Eh, ah, a pro hero...?"
I wonder if the reinforcements have finally arrived, though it seems a little too soon for that.
I ask and answer myself the same question.
"She kicked that huge body...!?"
Seems like the person beside me saw that moment.
The girl in the sailor suit took one look at us.
"Pro Hero? What's that, is it good?"
"Wha-!? Then are you the villain!?."
"I told you I'm Oryou-san, didn't you hear?"
While they were exchanging these words, one of them noticed.
"Ah- Behind you! Behind you!"
"Mmm."
The Nomu who were supposed to have been defeated earlier were about to strike again.
This time, it was not at us, but at a girl who calls herself Oryou-san.
"I'm surprised you can still stand after Oryou-san's blow.
You're pretty good, aren't you."
She muttered carefree in this situation.
"Ho!"
and then Oryou strikes with a straight right jab to the stomach of Nomu.
The Nomu is blown away again with a huge woooshing sound.
The sight of a seemingly slender girl blowing away a giant body more than twice her size with a single punch was truly bizarre.
"It'll be troublesome if it move again."
As Oryou-san said this, she lightly lifted the reaped tree and piled it on top of the Nomu.
As Oryou-san had said, the Nomu started moving again shortly after. However, the log on which it was piled up made it impossible for it to move.
"Oryou-san is busy. Surely you can take care of the rest yourselves."
The mysterious girl then flew away, just as she had done when she arrived.
Leaving behind students who still don't quite understand what's going on.
Ritsuka pushed forward, Following a sound.
Then suddenly she found herself in an open space.
Right in front of her was
"Aaaaaaaaa──────"
There were Bakugo who were fighting against a man who seemed to be a villain.
"Fujimaru...? It's not safe here, run away!"
Todoroki, who was the first to notice Ritsuka's appearance, shouted.
On his back, he is carrying a student who looks like a class B student who has passed out.
The man who seemed to be a villain noticed this and straight away extended what looked like sharp white teeth from his mouth to Ritsuka.
"───Wha-!"
She quickly draws her sword and parry it with her sword.
Todoroki catches the man's tooth with ice, but another tooth reaches out and crushes Todoroki's ice.
"Hold on, soon──"
Before Ritsuka could finish, a voice suddenly sounded in her head.
『All members of Class A and Class B──...』
(Here it comes!)
That was surely the instruction that Ritsuka had foreseen that Aizawa would give.
『You are all cleared for combat!』
I'm relieved to see that Mandalay's telepathy was flowing properly.
I'm sure Midoriya was able to deliver Kota safely.
"Yeah! I was getting frustrated because I couldn't go wild,but with this...!"
Bakugo hand started to explodes, his hand moving from defensive to offensive.
"Wait! Who's "Ka-chan"!?"
Ritsuka asked in the back.
Ritsuka didn't notice that Bakugo reacted irritatedly.
"Isn't Ka-chan someone from Class A⁉︎
Someone named Ka-chan is the villain's───"
The voices echoed in my head as they overlapped again.
『One of the villain's goals has been discovered───‼︎』
『It's a student named "Ka-chan"! "Ka-chan" please avoid battle as much as possible! Do not move alone! 』
『Understand!? "Ka-chan"! 』
"Do you know who this 'Ka-chan' is?"
Ritsuka didn't notice that Bakugo's body was shaking slightly.
Before anyone could answer the question, the villain's attack was unleashed again.
Ritsuka didn't notice that Bakugo's body was shaking slightly.
Before anyone could answer the question, the enemy villain's attack was unleashed again.
"'I have to... endure... my... work... ah!
Aaaahhh───────────────"
Todoroki creates a barrier with ice.
"Don't go attacking carelessly.
Didn't you hear⁉︎You're being targeted."
"What?"
For a moment, Ritsuka couldn't figure out who Todoroki was talking to, and she looked around.
Could he be referring to the student that Todoroki was carrying?
But then Ritsuka noticed for the first time the look on Bakugou's face.
"This guy, that guy...
All this is so crazy, it's spinning in my head...
What the hell did that deku do
First they say to fight, then they say don't fight!?"
Could it be?
I looked at Todoroki and he nodded back.
It turns my premonition into conviction
"Bakugou-kun is Ka-chan...?"
"Don't call me that either, you piece of shit!"
What part of him is Ka-chan?
I think it's best not to mention the question.
However, Bakugo's appearance was much more like that of a villain.
Same time
Aizawa, who receive Kota from Midoriya, was running to the facility.
He must have been so scared. Kota was still squirming in his arms.
Suddenly, Kota opened his mouth.
"Uncle... is he okay?"
"Yeah?"
"I...I hit him...I ignored him when he talked to me...and yet...!
He was such a wreck and he saved me...! He covered for me and hit his head...
I haven't said sorry... or thank you...!
I haven't said any of that!
I wonder if he is okay..."
"It's okay... He is used to getting beat up and tattered.
───But as an adult, I have to scold him about it later
So you could tell him when this mess is over.
If possible, put more effort into the thank you."
When Aizawa said that much, Kota finally started to cry out loud.
He mumbled "I'm sorry" and "Thank you" with tears in his eyes.
Aizawa thought about what he was about to do.
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Therefore
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Aizawa doesn't notice
The small sound of Kota's voice
A small sense of discomfort
"───You covered for me. You were hurt.
You were bleeding, you were in absolute pain, you were about to be killed, but why...?
I thought you said you didn't want to be a hero...!
You want to be the one being helped...
Then why are you helping me...!"
Aizawa didn't realize the meaning that Kota's words expressed.
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Midoriya hadn't told him because of his impatience.
Kota didn't even know if it was something he should tell him.
No one had told him of her absence.
The only people who were concerned about her running away from the facility were the people in the facility.
That's why Aizawa won't know about it until he returns to the facility.
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That Midoriya was not the only one who saved Kota.
Ritsuka Fujimaru, who is supposed to be at the facility, is on the front line right now.
"───There's no end to it..."
Before she had time to take a deep breath, her opponent's blade came at her, trying to pierce her flesh.
Todoroki's body temperature drops due to his unbalanced use of his "quirk," the power of Bakugo's explosions becomes less and less. Ritsuka had been breathing hard since a while ago, and her footing was sluggish. But, the momentum of the villain does not seem to be diminishing, in fact it seems to be increasing.
"I can't get close enough, I'll have to use maximum firepower."
"No!"
"If the tree burns, just cover it with ice!"
"The explosion will block our view. What if we can't kill him?
He has more rooms and options than we do!"
While Todoroki and Bakugo were arguing, Ritsuka was also frantically thinking.
However, no good idea came to mind.
My vision is wobbly and my body doesn't move the way I want it to.
It's like I'm forcing my quirk to move me.
"Th-This is just impossible...!"
"Don't try to butt in! You're just a mob!"
"Mo-Mob..!"
I'm shocked to hear Bakugo's words.
I've barely met him before, but what the hell is he saying?
Suddenly, Todoroki hears a familiar voice and a cracking sound.
Before Todoroki knew what the sound was, they had arrived.
"Bakugo! Todoroki! One of you, please──... Make some light!"
The one that seemed to be solidified darkness seems to be chasing shoji who is carrying Midoriya on his back.
The villain that was hunting down Bakugo and the others was easily crushed.
The three of them, Todoroki, Bakugo, and Ritsuka, opened their mouths in disbelief at the fortunate turn of events.
"There's a new villain...!"
Ritsuka rose to her feet and readied her sword. Todoroki stopped her.
"No, it's Tokoyami! He's not a villain!"
"E-eh? Allies?"
Tokoyami crushed the villain when he tried to stand up again, and with its momentum, it knocked down the trees in all directions at once.
However, when Bakugou and Todoroki suppressed it with explosions and flames, it let out a puppyish squeal and shrunk.
It was as if what had just happened was a lie.
"The villain that kept us on the defensive... in an instant he..."
"Tokoyami, are you alright? Fortunately, everything turned out like you said it would..."
"Shoji... Midoriya... I'm sorry. My spirit was not prepared."
Ritsuka remembered that it was his quirk, Tokoyami, that had been acting up earlier.
Ritsuka remembered that he was the one who had come in third place at the sports festival.
His crow-like head left a lasting impression on her.
It was only after Tokoyami's words that she noticed Midoriya on the back of shoji.
They were talking about something.
Ritsuka touched the part of her head that got hit when she covered up for Kota. As she had expected, there was a bump on her head. She looked at her right hand and saw blood on it too, so she wiped it with the edge of her black shirt.
"──san, Fujimaru-san"
"Huh? Oh, yeah."
"Are you okay?"
Apparently, he had been talking to me and I had ignored him.
"...I'm okay, so what's the plan?"
"Since the villain's target is Ka-chan we'll all head back to the facility.
The pussycats are currently fighting at the clearing. If we follow this path back the villains will definitely spot us. So we should just cut straight through the forest, since it's the shortest route."
""We don't know how many villains there are. There is also a possibility they could suddenly ambush us."
"We have Shoji-kun's detection ability! Even if we meet some villains, Todoroki-kun, Fujimaru-san, and even Tokoyami-kun will be able to beat them.
And as long as Tokoyami-kun is okay with it, we still have a method of controlling the unrivaled power of dark shadow..."
Honestly, with this lineup...
Not even All Might would scare us...!
"What the hell is all this you pricks!"
Bakugo frowned and shouted.
"The ally of justice Oryou-san has not rampage enough"
She tried to go help someone, but there are sounds coming from all directions, so she didn't know where to go.
Oryou-san was in the air, looking down at the forest.
Then a shouting girl's voice came into her ears.
"Ochaco-chan⁉︎"
She turned her head in the direction she heard it coming from.
"Mmm, I just heard someone calling the help of Oryou-san."
Oryou-san then launched herself in the direction of the voice.
"The legend of Oryou-san will grow again...
I can see the respect in Ryouma's and Master's eyes."
While saying such a carefree thing, she reached the owner of the voice.
What she see are two girls.
One of them is pinning down a girl, and the other is stabbing the girl who pinned her down in the thigh with a knife.
At first glance, it's hard to tell what the situation is.
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But then
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"You must be the villain. Move."
Oryou-san did not hesitate to kick the girl who was being pinned down.
The girl pulled the knife out of the girl who pinned her and rolled her body to avoid the foot that was coming towards her.
Oryou-san's kick ended up being empty.
"Wh-Who's that? a new villain...⁉︎"
"What? Is this a new friend? Hey, do you know her Ochaco-chan?"
Ochaco and Toga Himiko, who had been fighting earlier, positioned themselves with Oryou-san between them.
Oryou-san answered the questions of these two in a dignified manner.
"Oryou-san is Oryou-san
And you are someone that is being helped by Oryou-san, come and sheds tear of joy humans"
Oryou-san's finger points at Ochaco.
"And you are the villain who cries tears of regret after being defeated by Oryou-san."
After that, Oryou's finger pointed at Toga Himiko.
"Allies..? Th-Then you are a pro hero?"
Ochaco's caution isn't unfounded.
There was no one like her at either U.A or the facility, and she came too early for a professional hero.
In the first place, U.A wears blazers, not sailors.
"Your name's Oryou-san? That's cool!
I'm Toga!
Hey, how did you know I'm the villain?"
Despite the fact that she was kicked and scratched just a few minutes ago, Toga Himiko is very excited about her new friend.
"You smell like blood. Can't you smell it yourself?"
The face of Oryou-san, who said such a disturbing thing, was also somehow very cute.
"What? I was not aware of it. Then, can I stab you?
"Just stop it. You can't beat me, and also I'm very busy"
I have a lot of work to do.
Despite the fact that Toga Himiko was about to slash at her, Oryou-san showed no sign of being wary of the knife.
Ochaco couldn't keep up with the conversation that was going on so casually, so she just listened warily to the conversation unfolding in front of her.
Then
"Uraraka!?"
Shoji and the others appeared from the bushes.
Like Ochaco, Asui Tsuyu, who hadn't been able to keep up with the scene and still had her hair nailed to a tree, shouted out.
However in that time, Toga Himiko fled in the opposite direction where Shoji and the others had appeared.
"'There are more people and I don't want to get killed.
Bye-bye."
"Wait...!"
"It's dangerous. We don't even know what kind of quirk she have."
Asui stops Ochako who tries to chase her.
In the blink of an eye, Toga Himiko was out of sight.
"Who is that?"
Shoji makes an alarmed sound.
He look at Oryou, who is also exactly what Ochaco and the others want to know.
"Oh, this is the girl who helped me... uh, Oryou-san, was it?"
"You're injured. Let me see."
Ignoring Ochaco's question, Oryou-san turned her head upside down in the air, put her face close to Ochaco's thigh, and suddenly licked up the part where she had just been stabbed with the knife.
"Uwaaaa! Eh!? Wha-!?"
The people around her were stunned by the shock, and Ochaco screamed.
She licked the blood off her mouth with her tongue, not caring about the reaction.
"Oryou-san's saliva has healing properties. It's special."
"Eh, I-it's really healed...!"
As Oryou-san had said, there was no trace of the wound, as if it had never been injured in the first place. Even so, it was a shock to suddenly be licked on the thigh.
Oryou-san's interest had already been glued in another direction.
"More importantly... you look very tasty."
"'Kero please don't come any closer. I feel threatened."
Ritsuka was watching the exchange in the back with a sense of urgency.
Oryou-san has been faithfully following Ritsuka's orders and has been ignoring Ritsuka's presence.
But to be honest, she had been wary of the danger of Oryou-san meeting Tsuyu Asui ever since she possessed Sakamoto Ryouma and called Oryou-san.
What if she were to be swallowed whole in front of her, a frog's quirk... I don't know what to do.
Not knowing what was going through Ritsuka's mind, Midoriya breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm glad you're safe for now...
Oh yeah, come with us! We're on our way to the facility to escort Kacchan."
"...hm?"
"Escorting Bakugo-chan?"
In the next moment, the air, which had been naturally relaxed by the new friends, cracked with a loud sound.
"Then where is Bakugo-chan?"
"What?"
A chill runs down Ritsuka's back.
Her whole body is filled with a bad feeling.
"What are you talking about. Ka-chan is at the back..."
In times of emergency, the negligence of a single individual can spell disaster.
"If you're talking about him, I just used my magic to take him."
"!"
A masked man wearing a silk hat was looking down on Ritsuka and the others from a tree.
"This is not the kind of person who should be over there on the hero side. I'll take him to the stage where he can shine even brighter.
"───!? Give him back!"
Midoriya shouted.
When did they get taken away?
Even Ritsuka, who was at the very back and closest to the Bakugo, didn't notice the slightest thing.
The man in the silk hat has two marble-like spheres in his hands.
By his quirk, Bakugo was captured.
Tokoyami, who had also disappeared, must have become another sphere.
The disaster that befell Ritsuka and the others has only just begun.
Translator's Note
Mob = Background Character