Original Author's note
I think it will be kind of hard to understand the point of view that changes from page to page in this story... If there are people who find it hard to read, I'll put the name of the person in that point of view at the beginning of the next page. just leave the questionnaire in the comments.
"Strike Air (Hammer of the Wind King)"
As I said that, I thrust my holy sword forward and the compressed wind became a storm that struck the legs of the villains.
"What the hell did this girl do!"
"I can't see anything but it looks like she is holding something! What kind of quirk is that!"
Ritsuka did not respond to the words of the villains. She just kept her distance and let the attacks pass her by, and if she was in danger, she would use the Invisible Air (Barrier of the Wind King) to get away again.
The holy sword is invisible to the villains, so they couldn't see the distance between them, which is a good way to keep them in check.
In front of Ritsuka, there is a large man with a feminine tone and a man who looks like a lizard, and a little further away, Bakugo is engaged with a high school girl, a man who looks like a magician, a man in full-body tights, and Shigaraki.
It is obvious that the power gap was tilted in favor of Bakugo, but Ritsuka didn't have much time to spare either. She's so preoccupied thinking of something else that she's surrendering herself to Artoria's "intuition" skill to deal with the villains in front of her.
But her body is nearing its limit now.
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(Earlier...)
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────? Haha, So Fujimaru quirk is...
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I can't get the words of that man who seems to be the mastermind behind everything out of my head.
What did he see in Ritsuka? I want to ask him, but there is no way I can do that, and he is fighting All Might in the first place.
(But if that guy gets caught, I can't ask him anything.)
But what should I do?
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『Master, to the right!』
"Right!"
At Artoria's words, I immediately swung my sword.
The villains, who had closed the distance before I knew it, dodged backwards.
『Now focus on the task at hand! Master.』
"Yeah, sorry...!"
Ritsuka reflected on Artoria's harsh voice.
Right now, I should think of a way out of this situation.
(If we're here, All Might won't be able to focus on that guy... And he won't be able to escape... If I were to use Noble Phantasm now... then I'd be dragging Bakugou-kun in the blast...)
Ritsuka kept her mind on the villains and thought about them.
Suddenly, a thought comes to mind.
(What would Midoriya-kun do?)
What would he do now, the one who seems to be gathering up all the possibilities overflowing from the direness of any situation?
『Master, be careful, it's probably coming.』
"What?"
『It is the quirk that cleared the area where you're standing and blew that strong man far away just now』
"────Then what should I do?
『You must retreat. You're not safe here』
"────ugh"
But All Might is more tattered than I am.
If we allow that bombardment to happen again, the damage to the city will spread. And there was no guarantee that All Might would be able to withstand it.
"I wonder if Noble Phantasm could... cancel it out or something."
Artoria's Noble Phantasm is an Anti-Fortress weapon.
But she is not in her own body, so it's probably not half as powerful, but it's still a holy sword.
It will be no less powerful than that attack that blew away a whole city.
Artoria's stern voice echoed in my head.
『Master! You must take care of yourself first!』
"I'm sorry, Artoria.
But tell me, do you think you can rival his quirk?"
『...』
Artoria's reply never came.
"Artoria...!"
In response to Ritsuka's urgent voice, Artoria finally replied in a voice that seemed to be forced out.
『It's not impossible.
But even at its minimum power, it consumes a lot of Magical Energy. It will put an enormous load on master's body.』
"...I just need to know what I'm up against."
Ritsuka had a hypothesis.
In this world, Ritsuka probably doesn't have any Magical Energy.
In her previous life, she couldn't use it without a Mystic Codes, but the Magical Energy itself certainly existed.
But the current Ritsuka doesn't have it. Perhaps it doesn't even exist in this world.
Instead, she has a "quirk".
She named it Projection because it causes pseudo-summoning of heroic spirits to her body.
Activation of Noble Phantasm.
All of them have been treated as quirks instead of Magical Energy. If that's the case, then quirk is just physical strength.
I'm sure that I will subconsciously limit myself so as not to exceed my limits.
It is a gamble.
(But this hypothesis is full of holes. There are just too many unexplainable parts.)
In the first place, my quirk is unusual, and I don't really know if Magical Energy really doesn't exist. I'm just trying to make conjectures.
That's why I want to know the truth.
The only way to do that is to find out what that man saw.
『...if that is your decision.』
"Thank you... let's go.
『Yes, let's put an end to this.』
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"O wind, scatter away!"
Ritsuka created a huge wind with her Invisible Air (Barrier of the Wind King).
The momentum of the wind caused the distance between the villain and Ritsuka to widen.
So Ritsuka regained her stance and looked around to get in front of the man.
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Then with a loud noise, a shadow fell on Ritsuka's face.
From there, she heard two overlapping voices that were not supposed to be here right now.
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"Come!"
(──Kirishima-kun and the others, also...)
"Why?"
A voice involuntarily spilled out of Ritsuka's mouth.
Five minutes ago.
He was so scared and nervous that he couldn't move his body, even though his friend, the one he was supposed to help, was fighting right behind him.
The sight of the two of us standing in a line against the concrete wall was ridiculous.
There was nothing he could do, but he felt a sickening sweat running down his back.
I want to go home.
His heart felt that he was desperately trying to look away from such feelings.
"Ida-kun, everyone!"
Then I heard a voice from the other side.
Ida spoke as if he was immediately holding him back.
"'No...Midoriya-kun...!"
"'No! There is a way!"
Midoriya spins his voice with a desperate expression.
"A way for us to avoid combat!
And for us to get out of here too!
We'll be able to save Ka-chan and Fujimaru! There's a way."
"Just say it."
Todoroki said.
"But this... is also up to Ka-chan. ────... with this plan, ... I probably won't succeed.
So, Kirishima-kun, you are the key to increasing the success rate."
Midoriya told him the whole story of the plan.
＊ ＊ ＊
Midoriya's plan is this.
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Kirishima's hardening will punch through the wall.
Todoroki will use his freezing quirk to make a ramp
Midoriya's full cowl and Ida's recipro burst will gain momentum to jump.
Kirishima calls out to Fujimaru and Bakugou to retrieve them.
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After all was said and done, Midoriya added.
"Both Ka-chan and Fujimaru are fighting at a distance, keeping a wary eye on their opponents.
The timing is, the moment the two of them are more than two steps away from the villains.
It's a bit of a gamble since we don't know Fujimaru-san's quirk for sure, but judging from what we've seen so far, it shouldn't be impossible."
In fact, Midoriya and the others don't really understand how Ritsuka is fighting right now.
It seems that nothing is held in Ritsuka's hands, but every time Ritsuka waves her arms as if she were holding a sword, a gust of wind occurs and the villains would get damaged.
"Ida-san..."
Yaoyorozu looked at Ida anxiously.
"...It's a gamble, but... considering the situation, the risk to us is minimal...
Above all, if we succeed, everything will be worth it...
Let's do────"
"Wait a minute."
It was awkward because his voice seemed to break the air, but Shinso interrupted.
"'There's nothing I can do about the current plan, So I'll be the one to call Fujimaru. I'll go with you."
"...the more people we have, the less momentum we'll have, and the less altitude we'll have. There will also be two more of us after. The villains won't just let us go for free. I understand how you feel, but you and I..."
He says, interrupting Todoroki's words.
"Let me ask you something then. From your point of view, will Fujimaru take his hand?"
The faces of Midoriya and the others turn bitter for a moment at Shinso's words.
It's hard to imagine, but from what I've heard from Midoriya and the others up until now, Ritsuka doesn't seem to be opening up to Midoriya and the others.
"But in that situation, she'll have no choice but to take his hand, I'm sure she'll understand!"
"But Bakugou still chooses which hands he wants to grab, right? You can't tell me that Fujimaru doesn't."
"...uuu"
Shinso immediately replied to Ida's rebuttal.
Then Kirishima, who had been listening silently all along, opened his mouth.
"...I think it's okay to have Shinso in on this too.
He has spent the most time with Fujimaru out of all of us, right?
And... I'm not confident that Fujimaru will respond to my call at all..."
...-of course I'm not saying I'm confident that Bakugo will! Kirishima added in a hurry.
"It's settled then."
Shinso nodded in agreement.
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In the midst of a fierce engagement, Bakugo suddenly made a huge blast and launched back, and with a swing from Ritsuka, the villains backs away.
"Now!"
Midoriya shouted.
A large patch of ice protruded from the collapsed wall.
Coming out of it with great force were Midoriya, Ida, Kirishima, and Shinso.
They crossed the battlefield from a height that was too high for anyone to reach.
Bakugo, Ritsuka, the villains, and even that man looked up as if stunned.
I could see All Might being beaten horribly in that gap.
The two people in between Ida and Midoriya - of which Shinso is staring straight at Ritsuka.
With their hands firmly stretched out in front of them, Kirishima shouts to Bakugo and Shinso shouts to Ritsuka
"Come!"
Bakugo made a series of explosions from his hands and lifted off into the air.
Shigaraki reached out to catch him, but he was too late.. Bakugo went straight to grabbing Kirishima's hand.
Ritsuka, on the other hand...
(Midoriya-kun, why even Shinso-kun?
We can escape. If I want to escape, now is the time.
But...)
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I can't leave this place yet.
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Shinso shouts again at Ritsuka who does not move as if she was preoccupied.
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"Fujimaru!"
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Ritsuka's mouth moved in a small motion when she heard the impatient voice of Shinso.
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『I'm sorry.』
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He couldn't have heard her at this distance.
He don't even know if she understood what he said.
It's just that at that moment, he knew that Ritsuka wasn't going to run away.
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He definitely had a painful look on his face.
Meanwhile, Kirishima and the others...
"...You idiots!"
I firmly hold Bakugou's hand.
I got it! Kirishima almost shouted, "Yes! Now we just need to land."
Then, next to him, Shinso was shouting again.
"Fujimaru!"
When he looked down confused, he sees Ritsuka was standing upright in the same place as before.
Kirishima said impatiently.
"Oi! I got Bakugo, but I can't get Fujimaru! Can't she jump?"
Midoriya and Ida, who were too busy supporting him to see what was going on around them, looked at him in disbelief.
"What are we gonna do? Do we go back?
"No, we can't go back! Fujimaru-san is...!"
"Bakugo-kun, on my signal, use your explosions..."
"No, you follow me asshole!"
"This is not the time to be difficult!"
As the four of them each shouted, Shinso looked as if he was out of it.
"Oi! The villain is coming!"
Bakugo shouts as if to cover it.
I looked behind me and saw the magician's villain jumping at us with great speed.
However, it was prevented by the hastily enlarged Mt. Lady
In the midst of the tense situation, next to Kirishima, Shinso was depressed and muttering in a small voice.
"Fujimaru, why?"
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It wasn't that she couldn't jump.
She just doesn't want to come to me.
I can see her mouth moving, she's saying 『I'm sorry』quietly.
I felt so ridiculous and stupid.
I was so confident that the others couldn't do it, that you would answer my call.
She may have had her own ideas.
or she may have had reasons that she couldn't help.
But since you say sorry, you must be self-conscious, you must know that you are being selfish right now.
The villains were completely distracted by the fleeing Bakugo.
After All Might punched out All for One, he noticed that Ritsuka hadn't escaped.
"'Fujimaru girl! Why are you still here...‼︎"
He turned with an impatient face to Ritsuka.
But Ritsuka's gaze was fixed on All for One.
The only thing I could see was All for One's arm being lifted up after being hit by All Might and blown to rubble.
His arms were clothed in a black swirl.
『Ritsuka, now!』
Artoria shouted.
Ritsuka runs as fast as she can between All Might and All for One.
And before she reached there, she held her sword in front of her face.
In the distance, she could see Mt. Lady blocking the villain's pursuit.
"Sheathed in the breath of stars."
Once again, Gran Torino could be seen stalling the villains.
Ritsuka took another step forward.
The blade of the sword began to glow gold, and the wind blew.
"A torrent of shining life."
All for One's attack seemed awfully slow.
Particles of light were dancing all over the ground.
To the uninitiated, it looked like a fantastic scene.
All Might shouted something behind him.
"Feel its wrath!"
Ritsuka swung her holy sword.
At the same time, All for One in front of her unleashed a bombardment of attacks.
There was no fear in her eyes.
"『Excalibur (The Sword of Promised Victory)』"
She swung her holy sword down and released a slash, which turned into a golden torrent and headed straight for All for One.
Shock and impact collided between Ritsuka and All for One.
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A little farther away, Midoriya and the others who had landed safely were looking at the scenery as if they were overwhelmed.
This time's extra (Original Author)
*Ritsuka's actions this time are quite selfish, and she is aware of it. Although, I am actually the one who write this story, I am the one who made her make that choice, so I am suffering from a dilemma right now. Preventing All For One attack might be a good thing, but it's a bit of a problem when a kid (from the perspective of others) who isn't even the last master of humanity (right now) is doing this, Just because she has the power to do something about it.
She is still being shackled by her previous life and continued to choose what she deemed to be, the "best choice" and killed the "Ritsuka Fujimaru" of this world.
Although, I love it when Gudako is spicy...
*In front of her normal friends, such as Shinso Hitoshi, she is just "Ritsuka Fujimaru". But when she met him for the first time, she reminded her of a certain someone. I plan to add this setting later on..
*The reason why she is so tense when she is with the Hero Department is because her previous life sensor reacts to the situation where she 'is' the "hero" (in Hosu, she is just a stranger from another class).
*In this case, the balance between "Ritsuka Fujimaru," a mere high school student, and "Ritsuka Fujimaru," the last master of humanity, has tipped in favor of the latter (in this circumstances). I don't know exactly what it means, but I somehow felt that I cannot choose something to compare this to something else.