Kōki feel the fear in her spike when the face of the villain before her darkens. The people around her have long been evacuating, the social media and villain alarm app system is very useful, and Koki has never been more grateful for it. She forced the fear down, took a deep breath and rolled her shoulder once. Twice. Just like any other tournament. Deep breaths, Kōki, clear your mind. Focus.

Observe, analyse, react.

Shigaraki pushes Midoriya-san away, and her sister's friend lands roughly with a yelp. The villain lunges for her and Kōki ducks, twists forwards and punches, pushing the villain away with the blow. She spins around and nails him in the chest with a round house kick, sending him crashing into the edge of the fountain. She grabs Midoriya-san by the back of his shirt and yanks him away, and was about to run when the villain was back again, going for her throat.

Dammit, he's fast. She grits her teeth as she darts away, I won't be able to get away from him.

She twirls to the side and ducks towards the ground to avoide another blow, feet shooting out for an attack as her mind whirled. The choices aren't pleasant, but she made her decision anyway.

"Midoriya-san go get the heroes here." She hisses, glancing back as she dodges the villain again. Behind her the elder teen's eyes widened, and began to protest.

"But--"

"GO!" Kōki barely had time to yell out before she had to duck. She nails a kick in the man's stomach without holding back, and the villain reeches. Kōki carefully drops in a lighter stance to dodge his hands better as Midoriya-san runs, shooting her a pained look before he finally bolted for the entrance, not looking back.

Kōki was careful to avoide his fingers, but when opportunity shows itself she had to take it. Hand shooting out, Kōki grabs the villain's injured wrist in a vice's grip and twists, the pained howl that comes later was grimly satisfying.

Shigaraki scowls at her, face twisted with pain from his most likely broken wrist, and lashes out at her again. Kōki skips to the side, and socks him in the eye before darting back out of his reach, slipping away as he reaches out to grab her.

"Now who are you." The vermin hisses at her, and Kōki scowls, "Another NPC? Breaking my wrist..." He lashes out again and this time Kōki round house kicks him in the head, sending him crashing to the ground. The villain growls and lunges at her, Kōki ducks, and with a sweeping kick swipes his legs out from beneath him, and darts backwards again.

The Mall is empty but for her and the villain. She can see from behind him that a few local heroes are fast approaching, and Kōki darts back again, dodging his hands and slapping away his attacks, careful not to let him grab her.

But though Kōki is highly trained in combat, she is trained for self-defence. She is a talented combatant, but her experience is limited to multiple competitions, with people around her age.

Kōki isn't trained for actual villain takedowns.

So she makes a mistake, and slips. One opening and within moments Shigaraki is lunging for her. Kōki curses and slides back but the man catches her cuff and grabs her by her wrist as she darts back. Kōki stumbles, throat locking as the sleeve of her blouse crumbled away, her wrist explodes with pain as it cracks and bleeds, the skin slowly cracking, flaking away. The area slowly spreading and traveling up her forearm.

It hurts.

Footsteps reaches her ears, and Kōki snaps out of her thoughts. She sees it coming for her throat and ducks and rolls to the side, flinging the hand off her wrist and dodging the other by the skin of her teeth as the heroes approached. She crouched, cradling her hand and breathing a little more heavily than she was as the villain stopped, locked eyes with her, grinning.

Her insides curdles. Kōki swallows heavily as the villain hunched over, laughing as a pool of black and purple mist appeared beneath his feet, swallowing him and leaving no trace behind. And Kōki is left alone, staring at where he stood as the heroes reached her, asking after her, helping her up, but Kōki doesn't speak.

She almost died.


Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)

Akemi's paring:

Todoroki Shouto: 17

Midoriya Izuku: 5

Iida Tenya: 3

Seiba Hiroi: 0

Ueno Hibiki: 4

Kaminari Denki: 1

Bakugou Katsuki: 3

Iida Tensei: 1

Others (Please state in review!)



Hibiki's pairing:

Todoroki Shouto: 0

Midoriya Izuku: 0

Iida Tenya: 4

Seiba Hiroi: 0

Kimura Akemi: 3

Shinsou Hitoshi: 7

Others (Please state in review!)


Writing combat scenes are hard as fuck. It's enjoyable and fun but really, really hard since my only combat experience is limited to pillow fights and kicking that guy who was haressing my sister in the nuts.

Onto the comments!

To darkpaladin89: Yeah. Koki is pretty badass! She'd make a great hero and I really enjoy writing her. Fighting scenes are hard but I enjoy it!