"First match. Team One: Rido Shizuru and Yoro Oogusa from the Hero Course, Yotsuba Kumori and Kioshi Kuromori from the Support Course, versus Team Two: Shigure Oto and Iroda Iro from the Hero Course, Runa Karuizawa and Shirayuki Animiya from the Support Course." Ishiki read the names aloud.
Kioshi snapped out of his sleepy daze the moment he heard his name being called out. He blinked a few times and yawned, his mind still not processing the chaos happening around him.
"We've decided on these teams with the order of first then last, first then last. Those whose names were said the second time from each course, that is your rank. So you damn better step up your game." Ishiki growled. "Also, for fairness' sake, you won't be allowed to watch your classmates' matches. I'll be announcing when someone gets captured, but that's it."
'Last...' Kioshi noted. But he didn't mind being last. All he wanted was to pass the entrance exam. He didn't have any ambitions on being the best or what. Just passing was already good enough.
He glanced towards Shirayuki, the one with the mechanic leopard in class. He was sitting on the leopard's back undisturbed as he chatted with the robot boy, Roi.
Surprisingly, Shirayuki was just as relaxed as he was about this entire low rank thing. He either didn't care about ranks or only cared about passing like him, or both.
Whatever it was, they were going to face against each other now. Maybe he could try to speak to him after this. He seems like a chill guy, and he's been curious about that leopard he's always brought with him anyway.
Perhaps he could learn how to make a walking bed from him. Makes sleeping easier.
"A~h. I knew this would happen when he said it'll be sorted by rank." Shigure laughed with his arms crossed behind his head. "Guess this'll be our draw breaker for last week. No hard feelings okay, buddy?" He said as he glanced at Rido who stood beside him.
"... You counted a noodle eating match?"
"He-eh~"
"... You're ridiculous."
"You counted an arcade fight."
"Touché."
They shook on it, then went to where their team members were.
For their joint classes, they had to go to a huge dome filled with questionable machinery located behind their school. It was made almost entirely of thick blue glass, and inside it was a large field separated with see-through glass walls.
The two teams went through separate doors, and was surprised to find that they could no longer see anyone aside from themselves. The door had lead to a glass tunnel, but the glass blurred everything from their sights.
They couldn't see where the enemy team would be going to, but that also meant the enemy team couldn't see them either.
And since their classmates' voices were immediately silenced the moment they closed the door behind them, they also concluded that the tunnel was soundproof.
"Okay, planning time." Rido began as he faced his teammates. "From what Ishiki-sensei told us, this will be a kidnapping match."
"That sounds really villainous if you put it that way." Yoro's eye twitched.
"You know what they say: 'Learn your enemies before you face against them'." The gray-haired boy shrugged, "Or something like that."
"Never heard of that." Yotsuba mumbled under his breath. Rido chose to ignore him.
"Anyhow, we should probably tell each other about our quirks. After that, we'll start planning. So, mine is..."
When the teams left the tunnel, the first thing they saw was a wooden hut, one that Ishiki said would be their capture point. They were instructed to bring their 'hostages' there.
The moment the support course members stepped into the enemy team's hut, they could no longer be saved and had to stay there until the match was over. They couldn't be taken out. So the only chance they could save their team members was before they were brought inside.
Around it, trees stretched out as far as the eyes could see. One could hear the sound of rushing waters from nearby, and next to them sat a small pond filled with lily pads and water lilies.
A small green frog jumped out of the waters and onto a lily pad, croaking as it watched four people walk by.
"Are we really inside a building?" Iroda remarked as he looked around with a glint of awe in his teal eyes. "It's like we're in a forest."
Runa noticed the frog at the corner of her eyes. She paused in her footsteps and peered down to look at it more closely, but it immediately jumped back into the pond.
"Yo, we have real animals here?" She said as she looked back towards her teammates. "This is rad."
"More like bad." Shirayuki sighed. "If I'm not mistaken, Kumori made realistic-looking robots back at the entrance exam."
"Realistic-looking robots?" Shigure repeated questioningly.
"He made giant bugs." The white-haired boy clarified. "Two of our proctors fainted from it."
That kind of event was hard to ignore. Practically everyone at the entrance exam knew who Yotsuba was because of it.
Of course, the hero course students had no way of knowing since they did their exams at a different location.
"Damn." Iroda's eyes widened. "Which one's this Kumori guy?"
"The short one." Shirayuki said unhesitatingly.
"Oh. That guy."
"So what's the problem if he can make stuff that looks like the real thing?" Shigure asked aloud as he stretched his hands out in front of him.
"Well, for one, those robots could be CCTV."
The two hero course students gaped at him.
"... What?"
"You're saying that basically... there's a chance the other team could watch over our movements as we speak?" Iroda concluded.
"Basically. Yeah."
"I didn't know you guys can do that." Shigure mused, his eyes twinkling in amazement. "You support course people are more fearsome than I thought! Oh, but no offense."
"None taken." Shirayuki replied.
"Nice, so how are we going to search for them?" Iroda asked, anxiously watching Runa who was crouching as she stared intently at the green frog now a few lily pads away. She was too close to the pond for comfort.
"I'll take care of that~" Shigure smiled easily as he did a few warm-ups. "Err, Karuizawa-san? Can you get away from there a bit..?"
"Sure, sure." The lavender-haired girl casually waved off as she scooted to the side. "Good luck, Pinky."
Hearing the nickname, the hero student made a brief funny sound before he dashed off, a sudden burst propelling him meters away from them in an instant.
"Woah!" Shirayuki and Iroda reflexively covered themselves from the bits of soil that was thrown at them.
Seeing the green frog jump back into the water as if in reflex, Runa stared thoughtfully at it, pushing her purple-framed glasses up from time to time.
If this frog was indeed a robot and not the real thing, things would be a bit harder than expected.
How were they going to tell them apart if artificial ones act like real ones?
Meanwhile, the other group was already walking within the forest. Trees surrounded them, and several squirrels came out of their trunks watching them.
They noticed long ago that the school had literally grown a forest within this dome. They've even started calling it a greenhouse at this point, and used that fact to release the automatons Yotsuba had brought.
To keep it safe, they even mixed up the robots with the real ones, putting squirrel robots with the squirrels and birds with the birds.
They even released automatons that looked like bees.
Although they couldn't use all of the robots Yotsuba had, fortunately they were in a forest. They could use much more of them than if the setting had been a city.
They were extremely lucky that the setting hadn't been a desert, or somewhere wide open like a prairie.
But then again that would force them into a face-to-face brawl...
Yoro walked in front of them as Yotsuba followed right behind, followed by Kioshi then Rido.
"Are you sure we're going the right way, Kumori?" Yoro asked, staring at the small device in the short boy's hands.
"Yeah. They don't seem to notice yet." Yotsuba replied, one of the two screens showing the view of a large pond and Runa staring right at the camera. "Karuizawa seems suspicious of it though. They might be on to us."
"I dunno. She seems more fascinated than suspicious." Kioshi hummed as he peered down a bit to see.
"A frog?"
"Who knows. She might suddenly lounge at it and capture it for dissecting purposes." The black-haired boy shrugged. "Especially with those legal drugs thing and what-not... Don't tell me you didn't get that kind of impression?"
"Geh." Yotsuba grimaced, watching the screen more closely and prepared to move the amphibian if necessary, his thumb right against a donut-shaped button.
"I still think that we should leave these two somewhere safe while we go hunt the other team's members." Yoro scoffed with his arms crossed behind his head, walking in wide slow steps.
"We could do that if you're willing to stay behind and guard them." Rido stated, narrowing his eyes. "And for sanity's sake– Walk properly!"
"Are you kidding? I want in on the fight!" Yoro growled, ignoring the second remark. "Just because you're rank one doesn't give you the right to boss me around!"
"Yeah, sure... Dead last."
"You-!! It's only because I can't use my quirk much in the entrance exam!!"
"If you guys don't stop now, I'm handing myself over to the enemy team!" Yotsuba snapped. That shut them up.
As if on cue, Yotsuba felt vibrations from his left pocket. The yellow-haired boy was immediately alarmed and warily looked around their surroundings.
"Someone's here?" Kioshi whispered quietly next to him, only moving his pupils to see.
"Yeah."
As they continued to walk, the four of them kept an eye out subtly, searching for anything suspicious close by.
Suddenly, Rido paused and hurriedly twisted around, holding his arm out towards a large tree a few meters beside them.
A transparent sphere appeared at the other side, only a part of it visible since the tree trunk covered most of it. There was a cry of alarm as the sphere floated towards them, carrying a familiar pink-haired boy inside.
"Got you."
Rido Shizuru
Quirk: Orb - Emitter
Rido can surround something or someone in a transparent sphere of different sizes. Its uses vary.
"Damn. How did you know I was there?" Shigure gaped, his hands pressed against the transparent walls.
"Magic. A shame you didn't bring at least one of your teammates with you." The gray-haired boy replied.
"I'm not that stupid to risk that!" He gasped, suddenly waving his hand and punched the surface of the barrier without warning.
The sphere broke into pieces with a loud shattering sound, and before any of them could react, the pink-haired boy suddenly propelled himself from the tree and abducted Yotsuba from his team.
Shigure Oto
Quirk: Force Manipulation - Emitter
Like its name, Shigure can manipulate the strength of the force he or others made from their actions.
"Akh!"
"HAHAH! Big mistake you did there, Riri!" Shigure cackled as he flew across the forest with a single leap, rotating to escape to the left and beyond their sights.
"Shameless!" Yoro's eyes widened. "Get back here, dammit!" He yelled as he dashed towards them.
Kioshi was about to chase after them following Yoro, but he was quickly stopped by an arm held out in front of him.
"... We're not going after them?" The black-haired boy asked in confusion.
"No..." Rido replied solemnly. "Doing that would just lead us to a trap. You saw what that guy can do. If we get too close to their hut, he could just do the same thing he did to Kumori."
Kioshi went silent. It was indeed too risky to follow them, but...
"If you say that, then you're giving up Kumori to them?"
"Yes." Rido bluntly answered. "Keep in mind that this is a team fight. Although it was partly my fault for lowering my guard and letting him get kidnapped... we shouldn't act rashly either. We'll have to let him go."
Kioshi sighed in resignation. He didn't like agreeing to that fact, but he couldn't deny that it was the truth in this case. Following them would most likely end in an immediate loss.
"What about Oogusa?"
The hero student paused for a moment at the question.
"He said he wanted to fight, right? Then let him fight. If he's as strong as he said he was, then he might be a good distraction."
He'll trust Oogusa to save their team member. For now... their target was the enemy team's support course students.
"Oto caught Kumori." Shirayuki announced as he stared at the screen in his hands. Yotsuba wasn't the only one who could create an automaton CCTV, albeit his was a bit more robotic if one were to take a closer look. He had even sent out Snowy, the snow leopard robot that was always with him, to scout for them. So now their group had at least two trackers.
Compared to the amount the other team probably had sent out, theirs was miniscule in comparison, but at least they had something.
He made the smaller tracker follow Shigure so they could see if something happened where he was, while Snowy remained nearby. It would alarm them if anything were to get near, then they could start escaping again.
Personally, he felt that this plan was rather fool-proof. They just had to stay away in a safe distance while Shigure went to capture the other team's members. They even had Iroda with them as a guard just in case.
But basically, all they needed to do was stall for time.
"This sucks." Runa groaned as she rolled around on the lush grass. "I'm bo~red! What's the point of this battle simulation if we're just gonna run and hide?"
"We don't really have a choice, Karuizawa-san. We're the targets this time." Shirayuki shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe next time."
"I hope it's really a different one next time." She grumbled. "I'll bring Mysterious Drug X and Not-So-Suspicious Vial A for testing, no matter what the instructions might be..."
"Mysterious what and what?" Iroda widened his eyes, a bit freaked out.
"Mysterious Drug X and–"
"Don't mind her, Iro-san. She's always like this... I think." Shirayuki interrupted, giving him a hesitant smile. "She probably just has a... unique naming sense."
"Damn straight it is!" Runa nodded, a rather happy expression on her face. "Finally someone that understands! I mean, I named one of my drugs Probably-Safely-Legal Cough Syrup and that person actually refused to drink it! It's effective, I assure you! I tested it and my coughs went away in a jiffy! But they wouldn't drink it just because of the name! The name! Ah, shame on them. Shaaaame!"
Shirayuki did a few awkward coughs.
"Um... Couldn't you name them a bit more... normally, Karuizawa-san?"
He couldn't really blame the other person for not drinking it. Even he had some doubts.
"Myeh~ What's the fun in that?"
He had no words.
"Meep!" Shigure exclaimed as he landed right in front of their team hut and quickly pushed Yotsuba inside. "Come in, come in! Look, it's very comfy in there!"
Yotsuba couldn't say that it was exactly comfy, but the hut was furnished completely, although they were all made from wood. There were a bed, a chair, a table, and even an unlit oil lamp which was the only thing not from wood.
Why they even put an oil lamp here was something he didn't understand. For the atmosphere, perhaps.
"Sheesh, I wish I were in the support course right now. Sad life." Shigure shook his head. "Anyhow, I better get back to the match. Have a nice stay!" He said before closing the door and leaving the yellow-haired boy all alone.
The room felt quite spacious now that he was the only one there, with silence that he never thought he would experience in this school. He usually passed his days being surrounded by rambunctious people, so he rather appreciated this moment of peace.
But still, being caught just at the first few minutes of the fight? He might've just set up a whole new record in Yukibara.
"Geh." Yotsuba couldn't help but say as he sat on the bed with a snort. "This must be karma for what I said a while ago. How ironic."
And if his team had lost... Renjou will never leave this down.
How annoying.
He could bet a hundred bucks that he was smirking very smugly right now. He'd wipe that smirk off his face soon, just wait and see.
'Let's see now. What can I possibly do in this makeshift prison?' Yotsuba closed his eyes as he thought. 'I can't go out, so the only thing I can do is oversee things from here. I still have my tracking devices with me, but...'
The main problem still stood. He couldn't go out.
If they had been nearby, he could've tried to instruct them some things using his quirk, Sound Relocation, but that was only possible if he could see them. And, well, there was no one here.
'Damn it.' Yotsuba grimaced. 'Wait, do I have anything in my bag that I can use? Just... anything?'
He rummaged through his bag and put out anything that he could get a hold of, which was not much considering he had practically just released most of them into the wild.
A handful of realistic-looking robots soon lined up on the bed. There was a jellyfish, a cactus, an eel...
... and a severed head of a bird he made from sheer boredom.
He blankly stared at them.
What in the world was he going to do with these?
... Maybe he could do something with the severed bird head..?
Picking up the small object, Yotsuba opened a small opening hidden in between its synthetic feathers and looked through the small gears and wires inside it.
'This...' His eyes shone. 'This might just work.'
He went to the table and started his work.
"So do you have anything that we could use here?" Rido asked as he and Kioshi trudged along the forest aimlessly whilst paying attention for any suspicious movements.
"Nah."
"Nah? Are you really in the support course?"
"I mean, I can create stuff just fine." Kioshi clarified, "But I was expecting a face-to-face match so I really didn't prepare anything that could be used for these kind of situations."
"But what did you bring? Maybe we could use them."
"Smoke bombs, flash bombs, guns..."
Rido was speechless. Using any of those would clearly reveal their location, and right now they needed to be cautious above all else.
"Maybe my quirk can help?" Kioshi offered.
Remembering what he said about his quirk, Blackout, the hero student imagined a black dome suddenly appearing in the middle of the forest, then the other team becoming startled from seeing it.
"Yeah... that'd be useless, wouldn't it?" The black-haired boy chuckled, thinking of the same thing.
"You don't seem bothered by it." Rido pointed out. At how useless his quirk was, he meant.
"Why would I? It might seem lame to others, but for me, it's one of the best quirks I could ever ask for." Kioshi remarked softly.
"Best..?"
"Mm. I mean, it lets me sleep anytime and anywhere I want. And even if it can be pretty conspicuous, people still can't see what's in it." He explained, casually stroking his messy hair in a feeble attempt to neaten it out. "Hell, when I was a child I wished for a quirk that could turn me into a puddle. I think this is pretty cool in comparison."
"... Why a puddle?"
When the other kids would be wishing for powerful quirks so they could become a hero, he actually wanted such a thing?
"Wouldn't it be nice? Sleeping undisturbed since you're a puddle? Even in summer you'd probably still feel cool, being water and all." Kioshi sighed. "I still feel sad about that sometimes. But hey, my quirk right now is good enough, so that's fine."
Rido wisely chose not to say anything. Rather, he had no idea what to say.
At that moment, they suddenly saw something flying towards them.
Shigure had gone for several miles when he saw a certain dark green-haired boy rushing in front of him with a glare, his face flushed with sweat as he breathed quite heavily from the run.
"Ah, Oogussan! What brings you here?" The pink-haired boy smiled, drifting himself to a stop. "Lemme guess... You came to take Kumorin back, right? Sad. You're just a step too la– Woah!"
He barely managed to dodge a vine from stabbing him as he twisted to the left.
When Shigure looked up, he saw the trees beginning to lean in and spread their branches to surround him and Yoro like a fairly large fighting ring, as if not allowing him to escape.
Yoro Oogusa
Quirk: King of the Forest - Emitter
Yoro can control and grow any kind of plant as long as there is soil.
"Hah... Caught up with you, finally." The dark green haired boy declared tiredly, wiping a trail of sweat from his neck. "You won't beat me this time! That entrance exam was a fluke!"
"You're still bitter from that?" Shigure blinked, then gave an easy smile. "Come on~ It's just entrance exam rankings. You still got in!~"
"Shut up!!" He yelled, pointing accusingly at him. "If you didn't steal those last three robots... I would've been fifteenth at least!!"
"Yeah, and I would've been fifth, huh?~" Shigure hummed. "They were worth quite a bunch~ You know I wasn't the only one after them though, right?"
"So? You're the one who ended up stealing them, so I'm angry at you!!"
"Ah. Nice to know you're a sensible person. Kinda sad to know that you're petty tho– Oof!" The pink-haired boy crashed against one of the trees after being punched in the sides by one of the leafy branches.
"Ow ow ow ow!" Shigure winced, holding his sides painfully. He was more disturbed by the pain inflicted from the hit rather than the crash itself.
He had lowered the force of the impact to near nonexistence right before he hit the tree, but he didn't expect Yoro to just attack him that suddenly.
Well, maybe he did since he was purposely riling him up, but he didn't expect it to be that fast.
"I knew it. That was nothing to you, huh?" Yoro spat, sounding almost disgusted. "I noticed during the entrance exam, but you and Shizuru are monsters. Your quirks are so unfair."
"Yeah, maybe." Shigeru replied, dusting the dust off himself as he rose up. It was an automatic response. He was already used to such accuses that he felt dull to it. He was tired of saying otherwise, and his friend was too.
"Screw that." The dark green-haired boy suddenly said, causing the other boy to look at him with surprise. "So what if you have broken quirks? Even villains must have them too, and as heroes we should be ready to face that."
"Every quirk must have a weakness." He narrowed his eyes, clenching his fists. "I just need to find out yours."
Hearing such threats, Shigeru didn't feel threatened at all. Instead, the corners of his lips began to lift up into a genuine smile. Finally, there was someone who wouldn't just give up after knowing the effects of his quirk.
All his life, the only person who would willingly become his sparring partner was Rido. Everyone else just gave up and ran away.
"I look forward to the match." He bowed, then proceeded to do a stance.
For a moment, the two just stayed still observing each other's movements, but Yoro quickly grew impatient and immediately controlled two trees behind his opponent. Shigure sensed the change of wind behind him and turned around swiftly before kicking the both of them with his legs, sending the trees crashing down as he landed smoothly back on the ground.
But before he was able to even land, another tree swiped its branch towards him and threw him off a few meters in the sky before vines caught his ankles so he's hanged upside down.
"Done already?" Yoro taunted.
Shigure smirked, slamming the back of his foot against the vines and snapped it off. He fell back down as his wavy hair rippled in the wind.
Down below him was a group of trees forming a circle to catch and immobilize him, he guessed. But contrary to Yoro's expectations, he didn't even resist as he directly fell to the obvious trap.
'Not yet...'
He knew this wasn't enough to stop his classmate, but he didn't expect the scale of destruction that his quirk was able to create.
Right before his eyes, there was a loud explosion that formed a crater in the middle of those cedar trees and caused them to topple down into it. The pink-haired boy jumped out of the middle of that with ease, switching to lowering the impact on his legs once again for safe landing.
He looked around to find Yoro, who was now nowhere to be found.
Behind him, a tree suddenly began to move and waved its branch towards him. Shigure turned his head to look and reflexively punched it, blasting it off from its roots.
Yoro quickly leapt from his hiding place, taking this chance to actually punch the boy at the face.
The punch did almost nothing but notify him of his presence, meaning that he had his quirk activated in expectation for his attack.
Cursing under his breath, Yoro quickly took off to the trees with Shigure in pursuit.
For a while, they started a destructive game of chase. Yoro ran through the forest as he placed trees in between him and the pink-haired boy to maintain even the slightest bit of distance, but Shigure was quickly closing in as he kept blasting off the trees.
At one time the tree almost hit him, and he barely managed to evade it. It grazed his cheek as a result, one he hissed from. But he had no time to tend to his injuries.
In an attempt to lose him, Yoro ran to the opposite side and hid behind a tree within Shigeru's blindspot after placing another tree there.
He noticed Shigeru's confusion, seeing him start to look to the left and right in search for him. Then, he grew a small vine from the ground that made the boy trip.
"EH?!"
"Got ya!!" Yoro exclaimed, controlling the trees to keep the boy down.
But before he could, a loud bell suddenly rang throughout the dome, signaling the end of their fight.
"First match... Team One wins." Ishiki's calm voice reverberated through the speaker.
"Eh?! Oh, danggit! I forgot we were in a team match!" Shigure gasped.
The two teams left back through the tunnels they came in from, several of them in an upset mood, others still confused, and the rest happy.
"What the hell happened back there? How come we suddenly won?" Yoro asked his team members, a bit begrudgingly since he wasn't able to actually defeat Shigure yet.
"Well, it was like this..." Rido began, "Kumori was captured, but he managed to slip out a flying robot to lead us to the other team. After that I captured all three of them and brought them to our hut."
"... Oh."
Rido decided to leave out the fact that said flying robot was a rather disturbing piece, just a floating head.
"So how about you? It seems you managed to stall us some time." The gray-haired boy mused, rather impressed.
"I almost had him!" Yoro complained. "Then the stupid bell rang! Dammit!"
"Oh? Elaborate."
The two hero students chattered off as they walked back to their classmates, Shigure and a sighing Iroda following them soon after.
"Hey hey, Animiya, right?" Kioshi called out towards the white-haired boy. "There's something I wanna ask you."
"What is it?" Shirayuki blinked, sitting sideways on the mechanic snow leopard.
"So, how did you create this lil' guy? Can you teach me?"
"You mean Snowy? You're interested in making automatons too?" Shirayuki's cat ears perked up.
"Oh, not these kinds exactly. You see, I have this idea of making a walking bed and..."
They walked off talking, Shirayuki nodding at certain points of the black-haired boy's explanation as Kioshi continued describing his plans for a new creation.
Exiting the tunnel after those two, Yotsuba let out a tired sigh. That was possibly the fastest adjustment he had ever done to his creations in his entire life. His fingers were still trembling from the loss of adrenaline rush, and he was exhausted.
Thinking back, doing all this wasn't really worth it. Why did he even push himself so far for again?
"Congrats, Yocchan!" Renjou exclaimed with a cheerful wave when he returned back to his classmates. "A shame you didn't lose though. That would've been hilarious!"
Yotsuba shot him a murderous glare. Oh, right. It was because of this guy.
"Woah, you look like you've been hit by a truck. Though not literally!" Runa said, approaching them with vials containing transparent liquid in hand. "Congrats for winning! Here's a Mostly-Safe Recovery Potion for you!"
Yotsuba deadpanned at her, then at the potion.
"Aw, don't look at me like that! It's the legit thing, really! Take it!" She pushed the vial into his hands, forcing him to take it before she began to look around. "Now who was that guy who they said got wounded... Oh, there he is! Tree Baby, wait up! Take this Mostly-Safe Recovery Potion!"
"I'm not taking something with such a sketchy name!! And also, don't call me that-!!"
Yotsuba blew another heavy sigh, then stared at the vial in his hand as he contemplated what to do with it.
"It should be safe to drink, I think." Renjou assured. "I mean, she had a reputation for saving a lot of lives. It probably isn't poison, I think."
"Very reassuring."
"Hmmm~ I think it should probably be safe! Maybe, prolly! But if you're worried, I know just the thing!" A boy with unruly black hair with red at the tips of his hair suddenly exclaimed beside him, startling the two. They recognized him as Kazuma Jinnouchi, Runa's seatmate.
He was grinning from ear to ear as he abruptly placed a pink colored pill in Yotsuba's other hand. "Here's a healing pill! It's a hundred percent safe, I assure you! Tip top quality!"
'I dunno... You're suspicious enough to me.' Yotsuba held in a grimace at the sudden onslaught of energy.
"... Thanks."
"Yup yup! But really though, try it! It's good, and it heals you, guaranteed!" Kazuma said, his eyes twinkling in what seemed to be excitement.
"Okay, but, uhh, you're fourth in the rankings, aren't you? They should probably be announcing the next match's team-ups now."
"Dunkin' sneezlewits! You're right! Hm? What are dunkin' sneezlewits? Ah, who cares! Ciao! Toodles! I'm off!" The hyper active boy declared before he bounced off to the crowd forming around Ishiki, who was beginning to announce names.
For a while, Yotsuba just stood there with the vial and the pill in both his hands. Renjou was stifling his laughter beside him.
"... I'm tired of life."
"Yeah, yeah." The brown-haired boy patted his friend's shoulder repeatedly as he shook in mirth. "Come on, son. Take your medicine."
"You take it!"
Sorry for the long wait! I still haven't received all the submissions yet, so I can't put the entire match roster. I'll just write them up as we go.
Other than the support course, I'll also be introducing the hero course because they'll be our partners in the long run. I hope you guys enjoyed their interactions uwu
Iroda's quirk will be revealed sometime in the future. He's just very unlucky today :'D Also a few other hero course students if they're as unfortunate as he was.
Thanks for reading~