Chapter 109: Gretel's origins
Soon, everyone gets into teams as they started talking to each other before strategizing. Kouna then try to make a conversation with Gretel, but she keeps whimpering because she's shy until she shrank down just like she did during training. Gretel then recalled flashbacks from her four-year-old self to age fifteen, which caused her to become overwhelmed and fluster and cover herself. As the daughter of Ganma and the older sister to her brother Hansel, Gretel is a shy but responsible girl who was seen as the perfect candidate for the number 1 spot of the World Hero Billboard, which caused Gretel and Hansel to gets into fights, especially when Gretel turns fifteen years old. Gretel came from Germany, (which is Ganma's homeland) and got most of her looks from her mother. Just like her, Gretel got freckles and dimples. She is an athletic tomboy, and just like Ganma, Gretel has the ability to grow until she's a giant. However, due to her insecurities and shyness, she can only shrink. Just like her dad, she's a bit nerdy and a perfectionist. She's very calm and never yells at people (including her brother). Just like her dad Werner, Gretel has the ability to shrink until she's bug sized. With both the gigantification and shrinking quirks from her parents, Gretel is considered to have the size shifting quirk. During her fifteenth birthday, Gretel gets into a fight with her twelve-year-old brother because of her potential of becoming the number 1 hero of the world, which caused her to grow into a giant for the first time since she was four years old and almost step on him. Fortunately, their parents came to break them apart before getting SOS messages from the Midoriya mansion. Just like her dad, Gretel doesn't get angry and instead, she goes into tranquil fury if pushed too hard. During her debut at the provisional hero license exam, she shows great teamwork and cooperation with her friends and she's the one who keeps them safe from harm, which caused her to turn into a giant to protect them and shrink down to do anything an ant can. After the Midoriya twins' emotional fight, Hansel apologized to Gretel for his heavy jealousy of her, causing Gretel herself to hug her younger brother before their parents told her that she has been chosen to enroll into Braveworks Academy. During the entrance exam, she was the girl who calmed Drake down during the assembly. After Kouna snaps her back to her senses, Gretel recognized her from the sports festival because she was one of multiple kids that were watching it.
Gretel then apologized to Kouna before introducing herself, causing Kouna herself to smile before getting fired up as she encouraged Gretel so they can give it their all. After a montage from round 1 to round 4, it's time for the final round at a battlefield in the training/sports area, with Kouna and Gretel as Team Hero, and Drake and Hisashi as Team Villain. The match then begins as Kouna and Drake launched themselves toward each other and began clashing much to Gretel and Hisashi's annoyance. Soon, Gretel shrank down and attacked both Hisashi and Drake from their blind spot, causing Kouna to get confused and ask her if shrinking is her quirk, which also caused Gretel to explain that her quirk allows her to both grow and shrink. Hisashi then gets an idea and pulled Drake to a safe distance, which caused him to get mad and yell at Hisashi (who just give him an emotionless look) until he electrocuted him with his fingers to silence him. He then told Drake not to underestimate Kouna before saying that since Gretel can only shrink when feeling insecure and overwhelm, they should use this as advantage. Drake then smiles mischievously as he and Hisashi fist bump before confronting Gretel to belittle her much to Kouna's anger. As Gretel kept shrinking to the point of the boys to get on their knees, Kouna give her an inspiring speech to hold nothing back because as Ganma's daughter, she is strong and independent young girl who will bring villains to their knees once she becomes a giant. Gretel then gets a flashback of herself protecting her friends as she monologued that society have been overwhelming her with expectations as the daughter of a hero council member. However, she will do what it takes to protect everyone, especially her friends.
After Drake told her that her mother will be ashamed when she heard that she can't fight back, Gretel became unusually calm with fury in her eyes before becoming a giant much to the surprise to Kouna, Drake, Hisashi, and their classmates who are watching the whole thing on a monitor with Professor Nelson. Gretel then calmly told Kouna that she will deal with Drake while she'll deal with Hisashi, causing Kouna to say "right" before flying toward her brother, which also caused Drake to use his flames to fly up to Gretel and blast fire at her. However, since Gretel is now a giant, fire from normal sized people won't hurt her, causing Drake to get scared and flew away as Gretel chases him with a calm expression as the ground shakes with booming footsteps. Soon, Drake told Hisashi to come and help him with Gretel, causing Gretel herself to ask Kouna if it's true that if she uses super support bond + on someone, they will become a giant, which also caused Kouna to say yes before landing on her head to use super support bond +. Hisashi then gets petrified before telling Drake to run because there's no point in fighting Gretel being supported by super support bond +, because not only she's invincible, but she's so big, that she almost reached outer space (similar to Pony during the first war and Eri during her fight with George when he was a genie in the first story). The boys then try to make a run for it but immediately got captured by Gretel, who then shrank back to her normal giant sized because Kouna flew off her to open a cage, causing Gretel herself to casually walk up to the cage as the boys struggled to get free. After Gretel got Drake inside, she realized that Hisashi somehow teleported until Kouna managed to tie him up and threw him into the cage, causing their classmates to cheer as Hisashi humbled himself while Drake threw a temper tantrum.
