The Tale Of Izuku Midoriya

by All What If's

what if izuku decided his own story, instead of living the life of a normal Quirkless boy, his past is shrouded in mystery, the life of a hero is not as bright as people think, izuku midoriya will live the life of a 'true hero', one full of blood. instead of having power given to him, he is born with his own. My Hero Academia belongs to Kohei Horikoshi and this is just a fanfic.

3. Chapter 3: The Sports Festival

THE TALE OF IZUKU MIDORIYA

CHAPTER-3

On Tuesday, April 9th the two-week holiday given to the entire school begins so they can prepare for the U.A. sports festival. During this time all students mostly use school property to train or prepare in their own way, however, Izuku midoriya has more pressing matters to solve, one of them being money.

The high schooler needs to support himself financially, being an orphan, he gets an appropriate amount of money to support himself, alongside the fact that he is a hero in training he gets a little more support than other orphans as hero work is currently the most dangerous and needed job in the world and any talented person is appreciated. However, the amount is not enough for Izuku to put his plans in motion which is why he is trying to earn money, but not the normal way.

Izuku was in a fighting ring in a martial arts Gi in front of a knocked-out person, the referee raised a flag and declared izuku the winner which shocked everyone since he was wearing a white belt and his opponent was wearing a black belt, while they didn't know is that since Izuku wasn't with a dojo he didn't give a belt test so he had no way to prove his skill level, but was at a much higher level than an average black belt.

This match was also the final match of this tournament, later Izuku went through the process of collecting his prize money and left for another tournament he had signed up for nearby.

In fact, he had signed up for many under-18, no-quirk tournaments for the week all over the place, he was using his entire month's allowance to travel as far as he could and his allowance was about 50 thousand yen, which is just barely enough to survive, but the prize money of a single tournament was about 70 thousand yen, so winning one tournament would help him a lot and he had no doubt that he would win all the tournaments.

He made these mental calculations and sighed, "This week is going to be busy," he thought and left for the next tournament.

The week was spent like this; however, he wanted a passive income and for that, he had played a game of luck while moving around cities nearby he purposely walked through the commercial areas hoping for a specific outcome and he was successful.

While in one of the cities for his tournaments, he met a man who offered him to work as a model, something izuku guessed could happen, he was walking around the commercial area to get scouted by any company, and izuku made a meeting with the man to meet on Sunday.

On Friday he made a student bank account and deposited the money he had earned, after proving he had earned it legally, he deposited about 840,000 yen (eight hundred forty thousand yen) from 11 (eleven) tournaments. he researched the company he was scouted by only to find out that the company was neither too good nor too bad, its reputation landed somewhere in the top 30 (thirty). He decided to rest for Saturday and research more laws or rules he could use for his benefit and plans.

…

On Sunday, April 14th, inside a café in Musutafu City, Izuku Midoriya is sitting with an average-looking man who has black hair, black eyes, a sharp jawline, a somewhat brown skin color and is wearing a black 2-piece suit with a white shirt and a tie, and they are discussing business.

Currently, the scout named Shiro Hiroshi was trying to settle an average starter's contract with izuku. However, izuku had other plans.

Izuku put his hand on the table, "Hiroshi-san, I would like to make a different offer," izuku said getting his attention.

"And what might that be, midoriya-san?" Hiroshi asked.

"How about, instead of that starter's deal I make one I like, of course, I would make it reasonable, and in the end, it's your choice if you accept," izuku said and Hiroshi decided to hear him out.

"Hiroshi-san, as we discussed earlier, I am ready to do all kinds of work in the entertainment industry as long as they are appropriate and legal, which means, photoshoots, advertisements, magazine shoots, and all other things, in other words, I am quite ready to give my hundred percent and I am aware that I am good looking, so I would like to make an offer my own price, instead of the monthly income style, I would like to make a time-based contract with a specific minimum amount of money I will earn," izuku said, confusing Hiroshi.

"midoriya-san those kinds of contracts are made with professionals and only because they have popularity with people and their work is sure to sell, like a famous pro hero or a celebrity, you, on the other hand, are a young high school student, making a contract like that would mean that my company will have to pay for a certain amount of time with you and pay you a specific minimum amount with the risk of not getting profit. If you were already for some reason famous or had public attention then I could think but my higher-ups would never agree to that," Hiroshi explained calmly being as professional as he could.

Izuku smiled, "I understand, but what if I was famous?" he questioned confusing Hiroshi.

"What does that mean?" Hiroshi questioned.

"Hiroshi-san, I told you that I am a high school student but I never mentioned which school," Izuku decided to pull his ace now, "I am a student at U.A. High and I am a student in the hero course," he said making Hiroshi widen his eyes.

"U.A. high's hero course!" Hiroshi thought, "If he is a student there then recruiting him can be more profitable than I thought, the fact that he got into U.A. high's hero course means that he already is one of the best in the country, which means he could go on to become a top pro hero, this is definitely worth it, but still if he is turned out to be the worst in his class and later got expelled then that would be a waste," he thought as izuku read him like a book and decided to say something.

"Hiroshi-san," he called getting Hiroshi's attention, "I forgot to mention that I am in class 1-A, the class that was attacked by villains a few days ago," izuku said.

he mentioned it like a small detail but Hiroshi was even more surprised, "Wait, so he was there during the attack? If the public got to know him then he would definitely get attention," he thought but calmed himself, "but still, that incident will be forgotten soon and then the fame will be gone, while he is the best recruit he still isn't worth making a time-based contract," Hiroshi thought and explained his views to izuku.

"While this was a close call, unless you want a normal contract then I can't accept," Hiroshi said.

Izuku narrowed his eyes a little and started thinking, "What if," he said getting Hiroshi's attention again, izuku looked up at him and continued, "What if I got famous first? Then can you make this contract," he asked.

Hiroshi scrunched his eyes in confusion, "what do you mean get famous first, how will you do that?" he asked.

Izuku answered him, "In one week the U.A. sports festival begins, what if I get first place, then I will surely get famous enough," izuku said more than asked as Hiroshi's eyes widened in a little surprise.

"You are right, that could work," he went normal again, "but what if you can't get first place?" he asked.

Izuku looked at him and with a normal face said, "Don't worry about it," his voice was just slightly deeper, he sounded stronger.

Hiroshi let out a confused huh, as he watched izuku get up.

Izuku looked him in the eyes and said, "There is no student in that school who can defeat me," izuku's eyes had something about them that screamed power, his expression, his voice, and his eyes all gave Hiroshi the feeling that izuku will win, Hiroshi could have sworn he got goosebumps for a second.

"Other than that, how about we get to work," izuku went back from what one could call his 'serious mode' to his 'normal mode' where he seemed like a kind angel.

Hiroshi snapped back to reality as izuku sat back down, "huh, what work? Won't we need to decide if we make a contract after the festival?" he questioned confused.

"yes but I have another idea, let's make a week-long contract, you don't need to pay me for that, I am sure we can do a small photoshoot and put them on some small advertisements and pamphlets, if we can make enough to leave around the festival then people will notice, them since my photo will be on them, that should help to give a small boost," izuku looked as Hiroshi, "I know this is really hard but I know if we try then we can make just enough for the festival," he said as Hiroshi nodded.

"Yes, you're right, in fact, this a rarely used method we can use now," he said excitedly as he got up from his seat, "I will talk to my superiors right now and we can get a shared photo shoot with some other small-time models in the week and get them ready by the festival," Hiroshi said and after a little more talking he went out to call his superiors.

Convincing them was hard since this was more like a gamble but then agreed and for the next week izuku spent his time photo shooting.

CHAPTER 3.2

On Sunday, April 21st, izuku was inside U.A. High, walking towards Principal Nezu's office, he had booked his appointment with nezu two weeks ago (mentioned in chapter 2.8) and now was the time.

He was wearing a black turtle neck shirt under a baggy white jacket with grey pants and white boots, his outfit was finished with sunglasses. Izuku himself would not care about his looks too much but Hiroshi had asked him to put effort into his appearance, which is why izuku had used the money he earned from his martial arts tournaments to buy some clothes, or more like let Hiroshi select some for him.

Remembering his prize money izuku recalled another detail and sighed, all martial arts tournaments had asked him to not participate and some had outright rejected his applications after the 11th tournament. Apparently, the news and videos of his effortless victory had reached all dojos in the area which caused many combatants to back out from their competition causing financial loss to the tournament organizers because of which he was basically 'politely' banned from participating anymore for the year, which means that he can no longer earn money the easy and quick way, so modeling is his current hope, but he is also coming up with some more ideas.

Izuku snapped out of his thoughts when he reached the principal's office just before his meeting time. He was surprised that nezu had time for a meeting with a student on a Sunday which also happened to be the day before the sports festival, but he was happy that he got a meeting anyway.

When a voice from the intercom told him he could enter he went inside.

As he entered nezu greeted him, "Welcome young midoriya how are you?"

"I am well principal nezu, how are you?" izuku answered, as he took a seat.

"I am well," nezu answered, "how may I help you today?" nezu got to the point of the meeting.

"Yes, I want to ask you for a Favor," izuku said.

"A Favor? And what would that be?" nezu asked confused.

"Can you start the student council president exams?" izuku asked seriously.

Nezu, not expecting that widened his eyes just slightly in surprise, then narrowed his eyes now more serious, "you do realize what you're asking for right?" he asked and izuku answered, "Yes I do,"

The reason for their serious behavior is valid since being the U.A. High Student Council president is not a small thing. It's widely known that U.A. High operates much differently than other schools, however their student council system is on a whole other level of different. The first difference is the selection of the president, normally in schools' students vote for candidates who want to become the president and the one with the most votes becomes the student council president, however in U.A. high school the students have to take an exam instead, why? Because U.A. is a hero School and generally students from courses other than the hero course may not vote for the best candidate because of the course they are placed in.

Secondly, due to U.A. High's reputation, their council president needs to be on a whole different level, preferably the best high schooler in the country, which itself is an absurd request, which is why, just being the best in school is not enough, you need to be at a certain level. To understand it better, think of it like a video game, let's say the students in the hero course are level 5 and the students in the other course are at level 1 but the best student is at level 7, that doesn't mean that the student at level 7 will become the student council president since the minimum requirement for the position is level 10. In that case, no one will become the president.

However, what would be the requirements if a student wants to reach level 10? To keep things as fair as they can be so that students from all courses have a chance, the test covers 5 (five) different tests.

The first test is the 'quirk test', in which a student will show their control over their quirk rather than its destructive capability, for example, izuku will show how long he enhances his physical abilities and how fast he can change the amount of power in his body with his quirk rather than showing how much he can destroy.

The second test is the 'knowledge test', as the name suggests this test will test your academic standing, the test will challenge all student's academic standing.

The third test is a simple Intelligence quotient test (IQ test).

The fourth test, a physical test, challenges the normal physical abilities of a student, like strength, speed, and stamina. The test is more like the 'quirk apprehension' test but without using quirks.

The fifth test is a sparring test, in this test students will fight a teacher in a quirk less fight while other teachers will observe their fight, obviously students are not expected to win, and depending on their performance they will be graded.

These five tests will decide their total grade and if one or more students will get to a specific level then the one with the highest overall between them will become the student council president.

Because of the high standards, U.A. rarely has a student president in the school, the last student to assume that position was the current number 4 hero 'best jeanist', and before that, it was the current number 2 hero 'Endeavor', however as teenagers, they barely managed to qualify for the position and that was when they were in their 3rd year, even All Might who is now the strongest, couldn't make the cut because of his focus on combat skills and neglecting his education, something he worked on after graduation in America.

This was the reason that nezu was surprised when izuku asked to host a student council president exam while being his 1st year. Of course, it could be that izuku didn't know how harsh the exam was, but nezu knew that if izuku asked about the exam, he must have read all the details on the school website.

Izuku looked at nezu, "so, can you hold the exam?" he asked.

Nezu looked at him and smiled, "why of course I can," he said and izuku smiled, but the smile dropped when nezu continued, "But I want you to do something for me,"

Izuku internally sighed, nezu would probably try to dig for information, "what can I do for you sir?" he asked politely.

Nezu with a smile asked, "Can you show me your full power in the festival tomorrow?"

Izuku raised his eyebrow internally, "my full power? I am not sure if I should," he answered.

"And why now?" nezu questioned.

Izuku answered, "Who uses a bomb to kill an ant?"

Nezu was caught off guard by his reply, now nezu believed that izuku was overconfident, "Young Midoriya, I believe you should be more serious about your competition, you are strong but now so strong that your entire grade is incapable of defeating you," nezu warned.

Izuku looked with confidence, "no sir, I am not overconfident I am just speaking facts," he answered.

Nezu stayed quiet for a moment, "well then young midoriya so will you not use your full power at the festival?" nezu asked.

"No I won't," izuku gave a simple reply and continued, "but what I can do is show you how much better I am compared to the other students, uniquely," he said and nezu raised an eyebrow.

"And how would you do that?"

"How about I get the top spot without using my quirk?" he said shocking nezu, something he hid completely.

"But that is impossible, others will use their quirks," nezu retaliated.

Izuku got up from his seat, "yes it's impossible for anyone," he said and looked at nezu, "but, I alone am the exception," he said with an air of authority and power, something that can only be found in people with exceptional will power.

Nezu closed his eyes inhaled sharply and looked at izuku, "I don't know how you plan to do that but ok, if you can somehow win, I will prepare an exam for the student council president," he said and izuku nodded.

Then izuku let out an "oh", as if remembering something and pulled out his phone nezu had given him a few weeks ago since he didn't have one, he put it on the table and said, "Here you can take this phone you gave me and the apartment as well, I know it's supposed to be for staff but you gave me an apartment in the building anyway, I only had my clothes there and I took them, I also left the other electronics you gave me on the reception, I'll handle myself from here on out like other orphans, but I do appreciate what you did for me till now, I also registered my new contact information on the reception," izuku said as he walked to the door

Now nezu was shocked, "what? But how will you support yourself? The money for orphans is barely enough for you to survive?" nezu asked now worried.

Izuku looked back as he grabbed the door handle and turned his head a little, "don't worry, I have it covered, hope I we won't have to make a deal next time we meet," he said and left the office.

Nezu sat there as izuku left the office and sighed.

Since the school was created only best jeanist and endeavor have managed to become presidents, but the exam was held 38 times in the school's history, which meant 36 times no one qualified for the post.

However, nezu smiled as he had a feeling that U.A. was about to get their 3rd student council president soon.

In the hallways, izuku was smiling at his success, after all being the student council president gave him a lot of benefits. The requirements for the position are extreme but the rewards are equally good, at least for izuku. When a student is selected to be the student president, that student is given special privileges, like attending staff meetings, access to different files, permission to skip classes as long as he doesn't fall behind academically, and as much authority as a teacher alongside votes in school matters and responsibilities for managing school events and such, normally izuku wouldn't want that but in this case, his time of attending the school is great for is objective.

To be more specific information on the 'League of Villains. Normally staff meetings will discuss school-related things but now that a villain organization has managed to infiltrate the school and put students in danger, details and information on the 'League of Villains' will be discussed whenever new information is found, and being the student council president will let him have access to that information. Since izuku plans on investigating the 'League of Villains' these privileges will help him greatly not only that but being the 3rd student council president will help his modeling career greatly if he can get a boost from the sports festival. Making a time-based contract means he can make passive income for a certain amount of time and rent an apartment, then he won't have to live in a hotel like he is right now. Even though nezu would let him stay in the apartment he gave to izuku, izuku would prefer an apartment that wasn't bugged with microphones and cameras which nezu really thought izuku wouldn't notice, not that izuku had anything to hide… for now at least.

To become the student council president was also the reason why Izuku rejected the position of the class president as that position is more like a game that gives next to no benefits to the person, However, remembering his meeting and the deal he made with nezu brought an amused smile to izuku's face.

"Principle Nezu is clearly abusing his authority by making these deals like playing a game," he sighed a little, "but oh well guess he can have a little fun," he thought as he walked out of the school building, "After all, it's not like beating all the 1st years without a quirk is hard anyways, at least not for me," he finished his thought with a confident smile almost a smirk, sunlight reflecting on his sunglasses a little with his brilliant green-colored eyes peaking of the top a little as he left the school grounds.

CHAPTER-3.4

On Monday, April 22nd, everyone was excited, and by everyone means almost everyone in the world. Over the years since the Quirk Society formed and the U.A. Sports Festival replaced the Olympics, since everyone loves to see teenagers beat each other up.

All the students from class 1-A are dressed in their P.E. uniform in their assigned waiting room except, obviously Izuku Midoriya, and Ida is the first one to realize this.

"Umm hey does anyone know where I midoriya-san is?" he asked everyone as they realized his absence.

Uraraka hearing this looked around, "hey I didn't realize this, but yeah where is he?" she questioned as well.

Jiro brought her hand to her chin, "I didn't see him anywhere today, is he even here today?" she said.

"don't know, but I didn't see him in the school training either," Kirishima said.

"Yeah man, and I was hoping to ask him how he beat up all the villains in the U.S.J," kaminari said.

"let's relax, I'm sure he is here, he won't miss the festival after accepting the challenge from the other classes," tokoyami said.

"Challenge?!" Mina exclaimed, "it wasn't a challenge, it was a 'declaration of war'," she said as she swung her arms around like a child, "and the way he said 'I accept your declaration of war' was so cool!" she said trying to imitate izuku's voice at the accepting part.

"Yeah, that was really cool," Momo agreed with a smile.

"Can we get to the point, midoriya-san isn't here," tsuyu said.

"He probably got scared and ran away!" bakugo yelled out of nowhere and went back to ignoring everyone.

"I don't think he would do that, he's strong, I've seen it myself," tsuyu added.

Shoto Todoroki was sitting quietly in a corner, sneaking glances at the door as if waiting for someone while listening to the conversation and he narrowed his eyes dangerously when tsuyu commented on izuku's strength.

Some minutes later while everyone was talking the door opened and stepped in, the subject of their conversation.

"Good morning, everyone," izuku said looking around and blinked as his entrance made everyone shut up, "did something happen while I was not here?" he asked confused.

Just then, as if a dam broke, everyone surrounded him and started asking why he was late.

Izuku took a step back as some of them got into his personal space unintentionally, "I just got lost in the stadium nothing big," he lied smoothly.

The truth is that nezu had asked him to wear some advanced quirk-canceling bracelets and collar that looked like normal accessories with the downside being that they only work in a small area, in this case, nezu managed to cover the area of competition.

The bracelet and collar were silver with a red line in the middle which caught Kirishima's attention, "hey mido-bro I didn't realize you wear bracelets and stuff, that's so cool!" he said excitedly.

"Oh yeah! I didn't notice earlier you're right, it does look good," Mina said.

"you guys are just being nice and besides I'm only wearing this for today," izuku said as the class started chatting again.

Just then Todoroki walked in front of izuku getting his attention, "can I do something for you Todoroki-san?" izuku asked tilting his head a little but his expression turned slightly serious in an instance as he noticed the dark look in Todoroki's eyes.

"Midoriya," Todoroki called as the others blinked in surprise and then looked worried at his slightly aggressive tone realizing that this conversation wasn't going to be friendly by the lack of the 'san' suffix.

"Yes," izuku answered with his eyes slightly narrowed.

"During the U.S.J. you defeated the most villains, even if you fought alongside aizawa sensei and still got hurt you managed to defeat more enemies than me," Todoroki said as izuku recalled once again that the existence of the 'nomu' was not revealed to the public and his classmates didn't know about its existence much less the danger it posed. Todoroki continued, "I have decided that today I will defeat you to confirm my superiority here," he said challenging izuku.

"Guys this isn't the time to start a war in the class when all other classes are targeting us," Ida said trying to defuse the situation with logic, However, he was ignored by both of them.

Izuku sighed and looked down a little, his hair covering his eyes, "Well ok, I understand, but," he paused as Todoroki narrowed his eyes a little more, "but?" he repeated questioningly as everyone observed quietly, even bakugo was paying attention.

Izuku raised his head a little with his 'serious look' making some of the weak-willed flinch a little, "whatever makes you think you can defeat me?" izuku said emphasizing 'me' at the end, sounding like the idea of Todoroki defeating him was impossible shocking the others.

Enraged Todoroki was about to say something but stopped when Aizawa's voice over the speaker told them to head out.

Todoroki looked at izuku and said, "This is War Midoriya," as he walked past him.

As he reached the door, he heard izuku say, "I will assure you, that this is a losing war for you Todoroki-san," to which Todoroki scoffed a little and left, followed by a quiet and serious bakugo.

The tension in the room was thick but it eased when izuku sighed, "well that was unexpected," izuku said in his usual voice trying to ease things for others, he turned and said, "We should also head out, I don't think those two will treat other classes kindly," he said and paused for a second, "everyone gives it your all," he encouraged and soon the atmosphere when back to normal as everyone smiled and cheered and headed out.

...

Outside the stadium in the commentator box, izuku's homeroom teacher Eraserhead was sitting with his friend present mic as the commentators for the sports festival, one willingly and the other unwillingly.

"AND NOW COMES THE FIRST CLASS, THE VERY ONE WHICH FOUGHT REAL VILLAINS IN THEIR FIRST WEEK IN THE SCHOOL! THAT'S RIGHT GIVE IT UP FOR CLASS 1-A!" present mic said loudly in the mic as the crowd roared loudly as the class came jogging from the tunnel with Ida in the front as the class rep. followed by Momo as the vice rep. and then izuku and the rest of the class.

"w-woah there are a lot of people,"

"Yeah, I didn't expect them to be so many,"

"Man, I'm getting nervous,"

"Just take a deep breath then,"

The class was talking lightly as they made their way to the center, and watched the other classes come out as present mic called them, however, the cheers for them were the loudest.

Izuku was looking around the stadium, "there are a lot more people than I expected, I better put up a show for them," he thought as all the 1st year classes came out.

"Alright, everyone! Are you ready!?" the R-18 heroine Midnight questioned seductively as she struck the stage she was standing on, sending the male and some female audience haywire, and her unique choice of clothing.

"YES! WE ARE READY!" one yelled.

"WE LOVE YOU MIDNIGHT!" another voice yelled.

"HIT ME MOMMY!" someone bold enough yelled.

"What?!" a girl next to him questioned with a disgusted expression.

Thankfully all the screaming and cheers drowned out any specific phrases.

"Alright let's begin this festive, and for that, I would like to invite the student who scored the highest in the entrance exam for an entrance speech, please welcome Katsuki Bakugo!" midnight said as the crowd cheered again this time for bakugo.

As Bakugo's name was called his class went into an internal panic, "God what's bakugo going to do now?" they all thought worried, all the other classes were already against them and now knowing Bakugo's personality, he was going to make it worse.

"I might have to step in," izuku thought he and Todoroki were the only one's calm, izuku because he was ready to fix any mistakes, and Todoroki because he didn't care.

As bakugo walked in front of the mic looking extremely calm, he spoke, "I just wanna say that I'm gonna win,"

After a second of silence, as if a bomb was set off, the other students started yelling at bakugo for his rude statement.

"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!"

"YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER JUST BECAUSE YOU FOUGHT SOME VILLAINS?!"

"LEAVE 1-A!"

The audience wasn't pleased with his lack of sportsmanship, a hero is supposed to be kind and encouraging, not be rude, and have a superiority complex.

Bakugo however didn't care as he walked off the stage, as his class went into an internal panic, "great! He just had to do that!" they all thought.

Izuku sighed as he moved forward.

Midnight chuckled nervously, as she muttered, "Well that was something," and then noticed izuku coming towards her, "uhm, hey dear, what are you doing?" she asked confused at what was happening.

Izuku's class was confused too, "Huh? What's he doing," they all thought.

"Ah great, what are you going to do now problem child," aizawa thought.

Bakugo also looked at izuku, "The hell is he doing now?" he thought annoyed.

"Hey, the speech is over you can't come up here like that dear," Midnight said but izuku ignored her and moved in front of the mic.

"Good morning, everyone, we students would like to thank the audience for coming here today as well as everyone watching," he started, as everyone became quiet to hear him, "my name is Izuku midoriya and firstly I would like to apologize to all the 1st year students on behalf of my class and classmate's rude behavior," he said with a little bow and quickly calmed everyone with the unexpected apology.

Bakugo on the other hand got a tick mark on his head with an angry expression, "the hell do you mean, I am not apologizing to anyone here-" his words were cut off as some of his classmates realized that Izuku was trying to fix things, covered bakugo's mouth, picked him up and took him to the back till Izuku finished his speech.

Staring quietly he watched the reaction, as all other classes and the audience calmed down, he continued, "A long time ago I read a quote I believe in, 'peace is not the absence of conflict but rather the ability to solve conflict without the need of violence,'" he paused and continued without waiting, "this is what villains do, cause meaningless destruction for wealth and power over others" he paused again and looked around to see everyone focused on him, "A few days ago an organization infiltrated U.A. high and attacked its students, and this news has caused widespread panic all over the nation, however, I, as someone who fought those villains reassures this nation that those villains were nothing compared to us, and if they come back then they will have to run away like they did this time," he said with the utmost confidence.

Aizawa narrowed his eyes slightly, "I see, so the kid wants to instill a sense of safety in public, and coming from a student who was attacked would help more, well he seems to be trying to fix the damage bakugo' cause so I'll let this slide just this once," he smiled a little as he looked at Izuku who was standing confidently, "and I also see that you're trying to present yourself as some sort of leader of the next generation," aizawa leaned forward a little, "but now if you don't win this whole festival then he will come of as someone will all bark and no bite and that's quite the risk kid, let's see what you got," he thought with a smirk, feeling amused.

On the other hand, Shiro Hiroshi was looking around listening to how both civilians and heroes were praising Izuku and his choice of words, "this is really good, the kid has some charisma and knows what the people want to hear, this will help him in the industry too and if he plays his cards right then he won't even need to get the top spot to get popular!" he thought excitedly.

"However," Izuku wasn't done as he continued, "my current battle is not with a villain but my schoolmates," he said confusing the audience but izuku started speaking.

"Earlier I said that peace is the ability to solve conflict without the need for violence but villains won't accept that and keep harming the innocent and challenging the heroes and just like that, all the 1st year students came to our class two weeks ago and threatened our placement in the hero course and make a 'declaration of war'," he explained fast and loudly surprising the audience with the knowledge of a conflict within the student body.

Then izuku looked at the crowd of students in front of him, with his serious expression, and eyes that could bring the weak-willed to cower in fear, he spoke in a low and stern voice, "Two weeks ago you all challenged me to a war, today I expect you all to give me the greatest challenge possible or accept your inferiority," he said and then finished with, "good luck to everyone," and stepped off the stage to stand with his class again.

"Uhm, that was something," Midnight started a bit hesitant but then got cheerful again, "anyways let's start the festival!" She said cheerfully and the crowd roared ignoring what happened earlier.

Izuku watched as midnight brought a spinning wheel to decide the first match.

He heard uraraka talking to tsuyu about what the first match could be as they read the games on the spinning wheel and decided to answer her instead.

"The first match is going to be about individual performance, something like a race, and a huge number of students will go forward to the next round," he said with his arms folded getting the attention of the two girls alongside some of his other classmates and some random students as well.

"What? How do you know that?" uraraka asked as the others listened in.

"I watched some of the old sports festivals and they have a pattern to them, the first game is as I explained and the second game is in teams and then a few will go forward for 1 vs 1 matches," Izuku explained recalling the time he spent watching the old festivals and analyzing them.

His classmates looked at him wondering how accurate izuku would be this time since they were familiar with his analyzing skills, while the students from other classes snorted thinking he was wrong and trying to act smart.

"And the first event is an obstacle race!" midnight announced.

Izuku's classmates smiled in amazement as he was right again while the students from other classes gapped like fish.

Then midnight explained the rules of the obstacle race. It's a race with multiple obstacles and students are allowed to use their quirk, only the top 40 students will proceed to the next round.

"Alright everyone, get behind the line!" midnight instructed as everyone followed.

Izuku looked at the starting point and narrowed his eyes as he analyzed the situation, "A tunnel? I see, they want to limit the number of people that will proceed beyond this point, and the tunnel may have traps, I should go to the back," he decided and went back at the end.

…

Nezu was watching the festival from a small office he had in the stadium, as he sipped his tea, his monitor zoomed in on izuku, "let's see what you're capable of young midoriya," he thought still wondering how izuku would win without his quirk.

…

"And… BEGIN!" midnight yelled, and without missing a second, all students ran forward except izuku who stayed still and the audience did not miss that.

"what's he doing?" someone said.

"Did he give up already?" another asked.

"Doubt it, he was quite confident before," another said.

Present mic also pointed out izuku's lack of movement, "WHAT IS THIS, ONE YOUNG LISTENER ISNT MOVING, DID YOUR STUDENT GIVE UP ERASERHEAD?", he questioned aizawa but aizawa had already realized the reason.

"he's already a step ahead," without realizing he whispered into the mic getting everyone's attention, something he did not like.

"HA? A STEP AHEAD? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?" present mic questioned him loudly through the mic, as aizawa grumbled and replied, "Just watch,"

Some students wondered what they meant as they ran into the tunnel thinking they would get the lead but became shocked and worried when they realized that some of them were stuck to the ground.

"What the- what's happening?!" a student shouted panicked.

"How would I know?!" another yelled.

"I can't move!" a girl yelled.

Different worried shouts came from the tunnel.

Izuku looked at the scene with an eyebrow raised, "a sicky trap huh? It's simple, non-lethal, and effective, good choice," he complimented in his head and started running, when he closed in, he stepped on someone's back and hopped on another causing them to get stuck even more.

"Hey! What the hell are you doing!"

Shouts like these came from all over but izuku ignored them as he made his way forward and jumped out of the tunnel.

"WOW, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, HE WAS THE LAST ONE TO START RUNNING BUT THE FIRST ONE TO CLEAR THE TUNNEL!" present mic yelled as the audience roared in excitement.

When he reached the students stuck at the front, he narrowed down his target to a mutation-type quirk user whose body seemed to be made of stone, he jumped on his back and made 20 feet leap forward forcing the mutant quirk user into the glue again, and shouted an apology. Since using an emitter or transformation type quirk user to make that jump could break their backs and injure them, he chose a person made of stone since they would not receive too much damage. Midair izuku turned his head to see that the student was fine and trying to get out of the glue again, after confirming his wellbeing izuku looked forward ready to run, and as soon as his feet touched the ground he dashed forward.

Seeing this present mic started, "AND THE FIRST PERSON TO CLEAR THE TUNNEL OBSTICAL IS 1-A's IZUKU MIDORIYA!' he yelled and the audience cheered.

However, everyone wasn't happy with izuku's success.

Todoroki looked forward to seeing izuku taking the 1st place and clenched his teeth, "I won't let you get ahead of me," he thought darkly and unleashed his ice quirk and broke out and propelled himself on his ice trying to cover the distance.

Another yell came, "DON'T YOU DARE THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME!" bakugo roared as he propelled himself with multiple explosions.

Soon more students followed by using their quirk and setting themselves free.

"WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT! SO MANY STUDENTS HAVE MANAGED TO CLEAR THE FIRST OBSTACLE," present mic yelled and continued, "CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE IS IZUKU MIDORIYA, AND IN SECOND IS SHOTO TODOROKI AND THIRD IS KATSUKI BAKUGO. ALL THREE OF THEM ARE FROM CLASS 1-A! WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN!?" present mic announced and asked loudly as the crowd roared again saying names of their choice, many saying izuku.

Hiroshi was going crazy again, "he's in the first place! He's in the first place!" he chanted loudly which earned him some weird looks.

aizawa looked at izuku and sighed once, "I think midoriya will win," he said lightly and present mic turned to him.

"AND WHY IS THAT MY FRIEND?!" he asked.

Aizawa grumbled a little, "If you looked carefully then you would notice that while everyone had to use brute force to get out midoriya managed to get a lead by analyzing his surroundings carefully," he said.

"WAIT ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOUNG MIDORIYA KNEW THAT THE TUNNEL HAD A STICKY TRAP?!" present mic asked confused and so did the audience.

Aizawa grumbled again and replied, "Not exactly, I've seen his analyzing skills so I know he is smart, and in the start, he went at the back of the crowd, he most likely figured out that all the students wouldn't be able to pass through the tunnel and realized that it's a good spot for an obstacle, he obviously didn't know what kind of obstacle it would be so he stayed back to see what would happen and make his move accordingly," aizawa explained, "where other students rushed in without thinking, midoriya waited and used a smarter option and got a lead with minimum effort," he finished as the audience realized the logic in his theory and were impressed.

…

Hiroshi blinked in surprise, "I didn't realize he would be that good," he thought.

The civilians were also surprised at the high IQ play by midoriya but the lasting impression was left on the heroes as they realized that such quick analysis and decision-making would be priceless on the battlefield.

While this was happening, the people who knew aizawa were surprised by Aizawa's explanation, why? Because everyone who knew aizawa never imagined him to praise a student like that.

Present mic, Aizawa's childhood friend, turned off the mic for a second and looked at aizawa, "hey, shota are you ok? Is everything all right?" he asked in a low voice a little worried which showed how unusual it was for aizawa to praise a student so openly.

Aizawa looked at his friend, "yes I'm fine don't worry," he said and turned the mic on again before his friend said or asked something again.

Aizawa sighed internally, "I know it's unusual it is for me to praise a student but…" he closed his eyes and remembered the condition of the current number one hero All Might, "at this rate, the idiot won't be able to keep being a hero. All Might's fall will come sooner or later, and the world will lose it's 'symbol of peace' and more villains than ever will come forward," aizawa thought, "and when that happens the world will need a new symbol of peace, and I hope that it would be among the younger generation," aizawa looked at izuku on the screen, "someone smarter," he thought as he remembered izuku's analyzing skills, "someone stronger," he thought as he remembered izuku's strength and durability display against the nomu, "someone more skilled," he thought as he remembered izuku's martial arts skills against the group of villains, "someone who's a capable leader," aizawa thought as he remembered how easily izuku settled in the class and how he was able to stay focused and gave out proper instructions when kurogiri appeared , "and most of all… someone with the will of a hero, someone worthy of carrying the torch of heroism," he though as he remembered izuku's willingness to fight the villains and the nomu to protect his classmates and aizawa and how he putted his own life on the line…

Aizawa opened his eyes and looked at izuku again, "As much as I hate to put such hopes on anyone, much less a student, you're one of a few who seems to be capable of taking the role of the next 'symbol of peace', so if my words can help you enter a new light in the public's eyes then I will help you and any other person capable of that role, for the sake of the future that might not be so good," aizawa thought worriedly.

And aizawa is right, with the appearance of the nomu and the 'League of villain' still on the loose, if more nomu' are out there and appear in the future while All Might is not around to stop them then his students and their generation will have to deal with such a threat, and so far with Shoto Todoroki's self-isolation in class and unwillingness to use his fire quirk and katsuki bakugo's superiority complex, Izuku Midoriya is the only one aizawa can approve of, hence his open praise to him, so more heroes notice him.

…

On the other hand, izuku who was slowly but surely widening the already huge distance between himself and his two classmates, was forced to stop, when he saw many huge robots block his path, "what is this?" he narrowed his eyes and thought calmly looking at the 20 stories tall robots alongside many small robots as well.

"AND THEIR YOU HAVE IT FOLK! THESE ARE THE ROBOTS THAT THE STUDENTS HAD TO FACE DURING THE ENTRANCE EXAM!" present mic told the audience and izuku was able to hear as well.

Izuku listened as present mic gave a small explanation to the audience and unknowingly helped izuku as well.

Izuku looked back to see that both bakugo and Todoroki were still far away and decided to wait for them by testing himself against the robots.

"Well, I can't defeat these huge zero-pointers but I sure can have fun with these one, two, and three-pointers," he thought and charged forward.

As he got close to a spider-like robot, he skidded near its legs and turned on his heel to deliver a strong kick to the back of the spider robot's knees, bringing it down, izuku grabbed its cables and ripped them and then ripped the leg of the main body causing it to create sparks of electricity and shut down.

Izuku quickly moved towards a two-pointer and stabbed the metal spider leg in his hand through the gap in the Armor of the main body and destroyed it as well, and then jumped on it to jump even higher on a three-pointer and ripped its top and then ripped off its cables as well.

This time he decided to go all out and jumped towards a one-pointer, inhaled, and delivered an axe kick, destroying the robot's engine.

He turned to see Todoroki create a huge ice wave and bakugo explode some robots, "looks like you two finally caught up," he muttered to himself and ran past the robots and made his way around the ice Todoroki created to freeze the zero pointers feet's and joined his and bakugo's side heading to the next obstacle.

…

"WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT! LOOKS LIKE TODOROKI AND BAKUGO FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH MIDORIYA!" present mic said but aizawa intervened.

"You're wrong, midoriya spent some time fighting some robots and then started running again when the other two got close, looks to me like, he wanted them to catch up to him," he said.

…

"Well, I'm not trying to hide my intentions, but aizawa sensei is having an easy time seeing my ideas," izuku thought with a mental chuckle.

"don't you think you should be more serious," izuku heard Todoroki say to his left.

"don't you dare think you can beat me!" shouted bakugo, to izuku's right side.

"What do you mean Todoroki-san? I am serious," izuku answered Todoroki.

Tilting his head to his right to look at izuku, Todoroki frowned, "you don't seem serious," he said seeing izuku smile.

"Well, this is as serious as I need to be, in order to beat you two, sorry, but I can run faster than you two can create your ice and explosions," he said and before either of the two boys could reply, he started running even faster, slowly increasing the distance between them.

"What the!" they both thought shocked to see izuku could go faster.

…

"WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT! MIDORIYA TOOK THE 1ST SPOT AGAIN! JUST WHAT THE HELL IS THIS KID," he said surprised, at izuku's performance.

…

Nezu was in his makeshift office, his cup of tea had dropped to the ground a while ago and his face held an expression of shock, something that hadn't happened in many years, he was grateful that no one saw him like that.

"What the hell is happening," he thought with his eyes wide open looking at izuku on the screen, "how is he running so fast! his quirk isn't working!" he had checked multiple times if the quirk-canceling cuffs on him were working properly only to find out that they were, which brought the question back, "how in the world is he doing that, first his speed and his strength, it's like he can use his quirk, but the sensors on the cuffs say that his quirk is blocked, then how is he moving so fast," he thought and for the first time, he didn't have any answer to his questions.

He was looking at the monitor which showed both the live feed and he was using advanced features to see what their speeds were.

Todoroki and bakugo were using their ice and explosion quirks to move at an average speed of 45 to 50 kilometers an hour but izuku's speed jumped up to an average speed of 55 to 60 kilometers an hour without a quirk, which was impossible, but it was happening in front of nezu, and the only thing he could do was to wait and ask izuku about it.

…

"Dammit, I'm being left behind," both Todoroki and bakugo thought gritting their teeth as they glared at izuku's back. They both were going as fast as they could but izuku was only increasing the distance between them.

Izuku on the other hand, "keep breathing," he thought, "just keep sending oxygen through my whole body and increase blood flow," he thought as he sucked in more breath sharply.

Suddenly his eyes widened as he skidded to a stop, right in front of a cliff, "who even made this," he thought as he looked at the new obstacle, as present mic called the second stage 'The Fall', basically a canyon that can be trekked by walking on a rope.

Izuku turned to see Todoroki and bakugo covering the ground, while present mic was saying that many students had passed the robots.

"Looks like I'll have to lose the lead for a while," he thought and started walking on the rope with perfect balance with one hand in his pocket like he was walking on normal land.

As he reached halfway, he saw Todoroki and bakugo pass him. Todoroki was using his ice quirk to make a bridge and bakugo was using his quirk to stay airborne as he yelled something about him always winning at izuku.

Izuku turned to see all the other students reach the obstacle and decided to speed things up and move faster and about 10 minutes later reached the other end, while Todoroki and bakugo were on the last obstacle called, 'the mine field'.

Izuku turned to see that many students were catching up to him, normally a person would try to make more distance, but izuku, who had done everything differently since he joined kept his streak as he turned and sat on the edge of the canyon, and started watching all the students coming towards him.

…

Surprised present mic said what was on everyone's mind, "LOOK MIDORIYA JUST STOPPED MOVING, WHAT COULD HE BE TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH THIS,"

Aizawa was also looking with confusion present on his face, "What's he trying to do now," he thought.

…

Nezu, who had composed himself again and fixed himself another cup of tea was looking at izuku with a smile again, "would you look at that, another unique move from midoriya, you certainly know how to entertain me," he said to no one with a chuck.

…

Seeing izuku's lack of movement confused many but panicked just one.

"NO NO NO! WHAT'S HE DOING? WHY DID YOU STOP KID, KEEP GOING!" Hiroshi exclaimed as more people gave him weird looks.

"Mommy what's that man doing," a little girl innocently asked her mother.

Her mother shushed her and said, "I don't know dear just ignore him."

…

Hearing the izuku had stopped moving, bakugo and Todoroki stopped and turned to see that izuku really was just sitting there as more students came closer to finishing the canyon obstacle.

"What the hell is he trying to do?" they both thought confused but turned to carefully, clear the minefield, one wrong step could be very painful.

…

Izuku on the other hand was observing all the students clearing the obstacle as a few finally passed him while giving him weird looks for wasting time.

What they didn't know is that izuku wasn't wasting time, "there are a few capable people here," izuku thought as he observed specific people, "Ida Tenya, my classmate, has a mutation-type quirk, he has engines on his calves," izuku began his analysis, "he can prove to be a good candidate for my plans," he thought and switched is attention to another student.

"Denki kaminari, another student from my class, has an emitter-type quirk that allows him to create electricity but the further he shoots it the weaker his little to no control over it gets," izuku narrowed his eyes, "but from what I saw in the battle trials, he creates too much electricity which causes his brain to short circuit and is left vulnerable for an hour, I have to do something or that potential will be wasted," he thought and looked at another student.

"Fumikage Tokoyami, also from my class, has a bird-like head which can be mistaken for a mutation-type quirk but his quirk is an emitter type as well called 'dark shadow', I have no complaints so far, he is talented and is using his quirk properly, another person I can have for my plan," izuku then looked at someone not from his class.

"And finally, shinso Hitoshi from general studies, class 1-C, his emitter type quirk is called 'brainwash', I haven't seen him activate it but the name is quite self-explanatory but I still don't know the conditions he needs to active his quirk, regardless definitely a person I can keep an eye on," he thought as he got up turned around to look at the minefield ahead.

During his little scouting section, many students passed by him, among which many were his classmates, they were about to stop and ask him questions but he signaled them to keep going.

"Guess I should take the top spot again," he thought with a smile, like it was an easy task, and started running.

…

"WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, IZUKU MIDORIYA IS ON THE MOVE AGAIN! BUT HE IS ALREADY IN THE 72ND PLACE! WILL HE BE ABLE TO MAKE A COMEBACK AND GET IN THE TOP 40 AGAIN? OR WILL THE FORMER TOP SPOT LOSE IN THE FIRST ROUND!?" present mic was already trying to make a dramatic commentary, which was quite successful.

The audience is expecting a great performance from izuku, both because of his confident speech from earlier and because he held the top spot at the start.

…

"YES, MAKE A COMEBACK! YOU HAVE TO KID FOR OUR SAKE!" Hiroshi cheered and thankfully this time his misleading words were drowned out by the cheers of the audience.

…

"My question is why did he stopped in the first place," aizawa thought annoyed, this time he had no clue about why izuku would stop randomly and then continue when he was left far behind.

…

"I wonder what you will do to win now young midoriya," nezu thought as he took a sip of his tea.

…

Many students including bakugo and Todoroki took a peak behind them to see izuku and thought, "It doesn't matter, he won't be able to catch up now," and continued moving forward.

As Izuku got closer to the minefield he looked and thought, "I see, so the small circles are the mines and you have only a small space to step on, which limits your speed unless you can fly," he smiled internally, and thought, "this will be easy," and dashed forward and jumped in.

…

"WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING?!" present mic yelled shocked.

"What the hell?!" Aizawa yelled in his head.

…

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Hiroshi screamed out loud.

…

"What?!" nezu questioned himself as his mind raced to think why izuku would make such a move.

…

With a focused expression, izuku stepped into the gap in the mines and performed a handspring, placing in hands in safe spots and landing his feet safely as well and started using mixed combinations of more handsprings, jumps, flips, cartwheels, and more moves with perfect accuracy and control over his body and easily passed many students.

…

"Wow, so cool," some kids said out loud what many people were thinking.

…

"I should go faster," izuku thought and his movements became a bit faster as the students he passed looked at him with shock and amazement.

As izuku covered more ground and passed many students, everyone watching him including the U.A. Staff, the students, and the pro heroes came to the same realization, "t-this level of gymnastics skills are world-class level!"

…

Todoroki and bakugo hearing the students behind them peaked to see that izuku was coming towards them really fast and they started moving faster now panicked after seeing izuku's speed, "what the hell he knows gymnastics too?!" they thought, and they weren't the only ones, many of izuku's classmates and students were thinking along the same lines.

Within a span of about 3 minutes izuku was right behind bakugo and Todoroki and had cleared about 90% of the minefield, something that took the other two students about 9 to 10 minutes to do.

"Dammit, he's right behind me," both Todoroki and bakugo thought panicked as izuku was a few feet behind them, they decided made their decisions, "I didn't want to use my ice to make a path for others to walk on, but I have no choice now," Todoroki thought and got ready to use his ice quirk.

"Dammit, I didn't want to risk setting off mines with my explosion but this bastard is forcing me now?!" bakugo thought and got ready to use his quirk at the same time as Todoroki.

As izuku finished a front flip he noticed that adrenaline had caused Izuku's perception of time to slow down, which allowed him to notice some ice fog come from Todoroki, while bakugo's palms which were pointing backward lit up, signaling that both boys had activated their quirks.

"I see, so you two decided to go all out now huh," he thought and focused on the distance left, "hmm, about 50 feet long, I should be able to make it just barely," he thought and quickly and in the span of time he finished his front flip landing between Todoroki and bakugo shoulder to shoulder and placed his feet managing to trigger about 5 landmines on purpose as the other two boys widened their eyes in realization.

"You little-!"

"Why you!"

Both boys were about to yell an insult but couldn't because the landmines went off as izuku had just enough time to suck in a deep breath, crouch down a little and make a huge jump forward and also being pushed forward by the explosion of the landmines while bakugo and Todoroki crashed to the sides as a huge cloud of dust formed while izuku landed at the end of the minefield and quickly regained his balance with a front roll and ran with full speed ahead towards the finish line.

…

'AMAZING! IZUKU MIDORIYA AS ONCE AGIN TAKEN THE 1ST PLACE AND IS HEADING TOWARDS VICTORY, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE TODOROKI AND BAKUGO ARENT FINISHED YET!" present mic exclaimed the last part and bakugo and Todoroki emerged from the cloud of dust using their quirks and letting out battle cries.

"WHAAAAAA!"

"HAAAAAA!"

"It won't work," aizawa sighed as he watched his students, "the difference in Midoriya's top speed and those two's top speed was clear at the start of the race, and with the distance between them, Todoroki and bakugo can't get the 1st place," he finished his thought and sighed.

and he was right because izuku reached the finish line way before the others as the crowd roared in excitement at getting the first-round winner.

"AND THE WINNER IS, IZUKU MIDORIYA!" Midnight announced with excitement as the audience cheered.

"The last part obstacle was somewhat of a workout," izuku thought while taking deep breaths to regulate his blood flow after all the gymnastics he performed.

…

"YES, HE DID IT!" Hiroshi exclaimed while looking at izuku's name and picture with the words '1st place' on the huge stadium screen.

…

"Congratulations young midoriya, let's see if you can win again," nezu said while drinking his tea even if no one was there to listen.

…

Izuku watched as the others started reaching the finish line as the top 40 entered while ignoring the glares bakugo and Todoroki were giving him.

"Dammit, who could I lose to him again!" bakugo thought enraged as he remembered his defeat during the battle trials.

on the other hand, Todoroki didn't have a specific thought in mind as he glared at izuku.

When the race finished izuku heard a call for his name, "Midoriya-san!" he turned to see Ida walking towards him with uraraka.

"Congratulations midoriya-san for getting the first place!" uraraka said with a bright smile as Ida followed.

"Yes, congratulations,"

"Thank you, I appreciate your words," he replied kindly.

"There you go being polite again," uraraka said with a giggle and they started talking about the first round till midnight and called the top 40 to explain the next round.

"The next round should be a team-based activity if the pattern I detected is right," izuku thought as everyone watched the wheel spin and land on 'cavalry battle'.

"All right! Here are the rules for cavalry battle," Midnight began explaining, "The forty students who made it to the second round will form teams of a maximum of four people: one rider and at least one horse. Each student will be given a point value and a team's value depending on where their members finished in the obstacle course. The fortieth-place finisher is worth five points, with five points added to the point value with each cascading place," She explained and looked at izuku with a mischievous grin confusing him, and continued speaking, "The first-place finisher, however, is worth ten million points." She dropped the bomb as izuku understood what was happening.

As everyone heard the ten million points part, they all blinked in surprise, and then suddenly all heads turned towards izuku, most looking at him with eyes that held greed.

Izuku could feel all the stares and some glares he was receiving, but to his credit, he didn't even change his neutral expression and looked forward as if everything was normal.

"You all have fifteen minutes to find yourself teammates so don't waste time," Midnight said as everyone snapped out of staring at izuku and hurried to find partners.

"Looks like no one's going to team up with me," izuku thought as he looked around to see everyone avoiding him, he closed his eyes and started to think, and in about a minute he opened them again, and instead of being discouraged, he had a smile on his face and thought, "well that actually might work in my favor,"

As he observed his surroundings, he noticed Ida and decided to wish him luck and walked up to him, "Iida-san how-" he was cut off when Ida turned to look at him with a sharp look.

"midoriya-san, if you're here to ask me to join you then I'm sorry but," Ida began as he fixed his glasses, "ever since I met you I've realized that I never kept up with you, you defeated me in the 'battle trials' with ease while noticing the hidden meaning behind them, and you were also able to stay calm when the villains attacked us at the U.S.J. while I panicked and almost put everyone in danger," he said as izuku listened quietly, "which is why I want to….. no… I have to challenge you in order to get better," he said as he walked towards Todoroki who was standing with kaminari and Momo, all three quietly observing, ida turned around and said, "Todoroki-san and Bakugo-san aren't the only ones who see you as a rival, I am in the same boat as them in that regard, so I'm sorry but I can't help you this time," he finished as he joined his team.

For a few seconds, izuku didn't say anything, but then izuku looked up and waved his right arm dismissively and said, "You have the wrong idea Ida-san I wasn't here to recruit you, I actually didn't even think of that," he said and Ida's expression froze and two imaginary arrows struck his back as he thought, "h-he didn't even think of recruiting me,".

"Sorry for giving you the wrong idea, I was just here to say good luck," izuku continued as Ida somewhat recovered from his embarrassment and looked at izuku and asked.

"Wait so if you don't want me on your team then who do you want?" Ida questioned confused.

"You'll know soon," izuku answered with a smile as he walked away leaving a confused Ida and his team.

Soon someone else approached izuku, it was uraraka-san.

"Hello uraraka-san is there anything I can help you with?" izuku asked her politely.

"I was wondering if you were still looking for teammates?" she asked with a bright smile.

Understanding her intentions to join his team izuku answered, "Ahh, I am sorry uraraka-san but no I'm not," he answered.

"Ahh, did you find someone? didn't seem like it," she asked as she tilted her head now confused as she looked around to see someone who could be on his team.

"Well, it's a bit more complicated than that, but you should go and find a team, don't worry about me, I have something in mind," he reassured her, and after a few more seconds of talking she left to find someone to join, eventually making a team with tokoyami, tsuyu, and Mei hatsume a student from support course who was originally trying to join izuku but uraraka told her that izuku was not looking for teammates.

No one else tried to join izuku and eventually 15 minutes.

…

Aizawa had just returned after getting himself a coffee and sat down and saw his students teaming up with others except for izuku, "looks like no one joined him huh," he said out loud.

"Actually," present mic began getting Aizawa's attention, "the kid didn't even try to ask anyone and even refused a girl from his class," he revealed making aizawa raise an eyebrow.

"Seriously, what's he trying to do now, this kid keeps on becoming more unpredictable," aizawa grumbled as he started to pay attention to what will happen next.

…

In the arena, izuku approached midnight getting her attention, and asked, "Excuse me sensei but I don't have a team can I still continue?"

Midnight frowned a little, "I'm sorry, but rules require you to have at least one person with you, you'll have to be disqualified," she said regretfully getting everyone's attention as they heard them for her mic.

"What he's going to be disqualified,"

"But he was doing so good,"

"Man, here I thought he would win,"

Different complaints came from the audience.

The student on the other hand.

"Man, this is good for us!"

"Yeah! 1-A just lost their best guy, right?"

"Hell yeah, now this will be much easier,"

Some students were happy while a few narrowed their eyes like Todoroki and bakugo who wanted to defeat izuku.

However, izuku had some tricks up his sleeve as he started speaking, "But sensei wouldn't that be unfair to me," he began confusing Midnight, seeing her confusion he continued, "Sensei, the second place has 250 points but I have 10 million points, obviously others would ignore me and making a team would be near impossible for me, so doesn't make things harder for me become unfair?" izuku brought up a good point as midnight winced a little at her mistake and asked

"so, what do you suppose we do, if I let you continue alone then things like mobility would become far too easy for you compared to the others, and that would be unfair for others as well," she said and izuku smiled again confusing everyone.

Izuku moved back and went to the center of the area, crouched a little, extending his left leg, and spun on his right making a small circle and facing midnight again, "in order to make things fair, how about you let me continue alone and in return I am not allowed to move out of this circle and if I do I'll be disqualified," he said shocking the others.

"What?! How will you do anything then?!" midnight asked what everyone was thinking.

"That's my problem, but tell me do these conditions make things fair?" he asked as Midnight stuttered a little and looked around to see all the students only to find surprised faces.

She finally looked at izuku and thought, "Well it does seem fair like that, and disqualifying the top spot after he pointed out the difficulty he had because of the rules would cause trouble," she sighed.

"Very well then, but remember, izuku you get out of that circle, you will be disqualified, understood," she said.

"Well, I did make the rule so yes I understand," he said calmly and Midnight blushed a little embarrassed as the audience and some students chuckled.

Since the rules seemed to favor other students and the opportunity to get 10 million points seemed to be easier, which is why none of the students opposed Midnight and izuku's agreement and let things happen.

…

"Can she even do that?" present mic asked aizawa after seeing Midnight change the rules.

"nothing like this ever happened in the past, so there aren't exactly any rules that stop her as the judge of the Competition, besides if nezu had any problems with that he would have stopped it by now," aizawa gave his opinion and present mic nodded.

"Okay, but still, how will midoriya do anything in that small circle, that's like a diameter of 6 feet," present mic said and aizawa leaned forward and narrowed his eyes as he said, "That's what I want to know,"

…

After seeing izuku's approach to his predicament nezu was impressed yet again, normally a student would try to convince someone to join them or give up, but izuku made a 3rd option but still the restriction of staying in that small circle made this worse than other two option.

"But if he put that restriction on himself then he must have a plan and I can't wait to see what it is," nezu thought not knowing the shock he was about to receive in a few minutes.

…

Hiroshi, izuku's possible future manager in the entertainment industry, was filled with worry after seeing the restriction to izuku, "how the hell is he supposed to win now!?" he thought panicked. As he munched on some snacks to relieve stress.

…

Down in the arena, Izuku looked around as he saw that everyone was ready for the 2nd round to begin.

He then went into the circle and sat down in the center in a defenseless position.

His left leg is in a Crossed leg position and his right leg is bent with his knee towards the sky, reaching his face. Izuku's left arm is behind him slightly to the left supporting his body weight and his right arm is resting on his right knee blocking the sight of his lips and closing his eyes.

most heroes and students watching were confused as to why izuku would sit in such a compromised position while the civilians didn't know what was wrong as they watched in anticipation.

Present mic, on the other hand, was more vocal with his thoughts, "LOOK AT THE POSITION MIDORIYA IS IN! THAT MAKES HIM COMPLETELY DEFENSELESS! WHY WOULD HE DO THAT!?" he brought up the question, making everyone including the civilians understand what was going on as whispers broke out.

Aizawa narrowed his eyes and decided to speak into the mic for the second time today, "It looks like," he began getting everyone's attention and continued, "it looks like it's his way of saying that even with the restriction to his movement, he doesn't feel threatened by anyone," he explained, as many widened their eyes in surprise as they realized what this meant, and for those who didn't understand, aizawa spoke again, "in other words, he is looking down on all his opponents," he confirmed and everyone widened their eyes in shock and surprise, while some of the students below also had rage in them. Particularly Todoroki and bakugo.

"H-HOW DARE HE LOOK DOWN ON ME! I'LL KILL HIM!" an extremely enraged bakugo growled out as he glared at izuku with rage in his eyes.

Todoroki on the other hand didn't say anything but the glare he gave izuku said that he was out for blood now if not before.

Izuku's other classmates were confused not knowing what to think, on one hand, izuku had been friendly and encouraging to everyone he interacted with and had been the most helpful student during the U.S.J., and on the other hand, if aizawa was right then Izuku also believed that he was far better then them, which made it confusing on what to think of him.

Students from other classes didn't feel confused in the least, after hearing the possibility that aizawa presented, they were all angry and swore to prove themselves by taking the 10 million points tied to his head.

…

Izuku whose eyes were closed after hearing aizawa, smiled a little, "guess he figured it out," he thought but then dropped his smile and went back into his meditative focus, with only one thought in mind, which is.

killing.

CHAPTER 3.6

"A-Alright is everyone ready?" midnight said as she looked around at the students nervously, "stupid aizawa, why did he have to open his big mouth, couldn't he have just kept his mouth shut like he always does?!" she complained in her mind as she was in the center of a very tense atmosphere, with many enraged teenagers.

Taking in a deep breath to calm herself she looked around to see everyone ready and again whipped the floor and yelled, "BEGIN!"

As soon as the students heard 'begin', all the groups ran straight towards izuku, with many battle cries.

"HAAAAAA!"

"YAAAAAA!"

"DIE!" this one was familiar.

At that moment the perception of time slowed a little for everyone in the audience as they watched how the collective attack on izuku would end up many believed izuku would lose.

However, at that moment izuku snapped open his eyes causing a reaction.

The moment he opened his eyes, all the students stopped in their tracks as the feeling of dread washed over them, in that moment some students who were acting as horses for their teams fell to their knees making the leader touch the ground, causing the teams to be disqualified, those who were still standing stayed rooted to their spots not moving an inch, with only one thought in their minds.

"W-What the hell, w-w-what's happening to me, I-I f-feel like my life is in danger!" they thought as beads of sweat rolled down their heads.

Right now, the source of this feeling of danger was radiating from izuku's entire being, yet no student could understand why they suddenly felt fear.

"What the hell is happening, right now my entire body is telling me to run away far from him!" some thought.

"I-I can't breathe properly, what's happening!" some others thought.

"w-what is this feeling?!" some more panicked.

The students were panicking and afraid of izuku including Todoroki and bakugo but they had the least problem.

"W-What's happening? This feeling of dread is filling me, but why?" Todoroki thought.

"W- What's this feeling? Why can't I move? It's like my body won't listen to me, and what's wrong you with this bastard?" bakugo thought looking at izuku.

Both boys weren't as panicked as the others, but they were nervous and afraid with the only visible signs being their sweating and their shaky hands, nevertheless, they still wanted to defeat izuku and were about to instruct their teammates to go toward him.

"Ida, kaminari, yaoyorozu, take me to him-" Todoroki didn't finish his instruction as he looked to see his teammates shaking in fear, and he realized that his teammates wouldn't be able to attack izuku.

Todoroki gritted his teeth in anger and frustration, but deep down a small part of him was relieved that he wouldn't have to go closer to izuku.

Things on bakugo's side were quite similar as well, and both teenagers decided to attack other teams to collect more points and told their teammates to withdraw for now.

…

While this was happening, things weren't the same in the commentators' booth as aizawa and present mic were looking at this turn of events. Unlike the students both had realized what was happening and the cause of their fear.

As soon as the students stopped in their tracks, present mic and aizawa were confused at first but then aizawa realized what izuku had done first and adopted a look of shock and present mic looked at him questioningly, "Do you know what he did?" he asked aizawa.

Before answering him aizawa pressed the button to turn off the mic and then uttered two words that shocked his friend.

"Killing intent."

…

Nezu had also realized that izuku was using 'killing intent' against his opponents, which was a good move, but there was one problem, "how can he utilize killing intent," nezu thought as he placed his cup of tea on the table and narrowed his eyes, this time he was serious and alarmed.

The reason for these reactions was because 'killing intent' isn't exactly a normal technique that anyone can just learn,

The art of 'killing intent' is a rare ability learned and utilized by a few people, the reason being the requirement to learn it. 'Killing intent' is shown in action movies a lot, which makes normal people think that just imagining or thinking about killing someone and glaring at them is enough to use it, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

To understand the requirements for learning 'killing intent' one must first understand what happens when 'killing intent' is being used.

'Killing intent' is used to force your willpower on others while filling your thoughts with the idea of killing making the weak-willed submit and succumb to fear by making them believe that they are under the threat of being killed.

There are two ways killing intent can be used, first is subconsciously which is accidental, and second is conscious which is only used by people who learned it.

Using 'killing intent' subconsciously is easy, accidental, and very rare, in most cases even the person doesn't realize that they are releasing 'killing intent'. This happens when a person is overwhelmed with so many negative emotions that either the user only feels rage and hate or that they can't even feel anything, and is truly willing to kill someone without hesitation. When these conditions are met at an intense level, a person can momentarily release 'killing intent' in a short burst without knowing.

On the other hand, using 'killing intent' consciously is much harder to do, because there are two requirements that need to be met and both are mental. The first is the mentality, people watch movies and believe that imaging or thinking about killing someone with a glare could create 'killing intent' but if that were the case then any middle schooler who daydreams about saving their school from a villain attack by killing all the villains and then get a kiss from their crush and a medal from All Might could use 'killing intent', no!

It's not that simple, the very basic requirement for learning 'killing intent' is to have the highest level of mental conditioning, a mind strong enough to stay unhinged even after actually killing someone, which itself is a frightening thing. If a normal person kills someone after being overwhelmed by emotions, they could break down later or move on in life but will forever drown in the guilt of their actions, that kind of mentality is not strong enough. This is why often 'killing intent' is used by people who have either become so mentally broken that they lost their emotions, or they have trained themselves to control and stop their emotions at will.

Nezu thought back to all the interactions he witnessed izuku have and concluded that if izuku could use 'killing intent' then that means he could control his emotions instead of losing them from any trauma he could have suffered in the past.

"If he can control his emotions then how did he learn to do it, another thing I need to find out," nezu sighed not knowing that aizawa was thinking along the same lines.

But izuku's ability to control his emotions was not the point of worry, the thing to worry about was the second mental requirement.

…

Aizawa watched as all the remaining students of the second round managed to back away from izuku and competed against each other, with no one daring to go anywhere near izuku.

"The first requirement is to have a strong mind that can shake away any guilt or hesitation, the second requirement is what's needed to create 'killing intent' at will," aizawa explained to present mic.

Present Mic knew about the existence of 'killing intent' and how rare it is, but between him and aizawa, only aizawa knew the details of the skill.

Aizawa saw that he had his friend's full attention and continued, "In order to create the intent itself the user needs to create the desire to kill their target, and it needs to be intense enough that it radiates from their presence, even if the desire is fake," aizawa explain as present mic widened his eyes in shock and looked at izuku.

"t-then does that mean midoriya wants to kill them?!" present mic asked in shock.

Aizawa shook his head, "No. As I said earlier, the desire can be fake," he said calming his friend.

"So how is that desire created, is midoriya just thinking about killing them or imagining it?" present mic asked still trying to accept that one of their students had such mental powers.

"Well, kind of, just imagining isn't enough, he must be visualizing or thinking about something or someone which angers him enough to want to kill," aizawa explained and present mic visually calmed down and sighed.

"I see, he isn't thinking about killing the students but just remembering something that makes him want to kill, that's a relief," Present Mic chuckled still a little nervous, but managed to calm down when aizawa nodded in confirmation.

However, he didn't know that aizawa had decided to hold some information on him so as to not worry him further, "What Mic said is right, remembering something that makes you want to kill is an option, but that's if you have something in your past that can still make you so angry, which is rarely the case which makes the second option more used, and that's worrying," aizawa thought not knowing that nezu was thinking about the second option as well.

The second option is more worrying because of its brutality, but it is more practical and easier to use. This method of creating that intense intent to kill requires the user to visualize killing their target, which is more practical because if 'killing intent' is targeting a specific person, then that person will be affected the most and this is the method izuku is using.

…

Right now, izuku's eyes were closed and no one was trying to approach him. Since he didn't actually want to harm anyone he had to pay extra focus on creating it, which is why he was sitting with his eyes closed, in his mind creating a very dark scenario, one that he will never let happen in reality.

In his intense imagination, he was killing every student who was in the cavalry battle. His imagination was frightening, as pools of blood and bodies covered the arena with the audience seats empty, and as soon as he killed the last student, he created another imagination killing them all over again.

Now in real life, izuku would never hurt any of them, and he didn't have the smallest of desire to hurt any of them, but visualizing this scenario was necessary since the more you don't want to hurt someone the harder it is to create 'killing intent' targeting them.

"Normally if I was fighting an actual enemy then creating 'killing intent' would only require me to flood my thoughts about killing them, but doing the same is not enough if I am targeting these guys who I have the duty to protect, so I have to go a little overboard," izuku thought and opened his eyes.

Izuku Midoriya's eyes have always reflected kindness and warmth, but currently, they are the furthest things from those feelings. Right now, what his eyes reflected was not hate, rage, or any other emotion, what his eyes held was emptiness and apathy, which is the result of him using 'killing intent'.

"It's a good thing that I can control my emotions and visualization through meditation, or things would be much harder," he thought.

…

Nezu sighed, "it's a good thing that only a handful of people know about the existence and truth of 'killing intent' even among heroes, or things wouldn't be so good," he thought.

It's the truth, most people think that 'killing intent' doesn't exist and is only a term used in movies and such, even among heroes only 10 in 1,000 would know that 'killing intent' exists and only 1 in 10,000 know the details of its uses and requirements since fighting opponents of that Caliber is extremely hard, only some of the top heroes get the chance to see the skill in action and walk away alive.

Right now, in U.A. High staff the only people who had witnessed the skill in action before were aizawa and All Might, the rest like nezu, Present Mic, midnight, and Recovery Girl had only heard about it from them.

But right now, nezu and Aizawa's dilemma was with the fact that there are a handful of pro heroes watching who could realize that izuku is using 'killing intent' which could result in many questions later on and more than that was the fact that izuku somehow learned to use the skill since not many people could use it much less teach it, there are a countable number of heroes who could use it.

Aizawa and nezu narrowed their eyes, "how did he learn it then, either way, I just hope this doesn't mean that midoriya is a flight risk. After all just being able to use killing intent doesn't make someone a villain or evil," they thought and indeed, 'killing intend' is just a skill, depending on how you use it and against who will decide if you're a villain or not, either way, both made a mental note to investigate about it later.

…

In the arena, izuku opened his eyes when only 5 minutes were left, he watched two specific people who he had hopes for.

"Todoroki-san and Bakugo-san, I know this level of 'killing intent' wasn't enough to stop you completely, so when will you strike?" he thought internally amused as he watched both boys sneaking glances at him, "well they might not be able to, their teammates don't have the willpower to resist my 'killing intent'," he thought.

…

Katsuki bakugo was not happy, he wanted to defeat izuku midoriya to settle the score with him back from 'battle trials' and the 'obstacle race', but his teammates couldn't muster up the courage to go close to izuku, and this confused katsuki greatly, "what the hell is up with that guy, and why do I get nervous when I go close to him," he thought confused and at that moment he was attacked.

"you 1-A brats need to pay attention to others as well," bakugo heard a taunting voice as he barely managed to block an attack from a blond boy.

"This guy, he's that extra from class B who came to the class that day," bakugo remembered and said, "What do you want," bakugo sounded uninterested while taking glances at izuku, which ticked monoma off.

"Would you look at that, acting all high even after losing to your classmate," monoma said knowing it would rub bakugo the wrong way, and just as he wanted, hearing his remark bakugo looked at him with a glare with full attention.

"What, I mean I would understand if that green-haired guy acted like this, after all, he really is pretty good, and having that strong quirk, he is pretty lucky," monoma said as he took a glance at izuku with some sweat rolling down his head remembering the feeling of fear izuku's presence gave him, "but I'll get him eventually," he said and looked at bakugo with a smirk and said, "at least he's better than you," monoma said enraging bakugo and told his team to run away.

Bakugo hearing the last part was filled with rage and told his team to run after Monoma's.

…

Izuku who was observing the interaction between them, chuckled a little, "Well looks like bakugo will be busy for the rest of the round,' he thought and looked at Todoroki and narrowed his eyes, "but what about you?"

…

Shoto Todoroki was not happy, he wanted to defeat his classmate Izuku Midoriya to prove to his father, the number 2 hero endeavor, that he didn't need his fire quirk to become the best, and that his mother's ice quirk was enough, but in order to do that, he now had to defeat izuku midoriya who had defeated him in the 1st round, but Todoroki's teammates seemed to have more trouble going near him than he himself did and this was angering him.

"Todoroki-san," he heard Ida call and looked at him questioningly.

"You want to defeat midoriya-san, right?" he said more than asking, "I have a way," Ida said confusing the rest of his team.

"And how are you going to do that?" Todoroki asked.

"There's a move I've been working on if I use that then I'm sure we can take his headband, all you have to do is snatch it, but I'll warn you, I'm going to overheat my engines and reach an insane speed, but the drawback is that I can only use it only once and then my engines will be disabled for 10 minutes and I can't use the move for an hour," Ida explained as his teammates listened intently.

Weighting his options Todoroki made and asked, "What about his presence, I can handle myself, but what about you guys, and Ida-san can you maintain your move in his presence?" he asked.

"I should be able to take us to him and get away in a few seconds, yaoyorozu -san and kaminari-san don't have to do anything, and I can handle myself

It took a few seconds but yaoyorozu replied, "I admit, his presence is scary totally different than his normal self and I don't want to go near him right now, but I also understand that this is a competition and I also want to win, I'll handle a few seconds, I have to," she said.

Kaminari followed, "Yeah, I feel the same way, let's go" he was nervous but still, he gave a smile.

Todoroki nodded and the entire team looked at izuku with determination as Ida prepared his move and Todoroki leaned down to snatch izuku's headband.

"Just remember, I'll be faster than you for 10 seconds so don't waste it," Ida said.

"I get it now go!" Todoroki said a little irritated at his speed being called inferior but stayed focused on izuku.

"This is it," kaminari muttered.

"I have to prove myself," Momo thought determined.

…

Izuku looked at team Todoroki facing him with serious expressions and blinked, "well looks like I have to get up," he muttered as he stood up and faced them with a somewhat serious expression and lowered the intensity of his 'killing intent'.

"let's see what you have to offer," he muttered to himself and tensed his muscles to react in time.

…

"WOAH! LOOKS LIKE TEAM TODOROKI IS GOING TO CONFRONT MIDORYIA! LET'S SEE HOW IT WILL GO!" Present Mic shouted as the audience focused on the confrontation between them.

…

Some students looked towards izuku as well including bakugo, who just finished dealing with monoma, he turned an eye towards them wondering how things would end.

…

"Here it goes!" Ida thought as he activated his quirk and izuku narrowed his eyes.

Izuku took in a deep breath and made a short analysis, "Looks like they want to use Ida-san's speed to take advantage." He thought, "Let's see, Ida-san once told me he needs at least 50 meters to reach his top speed and this is about 30 meters, and his top speed is about 60 to 65 kilometers an hour, but Todoroki-san has seen my speed being almost as fast so does that mean, Ida-san can go faster now?" he questioned himself and continued, "no I don't think so, even if he made progress, it couldn't have become so fast that they don't expect me to even react, unless," realization hit izuku as he raised his hands in basic combat stands reaching his head and he muttered, "he has a special move," and at the same time Ida reached his peak condition and used his ultimate move and his engine sent out blue flames he yelled.

"'Recipro Burst!'" he yelled and shot forward with great speed forcing yaoyorozu and kaminari off their feet and shut their eyes, while Todoroki did everything he could to keep his eyes open and take Izuku's 10 million points.

Izuku's eyes widened in surprise, as he watched Ida carry his entire team while reaching insane speeds and reach him, right in the face, everything slowed down for him as he watched Todoroki's hand centimeters from his 10-million-point headband and izuku made his move.

The audience and the students blinked and shock overtook them, some were shocked because their eyes could not keep up with the speed except one hero who was watching from the stands, displeased with his son's performance.

"The hell?!" bakugo thought shocked, his mouth was a little open, and then he gritted his teeth in anger, "how was the glasses that fast?!" he questioned himself but then gasped a little, "Wait did that half-an-half bastard take the 10 million points!?" he then started at Todoroki and quickly narrowed his eyes at seeing the result.

"What?" this thought was mirrored by everyone because Todoroki's outstretched hand was empty.

Todoroki was shocked and confused, he was trying to understand what happened as he had reached out for izuku's headband on instinct.

"w-what happened?" he heard Momo ask.

"Did you get it?" kaminari asked not being able to see Todoroki's hand from his position.

Ida was equally confused, "what happened did you miss it?" he asked.

"n-no I definitely got close to it but then something happened and I-I," Todoroki couldn't say anything, still trying to understand what happened when it clicked in as his eyes widened and he stared at his left forearm which was turning red.

"that's about 130 kilometers an hour," izuku said loudly startling everyone as they turned to see him.

Izuku didn't turn to look at team Todoroki and continued, "Ida-san I am honestly impressed, I didn't expect to face that kind of speed from anyone today, you almost defeated me," izuku complimented as everyone stared at him, "keyword being 'almost', in the end, that speed wasn't enough, my hands were next to my head when Todoroki-san reached me, and I was able to react in time and slap away his hand," izuku explained as everyone understood what happened.

Ida, yaoyorozu and Kaminari's expressions turned from confused to frustrated, and then they sighed lightly accepting their defeat.

Todoroki's expression turned from realization to frustration and then rage, "d-dammit," he gritted out but then noticed something and widened his eyes, "that presence is gone and his back is turned to us!" he quickly looked at the scoreboard to see izuku in the first place, then bakugo in second and himself in third, he then looked at the timer to see 12 seconds were left and looked down, "rush him again and throw me on him!" he exclaimed.

"What!?" his team said confused.

"don't question me just do what I say!" Todoroki yelled now letting his anger out on his team, and they complied.

"Fine!" they said and rushed forward and threw him on izuku.

"Just one second," Todoroki thought, "if I can take that headband in the last second and stay mid-air when the times up, I'll win but if I don't time it right then I'll lose,"

bakugo who saw him do that, understood his plan and clenched his teeth, "I won't be left behind!" he thought and used Kirishima's shoulders to jump up and propelled himself with his quirk towards izuku with the same plan as Todoroki.

In order to achieve the ultimate victory with 10 million points both boys made an all-or-nothing move.

Izuku who heard Todoroki's short argument with his team and then Bakugo's explosion quickly tilted his head both ways to see the boys coming towards him and realized he had stopped using his 'killing intent' when he was surprised by Ida's speed.

"I see," he thought narrowing his eyes and preparing a burst of intense killing intent, this time not for every student, but these two specifically which would result in both of them experiencing most of it on themselves alone.

As Todoroki and bakugo reached izuku the boy snapped open his eyes and suddenly the same feeling of dread and death washed over the other two but they weren't that weak-willed.

Clenching their teeth bakugo and Todoroki yelled out war cries at the top of their lungs.

"DIE!"

"HAAAAA!"

At that moment izuku understood that his two opponents wouldn't be defeated with 'killing intent' alone and he turned on his heel.

Only 5 seconds were left.

Bakugo prepared cocked his hand back and prepared an attack as izuku watched.

"a right hook, open palm for an explosion, he's predictable," izuku thought and looked at Todoroki.

Todoroki's right arm released ice fog and his open hand was downwards.

"An open palm uppercut to release ice, he's also predictable," he thought.

3 seconds left.

At that moment, izuku released all his 'killing intent' in a short but powerful burst, causing Todoroki and bakugo to lose focus and not activate their quirk on time, and izuku took advantage of that as he grabbed bakugo's leg with his left and pulled him towards the ground, while his right hand went to deliver an open palm strike on Todoroki's abdomen.

2 seconds left.

Bakugo managed to avoid touching the ground by quickly making an explosion with his left hand and managed to get away. However, Todoroki wasn't as lucky since instead of being pulled to the ground like bakugo, izuku's palm strike was pushing him down.

Time slowed down as all hope seemed lost for Todoroki, his eyes met izuku's, and he expected to see his apathetic and emotionless eyes he had when he used his 'killing intent' or his kind and warmth-filled eyes which he had most of the time, however, Todoroki's eyes widened in surprise when that was not the case.

Izuku had stopped using his 'killing intent' and when he made eye contact with Todoroki izuku wanted the boy to see what izuku really felt at that moment and showed his eyes filled with disappointment.

1 second left.

At that moment as Todoroki stared into izuku's eyes something ignited within him and on instinct without realizing his left side ignited with fire and pushed him upwards saving him from touching the ground.

Time up!

Todoroki's eyes widened as he stopped his fire quirk and fell to the ground on his back. He looked at izuku's whose eyes blinked for a second in confusion and realization, and after that then turned back to kind and warm.

"Good job Todoroki-san you took the 3rd spot," izuku congratulated him.

Todoroki blinked and looked at the scoreboard to see if izuku was right.

Indeed, team tokoyami was in the 4th spot, team Todoroki was in the 3rd spot, team bakugo in 2nd, and finally, izuku again 1st.

"Looks like Bakugo-san got quite a lot of points from Monoma-san," izuku said as he offered Todoroki a hand to help him stand up as his eyes returned to the normal their normal warmth look.

Todoroki looked at izuku's extended hand and an expression of anger came as he shoved izuku's hand to the side, got up, and walked away to his team.

Izuku looked at his back and sighed and then looked around, "well, I went a little too far with the 'killing intent' but I had no other option," izuku thought as he heard present mic finish calling him the winner of the 'cavalry battle' while complimenting his skills and appreciated the fact that he called izuku's 'killing intent' one of his quirk abilities so the people who don't know about 'killing intent' will not look into it.

"Well, that might not go well, since at the end of the festival I'll reveal my real restrictions," izuku thought as he took a glance at his quirk-canceling bracelets and walked to the midnight alongside the other students, again ignoring the glares bakugo and Todoroki are giving him.

"Congratulations to those who made it to the 3rd and final round of the sports festival, and those who didn't there's always next year," Midnight said, "now, normally only the top 4 teams will move on to the final stage, but since midoriya was alone we have decided to let the 5th place move forward as well," she said as the mentioned team perked up consisting of shinso Hitoshi, the student who declared war on izuku and class 1-A and got izuku's attention in the obstacle race, the second and third persons are izuku's classmate, Ojiro Mashirao a boy with blond hair and huge tail, and Yuga Aoyama a blond boy who can shoot Lazer from his navel, and the last student is from general studies like shinso.

"If anyone wants to give up you can do it right now," Midnight said and the general studies student gave up immediately. This wasn't a surprise, he didn't want to face izuku, Todoroki, and bakugo not to mention the other hero course students. However, the surprise came when Ojiro also gave up, saying that he didn't remember participating in the cavalry battle and didn't feel like he deserved to move forward.

"doesn't remember?" izuku thought and looked at his team's leader shinso, "did he brainwash his entire team?" izuku narrowed his eyes at the possibility but turned to hear midnight.

"Since two students have given up, Ibara Shiozaki and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu will take their places," she said and continued to explain the 3rd round, "the final round is going to be a 1-on-1 tournament match and of course all students will use their quirk for combat!" he said at the audience cheered at the last part.

Then present mic chimed in, "The 16 finalists will get one hour to rest before the matches, and till then the rest of the students will get to have fun in recreational activities!" he said as more cheers came.

CHAPTER 3.8

In the stadium, four individuals wanted to meet izuku.

The first person was Principle Nezu, who wanted to ask izuku about his display of superhuman physical abilities in the first round and about his 'killing intent' but he highly doubted that he would get an answer for that one.

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The other was Shouta aizawa, who wanted to confirm izuku's intention towards his schoolmates, even though he highly doubted that izuku wanted to hurt anyone since the boy had proven himself when he risked his life at the U.S.J still aizawa wanted to hear those words of confirmation from izuku himself.

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The third individual was Shoto Todoroki, who had decided to reveal his past to izuku after the boy had somehow forced him to use his fire side of the quirk, something he never intended to do. Todoroki wanted to make it clear to izuku that he would win against him without his fire powers.

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On the other hand, a certain flame hero named Endeavor was also on his way to meet Izuku Midoriya, he wanted to see the boy who forced his son Shoto to use his fire powers, even if for a moment, and he also wanted to investigate about the boy's mastery over 'killing intent' since endeavor himself wielded the technique and knew how hard it was to achieve.

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In the stadium there was another man who almost looked like a skeleton, he had blue eyes, and blond hair and he looked really weak which couldn't be further from the truth. This man had secrets only a handful of people knew about, and Izuku Midoriya was going to be added to that list soon.

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Izuku midoriya had just stepped out of the locker room, thinking about his upcoming battles, "I know I can beat any of the finalists, but Todoroki-san and tokoyami-san are the ones I need to look out for, my physical abilities are very limited without my quirk," he thought, "well tokoyami-san wouldn't be as much of a problem in the sunlight, but Todoroki-san is a different case," he thought as he remembered the huge ice attacks Todoroki used on the zero pointers in the first round, "if he uses those huge attacks then I won't be able to break them, in fact, I can't break any of his ice attacks without my quirk, I'll have to find a way around it and get in close quarters while avoiding any ice attacks, that's the only way," izuku thought as he sighed.

"If I hadn't learned 'total concentration breathing' I wouldn't have been able to increase my blood flow and reach superhuman levels of physical speed without my quirk," he thought remembering his display of speed and strength during the obstacle race and thought, "'killing intent' and 'total concentration breathing' are the only two combat skills in the world that can be used without a quirk, I'll have to use both of them to win in some of the battles ahead," he thought as the faces of some of his classmates in the 3rd round came to his mind, but instead of being worried, he smiled as one thought came to his mind.

"The real fun is about to begin,"