Here it is, the 115th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks released on time as always. The hot pot taste off is over and it is official, Class B has won and thus declared that Class A's punishment is going to be a Yaminabe. What is yaminabe? Well it's time to find out as Class A faces their punishment. Anyway, that is all the administrative stuff that I have for now and there are no guest reviews to respond to or questions to answer so I will end this note here. Do keep the reviews coming as I enjoy hearing from y'all. That is all I have for this pre chapter note so that means that it is time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the 115th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks.

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Chapter 115: Yaminabe

"What's yaminabe?" Adrien asked as both Marinette and Todoroki looked as confused as he was having not understood what the punishment was while a few others were suddenly on board with it. "Remember some of us aren't exactly experts with the finer points of Japanese hot pot culture."

"It's not really part of the culture but I have heard of it even if I've never experienced it myself." Izuku said helpfully. "It's something you see in manga and what not and is often used in the way that Monoma is proposing. Basically, yami means dark and nabe means pot so it literally means dark pot. In practice that means that we, as the losers, will be eating from a hot pot in complete darkness with no way of knowing what we are about to eat. That's why it is used as a penalty because people add things the you wouldn't normally expect in a hot pot and of course they don't really go together at all."

"I see, quite the punishment in deed." Ida said as he was one of the ones who didn't know what yaminabe was but now that he did he got the idea of it. "And fitting one for a hot pot taste off."

"When I first heard of it I thought someone was telling me that it was yummynabe not yaminabe, so I thought it was a yummy pot of food." Tsunotori piped up her voice eager and they all knew why, the American girl was a full on otaku, more so than any of the native Japanese kids in the Hero Course, so naturally she was excited by this new experience even if she'd misunderstood it at first. "Still can't wait to learn about it."

Even the rest of Class B, well most of them, were starting to get on board with the idea of doing one despite the embarrassment they felt at Monoma's actions and their failure to prevent him from going full Monoma during what was supposed to be a simple hot pot party. It helped that few of them had ever participated in a yaminabe though most had heard of it, so they were getting into the idea of doing one in real life and unlike Class A they didn't have to eat the contents of the pot.

Thus, the preparation of the punishment yaminabe began with Momo creating blindfolds for her class so that they could ensure that they saw nothing, as well as something extra for Adrien at Honenuki's order, while Class B huddled around a tabletop gas burner as they worked on the yaminabe. Bakugo had tried to get out of it and go to his room as he still didn't see this as legitimate but a little Monoma provocation that hit Bakugo right in the ego got him to return and get involved in accepting the punishment.

"Something smells sweet!" Ochaco said as all Class A could do was smell what was being cooked. "That's not too bad at least."

"It had better just be food in there because I heard something heavy hitting the bottom of the pot." Bakugo threatened. "If it's inedible I'm making whoever put it in eat it and then blowing them into next week, got it."

"Is that a rotten smell?" Izuku asked as he sniffed the air as Class B ignored Bakugo's threat. "No, maybe something fermented but what could it be?"

"We shouldn't be having anything like that." Ida pointed out. "We're too young for alcohol."

"Don't worry there's no alcohol in this." Kendo said to assuage Ida's doubts.

"Adrien, can you identify what's going in?" Marinette asked.

"Nope, they remembered my senses bugaboo." Adrien said in a nasally tone through a nose clip that he was wearing, made by Momo at Honenuki's insistence so that he couldn't smell out the foods either. "So, I get to be even more in the dark than the rest of you."

"Can't have Agreste sniffing out what we are putting into the pot." Honenuki said. "I still remember how he identified us in that test of courage, not going to let that happen again."

"And just to put you all at ease I am making sure that everything that is added is edible." Kendo said as Class A began to get a little more wary as the newer smells that didn't mix well together hit them. "Please trust me."

"I wouldn't be so quick to…" Monoma began before a chopping sound and a grunt was heard by Class A.

"Knock it off Monoma." Kendo said glad for the little light around the pot so that she could hit him. "You've got us into this mess and Class A graciously agreed to this insane punishment of yours, the least we can do is make it edible for them. It may not be palatable, I can't attest to that, but it will at least be something that they can eat without get poisoned or anything else seeing as we know what we're putting in the pot."

"A true feast of darkness." Tokoyami said seriously. "Worthy of the abyss, wouldn't you say Agreste."

"The abyss has many aspects." Adrien said. "This is but one of the ones those of us who have walked through it must face in time. The abyss challenges all of our senses, today it will be our sense of taste."

"A pitch black banquet my brothers in darkness." Kuroiro said with a grin, the dark room making him feel more comfortable than normal, same with Tokoyami though Agreste wasn't so much a fan of darkness in that sense, but he did understand the others better than even they knew and was more than willing to play along with their archaic natures. "A fitting setting for such a meal."

"A meal that is now ready!" Monoma suddenly declared triumphantly. "Let the yaminabe be served to the losers!"

"Hold on one moment." Kaminari suddenly said as the rest of the class pulled off their blindfolds, and in Adrien's case the nose plug thing, now that the meal was ready and about to be place before them on the table. "I gotta take a piss. Drank to much soda to wash down all those delicious hot pots and soup."

"Yeah me too." Ojiro said as Adrien repressed a gag as his heightened olfactory senses were assaulted by the stench emanating from the hot pot.

"Same, gotta use the little girls room." Mina added as she got up. "And I'm worried that mother nature is about to come a knocking."

"Et moi." Aoyama said as at least Mina's excuse was accepted by the girls who all knew what she meant. "But rest assured that the toilet will sparkle and twinkle when I'm done with it."

"I really don't want that image." Adrien said as he suddenly had a mental image of Aoyama pissing twinkles which he didn't want to have. "But now I have it and it's going to haunt my nightmares, I know it."

"You guys are chickens." Sero mocked.

"Yuga." Marinette said as she glared at the half French boy and using his first name which got everyone's attention as she'd only use it if she was about to switch languages which she did. "Ne faites pas prevue de courage Français, nous avons travaillé trop dur pour corriger ce stéréotype. Sois pas un putain de lâche, petite connasse."

"Oh, la la Marinette, quelle bouche." Aoyama replied sticking with French and acting as if her words hadn't affected him at all, but they did though not in the way that Marinette had intended them to or in any relation to his need for the bathroom. "Sur mon honneur Français je reviendrai. Franchement j'ai besoin de faire pipi."

"Ton honneur Français?" Marinette asked.

"Er Marinette there are exceptions to the rules for bodily functions and Aoyama did say that he needed to pee and as future heroes we should be truthful in what we say." Momo said in Japanese to try and calm her friend down as most were confused by the conversation though they knew that it likely wasn't PG as she only switched to French when she didn't want most of the class to know exactly what she was saying. "I get the insult to your culture and how Aoyama is clearly being stereotypical but I'm sure he and the others will be back."

"Oui mademoiselle." Aoyama said with a nod, he actually did need to pee though he did understand Marinette's point of view more than she knew. "I promise I'll be back; I really do need the bathroom."

"Yeah we'll chow down when we get back." Kaminari said. "But don't wait up on our account. It might get worse if it gets cooler."

"Which means that it will be worse for you morons." Bakugo said. "And you will be eating this, I'll make sure of it."

"Lâches." Marinette said with a shake of her head as they left carefully because the room was still dark, and they were nervous after Bakugo's statement, before she switched back to Japanese at last. "Adrien worked so hard to get us over the French stereotype and then this."

"Just let it be m'lady." Adrien said reassuringly. "We'll make sure they eat when they return, we all lost so we must all bear the punishment. Plus, it will be worse the longer it cools as Bakugo said as that will only add to it."

"Er what just happened?" Kendo asked. "And why did Marinette switch to French to speak to Aoyama?"

"She does that when she's pissed and doesn't want us to know what she's saying as it may be a little rude." Jiro said with a chuckle. "I take it that that wasn't exactly PG what you said Marinette."

"I called Aoyama a coward, well all of them at the end, and I also accused Aoyama of French courage." Marinette said. "An insult in a country like England which any Frenchman would take offense at, especially from a fellow native especially with that historical rivalry factored in. Admittedly I may have used some choice words there that I didn't want to speak in Japanese."

"Er yeah what does putain mean?" Momo asked. "I got what you were saying but that and connasse were beyond me."

"Um, well…" Marinette suddenly said getting hot as she realized that she'd have to try and explain her cursing as delicately as possible and of course Momo wouldn't have learned some of the more colorful language when she learned French. "Er, putain literally translates as, um, well, whore but in this sense I used it as a substitute for a vulgar word for sex as that is roughly how it would be used in a language like English. As for connasse, that's another word for a female dog."

"Oh…" Momo said going bright red as the classes stared at Marinette.

"Yeah see why I didn't want to speak it in Japanese." Marinette said flushing again. "But they are being them, so I had to call out Aoyama and the best way to do that was in my native tongue."

"Be that as it may." Ida said. "It's still a bit strong to fellow heroes."

"Perhaps but they needed it." Marinette said defensively. "A hero shouldn't be a coward and face a challenge head on and this yaminabe is a challenge."

"Well at least one of you understands the severity of this." Monoma said getting tired of all this and jumping in to remind them of the punishment that they were about to eat. "So, tell me Class A, are your ready for your yaminabe?"

"We are." Kirishima said manning up for it. "And as I was the one who really rose to Monoma's bait earlier and thus got us into this I will go first. It is only fair and what a man would do."

"Are you sure Kirishima?" Ida asked. "As class rep…"

"I am." Kirishima said as he picked up his chopsticks and stuck them in the yaminabe pot that they could all just about make out in front of them but couldn't see what they were eating and pulled something from the pot and then put it in his mouth and chewed on it, assessing it for the rest of the class as he ate. "Hmm, what is this? It's limp and a bit soggy, I smelt a vegetable scent to it before eating it as well so it's gotta be a veggie of some sort. Gotta admit that it's not too bad, tasty even."

"That's got to be the spinach I tossed in." Tetsutetsu said with a grin at how Kirishima got his addition. "It'll power you up."

"Huh something good for the body, thanks man." Kirishima said.

"Wait, that mistake is still prevalent these days?" Marinette asked shocked. "I would have thought that they'd have corrected it by now."

"Marinette, don't you mean in Japan?" Momo said quickly realizing that Marinette had slipped up. "I think it's something cultural there that's affecting your translation and you're probably still calming down from a moment ago."

"What?" Marinette asked before she suddenly realized what she had said and corrected herself. "Right, sorry, cultural differences as the mistake was made by a European and I'm not in Europe anymore so I just presumed that it had been corrected."

"What are you talking about Dupain-Cheng?" Tetsutestu asked.

"Spinach." Marinette said. "I heard that its not as good at building muscles as everyone says it is."

"She's right." Adrien said. "It's one of history's most famous clerical errors that never really got corrected in popular culture. The German chemist who first deduced the iron content in spinach placed the decimal point in the wrong place giving it 10 times as much iron as it actually has. Thanks to some pre Quirk wars cartoons, I think as they don't exist anymore, this myth around spinach became popular and has persisted to this day."

"Huh I didn't know that." Kirishima said. "Still, thanks for looking out for me buddy even if it's not true because spinach is healthy regardless."

"Meh I didn't know either so it's a fair mistake." Tetsutetsu said. "But damn, I eat a lot of it to keep up the iron in my diet. Going to have to fine another source of iron."

"Well, you can deal with that later, I know I'll be confirming this myself, but I trust Agreste's assessment there." Ida said moving the situation along as he picked up his chopsticks. "But as class rep I should go next."

With that Ida stuck his chopsticks in the yaminabe pot and felt around a bit until he got something solid in them. Once he did he pulled it out and carefully raised it to his mouth and ate it, chewing carefully to assess it.

"It's quite, I don't know how to say this, mushy, sticky, no, maybe gloopy is the right word for it." Ida said as he ate. "Almost as if eating pure gluten."

"You know what pure gluten tastes like?" Adrien asked confused. "Who eats gluten raw?"

"Oh, that must be the body of our Lord and Savior…" Shiozaki began.

"A body?" Ida asked shocked at what was being said. "But there's no meat taste to it, what on…"

"Bread Ida." Marinette said. "Shiozaki put bread in the yaminabe and no doubt it became gloopy from soaking up the broth in there. In our faith, and yes I am nominally Christian even if I don't really practice these days unlike Shiozaki, bread symbolizes the body of Christ while red wine is his blood. It is part of holy communion, the final supper that Jesus had with his disciples before he was betrayed and arrested and is central to the act of worship."

"Correct." Shiozaki said. "I cannot have His blood except during communion, but I added some of His body to the yaminabe. It is my favorite food after all and a spiritual offering to this punishment."

"Wait so Christians believe that bread and wine is really the body and blood of Christ?" Ida asked confused.

"Depends on the denomination." Adrien said. "And that's a whole theological debate for another time and place."

"Yeah it's all beyond me." Ochaco said as she picked up her chopsticks and deciding to move on the punishment by going herself. "It's my turn now."

Ochaco made her random pick quickly, she managed to find something pretty hard in the yaminabe, and pulled it out. She quickly put it in her mouth and cautiously bit into it to find that it had a satisfying crunch. Almost at once she knew what it was.

"Cucumber." Ochaco said. "Not too bad."

"Correct, that was my contribution." Yanagi said.

"Pretty good then." Ochaco said as she ate it. "I was a little worried but it's not too bad though I can't say the same for the soup that it was in."

"Well seeing as it's getting going may as well give it a shot." Tsu said as she went next and pulled out something very solid with her chopsticks and proceeded to put something hard in her mouth and by hard it was really hard. "Huh, seems like a hard candy only it's a bit off and not because of what else is on it."

"That's because it's a lozenge, shroom." Komori said with a chuckle. "My own contribution to the pot, shroom."

"Actually, it's pretty good once you get past the broth though that is still lingering." Tsu said as her long tongue worked on the lozenge while Tsuburaba flushed at what the lozenge was going through having been fully wrapped in Asui's tongue himself. "Still an odd choice for a yaminabe but not an unpleasant one."

"No mushrooms, Komori?" Adrien asked as he went next deciding that this was worth a test and as the smells were so varied from the strange mix in the yaminabe he had no idea what he was going to eat.

"Shroom, no cuties today." Komori said shaking her head as Adrien found something that was firm enough to grab with the chopsticks but still felt soft. "I found some nasty fungi earlier so gotta dispose of them safely as they're not something that should be eaten so I didn't want to risk mixing them up and I didn't want to use my Quirk."

"Fair enough." Adrien said as he popped his selection in his mouth and chewed the soft, strange thing that was the main flavor even if it was surrounded by a disgusting broth while trusting that anything fungus related was best left to Kinoko Komori. "Hmm, I believe that this is a tomato."

"Mm." Kodai said letting everyone know that it was her contribution to the pot which made sense as it was her favorite.

"Alright my go." Sero said taking up his chopsticks and picking out something that was mushy, soft and yet had a noticeable crunch and skin to it which gave it away quickly as he ate it. "Apple? This doesn't go well in a yaminabe."

"Yes that's what I put in." Tsunotori said happily. "I put it in because I love apples plus in anime people are always putting fruit in yaminabe, so I wanted to put my favorite one in there."

"Another apple lover, that makes three." Tokoyami said thinking of Eri and how now there was a trio of fans though with Tsunotori it made a lot of sense given her equine appearance and style.

"Guess I may as well try this." Todoroki said with a shrug that no one saw as he pulled something out of the pot and proceeded to crack his teeth on it when he tried to eat it that prevent him from saying anything more.

"What was that noise?" Ida asked.

"Sounded like your teeth." Izuku said worried. "I hope you didn't crack them, Todoroki."

"No, I don't think so, but that was definitely a shell." Todoroki said after he spat out the item onto his plate and poked at it with his finger. "Though there is something soft coming out the of it that likely can be eaten but the shell can't be."

"Muscle?" Ida asked. "Oyster? Clam? What could it be?"

"Wait." Marinette said as something hit her about the explanation. "Is it still attached and is the shell swirled?"

"Yeah." Todoroki said surprised at it. "I've never had anything like it and it's definitely not seafood. The shell isn't an oyster's or a clam's but something I don't know."

"That would be my contribution." Monoma said with a cackle. "It's…"

"Escargot." Marinette said her accent thick with the word as it was in her native tongue while also helping to take the wind out of Monoma's sails at one of his two additions to the pot. "Had to be based off Todoroki's description."

"Escargot?" Todoroki asked confused. "What's that?"

"Snail." Marinette translated. "A French delicacy that I shared with the girls once, really nice with a bit of garlic. Well, at least that's what escargot is to me though I do know other cultures eat snails as well."

"Oh yeah it was good." Ochaco said. "But the shell isn't edible, you use a little tool to get it out that was kinda fun to do."

"Damn it Monoma." Kendo said wanting to whack him again but unable to as it was dark. "I said nothing inedible."

"Technically only the shell is." Monoma said. "The insides…"

"Should have been removed and then added." Kendo said. "We don't have the special tool for that."

"I can make it; I remember the one I used at Marinette's." Momo said.

"It's fine just leave the snail." Kendo said. "I'll deal with Monoma later."

"Hey…" Monoma began.

"That is how it should be done and not this cultural insult of putting it shell and all into the hot pot." Marinette said interrupting Monoma as she reached out her chopsticks for the pot. "It would have been fitting if you'd removed it though, a good touch for us what with Adrien and I in the class but oh well let's move on. I may as well see what all this is about."

It took Marinette a moment to get something as the first thing she tried to grab slipped through the chopsticks thought that could be her own continued lack of skill with the utensils. Finally, though, she managed to gently grab something and pull it out of the pot and ate it just before her chopsticks slipped through it. Instantly she had a base of what she was eating.

"Meat." Marinette said surprising everyone as she ate it. "But not like that really tasty beef from the sukiyaki. More minced and well cooked, too well done for my tastes."

"That would be the hamburger meat." Kamakiri said. "I added that."

"Yeah not my kinda thing, we French like our meat a lot rarer." Marinette said. "And the way the soup has seeped into the meat really doesn't do it any favors."

"Oh, how does the soup base taste?" Tetsutetsu asked seeing his opening. "I've been wondering about that."

"Dunno, kinda hard to give it an exact flavor." Sero said as he thought back on it. "Can't really explain it to someone who hasn't tried it."

"Then give me some." Tetsutetsu said.

"Here." Todoroki said more than willing to let some of Class B have the concoction they'd made for Class A as he used the ladle to scoop up some of the soup. "Have some then."

"Yeah only a real man would have some." Mineta, who had yet to have any of the yaminabe, said to goad Tetsutetsu a bit.

"Guzzle it." Sero added as Tetsutetsu rose to the bait and putting a good portion into his bowl before smelling it.

"Oh man that is some nasty smell, almost makes me lose my appetite." Tetsutetsu said which they all agreed with though Adrien didn't point out that to him this was a full on nasal assault from whatever Class B had mixed together in the pot. "But down the hatch like a man."

With that Tetsutetsu drank the concoction from the bowl in a generous gulp. That was almost immediately followed by a hacking cough and splutter of disgust as he tried to fight back his vomit from what he'd just ingested.

"Idiot." Bakugo said with zero sympathy for the metalhead.

"Ok the only way to describe this is gross." Tetsutetsu said as he gagged. "Monoma, you gotta try it, it's real nasty. Fitting that you came up with this punishment I'd say."

"What part of punishment do you not understand." Monoma said. "I suggested the yaminabe because it is a penalty punishment for losing, there's no way that I'm going to subject myself to it."

Still, Tetsutetsu felt that the yaminabe that they'd made was so bad that he had to share the misery he'd been through with his classmates and began to go around them with his bowl offering it to them. All they had to do was take a bite to prove that it was nasty however only Honenuki, Bondo, and Fukidashi felt enough guilt at what Class A was going through because of them, well mainly because of Monoma but he was still their responsibility, to try it and each had a spoonful.

"Vile." Honenuki said.

"My glue tastes better than this." Bondo said which given how his Quirk made sense as he was bound to get some of it in his mouth at times.

"Makes me want to hurl." Fukidashi said as his speech bubble head made a sick emoticon on it that no one saw.

"May I try some?" Tsunotori asked as she was beyond curious now and really wanted to sample another aspect of Japanese culture directly however when she had what they'd made for Class A it was so bad that she reverted back to her native English as she gave her opinion on it. "No, no, I can't stand this at all. I see why this is a punishment."

"Kendo?" Tetsutetsu said as Class A enjoyed the rest bit and watched Class B suffer at their own hands for a bit, well some of them. "As class rep will you try some?"

"I guess I should at least know what we've subjected Class A to." Kendo said as she took a sip and gagged loudly on it. "Oh god that is revolting, I agree makes you want to barf. How, how can this be bitter and sweet, pungent and sour, spicy and cold all at the same time. This is nasty as f for sure."

"Well, the bitterness has to be that black coffee you added, Itsuka." Tokage said with no desire to taste the concoction that they'd made for Class A as it was their punishment for losing the taste off. "While I am sure that my natto is what made it so pungent."

"Don't forget Rin's fermented tofu." Awase added revealing what the fermented smell was. "That's got to have been responsible for some of that."

"Not to mention Shoda's honey, that's gotta be why it's sweet." Kaibara said. "And I put in ice cream, which is why it's also cold, not that I'll try that mix myself."

The others in Class B agreed with this and also began to mention what was in it much to those in Class A who hadn't had it yet's displeasure as they were now aware of what else was in the yaminabe. There was chocolate cake, potato chips, strawberry milk, a banana, pineapple pieces, and plenty more food in it that shouldn't be in a hot stew or anywhere near one. It was as if a bunch of children had made it out of whatever they liked or could find, which wasn't far off, and there was no way that the mix of good on their own foods wasn't going to be nasty when they were all combined together and heated up.

Still, it was a punishment and with the solid ingredients now consumed there was just the broth left and so the remaining members of Class A that had yet to have it, mainly Izuku, Bakugo, Momo, Tokoyami, Jiro, Koda, Mineta, and Hagakure, all had some as well. As with Class B they all nearly gagged on what they'd just consumed. The results were conclusive, as a punishment the yaminabe was a complete success.

"Damn did I need that; mother nature really is a bitch with her timing." Mina said as she, Ojiro, Kaminari, and Aoyama returned at last from what had to be a competition for the world's longest piss. "Let's do this."

"Alright then…" Tetsutetsu said but as he was going to scoop out some more of the broth there was a scraping sound that confused him.

Quickly the lights were turned on at that and it was revealed that the pot was completely empty. They'd actually managed to finish the vile thing which certainly said something to their dedication to the punishment while also making all of Class A pissed at the 4 who'd avoided it by going to the toilet.

"Aw, I actually did want to try some." Kaminari said as he saw the empty pot.

"Really?" Monoma asked with a side eyed look at Kaminari. "I didn't take you for a schemer Kaminari."

"I'm not." Kaminari said and none of his Class thought he was mainly because he wasn't bright enough to be one though they wouldn't tell him. "I actually did want some, it's not every day that you get to try a yaminabe after all."

"I know you're shady Monoma, but you don't have to suspect foul play from everyone else just because you do it." Mina said crossing her arms and glaring at Monoma as Aoyama looked offended at the suggestion though he had also been chastised by Marinette in French which didn't help. "I really did need the bathroom because my period decided to come up today and if you want I can prove it. Stop projecting yourself onto us."

"Well, whatever your motives were the fact remains that some of your class evaded the penalty." Monoma said without any fear or issue in his tone as he wasn't going to be rattled by Class A or Ashido's attempt to use a natural female bodily function to disturb him. "But then again I should have expected it from such a gang of repro…"

Monoma was cut off by the now expected chop to the neck from Kendo, which she'd been wanting to do for a while now but couldn't until the lights were up again. Monoma grunted as he fell forward, but Tetsutetsu caught him and threw and arm around his shoulder to support his friend and make sure he didn't do anything more insane than he'd already done.

"Sorry about all that." Tetsutetsu said. "Monoma's not a bad guy, really, he just can't help the trash talk when we all get together. You know how he gets and after you lot routed us in the joint training exercise he's been looking to settle the score for a while."

"It's hardly trash talk." Monoma said as he recovered and extricated himself from Tetsutetsu's grip. "I'm simply pointing out that this mustn't sit well with our dear friends and future colleagues in Class A, it certainly didn't for Dupain-Cheng, we all heard that even if only some of us understood it. I know for a fact that we wouldn't accept it if members of our own class sneakily avoided a penalty punishment after being defeated fair and square."

"Now listen Monoma I did need…" Ojiro began but Monoma was already back in full swing and going for the jugular again.

"So of course, you lot can't except it either." Monoma said as he pointed to Class A. "The four skippers must have been so eager to face the penalty as well or else why would they have left for such a long time? I say that we need another contest to settle this."

That got both classes to stare at him as Monoma grinned his unhinged grin showing that the only way to stop him at this point was to knock him out and tie him up which they didn't really want to do, just yet at least. Monona clearly wanted to completely humiliate Class A even further and drink their sweet, sweet, tears but only he really wanted it anymore. The rest just wanted to relax and chat after all that they'd eaten.

"Another contest?" Ida asked confused. "We've already had one though. Class A lost and we accepted our defeat and paid our penalty with that yaminabe so let it lie."

"Enough of all that Monoma." Kendo said. "We're fed up with your nonsense. We're…"

"Fine, you want another contest you copycat bastard, we'll give you one." Bakugo said as he wasn't going to take this lying down, especially after losing the first one and having to go through a punishment that racoon eyes, sparkles, tail, and the princess had avoided while he'd suffered it. "And this time we're going to achieve total victory over you extras."

"Just what I want to hear." Monoma said with a grin knowing that he could always count on Bakugo. "Then for our next arene, it will…"

"No, not this time." Bakugo said his tone brokering no arguments. "You knew you'd win that hot pot shit because you had sukiyaki and that fancy fish one so this time we will be selecting the battlefield. There's no way that I'm letting you chose the field a second time."

"Bakugo, let's not get too hasty right now." Ida said. "Besides, if we have another contest then when will we get around to our original plans to discuss work studies and training this semester."

"Shut it four eyes." Bakugo snapped as he grinned at Monoma and declared the next contest. "It's time for a sauna showdown."

I think I'll leave this chapter off here with another nice fun cliffhanger before the final chapter in this unintended 3 part hot pot party arc. I had planned on it being just one chapter, but the material is really long and there are 3 clear phases to it what with the taste off, the yaminabe, and what is about to come which is going to be just as interesting as the others I assure you. As such rather than give you a 15k chapter, which with my other active stories would have been next to impossible to produce in a week, I broke this up into 3 more manageable shorter chapters to enjoy each aspect in its own right. It also ensures that the special 16 chapter time skip original content arc starts a week later (and closer to the release of the 6th school briefs book) and thus continue my ability to be able to avoid catching up to the anime, which I now expect to catch up to sometime in the 7th and likely final season when it comes out. Anyway, that is all that I have for this chapter so I will leave it off here. As always, if you like it or have any questions please let me know in reviews or PMs, I will try to answer them as best I could and post any questions asked between uploads at the start of the next chapter and do follow and favorite this, so you are alerted to future uploads. Do keep the reviews coming as I like hearing from y'all as you enjoy my work, it motivates me to keep producing the best work I can for y'all to enjoy. Until next time.

Stringdog