Chapter 15: Sports Festival, Part Two
I could only give him my most sympathies as I tries to ignore the increasing tensions between the students. I am so glad that I didn't finish first… no way I'll be able to handle such pressure.
After announcing that supposed death sentence, Midnight continues on, "The match will last 15 minutes. Each team are determined by its members." The holoscreen behind her then shows the figure of four of our teachers with All Might as the 'rider' while Present Mic, Thirteen and Snipe forms the 'horse' under him, "The rider will wear a headband displaying the total number of points! Until the match ends, you'll all compete to grab each other's points while maintaining the ones you have. Any headbands you grab must be worn no lower than your neck."
"However! The more headbands you get, the harder they'll be to manage!" She warned, "And most importantly, even if your headband is taken, or if your horse formation is broken, it's not over until it's over!"
"Damn, that's going to leave room for some pretty innovative moves…" I heard someone in the crowd spoke within the countless murmurs popping up left and right, but didn't see who've said that.
"Quirks are allowed, so it'd be a brutal battle!" She points out, "However, it's still a CAVALRY BATTLE! Malicious attacking another team with the intent of making them fall will get you a red card! And that means you're out of the game!"
"Tch, so close…" I heard Taikou speaking in the crowd with a click of his tongue. He really wanted to use this chance to kick Bakugou, huh?
"You've got fifteen minutes! Time to form your teams!"
"What, fifteen minutes!?"
Except for a few who are mumbling about the short time limit, the rest of us all separate to look for people to team up with.
For me, I think I work best as part of the horse. Unlike some of my classmates, mine is best used if speed is necessary. So being the running person is best suited for me.
I glance over to Bakugou, who is getting a lot of offers to join up from our classmates, with a few exceptions that are pretty obvious. I also see Midoriya in the crowd, or lack of considering the fact that pretty much everyone is avoiding him like the plague. I don't blame them. As enticing having ten million points at the start may be, that just puts you at a severe disadvantage once that bandana is stolen. A double-edged sword, if you will.
My eyes immediately avoided his when he looks over at me. Sorry Midoriya, but you're not the only one who is planning on winning.
Additionally, amongst the crowd is Taikou who is around his classmates who seem to be discussing some kind of strategy with the blonde kid, Monoma Neito if I remember correctly, acting as the lead strategist of sorts. If I'm not mistaken, in the plot of the manga/anime, Class B used the whole Obstacle Race as a means to evaluate Class A's abilities and then use that information to attempt to beat us in this match. I guess Taikou would be part of that group too…
That's a huge bummer. I wanted to ask if we could team up, but guess that's not happening…
"Hey, Genko."
A voice calls out to me as Shinsou walks up to me, "Do you want to team up?"
I stare at him for a moment, he lets out a sigh while rolling his eyes, "No, I'm not using my quirk on you right now."
"…"
"Yes. I'm sure."
"…If I don't remember any of this match, I'm blaming you."
"…"
"…"
"…See?"
"Okay, fine." I let out a small laugh at his exasperated expression, "Just have to make sure. I still remember those blank moments when you made me do stuff that I still have no idea what you did because you guys still won't tell me."
"It was… not my finest moments, no…" He mumbled with red cheeks, "Anyways, I want to ask if you'd want to team up with me?"
"Team up? What happen to all that talk yesterday?" I asked, "Didn't you say–"
"I know what I've said." He tells me, "But with how this match priorities teamwork over individual competition… I'm willing to swallow my pride and ask for help."
"True, but why ask me? I mean, there's Midoriya–"
"I'll get mobbed within the first minute if I join up with him." He points out, "That, and I think I'll perform better with some familiar faces."
"But won't that just show the pros that you can't work with people outside your circle of friends?" I pointed out, "It might affect your opportunity to get into the Hero Course."
"Then I'll just have to perform really well in the finals to make up, right?"
"…" I let out a small sigh as a smile creeps onto my face, "Alright. I'm in! I take it that you're the rider and I'm the horse?"
"That's the plan." He nodded, "Then we need two more… If he hasn't joined any other teams…" We both look around the crowd for anyone we could ask, just as Taikou runs up to us, "And speak of the devil…"
"You guys forming a team?" He asks, "Mind if I join?"
"That's… came out of left field." I stated, "Weren't you going to form up with your class? I mean, I saw you guys talking over there and…"
"Yeah, but honestly…? Monoma can go suck his own dick, for all I care." He pointed out, "He's a little too into the whole Class B vs Class A thing that Vlad-sensei came up with during our first week of the semester."
"I didn't know that was a thing." Shinsou stated.
"It is. Got 'reprimanded' by him for 'fractalizing' with the 'enemy' a few times now. Honestly, I'm hoping to use this match as an excuse to beat him in his own game."
"Which means you rather team up with anyone except your own class." I added with a sigh, "Are you sure that's a good idea…? Despite Monoma there, they are still your classmates."
"I've told them how I feel, and they accepted it." He points out, "At least… I think they did…?"
"Taikou…"
"What's done is done, Genko." Shinsou tells me, "Best if we just roll with what we got, which is we are still missing one more person to form our horse."
With that said, we took another look around to see if there's any one still not in a team. I think I saw Tsuyu with Shoji so she's out, and Pony is with her class so she's out too… I then notice amidst the crowd while standing alone with his long muscular tail slumped over his shoulder, looking a bit dejected. He could work. With his tail and Taikou's flames add to my speed…
"Hey, Ojiro-san!"
Soon enough, fifteen minutes are almost up and all of us has formed a team with each other, more or less. Didn't see who Aoyama teamed up with, though…
I let out a huff as I felt the weight of my friend's shoes on my hands, with the bright and warm morning, nearing noon, sun shining down on the stadium while I feel the tingling feeling of the electricity circulating through me. I've absorbed to my maximum voltage moments ago and has a full charge running. Give or take, it'll last probably through the whole round but I've still has a couple batteries on standby in my pockets just in case.
After recruiting Ojiro, although considering that almost no one seems to be keen on teaming up with him, sadly he didn't really have many options; we all discussed and agreed on the formation just before fifteen minutes are up.
The 'rider' would be Shinsou, with his quirk being a mental one than physical meaning he would serve better as the 'rider' than being part of the 'horse'. That, and the rest of us serve better as being his mount. As for the 'horse' part of our formation, we decided on it based on two key knowledge of our team.
One, Ojirou's tail would best function at the back so that's a no brainer.
And two, Taikou's quirk would be disastrous if he is anywhere besides the back so that's too is a certain.
That leaves the front open, which I ended up being that and to be honest, isn't that big of a deal but it does give us a big weakness in our formation. For one, I'm technically shorter than any of them, even Ojirou is a good few inches taller than me. But luckily, the difference isn't that distinct. Mostly, it's just the matter of our 'seat' being slightly sloped forward.
As such, our 'horse' is as follows: I'm the front, with Taikou on the left while Ojirou handles the right. Our formation is one that focus most on mobility, with two of us being speedsters of some kind, with our other blonde classmate being the outlier to act as an all-rounder support to us.
Which is why I'm surprised no one even considered teaming up with him. Despite him being not that flashy or overpowering compared to our two most powerful classmates, he is definitely someone that would be a great addition to the team, especially in such a situation like this where his extra appendage could come in handy.
"Am I too heavy for you?" Shinsou suddenly asked. He has his bandanna around his head, with our total points of 665 displayed in bold red numbers.
"I can handle it." I tell him with a grin, "Besides, you're not that heavy."
"Hey, for the record, I've gained some muscle too, you know!"
"Really? Because you still looked as thin as you were in middle school." Taikou noted.
"Um… Just for clarification." Ojirou chimes in, "We're not going after Midoriya, right?"
"It's our best option." Shinsou noted, "With how the game is laid out, the fastest way to get into first is to take the ten million as quickly as possible. That's what everyone would probably be doing once the round start. Instead, we'll hang back and steal from those who didn't head for him right away."
"Ah, and just to add, Monoma will be stealing from Class 1A first." Taikou added.
"Well, I doubt he'll come to us right away." I pointed out, "Shinsou is from the General Course and Taikou is his classmate, and if his stance on the whole Class 1A vs Class 1B is as you said, we're the last group of people he would steal from."
"Any plans on how to tackle this?" Ojirou asked.
"We'll run in, take the headband, and get out." Shinsou explains, "No need to get into a scuffle with anyone. We'll focus on getting as much points as we can."
"So then, guerrilla tactics?"
"Guerrilla tactics." We affirmed to Ojirou, who simply shrugs and nodded.
"Formed your teams? Made your plans? Too bad if you haven't!" Midnight signs off, "Here we go! The countdown to this brutal countdown!"
I steady myself as my aunt starts to countdown the last few seconds. Okay, Genko! Time to get your game face on!
"Three!"
I hear Shinsou cracking his knuckles above me.
"Two!"
I can feel the heat radiating from Taikou's legs.
"One!"
I suck in a deep breath as I push back one of my feet.
"START!"
Almost immediately, two teams already make a dash for Midoriya's group as predicted: Tetsutetsu's group and Toru's group.
Everyone else also made their move, us as well as we start running away from the scramble that is about to come. "Okay, who's our first target?" Taikou asked.
"It'll be best if we stay away from Bakugou and Todoroki." I pointed out, "At least, at the moment–"
"Hey, hey!"
We all quickly turn and moved, barely dodging a running behemoth that nearly run us through in his rampage. A large burly teen that seems to have fur all over his body with his face being the exception, being rode by a Chinese-looking teen donning a braid who seems to be growing scales out of his forearm, "No offense, Taikou! But we'll be taking your points!" He then fires said scales right at us.
I quickly warns our rider, "Shinsou, duck!"
"No shit, sherlock!"
I felt movement above me, probably Shinsou dodging said scales that also nearly hit me as a few came close to hitting my leg if I didn't move them out of the way. "What do we do?" Ojiro asked.
"Rush forward!" Taikou replies, "Shishida has speed down, but if his basically a running tank! Great in acceleration, but sucks at tight turns!"
"Got it!" I immediately runs forward. I felt the heat from Taikou's legs and the sound of Ojiro's tail hitting the floor as the weight tilts upward and forward, the lack of weight allowing me the go as fast as I could and it's exactly what I did. The surroundings speed past me as I moved past the large behemoth before skidding and turning our entire formation a full 180 as we all stopped.
"Looking for something?" Shinsou said. Even without looking, I knew he has snatched the Chinese student's headband and is gloating at the fact.
"Wh-Wha…!? H-How did you–!?" The student then froze on the spot with blank empty eyes, clear signs of Shinsou's brainwashing in effect.
"Love to stay for a tussle, but we've got to run." He stated, "Now, fire your scales downwards."
The three of us then runs away as I heard the burly teen cry out in shock in the background. "Do you really need to gloat?" Taikou asked.
"It works, didn't it?" He asked, "Besides, with how hot-blooded these people are in this match, it's the best way for me to use my quirk."
"You got a point there…"
"Barely two minutes have passed, and the battlefield is already in chaos!" Present Mic announces, "With everyone scrambling for headbands, it's not just the ten million out there! Those other high rankers are worth a shot, as well!"
"Ah, damn. I've forgotten about that." I noted worriedly. Forget Monoma's desire to outdo Class 1-A, our team has both the second and third placed students from the race! And with our combined points ranging in the six-hundreds, it makes our headband as much as a price as Midoriya's!
A sudden swoosh can be heard and I head a grunt from Shinsou, "What was that!?" I asked before I stepped on something that to sink my feet into, "What in the…!?" I look down and to my surprise, found my leg covering in some kind of mucus-like substance, "What is this!?" I tries to move my leg to find it stuck in place, "I can't get out!"
"That's…!" I heard Taikou cried in surprise meaning that it much from someone in his class. But the whole mucus thing seems familiar…
"Got them, Monoma!" Someone shouted as I manage to turn my attention to one of the team close by, the mount made of a large teen at the front with the weirdest looking head I have ever seen while the back on the right is our blonde American transfer student Pony Tsunotori while the left is the teen with what seems to be a manga-speech bubble for a head, being rode by a rather cute wallflower-esque teenage girl.
With how the mucus is leaking out of his mouth like that, the substance must come from him.
"Thanks, Bondo!" I heard someone shouted as a team runs up to us that is being rode by Monoma. There're a few grunts above us as what I can assume is Shinsou fighting back the blond teen's advances to get our two headbands, "Not bad, for a mob-level grunt."
"Grr…!"
"Shinsou! Don't answer him!" Taikou shouted, "Monoma's quirk can copy the quirks of anyone he touches!"
Which means, if the struggle above us is true, he must have grabbed his brainwashing quirk during the tussle. Well, that is just great…
"Hey, hey. It's not nice to just rat out our quirks to strangers like that, Naru-san." Monoma scoffed, "But seeing as you are betraying us and working with the enemy… it's to be expected."
"…"
"He's mentally flipping you off, just to clarify." I tells him. As I said that, I decided to vibrate my trapped leg like how I did with Todoroki's ice, and manages to get my feet free, "Got free! Let's move!"
"Not yet!" Shinsou stated as I heard another grunt from him followed by a smack before tapping me on the head, "Okay! Move, move, move!"
"Moving!" I quickly run, with the sound of Ojiro tail hitting the ground and the heat coming from Taikou signaling my move as we speed away from the two teams, with sounds of something splatting on the ground as well as Present Mic's commentary in the background.
I skids to a stop, and unluckily near where Bakugou's team is. Damn it, shouldn't have just ran without looking where I am going.
"YOU!"
"Ah… great…" I let out a groan at the blonde delinquent's screams as well as Shinsou's own grunt with the few signs of explosions above us. I turns to the red head in their group, "Hey, Kirishima."
"Sup." He smirks while the heat from behind me spreads to my left for a moment, "Tough match?"
"Not really." I replied as the sound of Ojiro's tail hitting something echoes on my right, "Got ambushed by one team that we manage to get their headband before running away, before getting ambushed again and barely manages to get away." Seriously, what is with people ambushing us!? Shouldn't Midoriya be the number one target!?
"Oh, cool." He nodded.
"Got to say, I'm surprise such a violent douchebag is our year's representative." Shinsou mocked him, "So, how's your plan of getting first working for you!"
"WHAT YOU SAY, YOU–"
I didn't even need to look to know that his brainwashing worked. Bakugou is definitely someone that Shinsou's quirk works best against with how egotistic and hotheaded he is, especially against the art of provocation that Shinsou has perfected for people like him.
"Bakugou!?"
"I'll be taking that!" Some slight movements above me later and then he tapped on my head once more, "Let's move! Oh, and please punch yourself in the eye for me."
We all took to a run minus my quirk, a smack and a cry of pain in the background is more than enough to guess what happened. That is then followed by a scream of anger that is filled with all sorts of vulgarities that I'm pretty sure the ones handling the cameras are going to try and censor out.
"HAHAHA! Thank you, Shinsou!" Taikou laughed as we ran, "Remind me to treat you to lunch soon, because that was epic!"
"As much as I didn't want to admit it…" Ojiro noted with a small chuckle, "It is pretty nice to see Bakugou get wrecked like that."
"I'm definitely going to buy the recordings now!" I laughed, "I need to clip that part and put it on Youtube!"
"Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all day." Shinsou noted with a chuckle, "But it's not over yet."
"DAMN RIGHT, IT ISN'T!"
An explosion later, and we all saw Bakugou rocketing towards us with hands reaching out towards Shinsou. A blaze of fire from Taikou manages to hold him away as the blonde delinquent moved to avoid getting burnt, but that didn't deter him as he simply goes around the flames before aiming straight at Shinsou.
"Genko! Ojiro!"
"On it!"
I quickly speeds to our side with the help of Ojirou's tail that pushes his weight up, turning our formation around with Taikou acting as the axis, just enough that Shinsou is able to dodge out of Bakugou's hands. A tape come flying by and sticks onto the blonde delinquent's back and Sero pulls him back towards his formation.
"Oh right, as long as our feet to touch the ground, anything is fair game…" Shinsou noted.
"Come on, that is just cheating…" I let out a groan at that. I knew Bakugou is going to do a move like that, just like in the manga, but seeing it first hand? That is cool and terrifying all rolled into one.
"Maybe pissing him off isn't such a good idea…?" Ojiro points out.
"Eh, worth it."
"Same."
"Oh yeah, definitely."
I can hear Ojiro's frustrations at our answer. "Hey, Bakugou is pretty much a prissy prick 24/7." I added on. Besides, if not us, then Monoma would be the one that will get under his skin. And to be honest, I kind of wanted that to be the case and not us. But getting to see Bakugou getting triggered like that? Worth the risk.
"GRRAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Bakugou shouted angrily, "We're getting our points back, and then… I'm going to destroy all of you and get first place!"
"Says the one who got choked on sewage before entering UA!" Shinsou points out, "What, couldn't blow yourself out of a pinch, sludge victim one?"
"SHUT YOUR TRAP–"
"And punch yourself."
I bit down a laugh as I get to watch Bakugou punch himself in the face again. Wow, for someone who I know is considered one of the few smart people in our class, he can be really, really dumb. Like, did he seriously just fall for the same trick twice!?
"Okay, time to run!" Shinsou tells us and I agreed, the heat and sounds of impact is key enough for me to start running, speeding away from the screaming blonde.
And right into another blonde who has several more headbands around his neck, "There you are–"
"Switch off!"
"Huh?"
I speeds past him, I can hear the confusion in his voice as more explosions echoes behind us. Thank you for being the decoy, Monoma!
"Damn you! Come back here!"
"Looks like the match is half over!" Present Mic announces, "Class B seems to have gain a huge advantage but Class A is still high on the score boards! And in the amidst of that, the battle for the Ten Million crown commence! Whose head would be wearing that crown!?"
I let out a loud sigh as we skid to a stop, feeling the remaining electric charge in my body slowly fades away. "We're halfway done… how much points have we racked up?" I asked.
"If the scoreboard is correct…" Shinsou noted, "Around a thousand six hundred, give or take. We're at second place at the moment."
"Okay, then let's keep it that way!" Taikou noted, "Let's try to avoid conflict and focus on keeping our headbands!"
"Ojiro-san, hold Shinsou's leg for a moment. I need to recharge."
His tail moved to replace my hand as I dug into my pocket to get out a battery. But just as I took it out, sometime slams into my wrist and causes me to drop the battery, "What in the…!?"
"Sorry, Genko-chan! I can't let you do that!"
A voice shouted as a large blob of mucus is sprayed right towards us, we quickly moved out of the way of it as it splats harmlessly on the ground. Wait, that looks like…
A swoosh later and I immediately, on reflexes alone, moved my head aside as a long horn-like projectile flew dangerously close to my face, "H-Hey! Watch it, Tsunotori-san! You could've popped my eye out!"
"Oh, so terribly sorry!" She calls out.
"Be careful, Pony." The girl riding her commented, "We want to trip them, not injury them."
"R-Right!"
This is bad… not only am I out of juice, with Pony's horn projectile quirk, they have a huge range advantage over us! All she needs to do is grab one of our headbands from far range and we couldn't do much about it!
"Slippery!" The teen with the speech bubble face suddenly shouted, and then a large stack hiragana words is spit out of his head that then slides under our feet. Then all of a sudden, my feet have no traction as my soles just slides all around like we're standing on ice itself.
"Wh-What's happening!?" Ojiro cried in shock.
"Crap! Fukidashi's quirk!" Taikou points out worriedly as we try to gain some form of balance.
"We'll be taking those!" Pony suddenly shouted as she fires a couple of her horns right towards us, most likely aimed at Shinsou. Oh crap! We can't even dodge it like this!
"Everyone, hold on!" He suddenly shouted, as heat intensifies from behind before we are launched forward at speeds close to what my top speed can be, the horn projectiles missing us by a far margin. Oh, I get it! Without traction, Taikou can use his quirk to act as a rocket booster to push us forward.
"Ah, damn it!"
"Thanks for the save, but could you say something first!?" Shinsou cried as we skid around onto the ground that didn't feel like smooth ice.
"Yeah, a little warning would've been nice!" Ojiro said angrily, "I nearly tripped over my own tail!"
"Hey, there was no time for me to do that!" My childhood friend tells them.
"You guys can argue later!" I berates them as I looked at the scoreboard, "There's still about three minutes left! We got to survive until then!"
And then, a tape shoots past us, sticking on the floor next to us and is followed by what looks like a smooth acid-looking liquid being sprayed under it like some sort of path-oh wait a damn minute…! Shit, shit, shit! If this is what I think it is…!
"Genko! Ojiro! Jump!"
We followed Taikou's advice and leaped into the air as high as we can, a sudden heat from behind us is more than enough to guess what is his plan as we once again are launched forward, just as Bakugou's team blast right towards us, the blonde berserker's hands barely reaching us when we managed to stick the landing.
"MMPH!"
"Move, move, move!"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
We all start running the heck away from Bakugou's team. No way we're be able to deal with an enraged Bakugou like this! But wait…?
"Hey, Shinsou!? Can't you just trick him like you did the first two times!?" I asked.
"No luck!" He shouted, "He has tapped him own mouth shut!"
"Damn it, guess it's third time's the charm with him, huh?" Taikou noted.
"Less talking, more running!"
The last couple minutes were… pretty hilarious and kind of embarrassing.
For one, Bakugou being tenacious is a huge understatement. He just doesn't know the meaning of quitting, as he just keeps on coming after us over and over again! It is either he just come right at us flying out of nowhere with his taped mouth screaming muffled profanities that I'm sure the camera crew is grateful for, or he would do the whole tape and acid plus explosion trick again.
And time and time again, thanks to Taikou's little flame idea that replaced my speed boost along with Shinsou's idea of using other teams to get in his way (Sorry, Tetsutetsu. Your sacrifice will be remembered…), we barely manage to get away.
But eventually…
"Time's almost up! Let's all count down together, everybody!"
"TEN!"
"Ten seconds left!" I shouted, "We just need to last ten- no wait, nine! Nine more seconds!"
"NINE!"
"MMPH!"
Bakugou once again came flying right at us from his team.
"EIGHT!"
We leap forward, but then Taikou let out a groan, "Overheat!"
"Seriously!?" Shinsou shouted.
"SEVEN!"
"Ojiro-san!" I cried as the blonde delinquent comes ever closer.
"SIX!"
"On it!" He swings his tail towards Bakugou's path.
"FIVE!"
But that didn't deter him as he simply fires an explosion right at the muscular tail, knocking it aside with a painful grunt from its owner.
"FOUR!"
The blonde delinquent reaches out to grab the headbands around Shinsou's neck, a grin is visible under his taped mouth with his victory almost certain.
"THREE!"
However, Taikou decided to throw a wrench into that as he pushes his body upwards, if the grip of his hand on my shoulder tightening means anything, and kicks backward towards Bakugou.
"TWO!"
The blonde delinquent uses his explosion to go higher, the kick missing him completely.
"ONE!"
"MMPH!"
He then launches at Shinsou once again, hands out stretched towards our rider.
But then the horn sounds off and with a loud boisterous voice, Present Mic proclaims to the stadium…
"TIME'S UP!"
Bakugou, almost stiff from shock, flew right pass Shinsou and faceplants spectacularly in front of me. I held back my chuckles as my middle-school friend got back on the ground, visibly exhausted with both our headband and the three other bands we managed to secure around his head and neck respectively but have somewhat of a smirk on his face.
Taikou, on the other hand, waste no time in laughing at the 'poor' blonde, "HAHAHA! Oh man, please let that be in the CDs later!"
"MMPH!?"
"What? Can't hear you over the noise of you losing!"
"Okay, okay, settle down, you two-pft!"
"MMPH!"
I push my hand into my mouth as I tries to contain my hackles from spilling out on national television, I already feeling the glare the blonde delinquent is giving us. Oh man, I can't get that image of him face-planting out of my head!
"The match is now over!" Present Mic calls out, "Let's see the results now, shall we!?"
"In First Place, Team Todoroki!"
"In Second Place, Team Shinsou!"
"YEAHH!/ALRIGHT!" We all cheered as I grabs Shinsou and Taikou into a three-way hug. We did it! We've passed the prelims!
"In Third Place, barely losing out by a small margin, Team Bakugou!"
"M-FUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK!"
"Yikes! Talk about rage… it is going to censored, right?"
"Why are you asking me that?"
"Chill out, man." Kirishima tells our blonde berserker, "At least we've passed the preliminaries, right?"
"A-Anyways… now to our final team! In Fourth Place, and also by a tiny margin, Team Midoriya!"
I let out a chuckle as I saw a geyser of tears burst out from within the ring of ice that Todoroki has erected during the match. Looking at the score board, he barely made it too, with Tetsutetsu just a single point behind. Talk about getting in by the skin of his teeth…
"These four teams will proceed to the final event!" Present Mic then adds on, "We'll now proceed to the afternoon session after lunch break! See you then!"
"So, cafeteria?" I asked my two friends as we went out of the stadium. Once we disband our little team, Ojiro decided to join back our class and is currently talking up with Hagakure.
"Sure." Taikou nodded, "Want to get some food from the stands as well?"
"Yeah! I want some Takoyaki and Yakisoba!"
"If you want to vomit during the whole tournament, then go on ahead." Shinsou points out with a sigh, "Seriously, didn't Budo told you guys this already? Never eat too much before your match or risk vomiting everything out."
"Ah… right…" I sheepishly chuckled, "So… just normal meals?"
"Not too filling or greasy. Which means no Takoyaki or Yakisoba!"
"Aw…"
Damn it, I really wanted some… Guess it's just regular food for me.
"AH! Tatsuya-san! Please, come here!"
I hear a loud rather excited voice calling out to me, I turning to see the eccentric and robotic waving of my class president.
"Huh? Iida?" I wonders as I walks up to him confused, "What is it?"
"Ah, yes! First off, I like to congratulate you on passing through the prelims!" He points out, "I may have lost in the obstacle race, but I'm planning on catching up soon enough!"
"R-Right… Thank you…?" I raised my eyebrow in confusion at his sudden sincerity towards me. This is rather out of the blue? I mean, besides a few instances that mostly have to do with school work than anything else, we're hardly ever interacted with each other before.
"Come on, now, Tenya. You can't just suddenly say that to a girl like that. She'll just get confused." A more mature voice spoke from behind him. I took a look and my mind grinds to a halt at who that person is.
"Ah yes, that is true! I'm sorry, Tatsuya-san! Please forgive me!"
"U-Uh… s-sure…" I was barely able to reply him as I couldn't believe my own eyes. How…!? Shouldn't he be in Hosu right now!? Why is he here!?
"So, you're Hermes-san's daughter, huh?" The man stated with a bright smile, "Ah, where are my manners?"
"The name's Iida Tensei, but you know me best as Ingenium! It's nice to finally meet you!"
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To Be Continued…
Omake
"Mm…"
"…Again, it's not an option, Maki." Kan Sekijirou, also known as the Blood Hero: Vlad King, sighs at his co-worker's actions, "You have a job to do, remember?"
"I know, I know…" The retired Hero groaned, "It's still annoying, you know. My daughter is probably pushing all she can in the match right now and I'm stuck here commentating!"
"Hey, you drew the lot. You can't say it's unfair."
"Come on! Just a quick look! A simple flick of switch! It won't take a second!"
"NO!"
The third years could only stare at the announcer booth, contemplating on whether they should tell them that the match is over five minutes ago. Principal Nezu could only let out a short sigh at the shenanigans.
YES! Cavalry Battle finished! Goddamn, you have no idea how hard it is for me to write this! Especially the whole match in tow! I honestly wasn't expecting it to be this hard at all, but I manages to pull through in the end, and finish this chapter!
And, as you can tell by the cliff hanger, Ingenium, Iida Tensei is here in Yuuei! Why, you may ask? Well, you just have to wait for the next chapter and see! All I can say it is the butterfly effect in action.
By the by, I'm running out of ideas for the Omake parts of the chapters. As such, as shameless I am, wanted to ask you guys for any ideas for any future omakes from this chapter onwards? You can let me know in the reviews, or PMing me. It can be anything, as long it can be funny.
With that, I thank you for reading this!
