Chapter 5: the spear vs the shield
A few hours after the end of the wave at night the cardinal heroes and all their teammates were all at the castle celebrating. They were all there enjoying themselves with many of the kingdom's nobles as they talk and enjoy the good food and the beautiful music that was playing in the background.
As they were all enjoying themselves King Aultcray himself came up on top of a podium with a smile to announce, "I'm glad for all of you for coming, thanks to our heroes the battle went splendidly well and tonight we celebrate. Enjoy yourselves to the fullest." he announced as he raises his glass of wine high with everyone else doing the same to cheer for victory.
"Yeah it went well because of me jackass!" a loud voice shouted out from the crowd ruining the mood for most of the guests with the King cringing knowing who said that. It was Shield hero Bakugou sitting with his legs up on a table holding onto a jug of beer along with his sidekick, "You idiots would probably be zombie chow now if it wasn't for me with the nerds just jerking off. So I expect all of you to treat me well tonight! Oh yeah and your beer tastes like piss!" he then throws his beer glass into a wall as it smashes and made a mess of the beer and glass.
"Why is the shield devil even here?"
"Is this how he treats his majesty for his generosity?"
"Why are the guards not throwing him out again?", The crowd continued to gossip quietly behind the shield hero's back.
His partner Neia remained quiet feeling embarrassed by the ugly looks everyone was giving over her master's behavior.
The king sighs to himself in disgust, "Remind me again why I decided to invite him?" he asked his advisor.
"It is the end of the month sire, and you still promised to give the shield hero his monthly funding from the beginning and never ordered to rescind them after his crime." the advisor answers him.
"I wished you told me about that before, I would've just had it hand-delivered by a carrier to him and avoided this nonsense from happening." King Aultcray sighs again now forced to tolerate the shield devil for another night.
As the celebration was going on Bakugou continued to act as loud and rude as possible, insulting the nobles, eating like a sloppy glutton, and throwing his trash and bones around him. Everyone hated it but Bakugou didn't care about what a bunch of suck up nobles and wannabe heroes thought of him so he's indulging himself as much as he could get away with.
Everyone just ignored him and kept their distance as the shield hero pigs out on the free food. He even tried some of the wine. Even though he was a minor at home, drinking ages weren't a thing here so he figures he tried some drinking without technically breaking any law. He already has shown off to the King he hated the taste of beer, but he actually enjoyed the wine, but he never gave any complement to anyone not that they would care back anyway.
Neia had also been indulging a bit in the free wine, she tried her best not to drink too much but the buzz was nice to have after such a stressful day.
Though she was still embarrassed by how Bakugou was acting at the party and finally spoke out about it, "Sir Bakugou I know this is a party and all, but don't you think we should act a little more... proper just like everyone else. We might even gain some new friends if we act appropriately."
But Bakugou was hardly empathic about it as he finishes a chicken leg and throws it behind him as it hits an unexpected noble on the back of the head, and says "Do you really think I want to be friends with these inbred ass-kissing assholes. These people are only here to suck up to their dumbass consort. If anyone wants to be friends with me, they will have to be worth my time."
"Well uh... sir Bakugou am I your friend?" Neia asked wondering what she was to her master.
Bakugou was silent for a second until he quickly came up with an answer, "Eh... hardly, you're more of a student to me than anything else. But you're probably the only thing in this entire world I can tolerate having around. And trust me that's a big compliment from me." Bakugou bluntly answered as he sips down some wine.
While disappointed that he wouldn't call her a friend, Neia understood that Bakugou still secretly cared for her to some extent, knowing how prideful he was to admit anything.
She eventually quietly dropped the subject knowing Bakugou wasn't going to stop acting like this to everyone so she continues to indulge on the wine.
As the party went on Bakugou and Neia continued to remain where they were as they eat and drink by themselves.
However, things changed when Malty looks toward them from a distance, she then evilly smiles as she begins her little act.
She made herself look frightened and ran up to Motoyasu who was flirting to some noble ladies, "Sir Motoyasu! Sir Motoyasu!" she yells to him.
Motoyasu quickly looks toward her, "What's wrong Myne?"
"I lost a ring, a very special ring I had. It's very personal to me. I didn't even put it down for no more than a second and it just disappeared, and I can't find it anywhere. Please help me Motoyasu!" she answers and begs to him.
"Don't worry Myne, I'll find it. What does it look like?" Motoyasu answered and asked.
"It's a gold ring with a bright red gem at its center, please find it quickly Sir Motoyasu!" Myne answers back to him.
Motoyasu nods in agreement and announces to everyone, "Hey everyone Myne is missing her ring! If anyone has seen it please say something, it's gold with a red gem!" then he and his party members went around the ballroom looking around for it.
Bakugou and Neia had heard what he said as well. But Bakugou could care less what the bitch lost as he continues to eat, but Neia on the other hand found that ring they were describing sound very familiar to her. She looks at the ring on her hand and it fitted that description well, gold with a red gem on it. But this was the ring Myne had given to her earlier so it shouldn't be the same ring they were looking for. It was strange but Neia just figured it was another similar looking ring she had and continued on drinking her wine until she ran out of it.
"Excuse me Sir Bakugou, I'm just going to get some more drinks for us." She asks permission as she moves out of her seat.
"Don't drink too much Blue, it may be free but the last thing I need from you is puking all day tomorrow from a hangover and then drag your ass around," Bakugou says continuing to eat his roast as Neia leaves to a large table to get some more food and wine.
But as she was doing that Myne finally made her move as she walks right next to Motoyasu, "So that's where my ring went! Motoyasu stop her now!" Malty orders as she points her finger toward Neia.
Motoyasu not questioning Myne quickly walks up toward Neia and grabs her arm startling and surprising her, "Uh what are you...?" Neia reacts but then Motoyasu looks at her angrily serious making Neia quiet down.
He then looks at her hand and sees the ring Myne gave her, "So this is your ring Myne?"
"Yes, Sir Motoyasu, I thought I lost it, but I see it was really stolen from me," Myne answers to Motoyasu.
"Wait st.. stolen?" Neia stutters not understanding what was going on
"Guards!" Malty shouted
Several guards had come down to the ballroom to quickly surround Neia, "What are all of you doing?" Neia asked now scared.
"Isn't it obvious Demi, your under arrest." one of the guards answered her.
This completely shocked Neia and caught Bakugou's attention finally making him stop eating. He was only watching as of now, but was also trying to find out what was even happening so he remained quiet waiting the right time to make his move.
Everyone at the party including Ren and Itsuki was now looking toward Neia as the guards arrested her and quickly held on to the young elf's arms and forced her down on her knees.
Neia was so frightened by all of this she didn't know what to say at the moment until she finally dared to speak out, "But... but what am I being arrested for? What did I do wrong?" she asked hoping for someone to answer.
Motoyasu just shakes his head, "Do you really think playing up the victim card will help you out from stealing Myne's special ring. Did you also learn that from Bakugou as well?" Motoyasu answers continually looking down at her mad.
Neia was now even more confused, "Wait a minute? Stealing a ring?" Neia quickly looks at her hand again at the ring that was given to her, now she was being accused of stealing it? "No no no no, Myne gave this to me as a gift back at the town of Lute after the wave ended as a token of friendship. It was never stolen," she explains to Motoyasu and the guards quickly looking back toward Malty for answers.
"Ha, don't make me laugh. You think I would just give you something like that to some filthy Demi like you. Not only are you a terrible thief but you're a terrible liar as well." Myne lies to everyone knowing full well they will believe her over Neia.
Neia was baffled by all of this. She knew directly that was exactly how things went at the town and Myne was acting like that never happened, she may have had some drinks but she knew what was reality, "But... but that is the truth, you gave me this ring as a way to help patch up things between my master Bakugou and Mr. Motoyasu." Neia tries to explain more but almost no one was buying it with Myne just enjoying the show.
Motoyasu looked the most disgusted by it, "Of course this goes back to Bakugou, he probably told you to do these awful things and corrupted your mind, making you into his personal thief. That greedy bastard!"
Neia couldn't comprehend what was happening, it seemed like the world was turning upside down for her for no reason, almost exactly like what happened back at home right before her exile, "But I didn't steal anything I absolutely mean it!" she begs again but no one believed in her as the other nobles continue to look on in disgust.
Before she could say anymore though the King finally stepped in after he walked down away from his meal, "Is this all true Malty? This Demi-human that works for the shield devil had tried to steal from you?" the king asked giving an ugly look at Neia.
"Yes father, she stole a special ring I had and attempted to pass it off as her own!" Myne answered and lies.
The King shakes his head in disgust, "I'm not surprised, low life demi's like her are always trying to take advantage of our people's hospitality by stealing from us. She will be punished for her crimes right away." The King says as he looks angrily at the young adult elf.
Neia attempts to defend herself again, "Please your Majesty I mean it, I didn't steal it. I.. I can give it back right now if you let me..."
But the King quickly interrupts her, "Silence Demi! You think just giving back what you stole in the first place will just magically absolve you of your crime. You really are the shield devil's right hand."
Back with the crowd Ren and Itsuki were continually watching the whole thing. Itsuki wasn't that surprised by it, "I should've expected a team member of Bakugou to have something wrong with them. And to think I was worried about Bakugou abusing her." he says out loud expressing his opinion on this.
Ren remained silent; this was all starting to look familiar with him. The angry faces, the accusations, and a supposed criminal being convicted of their crime with little evidence. It's just like Bakugou's trial, a trial that he knew was unfair, but he stood around and allowed it all to happen. Was he going to do it again?
Back with Neia things continued to look ugly as the king gives out his punishment to her, "For your crimes against the crown, you shall be given the punishment all free criminal Demi-humans must be convicted for. Enslavement!"
Neia was completely horrified by that, "No Please listen to me, I didn't steal it and I'm not even a demi-human! Please, your majesty, let me explain things better first!" she begs to the king.
But the King didn't care, "Your punishment will be enacted immediately, once the slave crest is on your chest, you shall be the slave of princess Malty and the Spear hero Motoyasu for as long as the two desire it."
Neia begins to cry in desperation, "No! please don't! Myne please, please help me!" she begs to her.
But Myne's only reaction was to give her a very evil smug smile showing her true colors to her.
Neia couldn't believe what was happening as the guards forcibly lower her armor down on her chest to properly put on the slave crest.
As they wait for the mage with the magic ink, Ren finally made it up to Motoyasu to talk some sense into him, "Motoyasu! Don't you think this is going too far?! Enslavement just for thievery?"
"Don't worry it won't be real enslavement, I won't whip her or anything, me and Myne will help re-educate her to be a better person, and once she's a model citizen we will remove her crest and she will be a free person again." Motoyasu justifies but Ren still didn't like any of this.
"But we don't even know the whole story, don't you think you and the king are jumping into conclusions too quickly? And how do you know Myne will even be willing to let her go when you feel like it?" Ren asked him getting frustrated by this joke of a trial.
But Motoyasu just shakes his head, "You're just overthinking this Ren, trust me after a month or so you'll see the difference after I help shape her up." he answers with Ren getting pissed off by how no one was even listening to him anymore.
The mage assigned to the enslavement finally makes it up to her and was ready to apply the crest with his brush laced with the black magic ink.
Neia struggles trying her best to get away but it was no use as the guards held her down. The mage then takes his paint-covered brush close to Neia's chest ready to apply the cursed seal.
But suddenly a hand grabbed on to the mages arm as the strong hand squeezes the arm to make the mage drop the brush. It was Bakugou finally making his move to stop this from happening, "Don't try it. Or I'm ripping it off." he threatened the mage as he pushes him to the ground surprising the whole court.
Motoyasu quickly spoke out, "What the hell do you think you're doing!?"
"I'm stopping this mad witch trial that you idiots are trying to do," Bakugou says back to Motoyasu with Neia looking at him worried.
"Please Sir Bakugou don't involve yourself in this. It's all my fault, don't get yourself in trouble because of me." Neia begs her master, knowing what might happen to him if he tries to defend her.
"I don't know what idiocy you did that got yourself into this but I'm cleaning it up so quiet!" Bakugou yells at Neia who was uncertain of so many things right now as well as looking disappointed in front of her mad master.
Bakugou looks back at Motoyasu, "I didn't take you for a slaver ponytail, I knew you had a bunch of whores following you around but it's a new low to force someone as your sex slave."
Motoyasu got quickly offended by that, "I'm not enslaving her Bakugou! She will just be my indentured servant for now on to serve out her sentence. I'm going to help her to reform and get rid of any bad influence you had put on her."
"You're so full of bullshit, you can call it whatever you want its still god damn slavery. And your only evidence of this crime is the word from that lying slut! Even if this idiot did somehow steal it how the hell does stealing cheap jewelry equal a slavery punishment!? Do you also just castrate people who litter on the sidewalk in your world if that's your sense of justice!?" Bakugou angrily shouts back at Motoyasu.
"Like your one to talk. Someone who got off soft for nearly raping a woman. I don't care what you think of this, she will serve out her punishment under me and Myne's control! And there's nothing you can do about it!"
"Is that so? How about you try to stop me!"
"Is that a threat?..." Motoyasu was silent for a second until he finally came up with something. Motoyasu then quickly smugly smiles back at Bakugou, "Or are you up to challenge me against it? An official duel to be exact? You and me one on one to officially end this once and for all who is the true loser here." Motoyasu says giving an arrogant smile toward Bakugou
Bakugou also smiles at the idea, "That sounds good. Now I'll be legally allowed to kick your slut ass!"
All the nobles were whispering about all of this and Ren and Itsuki were just silent trying to wrap their heads around the whole event.
Bakugou continues, "What exactly are your stakes?"
"Very simple, if I win, I'll continue with your partner's punishment, she will be me and Myne's indentured servant for now on, and you won't be allowed anywhere near her again. If you win then she can go free from her crime, but that isn't going to happen anyway. But does that sound good to you?"
"Fine by me, it's about time I finally kick your idiot ass." Bakugou insulted with the two locking into each other angrily in the eyes.
Both Malty and King Aultcray were happy to hear this, they both remained quiet during the shield and spear hero's argument liking how it was all going. Now they can both humiliate the shield devil in front of not just the court but to the whole kingdom as well as taking away his suppose means of attack from him.
The King finally spoke out, "So the both of you are committed to this duel? Very well then, we shall have an official public duel at the courtyard to decide the fate of this criminal. It shall begin in the next hour the duel of the spear hero and the shield devil for the fate of the demi-human criminal."
About an hour later the duel was almost ready to begin. Bakugou was put in place of a room full of weapons, weapons he was unable to use. Bakugou wasn't surprised if this was a way to insult him for his shield class.
Despite enjoying the fact he can finally legally kick Motoyasu's ass, he was still pissed off by the circumstance that has led to it, "I should've expected something like this would've happened when I came back here. And they all still mock me behind my back because of my stupid shield weapon. I imagine that tiara wearing bastard encouraged this duel in the first place just to make me look like a fool publicly to rub it in. With that rotten bitch also trying to screw with me again by taking advantage of blues naiveness."
Bakugou then looks at his hand palm, "I should be able to toast that ponytail slut easily. But it really wouldn't be much of a challenge if I just use my quirk. Those idiots would probably still mock me over my dumb shield."
After some thinking Bakugou finally decided to make up his own self-insert challenge to prove his power by just his shield, "That slut isn't even worthy to fight me one on one at my full strength, I don't even need to use my quirk to beat his ass. I can stick it to him to just using only my shield, showing that I and my shield are better than his idiot ass and his damn spear. It will make him look like an even bigger loser after this. Just like what Icy hot did to me at the end of the sports festival when he refused to use his flames on me but unlike him, I will be able to beat my opponent."
Bakugou continues to wait a few more minutes until finally the doors open to the courtyard. He walks out to the noises of the crowd of nobles and other important people watching from the stands, this includes the King and the two other cardinal heroes Ren and Itsuki.
There were also numerous mages with crystal balls around the courtyard and the audience stands to record and projected the fight for the whole kingdom to watch, Bakugou wouldn't be surprised if it was all the King's idea. He also saw another important person on another podium on the opposite side of the arena from the king. He was an older man with small glasses wearing religious robes with a large white hat and a staff. Bakugou figured it was the Pope of this nation's church, he heard about him when he learned a bit about the three heroes church, but he didn't care too much about it. Bakugou knew he was just there to also observe the duel to supposedly see how badly the shield devil loses. But Bakugou knew he would prove him and the others wrong.
Neia was also down there outside the arena but was gagged and tied up with two guards beside her to keep her from helping Bakugou
Bakugou only gave her a quick glance before looking away in disgust for her stupidity. Neia couldn't say anything, but she wished she could as she releases one tear from her eye for all the trouble she has placed on Bakugou.
An announcer finally spoke out as the two opposing heroes walk toward the center of the arena, "This duel will take place at the presence of the King of Melromarc and the Pope thus legitimate and official."
Both Motoyasu and Bakugou walk as he hears cheering from above including from Myne at the sidelines not too far away from Neia. Bakugou on the other hand could only hear boo's from the same people as he walks toward his opponent not that he cared anyway.
Once the two were at their positions, the two cardinal heroes look at each other eye to eye with Motoyasu giving a confident smile, "Say Bakugou, have you ever heard of the folk tale of the irresistible Spear vs the unbreakable Shield?"
"You mean the one where the spear breaks and lost to the shield?" Bakugou snarks back with Motoyasu's allegory backfiring on him.
"No, I uh... mean... that... uh... Oh forget it! I am still going to make you admit defeat after this!" Motoyasu shouts back to Bakugou.
"Ha, I'm not even going to use my full strength on you. You don't even deserve to experience my true power, I'm still going to kick your ass like nothing. By the end of this, I am going to make you cry for your mommy. So bring it on slut!" Bakugou finally taunts to Motoyasu as they both look at each other angry and pumped up.
They then set themselves up with Motoyasu activating his best spear with Bakugou doing the same with his shield.
The announcer then sets the duel, "Ready!"... "Begin!"
Motoyasu yells and immediately charges at Bakugou as he holds his position with his shield ready at his chest.
But when Motoyasu finally got close and attacked, Bakugou simply dodged the strike by moving his body without even using the shield. Motoyasu continues to attack on the offense but thanks to Bakugou's quick reflexes combined with the many shield statuses it had allowed him to effortlessly dodge every attack. It even shocked the audience.
"How is the shield devil even able to do this?"
"He is not even using the shield?"
"Could the spear hero be a little drunk from the party?" they all gossip to themselves.
Motoyasu was attacking as fast as he could but Bakugou continues to dodge all his regular attacks, Bakugou finally took advantage of one attack as he dodges it and gives Motoyasu a good punch in the face, it was only one point in damage to Motoyasu but it still hurts his unarmored face as the spear hero jumped away from his opponent getting angrier at Bakugou.
Motoyasu decided to turn on his status screen to see what information it had on Bakugou. According to his screen, Bakugou was at level 41 while he was only at level 43, he couldn't understand how this could be possible with just a shield but it only motivated him to take Bakugou a little more seriously.
"Chaos spear!" Motoyasu shouted as he charges at Bakugou again with his spear but this attacked was an extremely fast multi-striking move. Bakugou knew it would be impossible to dodge all of it and had to resort to using his shield to block off the multiple attacks.
The attack eventually wore off and when Motoyasu attempted to jump away again Bakugou shouted, "Airstrike Shield!" an energy shield appeared flat in the air and quickly launches into Motoyasu's stomach hurting and stunning the spear hero.
While he was stunned Bakugou ran up to him and as the energy shield disappeared he jumped and kicked Motoyasu in the stomach himself with the painful force making him puke out what he ate that night as well as head butting him in the exposed face.
Motoyasu getting more enraged yells, "Lightning spear!" as he attempts to strike at Bakugou only for him to hold back the massive attack with his shield as the force pushes him back across the arena.
When the attack stopped Bakugou shouted, "Queen Balloon shield!" his shield transformed again and he quickly starts using it by launching multiple living balloons at the spear hero as he runs toward him.
Motoyasu very easily kills the incoming targets as he waits for Bakugou to come to him.
But when Bakugou was finally in range, the shield hero grabs onto one of the balloons, and as Motoyasu attempts to strike Bakugou, he dodges the spear and slides right next to Motoyasu and quickly placed a balloon monster on his crotch as it bites in.
"Aaah... Aaah, get it off! Get it off!" Motoyasu yells as he panics punching at the balloon forgetting his spear making a fool out of himself. He eventually does use his spear to kill the balloon but not before Bakugou kicks him from behind and slammed his head on the ground and moves away.
After he quickly got himself up again Motoyasu attempts to go on the offensive as Bakugou continues to block and dodge each attack.
Eventually Bakugou shouts, "Hydra shield!" His shield transforms into a small hydra head. The head then attacks at the hero as it bites in the middle of the spear with Motoyasu struggling to fight it.
Motoyasu continues to struggle with the small head as it attempts to rip away the spear out of the heroes' hands. But Motoyasu eventually overpowered it, getting it off, and quickly chopped the head off. He then lunges at Bakugou finally getting a hit on him, but due to his high defense, it hardly did much damage as a regular attack.
Bakugou gives another smug smile and activates his Hydra shield again with the head growing back, Motoyasu was ready to chop this one as well, but instead of attacking again the head dodges Motoyasu spear swing attack then sprays a weak acid at his face, "Ahhh! My eyes!"
Motoyasu retreats as he rubs at his eye, the Hydra shield was only at level one so the acid was no stronger than lemon juice, but it still irritated him enough to stop.
While distracted Bakugou runs up at him again and this time push Motoyasu forward onto the ground, where he proceeds to punch him in the face over and over again with Motoyasu to stunned by the first punch to react to the next one, "I may only do one damage, but if I have to punch your bitch face a thousand times to finally win then I'll do it!" Bakugou mocks Motoyasu.
Bakugou brutally punches at Motoyasu over and over repeatedly and quickly with the crowd thinking that the shield hero might win. But before he could throw another punch Bakugou heard some strange sound like some muffled screaming. He turned and quickly noticed and an air attack forcing him to roll away from Motoyasu and barely dodged the attack. But it didn't come from the spear hero himself, Bakugou looks over to where that attack came from and it was none other than Malty who decided to cheat when Motoyasu was starting to lose, it turns out that muffled screaming was coming from Neia trying to warn Bakugou. Bakugou looks toward Malty, "You god damn cheating bitch!" he yells at her with Malty only giving him an evil smug smile
But as he was focusing his anger on her, Motoyasu no longer stunned took advantage of it as he jumps back up and uses his powerful attack again, "Chaos spear!"
Bakugou turns and quickly attempts to block the attack, but Malty blasts another air attack him forcing him to dodge both attacks simultaneously, but without his quirk it was hard for him to dodge both attacks with Motoyasu even getting a few hits on him.
Despite her blatant cheating the king and the pope were doing nothing about it. They both want to see the shield hero finally suffer and they weren't going to stop it.
Bakugou continues to struggle to hold Motoyasu back, as well as blocking and dodging Myne's attacks. Despite Bakugou's defense and dodging, Motoyasu was getting more and more hits on Bakugou taking on large portions of his health without effort.
Bakugou continues to hold out but there's only so much he could do by himself while holding back and he had already used a good amount of his mana to be able to do any more creative shield attacks.
Eventually, while Motoyasu used a chaos spear attack to keep Bakugou on hold with his shield Myne finally decided to use her fire magic and launch a large fireball right on his back forcing Bakugou to lose his balance.
Motoyasu quickly took full advantage of it and shouts, "Lightningspear!" and fires the powerful attack at Bakugou. The shield hero attempted to block it but he was too late and had to take the full force of the lightning attack.
"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" Bakugou yells in agony as the attack goes through his body. The attack finally dissipates and Bakugou drops to one knee as he starts to cough some blood from that massive attack. He wasn't out yet as he moves up from the one knee, but it was quite a devastating and almost crippling attack nearly taking out all of his health.
The audience above especially the supporters of the church cheers on to Motoyasu as he waves back to them thinking he basically won at this point.
Bakugou was hurt badly but his anger was greater than his pain as he struggles to get himself up after that attack, "You...*cough* you bastard!" Bakugou yells at Motoyasu as he looks back at Bakugou with a confident face, "You think you're better than me!? Ha, your nothing compare to me. The fact you needed your bitch to help you shows how pathetic you really are! I don't even need this stupid shield to kill you! I can beat you with just my bare hands if I have too, even with your bitch helping you out!" Bakugou taunts at him again
But Motoyasu was no longer taking him seriously anymore seeing that he was at less than quarter health now. He continues to excite the church crowd and to show off to Malty thinking that this fight was about over as he waits to give them a grand finale.
Ren and Itsuki above however thought this whole thing was wrong, Ren especially had about enough of this.
Itsuki finally spoke out about it, "This is insane, Myne was blatantly cheating and they didn't call any of it. I'm not really cheering for Bakugou to win but you saw it yourself as well right?... Ren?" he asked but when he turned he saw Ren was walking away confusing the bow hero.
"Hey Ren where are you going!?" he shouts to the sword hero.
"I'm done standing around and doing nothing. Unlike anyone else here, I'm going to actually investigate and finally understand the whole story this time!" he shouts back as he continues to walk away.
Itsuki still wasn't sure what he was doing, but he could worry about that later, he decided that enough was enough and went off to see the king and talk to him about Myne's interference himself.
Back with Bakugou, he continues to breathe heavily getting pissed off that Motoyasu was ignoring him, "Look at me, you idiot! Do you understand that you're not even worthy of me fighting at my full power!? Your nothing but an ant above my boot and once I'm done with you, your bitch whore will be...!" but Bakugou stopped as he looks toward Malty and saw Neia not too far from her still tied up looking scared and frightened as she stares back at Bakugou. Without needing to hear a word, he knew she was more concerned about him than for herself.
This made Bakugou stop yelling and made him pause as he thinks to himself, 'Blue? I can't believe I forgot about her. This whole fight, it was to keep her from becoming a slave to those two monsters. Her life was dependent on me and I wasn't even giving the best I could do. I intensionally held myself back just to arbitrarily prove myself I can beat this bastard with just my shield. Had his attack been more powerful or I slipped up on my defense, he really would've won and blue... blue would be his slave, all because I thought about myself and didn't think about her, even if it was her fault I'm supposed to be her hero. And what kind of number 1 hero would I be if I failed to protect those the depend on me? Like if All Might had held back when he saved me and Deku from the sludge villain instead of going all out.'
Bakugou then looks at his hand palms now realizing what he has to do now, 'That's it! No more games, no more holding back. Not just for me, but for blue. I'll do this for blue!' he continues to think to himself as he finally looks back at Motoyasu, "Hey slut! I'm not done yet! If you're truly the best!? Then try to take me down now!"
Motoyasu noticed and finally finishes showboating to the audience as he readies himself to finish off Bakugou, "Ha, this should finally shut you up." he taunts to Bakugou as he quickly charges at him. Malty and the King were both smugly smiling knowing well defeat was inevitable for the Shield hero as he was not even putting up his shield to defend, thinking he truly gave up.
But Bakugou knew what he was doing. He was done playing around and was ready to reveal the true power of the shield hero to this world.
Motoyasu yells as he jumps in the air with his charged up spear aiming directly at Bakugou to finish him off.
Motoyasu aims his spear at Bakugou's chest. The shield hero then raises his right hand at his attacker. Motoyasu figured he had victory in the bag until sparks started to appear on Bakugou's palm and before he could react to it.
BOOM!
A large explosion came right out of Bakugou's hand and sent Motoyasu flying until he falls flat on the ground.
Everyone was in complete shock after that, the King, Malty, the nobles, the pope, and the two other heroes all wondered what just happened?
Motoyasu quickly got himself up but he had a stinging feeling on his face from the attack and wondered what happened. He then looks at Bakugou with his arms out.
"I've been going easy on you nerd! I figured you weren't even worthy to witness my true power. But if you're willing to threaten the life of an innocent hero, then I'm done playing around. It's time for me to go beyond, PLUS ULTRA!" and a bunch of explosions begin to emit from his hands showing the whole court his real power.
This shocked everyone wondering how he could do that especially the King, "How the hell is he able to do that? A shielder shouldn't have any means of attack? What kind of fire magic is that?" he asked his advisors, but they were just as flummoxed as he was.
Motoyasu went back into his fighting position holding to his spear tight ready to fight again regardless of what flashy trick Bakugou was showing off. He then yells and charges at Bakugou. Bakugou does the same, but this time he uses his quirk to speed himself quickly toward Motoyasu surprising him how fast he was now.
Motoyasu attempts to lunge at Bakugou again only for Bakugou to blast over him with an explosion and blasted Motoyasu in the back.
Despite the painful sting Motoyasu goes on the offense again as he attempts to stab at Bakugou only for him to not only block the attacks again with the shield but also blasting him with his quirk with his other hand. And with his quirk, Bakugou was now extremely fast and agile allowing him to quickly blast at Motoyasu all around his body with the spear hero now barely able to keep up with the shield hero.
This went on and on as Motoyasu continues to get blasted across his torso and the face with each explosion feeling more painful than the last one with even parts of his expensive armor getting blasted off.
Malty saw it to herself to cheat again and shot more attacks at Bakugou both fire and wind, but unlike before he was prepared for this and dodged with his quirk and blocked off the attack while still fighting Motoyasu as he blasts at him almost making it impossible for Motoyasu and Malty to keep up with him even when attacking at the same time. This was pissing off the princess to no end.
the first attacks were pretty visible before but now Malty was not even trying to hide anymore with her cheating with Itsuki making good time when he finally made it to the king.
"Sir King, are you not doing anything about this?" Itsuki asked pointing out toward Malty as the battle was going on.
"I... I have no idea what you're even talking about bow hero?" the King lies trying to pretend he doesn't see what Malty is doing and still wondering how the shield hero was doing all of these fire attacks.
"Don't you see Myne just attacking in the middle of the fight?" Itsuki asked getting more abrasive with the King who continues to ignore the hero in the hopes the fight will just finally end quickly.
But back with Bakugou, he endures despite the double-teaming as he continues his brutal fighting with Motoyasu. With his quirk, he could now keep up with the both of them, but he knew the bitch had to eventually go and quickly came up with a clever idea to do so.
Bakugou then uses his quirk to jump over Motoyasu after another failed lunge attack and Bakugou blasts him in the back as he trips to the ground like a fool.
Bakugou then uses his quirk to remain in the air and lands right near the edge of the area right by Malty with Neia looking happily at him, "So bitch you want to fuck with me, huh!? Well sorry, I don't do diseased filled whores!" he intentionally insults Malty enraging the evil princess.
Malty then removes any pretense of subtly as she grits her teeth and quickly activates a flame-throwing spell on him that continually launches out fire.
But Bakugou saw it coming as he holds out his shield to block it. Despite its small size, it protected him from Malty's giant flames combined with his armor's elemental resistance and other statuses he had.
Malty's flame was giant and was there for the entire audience to see, Itsuki knew he had to say something, "Ok this is getting ridiculous, don't tell me you're not seeing that?" Itsuki demands from the king getting frustrated by his blatant favoritism.
"I... uh... I.. I" King Aultcray tries to say something, but couldn't find any convenient excuse for this obvious rule-breaking. He quickly went for his wine and decided to just slowly drink away at it hoping the fight will finally end without having to say anything to the hero.
"Sir King!" Itsuki yells at him but he continues to just ignore him.
Back with the duel, Malty is continuing her never-ending flame attack as Bakugou continues to hold his ground.
Motoyasu finally got himself back up as he looks toward a Bakugou with a flaming background not knowing Malty was doing that.
A smiling Bakugou finally spoke to him, "So what are you waiting for ponytail!? I'm here in the open for you to strike me!? So give me your best shot!? Unless you really are a cowardly baby!?" he taunts him.
Motoyasu grits his teeth as he gripped his spear harder as he growls in anger, "I'll show you who's really afraid!" he yells back at Bakugou as he uses nearly all that was left of his mana to charge his last big offense attack, "LIGHTNING SPEAR!" he shouts as his spear charges up.
Not wanting to take any chances he ran up as close as he can with Bakugou, ready to hit him full force at point-blank range which Bakugou expected him to do.
He readies himself as Motoyasu charges with his spear ready to end the duel as he goes for the attack.
But Bakugou just in time quickly lowers his shield and bends backward from Motoyasu strike as he lunges and misses Bakugou. Malty was still behind Bakugou giving her attack, and quickly her evil smug smiled turned into a frightened face realizing what was about to happen. Too late to stop it, Motoyasu's lightning attack blasts right at Malty's chest with the force of the attack launching her out of the courtyard into the audience stands as she flys over them until she went right through a wall. Severely injuring and humiliating herself as well as ruining her armor.
King Aultcray spits out his drink in complete shock, "Malty!" he shouts completely horrified to what happened. "Get her medical attention now!" he yells to his guards now worried about his daughter's health as the guards went off to help her out as she was nearly out cold from Motoyasu's attack.
Motoyasu looked horrified realizing that he just blasted away his own supposed girlfriend partner, but even more apparent he looks down at a smugly smiling Bakugou still bend back, "Now it's my turn!" Bakugou quickly puts up both his hands out and double blasts Motoyasu away.
Motoyasu tries to get himself back up, but Bakugou wasn't holding back now, with no more interference he went all out on the spear hero.
Motoyasu tries to attack Bakugou, but the shield hero continues to dodge away from the attacks and started to blast at Motoyasu over and over again becoming more brutal than before. Bakugou blasted Moto in the face, the chest, the legs, and most definitely at the crotch.
Bakugou was beating Motoyasu to a pulp with the spear hero having no time to react as Bakugou brutally beats him up.
Bakugou goes all out giving out many rapid-fire shots of small explosions with Motoyasu unable to react as they went on and on.
Bakugou fire one more big blast punch at Motoyasu's face knocking out a tooth as it sends him away a few feet as Bakugou moves away himself for his own grand finale.
Motoyasu struggles to get himself back up as he feels pain all over himself and was out of Mana from his last attack, but he wasn't giving up yet and lose to the shield devil as he could barely grip on his spear and coughing blood, "*cough* *cough* I won't... *cough* I won't lose to you!" Motoyasu yells at Bakugou.
But Bakugou was about ready to end this as he builds up his sweat until he was ready, "That is where you are wrong!" he responds and Bakugou launches himself into the air. Bakugou starts to spin around to gain as much air as he could for his ultimate attack as he launches himself toward Motoyasu as a ball of fire.
Nobody knew what Bakugou was doing but Motoyasu was ready to fight it off in however way he could as he charges at Bakugou
Bakugou was finally near Motoyasu ready to engage, but Bakugou finally moves out his hand and shouts out, "HOWITZER IMPACT!"
BOOM!
A giant explosion appeared consuming most of the arena with a giant cloud of fire and smoke with the intensity forcing everyone to look away.
Once the smoke died down everyone looks back at the arena to see what happened, at the center of it all was the shield hero Katsuki Bakugou still standing tall breathing heavily near a giant crater his explosion help created.
But everyone was wondering what happened to Motoyasu, some wondered if the shield devil killed him since what was left of him were just broken pieces of his armor and his divine spear now far at a corner of the arena.
But there worries died down once they found him, Motoyasu was up stuck 10 feet up on a wall across the court from Bakugou groaning in pain with all his armor completely destroyed with him only in his scorched underwear.
He finally falls back to the ground in complete pain, "Ugggh... What the hell just happened? It feels like I was hit by a truck." he groans as he struggles to try to get himself back up making Bakugou smile smugly.
As Motoyasu contiunes to try to get up as he lies on the ground until he finally noticed how screwed he was when he looks back at Bakugou with his evil grin and was now terrified, "Ah no! My armor!... Ah! My spear! Where's my spear!" he panics as he looks around for his weapon still laying in the ground until he saw it about 20 feet away from him.
Despite the great pain, he was in deep fear as he quickly crawls his way to his spear panicking especially after he looks back at Bakugou, but the shield hero was on him as he blasts himself toward Motoyasu using his quirk.
Motoyasu crawls and crawls as fast as he could desperate to try to get his weapon.
But when it seemed he finally got to his weapon as he reaches for it.
Bakugou stomps on his hand.
Despite the pain Motoyasu looks up in complete fear as Bakugou kicks away his weapon, "Not so tough now without your magic weapon slut! Your nothing more than a weak pathetic nerd without it.
Bakugou moves around behind the terrified Motoyasu as he grabs on his ponytail pulling his head up to make the spear hero look up at him.
Motoyasu was completely helpless now as Bakugou remains on top of him with the shield hero using his other hand out to make small sparks, "I think it's time for me to fix up your pretty boy face, let's see if I can make it better!" he threatened Motoyasu.
He moves his other hand toward the helpless spear hero's face that was consumed by fear. Motoyasu couldn't take it anymore and finally broke, "WAIT! WAIT! STOP! STOP! I give up! I give up! You win! You win!" he cries out.
Everyone couldn't believe what they just heard including the King, Malty who the doctors had been taking care of, and the two other heroes. Motoyasu had really given up. Bakugou had won the duel. He's the winner.
But Bakugou wasn't done with him yet, he wanted more out of his victory, "Really you mean it?" he demands from Motoyasu as he still held on to his ponytail.
"Yes yes! I give up, I surrender, I call uncle, whatever the hell you say in your world you won! Please don't kill me" Motoyasu cries begging to Bakugou.
Bakugou continues to smugly smile wanting more, "That's what I like to hear. So do you also admit that I'm the best hero there is right!? The number one hero in this world!?"
"Yes yes, you're the best hero around! You're the number one hero!" Motoyasu cries
"And you also admit that you're a giant slut?" that statement made Motoyasu pause but Bakugou started to intimidate him with more small explosions near his face.
"Ye..yes, I'm a giant slut. I admit it!" he cries more quietly but was still loud enough for some of the crowd to hear.
"Good, now finally call yourself a whiny bitch baby!" Bakugou demanded.
Motoyasu didn't want to say more, but he was not in the position to bargain, "I'm... I'm a whiny bitch baby." he quietly says not wanting anyone to hear.
"Louder!" Bakugou demanded
"I'm a whiny bitch baby!" he says louder.
"Louder!"
"Oh come on Bakugou," Motoyasu begged.
"LOUDER OR I'M BLASTING YOUR FACE OFF!" Bakugou explodes with his palm exploding right before Motoyasu's face.
"I'M A WHINY BITCH BABY! I'M A WHINY BITCH BABY! I'M A WHINY BITCH BABY!" Motoyasu cries as he hits his hands on the ground in humiliation. Not just for Bakugou but for the whole kingdom to hear him.
The king panicked and ran toward the closest crystal ball holding mage, "Turn that thing off now!" he demanded.
"But Sire what do you..?" the mage asked but the King didn't let him finish as he grabs the ball himself and smashes it into a wall.
But then his advisor informs him, "Uh sire, there dozens of these mages surrounding the arena."
"Then confiscate all of them now!" he demands, but it was too late for the king the entire kingdom had already seen the fight that the shield hero won and the spear hero's humiliating defeat. The nobles in the stands could only gossip about what had transpired from this fight.
The Pope himself looked the most disappointed as he shakes his head in disgust and walks away from his podium not saying a word.
Bakugou had enough of humiliating Motoyasu, he lets go of his ponytail and pushed his head on the ground as he continues to lay there in utter pain and embarrassment.
Bakugou walks toward his partner Neia who was still tied up but the guards holding her were terrified as hell as the shield hero walked up toward them, "I don't know what you idiots are looking at but I recall that I won, so you better let her out or your going to be sharing the same fate as bitch baby!" Bakugou threatens at them while emitting his quirk.
The guards panicked and they were quick to comply and untied Neia, "Sir Bakugou!" she shouts once she gets out and runs toward her master and hugs him.
But Bakugou was embarrassed by it, "Please blue you're making me look like a fool. Stop it! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!" He yells at his sidekick who respected his wishes and immediately backed down, despite the yell Bakugou quickly went back to smiling at her with Neia smiling again as well.
"Who in the hell ordered you to let her go!?" yelled a voiced which turned out to be the king who finally came down from his podium to have a serious talk with the shield hero.
One of the guards attempted to defend themselves, "But uh... sire the shield hero won so.."
"Nobody won until I say so! The shield devil has no authority to anything!" the King scolds them with Bakugou smiling.
"So the consort is upset that I kicked the ass of his prized spear hero. Disappointed that you supported trash?" Bakugou mocks him.
"It's King you devil! And your duel is under investigation for cheating and nearly killing my daughter."
"What bull crap are you on now. By what?" Bakugou demanded
"By that magic you did." Said another voice which turns out to be Princess Malty holding on her stomach from the pain from Motoyasu's attack with her expensive armor ruined because of the attack, "Your nothing more than a useless shielder, there's no way you could've done that weird fire magic. You had to cheat in some way?" Malty continues to argue him.
"Me cheating!? what about all of that magic shit you have been blasting me with while I was fighting bitch baby including blasting me with fire!?" Bakugou yells and argues back.
"I have no idea what you're talking about shield devil, you were either lying, just delusional or both!" Malty says continuing to lie with Bakugou growling in anger.
"It was not a delusion." the bow hero says as he comes out in Bakugou's defense but only him, "Me and Ren saw you making those attacks at Bakugou in the middle of the fight including that giant fire attack. Even the nobles saw it but they were being forced to keep quiet about it. So if there was any cheating, it was all from you!" he scolds her.
Malty attempts to lie more, "He clearly did it, look what he did to me?" Malty then shows off her damage armor as well as some nasty burnt marks from Motoyasu's lightning attack.
But Itsuki wasn't impressed, "That was all from Motoyasu while you were standing there blasting fire at Bakugou."
Malty was getting really angry by this as Bakugou continues to smugly smile at her, "Well I don't care if the devil did win fair or not, that filthy demi is still a criminal and I want her to be beheaded for this!" she raises her voice toward Bakugou and his sidekick with Neia especially looking back at Malty but this time not scared, but very furious and angry at her.
"She's not a criminal!" another voice yelled out and this time it was Ren but he also had beside him a young knight and a young mage girl with reddish brown hair, "These two were at the town of Lute after the wave, he was with the knight unit that came to defend the town and she is another one of Motoyasu's partners Rino. They both told the same story, they both witnessed Neia talking to Myne and they also both saw her willingly give Neia that ring she claimed was stolen. Myne lied the whole time."
"Those two are idiots! I know what I'm talking about! She's a thief and a criminal!", Malty attempts to lie again, but this time no one was buying it as they all give her ugly looks, with even the king unable to say anything to defend his daughter.
Malty was furious to no end knowing her plan had backfired with her unable to say anything else knowing she was truly caught red-handed.
The group didn't need to say anything else to her. But Neia had something to say to her and wasn't holding back, "I can't believe I actually trusted you! I thought we could've been friends and help make amends with our heroes. But you never cared! You were nothing but a liar and an evil bitch! You do nothing but manipulate people to get everything to go your way and act like a spoiled brat when you don't get what you want!" Neia scolds her surprising everyone including Bakugou giving out a small smile.
Neia then quickly takes off the ring that caused so much trouble, "And if you want this damn ring so badly, then you can choke on it!" she then throws the ring at Malty as it hits her wounded chest and drops onto the ground.
So in enraged Malty stomps on the ring multiple times crushing it into pieces showing to everyone that she never really cared about it to begin with.
Neia then turns toward Motoyasu who was being held up by two guards and his spear acting as a crutch, she stomps her way up to him, "And you! You call yourself a hero but then you do all this, blindly following that bitches word, nearly enslaving an innocent victim and justifying it, going along with the will of an old tyrant who will blindly look the other way from his daughter cheating. Your nothing more than an arrogant, self-centered, lustful, spineless, idiot!" she scolds him and was about to leave, until she turned around to say, "And you know what? Ponytail Slut is a perfect name for you!" and immediately she kicks Motoyasu right at the crotch.
Everyone cringes from that especially the guys, all but Bakugou who could only smile at the whole thing.
As Motoyasu falls in pathetic agony in his underwear holding on to his private parts, Malty orders the guards to take him to the court doctors immediately as he continues to cry in pain.
Before she follows him, Malty turns toward Bakugou and Neia, "This isn't over demi and Shield devil, I'll have both of your heads decorating my future throne room one day, you'll see!" she finally says as she turns away as still holding on to her injured stomach as she helps take Motoyasu to be healed.
But Neia wasn't finished yet, she had one more thing to say to King Aultcray, "And you! If that's really your daughter! Not only are you a bigoted, lying, nepotist, and awful King! But your also an awful father too!"
The King could only look confused and enraged from everything that had happened, "You... you... Errr, damn you Demi's and damn you too shield devil!" the King yells but that was all he could say as he turns away and leaves the arena with several guards furious to no end.
Bakugou continued to have a huge smile on his face feeling proud of Neia.
Itsuki seemed to have had enough himself, "Well this has definitely been quite the day, I think I deserve some rest after it, so I'll see you all tomorrow." he finishes as he leaves as well.
The only one that was left was Ren after the two witnesses left right after Itsuki, he and Bakugou could only stare at each other with Bakugou still looking mad at Ren. After some silence, Bakugou finally spoke, "Don't expect that this makes us even, to me your still just a coward. I never asked for your help, I owe you nothing for this."
Ren finally spoke himself, "I understand, I'll probably never have your forgiveness, but at least you know that not all of us are blind to follow authority Bakugou. Just remember that." Ren then turns and leaves himself. It was now just him and Neia.
Bakugou was looking toward his arm, unknown to the others he had his crystal ball shield active the whole time since after his Howitzer impact attack and had recorded everything from Motoyasu's humiliation to Neia's roasting on everyone, it entertained him to no end, "Ha this is too hilarious, I'm so going to have to somehow bring this home with me and upload it online. Like to watch it again blue?... blue?" but as he looks over his arm he sees Neia sitting down on the ground looking sad.
Bakugou would usually not get involved with affairs like this, but after some pressure to himself, he finally decided to talk to her, "Why the long face blue? You were totally awesome back there; I never would've thought you have a mouth on you."
Neia finally did say something, "I was a fool Bakugou, I blindly trusted her and I nearly got myself enslaved because of it. I don't deserve any praise from you, I'm just your naive sidekick."
Bakugou thinks to himself as he quietly stares at her, in one hand he should be scolding her for following bitches word, but on the other hand he nearly made a bad mistake himself.
Bakugou after sighing sits down next to Neia to talk to her, "Listen blue, don't act like your the only one to make a very stupid mistake, which it was, but I nearly made an even dumber mistake myself."
Neia looked confused, "What do you mean? You never did anything wrong Sir Bakugou, you saved a whole town from mass destruction and you save me from my own stupid mistake."
"I wasn't thinking about you at first when I started that fight, I saw the whole thing as a way to prove my own strength and restricted myself with just my shield."
"What was wrong with that?" Neia asked
"Because idiot, had I lost which I almost could've at one point because of that cheating bitch you would've been enslaved all because I purposely held back. Had I lost by myself it be one thing, but I shouldn't have risked your own life like that. I would've been no different than ponytail slut that saw you just as an asset to take advantage of. So don't feel like you were the only one acting stupid because I was too." Bakugou admits.
Neia understood what Bakugou was talking about but it didn't faze her that much. It actually cheered her up knowing Bakugou was willing to admit he made a mistake as well, "I see. But even if that's true, Sir Bakugou you had at least made up for it by kicking Sir Moto... I mean Ponytails ass in the end." Neia says.
Bakugou found it amusing, "And I guess you mostly made up for your stupid mistake by that roasting in the end. Listen how about this, If you promise me to not idiotically accept other people's garbage without my permission again, and I promise to not stupidly hold back anymore. Does that sound good to you?" Bakugou promises to his sidekick.
Neia's frown quickly turned into a smile after hearing that especially from Bakugou, "Thank you Sir." and she goes for another hug.
This of course, made Bakugou furious, "Blue stop this! You're making me... grrr, ok fine but just only a few more seconds THEN GET OFF!" Bakugou demanded with Neia happily and quickly letting go.
After that Bakugou smiled again and stood up, "Ok enough of this damn melodramatic crap, let's head back to the ballroom, I think the both of us still deserve some free cake for dessert. If not, I'll just beat it out of those chefs"
"Sounds good, number one hero." Neia finally says to him.
Bakugou smiles to her and the two head off to eat and finally rest again after such a long day. And with that fight, not only has Bakugou shown the court of Melromarc his hidden power but also to the entire world what he can really do.
Authors note: I admit it may have been a bit of a stretch to have Bakugou purposely hold back for the first half of the fight, I did my best to find the best character reason to be doing so but I also figured that if he just used his quirk off the bat the fight would've been ridiculously short, I also didn't want Bakugou to completely neglect his shield abilities either and show that he can be strong without using his quirk, and to have some form of tension as well as some character development in the chapter. But I guess it didn't matter in the end anyway after he finally starts using his quirk on Motoyasu and kicked his ass. But as Bakugou said himself this will be the last time he will purposely hold back so always expect Bakugou to be using his quirk at the beginning of in fights like this for now on.
I should also address some things about Neia. I understand some people don't like her which I won't hold it to them, some characters or their backstory don't click with certain people and I can be one of them as well. My intention with Neia was to have her be a sort of like Izuku Midoryia, a wide-eyed idealist who is willing to do anything to help people even to a naive degree, as someone to contrast with Bakugou without having any childhood background to him like he does with the real Izuku. I also made her into an elf in a story to make her more interesting than just some random demi-human and as someone who is just as new to Melromarc as Bakugou, and an elf didn't seem too out of place in this setting even if they didn't have any in the original story, and of course I do intend to do something with the elves in this world way later down the line so it's not just going to be a footnote to her character biography. I did my best to not make her out as a mary sue with some character flaws that she can eventually overcome, many thought it was stupid of her for believing in Myne but that was sort of the point as a character mistake with her naiveness, but of course, she won't be doing that for the whole story she will learn from her mistakes and harden a bit thanks to being with Bakugou so don't expect the same character by the end of this story, even Midorya went through that going from a weak wimp to being able to go toe to toe with Stain and Overhaul. But again if you still don't like her then that's fine I won't force anyone to like her, but I have no intention of getting rid of her or killing off her character this early so sorry.
Again thank you for reading my story and hope to bring in more soon.