POV Izuku
Receptions. A lesson in which I was able to realize my stupidity. After all, I had damaged the bones of my arms so many times that I had clearly kept a few cracks in them. That didn't make my strength any higher than 9.
But that wasn't the point. During this, I was once again convinced that there could be people with potential around me. But without a system and a developed skill, I'm only able to see their status. So I tested it on three people.
Name: Mina Ashido
Quirk: Acid
Strength: 5.1
Dexterity: 7.8
Speed: 7.2
Vitality: 5
Intelligence: 4.8
Endurance: 12.6
Skills:
Corrosion: rank D
Who would have thought I'd meet someone with high Dexterity and Stamina stats to begin with? It's all Mina Ashido.
Plus Corrosion is a skill that will destroy the state of an opponent's weapon or armor. You can do a lot against tanks with this girl's acid.
Name: Fumikage Tokoyami
Quirk: Shadow Partner
Strength: 4.6
Dexterity: 5.1
Speed: 5.7
Vitality: 7
Intelligence: 8
Endurance: 6
Skills:
Shadow Blacksmith: rank C
This was the first time I'd seen a skill like this that I'd never heard of. And it wasn't the strangest thing.
Name: Dark Shadow
Quirk: Creature of the Night
Strength: 12.7
Dexterity: 9.2
Speed: 8.2
Vitality: 13.9
Intelligence: 7
Endurance: 14.5
Skills:
Shadow Coffin: rank D
Not only was I able to look at the shadow as a living target, but it has its own quirk and future skill.
But depending on the state of light and darkness, the stats can change. And the skill isn't known to me either.
And of course...
Name: Toru Hagakure
Quirk: Light Refraction
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 7.1
Speed: 5.4
Vitality: 6
Intelligence: 6.8
Endurance: 13.1
Skills:
Hidden Presence: rank D
I still have to be focused for a target invisible to the eye, but this gave me a clue. Skills can be related to life itself and have nothing to do with quirks.
Mina dissolves everything from the appearance of a quirk with acid. Toru involuntarily hides his presence. A dark shadow hides in the darkness of Fumikage as he calls out what he practically created himself.
I, on the other hand, have always come out alive from dangerous situations and that has overpowered even the fact that I will gain the analyzing skill.
So for future survival, I must find allies during my training. And not from the hero course.
Aizawa: Midoriya! If you're going to sit idle-
I turned on full cover and kicked my feet against several rocks one by one at high speed with devastating effect. After accomplishing my goal, I returned to the teachers.
Izuku: I was thinking about creating my own fighting style using my feet instead of my hands since no one was giving me reliable advice.
I fake touched my foot.
Izuku: ai ai, but I need to improve the suit in the sole area...
This impressed the teachers and they agreed to let me go straight to the support department.
A few minutes later
After successfully leaving the practice area, I went to the 1-H cheerleading class.
Izuku: (now for the main point.)
As I approached the door, I was knocked down by an explosion and couldn't get up due to the extra weight on my body.
It wasn't until the smoke cleared and the ringing in my ears began to subside that I saw what was on top of me.
Or what I was currently under, and what had nearly cut off my oxygen.
Mei: oh! It's Mr. 1 million!
I pushed Mei off of me and helped us both to our feet.
Izuku: yeah, hi Mei. I came here asking for an item for support and a suit upgrade.
As soon as I let those words fly off my lips, Mei took my hand and led me into the workshop.
Mei: you're very lucky! I was just making a new baby!
I ended up wearing the exoskeleton she created. I was still amazed by her craftsmanship. So ch couldn't resist my curiosity and decided to give it a try.
Izuku: You know, Mei, I was thinking of making one for me instead-
The words couldn't come out of my mouth anymore. My hands were shaking with fear. My brain started to do a reboot after what I could find.
Who from my time would have even imagined this!
Name: Mei Hatsume
Quirk: Zoom
Strength: 8.3
Dexterity: 8.2
Speed: 10.9
Vitality: 10.4
Intelligence: 13.5
Endurance: 15.2
Skills:
Drafting Assembly: rank B
I might be falling to the ground right now if I wasn't wearing her exoskeleton.
No one in the future could have gotten those characteristics so easily. Only tens of people out of millions get three characteristics in the tenth number, but Mei somehow overtakes them all, well, and also manages to take in the future and immediately skill rank B! The initial highest rank!
And to achieve such a thing, you just need to be aware of your skills and continue to nurture them in your life. That's why my skill is such a weak rank. And Mei is the very rough diamond here.
Mei: is there something wrong with the suit?
Her words knocked me out of my thoughts.
Izuku: huh? Oh, no! I mean... I was thinking that I need sturdy soles for my new style of kicking. And I should also think about a way to do long-range combat.
After getting out of this cool costume, I gave Mei my new notebook and showed her the first two pages. My new suit with the special metal soles. And a drawing of an Air Force glove.
Mei: this is too good for an ordinary idea!
Izuku: well, you could say that-
My vision detected how some kind of device started to shake and heat up serenely because of the soldering tool. And it was behind a drawer with a kit for all sorts of supplies.
Izuku: Mei!
Explosion!
Then everything happened as if in an instant, but really only a few seconds. My outstretched hand released the Black Whip and grabbed Mei to hold her against me.
Then three other whips were released from my other hand and they grabbed a metal table, lifting it up and making a projectile barrier for us.
Mei and I were even nearly killed by a heated circular saw flying through it.
And when it all subsided, the girl in my hands began to stare at the whips, tearing their gaze away from me.
Izuku: I... I'll explain everything to you tonight.
Mei: why not now?
Izuku: it's just that-
???: HATSUME!
We both simultaneously flinched at her teacher's shout as he clearly sat through all this destruction.
Mei: yeah, better do it sometime later...
Time Skip
Now it was time for lunch. Luckily for Mei, I managed to save the contract for a personal support course student. That should save her from not being able to stop making inventions.
The Power Loader immediately kicked me out with a desire to do a separate lecture for Mei. Only I'm pretty sure that subject was done out of her style.
Izuku: (I found one. But how many others are there at this school?)
I ordered some dishes from Quick Lunch in order to run a second errand. I need to taste a dish from another chef and find a way to improve it.
So I ordered two bowls of rice and one udon. Both are suitable to go along with the seasoning I have in my backpack.
And after sampling them with a taste assessment, I have to discreetly put soy sauce in them. So I need an empty seat.
And the only table with slightly similar criteria is the table with the sleeping guy.
Izuku: (was not.)
I sat down at the table quietly enough not to wake up my neighbor and slipped some sauce into the dishes.
It tasted great!
[Congratulations on completing the second stage of training!]
[You've gotten 5 coefficients of skill: Cooking!]
[You were able to improve several dishes with just one seasoning, and by doing so, you've completed the secret part of the training!]
That's what I thought.
[The reward has been transferred to your Vault!]
I grinned as I took out the Cooking book and opened a page. Now if I make it past the third stage, there will be even more tasks next and they will be harder. After all, the first four are at the level of the normal world. And further tasks will go with risk.
???: I didn't realize the Bone Crusher was a cook.
I stared at my chairmate for a second. Good thing it was just him that stunned me, and not my friends coming to the table. And that's when I immediately remembered him.
Hitoshi Shinso with a quirk of Control Question. What I call it.
Izuku: I thought I might need this. At summer camp, we had to make our own food from the second day.
He reached for his coffee mug with a nod. And while he drank from it, I looked at the next step.
Making a dish in an unconventional way (0/2)
It was bad, as it was almost impossible for me. Then I returned my attention back to Shinso.
Izuku: so why are you sleeping here?
He clearly couldn't think straight due to overexertion.
Shinso: I'm going through Eraser's own training...
That didn't really surprise me, since the disaster happened some time after that day. So I know that he trains under our class teacher Aizawa.
Izuku: and he's clearly not sparing you in this training.
He felt the phantom blows and pressed his left shoulder with his hand.
Shinso: I realize that the path to heroism is not an easy one, but it's like I have to get off the ground.
I nodded in agreement, remembering my 10 months of training and learning since that disaster.
Izuku: I understand. I myself miraculously managed to pass the exam with rescue points... I didn't defeat a single robot.
Shinso: so you don't break any bones?
I shook my head.
Izuku: I'm a rather... late bloomer.
The moment wasn't right because he was just drinking coffee and choked on my words.
Shinso: you... you didn't awaken her during practice, did you?
I pulled my face aside to silently let him know that.
Izuku: like you, I understand the other side of this world.
Now we sat in silence again. I, on the other hand, started to consider my next words, but I was beaten to it.
Shinso: I'm sorry.
Izuku: I'm what?
Shinso: for those words I said at the festival. A lot of people would think it was an attempt to activate a quirk, but... my emotions spoke for me at the time.
His words triggered a few memories in me.
Izuku: it's okay... I'd do the same if I were you.
With a slight glance at him, I thought about adding him to the list of those who could find out about it. But I'd have to be sure of something.
Name: Hitoshi Shinsho
Quirk: Control Question
Strength: 5.4
Dexterity: 6.1
Speed: 5.7
Vitality: 4.8
Intelligence: 11.4
Endurance: 10
Skills:
Abnormal Condition: rank C
Now it was my turn to choke on my drink.
Shinso: what's wrong?!
Izuku: no... nothing. You know, if you want to impress Aizawa, you should come to my place by the 1-H dorm tonight. I'll know how to impress the hero Eraserhead.
Time Skip
It was almost evening. I, along with the class, was in a slump. When class continued, I told the teachers that I had invented a long-range attack technique for myself and that it required a new costume from my personal technician Hatsume.
They quickly realized my problem. Power Loader had obviously talked about it a lot during lunch today. So they let me go early after suggesting new ideas. But I don't intend to reveal the Black Whip to them yet.
Plus I made the excuse to the class that I'm going to go practice in the woods. Which is actually not a lie. I'll be cooking rice in the forest, which should count as training.
But will I have enough of my own skills to cook it? I don't know yet.
I made a halt under thick tree branches to hide the smoke and began breaking dry branches and boulders to make a safe fire.
[You have completed the blocked training stage!]
[Due to failure to fulfill the condition, your reward will be temporarily unavailable]
This was also my biggest annoyance in life. Proof that I couldn't go any further in my training. But that's not a problem now.
I took out all the supplies I needed from storage and started cooking rice over the burning fire.
No POV
Still, no one could detect Izuku in his new secret place. But as he put the rice utensils on the fire, he found someone watching him.
Izuku: Okay, stop hiding. I know you two are hiding behind the same tree.
The two teenagers came out of hiding and revealed themselves as Mei Hatsume and Hitoshi Shinsho.
Izuku: I see you've been looking for me for a long time. Have a seat.
He pointed to a log across from him and they sat down on it.
Izuku: you know, the reason I'm interested in you is for a reason...
Shinso: is it because of your incident with the drink?
Izuku: and moments of reflection as well. What you will hear must not come out of this forest. Our future depends on it...
Seeing the rice cooking quickly because of the fire, he put it in three plates and shared it with them.
Izuku: I'll start with something I've realized since late 4 years ago. This should definitely cement our trust with you and me.
Name: Izuku Midoriya
Quirk: Growth Enhancement, [ One for All]
Strength: 7.3
Dexterity: 5.2 [0.5]
Speed: 6.7
Vitality: 9
Intelligence: 12.8
Endurance: 10.1
Skills:
Survivor: rank E
Possession: 7%
Potential Sight: Rank C
Possession: 11%