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Dazai leaned back into the chair, staring at the computer, honestly, watching Chuuya act and fight, was one of the best entertainment shows he could have, and in this dull place he honestly needs it.
The U.A is honestly a bit dumb to just record everything, all types of people are watching their students including this Leauge of Villains group, well, He's only watching Chuuya, mainly, but some of the others are interesting too.
"Are any of them to your interest" Kurogiri asked, cleaning a glass, voice calm, but Dazai knew he has to answer carefully, after all he still isn't trusted as much as that Shikaraki kid, who isn't even a kid but here they are.
"Hm? Most of them struggled quite a bit to even pass the first course" Dazai shrugged, leaning back so he could actually look to the side and at Kurogiri, still he smiled "Some of them could be quite useful, take that Half and Half kid for example, what was his name again? Todoroki?" Dazai mused, staring back at the computer "he could be lots of help, and aside being strong he's also smart enough"
Kurogiri narrowed his eyes, setting the glass he had been cleaning down, "What about that red head?" Kurogiri asked, "What do you think of him" He asked.
"Ah" Dazai grinned "He got potential too" Dazai waved his hand dismissively, "And so does the Boom Boom Boy, All of them do, and maybe maybe, that Midoriya Izuku as well" Dazai said calmly with that undertone of something dark he sometimes used. "Shame we will have to choose"
Kurogiri only stared for a few seconds before returning to the task at hand. Dazai didn't let the laugh in his throat espace, looks like the conversation was finished, oh well, his attention was on someone else anyways "Entertain me some more Slug, this place is so boring" Dazai thought, as the game for the second course was announced
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"Now then! I'll explain the tunes of the calvary battle!" Midnight said, completely ignoring the atmosphere betwen the students "The time limit is fifteen minutes!" She said "Each team is worth the total of its members' points, and the rivers will wear a headband with that number on their foreheads, teams will try to grab each other's headbands until time runs out and try to keep as many points as they can!" Midnight explained
"The stolen headbands mist be worn from the neck up, so the more you steal the harder it'll be to manage them!" Midnight said Exitedly "and the most important thing is that even if your headband gets stolen, or if your team falls, you're not out!"
"Which means..." Yaoyorozu muttured, fingers on her chin
"Since there are 42 people, there will be ten or twelve teams" Chuuya said, finishing for her "Meaning it won't be that easy to steal a headband, but it'll be hard to keep one" he mumbled.
If He is to be honest, these games aren't that hard, it's just experience that's keeping Chuuya on a higher level then these dorks in this school, for example Uraraka has the same abil-- quirk as his ability, but she is much weaker compared to him, it proves something he's been thinking lately
The difference with Abilities and quirks, rather one of them, is experience with it, control and precision matter in both abilities and quirks, bit experience sets it on a different angle, because of the past of Yokohama and the experience most 'gifted' users get with it
And the fact it's similar with nealry every ability user, no matter what the actual ability is, over time abilities because stronger, fitting for Yokohama and it's way of living, the way it was In Musutafu and all the bullshit of it not being safe is because heroes spoiled every city rotten and people don't know how to avoid danger without them
Unlike Yokohama, where people know what to do to avoid any sorts of dangers with ability users, and the organizations aren't reckless with their stuff, here everything is just for the beginners, half of these people wouldn't last a day in Yokohama, let alone live in it, perhaps it was the best decision to seal Yokohama away from the rest of the world-- tough the technology is very advanced outside it.
"during the game, I'll he a cruel fight where you can use your quirks!" Midnight said, snapping Chuuya out of his thoughts "But it is still a cavlary battle, you'll get a red catf for attacks that are trying to make people fall on purpose! You'll be removed immediately!" She said loudly enough, before any students got any thoughts
"That's too bad.." Chuuya thought with a sigh, he could have gotten away with a few of those but still risky, seems like Boom Boom Boy behind him thought of the same strategy, seeing how he murmured a "damn.." under his breath.
The screen behind Midnight changed to numbers, a timer of fifteen minutes, Chuuya blinked, a timer to build your teams--? "Now! You have fifteen minutes to build your teams. Start!"-- yeah that's it.
Chuuya closed his eyes for a second, he needed a plan, but he can't just take anyone, pick the top ten? You can't just pick whoever passed first.. No, calvary battle isn't that, if you win, your teammates also win, you have to think about compatibility of other people's quirks... Chuuya opened his eyes again, he has it. He knows who he's gonna ask to be his teammates
And it seems he should be getting it quickly, before Boom Boom Boy or someone else stole them.
Chuuya turned around, aha, found one, he walked towards a rather large group of people, circling Bakugou "Shoji-san!" Chuuya called out as he began to walk away.
Shoji paused, turning his head to look over his shoulder, Chuuya waved as he finally reached him. Shoji blinked "Do you wanna be on my team?" Chuuya asked, hand out so shoji could shake his arm if he agrees
Shoji's eyes narrowed "Do you have a plan Chuuya?" He asked. Chuuya smirked "Of course I do, we're getting one of the big stars" he said, looking to the side, shoji followed his gaze and blinked in suprise "Or perchance the star might come to us" he smiled, because the one currently approaching them was none other then number 2 Todoroki Shoto
"Hai Hai Todoroki-san" Chuuya waved, not exaggerating it like the Cheerfully characters do, but just a small wave and a smile.
"I see you haven't found a team yet Chuuya" Todoroki said, in that calm, cold tone of his, he looked once at shoji then back at Chuuya, as if letting him have the conversation. Chuuya took the sign and continued speaking
"Actually, I already made a plan and who I want, I already have two people on my team, one more" Chuuya said with a shrug, making Todoroki raise an eyebrow. Todoroki only sighed "Fine" he muttured "Who's the last one?" Todoroki asked
"Him!" Chuuya pointed at a person, shoji and Todoroki followed the direction, and the person it landed on... was Tenya Iida..
"Him?" Shoji blinked, looking back at Chuuya, who only nodded, "Yeah, him" he repeated "Let's go and get him before Midoriya-san does" he said, already starting to walk away, shoji and Todoroki sealed a look, before shrugging and walking after Chuuya as well
"Iida-San!" Chuuya called out, at the sound of his name Iida turned with a little "hm?" blinking in suprise when he saw them "Nakahara-kun?" He asked, looking at wide a wide eyes. Chuuya sighed "I told you it's Chuuya okay?" He mumbled averting his gaze to the side, "Are you on a team?" Chuuya asked, tone switching immediately.
"No, not yet" Iida answered, not even getting another word out before Chuuya elbowed him lightly "well now you do!" Chuuya announced with that smile of his. Iida blinked, he looked at Chuuya, then at shoji, then at Todoroki, and repeat like he got hit by a truck
"What do you say?" Chuuya asked, hand our for a handshake again, because shoji didn't get to do it Iida will, Iida was quiet for a few seconds, Before taking Chuuya’s hand and pulling a handshake
"I'm in" Iida said with a smile.Chuuya’s smile became more Sharp "Great" Chuuya said "Now that we have all the spots filled, it's time for the grand plan" Chuuya said, clapping his hands together with a smirk.
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"Now then!" Midnight said, stretching her arms "It's about time we get started!" She said Cheerfully
"Come on!" Present Mic said, shaking Aizawa "wake up Eraser!" He said, making Aizawa snap out of sleep "after 15 minutes of creating teams, we now hacw 12 calvary teams on the battlefield" he said, pointing down onto the field.
Aizawa narrowed his eyes "there are some interesting teams on the field" he said, which was immediately turned down by Present Mic yelling "Now let's hear those battle cries! It's time for The U.A bloody battle!" Present Mic shouted "Let the signals out!" He yelled loudly
"Looks like the time for the teams ended" Chuuya said, tightening the headband around his head that said 750 points "you guys got the plan?" He said, looking down at his teammates. Man it felt weird being tall but oddly satisfying, now he wishes Dazai was here, wonder what kind of face he'd make
Chuuya felt the three men beneath him nod without any nervousness, all the confidence in the world, and Chuuya smiled "Then we're ready" he said, smacking his fist into his hand
"Now let's go!" Present Mic shouted "Counting down to the brutal battle royal!" He yelled "3... 2... 1...!"
"Start!" Midnight shouted after him
All the teams soon made their way onto the field, as soon as the signal was sent, of course the main target there being Midoriya was the obvious side of it. Everyone made their way towards Midoriya, who looked like he was about to faint. Chuuya’s really gonna start to pity the dude
Midoriya knew this battle would be hard but damn that what the hell? It did not help When he heard Tokoyami muttering something about "the cursed fate of the pursued" or something!?
"Midoriya Make your choice" Tokoyami said, eyes narrowed at the horde of students coming after them. As
If Midoriya has any chance of fighting them!? Well sure Ofa exists but it's not very useful if he's gonna break a finger every time he uses it? So the obvious choice "Of course" Midoriya said, eyes narrowing "My choice is to run away" he said. And as if to jinx it, the floor became quicksand due to a person's quirk
Midoriya did not think about it he pressed a button in his hand and pressed it, a supportive gear on his back activated, lifting them out of the quicksand and into the air
"What--?!" Iida shouted at the scene he just saw, eyes wide
"Calm down it's the support gear" Todoroki muttured, but the tone alone told Chuuya that Todoroki was pissed he even had to watch that, apparently losing to a person who used a metal piece and a couple of landmines made of pink glitter made Todoroki quite mad, honestly Chuuya would be too
"Looks like they landed" shoji said, and indeed, they were at the opposite end, Chuuya pointed at them "Alright! Let's steal some headbands!" Chuuya yelled, as his teammates moved
In all honestly Chuuya didn’t want to do the first place, but let's give these kids a win, so they don't hate him for the rest of his life for not winning. He's still supposed to be injured is he not? Eh, he's gonna help them win.
Chuuya leaned down, touching shoji and iida on their heads, using his ability, and decreasing the gravitational pull on them, he made them lighter, easier to run, really easier, He did the same with todoroki at the front, then he leaned back up "Let's do it" He said so only his team could hear it
In the middle of a chaos like this one, where everyone is focused on one headband, 10 million, people are distracted, and the best way to steal is when someone is distracted
That was the plan for the start
"First target ahead!" Chuuya said, preparing to grab it "Todoroki-kun--" Chuuya began but Todoroki only nodded "Yeah" he said, Chuuya leaned down as Todoroki raised his arm to create the ice, The ice soon covered the field, not everything of course, it just trapped his target
Chuuya stretched his arm and slid his hand across wall of ice, the red outline gathered on it, he simply Increased the force of gravity acting upon its mass, making it more difficult to break, the heavier the object the harder it is to break.
"What the hell!?" Tetsutetsu yelled, his leg was frozen and so was his left side teammate-- damn that Todoroki kid! he tried to break it-- but why!? It didn't budge-- why!? At the first game he broke it easily but now...
"I'll be taking that, thanks!" Chuuya said as they ran past Tetsutetsu and his team, with Testutetsu's headband looking over his shoulder at them still stuck in ice with that sweet but not so sweet smile, Chuuya immediately put it around his neck
"Let's continue this!" Chuuya yelled with a grin, well this is getting fun, and besides, he hates losing, perhaps they will win first place after all. Chuuya snapped his fingers, the ice shattered, By simply dramatically increasing the gravitational force exerted on the ice, the sheer stress caused by its own increased weight simply caused it to crack, better keep the field clean.
Chuuya looked up in the air "huh" Chuuya blinked "Looks like Bakugou-San and Midoriya-kun are playing airplanes?" He raised an eyebrow as he saw Tokoyami's shadow block the attack from Bakugou.
"Ignore them Nakahara-kun" Iida sighed like that scene physically pained him-- "It's "Chuuya"" Chuuya snapped, pointing an accusing finger at Iid
Bakugou got caught with sero's tape, and was pulled down, well, Chuuya sure didn't except Bakugou of all people to get princess caught or whatever-- eh, it's allowed and whatever, Yamada should not be that shocked about it??
"Everyone" Chuuya began, grin stretching "let's head for Midoriya" he said, cracking his knuckles, "and steal more headbands on the way!" Chuuya yelled enough to get the point across his teammates
"On your right!" Shoji shouted and Chuuya Immediately prepared for whatever team was coming-- definitely not one of the big shots
"Class 1-B had a long term strategy that involved throwing the qualifier, huh?" Midoriya thought as he watched Kacchan fume at The words monoma just told him "It's true that they could leave a stronger impression by overturning the mood that favored class 1-A before the festival started" he thought "But based on their way of thinking they won't necessarily come after me"
Midoriya turned to Look down at his team "Everyone, it'll be easier to run aw--" before he could finish-- they came to a sudden spot, creating a wave of dust, his team backed away all of a sudden-- as the dust cleared, Midoriya saw who it was
"Oi! Midoriya-kun!" Chuuya yelled "No hard feelings okay?" He said as Midoriya's eyes narrowed
"Less then half the time is left now!" Present Mic announced "the calvary battle is about to enter the second half! In this unexpected rise of class 1-B who will wear the 10 million points at the end!?" Present Mic shouted
"It won't be that easy huh?" Midoriya asked with a sigh as Tokoyami's black shadow stood on guard, Chuuya smiled "Nothing's easy Midoriya-kun" Chuuya said with a shrug "But let me let you know a secret, I don't like losing, so I'll get that headband of yours" Chuuya said as he narrowed his eyes, head leaning to the side
Midoriya bit the inside of his cheek, this is bad.. Chuuya-san was already fighting in the USJ-- he got severally injured, yet he's still fighting-- he did the most fighting aside all might.. even protecting Aizawa from that thing called Nomu-- haah... guess he will have to make it work somehow
"I'll be taking that" Chuuya said, his posture becoming more serious
Tokoyami narrowed his eyes "We can't attack him-- his Condition might worsen" He mumbled, Attacking Chuuya and getting him more injured could result in potential death-- is he or his teammates willing to bear the consequences of that
"Tokoyami-kun, I'm sure Chuuya-kun is confident in his team's abilities to keep him safe, as you can see he has a lot of headbands" Midoriya said suddenly "We need to focus on ourselves, it's not just one team coming after us!" He yelled, reminding Tokoyami that indeed, there was a horse of other teams coming for them
Chuuya looked over his shoulder, before looking back at Midoriya "Iida-kun, Todoroki-kun let's go! Shoji, keep an eye out" Chuuya said, "You got it!" Shoji answered, as Iida's engine turned on, Todoroki raised his hand, freezing the ground the other teams have been standing on-- Chuuya quickly touched the ice-- making it harder to break
"That should deal with the unnecessary teams" Chuuya said, hm, it really helped that he made his teammates lighter, they're moving much faster then they would've
"Less then six minutes now!" Todoroki reminded him, gritting his teeth "We can't back down now!"
"I know!" Answered Chuuya, voice a bit annoyed but Chuuya tuned it down so Todoroki didn't notice
"What!? What did he do!?" Present mic shouted at the scene "Todoroki tool care of that crowd in a instant!" He yelled
"He froze the ground, while Chuuya made it harder for the ice to break, so they would struggle more, I guess it should be expected, but he took it into account on how the students avoided it in the first course" Aizawa said,
"Nice commentary" Present Mic said, giving Aizawa a thumbs up
"I might as well take these!" Chuuya said as his team made it past others, stealing their headbands and immediately putting them on, they should get this done quickly because these headbands also neckbands become well he's wearing them around his throat now as well
"Todoroki!" Chuuya yelled, as a wall of ice was formed to deflect Tokoyami's black shadow, which immediately snapped as they continued charging
Chuuya could feel Todoroki becoming impatient, as well as the other two, oh well, they shouldn't worry much, nobody can exactly run forever, and in this case? They're getting out of bounds
And Like Chuuya predicted, Midoriya's team immediately stopped once they relaised that they had nowhere left to go, realizing they will have to take it head on
"One Minute left!" Present Mic shouted "Chuuya made it so he'd have the 10 million all to himself seize in the instant-- at least thats what I thought 5 minutes ago! But unbelievably Midoriya has lasted in that tight spot!" Present Mic yelled
"Not for long" Chuuya answered, "There's less than a minute left" He said, "Iida, is there any way you could get us there fast, For me to get the headband?"
"There is" Iida answered, "But I'm counting on you to catch the headband Nakahara!" iida said , activating his quirk. "Torque Over--" Iida said and Chuuya Outstretched his arm "Reciproburst!" Iida shouted
Chuuya didn't even see it, this second he was there the next he was here, that was so fast--- He looked at his hand, good lord Finally, they got it!
"Wha..!?" Presen Mic shouted "what happened so fast so fast! Iida If you adolescent that fast then show us in the prelims!" Present Mic yelled
"Iida-kun" Chuuya began, suddenly breathless which was weird? "What was that" Todoroki continued for him
Iida was breathing a bit to heavily, but he managed to get the words out "by forcing the torque and rotations to increase, I created an explosive power, and thanks to Nakahara-kun making us lighter it worked better then it usually does" Iida explained, sweat trailing down his face as he talked "with the recoil my engine stalls after a while tough" Iida muttured
"It's a secret move I haven't told anyone in class yet" iida said, turning his head to look at Midoriya, who was shocked to the very core "I told you didn't I Midoriya?" He said "That I'd challenge you" Iida said with a proud smile
"The tables turned!" Present Mic yelled as the crowd shouted "offense and defense right at the edge! Reining that In Chuuya gets the 10 million! And Midoriya is suddenly left with zero points!" Present Mic shouted
"Get back in there!' Midoriya immediately shouted--
"As long as they have Shoji and Todoroki we can't attack recklessly! We will be at a disadvantage!" Tokoyami reminded him "Wouldn't it be safer if we went for other points now!?" He asked
"No!" Midoriya yelled "I don't know how the other points got slipped up! This is our only chance!" He clenched his fist--
"Alright!" Uraraka suddenly yelled "we will get it back deku! We definitely will!" She yelled, as the team moved forward.
Deku blinked, that's right-- it wasn't only him-- it was all of them-- the feeling of trust of three people-- he's carrying all that! he will get back that Headband-- even if it means actually fighting Chuuya--
The red lines on his arm appeared like zag lines-- glowing like thunder-- Chuuya didn't even think-- he immediately raised his arm to defend himself--
"Team Bakugou seizes two headbans and moves on to third place!" Present Mic shouted watching the Spectacle that's happening in all of the 30 last seconds
"It's true that Class 1-B strategy was good and reasonable, however there was one unfortunate thing" Aizawa said, voice calm and eyes narrowed "They didn't take the difference in tenacity in consideration did they?" Aizawa muttured, seeing as Bakugou took the last headband from Monoma
"Bakugou is merciless!" Present Mic shouted "If he's gonna do it he's gonna do it through!" He yelled "Hey! you know! A perfectionist! Now there are only seconds left!" Present Mic said
"It was the first time I used this power on a person" Midoriya remembered the USJ-- and Attacking Shigaraki-- but it's fine-- he's not actually gonna hit Chuuya-- like cutting though air-- break down the opponents defenses!
"it hurts but it's not broken--" Midoriya thought as Chuuya was thrown off balance for a few seconds-- "He turned the headbands around to hide the point value-- but he took the ten million last-- so it must be the one on the front!" Midoriya thought as he took the one on the top around Chuuya's neck
"I got it!" Midoriya thought, immediately taking the headband to look at it-- 750 points!? That-- that wasn't in the plan but-- Midoriya turned to Look at the screen-- Thrid place! That-- that's enough! They don't need to engage anymore
"And just like that Midoriya's team reaches the third place! And Times almost up! Start the countdown!" Present Mic shouted
Midoriya gritted his teeth, that was good but-- the way Chuuya looked over his shoulder at him at that moment-- it feels like-- this wasn't a moment of pure luck--
"Time's up!" Present Mic shouted loudly to ease the tension on the field "That's the end of the second round! The calvary battle!" He yelled as the crowd cheered "Now let's take a look at the top four teams immediately!" Present Mic said Exitedly
"In first place! Team Chuuya!"
Chuuya simply jumped down, Shoji and Iida helped him a bit, well can't be helped since he's still supposedly injured, still he managed to seize the first place,
"That's about enough excitement for today" Chuuya said, stretching his arms as he finally used his legs again, before turning to his teammates "Good work! All of you" Chuuya said, raising his hand, and giving a high-five to all of them-- even Todoroki who looked at his hand like it wasn't his afterwards
"In second place! Team Bakugou!" Present Mic shouted
"Ah we were so close!" Mina whined, cracking her fingers-- "Well Second place isn't that bad All's well that ends well " Sero said shrugging "Do you really think that's how he feels?" Kirishima muttured, so the he In question on the ground doesn't hear them.
"In third place Team Midoriya!"
"Agh!" Midoriya groaned as hatsume took of the support gear on his back "We got thrid place bur I felt like we were on thin ice in the last few seconds" he said, pulling his hair back with his hand and sighing
"Yeah, but thanks to you we got the thrid place" Uraraka said from behind him.
Midoriya shook his head "No" he said "It's thank to all of us" he said, turning his head to look at his team, who were looking proud of themselves, and maybe it was perchance Chuuya being a good hearted kid, Midoriya smiled despite himself.
"And in Fourth place Team Tetsu-- wait Shinsou!?"
"Thanks for your hard work" shinsou said, waving as he walked away casually from his team-- Ojiro narrowed his eyes-- that was--
"They look happy" Chuuya said, arms crossed as he stared at Midoriya's team, he was obviously ignoring Bakugou on the ground-- and he doesn't even know who the fuck is shinsou--
"You let them take that headband didn't you?" Todoroki said suddenly, Chuuya turned his head to look at Todoroki over his shoulder and smlied "Mhm" Chuuya said, not even trying to deny it
"Why? Why did you do that?" Todoroki asked, taking a step forward, and Chuuya let the silence linger for a few seconds, only staring at Todoroki before looking back at Midoriya "Well, he was desperate, and we had the 10 million for ourselves, what harm did it do to our place?" Chuuya said it all casually
"I think I'll never understand you" Todoroki mumbled with a sigh, but still, Chuuya helped them win, even tough he was Injured, Todoroki was still mad for some reason about that, but his team won the first place and that's what matters
"Now them we will take an hour's break for lunch before we start the afternoon festivities! See ya!" Present Mic shouted.
"Chuuya!" Mina and Kaminari shouted at the exact same time, which triggered the natural chuuya response, which was to keep them away just for a little personal space-- "That was so cool!" They both yelled
Chuuya waved his arms "it wasn't that cool you guys-- I barely did any work my team did most of it, I only made them lighter" Chuuya said
"Yet you won fisrt place!" Mina said Exitedly, clapping her hands "I wanted to snatch that headband but you did all the fancy work!" She said, bouncing in one place
"You two won fourth and second place" Chuuya said "You should be proud as well, you're advancing to the third round of the Festival as well" Chuuya said as he turned around to walk
"Hey where were you just now?" Kaminari asked as he picked up the pace a little to caught up with Chuuya "you didn't immediately come back" he asked, putting a hand on Chuuya’s shoulder
Chuuya stilled for a few seconds, Before smiling and answering "Just a small chat with one of my teammates" Chuuya answered, and before Kaminari and Mina asked anything-- Chuuya picked up the pace "Now come on! Let's get some sweets to eat!" He said, looking at his 'friends' over his shoulder with a smile,
Mina and Kaminari looked at each other before smiling and running after him "Oi! Wait for us!" Mina shouted, laughing as they tried to catch up to Chuuya, completely forgetting about the chat Chuuya had.
Besides, Chuuya wouldn't say that, not now anyway, blackmail isn't needed currently. But he has enough for both Midoriya and Todoroki, Bakugou is the only one Chuuya has yet to get to break his walls down properly,
Eh, won't he that hard, they're already deep in already.
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