Chapter 24: 24
"so, how should I teach you" holding Mineta's head in the stadium. "I didn't do anything" he yelled while trying to break from my hand. "Really? You bastard, so tell me now who deceived our classmates" I tightened my grip more. "But they went by their well" he tried to defend himself but the head shack I got from Mina; She was wearing a cheerleading uniform like the other girls "he did trick us and told us that all the classes were in," Jiro said "but it wasn't that bad, right?" Hagakure added, "I'm with you, but being the only class was embarrassing" Uraraka put her head down and played with her fingers.
They started talking so I left them alone and gripped the chicken head. After some good tutoring, the mini-events ended. There were some mini-events to cheer the students and give them the time to get ready and calm a little. "COMING BACK TO THE ACTION, WE HAVE OUR FINAL CHALLENGE" Mic roared with the audience that got bored from all the small things and wanted the big meal
I ignored everything and waited to see who's my opponent. After some laughs and roars and cheering there was a screen with the list:
1 : Shinso Vs Sero
2 : Mie Vs Ida
3 : Izuku Vs Shiozaki
4 : Todoroki Vs Jiro
5 : Momo Vs Tetsutetsu
6 : Uraraka Vs Kaminari
7 : Monoma Vs Tokoyami
8 : Ayoama Vs Kendo
Something unexpected
We had another 15 minutes to get ready before the first round
"the rules are simple: you are out if you step out the squire, get knockout, surrender or unable to keep up." Midnight said while standing on the edge of the concrete stage and Cementoss was sitting on a concrete throne near the stage
The first fight was fast; "What is your name?" and "I'm-", and Sero had left the stage before the fight started; I caught it all the way. his quirk trigger must be the answer he received, not the question he said. however, what are the limits of this quirk, and how do you wake from it?
The second fight was a comedy with Mie playing with Ida and making him a test doll for her "babies". After getting all the eyes, she let him go and surrendered
'let's give them a good show' I went. Standing against the girl with the hair of veins, standing there preying 'no sounds, no moves, do all my senses go off?' I thought.
"ready…" both of us gave her a nod "GO" Midnight exclaimed. As if god gave life to the veins it went hunting for my neck, I dodged to the side and put my hand on the veins to see what would happen, however, I felt a sting on my ankle and found myself pulled to the sky going directly to lose, a drip of blood followed with my veins cutting hers off.
'so acid or venom doesn't matter, full control, fast, strong, yet all in my hand now let's end it' My veins started turning against me and making me like a metro map. Starting to gather, while a giant, green, wracking ball came from the sky; I met it with my palm, taking all the force in one hit; the crowd roared, seeing me still standing, and one second, the ball collapsed into dust. The moment she saw her wrecking ball vanish and an axe in my hand 'shit!' was being repeated in her head along with prays. I put my hand on the ground, a cannonball was fired at her. the dust rose with the cracks and slashes sounds, after one minute of slashes however the dust was still high, I got out of the dust but with no shirt and a nick-length veins girl on my shoulder, I went to the side "Can you put me down?" "as you wish" out of the ring she was dropped, followed by the audience and Mic screams "HOW UN-FREAKING-FAIR!! WHAT HAPPENED, ANYONE TELL US WHAT HAPPENED"
I left with my smile and additional data to my collection. I was rained with questions about what happened, and all mouths shouted at once "One by one please" I bagged "Okay" they replied and gave me a moment of silence. "firsts are first, she is technically a plant by standing there, even the breath sound is inaudible, then her veins produce a very stingy substance in addition to the thorns, my ankle is still itching so an axe and forceful, speed attacks were all it took and one small thing her veins had a limit to growth" I explained the most.
After that, We were shocked by the power show of Todoroki; half the stadium was ice, 'poor Jiro' was what we all shared, trying as fast to send him out to be met with such a brutal way to say life is not fair.
The next was worse even; imagine meeting a cannon. How much would you last? None more than the period of the cannonball reaching you, that was what happened to Tetsutetsu; the moment the round started, he turned iron to see a cannon getting out of Momo's chest, and he was wiped out instantly.
Kaminari ended it with one strike of electricity, Uraraka didn't have a chance to use her quirk.
Again, another one-strike win, Tokoyami pushed that golden parrot off the stage with no unnecessary force, just a good push. With no quirk to copy, he is good as nothing.
Finally, a good fight, Kendo was rapid by using her hands like a gorilla to dodge, and Ayoama too wasn't bad, shooting her multiple times yet her hands were so strong, sometimes Ayoama pushed her near the edge some other times he was sent to the edge yet both kept their ground, I never thought that Ayoama laser was powerful enough to send him to the sky it's not just a heat ray but it seems to have a mass or how could it do that maybe Newton's second law?
It ended with Kendo winning, the pain that comes with the laser stroke Ayoama giving Kendo a chance that she seized with an uppercut sending Ayoama out of both the stage and conscious
Now the half-finals came. Ida didn't even fight one question, one answer, and he was out. And it was my turn to the stage.
'it's the time of truth, this bastard needs a lesson in life' I walked to the stage, an unstoppable train wrecking my walls and reaching to my depth, my thoughts went wild as if someone used a quirk on me or it was "you don't know what suffering is, you don't know what a broken family is, you don't know what hatred is. just another one for me to prove I don't need his cursed quirk, I will prove to everyone that I don't need him, I will prove to her I'm different" Todoroki's voice was still echoing in my ears
Standing in front of Todoroki, no smiles, just a battlefield with two enemies. "ready…" Both of us nodded "GO"
The chill spread in my spin like the ice spikes that hunted my face, I raised my hand and sent a hummer down crashing all the spikes and then pulling all the ice "living shotgun" and firing at him, and an ice wall stood protecting him and then running to me to be met with "invisible punch".
"you can't defeat me with ice," I grinned "Shut the fuck up "heaven-piercing ice wall"." He shouted but he didn't just use his mouth, the ice spread on the ground followed by thorns growing into a massive wall, willing to kill me the ice tried to pierce me 'I'm going to prove it to you too, I'm not bad, I'm not like him, I'm better without him' he told himself, the broken smile on Todoroki's face, the anger was unleashed.
a minute, the smile faded from his face, and the second minute, everyone started asking if I died or what. he turned around to leave, thinking it ended. "You said I don't know what suffering is", my voice was followed by a giant lance passing by him. His eyes were wide open on his spikes wall that started to fall.
the giant lance came back to me and shifted to an axe, then to a sword. After that, a spear and so many melee weapons, finally in my hand was the lance. 'Rest in peace,' I thought while other memories came to me.
the lady in that pharmacy, one of the few who treated me well, going out of her way to help me and teach me how to do my first aid, giving me discounts even if there weren't, the first one after my mom's death to treat me like a human, I wish I had kept visiting her after I got my quirk 'I will visit your grave today' I saw her shaking her head, 'Again I'm sorry' She put her hand on my shoulder and I felt her quirk running through my blood and all my others going up
ice thorns charging at me I raised the lance and met them, the moment they touched the tip a circle wave of 2m smashed all of them "Force wave"
he stood there looking into my eyes. "I lived my life suffering" I took a step to find that both my feet were trapped, and a wall charged at me.
I took the hit and went flying. I stabbed the lance and stopped, and the blood started to leak on my head; the veins grew and stitched that wound, yet the blood dyed the side of my head.
"let me show you that you don't know what suffering is" I exclaimed, the tip was replaced with a flat head, I pulled my hand backwards and threw it, pushed to the Maximus speed, he put up a wall but it was broken in an instant, the lance hit him in the gut, he put up a wall after a wall to prevent getting out, the lance lost all its powers and laid on the ground but not for too long.
I walked to him slowly with the lance that returned, he was suffocated from that hit "First question, did you live as quirkless for a decade?" he sent another spike but one hit destroyed it "The answer is no, you didn't but I did" my steps stopped in front of him half frozen "second question, did you lost anyone you loved?" he looked into my eyes, two different colours yet the same flames shone "I lost my mother, she was sent to psychiatric hospital" he answered, "is she dead?" I felt that I might be wrong. "No", he responded again.
I took another step casting my shadows on him, he looked at the ground at that shadow. "so you didn't lose, you were just cowardly to visit" The lance turned into iron gloves, I raised my hand and smashed his face on the ground then stepped on his head "final question, did you see someone die?" he was buried on the ground. After some seconds of no response, "I think it's story time", I said with the most anger I had felt for this year again.
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Another chapter as an apology for the long drop