Chapter 18: Part 18
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- Ouch. You're so dirty, how long have you not washed to be covered in such a layer of dirt?
Drawing my opponent's attention specifically to myself allowing Tsui to step aside and take advantage of his quirk to blend in with the surroundings.
- You! I'll kill you!
- You're born so advanced, aren't you? You know the whole word! I'll kill you! You're good! You did well in school, didn't you?
I accompany my words with several jumps and shots of spider webs. Naturally the shots are useless, but I'm not trying to take him down yet, now I just need to get him a little further away and....
- I'll crush it!
He swung and his mud hand transformed into a mud sledgehammer, but the electric darts fired by Tsuyu flew into his back.
- Thank you, Froppy!
- I'll make it up to you, Spidey!
I rush forward, throwing three more darts at him and then, at arm's length, I touch him with my fingers, sending a tremendous bolt of electricity through his body.
Ten seconds and the villain spills a muddy puddle on the ground.
- Here we go.
I shake my head.
- Froppy.
I toss Tsuy the bottle I've attracted with the spider web.
- Will you pick it up?
- All right, and you?
- And I'm at the sounds of battle, it looks like Miruko's gone hard, and I think she's going to have a lot more opponents out there.
- Be careful, Spider.
- You too, Froppy, and watch out for any of our classmates you find.
- Got it.
A shot of web and a jerk of my arm and I'm flying towards the nearest pole, but still in flight I release the web from the second launcher... classic Spider-Man flight. It's funny because I used to think that this was natural for all Spiders, but as it turned out, this skill required a lot of development.
I used all of my--
My instincts to shoot a web into an obviously safe place.
Dexterity and co-ordination to move.
Perception to spot obstacles in time.
And of course, the skill to automatise what you're doing in flight.
I fly to the place where Miruko and the villains are fighting, or rather not exactly to the point, but to the nearest lampposts and fixing them with a spider's web I start to move back.
Five steps...
Ten...
Fifteen...
My gut signals that it's dangerous to move further back, and I slowly take aim, taking advantage of the fact that my opponents are busy with Rabbit.
The one over there with a bunch of arms on his body seems like a convenient enough target...
- Je-ro-ni-ni-mo!
Sending myself flying while attracting a lot of attention and allowing Rabbit to give the enemies surrounding her a few solid kicks.
Release the web and change the direction of flight, flying around the purple mist that appeared in my path, catching on once more and returning the directions to the guy with the arms....
Punch!
The enemy flies backwards, grabbing his mouth, from which several teeth flew out from my blow.
- Listen, you have so many hands on your body... are you compensating for the lack of attention from your childhood? Or did they just tell you it's fashionable?
- Are you--
- Hi, I didn't introduce myself, did I? My name's Spider, of course it's your Friendly Neighbour, Spider-Man, but I'm not offended by Spider! And you're a magpie. Yes? You know, like a centipede, but a magpie.
- Insect.
- You're an ignoramus!
I dodge a few of his blows, noting to myself that he was extremely skilled in close combat, but I'm no stranger to it.
- Just so you know.
A web shot grabs his arm, and the next second I yanked the web sharply and threw him over me, knocking him to the ground. I couldn't build on my success because my gut warned me of the danger and I had to move away. But it didn't shut me up.
- ...spiders belong to the class of spiders, arthropods, and they eat insects!
Go!
I slip under the purple mist and between the legs of my already upraised opponent, while throwing my fist up and punching exactly at the bells.
- Ugh!
- Ow! Sorry! You've just got so many hands on you, I thought you had one in your trousers....
Again to the side, this time the fog redirected the attack of some villain and in the place where I was just now the tarmac literally exploded from the impact of many small shells.
- Listen...
I'm tilting my head to the side.
- Do you always silently follow his orders and protect him? He's your master, isn't he?
But the opponent continued to remain silent and redirected the other villains' attacks at me, making it somewhat easier for Miruko to beat up the losers. Not that she had difficulties before....
- Thou!
The guy with the arms unravelled and stared at me with hatred.
- We were preparing it to kill the Almighty who would come here to save you, but we'll test it on you! Nomu! Kill the bastard!
- Hey!
After dodging the first ramming attack, I continued to circle around my new opponent. Interestingly enough, the purple one stopped interfering in the fight, and the one with the arms was in no hurry to attack me.
- By the way, I was born into a legitimate marriage! However, if it bothers you so much, it seems you were the one who was illegitimate, right?
Slipping under the black, overpowered monster's arm, I punch him in the double where his kidneys should be using fifteen per cent strength.
- Graaaa!
The monster is thrown slightly away from me, but from the looks of it, it doesn't take much damage, so let's raise the bar on strength....
- Did you put his brain on display to show him he's, like, really smart?
Slip under his arm again and hit a two on the liver at thirty per cent strength.
- Graaaah!
Hmm, looks like my punches are only angering him, not injuring him. That's weird, let's raise the strength bar to sixty per cent...
- But he's dumb as a cork... or is that how you compensate for your puny brains?
- Say what you want, his quirk, absorbing blows, you can't hurt him.....
- Really? Really, really?!
My tone was full of joy.
- So I can't hold back?! That's awesome!
And I take my imaginary foot completely off the equally imaginary brake pedal.
Punch! Slip under his feet, kick him in the balls, get under the arm Nomu is trying to hit me with, and punch him again....
Again.
Again.
Again...
Out of the corner of my eye, I track Miruko's actions. She's still having fun kicking the villains, and judging by her movement, she's very eager to either take my opponent away from me or attack the jerk with her hands. And she'd better be targeting the jerk specifically since I might take offence.
Gah!
Before I could dodge, I put my hands under Nomu's kick and that kick threw me back.
- Spider!
Miruko got excited, but I did a spectacular somersault in the air and landed on my feet.
- Don't worry, I'm fine....
I shake my hands, which are slightly numb from the blow, and look at my opponent, realising that it's time to stop playing around.
I tilt my head to the side...
- Did you get it? Did you?! The Nomu we created to kill the almighty?!
- You do that.
While Nomu wasn't attacking me, I thought I'd do a little nattering.
- ...Wipe the foam off your mouth, or everyone will realise you're rabid...and about Nomu...Well, absorbing blows is really not a bad trick, but you idiots....
- А?
I snap forwards and abruptly snag Nomu with a web and start literally entangling him in a cocoon. Left, right, bottom, jump over, left and right again and so on in a circle until the monster's place was one big cocoon of webbing.
- You?! What did you do?!
- Are you stupid? I'm a Spider.
Demonstratively releasing small streams of webbing upwards.
- For those of you who skipped school, spiders weave webs and then cocoon insects in them.
- Fucking insect!
- By the way...
I'm tilting my head to the side.
- What?
The two villains, the one with his hands all over his body, and his foggy colleague, both leaned forward a little.
- Would you like to know a little secret?
- Do you think we're idiots?
- Well...
I shrugged my shoulders as I watched Miruko and, surprisingly, Katsuki, who had appeared from behind one of the buildings, sneak up behind the two villains.
- ...Suit yourself...
- Okay, what you wanted to say.
Miruko and Katsuki froze behind the villains swinging their fists.
- You forgot that you should not only watch your Nomu, but also look around.
- А?
Bam! Bang!
The guy with the arms and Misty flew forward, but Misty had time to orientate himself and grabbed his partner to move through a portal in an unknown direction.
- It's okay because I'm here!
With a strong gust of air about midway between me and Miruko and Katsuki, the Almighty appeared.
- You're too late, turtle....
- А?
The Almighty looked at Miruko with resentment and then shifted his gaze to me afterwards.
- Midoriya?
- You really are late...
I shake my head.
- But now we have a great opportunity to hand over the most troublesome opponent to you and start the lesson we were brought here for.
- Well...
Miruko shrugged her shoulders.
- ...I don't think many people will be as willing as you to learn after THAT. So I think this class can be postponed.
- Fully seconded.
The Almighty nodded his head.
- I think you're all dismissed for today, if you need help, we'll go to the academy, where Healing Girl will take care of you. I think tomorrow you'll all have the day off, and the day after tomorrow we'll start with theoretical classes.
I sighed.
- Okay, whatever, especially since I have some new auxiliaries to calculate....
- Hey guy...
Miruko jumped up to me and put her hand on my shoulder.
- М?
- Do you want to take a swing tomorrow?
- When and where?
Refuse to fight with heroine number six? It didn't even occur to me.
- Just like that?
She blinked in surprise.
- Yeah, why?
- Well... it's just that usually everyone refuses...
She looked away in embarrassment.
- Young Midoriya, I must warn you that Miruko can't hold back, and your sparring will be in full contact and force.
- Tz...
- So, when and where?
- А?
Both Miruko and Almighty looked at me in surprise.
- At noon at Tiger's place...
- It's a deal.
Catching Miruko's hand, I sealed a kiss over it and hurriedly retreated while the girl was in shock at my agreement and actions.