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Chapter 20: Brings Bigger Fish
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Chapter 20: Brings Bigger Fish
With the clock ticking, Aoyama was doing the lion's share of the work to keep the heroes back, his attacks couldn't break through Tetsutetsu's steel skin, but they could force him back. The rest were fair game as Kaibara and Shoji were wise enough to avoid his attacks, whether ranged or otherwise.
Komori had been zipping in and out, spraying people with her two squirt guns, raising the humidity of the icy battle arena which allowed her to grow mushrooms on those she tagged, though thanks to the distance between them, that meant that just Tetsutetsu and Kaibara as the other 3 kept their distance.
In this, she was assisted by Shoda, whose twin impact's remote detonation, along with his unexpected skills in boxing, meant that his size didn't limit him, if anything, it made it easier for him to land punches, which forced Tsunotori and Todoroki to divide their attention between him and Aoyama to keep them from getting pushed back.
When a lull in the fighting started, Aoyama looked towards Komori, who gave him a smile with a twinkle in her eye, one he matched before he turned his attention to their 3rd teammate. "Shoda, you would get out of here, leave them to us," Aoyama instructed Shoda, who looked back at him worried that he might not be able to do that when the entire enemy team was facing off against them
“Just the two of us?” Komori asked, though while she seemed worried, Aoyama could tell from the look in her eye, the excitement that she was anything but.
“If what you told us is true, you’ll be the Atout cache.” He replied, which put their opponents on guard.
“If you’re sure-!” Shoda turned to leave, but Tsunotori wasn't going to just stand there and let that happen as she fired off 2 horns toward him, trying to hit him in the back and either pin him or capture him.
“Solar Beam!” Only for her plan to be foiled when Aoyama let loose a blast of yellow sunlight, badly burning her horns and sending the burnt remains into the shadows cast by the frozen overhead pipes. “Go!” Shoda didn’t wait as he started to make a run for it, using his quirk to boast his speed.
“We’re are not going to let you get away!” Kaibara yelled as he turned to give chase, but had to fall back when Komori aimed her guns at him and let out another burst of water, some of which managed to touch him and from which mushroom started to grow, the boy cursing as he had to cease his attack to smack them off himself.
Todoroki picked up the slack from there, sending a wave of ice toward the retreating Shoda, but Aoyama managed to send ice of light towards it, damaging it enough to slow it down, then in the same move, spun on his heel to block a punch from Tetsutetsu. Tetsutetsu liked that Aoyama was this good, it meant that they could spar later but right now, they had to focus on winning the match.
“Tsunotori, go after him!” Todoroki yelled at her.
“On it!” Tsunotori ran to give chase, about to go onto all fours when a mushroom just popped into existence on her nose. “What the heck? Mushrooms?” That lone mushroom was soon joined by dozens more popping into existence all over her body, and the bodies of her teammates. Not even Shoji, who had remained at a distance the entire time, was safe as he had to stop trying to track them to get rid of them.
Todoroki smacked and plucked them off himself as fast as he could, but it seemed that for everyone he removed, another popped into being, a glance around showed that the area itself was also getting affected, which made no sense, Komori had to spray Kaibara and Testutetsu to infect him, she didn’t even touch him or the other two, so what was going on?
As Aoyama took advantage of their distraction to land a solid hit on Tetsutetsu, sending him barrelling into Kaibara, Komori put a big smile on her face. “Aoyama just said we’re going to hold you off, I might be a strong fighter, but I’m not a damsel in distress either.” She reminded them, that as she was adorable, she knew that better than anyone, but like Amanita Virosa, her looks hide a lethality.
“I was a little spored that our first plan failed, but now I’m fungi-tastically excited because I get to make sure you all get some pretty mushrooms!” She jumped for joy as the hero team struggled to get rid of the mushroom, but it seemed like the entire area was summoning them, some even growing on their faces, blocking their vision and forcing them to prioritize those.
“How is she doing this?” Kaibara yelled, as even when he retreated, he was still a magnet for the damn things.
“They're getting into my eyes and ears," Shoji called out, being forced to let the organs fade from his tentacles and become hands instead to increase how much he could get rid of. But that at least he could try and join the fight.
“Shoda’s getting away!” Tsunotori yelled, as they couldn't even see Shoda anymore, the guy must have taken a turn as he fled, and she couldn't even give chase as mushrooms popping up all over her was too distracting to properly aim her horns, never mind fire them.
‘What an annoying quick.' Todoroki thought to himself, noticing that while the and the rest of the place seemed to be fair game, Aoyama stood fresh as daisies. So this wasn't a quirk that was indiscriminate, it couldn't be if Aoyama was left untouched. It also seemed like they were played in the start, Komori limited herself to just people she spayed to lure them into a false belief that she could only affect those she hit with her support item.
“If you’re the source then I’ll just take you out.” Todoroki slammed his right foot on the ground, creating a wave of ice towards her as despite her quirk giving them issues, she wasn’t especially strong or fast. it would damage the area, but if he meant that could stop her, then it would be worth it.
It was because she wasn’t strong enough to stop the attack, or fast enough to dodge it that Aoyama once more scoped her up like a princess and jumped out of danger, landing on one of the largest pipes, he and Komori smirked at their mushroom covered foes.
“And what kind of knight would I be if I allowed such ruffians to harm my lady?” He asked as Komori wrapped her arms around his neck, the girl very much enjoying being in his arms, a sort of villainous princess and her loyal knight.
“You’re supposed to be playing the villains here, Aoyama!” Tetsutetsu yelled at them as the Komori willed the mushrooms to keep growing.
Aoyama shrugged, enjoying this a little too much. “Well, villains can protect their own, can’t they? Isn’t that the basis of gang mentality?”
Burying his anger at them for this struggle and efforts making him look weak, Todoroki watched the area and saw something that only confirmed what he had suspected from the start. “They’re even growing on my ice.” He saw that the wave of ice he had launched before, and previous ones were worse off than them.
“What the heck? I thought mushrooms like warm and damp!” Tsunotori yelled out, to which Komori took immense joy in seeing.
“Pleurotus ostreatus and a little flammulina velutipes, these cuties don’t just stand the cold,” She turned her gaze towards Todoroki, who even from a distance, could see the joy in those eyes that resembled the cross-sliced caps of shiitake mushrooms. “They love it which is just perfect, so thanks, Todoroki, your ice is giving my beauties a perfect environment to grow up nice and strong.”
Hearing that his quirk could be turned against them like this only infuriated him, as a voice in his head, one that sounded far too much like a certain bastard reminded him that if ice wasn't suited, he had another play. He shot that voice like he always did. “My ice isn’t a plaything.” If she could turn ice into fuel, then he'd just summon more than they could handle.
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Watching the entire match unfold, the students were shocked to learn that the quiet Komori had such an ace to play as the area might have been smaller, but it was infested in mushrooms that aggressively kept expanding, even on the bodies of her enemies. “They got shrooms growing on their bodies?” Mineta asked, terrified of both her quirk, and the fact her smile looked way too much like the classic Yandere who just kidnapped their person of obsession.
"This is like a serious horror movie." He gulped, making a note to never give her reason to notice him, or else he'd end up mushroom food.
“Well, she seems to be enjoying every minute of it like a true horror movie villain.” Awase might have been smiling, but he too was sweating as that quirk was no joke, as she was making someone as powerful as Todoroki work, giving her teammate openings to just strike as he damn well pleased.
"She and Aoyama both, but the stuff starting to grow on the cameras," Midoriya noted as Jiro shivered at the sight of so many fungi.
“Aizawa-sensei, isn’t this going too far?” Kendo looked towards their instructor, who unlike with the previous match, didn’t seem to care for how things were progressing between the two teams.
“No, according to your papers, the mushroom she creates can’t last more than 3 hours in the best of conditions. If anything, it's Todoroki's ice that could pose the most risk to damaging the area, something he should be well aware isn't what someone on the hero team should do." Aizawa replied.
However, he did make a note to ensure that Komori wouldn’t understand that she wouldn’t be able to so freely use her quickly should she go pro, if only for the appearances and delays that came with sprouting mushrooms all over the place.
"That would explain why she's not holding back, though I didn't think she would have the means to create cold-resistant mushrooms like that." Yaoyorozu mused aloud.
“I wouldn’t mind picking her brain about her quirk after this, but for the moment, they’re handling themselves quite well, Shoda managed to escape and Ashido and Tokoyami are making good time for the exit. If he can also get out, they’ve won.” Midoriya added in, as her quirk seemed to be incredibly versatile, more than making up for the lack of raw power, though he wondered if she couldn’t focus on smaller amounts of them to create larger, stronger mushrooms, the sorts that could only exist in fairy tales kind of big.
Unseen by the rest, who were debating and commenting on the action they were seeing, who was doing what, and why, Bakugo remained to the back, wide-eyed as he watched the match. ‘What the hell is this?! That damned Frenchie…he’s…he’s holding his own? How?!’
This was impossible, that little blondie used to be such a crybaby with an annoying accent, and while Ice Boy was clearly beneath him in terms of power, he wasn't a pushover, so he should have already won this fight. Instead, he seemed to be smiling as he attacked with slashes and blasts of yellow sun.
“Wait, hold one, someone’s missing.” Sato noticed.
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‘I need to get to the others, but maybe it would be better if I tried to make my own mistake.’ Shoda thought to himself as he ran, reaching for his earpiece. “Tokoyami, how far are you guys from the gate?”
“Not far, we should be out any minute now," Tokoyami replied, calm as he expected from the shadow user.
Ashido was the next to hop onto the line. “You want us to slow down for you, Shoda?” Shoda smiled, as he could hear it in her words, if he said for it, she would have turned right back around and rushed into the area to give him some acidic back-up.
“No, I’ll just-” Shoda saw something flying towards him over his shoulder, and he instinctively ducked, but the projectile shifted as well, piercing through his shirt and dragging him into a wall where he had a rough impact. “Of course, it wouldn’t be that easy.” He groaned out, looking to see a familiar horn as the culprit.
“Shoda, did something happen?” Ashido asked, worried for him after he just cut himself off.
Tsunotori made herself known, coming it via her horn which she had been holding onto to fly, the American was still covered in mushrooms, though she had managed to get rid of most of them, though that didn't take away from the fact she looked far from pleased from having to deal with Komori’s quirk, even after she managed to sneak away from the fight.
“I’m not letting you escape, villain!” She bellowed in English, letting go of the second horn now that she was close enough to the ground, allowing it to shoot towards him, aiming to pin him as he hastily freed himself, avoiding the second horn and rolling with his fall, getting up again, facing the furious looking blonde.
“Call you later, need to deal with Tsunotori!” He didn't say more as he had to dodge another assault from her horns which were flying all over the place, taking full advantage of the shadows and obstacles in his line of sight.
“Mushroom here, mushroom there, mushrooms everywhere! I'm so damn mad right now!” Tsunotori ripped a mushroom off her head and stomped it into a pancake. “So, I’ll take it out on you!” She pointed at him as she fired off another horn, making it that there were 3 coming after Shoda, keeping him from escaping and on the back foot.
“Tsunotori, where are you?” Shoji asked.
“Fighting our runner, you guys handle those two.” She kept it short, as she might not be able to find the other two in time to stop them from escaping, but she sure as hell could make sure that Shoda wasn’t in that escapee group.
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With those two runners, they turned the corner and saw the marked exit down the way, and with their teammates keeping the others busy, they could even just walk and still make it out if they so chose. “Shouldn’t we turn back and help him?” Ashido still worried for them, looking over her shoulder back into the labyrinth of pipes, warehouses, and fake refineries that hide the fighting.
Tokoyami kept his eyes forward. “I don’t think that would be wise. As harsh as it sounds, we can help him by helping ourselves.”
“Man, that sucks. Who would want to be a villain when you’re supposed to run when your friends need you?” Ashido pouted, as she didn’t disagree with that statement, but that didn’t mean she had to like it.
“You barely know us,” Tokoyami turned to her, the girl still in front as she flashed him a cheeky smile. “Regardless, it’s a sentiment I share as I take no joy from this act.” He shook his head, a ghost of a smile on his face as they two passed through the exit.
“Tokoyami and Ashido have managed to escape the combat area. 5 minutes 43 seconds remain.”
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“Tokoyami and Ashido have managed to escape the combat area. 5 minutes 43 seconds remain.” Aizawa's announcement carried through the arena, with Aoyama and Komori smiling even wider after hearing that, Kaibara having been eliminated already, not because they knocked him out, or captured him via the tape, but because he was so thoroughly covered with mushrooms he fell back just to get rid of time, though they hadn’t seen him in a while.
“Well, would you look at that, 2 of my dastardly compatriots have managed to give you heroes the slip, that isn’t a good look for you know.” Aoyama gloated as he jumped over an ice attack from a thoroughly angry Todoroki, Shoji trying to force his way towards Komori to grab her, mushrooms be dammed, but with Todoroki focused on Aoyama, she was free to just play keep away with him.
When Tetsutetsu tried to join in the fray, Aoyama sent a blast of yellow sunlight towards him, but it was weaker than his first ones, so it hardly slowed the steel-covered teen down, but brought her time to make her escape, landing close to him.
“Are you all right?” Komori asked as Aoyama was looking paler than he had at the start of the match, a consequence of using up so much light.
Despite his growing sickly appearance, he still offered her a smile. “I’ve used most of regular light, and we don’t have time for me to recharge, but I should have enough for one last trick., Use it wisely, my lady.” He gripped his blade tightly, holding it up to his chest.
“You know I will.” Komori nodded as the two dodged another ice attack, but she found it strange that she was able to do that to begin with, even with mushrooms growing all over the place, including on Todoroki, he should still have an advantage over her. “Hey, is it me, or are his attacks slower than they were before?”
“It’s not just you, seems to me that he and I both have limits to our power. Or am I wrong, Mr. Hero?” Aoyama asked the last part louder, to which Todoroki who had ice creeping up his right side glared back at him.
“You two talk way too much.” He sent another wave of ice, trying to strike Komori and hopefully deal with the source of his mushroom problem.
“Reflect!” Aoyama stopped that attack in its track, creating a barrier of light to protect her, which due to its properties, sent the ice back onto itself. But then he heard movement to his side and when he glanced over, his gaze went wide as he saw that it was Kaibara, his arms spinning as he prepared to attack, Aoyama near cursing when he realized they had made an error by forgetting about him.
"You got sloppy," Kaibara told him as he struck at him, Aoyama whipped his blade to face him and created another reflect shield in the nick of time, but then another figure made themselves known as the hulking mass of arms that was Shoji had charged at the same time, leaving him defenseless as he Shoji punched him with 6 different fists, launching him off his feet where he crashed into a mushroom covered frozen wall.
“Okay…I must admit, that one hurt.” Aoyama groaned as he slowly got up, but then he felt ice creep up, looking down he saw that Todoroki hadn’t been idle with his attention slacked, as the ce user had managed to trap him in ice up to his waist. “Oh dear.”
“Maybe now you’ll shut up.” Todoroki shivered as he approached, the same as the other two who were ready for him to try and fight back, Komori keeping her distance and trying to slow them down via mushrooms but it wasn’t buying him much time.
“Oh, but I was having so much fun conversing with you, one doesn’t need to treat life in such a dull way, brightened things up is what I always say.” In response to his words, Todoroki just increased the ice, till only his sword hand and head were free, though with how he was frozen to the wall, he wouldn't be able to aim it at his enemies.
“All right, all right, I’ll stop, but there is still one thing I can do.” He might not be able to aim his blade towards them, but Komori was well within his range of fire. Seeing his blade start to glow, Shoji whipped out his capture time to restrain him, but Aoyama was the faster of the two, aiming his blade right at the surprised Komori.
“Moon Night Dance.” Aoyama blasted her with a fusion of yellow sunlight and white moonlight.
“What?” Shoji asked, holding a hand to block his vision from the blinding blast of white and yellow light that enveloped Komori in a spiraling dome.
“Why’d he target his teammate? What, was he a secret Bakugo or something?" Tetsutetsu asked though Todoroki narrowed his eyes, as that couldn't be it, but what was it? Was this merely a last-ditch effort to protect her, a barrier? But the entire purpose was for the villains to escape, or was this just a means to keep them busy while Shoda attempted to escape from Tsunotori?
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“What the hell was that about?” Kaminari asked, just as lost as those on the field, there was an air of worry among the students, especially with Iida who had seen what Aoyama's quirk could do once and while it couldn't harm Tetsutetsu, Komori had no such defense.
"Sir, surely that warrants the exercise being canceled, that was a clear case of friendly fire!" The speedster turned to their teacher, but someone dared to speak up against this.
"Aizawa-sensei, if I may, I ask you to wait just a bit before making that judgment." Iida turned, shocked to see Midoriya of all people would advocate for such. What was there to see? Aoyama had lost the point of the exercise, he seemed to forget that Komori was his ally.
Aizawa didn't see it in such a light. He knew that Midoriya's profile and actions in the first group proved that he wouldn't advocate for this, not unless he knew that Komori wasn't nearly as hurt as they would assume. “You know something, don’t you.”
Midoriya nodded, before he turned his attention back to the screens, a grin of confidence on his face. “I do, and in a few more seconds, so will the rest of us, though I wish he hadn’t felt the need to use it.”
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“Win this…for us, my lady…” Back on the field, Shoji, Kaibara, and Tetsutetsu turned to see Aoyama looked pale as a corpse, but even then, he had that smile on his face as his eyes rolled back and he went limp, his blade falling from his grasp where it clanged against the ice-covered floor.
Todoroki knew that someone must have been up, so he sent a wave of ice toward the still-spiraling dome. If they couldn't capture her, then he could bury her in the ice so that she couldn't escape, then they could go assist Tsunotori and win the match.
At least, that was the plan as before the ice could hit the dome, it shattered and Komori in a move that had him slacked-jawed, gave them all a wide, shining smile as she jumped well over 5m straight up, avoiding the ice completely, backflipped and landed on a pipe. Even with her in a darker spot, she seemed to be radiating light.
“Haha, is that what a Mario mushroom feels like? Well, I gotta go, bye-bye, heroes!” Komori rapidly spoke before she turned and didn’t run, but dashed off.
“I got her!” Tetsutetsu and Kaibara gave case, leaving Todoroki and Shoji to either give them back-up or try and find and assist Tsunotori.
“What was that?” Shoji asked.
“Some sort of physical boost, or something like that, it seems to have taken everything he had. Do we even need to capture him?” Todoroki replied as they looked at the unconscious Aoyama, still pinned to the wall.
“Aoyama has passed out from exhaustion. 4 minutes 52 seconds remaining.” Aizawa took the choice out of their hands, but they supposed that was that, so they two turned to head off to find Tsunotori. With how fast Komori had been moving, along with her quirk, it would be smarter to cut off the other remaining villain and trust their teammates to handle their mushroom problem.
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“Komori makes it out of the exit, which means 3 of the villain team have managed to escape, winning the match for team E. Someone please escort Aoyama to see Recovery Girl, and the rest are to return here for a review," Aizawa called as Komori skipped about in joy and from the immense amount of energy she could feel coursing through her veins.
Kaibara and Tetsutetsu were covered in mushrooms and out of breath from having to chase her through a maze which she seemed to just skip and hope through with ease. “What the heck was that? You weren’t this fast during the running tests yesterday!” Kaibara yelled at her as Tetsutetsu just fell over with a grunt, too tired to speak.
"I would guess it was whatever Aoyama fired at me, I feel more energized than ever right now," Komori replied as she hadn't felt this energized in her life, she felt like she could run at full speed from here to the gate and back several times and still have enough in the tank for one of those high intensity work-outs one only saw on TV.
Managing to reign it in, she along with the rest returned to the observation area, Shoji taking longer than most as he had been the one that made sure that Aoyama got to the nurse’s office, but once he returned, Aizawa turned to the one person that could answer his question.
"Seems like we have another issue to address before we get to the breakdown, but explain what Aoyama did there, Midoriya," Aizawa ordered.
“He figured out a way to pass his energy to others, so he did so here," Midoriya explained, gesturing towards Komori who now had Aoyama’s sparkle.
“Wait, does that mean I can bend light?” Komori asked, ready to try and do just that, though Midoriya shook his head.
“No, he merely supercharges what you already had, so physical traits are boosted, and to some extent, also quirks but you’ll burn through it another 10 minutes or so, and that’s if you don’t do anything.” He left out the part where she couldn’t use any of Aoyama’s abilities because she wasn’t the older of his quirk. She’ll have better chances trying to perform a spirit bomb.
“And because he transferred his energy to her, he passed out?” Aizawa concluded, recalling how the boy looked like he was incredibly sickly after that, and when Midoriya nodded, the man frowned. “It’s a risky technique, it makes him a liability.”
"In his defense, it used to be put him in the hospital. Now he just needs a spot with some sunlight and he should be good in about an hour." Midoriya remembered when his auntie got a hold of him after that first use of his then proto move, oh he hadn’t seen Yuga as terrified since.
“I’ll be the one to decide that but that can come later. Right now, can anyone tell me who was the VIP in that match?” Aizawa moved things along, this time more people raised their hands.
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And so things went, the next match had the heroes winning thanks to the brains that were Yaoyorozu and Kendo, who managed to outwit the villains and in doing so, captured Awase, Kodai, and Ojiro, taking the win for the fastest match at just 3 minutes.
The final match ended with a tie of sorts as while one person from each side, Kaminari and Koda were captured, the heroes did succeed in preventing the villains from escaping, even if Aizawa reminded them that such wasn't the purpose of the test. All while, as both matches happened, Bakugo remained silent, his shock growing each time he saw a classmate he saw as lesser perform better than he thought, or in the case of people like Yaoyorozu, Tokage, and Honenuki, perform even better than he did.
When it was all said and done, they were gathered at the entrance to the field. "Adequate work, but next time we'll work on improving that so we don't end up with 2 students in the nurse's office," Aizawa told them, as Aoyama and Uraraka were still absent, but he had got word from Recovery Girl that both should be able to make it for at least part of Snipe’s class.
"I'm just happy that none of us had to worry about being expelled," Asui stated, others nodding.
“Just because I don’t say it, doesn’t mean it’s off the table.” Aizawa’s reminder killed most of their relief at that. “But for the most part, most of you performed as best you could considering this is your first practical class.”
"Hit the showers, you still need to make it in time for the next class. Bakugo, remember what I told you, this will be your only warning, understood." Aizawa turned to Bakugo, who remained at the back of the class, having been obedient since his disastrous match and keeping to himself.
“Yes…sir.” Aizawa didn’t care that it looked like the boy pulled his own teeth to say that, so long as he was capable of learning from his mistakes, he’ll take the attitude issue. Not like he was the model student back in the day.
But there was another student that he needed to speak to. “Todoroki, remain behind, we need to have a little chat about your match.” Todoroki glared back at him but didn't fight as the rest went on ahead, they still had around 15 minutes left before the end of class, but they'd need the time to shower and change before their 4th class with Snipe as no one wanted to have to sit in class dirty or smelly.
“Why’d he ask for Todoroki to stay? He already chewed him out for property damage.” Jiro asked her group as they walked off, the girl not being able to hear anything from their teacher, who probably was wise enough to wait till she was far enough away that she couldn’t eavesdrop.
“I couldn’t tell you, I find it hard enough to get a read on our teacher as is," Ojiro replied as Aizawa was seemingly a contradiction. He dressed like he was homeless, and acted like he was being forced to teach them by a somewhat annoying threat, but he was also a harsh instructor who didn't sugarcoat or baby them.
“Well, it can’t be something too bad, else he would have put him in the dog house like he did Blasty over there.” Kamakiri pointed a thumb over his shoulder to Bakugo, who glared at him but did nothing else. Not that anyone really cared as if he had even one bridge before today, he blew that sucker to bits with how insane he was. Not even Kirishima was trying to talk with him, and he tried to talk with everyone.
Midoriya, if he was honest with himself, felt bad for the guy, as Bakugo might have had some serious issues, and he might have wanted to smack him all the way to Tokyo after he forced Uraraka to hurt herself like that, but he didn’t hate him.
But while he could have tried to approach him and open a dialogue, that wouldn't work mainly because Bakugo seemed to hate his and Aoyama's guts, and for the life of him, he couldn't understand why. Also, even if he hadn't tried and murder him less than an hour ago, Midoriya would have still kept his distance as the blonde needed to learn they weren't kids anymore, and his actions would have consequences.
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Well, finally finished Rose of the Recapture and while I still find it weird that they went the Fate route with Code Geass and created an entirely different timeline to the series, it was a solid series with interesting characters. Also, I loved how the returning characters were strictly supporting cast members, as this isn’t their story anymore, and they didn’t need to just make them dog water to boot(Disney and Marvel could learn a thing or 2 from that)
But there is some other news, I got my first commission! After a year of having this up, someone's reached out with a story request for me, which is pretty exciting. But because of that, I want to give the commission the time it needs for planning and writing, so there won't be any updates next week as I sort that out.
Hope you liked that chapter, if you did, please leave a comment.
