The second day of school was just plain boring. I had forgotten just how slow things are at the beginning of the school year.
I would've known if I had bothered to attend junior high properly. But since I could skip it then there was no actual reason to go there.
Naijeru seemed just as bored as I am, the only person in my friend group that seems to pay attention in class is Shinso. And he does that because he wants to transfer to the hero course.
Naijeru also wants to become a hero, but he's not as determined. I will start training them after classes. Both of them need to work a bit on their physical bodies.
Shinso seems better at making friends than I am... He already befriended half the class, although he remains in our small group during lunch.
While sitting around and pretending to listen to Present Mic talk about the nouns I got a phone call from Nezu.
Mic just looked at me helplessly. "No phones during class..."
"Ok teach!" Saying that I quickly left the room and replaced myself with a clone. I did it quickly, no one but him and Naijeru noticed. Naijeru just had a wry smile on his face and cursed me under his breath.
Mic was a lot less affected by this. He just continued like normal.
In the hallway, I answered Nezu's call.
"Hey, Boss. What's up?" His next question is something I should've expected.
"Great to hear from you, Allan! Say, can you make your way to the training grounds? You still have a job to do at this establishment." Great, a last-second notice is really Nezu's style.
"Sure thing Nezu." I just said. I wasn't doing anything important anyway.
"By the way, pay more attention to class next time." I just ignored his comment and made my way to the training grounds. Which also happen to be the testing grounds for the entrance exams!
Funny how that is. I wonder what class I'm teaching today... I hope Bakugo isn't in it, I'm sure he'll have a few words to say to me. Words that I can't be bothered to hear.
I quickly passed by the male teacher's changing room and put on my costume. Since today everyone tries on their costumes I don't want to look too out of place.
When I reached the training grounds I could see a group of students, all standing out in their own way. From the characters I recognize, this should be class 1-B.
With them, I could see Vlad. I had little interaction with him over the year I've worked here. But we were still colleagues, so there is still some sense of familiarity somewhere in there.
"Hey Vlad, what are we doing today? Why do you guys need my help now?" I already had my own classes after all.
First years in the hero course all had classes with me, I think my first official class with 1-B should've been in two days.
"Today you will give class 1-B a demonstration on the versatility of emitter quirks while they work in a team to touch you." I guess I can? But why?
Vlad King also has an Emitter quirk. He's the homeroom teacher, why does he want me to hold the demonstration?
He seemed to notice that I was confused. He also deduced the reason.
"You will be holding the demonstration, I will point out the mistakes of the students after they fight you. Also, you are not allowed to attack the students directly." He started speaking about the rules of this competition.
Apparently, both groups are going to be made of 10 people. They need to do everything in their power to land a hit on me.
The student's seemed a bit confused about the way this was worded. Some got mad at the implication that they wouldn't even be able to touch their opponent.
I guess they are still fresh, not really knowing much about the power scaling of heroes.
One such person was TetsuTetsu. He seemed to be fuming.
"As if! We will mop the floor with that lanky fellow!" His friend Monoma seemed to cheer him on.
"Hmph, it's time to show the staff that underestimating us is a bad idea." Seriously, am I some unpopular hero or something?
"Guys be serious! That is the Nr.3 Hero!" Itsuka said, slapping both of them to the side while she started lecturing her class.
Her lizard friend just seemed to laugh a bit at the absurdity of the situation. Setsuna seemed to also know about me.
I just stood there dumbfounded. WHY DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW WHO I AM?! I am the Nr.3 Hero for god's sake.
At least some people seemed to know me. But the others on the top 10 chart get recognized by everybody...
Itsuka introduced herself and some of her classmates also did the same.
Setsuna seemed to recognize me from another place too. "Wait. Aren't you also a student from the general course?" Was their class present for the assembly? I never really cared enough to check.
"Yes, I am. My name is Allan by the way." I waved to everyone in the class. My self-esteem took quite the hit from this encounter with their class...
"Are you guys done with the introductions? If so, we should begin the training session." Said Vlad, looking at the clock and signalling to us.
The first group was interesting. I don't really remember all of their names. But it had Ibara, Itsuka and Kuroiro. That's all I remember from them.
The trial itself wasn't hard for me. Keeping the distance between me and them wasn't the point. I just kept creating things in front of the people that attacked me.
The guy with rotating limbs was the first to charge me. He is a close-range fighter, I just jumped over him and stepped on his head. That move sent him rolling head-first on the ground.
Vlad said I can't attack the students. He never said I can't touch them at all. This doesn't really count as a hit in my books.
While I was doing that a girl managed to grow some mushrooms around me. She created a smoke cloud around me, an attempt to obstruct my vision.
I could feel another student growing and turning into a beast rushing at me from a direction while Kuroiro tried to sneak up around me.
Their coordination didn't seem on point, as the beast quirk rushed into the smoke and blew it away. He also crashed into both Kuroiro and Itsuka. Kuroiro was directly knocked out.
Using my ability I quickly blew away the remaining smoke and everyone around me with a well-placed explosion. It seemed to scare off the mushroom girl and send the beast guy reeling.
Itsuka also tried to attack me from a blind spot, rushing me from my left side. But she failed as I stepped backwards and jumped over the person sneaking up behind me. He quickly expanded blades in my general direction.
He seemed to forget he was fighting in a group. As some of his blades came a bit too close to Itsuka. Leading me to put up a light shield in front of her and block some of them.
Itsuka just looked at me gratefully. Not for long though.
I quickly used my light to create some chains and hold down the people closest to me. Ibara tried to take this as an opportunity to capture me. She extended her vines towards me and tried to grasp me.
I just sent a few chains and entangled her vines. I didn't really pull on them, since that would be basically pulling her hair.
After a while of me dodging around and stopping attacks with my light constructs, the timer ran out.
Itsuka and her group seemed to fall on the ground, tired and breathing heavily. Some of them seemed to see me in a new light now.
The next group was not really very different. They didn't have much teamwork and they also didn't use their quirks effectively.
Monoma and Tetsutetsu seemed shocked at how easily they were defeated. Setsuna didn't seem very surprised. She probably saw some footage of my fights.
Looking at them, I couldn't help but think 'It's a shame really'. Japan restricts quirk usage to the extent where teenagers barely know how to use theirs.
They have a basic understanding of their abilities, but that's it. There is little to no mastery to be found.
You'd think that a government would come around eventually, quirks were part of us, rejecting their use by law was simply restricting the populace.
It's understandable, they don't want people to use them to harm others. But that still happens anyway, so what's the point? Giving fines to people randomly using their quirks seemed stupid.
The only places that people could practice their quirks were in expensive underground quirk gyms. Rich people had their own training facilities. Usually, people from middle-class backgrounds would use them.
But the students here seemed to not have been in such facilities.
They all looked a bit distraught at their defeat. It made me want to console them a bit.
"Don't feel too discouraged... Even though our age is similar there is a gap in experience that you need to overcome." This seemed to cheer them up a bit. Even though it is a lie, I was nowhere near serious. However, only a few knew that, and they kept quiet.
And that's also where the good words ended.
Vlad King was not pleased with what he had seen at all. The students had managed to injure themselves because of their lack of teamwork. This was the worst possible outcome for him.
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Eyy, just finished my math exam. It was meh.(meh as in not good for me)
I just got to edititing a bit for the patr. chap. Hope you enjoyed this chap!
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