Chapter 125: Bronze Medal
Author: Geraint
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Running away from the alleyway was a mysterious figure which revealed to be the Hero Killer, Stain. Chasing after him was All Might together with Endeavor and behind them are Best Jeanist and Edgeshot. Hawks was flying above him watching his every move.
"Damn it! It was a trap! This must be work of Falcon!"
A black fog appeared ahead of him.
"I don't want to return to that place but I don't have any choice."
Stain jumps on the fog and disappeared.
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Meanwhile, the closing ceremony of the U.A.'s Sports Festival reaches the award ceremony. Yagi Ichika, Shoto Todoroki, and Katsuki Bakugou stand on the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st podium respectively to receive their medals. However, due to being furious at Shoto and Ichika, and to prevent him from unleashing his fury at them, Katsuki is fully restrained with his arms and hands restrained with locks. His body was wrapped around a wooden log, chained to the podium and a face mask covered his mouth.
"Now, we will award the medals! Due to All Might or Endeavor being unable today because of emergency work, the presentation of the medals will be by the No. 5 Hero, Mirko!"
When Mirko showed up to the crowd, she seems to be unmotivated and doesn't want to do the job.
"Why me of all people? I want to fight a villain too."
"Now then, Mirko, please present the medals, starting with the third place."
"Eh~"
Mirko took the medals then she went up first to the first place podium and gave the gold medal to Bakugou for taking the first place.
"Mirko, I said start with the third place!" Midnight whispered to Mirko but she didn't listen.
Katsuki doesn't want to accept the gold medal but Mirko forcedly hang the medal on his neck and she ruffled his hair.
"Congratulations! It's been a while, Explosion kid! I understand how you feel but get more stronger and beat that piece of shit at the third place."
Mirko moved to the second place podium and hang the silver medal on Shoto's neck.
"I don't really understand why you're holding back during match but congratulations! Next time, I want to see you fight at full strength."
Mirko turned towards the third place podium and she saw Ichika looks excited to hang the medal on his neck.
"Ugh..."
She went down to his podium then she put bronze medal on his neck.
Receiving the bronze medal, Ichika looks very happy as he celebrated excessively by biting his medal.
Mirko looks so confused until Ichika suddenly hugged her tightly and kissed her in the cheek.
"Ichika, what are you doing?!"
Mirko's face was totally red and she immediately moved away from him.
While the crowd around the stadium was booing at him, he took out a large champagne bottle from a wormhole he created and popped it off while standing on the podium.
"YEEEAHH!!!"
Katsuki and Shoto looks shock from their podium which is higher place than him.
"Rumi, you're promise!"
"Huh?"
Mirko remembered their promise from the past before she left by his side for work.
"Yeah." she smiled.
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It was a long time ago and Mirko was still a student.
The two of them are lazily lying under the shade of the tree in a middle hot day.
Ichika whom still a little kid sat up and spoke to her.
"Hey, Rumi!"
"Hm?"
"If I ever take hero course in the future, will you take me as intern?"
"Hmm."
"If that happens, we'll be together at your work."
"Hmm."
"We can spar anytime and you'll lose a lot to me."
Mirko quickly sat up and became furious to him.
"What did you just say?! When that time really comes, I'll be the one to beat you a lot!"
"Hahaha!"
Ichika just laughed at her reaction.
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Two days after the U.A. Sports Festival, normal classes resume at the school. Ichika attended Class 1-A together with Roboco. The students of Class 1-A are discussing the attention they received from the Sports Festival.
They quiet down once Shota Aizawa walks in without his bandages, having recovered completely from his injuries. He announced that their homeroom class will be on Hero Informatics, causing many of the students to panic and believe they may have a test. Instead, Shota revealed that they will choose their code names and the class jumps up in excitement to pick hero identities.
Eraserhead told the class that this has a lot to do with the Pro-Hero draft picks and because they are only first years any offers can be taken back before they graduate. Then he shows them the draft results to where Yagi Roboco, Todoroki Shoto and Bakugou Katsuki lead the class with thousands of heroes wanting to recruit them.
Yagi Roboco - 5,045
Todoroki Shoto - 4,123
Bakugou Katsuki - 3,556
Takoyami Fumikage - 360
Ida Tenya - 301
Shinso Hitoshi - 289
Kaminari Denki - 272
Toga Himiko - 201
Yaoyorozu Momo - 198
Yagi Ichika - 69
Kirishima Eijiro - 68
Uraraka Ochaco - 20
Hanta Sero - 14
Ichika was shocked by the enormous number of wanting to recruit his robot daughter for internship. He felt very proud of her.
Denki is discouraged by the large gap between the thousands of nominations they received and only the hundreds he and the others received. Kyoka Jiro pointed out that Shoto had the most offers despite losing to Katsuki, and Momo congratulates him.
Shoto doesn't appear to be too excited though and attributed the nominations to his father's influence. Hanta Sero claimed that pros must have been reluctant to work with Katsuki because of his demeanor during the awards ceremony, to which he replied that if he scared them then they are just weak. Ochaco Uraraka is excited that she and Tenya received offers and Minoru Mineta pointed out that Izuku didn't receive any because of the reckless way she fought against Shoto.
Although like Izuku, some students didn't receive any offers, Shota informed the class that they will all spend a week interning with Pro-Heroes.
Students who did not receive nominations from Pro Heroes must still participate in an internship. Forty Hero Agencies agreed to take on apprentices from U.A. who didn't get any offers. Each of them specializes in a different aspect of heroism. These students choose from a list of the aforementioned pros while those who received offers choose from among their draft nominations. All students have to choose a codename prior to their apprenticeship. The internships last one week and students have two days to choose their desired hero agency.
While Shota reminded them of the importance of choosing their hero names, Midnight arrived and told the class that she will have final approval over the names. After she hands out canvases to write on, Midnight told the class they must present the names they've chosen. Most of the class are too nervous to go up, so Yuga Aoyama reveals his name first.
"I can not stop twinkling"
Although most of his peers find the name strange, Midnight simply shortens it to Can't Stop Twinkling and moves on.
"Alien Queen!"
Mina showed her name but Midnight doesn't allowed her to compare herself to the villain from Ridley Scott's movie franchise causing the class to worry.
"Rainy Season Hero: Froppy."
Tsuyu Ai picked a title and the class responded cheerfully since she chose a normal name in comparison to the initial two.
Kirishima Eijiro: "Crimson Riot!"
Midnight approved.
Kyoka notices Denki Kaminari struggling to choose a name and she suggested to him.
"Jamming-way."
Denki liked it until Kyoka admitted it's just a way of making fun of him.
"Kamaboko Gonpachiro."
Kyouka glared at Ichika when he spoke of that name to her.
"Shut up!"
Kyouka went in front of the class and announced that she's chose her moniker.
"Hearing Hero: Earphone Jack."
Choosing hero name went on and Midnight loves the chosen titles and continues to approve the others.
Bakugou went in front of the class next and show his name.
"King Explosion Murder!"
"Bffffft!"
Ichika chuckled at his name which made Bakugou furious of him again.
"Damn you, Ichika!"
After Tenya selected his name, Midnight called Izuku up next and his classmates are surprised to see he has chosen the moniker of "Deku".
Izuku explained that although she used to detest the nickname, Ochaco taught him it could have a different meaning and he's had a change of heart.
Ichika looks dissatisfied and he stands up from his seat.
"Ichika-kun?"
Izuku looking confused, Ichika snatched the board from her hand and wrote something.
He gave it back to her then he returned back silently to his seat.
"Eh?"
[Deku-chan]
Midnight didn't mind it and approved her new name.
"What about the student from Class 1-S?"
Roboco went in front and showed her chosen name.
[High-spec Robot Hero: Roboco-san]
Everyone cheers for her and she was happy.
Ichika stood up next and showed his name in front of the class.
[Falcon]
"Well, everyone calls you by that name now. There's no need for me to approve it."
(To be continued.)
(A/N: I'll fix my mistakes later.)