(A-Note: I forgot to add in the last chapter, that Haru's uniform was delivered to his doorstep but he wasn't there to receive it so Kinoko took it, with Haru's permission, and when Haru came back, she gave him the uniform.)
Haru and Kinoko spent the whole afternoon together, talking about their month. Kinoko took Haru's suggestions and tried to release spores that could make someone high, stunned, or faint. She didn't try doing the excruciating pain as she believes that no one should experience that much pain. Haru just shrugged at her words.
She was also thinking about using the fungus in the Genus called Ophiocordyceps or better know as Cordyceps.
Haru thought that Cordyceps sounded familiar. Then moments later, he remembered a zombie game with a virus that is based on Cordyceps. He shuddered thinking about fungi-zombies roaming around in the MHA world.
She also talked about some other parasitic fungi that Haru didn't know of. Nevertheless, both of them concluded that trying to use those types of fungi on humans shouldn't be impossible but hard to achieve, and even if Kinoko manages to do so, there would be unknown effects on the affected individual. She's also averse to the idea of hijacking the brains of others. Kinoko then questioned Haru about his training.
Haru just said that his control over his quirk has leveled up to 2, like in video games. Kinoko laughed at his words and asked what could he do now with his quirk. Haru fake coughed and his expression turned serious. Kinoko became nervous seeing him like that.
Haru raised both of his hands and did a semi-circle gesture.
"Magic~"
He had to dodge a bunch of punches and sprouting mushrooms after that stunt.
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(Haru POV)
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*
*Smack*
"Ughhh...."
I let out a groan as I pushed myself up from the bed. I let out a yawn while scratching my belly.
I stood up and started to walk toward the bathroom to wash my face and do my thing.
After doing that, I went back to my room to change into a set of workout clothes, then I went out and jogged toward the park. I ran around for an hour before going home and doing my exercise routine which took another hour. I also didn't forget to cast [Unseen Servant] to cook me some breakfast while I finish my sets. After my exercise, I used [Cure Wounds] on my whole body. I realized that I wasted a lot of time staying in a cold bath for 15 minutes to help my sore muscles when I can just heal them. I still took a bath after though. After showering, I ate breakfast.
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I went to my room intending to change into my uniform but I remembered an interesting spell I could use. I wore boxer shorts and sat down on the floor of my room, casting [Augury]. I was a bit worried when I was a kid that I'd need material components to cast spells but luckily I didn't. Must be one of the cheats I got. Anyway, it took me a minute to cast the spell. I received nothing. So that meant it's neither good nor bad.
I changed into my uniform which included a long-sleeve, button-up white shirt, a gray jacket with blue-green stripes, a red tie, and dark blue-green pants. I looked at the time,
7 AM, and remembered that homeroom starts at 8:25 AM. I took my bag which had school supplies and went out. As I locked my door, Kinoko also came out wearing the same type of uniform except she had a dark blue-green pleated skirt, and a small, golden button on their ties.
"Good morning, Kinoko-chan."
Kinoko's right eye is not being blocked by her bangs anymore like when she's in her hero costume. She looked at me and smiled.
"Good morning, Haru!"
"Aren't you going to say good morning to me too, Haru?~"
Another voice, more mature sounding, asked me teasingly. Nameko stood at their doorway.
"I didn't see you there, Nameko-san. Good morning."
Nameko looked bummed that I didn't respond to her teasing but only for a moment as she also greeted me good morning. She wished us a good day and congratulated us both before we went to school.
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Kinoko's excitement started to turn into uneasiness. As we got closer, her uneasiness turned to nervousness. We were both seated at the train when she looked at me and asked
"H-Haru, do you think the teachers at U.A will be scary? I-I mean they are Pro Heroes, right? W-What about my classmates? I'm going to meet strangers! I-I wished we were classmates so I have someone to talk to..."
I just shook my head at her ramblings and patted her head while also casting [Calm Emotions] to calm her down a bit.
I decided to help her out and cast [Aid] on her, bolstering her with toughness and resolve for 8 hours. I didn't use any other spells on her as they only had a duration of 1 hour, 10 minutes, or 1 minute, so it'll be useless. She visibly relaxed and started talking positively, her previous nervousness gone. We soon arrived at the gates of U.A with a few students going in as its fairly early.
I didn't know why but our classrooms were in different parts of the school building. We said, "see you at lunch" and "good luck" to each other before separating. I arrived at the tall doorway of Class 1-A. I pushed it open and saw no one. There was no one there yet so I went to the chair that had my name. It was the chair in front of Momo's, behind Deku's, and beside Tokoyami.
'Did I steal Mineta's place? Oh, Life goes on~'
I sat in my chair, put my bag below the desk, and looked around. The classroom looked quite plain. I wondered if Principal Nezu had cameras in every classroom so I cast [Detect Magic]. This spell worked like echolocation a bit and my senses spread out, covering every part of the room. Its name is Detect Magic but it's quite useful for searching like this, not only that, instead of detecting magic, it detects quirks.
Surprisingly, it only had one camera. Above the wall behind the teacher's desk, looking down at every student and the teacher's back. I decided to mess around for a bit and cast [Silent Image] around me, making an illusion that no one was seated in my chair. I also didn't forget to cast the same on my bag so that no one sees it.
I didn't have to wait for long as someone immediately entered. It was Shōji Mezō, aka Tentacole. A buff dude with a height of 187cm or 6'2. He had the standard uniform on except he didn't have sleeves and he also had a skin-tight face mask that reaches down to his neck. He looked around for a bit before sitting on his chair in the front. Honestly, I didn't know why they would put such a big dude in front of the class but I'm not complaining.
He just sat there looking around for a bit before the door opened once again. A girl with a light-toned pink skin, two thin pale yellow horns protruding from her head, hooked squarely and leaning diagonally to opposite sides. Her face is framed by her unruly, short, and fluffy hair with a color darker shade of pink compared to her skin. Her name is Ashido Mina, also known as Pinky.
She walked in with a "Wahhh" of amazement. I didn't know what she was amazed by, the plain-looking room or Mezō. Mina dropped her bag below her desk and walked over to Mezō.
"YO! I'm Ashido Mina, it's nice to meet you!"
Mezō nodded at her and used his quirk to manifest a mouth at the end of one of his tentacle-like arms.
"It's nice to meet you too, Ashido-san. My name is Shōji Mezō."
"Wowww~ is that your quirk?! it looks so cool! What's the name of your quirk, Shōji-kun? Mine's called [Acid]!"
Mina produced some acid between her fingertips as she explained her quirk. If I'm being honest her acid looks a bit like cum.
"I see. You have an interesting quirk, Ashido-san. My quirk is called [Dupli-Arms]. It allows me to duplicate any other body parts of my body to my extra arms."
"That's so cool~ Why are you wearing a mask though?"
"It's because of-"
Mezō got cut off though as the door opened and Kaminari Denki comes in. The guy acted coolly and walked over to his chair while talking.
"What's up, Acid-girl. Remember me?"
Denki said as he sat down on his chair while looking at Mezō and Mina. She had to think for a bit before she had an epiphany.
"It's you! The dumb-looking electric dude!"
"Damn... That's..."
I quietly murmured but it seemed that Mezō heard me as ears and eyes started to appear at the end of his tentacle arms. Mina and Denki looked at him with surprised expressions. Mezō eyes looked around the room while his ears twitched.
"What are you doing?"
"What is it, Shōji-kun?"
"I heard something, Ashido-san..."
Mina and Denki looked weirded out but they too looked around. I decided to mess with them a bit and cast [Thaumaturgy] and created some ominous whispers from around the room. As soon as the three of them heard the whispers, Mina let out an "IHHHH!" and hid behind Mezō while Kaminari looked around vigilantly while electricity was coming out of his fingers. Even though he acted bravely, I could see that his legs were shaking.
"W-What was that, Shōji-kun?!"
"O-Oi, this isn't funny..."
"I heard whispers... but I couldn't understand them..."
The three of them got startled as the door opened again. Denki screamed like a little bitch while Mina hid behind Mezō again.
Sero Hanta walked in and looked at the three. Denki and Mina were looking at him with fear. His natural smiling face frowned and he asked "Is there anything wrong?"
Denki sighed in relief while Mina wiped the sweat from her forehead. Hanta was still standing there looking at the two weirdly while Mezō continued to look around.
"Umm... I'm Sero Hanta, it's nice to meet you gu- okay, can someone tell me what's going on? Why are you guys so tense?"
Hanta asked as he sat in his chair. Denki explained what happened earlier and Hanta also started looking around.
"I don't hear anything-"
Hanta was cut off as whispers came from behind him. He got spooked and ran towards Mezō and hid with Mina. Denki was also inching closer and closer towards them.
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(3rd POV)
The same scene happened over and over again, the only ones that weren't in the classroom yet were Iida, Ochako, Bakugō, Momo, Todoroki, Midoriya, Kirishima, and Hagakure. Haru cast [Silence] around him so he could laugh his ass off at their expense.
Aoyama was smiling but his legs were shaking, Mina was still hiding behind Mezō who was looking around, Tsuyu was sitting on her chair while looking around curiously, Ojiro was vigilant, Denki kept readying electricity just in case, and Kōji, who was shown as a wimp in the anime and manga was surprisingly taking the whispers quite well.
Sero went back to his seat while looking around, Satō, the big buff sugar-eating dude was acting the same as Ojiro, Jirō was a bit fidgety as she can hear the whispers well due to her quirk, and lastly, Tokoyami was just indifferent.
The door opened again and the floating clothes of a girl walked in.
"G-GHOST!!!"
Mina shouted while pointing at the clothes.
"Who? Me?"
A voice came from the clothes as its sleeve pointed to itself.
"I-It can talk?!"
"It's a student, Ashido-san. It's probably her quirk."
The calm and collected Mezō pointed out.
"Yep! I'm Hagakure Tōru! My quirk is [Invisibility]!"
They all visibly relaxed except Mezō and Tokoyami who were already relaxed and nonchalant.
"So... why were guys looking at me so seriously?"
Tōru decided to ask while she skipped to her seat in the front of the class. Jirō and Mezō started explaining the whispers to her as they were the ones close to her. Contrary to their expectations, Tōru became excited at the prospect of ghosts. Haru was looking at her floating clothes as she jumped up and down.
Well, he was looking at her chest but it was the same thing.
Haru stopped the whispers when the invisible girl arrived but the others were still somewhat tense. Momo and Iida arrived at the same time with Iida loudly introducing himself in front of the class and Momo just walking calmly to her seat. With Iida's introduction though, the tense atmosphere in class disappeared. The noisy ones started to blabber about the classroom being haunted.
Iida listened to them and was seriously thinking if U.A was haunted while Momo had a thoughtful look. She then says something that some of them had been thinking of
"Don't you guys think it's someone's quirk?"
"Of course, it's someone's quirk."
Tokoyami nodded and replied. Then the question of who's started to go around resulting in everyone explaining their quirks.
'Wow... talk about the butterfly effect.'
Haru thought to himself as in the canon, their quirks would be introduced as they were fighting or doing something similar.
Kirishima then arrived when they were in the middle of their talk and he introduced himself with his [Hardening] quirk.
Todoroki arrived and didn't talk to anybody and went directly to his seat. Some of them asked what his quirk was but he didn't reply.
'Acting all emo. Should I try to mess with this guy? Nah, ain't worth it. If I continue pranking the class, I might get their animosity.'
Haru thought as Momo started to explain what she knew about Todoroki's quirk as both of them went to the Recommendation Entrance Exam.
After a few minutes, Bakugō arrived with a loud slam of the door. He arrogantly walked in and snickered at everyone, murmuring "Stepping stones." Everyone heard him but they didn't say anything. He pompously sat in his chair with his feet up on his desk. When Iida saw that, he immediately stood up and started doing the same thing as canon. While they were arguing, the door opened slightly.
'Would you look at that? Broccoli-san arrives!'
Haru exclaimed in his head as Iida introduced himself and started praising Midoriya for "divining" the actual nature of the exam.
(A-note: Iida actually said in the manga that Deku "divined" the nature of the exam.)
Saying Midoriya was the better man.
Then a wild Ochako came in and said hello to Midoriya before taking a seat.
'Huh... She didn't talk to Deku that much, unlike canon. Guess my plan worked?'