" I'm not done yet!" A rather energetic Sora mopped her sweat mixed with the small amount of blood gushing out the small grazes on her skin. " Pixiebob! They're down! Make more!"
Outside the thick forest, the woman had checked on her goggles. " Oh! You finished them already! Here you have two more!"
Just as she said that, lumps of dirt rose from the ground, forming two monstrous figures. Sora took a fighting stance, ready to finish them off.
" You sure don't want me around there!" The blonde asked.
" Nope! You will get in my way!" Sora half lied. It just was that her transformation was almost complete at that stage and she didn't want anyone to see her looking like that.
" Suit yourself then!" Pixie's clay monsters dashed for the attack while Sora hopped away from their claws.
Shirogane Sora. By battling against Pixiebob's beasts without holding back, she is to increase her strength and speed. Her time limit will get lengthened as well. Also, she is prohibited from flying to improve her combat skills.
" I'm not losing!"
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" You were right Whisper! This is worse than hell itself!" Yuu complained as he had to run around the whole area. Whisper kept him company, urging him on while Iida sped past him a few times already.
" Hurry up Seijin-kun, you will be left behind!" Iida yelled through the wind.
" Don't want to hear that from you!"
A few meters away, Kyubi laid down underneath the shadow of a tree, napping peacefully. " Why should I train and Kyubi not!"
" Kyubi is energy! Whether she trained or not doesn't matter! What matters is the amount of energy you provide her with! Now run, Soldier!"
" This is the worse!"
Seijin Yuu. By training his body he is to increase his stamina. He also should summon a spirit and leave it around as long as possible to lengthen the time he could summon them. Whisper, who acts as his trainer with special permission from Aizawa, opts to make him able to summon two fighting spirits simultaneously by the end of the training camp.
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" Heeeh? All of Class A are working hard. Oh there are a few hotties around. What should I do? I'm confounded. Who should I ask out?" Ai's orange eyes scanned through class A as they had already started training ahead of them.
" Ai, don't you bother them. We're here to train. Focus." Kendo addressed her firmly.
" Understood, class rep. Say, do you know that your name is the same as a famous Japanese sport?"
Kendo sweat dropped and rubbed her forehead with a sigh. " I forgot to whom I was just talking."
" If we take what our teachers said. Then Dobutsu-san and I will have to work more on our Quirks. Kendo-san, you?" Tobio mulled over it before he looked at the class rep.
" Since my Quirk is related to my fists then I will have to train them more." Kendo looked down at her hands. " Let's do our best, Gomu."
" Gomu-kun, we're training together, right? Then, can we talk together more? There is this thing I've always been wondering about though..."
" Will you be alright with her?"
" I'll try my best." He sweat dropped.
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" I'm tired..." Sighed the white head as they made it back to the main building. " I want to eat and bathe already." She shook her head, hurling feathers from her hair.
" About that... Sora..." Yuu sweat dropped as he looked at the long tables set outside the building, some of them laden with ingredients.
" At least make your own food!" cried Ragdoll flailing her arm around. " Curry!"
" Eeeeh!... You're kidding...!" Sora bends down tiredly. She tried her best to ignore Iida's remark about it being a hero's duty too to fill people's stomachs and spirits during a disaster. " You too must be kidding... Iida-kun..."
They all embarked on work. Sora had just finished spicing the meat and moved on to cutting the vegetables.
" Shirogane, you know what to do!" Sero peeked down at her.
" I do cook at my house, you know," Sora said without looking up from the knife and the onion. " Since it's only Grandma and me, I don't want to put much work on her. She likes cooking and she always says it's alright but I want her to have it eas- Hey! Don't cut it like that! Make them fine!" She pointed her knife threateningly at a boy from class B.
" Uh... Sorry..."
" It will end up bad like this! Let me cut them for you!" She strolled over to the other table.
" Woah, she is serious about it." Kaminari blinked.
" Of course I'm! Cooking is an art! The food must be delicious!" She yelled back at them.
Kyubi stared at her master as he was preparing the rice. " Seijin-kun too, you're good at cooking." Uraraka peeked from above the wall and took in the delicious smell.
" After being around Sora's grandma for so long, I picked on her," he told the brunette.
" I bet you anything you'll make a good husband in the future." Ashido pointed at him.
Yuu blinked. " I don't get what are you talking about?"
" Eh?!" Ashido fell back at that.
" This boy is clueless..." Whisper sighed.
Uraraka merely laughed awkwardly with a sweat drop.
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" Thanks for the food!"
Sora was rather disappointed at how it ended up, her jaws puffed as she glared at her own plate. " Not all of us are good at cooking, so that was bound to happen," Yuu told her, trying to pacify her.
" Nevertheless, it's really delicious!" Ashido was already through half her plate.
" It's because we're too tired." Uraraka pointed.
Sora noted the plate covered in translucent paper by her side. " Ochaco-chan... That's..."
" Ah, Deku-kun left without eating, so I saved him his share of food." She said with a small blush. Sora smiled widely at her but she kept her thoughts to himself.
" We'll keep this training hell for a week? I wonder if I will survive." Jiiro sighed.
" Will this really help with our Quirk improvement, it feels like torture." Uraraka turned instantly blue just remembering it.
" Theoretically speaking, yeah. When muscles are pushed to their limits, they break and rebuild stronger. It's the same for all of your Quirks as well. That's why you need to reach the breaking point." Whisper informed.
" Heh, is that so?"
" Whisper, you kind of know a lot."
" Is that why Aizawa-sensei gave you permission to train Yuu?"
Whisper puffed his translucent body up proudly. " Yeah. I'm the most knowledgeable of his Quirk so I'm the one fit to train him."
" That reminds me..." Jiro looked down at the fox laying beside the table. " Kyubi is still around?"
Kyubi opened one eye and looked at her. " Yuu's training requires keeping me around as much as possible."
" And that's already taking its toll on him," Sora noted how tired he was, his bags darker than ever, and the way his head kept falling forward.
" Don't you need to eat something, Kyubi-san?" Yaoyorozu asked, holding a plate aloft.
" Nah, spirits don't feed on that." Whisper shook his head. " We only consume energy after all. Moreover, I'm impressed you managed to keep her for a whole day."
" True, I've been wondering about that too, since you usually faint after summoning your spirit." Pointed Iida worriedly.
" Since she is not fighting and doesn't require much energy, I could barely make it work. The moment I'll fall asleep though, she will be gone."
" Hm, but Whisper-chan stays around even when you black out." Asui pointed.
" Because he switches to using his own energy to stay in that physical form of his, a feat that only strong spirits could do." Added Kyubi.
" So, Whisper-kun, does that make you a strong spirit?" Iida asked.
" What's with the question!" He thrust his inexistent nose high up." Of course I'm! As a matter of fact, I can stay around for three days without depending on Yuu's energy!"
Kyubi rose her head and looked at them. " I could stay around for four days, but that means sacrificing more energy and thus, being unable to fight."
" But that means you can still fight for him when he faints, right?" Kirishima pointed from the end of the table as he swallowed the last of his plate.
" It's not impossible but-"
" If she does that, she will disappear," Yuu spoke up, cutting her off.
" Huh?"
" Disappear as in what usually happens?" Jiro questioned.
" Disappear as in she dies." That seemed to down on them so suddenly when Yuu spoke. " Spirits are energy, if they use it all, they cease to exist. That's why Kyubi depends on my energy."
" If Yuu faints after a fight, I can say I could keep up for around one hour approximately on my own. If I breach that time, I'll vanish."
" That's if you could keep your physical body. You still don't know how to do so yet, and once Yuu is out cold, you're pulled back to the spirit world instantly. You still can't resist it," Whisper said looking down at her. " Unless you learn to do so you'll never be able to do that. Both teleporting to where you left him in the physical world and then manifesting is impossible for you at this level." Kyubi merely made a tsk sound at that.
" I see..." Yaoyorozu murmured. She seemed most concerned about what she had just heard. Spirits weren't just tools or weapons. They were creatures who feared death like her, like everyone else of them...