At Nemuri's words, all the students started running as if their lives depended on it, which inevitably caused a huge jam at the narrow gate—something that didn't affect Kai in the slightest. He simply stayed casually in his place, while Salem watched with curiosity and mockery at the guys squeezing past each other to get through.
However, for Momo, things were very different. The moment Midnight gave the starting signal, she immediately produced and equipped her armor, which was heavily inspired by a certain millionaire, playboy, philanthropist hero. It allowed her to easily fly over the students, and although it wasn't as fast as the armor that served as inspiration, she could still easily leave the others behind.
Similarly, all those who participated in the representative's training group showed the immense improvements they had achieved in the short time they had been receiving almost Spartan training. This was the case, for example, with Uraraka, who, thanks to the 3D maneuverability device on her waist, could make the best use of her quirk, flying and controlling her direction with the device.
Meanwhile, Kai just watched the circus without the slightest intention of moving, despite the Pussycats, who somehow were sitting right next to the door, waving their banners and cheering at the top of their lungs. At that moment, Shino and Ryuko looked at each other with conspiratorial smiles, and Mandalay sent a telepathic message to her sister.
[Plan A didn't work; it's time to initiate Plan B]
[Understood!]
With a mischievous smile on her face, Ryuko responded to the telepathic message, looking like a cat about to play a prank. She took her phone and quickly sent a message to the most special contact on her list, which was saved as [Husband] along with a bunch of heart and kiss emojis.
Almost instantly, in front of Kai appeared a holographic screen in [In] mode courtesy of Sage, since he didn't have his phone. The whole family was on the special list where the incredibly capable fairy had to inform him no matter what if they tried to communicate with him.
Seeing the message Ryuko had sent him, Kai couldn't help but open his eyes, surprised. After all, she had sent him a provocative image in erotic lingerie with cat ears and the gothic-style black velvet choker that he had personally made and that he now wore everywhere. It had a pendant carved in the shape of a minimalist Pixie-Bob cat's head. In addition, the photo came with a message that said.
[This kitty wants to see her owner win, meow]
With a surprised expression, Kai couldn't help but look at Ryuko in the stands, who winked at him playfully, which made him doubt whether he should really go and kick teenage butts. But after a moment, he recomposed himself and shook his head, firm in not falling into the temptation of the treacherous plan his perverted girlfriend had prepared.
[Plan B failed; it's time for Plan C]
Seeing her beloved's expression, Ryuko instantly knew what he was thinking, so she quickly informed Shino through the mental connection, who already had her phone in hand. Shino responded in a serious tone, while sending a message to her contact [Darling] with a slight blush on her cheeks.
[Right now.]
Now in front of Kai was an invisible holographic screen showing an image of Shino in a tiny and transparent black maid outfit, which left practically everything in view. She had cat ears on her head and a choker similar to Ryuko's, although with the head of a minimalist Mandalay cat instead, along with a message that said.
[This maid will serve her master with all her heart for winning the sports festival.]
Knowing it was an orchestrated plan, Kai gave Shino a meaningful look, who smiled at him shyly. He then looked away with dignity, not letting himself be bought by such a macabre plan, while Sage made sure there was no record of the little incident.
[Hehehe, it seems we'll have to use Plan C] Seeing Kai's attitude, Ryuko commented cheerfully through the mental connection with Shino, who quickly replied in a similar tone.
[No, it's better if we bring out the heavy artillery; Kai is going to play dumb to see what we're planning.]
[Then let's go all out; today our husband will fall one way or another, hahaha] Ryuko commented with an 'evil' smile on her face, something that rubbed off on Shino, who looked amused at her boyfriend, while taking her phone and sending a new message.
Seeing the new message, Kai couldn't help but be completely stupefied. After all, in the photo this time were his three girlfriends, with Ryuko and Shino in the same outfits, while Nemuri wore a black Playboy bunny suit that left her enormous breasts exposed, on which she had heart-shaped nipple covers. On her neck was a black choker with a pendant carved in the shape of a minimalist Saluki dog's head.
In the photo, Nemuri was sitting in an elegant chair resembling a throne with her legs crossed and her hands on her knees, having a sensual expression on her face. Ryuko and Shino stood at her sides with one knee on the armrests of the chair and their hands on Nemuri's shoulders, with Ryuko having a mischievous expression and Shino looking somewhat shy.
As if they wanted to show it off, on their visible hands, all the girls had on their ring fingers platinum ring with personalized black diamonds matching their respective collars. The message accompanying the provocative photo made Kai dizzy for a moment.
[Your loved ones hope to jointly relieve your fatigue after winning the UA first-year sports festival.]
With a look expressing his incredulity, Kai looked at each of his beautiful girlfriends, who returned mischievous smiles. Although in Shino's case, a slight shy blush could be seen on her face, which led the blue-eyed boy to shake his head, somewhat amused, then disappear from sight, moving at absurd speeds.
Although much of his change of mind was due to being offered too much—basically any man's dream—and he didn't want all the girls' effort to be in vain, the reality was that since he was at it. He might as well take the opportunity to free himself from having the girls making plans to make him stand out in the future. After all, he was quite sure that sooner rather than later, things would soon go south and his 'fame' would resonate once again.
For their part, the girls, knowing they had achieved their goal, looked at each other with complicity and victory. But at that moment, Tomoko, who had been watching with curiosity the constant exchange of glances of her friends and companions, quickly hugged Shino while cheerfully asking.
"How did you do it?"
"W-what? What do you mean, Ragdoll?" Shino asked back somewhat nervously, while quickly hiding her phone, to which Tomoko asked with a small smile.
"How did you convince Kai to take the sports festival seriously?"
"It's a trade secret, fufufu." Ryuko commented somewhat amused, which caused Tomoko to jump on Ryuko to hug her and start asking insistently.
"Come on, tell me, tell me, pretty please!"
"Fufufu, if you're a good girl, maybe I'll tell you." Ryuko commented with a smile while playfully stroking Tomoko's beautiful turquoise-green hair, who couldn't help but pout grumpily while complaining.
"Stingy!"
Meanwhile, Chatora, who had been watching the whole event discreetly, couldn't help but shake his head with a small smile. Really, neither Shino nor Ryuko were the best at hiding things, and for a long time, he had had his suspicions. But even if it was what he imagined, he was 100% willing to support his best friends and companions in their madness if that was what made them happy.
...
Using his absurd base speed, combined with some emission to accelerate even more, Kai advanced down the track at great speeds, quickly catching up to the leaders in the race, who were all from Class 1-A. Midoriya was at the front running, showing for the first time in public decent control of his quirk.
Head to head with Midoriya was Todoroki, who propelled himself using his ice, while Bakugo followed closely with a crazed expression. Bakugo used the explosions in his hands to propel himself forward and fly, all the while shouting all kinds of insults with an almost torn voice.
After watching how the people he had given advice to were applying them correctly, Kai nodded somewhat satisfied for not having wasted his time, then accelerated again to catch up to Momo, who was much further ahead—so much so that they would very likely change the competition rules to prevent something like that from happening again.
Not long after, Kai stopped near the entrance gate to the stadium, where Momo landed and unequipped her armor, which fell to the ground turning into dust. She then took Kai's offered arm, with a big smile on her face, looking genuinely happy, and they walked together down the hallway under the stands, re-entering the stadium where they were met with great euphoria from the fans.
"Who would have expected this result?!!!"
As Momo and Kai entered the stadium, Present Mic's excited voice resounded throughout the arena, which was flooded with cheers of euphoria from the stands. Momo waved to them with a cheerful and shy smile on her face, while the hero announced the result aloud.
"The winners are Yaoyorozu Momo and Saito Kai!!! It's a tie between the two best students of class 1-A of the hero course!!!"
With Present Mic's announcement, a new wave of excited cheers filled the stadium. The Pussycats joined in on, waving their banners as if their lives depended on it, while smiles full of happiness and pride could be seen on their faces.
"What made you change your mind, Kai?" Momo asked happily as she walked beside Kai, hugging one of his arms, to which the blue-eyed young man could only respond casually while shrugging his shoulders.
"Don't ask; they offered me too much."
"Fufufu, alright." Momo responded somewhat amused, soon arriving in front of Nemuri, who looked at them with shining eyes full of pride, while holding back her desire to run to hug them and cover them with kisses.
After a while, through the door entered Midoriya, Todoroki, and Bakugo, with the green-haired young man looking in the best condition, since Todoroki was forced to use his heat to thaw his almost frozen body. While Bakugo's arms visibly trembled as he looked filled with shock and hatred at Midoriya and, incidentally, at Kai, who completely ignored him.
Not long after, several more students entered the stadium, among them Mina, who quickly skated up to Momo and Kai, then tried to 'complain' with a huge smile on her face. After all, she had done much better than she expected and also wanted to tease the grump who had tired of saying he didn't want to stand out.
"Don't ask; they offered me too much."
Just before Mina could speak, Kai spoke in a firm tone, then looked away, leaving the cute pink girl in shock, which made Momo smile amusedly. She quickly released Kai's arm, then approached her friend, while the blue-eyed boy walked away to start casually playing with Salem, so Momo could have a pleasant chat with her friends.