Quirkless? (2)

"What was that?"

Rito landed as he looked around. The pleadings came in too sudden and left quickly, too.

"What happened just?"

He fell into deep thoughts as he failed to notice the stares he received from other students.

"Was it?"

His eyes glowed in confusion and he looked at the huge boulder that crushed HellHouse.

Slowly, he started walking towards the boulder while other students came to be from their shock.

"What's with that monstrous strength?! He fuckin flipped a patch of ground!"

A bespectacled boy spoke as another student pointed out.

"Wait! Look, he is moving towards HellHouse."

"Is he trying to confirm HellHouse's status?"

As students formed small groups to discuss the Rito's 'quirk', they failed to notice that they still hadn't heard Aizawa's voice about the exam ending.

"Are you alright? Can you stand?"

The silver-haired girl extended her hands towards Haruna, who took her hand with a grateful expression.

"Thank you for protecting me. I am Haruna Sairenji."

"I am Eri! Nice to meet you."

Eri's red eyes glowed as she shook Haruna's hand with a happy smile. Her white-silver hair reached her waist while the horn on the right side of her forehead was slightly shorter than before.

"Heeey! Waiitt!"

Rito stopped in his tracks as an effeminate brown-haired boy with short, curly hair ran... floated towards him as his eyes sparkled in curiosity.

"How did you that? I mean the flipping!"

Akira immediately questioned Rito while he turned his head with a frown and looked at the boulder shaking lightly.

"Oh come on! Why the avoidance? That's right! My name is Akira Midoriya! Let's be friends!"

He immediately smiled and extended his hands while Rito's eyes turned as wide as saucers as he kicked Akira in his abdomen, making him fly back while Rito jumped up himself.

Whoosh

Two chains covered with black flames shot from the ground and shocked the relaxed students.

"Hehehe, did you think I'll really change? You all are wrong!!

I wouldn't wish to become the creature I am if I did not want such power!!"

Rito once again heard the gruff voice as his frown deepened. But at the moment, he had other troubles to handle.

Unable to target Akira, both the chains had almost reached Rito while he decided to show his full capabilities before —

"Pee! Pee! Butterfly express coming through!"

— Hanabi came and caught grabber his shoulders with a loud shout and allowed him to evade the chains.

"Thanks for the support! Hanabi!"

Rito raised his hand and allowed Hanabi to hold him by crossing her arms through his underarms to make it slightly easy for her.

"Woah-oh! You didn't look like the heavy type at all!"

Hanabi felt amazed by Rito's weight. He must be easily above 70 kgs!

"Yeah! Didn't you know that martial-artists are also master in deception? We all lie about our weights. Especially my senior brother."

Hanabi chuckled as she slowly landed beside the glaring Ichika and amazed Riku.

"Hahaha, I know you can hear me! By 'me' I mean 'me'— Hanada Yana!"

Rito looked at the boulder lifting up as HellHouse's body appeared once again. Unlike its previous appearance, the outer walls of the hut had transformed from red-meaty texture to pitch-black metallic finish while the dozens of chains flailing around alongside five particular balls of flames revolving around its body.

"Talk about upgrades..."

Riku commented with a slight shiver as his gaze landed on HellHouse's ghastly eyes that were directed towards their group.

"You can understand me, you can hear me! I don't want that and I don't like that! I should be the strongest!

How can the strongest communicate with a weakling?!"

Almost twenty chains shot towards their group and Rito immediately stomped on the ground as large pieces of rocks flew up.

"You guys, get back!"

He shouted and immediately punched the rocks as he ran towards the chains himself.

"Wait—"

Ichika's red eyes glowed as she propelled herself with the shockwaves of her explosion while Hanabi flew above, ready to support both of them at any point of time.

"— how could you kick me out of nowhere???!!!!"

A brown flash passed by Ichika and Hanabi as Akira's indignant shout stunned Rito.

Before his fist could clash with HellHouse's chains, Akira appeared in between them and immediately waved his hands and the direction of the chains immediately changed due to an unnatural force.

With his hair floating up and a glowing barrier covering his body, Akari glared at Rito while he floated above the ground.

"You idiot! Watch out!"

Rito immediately kicked another piece of rock while Akira felt his back growing warmer at an alarming speed. Before the unthinkable happened, Rito's kick dispersed the fireball.

"I don't have time for this."

Saying his piece, Rito once again shot towards HellHouse, but to his surprise, other students were already near the demonic house as they used their quirks to inflict damage upon its surface.

"I'll give you guys another opening!"

Haruna shouted as a glow surrounded her body while Eri stood in front of her. Meanwhile, a halo appeared above the HellHouse's roof, descended at a slow speed.

"Kekeke, the same tricks.... won't work!"

His voice transferred once again while the students stood shell-shocked as they stood witness to a dreadful scene of five pitch-black balls of blaze impacting against the angelic halo, destroying it in one move.

Even though the clash wasn't exaggerating, a deep shock passed through as all the rubbles flew back towards the student.

Standing in front of Haruna, Eri raised her hands to protect her body while all the rocks reaching near her dispersed at a quick pace.

But she forgot to take account for the effect of Haruna's attack being smashed so unceremoniously.

The moment Haruna's halo failed and was destroyed forcibly, her head felt a piercing pain while blood flowed out of her nose. With losing the last bits of her strength, she fell back, prepared to feel the pain of her head hitting a rock.

Fortunately, that moment never came.

"You alright? Halo casting angel."

Haruna's eyes opened up as the expected pain did not wreak havoc within her consciousness. Instead, she felt a little warm.

Seeing the goofy smile of a brown-haired boy, her eyes closed once again as she spoke softly.

"Thanks, ground flipping martial artist."

With a small chuckle, Rito helped her lay on the ground as the white-haired girl finally turned back and spoke with a displeased pout.

"I am sorry I couldn't complete my job."

Eri bowed and apologised while Rito's attention was attracted by 'annoying' chuckle. By now, he was sure that only he could hear this god-forsaken voice.

"Saving a girl, eh? How heroic, how nice! But you all are a sham!"

'Yeah, yeah, whatev!'

Rito sighed in his mind.

"Whatev? Whatev! Is that your answer to my call? My pain? You all are the same!"

Rito's eyes widened as his gaze was attracted to a beautiful hand in front of him.

"–i, nice to meet you."

Eri smiled and extended her hands once again.

"Ah, um, nice to meet you, too.

Help me out here and please carry Haruna-san near the boundary. She is unconscious and she could get seriously injured."

"Yes, sure thing!"

Eri nodded slowly and got to work while Rito stood up and looked at the direction of HellHouse waving its clanking chains as a group of students used their quirks to deflect the attacks, on the other hand, Akira kept on throwing 'pebbles' at the house.

'You screwed up hut! You can hear me, can't you? Let's do it! You and me, right now!

Of course, I can come over if you don't have any legs just like the absence of your brain in your attic.'

And lo behold, HellHouse's raging voice was transferred once again.

"What the hell did you say you shit?! I'm gonna crush a turd today!"

The chains immediately retracted and immediately shot to a distance and pierced into the ground.

Tink

Tink

Tink

Clanking sounds shook the hearts of the students as they saw HellHouse getting dragged towards a particular direction.

Using the force of retracting the chain, HellHouse simply used it to pull its main body towards the ends of the chains.

'Hehe, did you really think its going to be this easy?'

Rito snickered as HellHouse's ghastly eyes constricted.

Placing his bare feet on the flaming chains, Rito entered into a strange stance as he started breathing rhythmically. His heartbeat increased its pace while his muscles started to condense.

'Training and breathing exercises to forge the metal, fighting and sparring to refine the tip.

What remains is an unparalleled blade!'

His eyes condensed to the extreme as he raised his hand and immediately slammed it upon the chains in a slicing motion.

The onlookers' expression turned unnatural as the sound of metal clashing against metal spread across the entire perimeter followed by an ear piercing cry from HellHouse's doors and windows.

'See, I understand that these chains aren't metal but some mixture of biometal. Precisely, these chains represent your tongue... or tongues.

What would happen if someone cut the tip of your tongue...s?'

Rito grinned while he 'thought' of sending his thoughts over to the HellHouse as he looked at the ends of chains embedded into the ground while the remaining part of the chains was immediately pulled in by HellHouse.

"He... cut those chains?"

Someone stuttered while Rito didn't leave any time for HellHouse to recover. The condition to pass this battle wasn't known but before he reached the haunted house, Eraserhead's voice was transferred through their intercoms.

"The battle is finished. The mysterious being will be captured immediately."

Thick chains shot from the ground and immediately covered HellHouse's body as a tired voice appeared within Rito's mind.

"See? All of you are the same! Trying to bind me, imprison me! Hah?! I await the day when all you humans are exterminated."

'First of all, you were once a human. Secondly, you must be quite a naive mysterious being to think that you could kill and escape punishment.'

"So what if I killed? I do what my heart desires!"

HellHouse's roar caused a headache but Rito replied with a cold tone.

'Is that so? Then we humans do what our heart desires. If we want to hunt creatures like you, what can you do besides prostrating?'

HellHouse's body started to move in agitation but the chains seemed to be unbreakable.

In the meantime, staff members returned with dozens of buses and led the students back to the academy grounds while the students sat silently while the previous fight kept on playing inside their heads.