25 Tournament 2,5/3

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Don't dare to doubt me.

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"We will first have Todoroki versus Iida! Then the last fight of the semi-finals will be Juryoku against Bakugou!"

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In the stands, Kotei can be seen watching the two students advance across from each other.

"It's a battle between two who both hail from elite hero families! Iida Tenya versus Todoroki Shouto!!"

Iida was looking really focused and fired up. He knew that his opponent should not be underestimated. He was someone with high capabilities, capable of trampling on most people without any troubles.

"Start!" Midnight announced.

She did not even have any time to use her whip to accompany her words as the two students used their quirks.

Shouto had, without any surprises used his right side and made a long path of ice, which goal was to freeze Iida before he could move.

Unfortunately for him, Iida guessed that he would have gone for his feet first, and did a long jump above the ice, thus in a few seconds was just above Shouto.

'I can't use shooting attacks like Midoriya! And the fact that he's using his flames again narrows my options down even more!' Iida thought, readying his next attack, still in the air.

'Recripro burst!' Iida shouted in his mind, his left leg moving at high speed toward his opponent.

The kick pushed by the engine on Iida's leg was, however, dodged by Shouto as he ducked under attack.

However, Iida did an amazing spin as his leg did a full turn without stopping and hit Shouto, making the latter let a groan because of the pain.

"I'll finish this!" Iida said, grabbing Shouto by his clothes and running toward the border.

'I need to toss him out of the bonds like this and... huh?!' Iida's thoughts were cut off as he noticed something which shouldn't be happening because he still has some time before the recoil of the skill he used shows itself.

Looking at his legs, he saw that his mufflers were jammed by ice.

"When did you?!"

"When you kicked me." Shouto replied, calmly.

Immediately after, he encased Iida in ice, sealing all his movements.

"I still couldn't dodge that recipro, even though I knew it was coming. I expected no less..." The bicolor-haired boy said, rising on his feet.

"Iida is unable to move! And without even using his flames. Todoroki advances to the final round!"

'It was expected. But still, Iida did a good job I guess.' Kotei thought, moving toward the stairs.

He had a classmate to destroy.

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"Now, a fight which won't let you down! Juryoku Kotei against his classmate Bakugou Katsuki!"

On the field, you could see the two students walk toward the center, under the deafening applause of the spectators.

Kotei was looking with his usual poker face at Katsuki which stopped at the same time he did.

Katsuki did not have the smirk plastered on his face when he is dealing with people weaker than him.

What replaced it was a focused expression, paired with a stance which showed his readiness.

"Go all-out or you won't see a tomorrow." Katsuki said to his opponent.

He obviously did not want to fight against an opponent restraining himself.

"Don't die on me then." Kotei replied to his opponent, removing his hands from his pockets, showing to the blonde kid that he was going to accord him his wish.

"Start!" Midnight shouted on the side, making clear to both boys that they know have the right to beat their opponent up.

Immediately, Katsuki used his explosions to fly toward the unmoving Kotei at a great speed.

Less than a second later, Kotei moved his right hand toward the flying Katsuki.

'Here it comes!' The blonde guy shouted in his head, maneuvering his position in the air to escape the gravity push which destroyed his previous path.

'My attacks are too linear huh?' Kotei thought, seeing that his move was easily evaded. 'Well, he is worthy of showing some flashy one I guess.'

In those few seconds, Katsuki reached Kotei's position and swung his right hand toward the latter's face, releasing a surprisingly not big explosion.

Kotei, who was protecting his face with his forearm saw this, and immediately thought 'He wants to blind me, then his next attack will be...'

Kotei ducked, squatting down. Narrowingly, dodging an explosion coming from behind him.

'?!' Katsuki was very surprised, to see that his attack was dodged, but he did not have any time to think of it as he got kicked in the abdomen and sent flying a few meters, as he landing on his feet.

Lifting his head to look back at his opponent, he saw that he was not there anymore.

"On your right." He heard Kotei's voice and instinctively turned to his right.

Unfortunately for him...

"Just kidding." He heard Kotei's voice once again, but this time it was clearly coming from his left and at the same time he felt a fist impacting his ribs with a strength which surely cracked a few of them and threw him in the distance.

Being thrown a few meters and rolling on the ground, stopped himself after a few second, and could be seen roughly coughing and grabbing his left side.

"Never trust your opponent, whatever he says." Kotei said, moving toward his downed classmate.

"Don't tell me that it is your limits?" Kotei asked.

He stopped walking a few meters in front of his opponent and tilted his on the side as he asked his question.

"Shut the fuck up!" Katsuki shouted as he swung his left hand toward the gravity boy, and made a big explosion toward him.

Kotei jumped to the side, as he let out a small smile.

"We going past limits now?" Kotei asked, wanting to see until which point can the guy augment the power of his explosions.

The now standing Katsuki seemed to snap, as he said.

"That's it! I'm gonna fucking explode your shitty ass up!"

Saying that he flew a few meters in the air and began flying toward Kotei once again, using his explosion to turn on himself.

"That's the spirit." Kotei said, gathering gravity in front of his right hand with his left hand grabbing his arm, providing stability.

If one could see closely, he would notice that his right hand's palm was getting torn apart by the strength of the anomaly he is creating.

"Schneider bomb!" Katsuki shouted, making the biggest explosion he ever did, obliterating more than half of the stage.

"Dying light!" Kotei shouted, pushing a small strange light which appeared in front of his palm toward his opponent's attack. Destroying the other half of the stadium.

Dust was raised everywhere as nothing of the two contestants could be seen.

Midnight was helped by Cementoss as she would have been hurt by the explosions.

"Incredible..." "Mon-monsters... The kids of today are absolute monsters..."

The protections that Cementoss made were almost all destroyed as he fell on one knee. The last wall of cement broke.

"That was close." He said, catching his breathing.

A few seconds later, they saw the outcome of the final attacks.

On one side, Kotei could be seen standing on his two feet. His shirt was entirely gone, showing his ripped upper body to the world. His right hand could be seen as highly damaged, even bones could be seen, and blood was constantly flowing from the various wounds his right arm had.

However, on his face, a simple smile was plastered, as though he was not injured in the first place.

On the other side, Katsuki was seen lying on the walls of the stadium. His clothes were destroyed too, but not at the point where he could be seen naked. He had a few burns and cuts, but nothing at extreme as Kotei's hand.

"Ba-bakugou is unconscious! Juryoku wins and goes to the finals!" Midnight announced once she finished checking the blonde kid.

The crowd erupted wildly. They were all very impressed by the kids' capacities. The students in the heroic course were all... feeling miserable. They knew that they could not replicate such strength right now.

Their fellow students were way too strong.

The medic bots immediately rushed toward the two students.

Kotei did not move from his spot, as he kept looking at his destroyed hand.

'For a very short moment, his explosion's intensity matched mine, but if I let myself get launched back. He has some insane potential...'

Where he was highly difficult for the robots to reach as the ground was destroyed beside where he was standing.

'This injury is nothing, but I can't let everyone in Japan know that I have this quirk.' Kotei thought, closing his hand.

Looking back at his opponent which was getting transported by the robot on a stretcher he thought... 'That hurt.'