13 Quirk apprehension test, and request.
The quirk apprehension test began after the demonstration with a 50 meter dash. Our mc was paired with the other red haired of his class, Kirishima.
Sekizan got ready, waiting to the signal to start. He was sorry for his classmate that was competing with him. He was a nice guy and having red hair he was gonna be compared with him unconsciously by the others. He was not gonna take it easy either, he never took it easy against any of his opponents, out of respect for them.
" Set, go!" Aizawa shouted.
Hearing the announcement he immediately used Soru and vanished from his place. Appearing at the finishing line a second later. Surprising all the people watching the race. Especially Lida who specializes in speed. Kirishima, who ended up getting a time of 6.89 seconds, was looking at Sekizan with stars in his eyes, he just saw the guy vanish from his place and then he was in the finishing line, if that wasn't manly, what was?
In the long jump he decided to not use Geppo, as technically Geppo is a form of cheating as he was stepping on the air to propel himself over the marked line delineating the beginning of the sand pit.
So he got right at the market line and flexed his legs getting in a half squatted position, and from there, without a running start, jumped all the way to the other side of the sand pit, exactly at the end where the sand finishes and the ground starts again. Landing softly, and noiselessly. Just to test his level of control only relying on his muscles initially, without self adjusting in the middle of the air.
In the grip strength test there was a guy with 6 arms that got 540kg, that's a impressive feat. Sekizan waited his turn and began to ponder if he was capable of such feat, he trained his hands most of his life but never tested his grip in a machine like that.
Walking to the device he took it and squeezed lightly a couple times to check how it worked, and then with all of his muscles at the same time he willed them to squeeze. The dynamometer broke immediately, having received too much load too abruptly, the exact measurements did not get recorded, but Aizawa did not like the idea of breaking more school equipment so he shooed him from there.
In flexibility he got the first place easily, having stretched most of his life his range of motion was as mobile as his human body allowed him to move.
The repeated sides steps was easy for him as well, but on that one a small kid had a quirk strangely suited for that exercise and got the first place. But he got the second.
They did more basic endurance tests, but those were just basic ones,like long distance running.
And finally it came the time to the ball throw, bakugo also had a suitable quirk to that specific test but he wanted to win on this test in particular because he played baseball for a long time and was a pitcher. He didn't want to lose on this one.
Getting in the circle he controlled his heart to speed up to warm his right shoulder and pumped adrenalin in his system maintaining a higher heart rate, his appearance in the testing circle was horrifying to those watching, his face was covered in veins and the right arm holding the ball specially was even emanating vapor, Sekizan was taking deep breaths holding the ball as if he was in the throwing mound. Lifting his left leg above his head he used the momentum to transfer the energy from all the muscles of his body as he was lowering his leg down, at the same time holding his breath. as he touches his right leg on the floor he used the impact to send the energy generated to his waist, and from the waist to the shoulder, linking his muscles as a chain, from his shoulders to his elbow, from his elbow to his hand, and finally from the joint of his hands to the point of his fingers, releasing the ball from the tip of his index finger.
*Boom*
As the ball was thrown the sound barrier was broken making a gust of wind blow the hair and the clothes of the now tired ginger. But he did not pay attention to that, he looked directly at the teacher, and even Aizawa flinched, getting stared at with such intensity, he for a moment thought that the student was going to attack him, but remembered that he was the one with the measuring device, so he looked at the screen and was surprised.
"1069 meters." He said. Making the teen relax.
"Heh, that was a nice one." Sekizan involuntarily said, that was a nice throw, he never thrown a ball with such intent before, but it was fun. Maybe he could incorporate that in his training, he sure worked his shoulder with the throw.
" Alright, that's the end of the tests now you can see your place in the overall rank in the screen over there. And the talk about expelling the last place was a ruse, I'm gonna go to sleep now. Go change and go back to class."
Aizawa said, and began to walk away. There was a commotion between the students but he did not pay attention to it, he looked at the ranking and began to search through looking for his. He got first place, obviously. Tests in the fitness department will always be his strong point, even if a person have a strength enhancement quirk that person is most of the time not balanced, and for him, his body is his weapon and he could do all things that require his physical ability to do better than most if not all the people, with the exception of those with specialized types of quirks, like the short kid with the purple balls in his head, or the six armed guy, even breaking the measuring device he still wasn't sure if he could win against him on pure grip strength.
But the second place was a surprise, the girl who can create stuff. Very versatile quirk. She can do almost anything with that. Very powerful quirk. Then there's the ice guy, he is of the type of person that he have difficulty fighting, the endeavour type of people that make it so it's impossible to approach them without you getting hurt.
' it should be interesting to fight this guy, to win I'm gonna have to get creative and outsmart him, or use my speed advantage to get close to him before he can react. But he should have seen me in the race test, surely he should have expected that.' Sekizan was already thinking of how to fight the ice kid. He felt that there was only him in all of his class that should pose a problem to him, his instincts were telling him so.
He was happy to get a challenge from his classmates, there was few things in life that he got enjoyment from, and they were all fight related. Now that he was in a hero school with kids with overpowered quirks he was gonna find it fun to have a fight with them, they might teach him something after all.
He came back to the classroom after getting changed in the locker room, and got seated on his seat watching all the normal classes pass by through the day, sometimes talking with his seatmate, the other redhead of the class.
When the classes finished he said goodbye and proceeded to walk to the infirmary. He decided to talk to the recovery lady today about his situation.
Getting in front of the infirmary door he knocked twice and waited for the woman's permission to enter. He was here to ask something, it was good to be polite in this kind of situation.
" You can enter." An old and amicable voice was heard from the other side.
Entering he noticed an old lady sitting by a desk in the corner and a couple of hospital beds decorating the room.
"Hello, my name is Scarlatti Sekizan, I came here to make a request." He said seriously. Expecting to convey the importance of his request through his tone of voice.
"Well dear, have a seat. I will make you a cup of tea." The lady said in a motherly voice.
Sekizan sat at a stool close to the seat that she was seated before, waiting for the medic to return. She returned not long after, putting a cup of green tea at his side and one for herself.
"Now dear, you can make your request." She said, sipping her tea.
It was a strange scene to see, a giant hunk of a man being so earnest to a diminutive old lady.
" Well, first things first I should give you some information about myself that would justify me making this request from you." Sekizan said, thinking about what he should say to convince her, it was a strange thing to ask after all.
"I've been training in martial arts since I was 4 years old." He began. " My quirk, much like my dad's, did not give me much of an advantage in combat, or gave me much firepower to fulfill my childhood dream of being a hero." He continued.
" My quirk gives me enhanced senses and a more conductive nervous system. Just from this description you can see that this is not the common type of quirk of a hero you see on television." Sekizan stopped for a moment, taking a sip of his tea." I was under no delusions that just with my quirk I was gonna become strong. So together with my father, who had a quirk similar to mine and managed to accomplish his ambitions to become a hero just with his martial arts, I began my path to become strong." He paused for a moment letting his words sink in.
" And along my road on the path of martial arts I acquired total control of my body, being muscles or organs, even my endocrine system, with a technique I called Seimei Kikan." He paused again, noticing his words had made the old lady open her eyes in shock. But he continued, not giving her the opportunity to comment.
" Using this I began to build my body to be capable of handling the load that my martial arts demand of it. Using the food as material to construct resistant muscles and ligaments. And because of that control, I noticed something interesting when you headed me after the practical exam." He said finally, getting to the crux of all the explanation.
" Your quirk used my stamina to create a type of healing energy that allowed me, with my technique, to heal and strengthen my torn muscles in a way that further my training by months with only one usage." He said finally, letting her know all she needed to know.
" Because of this I came here to make a request. I would like to request that you assist me in my training by using your quirk on me once a week. I don't have anything to offer you now, but I will swear that if you do that for me you will have my gratitude and protection from here on." He finally asked.
The room became silent for a moment, as the two looked at each other. The old lady was pondering the words she heard, and unpacking all the information contained on them. But soon enough she began to speak.
"Well dear, I have to say that I'm impressed by your dedication and drive to accomplish your dreams. But I must say as well that you must not worry about protecting me, I would do this no problem if it meant that a good hero was born out of you more quickly, you being more proficient will surely save more lives in the future. And it is my job as the staff of the school to assist the future heros in their rise." She stopped for a moment,to take a deep breath." So yes. I accept your request, you should talk with the principal about this as well, he will surely give you the specifics of the time and all the complicated things to you." She said finally. Satisfied with the sincerity of the tall ginger.
Sekizan was silent after he heard this. He expected it would be more difficult to achieve his objective, he did not have anything to give to the lady now, and it would stain his honour to use any unsavory means against her either. In his life only his family supported him on his martial arts journey, and he never expected anything from no one other than his family to support him either. Hearing her accept so readily he was a little moved. He thought.
' Don't worry granny, from this day forward if someone just dream of laying their fingers on you, they can be sure to mark a grave to lay on the next day.' it was a violent and brutal thought, but it came from the heart.
" I appreciate your doing, at the end of the week I will come here to receive your help. I will be sure to never forget your kindness." He said, bowing his head a little. It was the third person in this life that he performed something with a semblance of a bow other than his parents. The granny will never know that she achieved such a miracle today, as she just saw it as a polite and normal thing to do.
Getting up he walked to the door, nodded once more and left the infirmary. Taking the way home. It was a meaningful day to Sekizan today, and he pondered all the happenings as he walked.
