18 Sports Festival 5
After a the hour break and the recreational games, the finals of the first year sports festival were about to begin.
The best thing to come out of it was Kaminari tricking the girls to wear cheerleader outfits. Although it never ended well for him, everyone else though had a great piece of eye candy seeing the girls in those skimpy outfits. I know I enjoyed it at least.
Although there was a weird incident where members from one of the teams dropped out of the finals. That included Ojiro and a small chubby kid from class B, which left the blue haired guy Shinsou, and sparkly fucker Aoyama to advance.
Apparently the two of them couldn't even remember the Cavalry Battle taking place, which was the reason they ended up withdrawing. Definitely something up there, I'm betting on that Shinsou gut from general studies having some sort of weird quirk.
Because two participants dropped out, they had to get replacements from the 5th placed team, but after Kendo's and her girls being pretty chill about the whole situation it ended up being Ibara Shiozaki the vine haired girl and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu the steel man advancing to the finals.
The brackets appeared on the large screen for the whole stadium to see, 16 participants, 15 fights, 1 winner. It's what everyone's been waiting for.
My first match was against Ibara, I've barely seen what her quirk can do, so I've no idea how strong it could be. Still it shouldn't be a problem, my fire should be the natural counter to her quirk anyway.
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The first match was Midoriya vs Shinsou, during the fight everyone got to find out the blue haired boys quirk, Mind control, pretty damn crazy. It works if Shinsou is able to get a vocal reply from someone he's speaking to, if that happens the target ends up under his full control until Shinsou releases them.
Deku ended up winning though thanks to his shitty control over his quirk. Apparently any sort of damage ends the mind control. and after blowing up his finger Midoriya just threw him out the arena.
Todoroki vs Sero was even quicker though, after Sero's failed sneak attack, Todoroki created another massive wall of ice like the one he used in the obstacle course. Freezing his opponent and half of the arena along with him, ending the fight within seconds.
Right now I'm standing in the arena face to face with my opponent. The fair skinned Ibara was a poised in a praying position, I wonder what her religion is, I don't believe in nothing but most of the people in Asakusa are either Shintoist, Buddhist or both. Maybe she's the same.
"You may begin your match!" Midnight stated from her podium.
Right after the announcement Ibara's vine like hair grew to phenomenal lengths, it stretched across the field in attempt to reach me.
Calm as ever, I never let the wave of vines bother me as I got into position for one of the Iai-hand sword techniques.
'Iai Hand-Sword: Second Form - Moonlight'
Making an X-shape with my arms in front of my chest, they ignited in a spectacular fashion. The heat radiating from the flames, created a blindingly bright light just like the moon itself. However unlike the moons shine, this light was scorching hot.
The heat decimated Ibara's vines burning them all the way back to their owner. At the same time I sliced my arms through the roasting air, producing powerful X-shaped blades of fire. They cut towards their target at lightning speeds, mauling through the ground around them on impact.
"Give up" I practically ordered the girl.
Once the light dissipated, the crowd was finally able to see the field. What they saw shocked them to the core, especially a certain fire using hero watching from the stands.
The entire ground was stained black from the blistering heat, but that was nothing comparable to large X-shaped recess indented into the ground which was still red hot from the attack.
The only thing that calmed them down was the fact that their seemed to be an invisible barrier around the girl, as the ground she was standing on was perfectly unaffected by the flames.
"I-I give up" Ibara fell to her knees and conceded with a borderline terrified look on her face, allowing Midnight to call the match.
"Winner Benimaru Shinmon!"
The stadium was still mostly silent apart from the Asakusa section that even started chanting my name. That's it I've decided, Konro's dead when I get back.
Eventually the crowd began clapping for Ibara the same way they done for Sero when they lost. Encouraging her instead of trying to bring her down, a nice touch.
Walking over to my opponent who was still looking out of it, I say "Snap out of it already, I was never going to hit you with that in the first place. Just needed something to get the pros interested"
Holding my hand our for her to gasp, she replied while looking to the sky "My, this must be my punishment for reaching the finals in such a unworthy fashion"
After whatever that was, she accepted my offer for help and I pulled Ibara onto her feet.
"Thanks for the help" she said as we began to walk up to our respective classes view platforms.
"What an excellent display of sportsmanship from the contestants. Now onto the next match, Mei Hatsume vs Tenya Ida!" Present Mic announced lively as ever, getting the crowd excited all over again for the next match.
As we climbed the stairs I curiously asked Ibara who had quickly gotten over her loss "What religion is it you believe it?"
"I am a believer in both Shintoism and Buddhism" She explained.
"Interesting" I replied
"Are a believe as well?" She questioned with intensity and a sparkle in her eye.
"No, I don't believe in anything. I doesn't make sense to me" I replied with my honest feelings on religion.
After putting on a disappointed face, Ibara quickly rebounded back to normal "Well if you ever want to speak about it, my door will always be open" She said with a kind smile.
We arrived at the viewing rooms, opening mine I say my goodbye before entering the room and nearly walking into a face full of Kirishima.
"Damn, Shinmon I never knew you were packing so much firepower, and helping Shiozaki up at the end, that was so manly!" The red haired boy exclaimed while flexing the muscles in one of his arms.
"He's right you know, and what about all those people that were cheering for you once your won. Do you know them?" Toru asked waving her invisible arms around.
Being reminded of Konro and the others my face darkened for a moment, "They're from where I live" I replied
"Woah so your famous there? That's so cool!" Toru said while Kirishima nodded in agreement.
"More like I can't get them to leave me alone. Give me a minute I need to phone someone" I told them while leaving for the changing rooms.
Upon arrival I went straight into my locker, pulled out my phone and dialled a certain someone's number. As the phone rang I sat down on one of the benches, after a few rings the person picked up.
"Konro"
"B-Beni, you know that was a g-great match there" He said before nervously laughing.
"What happened to it just being you and the girls, eh?" I questioned.
"W-well, about that" Konro stuttered
"You in for it when this is finished" I told him before handing up and leaving for the stands once again.
I wonder what I could convince Hinata and Hikage to do to Konro?
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