37 POWER
After congratulating Mina, Aiden made his way onto the stage and stood opposite the blond Monoma.
"Well if it isn't the leader of class 1-A! Feeling confident about facing a member of 1B are we?" He provoked.
"Pretty much." Aiden agreed.
"Ha! I KNEW IT!! CLASS 1A TRULY IS FULL OF ARROGANT BASTARDS!!"
"Not really, I just don't feel much when facing an ant like you."
"AHAHAHAHAHA!! DID YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE! HE THINKS US CLASS 1-B STUDENTS ARE ANTS!"
"*Sigh* Are we gonna fight or what? I'll even give you a free shot if you shut up and start the battle."
Without wasting another word, Monoma charged at Aiden and used a quirk from one of his classmates to turn his body into a human drill.
"Is that it? How disappointing." Shifting out of the way Aiden easily evaded the attack.
"Do you know why I look down on you?" Once Monoma returned to his normal form, Aiden shifted in front of the blond haired boy and delivered a swift jab to his face.
*BAM!!*
"Argh!" Clutching onto his nose, Monoma felt blood run down.
"Its because not only is your personality trash." Shifting again, Aiden appeared above him and kicked him in the side of the face.
*BAM!!*
"Argh!"
"You keep picking fights with my classmates."
*BAM!!*
"You constantly try to hinder our progress!"
*BAM!!*
"You're loud as fuck!"
*BAM!!*
"You don't know your place!"
*BAM!!*
"And you'll never be a true hero!"
*BAM!!!*
Lying on the floor with a broken nose and a blood filled eye, Monoma looked up at Aiden with rage.
"This-This is hard to watch..."
"Isn't he going a bit too far."
"Shouldn't somebody stop him."
"That bastard! He's toying with him!" Enraged at the sight of his classmate being beaten, TetsuTetsu wanted to rush onto the stage but was stopped by Kendo.
"Don't! This is Monoma's fight, let him do what he thinks is best." She said through grit teeth.
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Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Monoma laughed to himself and struggled to get back to his feet.
"I'll never be a true hero eh? You think I don't know that! All my life I've been told that I can never be a hero, that my quirk wasn't good enough. BUT HERE I AM NOW! STANDING IN THE BEST HERO ACADEMY IN THE COUNTRY! SO WHAT IF I WASN'T BLESSED WITH A STRONG QUIRK LIKE YOU! HERE I AM! STANDING ON THE SAME STAGE AS ONE OF FUTURES GREATEST HEROES!!"
"A strong quirk like mine?" The atmosphere around Aiden seemed to have suddenly darkened. "You think I'm blessed with power? That my quirk means that I've had an easy life?" His voice turned cold and reverberated throughout the whole stadium. Taking a step forward, an aura of malice and boundless bloodlust burst from his body and invaded the surrounding area.
*BOOM!*
"W-What is this!" The pros were forced to stand.
"Why so quiet? Didn't you want to tell me just how privileged I am?" Aiden's dark voice echoed in the silence.
"Th-This isn't good." Mina managed to say.
For most of class 1-A, this was the first time they'd experienced Aiden's blood filled aura. It left most of them trembling and forced the weak minded ones to kneel. Even class 1-B and the other departments were not spared and were forced off their feet.
"D-D-DEMON!" They stuttered.
With his eyes flashing purple light, his overflowing killing intent crashed into Monoma's body and pulled him down to his knees. Monoma now understood why Aiden kept referring to him as an ant. In front of this kind of force, he was nothing. Just a bug waiting to be crushed. His body felt unnaturally heavy and weighed down, his throat was as dry as the Sahara and his face was a pale shade of white. He didn't even realize that his sweat had started to seep through his clothes and drench the ground below him.
Not to mention the students, even the heroes in the audience felt suffocated by his aura. It was like they were facing an untamed beast that had just gotten a taste for blood. Aizawa and Present Mic looked at each other and saw the worry in the other's eyes.
Even All Might, the symbol of peace had never felt such anger and rage before. The bloody aura radiating off of his body was twisted and sickening.
"What has the child been through to have such an aura..." He whispered.
At this moment, most of the students within UA's first year subconsciously agreed to keep their distance from Aiden.
The usually calm Todoroki looked at Aiden with a serious expression and touched the burn on his face. Bakugo on the other hand grit his teeth and stared at Aiden in anger.
'This bastard actually caused me to tremble!'
"You all think my quirk is so great, that it can protect people and save lives... This quirk of mine is nothing but a damn tool. Never ready when I need it to be.
*Flashback of 4th birthday and burning HQ.*
"I can't protect a damn thing that's important to me." He clenched his fists.
"Aiden..." Mina said after hearing the pain in his voice.
The blood filled aura of his started to grow at a rapid pace as memories of his past flooded his mind. The burning figures of his comrades and the smell of their chard corpses seemed to fill his nostrils. The screams his mother made when she was having her body slowly cut open rang in his ears. The memories kept coming as his aura grew stronger and stronger.
Just as he was about to sink deeper into his depression, he recalled the last words the old man said to him... "Find Happiness."
"Happiness... I'm trying y'know."
Realizing that everyone was looking at him with fear and caution, Aiden utilized a breathing technique to calm his emotions and quickly recalled his aura back into his body. Since most of the malicious intent was focused on him, Monoma had started foaming at the mouth and collapsed the moment the weight on him was lifted.
'Ah shit.'
