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Chapter 22

Title: Tournament...

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-General POV-

Mina could see that Kaminari and Momo seemed closer than usual, she felt a pang of jealousy hit her. She has had a crush on him ever since she could remember, and another girl coming and taking him away is kinda… hurtful to her. 

But at the same time, she also noticed something strange about Kaminari, there was a hollow look inside his eyes. She has never seen him do something like this. When close to him everyone would feel reassured, but now she feels like she doesn't know him anymore, and… she feels guilty to even feel this… but she feels scared. It wasn't how he moves or talks, he still seems kind, but what is freaking her out is the atmosphere around him.

'Kaminari… what are you feeling right now?'  She wonders, Mina is the only one who has known Kaminari for such a long time, so only she can notice his slight change. And even then, she is unsure and thinks that she might have just eaten something bad to feel this way.

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As the battle comes to a conclusion Kaminari goes to rest in private. That is when Mineta approaches him with an idea about having the 1-A Class girls in cheerleader uniforms. Kaminari usually wouldn't care to do something like this. 

'But… I should be able to do something like this and easily get away with. I must be able to do something like this too.' Contemplates Kaminari, his dream to perfection is something that… is just a borrowed dream. 

But he also wants to test the way that this will go, he wants to test himself and push himself out of his comfort zone socially.

"C'mon Kaminari. The girls will listen to you. Have you seen the way that they look at you… honestly, the way any girl looks at you is infuriating… but c'mon pleeeeaseeeeee do this for me. I promise that I will owe you big for this." Pleads Mineta, he knows that Kaminari can get the girls to do it. Every girl in class has something for the guy.

Kaminari just gives him a side glance and doesn't give him any confirmation or anything like that, he just walks away with a smile on his face.

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A couple of minutes later he finds the group of 1-A class girls and calls out to them. "Yo! Girls, Aizawa -sensei said that the girls can wear a cheerleader outfit and every girl from the other classrooms will be doing the same as the battles will be soon announced."

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-Kaminari POV-

"Really?" Asks Momo as I tell her that, I just shrug and answer her by saying. "That is what they told me at least."

She nods at this, not asking any more questions as she knows that I would never lie about something like this. Well, she thinks she knows… she doesn't know that I have lied to her around 50% of the time we have spoken together. Well, when someone has a good reputation, he can do a lot of things and get away with it freely. 

"Anyway, just because he said that you don't have to wear revealing cheerleading outfits if you feel uncomfortable," I tell them that to reassure them.

The girls though still seem unsure of it. I then just wave at them and smile as I walk away. "Anyway, see ya later."

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With that finished, I just go towards where the other students are and as the break is over we go to the arena to draw lots… but we are interrupted by Present Mic loudly announcing. "Wooow! It seems like class 1-A has gone full-on fanservice."

As he says that I just look at the 1-A girls staring at me with death glares, I look around 'confused' and when I see that no one else is wearing cheerleader outfits, my face just pales and I point at Mineta. "He told me that Aizawa said so!! I really should have known better..."

Mineta doesn't even notice me putting all of the blame on him, as he just looks at the girls with a dazed look and a blush on his face. Yep, and he wonders why he isn't popular…

I have an apologetic look on my face and clasp my hands in a silent apology and mouth out to them a sorry.

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In the end, we pick the lots, and it seems like I will have to fight first, my opponent is the guy with the mind control quirk. Shinsoo is his name… and so the first fight comes about.

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"AAAAAANNNDDDDD the first battle is against the… mysterious? Hitoshi Shinso and the LIGHTNING BOY KAMINARI DENKIIIII!!!!!!

Shinso looks at this annoyed and whispers under his breath. "What's up with the difference in introduction between us… even the mysterious part was like you were asking a question."

I smile politely at him and say. "Yo! Shinso right? Let's have a good fight."

"BEGIN." Announces Present Mic, without even counting down. This seems like a habit of his.

Shinso just asks me. "What was your name again?"

Even though I know what he plans to do, with a smile on my face I answer him. "My name is Kaminari Denki."

Immediately I can feel my body go out of my control, it feels like a dream where I can't control my body and I start moving to turn around but immediately.

*Bzzzzt*

I use electricity in my hand and I don't use my quirk on protecting it and actually, I skillfully hit my nerves and with pinpoint precision that has been honed during the over a decade that I have spent training my Quirk. 

In the end, an unimaginable amount of pain assaults my hand, as if molten lava has been poured in the inside of my arm. But though the pain lasts for less of a second, it wakes me up and I get out of Shinso's control and look at him with a smile still on my face. I see that he has a shocked look on his face. In the end, I just told him. "Your quirk is truly amazing and you will be on the Top 10 of the hero spectrum, though this quirk is best kept a secret and the fewer people know about it the better it is… so… hope we can work together in the future, having someone like you having my back will make me more comfortable."

Fwosh!

Though he can hear my words, I don't let him comprehend them yet as I appear next to him and run a small electric shock to the back of his neck, harmlessly knocking him out.

I truly did mean that he is going to become an amazing Hero. Though he should deal with his inferiority complex of his, it is tying him down. He thinks that his Quirk isn't good for a Hero Job, he must get that thought off his head. I can see that he wants to be a Pro Hero, but he is still limiting himself needlessly.

Anyway, I shouldn't be the one talking about snubbing other's feelings of inferiority when I have my own. Fu*k, he continued to cast a shadow over me even after his death. When I was in my 1st world and it followed me all the way here… damn… I really need to get rid of these thoughts. But I am afraid that if I start getting rid of them, I will stop wanting to become the best.

I can't deny that my 1st life was very successful because of these thoughts, I am just an imitation of him, I will never be him. I am charismatic but not as good as him, I am smart, but nowhere near as him, I am manipulative but not as good as him… honestly, I can't find a single thing in which I triumph over him.

The shadow he cast was way too big. I sometimes wonder… did I ruin the life of my new family by acting like him? I wonder… if those close to me grieved when I died?

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After having those thoughts, I went back to the Class 1-A booth, and Eijiro congratulates me. "That was amazing Kaminari, as expected of you you finished it super fast."

I smirk. "It wasn't as easy as it looked…"

When he hears me say that he is confused, but in the end, I won't elaborate on it, so he knows not to ask. but Deku on the other hand still writes something in his little notebook, you know… if a villain got their hands on that, it would be beyond dangerous. 

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The second match is tape guy (Sero) vs Todoroki. The latter seemed aggravated at the start of the fight so I wasn't at all surprised when he uses way too much power and encases Sero in ice, for which he apologizes later on.

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The 3rd fight is Midoriya against Mei, the girl from the support department who previously was in his team. Deku almost loses, because he was stupid enough to wear some equipment she gave him from before the match. He has to use One For All twice, destroying two of his fingers, just so he can defeat her by knocking her out of the ring with a wind blast.

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The 4th fight is Ibara Shiozaki (Quirk: can manipulate her vine-like hair) against Ilida, sadly her Quirk is used as field control and Ilida was defeated eventually. The fight lasted around 20 minutes and in the end, Ilida's engine overheated and he started to slow down as he failed to defeat her by using his finishing final attack. She then just grabbed him with her vine-like hair and threw him out of the ring.

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The next two matches go in a flash in comparison as Mina is against Yuga (Quirk: Belly button laser). 

On the other hand in the fight of Momo vs Fumikage, though unlike canon this fight goes on differently as Momo has spent a lot of time with me and her thinking process has majorly changed. She uses her quirk to create a flash-grenade. After that Fumikage was easily defeated.

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AUTHOR NOTE:

As we can see quite a lot of the fights have changed. After all, while drawing lots, one slight difference in movement and they got someone else to fight against.

P.S: Though this is the MC's 2nd life, he can't just leave it behind that easily. He was attached to that world… he had a family...