23 Sports Festival - Anticlimactic [5]

The next fight after Tenya's win was Momo vs Katsuki. The result was with Katsuki winning, being able to get close enough to Momo, and blasting her out of the ring.

Afterward was the 5th fight, with the contestants being Mina vs Uraraka. Urakaka's quirk relied on her being able to have contact with another object or person.

Mina, on the other hand, was able to produce a corrosive liquid from her body, while also being able to control its solubility and viscosity. From this, she secreted a non-corrosive version of the acid under her feet to keep a distance between her and Uraraka.

In the end, this resulted in Uraraka losing, as she wasn't able to get close enough for her quirk to take effect. And whenever she did get close enough, Mina would merely dodge adeptly, or use her acid to trip Uraraka.

Then the 6th match was Eijiro vs the ginger-haired Kendo. Kendo had a quirk that allowed her to enlarge both of her hands to a gigantic size. The fight quickly turned out to be a slugfest, with both sides giving it their all using their quirks to the best of their ability.

In the end, Kendo was able to 'grasp' the win away from Eijiro with her ridiculous gripping strength that increased when she enlarged her hand, allowing her to grab Eijiro when he was exposed and throwing him out of the ring.

The 7th match was Todoroki vs Hagakure, with Todoroki gaining the win after freezing the ground solid, making it impossible for Hagakure to walk, forcing her to concede defeat.

The 8th and final match of the 1st round was Midoriya vs Tokage. Tokage's quirk allowed her to split her body into as many as 50 pieces, with each and every one of these split pieces being able to levitate and move freely through the air.

Facing this, all Midoriya could do at the beginning was run around and dodge her attacks. Sacrificing one of his fingers, he destroyed half of Tokage's split pieces, but they were able to be regenerated back. However, this proved to be an exhausting cost for her, as she was having trouble regenerating the pieces back.

In the end, with cuts all over his body, Midoriya managed to dodge a final last attack from Tokage, which left her body exposed after consecutive uses of her quirk, causing her to be knocked out of the arena with a kick from Midoriya. (Although he did hesitate at first since she was a girl… simp)

After the rest of the fights ended, there were now only 8 people left in the tournament, with the results of the fights being…

Tokoyami vs Sero: Sero Win

Hiroto vs Kaminari: Hiroto Win

Tenya vs Hastume: Tenya Win

Momo vs Katsuki: Katsuki Win

Mina vs Uraraka: Mina Win

Kendo vs Eijiro: Kendo Win

Todoroki vs Hagakure: Todoroki Win

Midoriya vs Tokage: Midoriya Win

"Now, we move on to the second round! First up, will be Moriyama vs Sero! This will be an interesting fight! Let's see how Sero will fare against the boy he has yet to have a single bruise or scratch on him!" Present Mic shouted.

Standing back in the ring, Hiroto was opposite from Sero, who didn't look too sure of himself. From the announcement room, Present Mic asked Aizawa who he thought the winner would be.

Without wasting a second, Aizawa only answered, "Moriyama."

Present Mic sat still, cursing himself for having such an uncooperative co-worker, "Well, we'll see when the fight actually starts! Begin!!"

With that, Sero immediately started shooting his tapes towards Hiroto, in an attempt to bind him. With the tapes successfully covering Hiroto's body, he grinned and pulled back, but was met with fierce resistance.

"W-What the hell?" Sero muttered as he kept trying to pull on his tapes, but it was all for naught as it felt like he had wrapped his tapes around a mountain instead of a 15-year-old boy.

"It seems like Sero is having some trouble there! How will Moriyama counter this?!" Present Mic shouted.

Hiroto, looking at Sero, said, "Yeah, I'm not into these sorts of things…" Then, he spun his body extremely quickly, causing the tapes that Sero was connected with to retract towards him with ferocious speed.

Not having enough time to cut himself off, Sero was thus pulled in and was hit by the spinning Hiroto, who was like a Beyblade, causing him to be knocked out of the arena with a dazed expression on her face as his tapes littered all over his body.

Standing in the middle of the ring, Hiroto was free once more. Looking around him, he saw Sero out of the ring and scratched his cheek, saying, "When did that happen?"

"U-We have our winner!! Moriyama!" Present Mic announced, causing the crowd to cheer once more, with him cursing to himself how short and anticlimactic Hiroto's matches are.

"That's my boy!!" Hiroto's mother shouted as she waved a banner with Hiroto's casual face on it. His father had a wry smile on his face, thinking about how embarrassing it would be for Hiroto.

Getting back to the others, Momo asked him, "Did you really not realize what you did to Sero?"

Hiroto nodded and said, "All I wanted to do was get rid of those tapes. They felt really weird." He shivered, with Momo only sighing.

Mina slapped Hiroto's back and said, "At least you still won! You're going to the semi-finals!" Hiroto gave her a slight smile and watched the next match while feigning interest.

From the side, Todoroki was looking at the palm of his right hand, and in it was a small ice spiral, slowly spinning and picking up speed.

The 2nd match consisted of Tenya vs Katsuki. The winner, in the end, was Katsuki, who, after being annoyed and frustrated at Tenya's speed decided to break the ground around him instead, limiting Tenya's ability to run around, allowing him to win.

The 3rd match was Mina vs Kendo. In the beginning, Kendo was quite aggressive, immediately charging towards Mina before she could use her quirk to slide away, only for her to nimbly dodge Kendo's attack.

'I guess her hobby of dancing lets her be more agile and nimble.' Hiroto thought, seeing Mina getting close calls as she kept dodging Kendo's enormous hands.

In the end, however, Kendo lost against Mina, due to her having more speed over her opponent, as well as better technique with her movements and quirk, due to her shooting some acid at Kendo's eyes to block her vision, then causing her to fall over the acid under her feet, resulting in her falling out of the arena.

Coming back to the others, Mina had a bright grin on her face as she jumped in celebration. Hiroto gave her a smile and congratulated her, causing her to instantly become tamer, but still giving him a big grin and a V sign.

Afterward was the fateful match between Todoroki and Midoriya, being the last of the 2nd round of matches. The fight played out quite similar to that of the original anime, with the only difference being Todoroki using his flame side of the quirk a lot earlier.

Midoriya kept being pushed back no matter what, causing him to sacrifice more of his fingers just so he could use his quirk to keep himself in the fight. The deciding factor was when Todoroki used both sides of his quirk to summon a large type of tornado with both elements of ice and fire within it to surround Midoriya, resulting in his loss after being knocked out and launched out of the arena.

After winning, Todoroki had a satisfied look on his face, but also one of appreciation as he turned to look at Hiroto in the stands, who currently seemed to be eyeing a bird in the sky with ill intent.

The results of the 2nd round of matches were as followed:

Sero vs Hiroto: Hiroto Win

Tenya vs Katsuki: Katsuki

Mina vs Kendo: Mina

Todoroki vs Midoriya: Todoroki

"That was an exciting 2nd round!" Present Mic announced with a fervor. "We now move on to the Semi-Finals!! This will determine who gets to fight in the finals and be crowned as 1st place for this year's Sports Festival!!"

"The 1st match will be Moriyama vs Bakugo!! Now, this is one that I'm truly excited for! Let's see what kind of match these two will give us!" Present Mic shouted.

Getting up to the ring, standing on opposite sides of each other, they both waited for the signal to begin.

Facing Hiroto, Katsuki had a nasty scowl on his face as his hands itched for action, waiting for the opportunity to pounce towards him and blast him apart.

Hiroto, facing Katsuki thought, 'I wonder how long will he keep a grudge for after this.'

"Begin!!" The start interrupted the two's thoughts, as Katsuki immediately launched himself into action, charging towards him.

"Die!!" Katsuki shouted, as he brought both of his hands forward and launched a big explosion right into Hiroto's face.

When the smoke cleared, Hiroto appeared, with his arms covering his face, slightly smoking but completely unharmed.

"Tsk." Katsuki clicked his tongue and charged towards Hiroto once more. Just as he was about to trigger another explosion in his face, Hiroto sidestepped away with extreme speed, causing the explosion to only hit his afterimage.

"You're gonna have to try better than that." Hiroto's voice came from the side, as Katsuki turned to face Hiroto, only to be met with a fist approaching his face, smashing into it and sending him out of the arena like a rocket.

Crashing into the wall of the arena, a large amount of dust and debris was kicked up, and once it settled down, Katsuki's body was shown once more, with it being embedded into the side of the stadium walls below the stands.

His eyes were dull, with his mouth left wide open from the shock, even though he was completely knocked out.

Present Mic and everybody else stayed silent for a moment, as a result of seeing how Hiroto was able to send Katsuki flying like a rocket with such a casual punch from their perspective.

"W-Well, there you have it! Moriyama, once more, with just one punch managed to secure himself a victory by knockout!" Present Mic announced, causing the rest of the audience to come out of their stunned state as they cheered wildly over such a performance, however short it was.

From the stands, Hiroto's mother scoffed and said, "Now I'll have to give a gift to Mitsuki after this. How would she react when seeing her son getting beat up like that?"

Hiroto's father only smiled while thinking, 'Let's just hope that the kid is fine first.'