4 Letting lose in the entrance exam

Ichigo POV

Today was the day, today was the entrance exam. As he arrived at the U.A. gate, staring at the large building and the equally large gate, he checked to make sure he had his student temporary ID. Then slowly walked into the venue. As he looked around he found some familiar faces like Iida Tenya, Kirishima, Izuku, Ochako, Shinso etc. The written portion of the exam was a breeze for him. After writing the exam, they were directly sent to the Practical exam.

It wasn't long before the lights dimmed and the spotlight all shone on Present Mic from centre stage.

"WELCOME TO MY LIVE SHOW! EVERYBODY SAY YEAH!!" before cupping his ears towards the crowd.

"YEAH!!", Everybody was seeing me like I was stupid, but I wanted to act stupid. It wasn't like I was going to give an entrance exam anytime again so I wanna enjoy it.

"WHAT A REGAL RESPONSE! SO LISTEN UP EXAMINEES, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE LOWDOWN ON HOW THIS'LL GO DOWN! ARE YOU READY!?"

"YEAH!" again I was the only one who shouted they were all looking at me like I suddenly grew two heads.

Presenter Mic then proceeded to explain how the examination would work, with the television behind him playing a video illustrating his points. It was honestly amazing to watch his timing, this guy was giving commentary of a video on a screen that he was not even looking at perfectly. There were seven examination sites and people would be randomized throughout them.

"SO YOUR GOAL IS TO RACK UP HIGH SCORE AND DON'T EVEN THINK OF ATTACKING OTHER COMPETITORS DIRECTLY OR ANY OTHER ANTI-HERO STUFF, CAUSE THAT'S AGAINST THE RULE CAPISCE!?"

Then Iida had to raise his hand and ask a question. "Excuse me, Sir, Can I ask a question" after Present Mic gave permission he then asked "On the printout, there are four types of robots? Is this a Misprint, because if it is then U.A the most prestigious hero institute, must be ashamed of this mistake!"

"OKAY, OKAY"waved Present Mic"THANKS FOR THE SPEECH EXAMINER 7111. FOR YOU SEE THE FOURTH ROBOT IS OF ZERO POINTS. HE IS JUST AN OBSTACLE.

THEIR GIMMICK IS THAT THEY RAMPAGE WHEN THERE ARE TOO MANY CONTESTANTS IN AN AREA! IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT IT BUT THERE IS NO REASON TO DEFEAT IT, EITHER! IN FACT, WE RECENTLY DECIDED THAT ANYONE WHO FACES IT CAN LOSE UP 75% OF THEIR POINTS! NO-POINT RISKING YOUR CHANCE TO ENTER U.A RIGHT? GOTTA MAKE SMART DECISIONS! I RECOMMEND AVOIDING IT!

WELL, THAT'S ENOUGH FROM ME! I FINALLY GIVE YOU LISTENERS A PRESENT - OUR SCHOOL MOTTO! 'A TRUE HERO IS ONE WHO OVERCOMES LIFE'S MISFORTUNE'

NOW GO BEYOND! PLUS ULTRA

NOW THEN GOOD LUCK SUFFERING"

Third Person POV

As the students started dispersing Ichigo quickly caught up with Shinso and hugged him and whispered in his ears "There aren't only villain points, there are also rescue points" and then tapped on his shoulders as he went towards his auditorium E.

He kinda lucked out that it was an industrial area. So there was a lot of metal he could transmute in an emergency. When the test started he started searching for bots he quickly found a two-pointer, he quickly transmuted the ground into earthen spikes and impaled it, then he started searching for the next one when he noticed an injured participant he picked him up and got him to a safe place.

He re-started searching for bots again. He found a three-pointer, immediately jumping on it, immediately transmuted its outer shell into spikes and impaled again. He then found and rescued another participant.

Thus this became a cycle rescuing anyone severely injured and unable to participate, killing robots by 1-second quick transmutation, and continuing. The hardest part of the test was finding the robots themselves, not killing them for Ichigo.

But still, Ichigo managed to rack up to 70 points and as well as rescue 8 people before the giant zero pointers came. Like everyone, he started running away from the zero pointers while killing any smaller robots blocking his path.

Then the zero pointer hit a building and many students were trapped under the rubble. He thought he could get away without doing anything overly flashy, but then again when Life gives you lemons you make lemonade. If he was going to absolutely show his talent then he would at least blow their mind off.

Using a huge pipe, he transmuted it into 10 kunai. He then quickly got on top of the building, used the 10 kunai with a transmutation marker around the robot in a double pentagon, jumped down the street and activated a huge transmutation circle to create a huge spiral dome around the 40-foot robot.

This was Ichigo's first time doing such a huge scale transmutation. It was exhilarating and as well as exhausting but still, he looked through the stuck participants and then started to help out those who looked the most injured first and then the lesser injured students.

Then suddenly Horn sounded signifying the end of the exam.

Seeing that Exam was over and all the bots stopped moving Ichigo started going around the exam venue giving first aid when needed and helping people under rubble by transmuting the rubble into water and moving people to the medical area.

Somewhere during the rescuing process, Tetsu Tetsu and Itsuka Kendo started helping too after watching me. After everybody was cleared

"Hello, thanks for helping, My name is Ichigo Kurosaki."

"Nice meeting ya My name is Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, You covering the zero pointer with the dome was so Manly."

"Hi, My name is Itsuka Kendo, it's no problem helping Kurosaki-san, and you covering the zero pointer was very cool."

"Well nice meeting you Tetsutetsu-san and Kendo-san, hope to see you in U.A. Sayonara," said Ichigo as he was leaving.

Ichigo went outside and stood waiting at U.A.'s gate for Shinso as Ichigo and he had come in Ichigo's car which was a Luxury brand specific to the MHA universe called Titan cars. The brand generally only makes high-end SUVs and other huge cars.

As he didn't reach the Age limitation for getting a drivers licence, so Asato-nii usually drove him around. Just then Shinso came out

"Oi Shinso, I am here, So how did you do with your exam?"

"I completed the written part easily enough, in the practical exam I got 30 points villain points, but I rescued 4 people. What about you?"

"Good job, I rescued 8 people throughout the exam and got around 70 villain points."

"Excuse me for interrupting, My name is Iida Tenya, I know it is rude to eavesdrop on other peoples conversation and interrupt it for that I am sorry, But what is this you are talking about rescuing people, there wasn't anything mentioned about it in the pamphlet."

"Oh, don't worry about it. About the rescuing huh, then I will ask you a question in response to your question. What kind of a hero school rejects a student who, even at the risk of his future career, still chooses to help someone?"

When asked that question, Iida had a light bulb moment, but he immediately got frustrated and had a look of self-blame at himself. Ichigo decided to let Iida off with some advice considering his future choice to almost drop out of the hero course.

"You always need to try to look underneath the deception, but I will also give you some advice that I realised about being a Hero.

A hero is someone who even after losing everything Family, Love, Friends, Money still chooses to stand up and protect the people. But a hero is also someone who is supposed to be strong enough to never let reach that extent.

A hero is the one who, in the face of danger or his fear, still chooses to stand up to protect and help others even when he is powerless. I hope that I have given you something to think about, now my ride is here so I have to go, Good meeting you Tenya-san, hope to meet you at U.A.

By the way, My name is Ichigo Kurosaki, and this is my friend Hitoshi Shinso. Goodbye"

"Thank you for your words, Kurosaki-san, Shinso-san I will remember your words."

Ichigo waved at him as he and Shinso got into the car as Asato-nii started driving away, Ichigo turned towards Hitoshi

"Shinso, those words are for you too, you know as an Alchemist I am a firm believer of equivalent exchange. Fame, money, respect, political power and following what you get as a hero is one which is an exchange with a great burden and responsibility to act as a hero, protector, saviour, and all of your time.

If one day there is an emergency, If you are a Hero I expect you to put all of your personal life aside and go to the emergency. The day you are not able to do it is the day you quit being a hero and this is something that I will follow as well"

Shinso nodded in affirmative. Shinso knew that even though Ichigo was generally a free loving and happy-go-lucky kind of guy, when he was serious he was dead serious to the point of principles.

As Shinso was contemplating these thoughts, Ichigo was reminiscing over his past.

As he reminisced about his ROB, he was thankful to ROB when he didn't let him choose the world and his abilities and based it off on chance. Maybe because it was his quirk affecting him but as he came into this life the principle of equivalent exchange became defining principles of his life.

If he was to ask for something specific from the ROB he would be at a disadvantageous position, and the higher he asked and the more disadvantage he would be. But by making it a game of chance the only thing he would need to be thankful for ROB would be giving him a second chance and three abilities and the weight of his abilities wouldn't favour him.

But his reason behind being a hero was something he thought a lot about and it all came to a principle that everybody knew but nobody followed it enough, Karma.

He hoped that by being a hero he would tip the scales of Karma towards his side in whatever afterlife he found after dying again. That is why he spent so much time training Izuku and Shinso and also him allowing anyone who genuinely wanted help to ask him for it and giving them help.

He hoped that by helping good people it would cause a Karma chain reaction and increase his good Karma overall. *Sigh* he just hoped that when he retires he would at least have someone to go back home to, someone to give his family in this new life.

While he considered Sister Lily, Shinso and all the kids at the orphanage as his Sister and brother he still wanted to have his own family. As he looked out of his car window towards the Sunset he let his thoughts about the future fade as he slowly sank into a sleep from all the exhaustion throughout the day.