Discovery

(POV Hayato)

I was currently sitting in front of a campfire on the camping chair I retrieved from the mysterious man. (I haven't seen him since that day)

A few weeks have passed since the fight against the American team. Since that day, our teamwork has improved to a level that even surprised me. The synergy of our team is almost perfect.

So almost none of the teams we met could give us any problems. However, I have changed my plans again, we are no longer actively looking for teams like before. The analysis of the structure of the apple was completed 4 days ago and yesterday I managed to recreate an apple thanks to Momo's quirk.

Thinking about this, I pulled a metal tube out of my pocket. Inside was a piece of my heart that my clone had cut under my command. The interior of the metal tube was cryogenic and allowed for good preservation of organic tissue.

I then put the metal tube back in my pocket, thinking about the discoveries I had made over the past few weeks.

First of all, this area is not that big as it looks. It does not encompass the entire far side of the moon as I previously thought, but just a small part of about 12,000 km². Even though it is still huge, it is much smaller than the more than 18 million km2 on the far side of the moon.

I discovered this one day as we were walking until we hit a wall right in front of us. The wall was invisible and it seemed that the landscape continued beyond. However, after deploying my domain, I knew it was some kind of high-strength protective glass about 3 to 4 meters thick. The landscape that we saw beyond the wall was only a kind of hologram.

Bakugo tried to attack him but I dissuaded him. After all, on the other side, there was only the spacial void. Also, I don't think Lucifer would let us attack the wall so freely. So we had to wait a little longer.

After that, I offered to follow the wall to see if we could find a weak point in its structure. But unfortunately, after going all around the area, the wall had no weak spots ... Or at least that's what I told my team.

On the 3rd day of walking, I discovered through my domain, that on the other side of the wall was a metal tunnel connected to the glass wall by a mechanism that looked like a decompression airlock.

I said nothing and just kept pretending nothing was wrong. After all, this metal tunnel is surely used by Lucifer and his group to get in and out of here. I would be surprised if they only used teleportation to move around.

During our research, the game continued. Teams have killed each other, countries have disappeared. And every night, Lucifer presented the best moments of the day.

Apart from the first 2 days when we respectively annihilate the England team and set the forest on fire, we did not appear.

I came to understand the purpose of Lucifer's actions. He was playing the best moments so people on earth could see who

are the most powerful teams. Imagine you live in Mexico and you see that your team is very weak, has bad teamwork, and has a really stupid leader. However, you see at midnight as Lucifer presents the best moments, that the United States team has phenomenal strength with a much better chance of survival. What would you do?

Of course, you would try to get into the United States by any means. But you wouldn't be the only one to think so. So you would see massive migration flows to certain countries.

The result would be… looting, murder, famine, chaos.

I don't understand the purpose of Lucifer's actions. What does he gain in all of this?

Either way, that doesn't concern me. I no longer appear in "The All-Stars of Lucifer" as we decided to call them. There are too many downsides to being recognized, which is why we all wear face masks to hide our identity from other teams.

During those few weeks, many countries were wiped out. And the teams became harder and harder to eliminate. After all, at this time, only the strongest are still in the race.

...

As I was lost in my thoughts, I saw Anna who was sleeping in a sleeping bag next to me move. She looked like she was about to wake up.

Speaking of Anna, that brat seemed to have become attached to me. When I asked her why, she said I was the first person to treat her well.

She was born in London, in a bad neighborhood. Her parents who were addicted to drugs put her through hell. Until she couldn't take it anymore and run away from home. She then wandered the streets of London rummaging through trash cans to survive. The other children called her trash and threw stones at her, while the adults at best looked at her with pity or simply ignored her.

When this game started, she was sent to the same prison with the England team. But seeing her appearance, they decided to stay away from her.

She said the England team was a bunch of junk. They were giving her gaze of disgust but when they found out they were being filmed they started behaving totally differently.

Perfect hypocrites

Their death did not sadden her. However, since it was the first time she had seen a murder, it really shocked her so she couldn't have reacted at the time.

It was funny how she tried to comfort me by thinking I was sorry I killed them.

Come to think of it, the bomb in Twice's heart exploded a little over a week ago. Of course, I got a sample of his DNA. But it shows that the situation for the other team is not very good.

And as if to answer my suspicions, I heard footsteps as the vegetation stirred. Then suddenly I saw 4 people come out of the forest before falling on the ground.

"Help… us…plea-se" Iida pleaded before passing out like his other companions.

In front of me stood Iida who was wearing an Izuku with all of his limbs broken, as well as Momo and Ochacco.

They were all in terrible condition with injuries all over their bodies.