Chapter 28: Public Examination (Part 2)

U.A. High School, in front of the Courage Gate.

Midoriya Izuku sighed as he watched his childhood friend go away.

He sorted out his mood and told himself that he, who no longer evades, has completely changed after several months of hard training.

He saw his expression stiff, and he was whispering.

"Take the first step bravely and take the first step towards being a hero."

Using a secret technique of natural stupidity that ordinary people can't easily learn, the person must let his left foot cleverly trip his right foot while walking to complete an invincible fall on the flat ground that no one can think of.

If in the public eye, if you trip yourself and fall face down, such a first step is too miserable and ridiculous.

This is the regretful voice of the hero aspirant Midoriya Izuku, who is about to kiss Mother Earth during the fall.

Midoriya Izuku felt that someone had touched his backpack, and the inertia of kissing Mother Earth was terminated.

From the perspective of Accelerator and others, this scene is quite interesting, Midoriya Izuku seems to be lifted by an invisible hand.

Coincidentally, a short-haired brunette girl used her Quirk.

Just by looking at it, Accelerator roughly understood that this ability (Quirk) is probably gravity-based. Without violating many physical theorems, it creates a situation that seems to be frozen in the air and does not float irregularly. In general, it should create an unknown force that is opposite to gravity and controllable in size. It's a very interesting Quirk. (According to the research on Ochako's Quirk, this explanation feels the most reliable.)

The brunette girl with a hearty smile was afraid that Midoriya Izuku would misunderstand and explained it specifically.

"This is my Quirk, sorry, I used it on you without permission."

"But if you fall today, it will be very unlucky."

"Everyone is very nervous."

The girl exclaimed with a smile, making Midoriya look bewildered.

"Let's cheer each other on."

When the figure of the girl had already gone far, the sluggish Midoriya Izuku came back to his senses.

Having watched this whole scene, Accelerator felt that this girl is currently the most decent among the hero aspirants.

Regardless of the worry about Quirk, just the way of dealing with people and personal style surpasses the other two observation objects too much.

Well, there is still some gain.

Accelerator also followed the crowd into the projection classroom, waiting for all the candidates to take their seats.

Only one hero with a headset, blond hair styled with gel (?) into a porcupine-like rock and roll style, took the stage. If Todoroki and Yaoyorozu were present, they would definitely find it strange, why is the examiner still the sound hero Present Mic.

"Welcome everyone to my live broadcast! Everybody say hey!"

The voice of the radio host, full of enthusiasm, Present Mic is waiting for the candidates' answers.

However, that does not exist, the large classroom is deserted, no one responds.

Puff, so stupid! So embarrassing!

Accelerator never thought that U.A. High School would have such a wonderful sense of humor, he didn't think about holding back and laughed out loud.

The embarrassingly bad Present Mic didn't care about him either, and started his own commentary.

"It's really boring, so, dear candidates, let me just say it briefly."

The general content is that the candidates will be allocated to different examination rooms, of course, this rule does not apply to Accelerator (after all, he has already obtained the exemption qualification). Scores are obtained by defeating robots of different models.

This so-called practical test is more boring than Accelerator imagined.

At the same time, there are also particularly large limitations.

First of all, psychic heroes cannot have an effect on robots.

Secondly, the Electricity system and the electromagnetic system should be able to affect robots, just like field operations.

Finally, the explanation of the 0 point enemy by the sound hero Present Mic is too ambiguous.

Any exam will ultimately have limitations and disadvantages. It seems that even the first U.A. High School in the other world is still far away from the education and school city.

This is probably because of the lack of sufficient knowledge.

But the spirit that Present Mic mentioned at the end made Accelerator somewhat interested. He told the candidates that it is not recommended to knock down and cleverly avoid conflicts, even if knocked down, it has no meaning.

Speaking of the 0 point enemy, the purpose is to disturb everyone. There are a total of three, just like a field mechanism. At the end of the explanation, he said that the school motto is "A true hero is a strong person who can overcome life's misfortunes".

The feeling mentioned at the end made Accelerator feel that there was some suggestive rhetoric in Present Mic's explanation.

U.A. High School's Hero Department is specifically for cultivating heroes.

Starting from the perspective of professional heroes, professional heroes are divided into two types, combat heroes and rescue heroes. 

But the reference for this exam on the surface is only the score of the battle, which is unreasonable. Even if the exam has limitations, Accelerator will not simply believe that the first exam in the other world will set up the 0 point enemy for no reason.

That's right, it's not for no reason.

But it corresponds to rescue. Just now, Present Mic mentioned that 99% of the candidates are in a state of inability to cope when facing the 0 point enemy, then if the candidates make mistakes, they may become injured.

So, the real purpose of the existence of the 0 point enemy is to test the rescue force.

It simulates how the candidates, as hero roles, will respond in a situation that is particularly dangerous and has no specific benefits when directly facing disasters and enemies that cannot be directly resisted.

Although the exam has limitations, the method of testing quality in the exam rules can be said to be very clever.

It can very realistically show most of the qualities of the candidates, just like screening seedlings in exam-oriented education.

Once you become a professional hero, you will undoubtedly gain fame, wealth, and social status.

But all of this is based on the premise that professional heroes risk their lives to maintain order and justice.

Risking life is the big premise.

Don't forget that although professional heroes are the most popular profession in the superhuman society, they are also the most dangerous profession.

Facing danger all the time, so after analyzing the mechanism of this exam and the thoughts behind it, Accelerator is a little bit looking forward to it.

Only when people are truly in danger will they expose their true nature. Those who can be regarded as observation targets by him, whether they stay as hero candidates or lose their qualifications, let me, Accelerator, wait and see.

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