Chapter 83: Hero costumes.

In the next day's class, Kai had the entire morning to adjust his thoughts and feelings, which he more or less managed; after all, he had already overcome derealization once before, so he had experience. Besides, it wasn't as if he completely remembered the plot or what was going to happen; he only recalled some key points, but not much more, and all those extra details he was unaware of made him feel a bit better.

Once the morning classes were over—which were normal classes like those in any high school, that is, something completely useless for Momo and Kai—they proceeded to the hero classes. According to what Kai had heard, the teacher was All Might, so the moment he sensed his presence approaching, he focused entirely on his "voice," quickly noticing the obvious.

(He has weakened; his presence feels fainter, and he no longer has the hidden presences within his own, something the protagonist does have. So it's a fact—he really passed on his quirk, which rules out any coincidence. The question is, why did he pass it on? He shouldn't have had the need now that I managed to heal him...)

[Sage, when you have the chance, study All Might's body carefully and compare it with the data we obtained from the green-haired one. Extract everything you can to see if we can confirm or dismiss our theories.] Kai quickly ordered his reliable assistant, who was on the desk in [In] mode, working with several holographic screens. She promptly nodded and replied in a firm tone.

[Understood, Master.]

"IT IS I... Through the door like a normal person!"

With a somewhat comical performance, All Might greeted from the classroom door, where he held onto the frame and leaned his body forward, supported by the tips of his toes. He wore a different hero costume than the one Kai had seen before, which had a classic hero vibe, even sporting a blue cape and everything.

Apart from the cape, the costume consisted of a bodysuit—red on the upper part and blue on the lower part—which featured large white lines on the sides and circles of the same color on the chest and shoulders. It was accompanied by the same belt he used in his normal hero suit—with a buckle shaped like a minimalist eagle— yellow boots, and a pair of bracelets that covered much of his forearm, also yellow.

"I can't believe it!! All Might is really going to teach us!"

"It's the Silver Age costume!!"

Several students exclaimed loudly, full of excitement, while All Might walked into the classroom, stopping behind the teacher's desk, at which point he spoke loudly, full of enthusiasm.

"Hero Studies!! For our class, we will build your heroic foundations through various trials. So we'll start with simulated battles. And to begin the battles, we have prepared the costumes you submitted in your applications to match your quirks!"

Along with All Might's words, many hidden compartments opened in the walls of the classroom, which were separated into numerous square shelves and closed with doors that had different numbers on them, which lit up the students' eyes like flashlights.

"AMAZING!!!"

"OUR HERO COSTUMES!"

"Go get changed, and then we'll head out! Meet at Beta Grounds! The costume you wear on the battlefield is of vital importance, boys and girls!!"

After All Might's words, all the students ran towards the shelves and took out bags that contained their costumes, immediately afterward running to the changing rooms with excited expressions on their faces, although there was an exception to this.

Still at his desk, Kai remained silent with Salem on his shoulder, who now had a small tie similar to the UA uniform's, which the lazy cat didn't like at all. But since his master's females made it themselves, he was forced to wear it, which he accepted as a small price to pay to accompany his master all the time.

The reason why Kai was bringing Salem to UA was very simple: he wanted an excuse in case he ended up using a very crazy ability. After all, to avoid problems, he had updated his quirk registration and had registered it as a mix of his parents' abilities, calling it [Empathic Force Control]. So, unless the situation required it, he would only use his Haki during his time at UA.

As for being allowed to bring Salem, that part was simple; he just had to convince Nezu, although in exchange he was forced to participate in the sports festival, something he originally didn't want to do. But oh well, he only agreed to participate, not to win, so he just had to fool around for a while and get eliminated quickly. After all, he didn't need the publicity from the event, and no one among the students could give him a decent fight even if he only used Haki.

After a while, Kai ended up completely alone, since even Momo forgot about him in the midst of the excitement of officially wearing her new costume, which had been designed by Yumiko and produced by himself with the help of Keiko, which had quite a few interesting features—something they were also doing with the costumes of the other heroes in the family.

Without haste, Kai took out a brand-new physical education uniform from his desk and changed in the same classroom. After all, even though he had ideas for an armor with Aura Script, he felt incredibly ridiculous using it at UA, so one of his demands to enroll was that he wouldn't wear a hero costume, something Nezu didn't like much. But since he had no intention of yielding, the animal had to accept it and give Kai the special permission not to have one.

After changing, Kai left the classroom and walked slowly through the corridors until he reached a large archway that connected to the field where all the students gathered. They looked radiant and full of excitement wearing their respective hero costumes, all in different shapes and colors.

For her part, Momo wore a suit that was a kind of tight red bodysuit with golden details on the edges that left more than half of her back and arms exposed. Momo also wore a deep V-shaped neckline that accentuated her chest. The neckline had a thick golden metallic-looking border and was held at its ends by two thick red straps that reached up to her neck, intersecting at a kind of choker with a metallic decoration at the front. Similar to the one at the tip of her neckline.

Meanwhile, the lower part was tight-fitting pants that reached her red boots, which had on their outer sides two enormous and stylized openings with golden borders, exposing her skin and running from her knees up to near her hip. There, she wore a kind of double-crossed golden belt with several compartments to store different objects.

With a somewhat embarrassed expression, Momo stood at the end of the corridor through which Kai was walking, as she had forgotten him in her excitement and only realized when everyone gathered, and she didn't see him. And although she intended to go back for him, she preferred to stay and wait for him, as she didn't want All Might to consider her disrespectful.

"I'm sorry, Kai, I left you behind." Momo apologized to Kai with a timid voice and her face slightly flushed, which made Kai laugh amused. He responded in a casual tone.

"Hahaha, don't worry about that nonsense. I understand you're very excited; at home you were dying to put on your costume."

Upon hearing Kai, Momo blushed even more, while hugging one of the arms of the blue-eyed young man, then walking by his side to where the others were gathered. But at the moment they arrived, the robot-like boy, Tenya Iida, who wore a white armor that covered his chest, arms, and legs, with a black suit underneath and a helmet that covered his entire face, came running up. He scolded in a strict voice.

"Saito-kun, according to school rules, it is forbidden to attend hero classes without your respective hero costume without prior authorization from the teacher in charge!!!"

"Huh? When did I ask for your fucking opinion? Did the costume give you the nerve to meddle in my affairs or what?" Kai asked in an irritated tone, at the same time that a suffocating pressure reached Iida, who couldn't stay on his feet and fell sitting on the ground with cold sweat running down his back.

"Kai-shonen, don't intimidate your classmates." Noticing what was happening, All Might commented with his charismatic voice in a reproachful tone, to which Kai responded in a defiant tone, looking directly into his eyes.

"Then he shouldn't be giving opinions no one asked for."

Kai's defiant attitude took all the students by surprise, who began to look at him as if he'd grown an extra head, something the blue-eyed boy ignored completely. But upon feeling that Momo was looking at him dangerously, he deactivated his Conqueror's Haki and withdrew to the back with her. After all, if Momo complained, he'd have to face a wave of scolding at home, and a robot boy and a weakened All Might weren't worth it.

"He better not bother me again, or I won't be so lenient next time."

As he walked away, Kai commented in an irritated tone, while Momo pinched him sharply with an annoyed expression on her face. This caused a soft sigh from the Symbol of Peace, who then commented seriously.

"Kai-shonen, we will have a meeting after class."

"Sounds great to me; there's also something I want to ask you." Kai replied while subtly looking at Midoriya, something All Might noticed, and an ironic smile couldn't help but form on his face, understanding what the problematic boy was referring to.

"Iida-shonen, excuse Kai-shonen's attitude; he's been a bit irritable these days, but he's not a bad person. And regarding his costume, he has a special permission given by the principal, so don't worry about that." All Might helped Iida up while speaking in his typical heroic tone.

"Very well, All Might-sensei." Iida responded in a calm tone after getting up, but under his mask, he occasionally shot glances at Kai, who now completely ignored him.

Iida wasn't the only one sending glances at Kai; practically the whole class was doing it. After all, the boy was strange: he was incredibly handsome and emitted a distant aura, which looked incredibly good with the adorable black cat on his shoulders. But although he was very quiet, every time he spoke he was incredibly aggressive and rebellious, something similar to Bakugo, although he was genuinely scary.

But the one who looked the most at the young man with the cat on his shoulders was none other than Bakugo, who looked at him with undisguised hatred, while clenching his fists and teeth tightly. But the strange atmosphere stopped when All Might spoke again.

"Well, let's get back to class. Today we'll be doing indoor simulated battles. Does anyone know why it's important?"

"Because there are more indoor battles than outdoor ones." The one who answered was Shoto Todoroki, who had two-toned hair, the right half white and the left red, to which All Might responded in an enthusiastic voice.

"Exactly, Todoroki-shonen! Therefore, for this test, you'll be split into teams of two, of villains and heroes!"

"What about formation training?"

At All Might's words, a question was heard from one of the students, a girl with green hair, white skin, and an appearance that slightly resembled a frog, with larger than normal hands and mouth. Although curiously, she was strangely attractive, wearing a tight green hero costume with black boots that had webbed flippers resembling frog toes, which greatly accentuated her voluptuous figure.

"How is the winner determined?" Momo quickly added in a serious tone while raising one of her hands, her other hand occupied by holding one of Kai's arms.

"Can I blast them away?"

Bakugo, the unkempt blond, asked with his head down, wearing a sleeveless black hero costume that had a rather 'rebellious' style, while around his arms he wore huge grenade-like bracelets.

"Will there be expulsion threats like in the exercises with Aizawa-sensei?"

Uraraka joined the round of questions with a nervous voice, wearing a tight suit that revealed her surprisingly good figure, which was black with pink details on her chest and shoulders. Accompanied by pink knee-high boots quite large for her size, a pair of oval bracelets on her wrists, and an equally pink belt, plus a kind of helmet with a pink-tinted visor.

"Uhhh, I'll answer you all."

With a clenched fist in front of him, All Might commented in a strange voice, and immediately after, he took out a small notebook and began to read its contents, which greatly amused Kai, as he looked rather silly.

"For this training, we will have some 'villains' guarding a nuclear weapon they are trying to detonate. The heroes must stop them and their nefarious plan before it's too late. If the heroes capture the villains or reach the nuclear weapon before time runs out, they win. If the villains manage to maintain the nuclear weapon the whole time or capture the heroes, they win. The teams will be decided by lottery."

Once he finished reading the content of the notebook, All Might took out a box where each student drew a ball with a letter. Kai ended up in a team with Momo, although he cheated a little to achieve it. After the teams were formed, All Might proceeded to take out two boxes, one in each hand, which had the words "heroes" and "villains" written on them.

After finalizing the groups and their roles, the battles were carried out while the other students watched the combats from a control room full of screens alongside All Might, making occasional comments about what they saw.

Meanwhile, Kai watched in complete silence through the screens the scene of Midoriya fighting against the annoying blond, ending with the green-haired boy breaking his arm to create a huge hole in the building and winning by a hair. This caused him slight dizziness, since it had happened almost exactly as he remembered.

Although that dizziness didn't prevent him from sending Sage to collect data while Momo, with a serious expression, gave a complete explanation about why the robotic four-eyes was the best in the match, earning the admiration of the other students and leaving All Might speechless.

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The costume was the winner among 6 options in a poll conducted on patreon.

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AI generated for reference only.