Chapter 31: Sports Festival VI

(Misery POV)

I walked towards the platform where I would be fighting Ochako.

When we were close enough, we both bowed. We were friends, we spoke to each other time to time but not a lot. I mostly spent my time with Kazumi, I don't even know why.

"Let's have a good battle." I said.

"Likewise." replied Ochako.

Unlike Kazumi, I wasn't battle hungry. I'd rather end the fight quicker than prolong it, I looked over to the stands where our class would be sititing.

Kazumi waved at me with sweets in both her hands, does this girl ever eat a proper meal?

"Start!" said Present Mic.

Instantly, I jumped back and activated my quirk.

My revolver appeared in my hands and shot the first bullet at myself to make myself faster.

I started sprinting around while Ochako was standing still, what was she doing?

Taking aim, I shot at her with a regular bullet but then she stopped the bullet mid air. Wait, she didn't. She touched the bullet while it was coming at her and stopped it.

Did I underestimate her?

I looked closer at the pads she was wearing, it had slimy and gooey stuff attached to it. I see, she uses the pad to let the bullet pass through, since it's slimy, it counters the projectile of the bullet.

I guess she knows about my quirk as well, but it's whatever.

There was plenty of time but I'd rather prolong it.

I shot 2 more accelerating time bullets at myself, tripling my speed. Running around in different patters, I quickly shot bullets I specifically made for this tournament,

If one of these bullets hit you, it'll stun you for about 3 seconds, the other bullet I shot would knock you unconscious. It was a deadly combination with my accuracy.

Unluckily for me, Ochako was able to dodge both of her bullets, but that was fine.

I rushed towards her and suddenly own bullets came my way, her quirk is quite useful.

I shot the bullets out of the way and made a feint, I shot several bullets but only 2 out of the 5 would hit.

There was no way for her to dodge, otherwise she would get hit by the other bullets. The stun bullet struck her making her immobile, I shot the other bullet and it made her unconscious.

It was fine since these bullets wouldn't hurt at all, I deactivated my quirk and look into the stands.

Kazumi was still eating sweets but had a smile on her face, the others cheered.

"And the winner is Misery Tokisaki!" said Present Mic.

The doctor took Ochako away for any injuries while I headed towards the locker room.

There she was, leaning next to my locker with a smug grin.

"Not bad." said Kazumi.

"I did better than you." I replied.

"You know that's not true, what're your bullets? I couldn't tell since I was too busy eating." said Kazumi.

"That's your own fault, maybe you should pay attention for once." I said.

Despite our bickering, we were childhood best friends, it was nice having a best friend that was also a rival.

I looked back at her and saw her pouting, I couldn't help but laugh at how cute she looked.

"Stop laughing!" said Kazumi pouting even more.

"Can't help it, let's go. The other matches are starting." I said.

"Ehhh? I don't want to watch boring matches." said Kazumi.

"Well too bad." I said dragging her with me.

(Kazumi POV)

I couldn't help but smile when Misery started dragging me with her. Although Misery doesn't show her enthusiasm on the outside, deep inside her she's genuinely happy.

"Why're you grinning like that?" asked Misery.

"Oh? I am? Didn't realize." I said laughing lightly.

Misery only shook her head and dragged me towards the stands.

The few fights didn't interest anymore, there were no extreme display of power that actually caught my attention, but when Todoroki came out with that expression of his.

I couldn't help but laugh, I guess he just talked to his so called father.

The match was decided once it started, Todoroki crushed his opponent, but his opponent didn't drop out though, he tried dragging him with his tape quirk.. A gigantic chunk of ice erupted from the platform and almost covered a part of the entire stadium, not bad but I do want to see his true power.

Now I really do want to see his true power, nevermind his father, I'll make him use his fire ability to at least stand a chance against me.

"Kazumi, you're grinning again." said Misery.

"Oops, I just want to fight. It's getting boring sitting up here watching people fight." I said.

"Why do you always want to fight? Can't you just sit back and relax?" asked Misery.

"Oi, fighting is fun! I get to fight people as strong or maybe even stronger than me." I replied.

"I don't see the point in that." stated Misery.

"*Sigh* Misery, you would never understand the art of fighting. To fight people stronger than you, you can grow to higher limits. To achieve the highest cultivation of fighting." I said.

Misery had the face of 'What the heck are you talking about?'

In my past life, I would travel to many continents to train. I wanted to grow stronger and become the strongest of the strongest. In order to do that, I needed to know every technique of fighting, martial arts, swordsmanship, and Dao.

I came across monks while I was traveling and they taught me different meditation techniques to calm my mind. It was similar to a state of tranquility, you entered a mental plane of intense focus. Not minding anything besides the fight, in this life. I still haven't achieved that yet, sooner or later I'm going to have to do it.

But for now, let's eat sweets and watch the battles unfold!

Hopefully my mother won't take away my sweets, as I said that. I spotted my mother throwing glares at me and I instantly put my sweets away and closed my eyes.

You know what, a nap sounds nice.