Chapter 24

Bakugo quietly advanced through the halls of the stadium in the direction of the arena while walking he passed robots transporting Kirishima on an emergency stretcher to the infirmary.

Ignoring his friend, Bakugo finally arrived on the arena, the gaze of the spectators fell on him but Bakugo faced those gazes fearlessly and quietly continued to move forward, quietly stepping onto the battlefield.

Before him stood Ochaco, face resolute and ready for the fight ahead.

'Currently she has two weapons, touching me directly to make me float and taking advantage of that to take the advantage and knock me out of the field, or use the debris that my explosions will create against me.'

Bakugo stretched slightly, grabbing both of his ankles for a few moments.

Present Mic introduced the rules but neither Bakugo nor Ochaco paid him any attention, instead Bakugo continued to warm up his ankles as Ochaco stared at him.

"Start!!"

Without wasting time Ochaco lunged towards Bakugo, her strategy was clear, she was aiming for physical contact to make Bakugo float, however as her outstretched hand was about to touch him, Bakugo shifted slightly before grabbing the girl's arm and threw her several meters away.

'Sorry Ochaco, but I knew the powers of Shigaraki and AFO in advance, of course I trained to avoid contact with hands in melee.'

The young girl crashed heavily on the ground but quickly got up with shortness of breath.

The girl put her arms in front of her face preparing for an explosion, however no matter how long it took, no explosion came.

She looked up slowly to see the blonde smiling and casually approaching her.

"What ? You thought I'd use my explosions? What good is it, I will only create weapons for you that you can use against me, without a projectile you are completely useless!"

Again Bakugo's tongue went beyond Jhonas' thoughts, however this time it wasn't necessarily a bad thing for him.

"Actually I could defeat her just with an explosion, however absolute victory leaves no room for improvement, neither for me nor for her…"

Bakugo held out his hands and produced small explosions, the smile on his face growing more every second. "Come !"

As if prompted by these words, Ochaco rushed forward, once again seeking direct contact with his adversary.

For the next minute a strange dance formed on the field, the two students seemed to be rehearsing a choreography in the middle of the stadium, however the faces of the spectators did not match the picturesque scene that was unfolding.

Their faces were filled with tension.

For a whole minute, Bakugo had been dancing between Ochaco's blows with a crazy smile on his face as the girl's face gradually filled with fatigue and despair.

Bakugo's dodges were getting closer and closer, he seemed to be playing with his opponent.

'It's perfect !! It's so different than just training, living a 100% fight where every mistake could cost me the victory... It's so perfect!"

Currently Bakugo was like in a trance, he had trained for a long time to fight an enemy who would seek physical contact with the palms of his hands, but this fight had taught him more than several full months of training.

"However, all good things come to an end…'

The face of the girl in front of him was filled with sweat, her breath seemed almost exhausted, her motivation seemed to lose intensity every second.

Bakugo suddenly slapped the back of the girl's hand stopping their dancing.

"You understand now ? You can't just rely on luck and such weak combat skills to hit me! You're weak so use low level tricks if you don't want me to crush you! Although even so nothing will change."

The girl's eyes widened before running towards Bakugo with clenched fists.

Bakugo easily dodged the fist aimed at his face, however this punch was a feint, the hand that was pointing at his stomach was the real attack.

Ochaco flashed a tired smile as she saw victory at her fingertips, however she knew that Bakugo wasn't the type not to respond to this kind of attack, as she had expected Bakugo released a small explosion.

However against her expectations, she was not the target of this explosion, on the contrary the explosion was aimed at Bakugo's ankles.

The explosion was not powerful, however a strange phenomenon occurred, another explosion took place but this time from the ankles of Bakugo!

Ochaco's eyes widened, his power was supposed to be limited to his hands!

Under the weight of this explosion, his leg was propelled towards Ochaco at high speed, directly hitting her belly and propelling her several meters backwards.

Without a moment's pause, Midnight ran towards the girl and quickly raised her whip to Bakugo to announce her victory, Ochaco had passed out.

From the A-class bleachers, Iida suddenly stood up with his mouth hanging open.

"How is it possible, I thought Bakugo could only produce explosions with just his hands!?"

The other members of the class remained silent, too surprised by the outcome of the fight. Quickly all eyes went to Izuku, the theoretical expert on Bakugo's powers.

The green quickly began to shake before nodding "Y-yes he can't do blasts from his legs, I'm sure... He must have used another method..."

The eyes of the class lingered on him for a few more seconds before turning to Momo, the other theoretical expert in the class.

The girl had her hand on her chin a thoughtful look, noticing the looks directed at her, she cleared her throat "Well, at the start of the fight he touched his ankles several times, I thought he was stretching but… it may be related to this technique…."

A silence fell on the bleachers, leaving the students pensive.

On the field, Bakugo no longer displayed the usual flippant smile, instead he calmly turned back to the stadium.

If his face was calm, however his thoughts were the opposite of calm 'Damn, that technique fucking hurts!'

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Here is my rewrite of these two chapters, I don't think it's perfect but I won't modify his chapters anymore otherwise my brain risks exploding!

Anyway I wonder if you understood the trick used by Bakugo during the fight, thank you for reading my story so far. :)

One last announcement here, I'm going back to school in two days, the pace will slow down significantly, I'm going to try not to give up the story but I plan to write my own story, if I see that I haven't no more time for my own story I will put aside this fanfic.