Chapter 39: Final Exams

{3rd Person POV}

Inside the class room of 1A, Jōichirō was seated at his place with a bored look. The class room was empty, as he reached the class earlier than others.

"I have to stop coming early from now on. And, where did that prick go anyway yesterday?"

"Who?" A voice was heard, so Jōichirō looked towards the one who said that and it was none other than Shoto.

"No one." Jōichirō said.

"Whatever then." Saying that, Shoto sat down.

Then they sat in silence for some time, and that was broken by the sound of conversation between two of their classmates, Denki and Sero.

"I'm telling you, Mt. Lady is the best." Denki said.

"I don't care, for me it's Midnight!" Sero said.

And when they saw Jōichirō and Shoto, Denki asked "Todoroki, who do you prefer? Midnight or Mt. Lady?"

Shoto just kept his silence and they got the point that he wouldn't answer the question.

So they looked towards Jōichirō and asked "Who do you prefer, Jōichirō?"

"Mmm.... " Jōichirō started to think.

Seeing that, Jōichirō was seriously thinking Shoto also looked at him.

"I don't have a preference." Jōichirō said.

"You could have said that you didn't have a preference other than thinking hard about it!" Denki said.

Then huffing and puffing, Denki and Sero went back to their banter between them.

Then slowly, their classmates started to come into the class. As soon as Bakugo came inside the class, he made his way towards Jōichirō and said "The fuck do you think you're doing?!"

Jōichirō raised an eyebrow not knowing what this is all about, and asked him calmly "What are you talking about?"

"YOU REJECTED THE INVITATION AND SENT IT TO MY WAY WHERE I CAN'T EVEN REJECT IT!" Bakugo yelled at Jōichirō.

"Ma boy Bakugo. Don't yell, I can hear you clearly so don't shout." Jōichirō said.

Hearing that, Bakugo got even more enraged and started to make small explosions from his hands.

Seeing that Jōichirō said "Now, now. Don't use your quirk at willy nilly."

Bakugo stopped the explosions, but still kept his glare at Jōichirō and said "I don't care how long it will take, but I'll beat your ass black and blue."

"Sure sure." Jōichirō calmly replied.

As Bakugo sat down at his seat, everyone else looked at Jōichirō thinking that he had some way to subdue a raging Bakugo without getting physical.

Jōichirō, feeling those stares just shrugged and thought 'Who will be against me in the finals? Will it be All Might or any other teachers? Or will it be someone else from outside like a Pro Hero? Ah... this question is for the readers, please have a healthy discussion with the author with whom should I fight.'

As the morning bell rang, Aizawa came to the class looking tired as usual.

"Morning."

"Morning." The students greeted each other.

After taking the roll call, he spoke "Let's see here,

Right, summer break is fast approaching but of course, it stands to reason none of you have enough leeway to just relax for thirty."

"Could it be..." Denki started to speculate.

"We'll be going to a summer break forest lodge." Aizawa said.

"I knew it! Aw yeah!!" Kirishima exclaimed.

"Let's give each other dares!!" Mina the ever energetic girl of the class.

"And fireworks." Tsui said.

"Summer break means curry...!" Iida also chimed in.

"The parameters of our activities will probably change in a natural environment." Mezō.

"Challenging us to choose wisely in any environment... interesting." Momo said from the back.

"Food and bed with the whole class whooa, I'm getting excited!" Denki kept on.

"However, should any of you fall short of a passing grade for the end-of-term test then you're stuck in school, in remedial hell." Aizawa said, dashing the hopes of the last rankers.

"Let's do our best, everybody!" Kirishima tried to encourage everyone.

As they calmed down, Aizawa said "Homeroom is finished now, you can do whatever you want."

Most of them started to look through the important portion that could be in the exam, and some straight up left the class. The one who went out first was none other than Jōichirō. And his destination was the cafeteria. Shoto and Fumikage also went with him.

After the normal classes, all of them left the school dreaming about what all they should do for their camp training after the final exams.

On the way home, Jōichirō met up with his mother who was bringing Yuki back from the elementary school. Picking up his sister, he started to tell her about what happened in his class and he inquired what all interesting things were happening in her class too.

At a safe distance away from Jōichirō, his mother and sister, a man was observing them. He has short gray hair worn parted to his right with side bangs hanging above his eyes with sunglasses, along with a small mustache and a goatee on his chin. He was grinning at the three of them showing the gap in his teeth as there is one missing tooth. Then he muttered to himself "This may be one of my lucky days."

With the grin still present on his face, he followed them to their house by keeping a safe distance which he thought was the distance beyond the sensory range of Jōichirō. He noted down the address, the details about Jōichirō's mother and sister, he also saw Jōichirō's father coming out from the restaurant to greet them. After noting down all the important details, he started to walk back the way he came, muttering "I could get a lot of money with this information."

As he was dreaming about the money he would get for this piece of information, he suddenly fell down unconscious. But before he touched the ground, he disappeared from the spot in a flash.

In an alley a couple of blocks away from Jōichirō's house, a man with black hair and dark black mask with cowls and a slit of red glowing visor was looking down at the man who was following Jōichirō.

The man with the black mask kicked the man who was laying on the floor right on his balls. And in an instant, the man started to scream "Ahhhhhhhh"

His scream stopped when some kind of cloth was pushed into his mouth. With tears falling down from his eyes, the man looked at the one who kicked him for any kind of answer, and he was not disappointed as the man in mask spoke in a deep robotic voice.

"If I see you snooping around that family, I'll break your legs. If that family gets attacked by any villains then I'm putting you into a deep sleep. And if any of them is in any way or form get injured, then I promise you that no one will ever see Giran again. You got it?"

The man furiously nodded at the masked man. Then he took out the cloth that was pushed into his mouth and asked "Who,... are... you?"

The man was met with a punch straight to his stomach which knocked the wind out of him, but he heard the masked man saying something before he lost his consciousness "I AM VENGEANCE."