BNHA: The Honored One

CHAPTER 4

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Summer Break Day 7

10:41 p.m.

"Don't lose your focus! Everyone, keep at it! No matter what you do, never forget your fundamental drive. That's how you improve and progress.

Why am I working this hard? Why am I putting up with being chewed like this? To what end?

Always keep the answer to that question in mind."

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"C-Come to think of it, Sensei... It's already the seventh day, right?"

Aizawa who was taking notes of his student's progresses suddenly got interrupted by the voice of Midoriya who called him out.

"Hey, don't lose your focus, I just told you to do your hardest, no?"

"Um, well it's just that... All Might, and the rest of the teachers. Are they not coming? We still only have a week of summer camp..."

That caught the interest of the students that were nearby to eavesdrop into the conversation. Seeing that it was a good question, Aizawa answered back.

"As I told the class, in order to prevent the enemy from anticipating our movements, we left with only the bare minimum amount of personnel needed to complete our mission here.

We especially had All Might stay back because we believe that he is one of the enemy's targets. That was why he's not allowed to come. For better or for worse, that guy gets in these situations because he stands out."

He then thumbs at the Pussycat heroes who were unloading materials from a truck.

"We chose the Pussycats as your mentors not only because of their useful Quirks and experience, but because UA and the Pussycats had never been seen together before in public. The relation will be hard for our enemies to find us."

"... I see."

Pixie-Bob who was carrying a box that had the words "Ingredients" tapped on it interrupted their conversation.

"Well, let's not think about such a sad topic, and let's talk about tonight's plans! Because of you kids working so hard, we've decided to do an inter-class test of courage! After training so hard for a week, you get to play hard!

With that said, train your hearts out!"

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Summer Break Day 7

3:39 p.m.

"Huff — Huff — Huff — Huff — !"

With heavy pants, Gojo wiped his sweat off with his shirt, ignoring the pain and soreness of his body as he carefully walked past the dozen of broken training robots in the area.

Stretching his arms, he calms his heart down, slowing down breathing until it is back to normal.

His face had a frown, which is even with his blindfold on, as he just sighs.

"Still can't do it... Damn, this is hard."

He clicks his tongue and clenches his teeth before sighing once more, walking towards a perfectly well robot and grabbing the 150 pound metal hunk with one arm.

He points his index finger into the sky as he muttered.

"Cursed Technique Lapse... (Jutsushiki Junten)"

A few centimeters above his finger, a blue hue appeared as the winds ruffled. The hue enlarges into a sphere of a blue ball with a diameter of 5 centimeters.

"Blue. (Ao)"

The surrounding robot parts around him started to shift from their place, and begun to float in place before suddenly shooting up into the sky into the blue sphere as if attracted by it.

The metal of the robot crushes under the attraction of the blue sphere and the remains formed a large clump of metal that started to shrink in size the darker the hue of blue sphere.

The process only took one second to form a perfect cube of 1x1x1 cm size. Gojo smirks at the metal cube.

"But Blue is just too easy~"

Tossing it behind him and perfectly landing it into a basket filled with similar metal cubes, he cracked his knuckles and rolled his shoulders, warming up before getting into a martial arts stance.

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Summer Break Day 7

9:20 p.m.

"Our stomachs are full, and the dishes are clean! Next up is..."

Pixie-Bob builds up the tension as Ashido yelled out.

"The Test of Courage! I'm super-duper excited for this!"

"""YEAH!"""

*WHOOOSHH!*

Suddenly a gray scarf shot out and captured 6 of Class 1-A's students. The remedy student's faces paled when they realized who just captured them.

"Although it pains me to say this, but for the remedial bunch, you all are going to have a review lesson with me right now."

"""NOOOOOO!!!"""

Ashido, Kirhisma, Sero, Kaminari, Sato, and Mineta started to struggle, but the bindings just won't let go as they were dragged to their demise.

"It sucks to be you, but the training we did earlier today was far less fruitful than I'd hope, which means we need to wash, rinse, and repeat."

"Please! J-Just one off-dayyyy!!!"

"Bye guys, see you guys in the morning tomorrow! And too bad for you, Grape Balls~!"

"Damn you, Gojo!"

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"So, there we have it. B-Class will be first up at scaring people, and A-Class will have pairs of two leave every three minutes.

In the middle of the route, there'll be a card with your name written on it. Take it back with you as proof!"

Mandelei explained as Pixie-Bob ushers the Class 1-B students into the forest with their own lighting devices to see in the darkness.

"The Scaring Group is not allowed to directly touch anyone, but scaring tactics using any and all available Quirks are permitted."

Then, all the Pussycats except the one explaining entered a pose.

"The winner will be the class that not only makes the most of their creativity! But also makes the most people piss their pants with fright."

Jiro just cringes at the final sentence that Tiger said. "Please stop, that's disgusting..."

"I see! By pitting us against each other, we can polish our skills, and as a result, reach new horizons with my Quirks! As expected from UA!"

Iida yelled in enlightenment as Midoriya did the mental math.

"Pairs of two... But wait, out of the 21 people, 6 were sent to review... So that means...

Someone's going to be left over!"

Ojiro who already prepared lots said, "We're drawing lots, so yeah. Someone's definitely going to be left with that fate..."

"I'll be the left over one! Me, me!"

Gojo, who sat on the ground, said with a grin as he waved his arm in the air.

"You sure, Gojo? It wouldn't be fair..."

Ojiro asked with a hint of hesitation, as Gojo just gave him a thumbs up.

"Yep, no problems whatsoever! No distractions when I laugh at the Class 1-B's attempts!"

He starts to snicker at the thought while the students just sighed.

That was so "Gojo" of Gojo.

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"Pffft! Hahahahaha!"

Gojo started cackling in front of the "ghost" that suddenly shot out of the ground, Kodai Yui from Class 1-B. Glancing at the ground around the girl while he wiped the tears off his eyes, he noted that the ground was softened to a semi-solid liquid, to which looked around.

"Skull Face's Quirk to soften the ground, and then Shifting Lady's Quirk to suddenly change her size, huh? Nice try, but you guys can't get me with that weak scare!"

The boy, who was hiding behind a bush, came out with a sigh as he went to touch the soften ground, letting Yui out of his Softening Quirk.

"Man, this isn't fair. Those eyes of yours are just not fair, man."

Kodai nods silently in agreement with the white dress of hers on as Gojo just grins, tugging on his blindfold slightly.

"Don't blame me, blame fate for making me the strongest~"

Letting go of his blindfold, he suddenly turned around to see the president of Class 1-B, Kendo Itsuka sneak up.

"Well, I'll see you guys later! I'm gonna go bother more of your classmates now."

And Gojo skips away, leaving the Class 1-B students.

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Walking with his arms behind his head, his Six Eyes gives him the infrared vision of the Class 1-B student in his eyesight, causing him to snicker at their coming failed attempt at scaring him when suddenly...

Something's not right.

The hairs behind his nape stood erect as he shivered.

Something's not right.

He instinctively activated his Cursed Technique, the Neutral Limitless, Infinity and darted his eyes to look for anything that was causing this unease. Nothing, even with his Six Eyes, he couldn't see anything that's remotely close to make him feel this way.

Maybe it was the curry? That was his thought as he lowered his Infinity —

SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT!

He quickly raised Infinity up again as —

*WHOOM!*

3 knife blades appeared, aiming between his eyes, his throat, and his heart, stopping in place as if there was an invisible barrier between him and the knife.

Cursed Energy floods his body as he strengthens his body to raise his reaction time, his eyes quickly scanning the area. Nothing, not even the perpetrator. It was as if something was hiding from his Six Eyes —

"Gas?!"

Thick white gas that was visible to the eye suddenly flushed his surroundings. This wasn't natural at all. His brain senses the dangers of the surrounding gas, and Infinity shifted to accommodate to it, filtering the gas so that only oxygen enters into the barrier of Infinity.

BEHIND YOU!

His instincts yelled as he quickly turned to retaliate, but he was too late as a clothed chunk of metal stared back at him before he was suddenly blasted away deeper into the forest.