(A/N: A bit late, but I was trying to get so sleep after not getting much last night. Sadly, it didn't work out, and I had to chug a monster to last the rest of the day. Today I'm sleeping early, that's for sure.
Also, for those who didn't like the costu, it's okay, I respect it.
It's okay to have wrong opinions.)
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[Combat exercise]
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Once everyone was fully reunited and they had all gotten a good look at Taka's extravagant costu, All Might began giving the instructions for the exercise right away.
In summary, the class would be segnted into several teams of two students, who would take on the roles of either heroes or villains. Two opposing teams would then face off inside the many buildings scattered across Ground Beta, each match having its own building to destroy.
The villains' objective was to protect a mock bomb placed at the top of the building. The heroes, on the other hand, had to start from the bottom floors and reach the bomb to "deactivate" it.
The victory conditions were fairly simple.
The villains would win if they managed to protect the bomb until the fifteen-minute limit ran out, or if they apprehended all the heroes using the capture bindings they'd been given. Achieving either condition would secure their victory.
The heroes, anwhile, would win if they touched the bomb—counting as deactivation for the exercise—or if they apprehended the villains using the sa bindings they, too, had been provided.
Once the instructions were given, and a certain glassed student's multiple questions were answered, the students stepped forward one by one to draw balls from a box, each marked with letters from A to J, to determine their teams.
As the process went on, Taka began thinking of ways to rig the whole thing so he could get matched against Bakugo or Todoroki, who were currently the strongest contenders in class.
While doing so, his turn ca, and he was offered the box to take a ball out.
A mont after rummaging through it, he glanced down at the ball he had drawn.
Team I, and his partner—
'Hagakure, huh?' He sweatdropped, turning to look—or rather, not look—at the invisible girl at the other side of the group. '…Damn.'
Imdiately, all of his plans went straight down the gutter.
He had hoped things would play out as they did in the show, letting him use his foreknowledge to identify which ball belonged to which team and subtly manipulate them with his aura so he could fight whoever he wanted.
But seeing the invisible girl there made sothing painfully clear.
They already weren't the sa.
His eyes swept across the other groups forming around the field, narrowing as his worries cented.
The teams were different from the show. Which ant the matches would probably be, too.
That left him with no way of knowing which ball belonged to Todoroki's team—or Bakugo's.
And with the remaining balls hidden inside the box, right beside All Might, even trying to peek was close to impossible. He wasn't that fast yet.
'Well, so much for aura farming,' Taka clicked his tongue.
If only he had a way to make sothing like an actual astral projection, so he could check on the box without being noticed…
He didn't, in case you were hoping otherwise.
'Still, it's a pretty good idea… I might try it out later.' He squinted faintly at the idea.
"Hello, Takahashi-kun, right?"
A voice calling out to him snapped him out of his ideas. A bit nervous, but trying to sound calm.
He turned and saw that Hagakure had approached on her own… Naly, only her gloves and shoes. The rest of her was invisible.
'Focus, man.'
Preventing his mind from wandering into strange topics, he offered a hand.
"That, or Taka. Whatever you feel like calling ."
It seed that the friendly gesture had been enough to erase the nervousness from her voice.
"Then Taka it is! I'm Toru Hagakure, nice to et cha!" she said energetically as she shook his hand.
Taka nodded faintly. However, inwardly, a smile appeared on his face.
'Finally, soone else who takes on my offer.'
The other was Kirishima, but given his focus on aura farming, he hadn't talked much with him.
He had to act mysterious all the ti, so going to speak to others on his own volition was a no-no.
'It's the path of the aura—'
Taka humd at the thought.
He was pretty sure that after both incidents, they were eventually able to develop a suit for her that would turn invisible along with her.
—That, or her Quirk bugged out so much from that last laser that she got pressured into finding a solution, given her random spasms of visibility.
Either way, he could help her get herself a suit for her condition, or at least be able to turn off her invisibility if she wanted.
'Are you seriously an aura farming system?' Taka asked in disbelief.
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