So, it
was a fight after all.
So,
“Ughhhhhhhhhh.” was Kagari’s only response to Izanagi’s attempt at being helpful.
And of course, that elongated ‘ugh’ was repeated a second time when their never-present teacher picked up where bird-brain left off and made it clear that not only was he the strongest of the Furious Five, but that they were expecting her to fight him. Granted, with two Todorokis (how many did that make?), 1B’s sound-clown, and self-proclaimed ‘tech-expert’…but what was the point of numbers? The era of All Might made it clear that quantity never overcame quality, especially with such a
crippling condition as ‘not being allowed to have support items, which basically existed
to level the playing field between the haves and the have-nots.
After all, administration understood that enough to still give that Quirkless fellow his support items, understanding that he’d be able to contribute less than nothing without his gadgets, so why not just let everyone else have them too?
Whatever.
She’d make a median amount of effort, so they didn’t slash her engineering budget again.
When it came to the PE uniform, of course, Kagari, like any sane, young woman, chose to wear her regular workout clothes (t-shirt, baggy shorts) over them. Sure, she didn’t have any figure at all to speak of, especially if compared to some of her classmates, but it was the principle that mattered: they were Heroes, not exhibitionists, and she would not be caught dead wearing a skintight bodysuit.
Which put her in the minority here?
Kagari side-eyed the others in the class as she placed her hat over her head, fingers sliding across the rim. Man, it made her feel more awkward now, sticking out with her extra clothes, with her mood-setting hat. She should’ve skipped today, consequences be damned. If Kaiga could tank it, she could too! Hell, this was a college. She didn’t
need a justification for slipping out of class!
“Your Majesty.”Huh?
The Militaristic Hero looked down at her feet, where Spiderman laid, head placed against the ground. For a moment, all that existed in her mind was a singular desire to step on that head, like how one would crush a spider underfoot.
Then, he promptly got up, left to bug someone else, and before Kagari could resume her plan of slipping out partway through, Yui roped her into the five-stranger team, and the purple-haired woman let out her third drawn-out ‘ugh’ of the day.
“I don’t know him I don’t know him I don’t know him I don’t know him…” Kagari muttered a mantra for warding off chuuni weirdoes as she placed her hat over her face, willfully ignoring Ritsuku’s calls. Of all her former classmates in 1-A, he was the one she was the worst at handling. Mei was annoyingly serious, and Erza annoyingly active, but Ritsuku? That guy was the kind of person that somehow everyone grouped Kagari with, thinking that they were both chuuni morons stuck in their delusions…but that couldn’t be further from the truth!
Ritsuku fantasized, but Kagari built! While he daydreamed and rotted his brain with subpar literature, she worked day and night at the workshop, dragging her dream of a fully functional mecha out into the physical world! When it came down to it, she would be the one sitting in the iron throne of a glorious warrior, towering above towers, and he? He would be stuck in his daydreams still, snoring in the library with a cheaply-produced book over his face.
Which was to say, Kagari
almost cheered when the third match came about, and the results basically went the way she expected them to. Of course Mei would lose; she was honest to a fault and embodied the worst habits of a hero. Erza did better than expected, considering the advantages a teleporter had in any chase scenario. And Ritsuku, thank god, folded before making himself out to be even more of an embarrassment than usual. But cheering for Ritsuku’s loss may be construed as cheering for Spiderman’s win, so she kept her mouth shut and instead turned to Naito.
“So, for what’s coming ahead…how about you just carry all our support items with you, and then hand them out once it starts? Like, their reason for banning support items or even Hero outfits is actually just bullshit otherwise, right? Like, it’s obvious some fatheaded pervert of a donor requested this. Hell, look at these situations! None of these are situations where we’d be completely naked except with a skinsuit on!”
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