The Victory

"Its nearly over! Now for the countdown! 10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3! 2! 1! Time' up!" Present Mic shouted out, and everyone heard him after all his quirk is basically a glorified megaphone that weaponizes his voice, which is powerful and dangerous, so with that yell of his the cavalry battle officially ended

It was anticlimactic, to say the least, no grand battles, no drama, no intense rivalry, no power struggles, all in all, there were no elements that a good entertainment show should have, but that is not the purpose of the festival, the purpose of the festival is to present the young heroes to the world, to scare off and frighten villains and to test the young heroes, how they do under pressure of the public and how much they have improved

If someone asked the audience how they felt and they knew about One Punch Man they would say "Like Saitama, he just steamrolled thru everything, nothing was a challenge." and indeed that's basically what happened, remove the comedy elements from One Punch man and what you get is a very boring, subpar anime that lacks in entertainment quality

And in fact, that is exactly the desired effect Mike wanted to make the audience feel, he wanted to make them feel like they know that he is going to win, that him winning is just a fact, but he has not achieved that yet, it is still too early but he has taken the baby steps into making them believe that

Someone may ask why is he doing this wouldn't it be more convenient if he has the audience at his side, well it's because this is not good for entertainment and showbiz and because it will create less trouble for him when he becomes a professional hero

People like seeing the underdog struggle and claw his way up from rock bottom to size victory, they like to see someone like them, or even someone worse than them achieve greatness, a victory like Mike's without struggle isn't entertaining so in the future when everybody knows that he is always going to win the entertainment side of the Hero world will bother him less or more

Because this method also has a flip side, where Mike would become like All Might, a synonym for peace and justice so he would get even more popular

However, the biggest reason Mike is doing this is because of his future plans, he has big plans and for those plans to be achieved he has to earn some fame and reputation, and what better way to earn reputation than to always win

But that is all for the future Mike to handle the current Mike is high fiving his teammates, Momo and Itsuka, while rows upon rows of disappointed sights or victorious cheers can be heard from beyond their impenetrable steel fort as the other teams either lament their fate or cheer for their victory

"Now let's look at the top 4 spots, shall we!" Present Mic said as the big monitor at the front of the arena flashed and 4 teams are displayed on it in order of which team got the higher points

"In the first place, team Mike! Who has managed to keep their 10 million points from the other teams a truly astounding feat!" Cheers sounded out as the audience clapped, smiled and shouted at Mike's team, even thou they don't want to do it since besides the final fight they found everything about his fight boring, the audience does have to clap and cheer for Mike, he is the winner after all, besides that the battle of team Mike vs teams Bakugo, Izuku, and Todoroki is enough to feed these hungry zombies some entertainment

(Author: I'm referencing you readers when I say, hungry zombies)

"In second place is team Shinsou?! It seems that they weren't bothered with team Mike and instead picks off the other teams!" Indeed, Shinsou took the smart path, from the information he gathered while spying class 1-A he learned that Mike is the biggest threat, and obstacle so when he saw that Mike would box himself up in his steel fort he breathed a sigh of relief before he started to hunt the other students for points

The crowd didn't cheer much for him, his fights were not very exciting and he mostly went under the radar compared to other teams, so he wasn't noticed as much and the audience didn't cheer for him very much, and it seems as tho he doesn't mind that they didn't cheer

"In the third place, team Todoroki, with his elemental teammates!" They call them the elemental cavalry because except Iida all his other teammates have something to do with elements, Todoroki is fire and ice, Kaminari is electricity and Jirou is sound which although it isn't an element is seen as an element by the audience

Todoroki sighs with displeasure, not only did he fail to be the first, he even came in third, his old man is going to give him an earful at the very least for sure, that already made his day worse however what really angers him is the fact that Mike got first place, Mike the person he declared war on

For him the audience was quite loud in their cheering, he gave them excitement and joy, the thing they came to see in the first place, when he was hunting the other teams and in the battle against Mike

"In fourth place, team Bakugo, with their explosive leader now fuming and destroying everything around himself like a lit barrel of gunpowder, careful not to blow yourself up!" Bakugo is pissed, like really really pissed, as Present Mic said he is currently using his quirk explosions to destroy everything, nothing is safe from his wrath and the audience is thrilled at that, thanks to Bakugo they can watch beautiful fireworks for free if only there wasn't Bakugo's laud and obnoxious cursing which is somehow even louder than the explosions he creates

"Now the first 4 will move on to the final event! The event will start after a one hour pause. Hey, Eraserhead let's go have some lunch." When Present Mic said that a lot of disappointment sights were heard from everywhere, the audience sighted because there is no more action to watch while the students sighted because most of them didn't pass or the students cried again because they didn't pass, that is especially seen with Izuku who is crying so much a mini flood zone was created around him, he got that trait from his mother

"We did it, Mike!" While all of that was going on Itsuka was cheerfully hugging and jumping around Mike, she really has a bubbly personality that allows her to be extremely happy in these types of situations, she is happy to be able to get first place in the cavalry battle and to do that with her crush, although for them it wasn't a cavalry battle it was more of a castle defense game

'Yes, we indeed have done it, my fellow mem of culture.' What she didn't notice in her happiness is that she was hugging Mike, her crush bringing Mike's face into her ample bosom, her breasts are not as big as Momo's nor Midnight Lady's and especially not like Mt.Lady's breasts, she can enlargen them for god's sake however they do have their own charm and Mike will enjoy that charm for as long as it is possible

"Ehem, Itsuka I am also happy however I think your pose and behavior is currently very inappropriate." Suddenly Momo executed a fake cough from the side, covering her mouth with her fist while talking towards Itsuka and Mike, her face is red with a small blush spreading across it while her voice is a little hushed

"Aah, uh I'm sorry Mike, Momo I got too excited." When Itsuka heard Momo, she was stunned for a brief moment before she looked around herself in and the situation she put herself in before she looked down in an extremely robotic and stiff manner

What she saw when she looked down was Mike's bandaged head in between her breasts as she hugged Mike with all the strength she can muster

Immediately she blushed so hard even Hinata would be ashamed of herself and she lightly pushed Mike away from herself while she turned around and held her face with her hands

'Aaah what have I done?! I was so overcome with happiness that my body just moved on instinct.' Itsuka thought and blushed more and more which should have been impossible but when she remembers how she felt while hugging Mike she can't help it but feel happy and at peace, aaah love and what it can do to a person

"Pfff, hahaha, you don't have to be embarrassed Itsuka, it was a natural reaction." Mike couldn't see however thanks to the observation haki he could feel emotions to a certain degree even thou his observation isn't that trained he can still feel some emotions, besides that it doesn't take a lot of imagination for him to figure out how Itsuka looks and what she feels right now after her turbulent reaction

"Mike, come with me." However, the merry mood was interrupted by a certain half-half bastard as Bakugo would call him demanding that Mike follows him

Todoroki has come and is looking at Mike with extremely dangerous eyes while speaking in an extremely rude and demanding voice

Usually, Todoroki wouldn't use such a voice, and such a demanding tone however after the series of failures today and the topic he has to talk to Mike about makes him extremely demanding

"Excuse me Todoroki, I know that we are classmates however it is rude to-" When Momo heard Todoroki speak to her friend and teammate Mike that way she got riled up, the way Todoroki spoke to Mike is very rude, demanding, impolite bad mannered and all in all, not the way fellow classmates should speak to each other

"It's fine Momo, he just wants to talk to me right Todoroki." When Mike heard Todoroki talk to him in such a way, he already guessed about what he wants to talk about, actually, Mike is surprised that it took him this long to initiate a conversation about it

So Mike puts a hand on Momo's shoulder to calm her down before he went behind Todoroki as if saying 'Lead the way'

Todorki just snorts before walking off while Mike follows after him, their walk was accompanied with complete silence but Mike had the stuff to think about like what he should say in which situation

Soon they arrive at one of the many entrances to the arena and there Todoroki cooly leans on to a wall while watching Mike who is smiling or rather grinning from ear to ear like a fool

"Speak." Todoroki's sentence was short, and on point, it is just one word however to Todoroki it was hard to even say that, the topic is that sensitive to him, however, his voice didn't falter nor waver

"What are you talking about? Speak, speak about what?" When Mike heard what Todoroki said he played the fool and asked Todoroki that he meant, Mike knows what he meant however he wants to pretend not to know, it is fun to a certain extent

"Stop bullshitting, that note you gave me, what did you mean by it." When Todoroki heard Mike speak he got angry, he still remembers what was written in that note before he froze it and smashed to pieces so Todoroki stopped leaning on the wall and is now right in front of Mike with a scowl like none other on his face

"Ahaha that note! Well, it is just some friendly advice from one concerned classmate to another, from me to you!" Said Mike as he scratched the back of his head and gave a boisterous laugh to Todoroki like a happy go lucky fool, it certainly does remind Mike of a certain blonde ninja from a certain world with a certain tailed beast sealed inside of him

"Don't screw around with me! Tell me what you meant with that note! Tell me!" It seems that Mikes's response really pushed Todoroki's buttons since he got violent and rushed at Mike with quite an astonishing speed

Once he was close enough to Mike Todoroki grabbed him by the collar of his uniform and leaned Mike's face close to his, because of the height difference Mike had to bend forward a bit, Todoroki's eyes are spewing fire and ice while the temperature is fluctuating between getting hotter and colder

"You know Todorki, just because I am a kind person doesn't mean I don't have boundaries and limits." When Mike figured out what Todoroki was doing he stopped his laugh and his smile was replaced by a grin, a very very dangerous grin, it is unlike the grin he had before

For some reason, Todoroki had a bad feeling, it's unlike anything he has felt up to date, even his father's aura was not like this, Todoroki feels as if the air is suffocating and is trying to strangle him, his limbs feel heavier while he got a little lightheaded however he continued to hold on to Mike

"And one of those boundaries it to be forced to do something I don't want to do." Mike released some of his conqueror's haki, he hasn't used it on people in MHA world just yet however right now Mike is releasing some of it on to Todoroki, he does make an excellent Quinney pig thanks to the harsh training his father made him do

"Besides that, I'm injured, don't you know you should treat injured people with care?" Putting his left hand on Todoroki's right Mike exerts some pressure on to his arm, not enough to seriously injure him but enough to make him feel a substantial amount of pain

"Tch." Feeling weighted and lightheaded alongside with the fact that Mike is making him feel pain made Todoroki muddle-headed, he released his ice power on to Mike's hand while snickering, right now he is not in the right state of mind

"Oya Oya, that ain't nice, now is it?" Feeling that his hand got frozen Mike flexed his muscles and broke the ice with no trouble or hassle while tightening his grip on Todoroki's hand

Widening his eyes in shock Todoroki is left with no other choice but to let go of Mike's hand as the pain, the shock, the anger, and the lightheadedness have taken a toll on him so he let go and fell backward

Feeling himself being freed from Todoroki's grasp Mike turned around and walked towards the arena not minding the crouching Todoroki anymore

(Author: Hello! Yes, I'm alive! Haha too bad all of you haters are going to have to continue on reading this 'piece of shit novel' as some would call it, take that! Besides that I apologize for the absence, the novel won't be dropped just so you know (I mean you have probably figured that out by now unless you have a case of brain damage, in that case, I'm sorry for insulting you and I'm sorry that your family has to deal with that). Now all of you probably don't care but the reason I wasn't here is simple, I got burned out. I tried releasing a chapter a day, but it didn't go well, my life became a mess. My grades started dropping, I was constantly tired, I had mood swings and all kinds of nasty stuff happened. So I thought to myself 'My fanfic isn't worth my future' so I distanced myself and tried to bring my life in order. After that, it was all just a matter of will I drop or continue. I honestly didn't feel like writing if the same thing would happen as last time so I tried to write another novel. King of stands a jjba fanfic, and it was nice, I wrote at my own pace and lost at my own pace it was nice. So I was like 'Well, I do still enjoy writing and I already have some fans so I might as well continue.' So 2 days of writing later and haza! I have completed a chapter. So I will be back however, I won't be posting a chapter a day but I will post at my own pace. So enjoy my return)

(P.S. am I the only one or are there other people who find that Webnovel is getting more and more complicated for no reason, the last system worked perfectly fine if you ask me.)