Chapter 20: Training For The Sports Festival, Part 1

Two days after the attack on the USJ, UA opened again. They had closed yesterday in order to give the students time to fully rest and recuperate from the experience of the attack.

Now that they were all back, they were waiting for a teacher to arrive. They were surprised when Aizawa, wrapped almost entirely in bandages, arrived through the door. He was very heavily injured back at the USJ, so they expected him to be gone for a few days to heal.

Ignoring their surprise, Aizawa shut them up, telling them that something even bigger was on its way. At the thought of something bigger and more serious than the USJ attack, they stiffened in nervousness, barring Chikyu and a few others, who simply focused on what was going to be said next.

The Sports Festival.

The less knowledgeable students groaned, thinking they got nervous for nothing. But the more knowing students knew very well just how important the Sports Festival was, and agreed fully that it was a bigger deal than the attack.

Everyone was given a week to train for the festival and was let off early to do so as soon as possible.

Once he returned home, Chikyu fetched Kota to take him along as he trained, as he promised yesterday.

Arriving at the training area, he told Kota to continue with the exercises from yesterday at the same pace and intensity while he did his own thing.

The first thing he was going to do for training over the week: Hugely intensify his physical exercises. Before, he was doing 15 sets of each exercise, so he would double it to 30 sets of each.

His exercises were huge in variety, but they all came together to include every single part of his body. He firmly believed that it is stupid to neglect your physical strength in favor of your quirk entirely, and the same went for the other way around, neglecting your quirk and focusing only on physical strength.

He wanted a perfect balance of strength between him and his quirk. He believed that if he achieved this, he would by default be so much stronger than a giant chunk of heroes and villains, barring only those at the very top, such as All Might.

Still keeping an eye on Kota as he did so, he trained with full effort with each set and exercise, pushing himself far, far past his previous limits each time.

As he did so, he thought on what he would do to improve his quirk first.

Power, control, application and potential were four things he always judged a quirk on.

Power is self-explanatory. A quirk like medium-level healing would be like a 3/10 in this range.

Control is also self-explanatory. Endeavor was a great example of how control could seriously improve a quirk. His control over his quirk, Hellflame, allowed him to either go completely wild with it or pull it back as to not cause any friendly damage. Endeavor was a 10/10 in this aspect.

(I guess you could call that "friendly fire")

Application was how much you could do with a quirk. For example, if your quirk was to make yourself be able to run ten times faster, it was a good quirk, but it couldn't be used to do anything else. It had no variety. All you can do is make yourself ten times faster. Whereas a quirk like Chikyu's had pretty much infinite variety.

Lastly, potential. Potential was how much a quirk could grow and improve. Using the same point from application, if you could train your quirk to go from a ten times speed increase to a twenty times increase, that's an example of potential. Almost every quirk had pretty much infinite growth potential, but their users most often don't know how to bring that potential out.

After much contemplation and thinking, he decided that he would focus largely on application. He wanted to be able to catch his opposition off guard every time they fought so that they could never even hope to adapt to fighting him.

Finishing his last bit of exercise, he took a short break and thought up some ideas.