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46.84% MHA: Horizon (Ope-Ope No Mi) / Chapter 177: CHAPTER 173(The Big Three)

Chapter 177: CHAPTER 173(The Big Three)

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CHAPTER START---

"So, what's all of this about?" Horizon asks as he walks into the observation area with the now-healed Sero and Shinso.

All of 1A was now gathered, along with Mirio Togata, Nejire Hado, and Tamaki Amajiki.

Tamaki was standing off to the side trying to make himself as invisible as possible, Mirio and Kirishima were having a small chat, and---

"HORIZON!" Nejire rushes up to him and gives him a hug as he approaches them. "It's been so long. You didn't respond to my texts. And my calls didn't connect. Is your phone broken? Ryukyu says she talks to you so maybe it's mine. Have you gotten any stronger since the raid? Ooh, are you gonna fight Mirio too?! You're both pretty strong so you might actually have to try! Oh, I bet you'll get along great with him! Wha---"

"Hado!" Eraser interrupts her volley of questions.

"Right, sorry sir," Nejire bows and stands beside Mirio.

Glancing at the students, Mirio immediately stands out. Taller than most, bright smile even as Kirishima talks his ear off, seems genuinely interested in the conversation. And bright blonde hair.

Off in the corner, he sees Amajiki, with dark hair and what he assumed is a gloomy expression, since he couldn't see his face. Amajiki was currently facing a blank wall.

'Potentially the second most powerful Quirk in UA...and he's got fucking stage fright,' Horizon just shakes his head and walks up to Eraser.

"You said we'd have this place all afternoon, what's this all about?"

"Mirio decided the best way to give them a glimpse of what a Work Studies students is like...is to fight."

"Ok, but why here, you know we're training here."

"Training," Eraser glances over to Sero and Shinso, now healed but still covered in bits of blood. They were off talking to some of the other students right now. "Right, well I figured since you're always interested in seeing new Quirks, getting hands-on experience with the Big Three would be appealing to you."

This gets everyone's attention, and Mirio joins the little discussion.

"I think that's a great idea!" he says. "I'd love to see what UA prize student can do. Everyone in your class is super talented but you're something else...oh, I'm Mirio Togata by the way, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"I know," Horizon turns back to Eraser. "I don't have any interest in fighting people weaker than me, it's a waste of time, but watching should be amusing atleast."

"Don't mind him guys!" Nejire jumps in while Mirio and Amajiki were trying to interpret the cold greeting. "He's always all grumpy when you first meet him, but he's really nice when you get to know him, I promise!"

"Uh, right," Mirio nods awkwardly, "well, it was a pleasure to meet you either way. Alright everyone, let's head into the sparring area!"

As everyone gets into position, only a few people remain by the observation window.

Horizon, Eraser Head, Tamakai, Nejire, Sero, Shinso and those who failed to get a provisional license.

Looking down the line he sees Bakugo fuming, but eyes wide to take in everything he can from this demonstration.

Beside him, Shoto was observing with a blank expression.

Shoji and Ojiro were doing the same, while Nejire and Jiro were chatting quietly about something with Mina.

"So how do you think this'll go?" Horizon asks Eraser, and everyone gets quiet to listen in.

"Honestly they don't stand much of a chance, before you, Mirio was easily the strongest in the school," Eraser sighs. "This is a big waste of time, but hopefully it'll put things into perspective for them."

"So being in a classroom with me wasn't enough?"

"On the contrary, it was too much."

"Too much?"

"Well, you're a monstrously talented and intelligent person that just happens to have the most powerful Quirk in the world, using you as a yardstick to measure themselves against won't work, because they know they can't ever catch up."

"So you're trying to replace that goal with Mirio, since he's more realistic than I am, very clever."

"Well, I am your teacher after all."

"Honestly I was more interested in Amajiki," Horizon says, causing everyone to glance at the boy who was trying to avoid their eyes. "Aside from myself, he's got potentially the most powerful Quirk in UA. Atleast if he takes it as far as I imagine he could."

"Oh yeah, our little Sun Eater is super strong!" Nejire cheers on her friend.

"His Quirk is most similar to mine than anyone else here, aside from Momo," Horizon says. "It gives him a potentially limitless supply of tools for any occasion, those people are always fun to see in action."

"Wow," Jiro looks over at the unassuming Amajiki. "What's his Quirk?"

"Manifest!" Nejire yells out. "It lets him eat anything and then manifest the properties of it while it's in his stomach, so if he eats lobster his arms can become lobster claws and he can make shell armor, he's really strong!"

"Works on diamonds too," Horizon says. "And he can do multiple things at once. I've done my research on you three. Of each of you, Manifest is easily the most powerful Quirk in the group, or atleast when he stops holding back it will be."

"Wow, never would have guessed it," Jiro mutters.

"Wait a minute, so if you know so much, why'd you call us weak earlier?" Hado asks, pouting cutely at him.

"Because compared to me, you're weak, not in the sense that you can't perform against villains. But like with most people, I'm just a bad matchup."

"They're starting," Eraser says, and everyone focuses on the fight.

They immediately see Mirio's clothes falling through him, before he falls into the floor.

"Ah!" Jiro covers her eyes completely. "What the hell kind of Quirk is that?!"

"Oh, it's called Permeation!" Hado says. "It lets him pass through stuff, even the air and light itself, pretty neat right."

"Weak Quirk," Horizon says. "But his precision is extraordinary, and his practiced instincts make it monstrous in his hands."

They see Mirio absolutely demolish their classmates as Horizon is speaking.

"Picking and choosing when and where become tangible, making his eyes solid so he can see, his mouth and lungs so he can breathe, his ears to hear. All in short bursts while remaining mostly solid to give the impression that he's invincible.

And he likely memorizes the battlefield at a glance each time so he can travel through the floor, then he can use the force of matter overlapping and rejecting each other to rocket out of the floors and walls for more damage in his hits. A weak Quirk made powerful through masters, I'd say he's level 80, at the very least."

"That almost sounded like a compliment," Eraser says as Mirio rockets out of the floor and kicks Tokoyami in the face, knocking him out.

"I can recognize hard work when I see it, and that's all Mirio is."

"Told you he's nice," Nejire mutters to Amajiki.

"And you're still confident you can easily deal with them?" Eraser asks, seeing the last of his students easily being knocked out.

"Wouldn't even need my sword, my hands are more than enough."

"Ooooh, that's pretty cool," Nejire says before she starts giggling. "Then why don't we go down there, since it looks like Mirio is done already."

"It only took him three minutes to take them all down," Horizon says as he sees Mirio picking his classmates back up. "Not bad, alright, I'm in, let's go play..."

---5 Minutes later.

"Do I really have to be here?" Amajiki asks, hands in his pockets and shoes off as he stands in the combat area. To his right is Mirio, and beside Mirio is Nejire.

"C'mon Amajiki, it'll be fun," Mirio says. Besides, haven't you been curious about the hotshot first year too?"

"No."

"Oh don't be such a baby," Nejire says as she begins flying, releasing small spirals of energy from her feet so she hovers just a meter above the ground. "Think of this as us teaching the other students what fighting at the top of UA looks like."

"I just don't like having an audience," Tamaki glances at the observation deck where everyone was watching intently, then across the room where Horizon was standing alone. "And he seems kinda mean..."

"I'm telling you he's a softie inside."

"You're just saying that because he healed Ryuky---"

"---Mind humoring me for a moment Mirio?" Horizon asks from across the room.

"Huh, sure, what do you need?" Mirio asks.

SHAMBLES!

Horizon warps his sword into his hand. "I'm pretty sure Amputate should work when you're permeable, but since I'm not using my sword in the fight, can you let me check before we start."

"Oh, sure, I always wondered what that feels like," Mirio raises an arm to his side and makes it permeable, and his sleeve immediately falls through it.

With one vertical slash from across the room, the outstretched arm is cut off, painlessly without damage, and begins falling to the floor.

"Wow!" Mirio reaches out and catches it. "It's a good thing I can still control how my Quirk works in this part, otherwise it could have just kept falling forever," he laughs while wiggling the fingers on the severed limb. "This is super freaky."

"Can you please put that back already," Tamaki looks like he's about to lose his lunch from just looking at it.

"Awe, don't want me to give you a hand?"

"..."

"Awe c'mon that one was funny!" Mirio whines before easily reattaching the limb.

"No, it wasn't," Eraser says through the speaker. "Now can you please get this over with so I can get back to teaching my class..."

"Yeah, call it Eraser," Horizon tosses his sword back over his shoulder, and it just hovers above the ground. He puts one foot forward and prepares to launch a low punch. "I'll try not to break any of you."

"Alright, begin!"

END CHAPTER---


Chapter 178: CHAPTER 174(Vs The Big Three)

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CHAPTER START---

"Here he comes, everyone get ready, he's super duper strong," Nejire says as she points both her palms at Horizon, preparing to blast him with energy.

Beside her Mirio still has his bright smile on, staring across at Horizon who was clearly preparing to strike, "don't worry guys, just try not to overdo it, we don't want to hurt him or damage the facilities after all, we're still the seniors here so let's set an example."

"I don't think he sees it that way," Amajiki looks at the observation area, seeing everyone staring at them, winces, then just takes his hands out of his pockets. "Let's get this over with so I can go home..."

"Here I come!" Horizon yells from across the room, and they all prepare to counterattack.

With their years of training, they'd never dealt with someone who can warp, but with Mirio's fighting style, it was the next best thing.

They prepare to strike on either side of them, with Amajiki turning the toes on his left foot into octopus tentacles, ready to stretch out and grapple behind them.

SHAMBLES!

To everyone's surprise, Horizon appears directly in front of them.

'He didn't swap with anything!' the big three immediately notice, unaware of the intricacies of his Quirk.

Hado and Amajiki react immediately sending a wave of spiral energy and a handful of octopus tentacles, previously Amajiki's fingers, at Horizon.

But Mirio keeps his hands at his side, a wide smile on his face as his clothes begins falling through him, but he stays standing in place.

His fist rockets directly toward Mirio's gut.

"Ugh!" Mirio winces before the fist even connects, his expression twisting into pain and agony for just a split second.

BOOSTER SHOT!

"Argh!" Horizon's fist digs into his gut, taking him off his feet and sending him rocketing into the far wall. They hear the echoes of a painful sound as the concrete cracks behind him.

SHAMBLES!

Horizon warps back to his original spot, barely avoiding Amajiki and Nejire's attacks, because even with how surprised they were, their years of training meant the attacks followed through.

"Mirio!" Amajiki yells out as he looks back, seeing his friend crumpled to the floor completely unconscious. "This isn't funny Mirio, get up!"

"I don't think this is a joke Amajiki," Nejire's voice was suddenly much more serious as she looks away from her unconscious friend, back to Horizon. "So uh...do you have a plan?"

"Go home, but I'm stuck here with all these people watching me," Amajiki mutters as both his arms transform into tentacles from the shoulders outward, 8 tentacles on each side.

"Wow, that's so cool!" Deku yells out, furiously taking notes on the entire fight, quickly sketching Amajiki's tentacles.

Then all their eyes open in wonder as thick and clearly reinforced lobster shell begins forming on the tentacles like armor.

His head grows two cow horns as his legs become bovine, and most of his head and face is covered in a helmet of lobster shell he grows before their eyes.

"Chimera Kraken!" Amajiki yells out, and most of the room stares in wonder.

"That's pretty cool," Horizon says, genuinely impressed. "Just missing some wings."

"The only bird I ate today was chicken, and flying with those wings is always awkward, sorry, can you please not look at me..."

"Don't worry Suneater, you'll get over the stage fright one day!" Nejire tries to cheer him up.

Amajiki glances over at her, and she sees his eyes widen in shock.

"Nejire!" his tentacles shoot forward, intending to move around her to attack Horizon who suddenly appeared behind her.

"You got too comfortable---"

SHAMBLES!

Horizon and Nejire appear back across the room, "---this is still a fight."

He pokes her in the stomach, angling his finger upward and pushing the air out of her lungs.

"Gah!" as she desperately tries to take a breath, his fingers wrap around her neck, strangling her as he holds her a foot above the ground.

"Hard to muster up energy when you're suffocating huh," he says as she begins to panic, flailing in his grasp.

Nejire desperately kicks out, hitting him in the chest a few time but he doesn't even react, fingers digging at his grip but feeling as if she had to claw against steel.

"Let her go!" Amajiki bounds across the entire gym, his bovine legs transformed into rabbit legs before he takes one massive jump.

The tentacles on his left arm come together at the end and merge into a solid ball of flesh which then becomes heavily armored like an organic wrecking ball.

Horizon doesn't even more his feet, just shifts his arm to put Nejire between him and the attack.

"Damn it!" Amajiki barely redirects the attack, smashing the concrete floor beside Horizon.

SHAMBLES!

Horizon appears beside him as he lands, and before Amajiki can react.

BOOSTER SHOT!

The sound of armor breaking off and clattering across the floor is heard as his fist knocks Amajiki out.

Looking at the other unconscious opponent he glances at Nejire who was now turning purple and going limp in his grasp, and just drops her.

"GAH!" she takes a greedy breath, trying to sit up but is forced to lie down and recover.

"Quit being so dramatic."

She opens her eyes to see Horizon standing above her, thoroughly unimpressed. "Ok, good fight, I'm just going to lay here for a minute or two...too strong."

Horizon just walks over to Tamaki and taps him with his foot, healing him and waking him up, then does the same to Mirio.

"Let's get back to the others, then you can all leave so I can get back to training," he says before Mirio can even speak.

The moment they're all back in the observation area, the questions begin flying, but Sero was the only one willing to ask Horizon what they all wanted to know.

"Dude how'd you hit Togata, does your Quirk let you punch ghosts?" Sero asks Horizon.

"Hand of God works in mysterious ways, Mystery Class after all," Horizon shrugs.

"Honestly I'd like to know too," Mirio says. "Everything just felt tingly for a second, then the next thing I know I'm waking up on the floor, super weird."

"Oooh oooh!" Nejire was excitedly waving her hands to get his attention. "Maybe Horizon did that thing with his sword but with his fist instead. Since his slashes could cut you then his punches could hit you."

"But Amputate doesn't hurt or move what it affects," Momo says. "This would have to be something new, maybe he was distorting space where he hit you."

"Would that even work?" Deku asks, then immediately takes a step back, but luckily Horizon doesn't even look his way.

"It would," Horizon says. "But that's not what I did, that's a lot of effort for these three..."

Nejire gives a forced smile and pats Mirio's arm, "I promise he was actually being nice during your fight atleast."

"That's enough with the theories," Eraser says. "Horizon is just being mysterious for no reason, he tased Mirio."

"Ugh," Horizon grumbles a bit. "You know half the fun of my Quirk is nobody knows how it works, thanks for ruining that..."

"Anytime," Eraser says, now seeing everyone looking at him to explain. "When he warped to Mirio, it was hard even for me to notice such small changes, but his foot was a lot closer to Mirio's. He had a single current jump from his foot to Mirio's."

"I took advantage of the fact that he was standing on the floor, which meant atleast the skin at the bottom of his feet was solid. Guaranteed path for the current to zap him, and since it would be a chain reaction and mix with his own bioelectricity---"

"---My Quirk would think its natural and paralyze me," Mirio facepalms. "That's why my body got all tense before you hit me, wow, that's pretty smart!"

"I know," Horizon says. "But, that's just a measure I had to take since I couldn't use my sword. Most of my offensive measures are done through Scalpel."

"Scalpel?" Nejire asks.

"His sword," Momo says. "So since he didn't have it available during this fight he improvised that Quickly, most impressive."

"Alright alright, enough," Eraser rolls his eyes. "His ego is already big enough, now aside from Horizon's team everyone needs to go get changed and head back to class."

"Finally, thank you," Horizon didn't bother hiding how happy he was to have everyone finally out of his hair.

As Eraser is leading the others out of the facility, Sero and Shinso begin walking back down to the combat area, enjoying the short break they had, but one other stayed back just a moment to speak to Horizon.

"Need something?" he asks Momo, seeing her somewhat anxious to speak to him.

"Yes actually, I start training with mister Snipe later this afternoon, would you mind helping me sometimes when I get the hang of...ranged weapons."

"Guns, you can just say guns."

"It just doesn't feel very right since I'm trying to be a hero after all. But you would have the most experience fighting against...guns, so I---"

"Yes, I'll come to take a look sometime, it'll be useful training for me too."

"What kind of training could that possibly be for you?"

"Precision. Before UA I wouldn't have many direct confrontations, now I find myself dealing with gunfire a lot, and practice stopping bullets is always useful. I've gotten mostly lucky so far that no high-caliber rounds have been shot at me. They'd be a bit more annoying to stop."

"I...see," Momo gives a concerned look. "Well, I'm glad this can work out for both of us."

"Good, now I need to get back to training these idiots, have fun taking notes in class..."

"R---" he warps away before she can respond. "Alright, now I need to work hard not to embarrass myself in front of him. Oh Momo, why didn't you wait a few weeks before telling him about this."

END CHAPTER---


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