Chapter 14: Entrance Exam
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- What did you want to talk about grandson? - My grandfather asked me. I texted him on the phone that I wanted to meet him at home, so he came over since we usually only meet at the dojo.
- I was thinking, it's quite a long distance from Tokyo to Musutafu, so it would be good if I rent a flat there to be closer to the academy. - I explained.
- There's no doubt that you'll get in, right? - I silently confirmed with a nod. - Okay, I'll give you the money for the apartment. - Saburo agreed.
- No need, I've recently started working on the internet, I have enough for my accommodation and all my needs. - I lied because I took the money from the accounts of the corrupt part of the population.
-...Akira, you're the vigilante, aren't you, Tengu? - out of the blue, my grandfather asked me, making me jerk for a second.
- Nope, first time I've heard of it. - I lied again.
- Don't lie, I know you too well, and I know when you're lying and when you're telling the truth. The other day I saw a kid with a katana on the news, and I recognised you immediately.
- How did you know? - I'm not hiding it anymore, there's no point in doing it anymore.
- Your fighting style is aggressive attack or suppressing the enemy with his quirk, and all the techniques I taught you, to understand that behind the mask you, it was not difficult. - He answered and put his hand on my shoulder. - Grandson, I'm not going to ask you why you're doing this, I've done worse things in my youth, just be careful, okay?
- Yeah, thanks grandpa. - I thanked Saburo, who I truly considered my grandfather and parent.
- Now tell me about your girlfriend, and don't deny it, I've seen you two walking together recently. - He squeezed my shoulder a little. - Don't you want me to meet her? - Grandpa smiled good-naturedly, though when he smiles, he scares me even more.
- Grandpa, do you want her to run away from me in fear after you meet her? - I raised my right eyebrow and got a smack from him.
- I'm too soft on you Akira, let's go to the dojo, I'll teach you to respect adults. - Without asking my opinion, he dragged me along.
Even though I told my grandfather I was going to rent a flat, I actually bought a house with a warehouse where I moved my lab from the basement. Property prices in Japan vary with territory and population, and Musutafu is not a big town, so the house cost me eighty million yen, which is about seven hundred thousand in dollars. It's nice to be a rich hacker.
In general, the house is nice, roomy and not far from the academy, and there was more space in the warehouse than in the old basement, and I upgraded my lab with equipment.
I also thought about it, and decided to redesign my wristband, because it was too bulky and stood out. The redesigned model was half the size of the original, but it was more durable with expensive materials, I repainted the wristband in black, it seemed more organic with the small size of the design. Now the wristband is not so big and black in colour, so it can be easily hidden behind the sleeve of clothes.
Just in time for my move, I turned sixteen, and Kazuho decided to celebrate both of those events with me. Upon arriving at my house, she asked me to close my eyes and wait for a surprise, and after five minutes, told me to open my eyes. After doing what she asked, I saw her in front of me in her old pop-step costume, although it had become a bit small over the years, which made her look bulkier visually, like her butt...and no, she wasn't wearing panties.
- What a wonderful surprise. - I approached Kazuho, running my hands under her costume, one hand rubbing her naked pussy, and the other, squeezing her breast, pinching her nipple a couple of times....
- Mmm, you know, I've been thinking about what to get you for a long time and I can't think of anything but to give you my virginity. - She turned her back and bent over, revealing her wet pussy.
- You're right, it's the best birthday present I've ever received. - I burrowed my face between her buttocks and started licking her pussy, causing Kazuho to shriek loudly, sticking out her tongue.
Naturally, I accepted the gift, and at the same time we tried out the new bed, and the bedside table, and the table, and the sofa...and the floor too. I wasn't afraid to cum inside her, because I can saturate my seed with light, which kind of makes me infertile for a while.
To be honest, having sex with Kazuho alone doesn't fully satisfy my libido, and she can't have coitus with me very often, because she has to go to university, having recently entered it. So, every time we meet, I fuck her unconscious so that she will think of suggesting to me to get some more girls. I know she won't let any pretty girl get close to me, tsundere are too jealous, that's why I encourage her to make up her own mind, to let me have lovers...and preferably hardy ones. Such not clever manipulations, I try to realise my long-standing dream, but unrealisable in the first world, to have a harem of beauties...well, and I'm just a womaniser. And that makes sense. If you look at it that way, every man should have some weakness, and my weakness is beautiful women...preferably swarthy, I like girls with chocolate-coloured skin.
My sixteenth birthday, initially I did not plan to celebrate, but if your gift will be a gorgeous naked lady, my legs will carry me to the holiday. By the time I was sixteen, I had grown to about one metre eighty centimetres, while the average height of the Japanese male population is about one metre seventy centimetres.
The UEI entrance exam began two days later, in early April, just like any other high school. The academy grounds itself was fenced with metal walls, and the main academy building looked like an English letter 'H' from the outside.
A lot of people came to the entrance exam, it's not surprising, Yuei is famous all over the world, and it would be strange if no one came here. In the crowd of people, I even spotted the same blonde bitch I saved almost a year ago, and because I was distracted by the bitch and stopped in place, from the back, someone bumped into me.
- Oh, I'm sorry. - The owner of the cute voice was a young, round-faced girl with brown hair.
- It's okay, it was my fault. - I answered, looking at the schoolgirl, as she was very much my type.
- Did you come for the exam too?
- Yeah, and you, beautiful lady, do you want to be a heroine? - I took her pen and kissed it.
- Oh, I... - the embarrassed girl didn't know what to say.
- Well, I won't impose my society. - I moved on. - Good luck with the exam. - I turned round, wished her luck and kept walking.
- Likewise!' she smiled, still embarrassed, and followed me.
I sat down next to the bitch and took a closer look at her. She was okay, but if only she had a normal character, then she'd be great.
- What are you looking at me for, huh? You want to get punched in the face?! - she remarked on my staring at her.
- Actually, I just wanted to wish you good luck on your exam, but now I won't. - I replied to the nasty bitch.
- Ha! No way! I need support from another second-rate weakling. - she looked at me like I was shit.
This is the second time I've spoken to her and the second time I've been surprised by her behaviour. It seems that she is one of those children with a golden spoon in her mouth, who considers other people as second class, and exalt themselves to perfection.
The academy teacher and part-time hero, Hazashi Yamada, a.k.a. Essence Mick, was called in to explain the rules of the exam. His 'Voice' quirk - allows him to increase the volume of his voice, as well as create high-pitched sounds.
- HEY-HEY-HEY-HEY! WELCOME TO THE YUEI ENTRANCE EXAM! EVERYBODY SAY HEY HEY HEY! - shouted Suszczyk Mick, but he was answered by the silence of the auditorium. - WHAT A DIFFICULT AUDIENCE I'VE FOUND TODAY! I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN TODAY'S RULES, IS EVERYONE READY? - Once again no one answered him...a shame, what can I say.
Yuei's entrance exam consists of a written exam, which is the same as the regular high school exam, and a practical test, of which the latter is considered the most important. During the practical test, entrants must prove the effectiveness of their quirks and their own physical skills by destroying robot villains in specially designated testing grounds and scoring points for doing so. The more points scored, the higher the chance of getting into Yuei. The practical part takes ten minutes.
Entrants are forbidden to attack other entrants and will be disqualified. Students from the same school are placed in different testing grounds to avoid possible co-operation.
The robots of the exam are divided into three types, from the simplest to the most complex, and each type of robot is awarded a certain number of points, also from one to three.
Essence Mick's explanation was interrupted by some guy in glasses asking why the handouts then said four types of robots...and then additionally giving a tirade on the academy's mistakes, exemplary and whatever else. Typical law-abiding bespectacled man.
Mick explained that the fourth type is a trap robot, and doesn't get points for it. It appears in large crowds and will prevent examiners from scoring points.
- THIS IS IT! I WISH EVERYONE GOOD LUCK ON THE UPCOMING TEST, AND REMEMBER, NEVER GIVE UP, PUSH YOURSELF BEYOND YOUR LIMIT! PLUS ULTRA! - he exclaimed the motto of the academy, which literally translates from Latin as 'Beyond the Limit'.
The written exam was no different from the regular high school entrance programme, so I passed it without any problems at all.
For the tests, everyone was led to the entrance to a special polygon, imitating the urban area, and also, like the academy, fenced with giant walls. There were several such firing ranges, by the way, I got to the range with a bespectacled guy, that cute girl and the bitch I rescued. The rest of the participants didn't interest me much, half of them will be eliminated in the process.
In general, I found this exam to be a real pain in the arse. A bunch of people with no idea what kind of superpowers they had, sent to fight in a city full of robots, and a fool would realise that people with quirks prone to destruction would have more advantages. On the other hand, even those who fail the practical test can enter another department of the academy other than heroic, so to speak, the exam weeds out the weaklings, and that's the kind of thing I like.
There are only four faculties in Yuei: Heroic, General Education, Support and Management. The heroic faculty, as the name implies, is for students who want to become professional heroes in the future. The general education faculty is a regular high school programme, and is mostly filled with suckers who failed the practical exam. The Support Faculty deals with engineering, constructing hero support items, and the Management Faculty teaches the skills of hero business, creating and managing hero offices, and so on.
- START! - suddenly heard me, from the top of the tower, a couple of metres away, there stood just Sooty Mick. All present looked at him uncomprehendingly. - WHAT ARE YOU STANDING UP FOR? GO, GO, GO! IN A REAL BATTLE, NO ONE WILL GIVE YOU A SIGNAL!
Everyone immediately broke away from their seats in the direction of the city firing range. Fastest of all, a blonde with a nasty character got out, pushing herself forward, at the expense of the blast wave from both hands, she went somewhere in the far part of the range. I flew up and headed towards the main crowd, first deciding to assess the situation.
The first robot had a humanoid appearance and was about three metres tall.
The second robot was more like a beetle, and I didn't like it at first, it had more firearms and was more armoured.
The third kind of robot had the most powerful artillery, and looked the least like anything living.
These robots are rather mediocre, if they were real criminals, they would be given a D or C rank. The danger level of the villains is shown by the rank in their profile, from the strongest S to the weakest D, so these robots can be broken by a cripple.
- Create a construct: Swords. - I created a compacted lightsaber in both hands, and sent a light slash at the nearest three-point monster, completely destroying it.
With a burst of speed, I landed on the ground, creating a small shockwave that broke all the nearby robots, and one of the plates of the shattered robot accidentally fell on a runner with a funny purple hairstyle and knocked him out. I felt a little embarrassed, as I was indirectly responsible for this, so I picked up the little guy and put him right next to the exit.
I had to intervene a couple of times while I was flying over the test site, saving idiots who couldn't defend themselves against robots and who didn't know why they were taking the exam if they knew they were going to fail it. While the exam was going on, Essence Mick announced a couple of times how much time was left until the end of the test
I didn't use my Heavenly Techniques, because the exam was being watched by the judges through cameras scattered around the testing ground, they might guess that I was Tengu. Of course, the cameras could be turned off, but then the exam would likely be suspended due to technical problems. Although the same flight or super strength with super speed can be used without fear of being burned. The world's quirks are many, and the quirks of light manipulation even more, but the chance of appearing absolutely identical abilities is only one per cent. Now I have new abilities to cover me, and I will use the old ones in the guise of a vigilante, keeping my legend intact...but at least three people know who Tengu really is, grandfather, Kazuho, and Rumi, though the latter, if she remembers my name, is not going to give me up. It's not her style, and the law hasn't stopped her from hanging around the unfortunate places and bludgeoning the street scum.
- Create construct: Artillery volley. - I pointed the end of my blade in the direction of the oncoming robots. Multiple constructs of light cannons, rockets, and other projectiles appeared near the blade. - Fire! - I shouted, and all my firepower instantly turned the robots into a pile of junk.
The other participants stared in amazement as I cheerfully chopped robots in packs, and I even began to be a little amused by their reactions. They were mediocre machines, of course, but it was fun to chop them up, and at the same time I tried out the light constructions on the enemy with numerical superiority.
Suddenly, the ground shook violently, a huge pile of dust rose into the air and a giant armoured robot, more than twenty metres high, came out of the ground, destroying a nearby building. This is the so-called trap robot.
- Nah, rubbish. When creating the robots, they obviously made a shoddy job, I would have made a better one out of rubbish. - I looked thoughtfully at the healthy, but slow robot, while the other participants of the exam, in fear ran away from the huge robot, anyway for him to give zero points, so there is no point in fighting with him no one sees.
And then I noticed that the rubble of the building has crushed that round-faced girl, and she can't get out, and the robot is moving towards her and is about to run her over.
I swung my blades, and two huge slashes flew out from the blades of the robot, stacked crosswise, and they flew towards the giant, ripping off both of his arms and his head, and his decapitated body fell backwards onto the ground, breaking several more buildings.
Those people, including the bespectacled guy who hadn't escaped yet, darted their eyes out of orbit, seeing how easily and casually, I had massacred the robot.
As if, it was possible not to destroy it, and just pull the girl out from under the rubble, but I did not really care about that, the more there was at least some more or less formidable opponent.
- You didn't break anything? - I asked politely, removing a piece of rubble from the building and giving my hand to the round-faced woman.
- No...oh, I mean, thank you! - she blurted out, taking my hand.
- It's not hard for me to help someone in need. - I helped her up.
- That was so cool! I didn't understand anything you did, but it was still really cool! - she exclaimed emotionally.
- Really? It's nice to be praised by such a cute girl.
- Ha ha... - she laughed awkwardly at my words, though she liked the compliment. Girls in general like compliments, not all of them, but most of them for sure.
- TIME IS OUT! - Mick announced, and everyone began to disperse.
- I think I should go. I hope you and I end up in the same class. - I said goodbye and turned to leave.
- Wait, I never got your name. My name is Ochako Uraraka, what's yours? - she asked.
- I'm Akira Mizuiro, but just Akira to you. - I answered and left.
A week later, I received a letter with the results of the exam. Inside the envelope was a small, hologram projector, in the form of a small disc, with a recorded video address.
On the video was a recorded monologue by the academy's director, Nezu. He's a rare case where an animal can also possess a quirk. He looks like a mix of dog, mouse and bear, dressed in a business suit, but his uniqueness lies in his quirk that increases intelligence, making him smarter than a human.
He informed me of the results of the exam. In the written test, I scored the maximum number of points, but the results of the practical part were more interesting. First of all, he explained that in the exam, points were awarded not only for 'villains', the judges counted points of salvation, showing how much a student is inclined to self-sacrifice. Anyway, for helping the suckers and the round-faced cutie, and I got more points.
In total, I got one hundred and ninety-five points, one hundred and eleven for the 'villains' and eighty-four for the rescue. Nezu said that I had collected a record number of points for the academy, and would be happy to have such a gifted student in his academy.
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