The cries of the crowd echoed in the arena, Kirishima, as if galvanized by the encouragement, courageously advanced into the arena.
In front of him, his opponent stood quietly with his hands in his pockets. Normally, the redhead would have taken it as a lack of respect, but in this situation he didn't dwell on it.
'It's up to me to force him to take them off!' A feral smile formed on his lips as he slammed his fists together.
As always, Present Mic gave a brief introduction to the fight, however Kirishima paid no attention, his mind was fully focused on his opponent, Bakugo.
'What tension! I sure won't…' Before Kirishima even finished his thought, the fight began, acting instinctively, the redhead lunged forward while activating his power on his arms.
In front of him, Bakugo leaned forward slightly and a multitude of explosions rang out from his hands, heading straight for him.
At that moment, his vision suddenly went numb, he saw the whole world stop, no, the whole world moving in slow motion!
In this slow-motion world, Kirishima could watch Bakugo's every move!
'Amazing ! With this vision, I could easily defend myself against him!'
However a strange feeling won the redhead's heart, after a moment that felt like an eternity, he finally understood, he too was moving in slow motion, and no matter his will he absolutely couldn't move faster.
In this slow-motion world, only Bakugo seemed to actually move! Although slowly, the blond gained more speed with each moment moving inexorably closer to the immobilized Kirishima.
The distance was only getting smaller, no matter how hard the redhead tried, suddenly a realization struck his mind.
'I see, I've lost' Strangely, this realization gave time back its rights, with terrifying speed, Bakugo crashed into Kirishima before his power even had time to harden his skin.
As the redhead was propelled out of the field unconscious, Bakugo stopped his acceleration and sighed.
'It's strange, it only lasted a moment, but I have the contradictory impression that a lot of things happened during my attack…'
The fight ended, The audience seemed somehow disappointed, it was the fastest fight of the competition so far, however Bakugo didn't pay attention to it and headed towards the waiting room, deciding to wait for his next fight without returning to the stands.
In the waiting room, Bakugo watched the small television, the Iida against Shoto fight was going to start soon, he was not very impatient, currently, only the fight against Shoto had any interest in this tournament.
Unsurprisingly, Shoto defeated Iida without difficulty, shortly after, Bakugo did the same to Fumikage.
After this fight, the blond retrieves another bottle of water, heading towards his waiting room.
'There are about 40 minutes left before the final, let's take this opportunity to rest' even if Bakugo had shown a very high level during the tournament, no in reality because he had shown such a high level, he was naturally exhausted
Heading towards his room, Bakugo came across a familiar face.
"Ochako?" Unknowingly bakugo called out to her, the girl's face was certainly familiar, but it was also different, the girl of infinity seemed to have shed a lot of tears.
"Oh Bakugo, how are you?" Forcing a smile, the girl raised her hand to the blonde in encouragement.
A deep frown formed on Bakugo's face, the girl's condition was somehow too much to bear, without answering he continued on his way to his waiting room.
Out of the corner of his eye, Bakugo saw the girl sigh in relief at his departure, however as he was about to enter, she called out to him.
"W-Wait!"
'What does she want?' Curious, Bakugo turned back to the girl despite his initial desire to temporarily avoid contact with her.
Under the blond's questioning gaze, Ochaco swallowed his saliva and tilted his head forward.
"Thank you for earlier, thanks to our fight I know what to do to improve myself…According to Jiro and the others it is easier for you to say it in action rather than with words, something in connection with a certain tsun!!"
Suddenly a Jack plug wrapped around Ochaco's mouth, forcing her to remain silent, Jiro, the owner of the Jack plug that happened to be her earlobe appeared from the hallway next to Ochaco along with Tsuyu and Mina.
The 3 girls accompanied Ochaco but they had hidden earlier when they saw Bakugo leaving Ochaco to confront him alone.
Jiro spoke with a forced laugh "haha, don't listen to her, she's tired, in any case Izuku transmitted your message to Ochaco when she woke up, that's what she meant… Yes, that's it There !"
The frown on Bakugo's face deepened, he looked like he was nearsighted having lost his glasses.
'What is this attitude? They are hiding something… And then how did Deku transmit my message?! I just told him to make sure she learns from her mistakes, why did he involve me in all this shit...'
""It doesn't matter, get rid of the extras !" Frustrated, Bakugo made his way back to the waiting room without waiting, if he stayed any longer the situation might cause him even more headaches.