Deserted island, near the coast of Japan. Two and a half months before the UA entrance exam.
Ducking below the incoming punch from All Might I answer his haymaker with an uppercut aimed directly at his chin which he blocked with his other arm since the first one was still aimed at where I was a fraction of a second ago. The resulting shock wave from my Beowulf-clad fist meeting his hand was strong enough to uproot a few trees closer to us.
As the sparring match kept on going on we both started to increase our power output until we reached the point where the both of us had started to get really into this match. Luckily for the hero the energy stored inside the green orbs seems to still be mainly aimed to healing which let's the mountain of a man in front of me constantly heal from the various cuts and bruises made by Beowulf's power of light.
Taking my gauntlet-clad fist away from his hand before he can clench it and keep me locked at a close range with him I jump back creating a bit of distance between us and take a look at the state of our surroundings. The once vivid forest is now reduced to a few barely standing trees and there are enough craters in the ground that it could be mistaken for a bomb testing site, unlike what one would expect there's barely any dust in the air but that is mostly due to mine and All Might's attacks blowing any dust that formed various hundreds of meters away from us.
Looking back towards the Symbol in front of me, I can see that he still has some energy left over to burn which means that I can start trying some of the stronger moves of Beowulf.
Lowering my center of gravity, I bring my right fist back reading a Beast Uppercut and in the next second practically teleport in front of All Might aiming at launching him in the air. My punch once again connects with his arms getting blocked but it seems to have still partially succeeded as the muscle-bound hero gets lifted a couple of centimeters in the air before once again being forced to block an attack from me, this time a kick coming from above his head being the result of a Lunar Phase, which, now that I think of it, could be similar to a certain rabbit themed hero's leg attacks.
Launching Toshinori a good distance away from me I give him time to properly bleed out his momentum and to come to a stop a good fifty meters away from me. Grinning towards the large hero I make the universal 'get over here' gesture which gets answered by All Might himself grinning at me and rushing at me with a speed that wouldn't let the average person be able to witness his speed but instead wonder if he teleported.
Leaning back to avoid a punch that's probably strong enough to punch through an entire bank's vault door, the movie's vault door kind, I can feel the wind pressure uproot what little trees remained behind me. Swinging my right arm upwards with an open palm I summon a giant spectral hand that grabs All Might's still extended arm and start to swing him above my head until his back hits the ground, making yet another crater among the already uncountable ones that surround us.
Just as I swing the hero above my head once more he's able to break the spectral hand making himself fly off due to the momentum of my swing. Toshinori ends up being involuntarily launched almost a hundred meters in front of me before landing roughly of the ground and once again making a large amount of dust raise up from the ground which ends up obscuring him from my sight. That doesn't last long.
Rushing towards me once more, All Might does something that surprises me, instead of going for one of his classic smashes, the hero kicks with his left leg towards my torso, forcing me to raise my right arm to block. Thankfully Beowulf is unbreakable, or at least I think so, which lets me block the incredibly strong kick without making my arm turn to jelly.
'Let's see how he deals with this.'
Thinking this I start launching kick after kick at the number one hero in rapid succession mimicking the Kick 13 from attack from the game but not limiting myself to the game's restriction by continuously kicking even after the combo should be over. At the tenth kick, I see All Might start to stagger from the unending onslaught of kicks coming from me.
Before I can break through his guard All Might decides to retreat a safe distance away from me to catch his break.
"I believe it's about time to end this spar young Vergil."
"I guess you're right, we've been going at it for so long that the sun is about to set."
My voice comes out sounding a lot more demonic than I'm used to, this is probably the first time I spoke while in my demon form.
Nodding towards him I bring back my right arm and start to charge up a Dragon Breaker while the almost naked man in front of me does seemingly the same. Once we're both ready to unleash our final attacks from this spar we both take a single step forward and seemingly teleport right in front of each other, barely half a meter away from one another.
*BOOM!!!*
Do you remember those few trees I said that were still standing? Yeah, they're no more, along with practically the entire containment facility that Cementoss had worked so hard for, thankfully both Nezu and Recovery Girl had long since left the island on one of the boats that had brought us here.
Once the dust cloud that the combined force of our attacks created settles, I'm able to see All Might standing in front of me with one hand on his shoulder and directly behind him I can see the sun start to disappear below the horizon. The number one hero has also stopped steaming from the excess energy.
"That was certainly something young Vergil! The last time something like this happened I was probably closer to your age than I am to mine!"
Undoing my Devil Trigger transformation I reply to the hero in front of me, who has a large smile on his face that, unlike the usual smile he has while working as a hero, feels much more genuine.
"That was most assuredly the hardest sparring match I've had all my life All Might, by the way, congratulations on your healing."
Saying that I send Beowulf back to the Devil Bringer before feeling a large hand clap me on my shoulder with enough strength to send the average man tumbling on the ground for a good few seconds.
"Thank you young Vergil, if it wasn't for you I don't think I would have ever healed from that. Not even the best surgeons of I-island could do much about that. I owe you a debt that I'll struggle to repay in my life."
"No need to repay me All Might, the work you do as a hero is more than enough of a payment for me."
As the muscle-bound hero removes his hand from my shoulder I take out Yamato and turn in the direction of Japan while looking at the boat where Nezu and Recovery Girl are after having to evacuate because of our spar.
"Well, I guess it's best if we get back to the principal and the doctor before one of them comes looking for you armed with a giant syringe."
Hearing that, All Might physically shudders from imagining the small old woman repeatedly smacking her cane on top of his head and I have to restrain a chuckle from seeing a mountain of a man being afraid of someone who barely reaches his hips. Seems like his traumatized by old folks.
After having said that I slashed Yamato twice in front of me in a cross formation and opened a portal leading directly to the boat, I would have preferred to open it on the coast of the island to not scare the two but the waves made by our attacks ended up sending the boat a couple of hundred meters away from it.
"I forgot to ask last time but is that a portal young Vergil?"
"Yes, it'll lead us to the boat where Principal Nezu and Recovery Girl are waiting for us."
"You're full of surprises, aren't you young Vergil?"
With All Might saying that we both step through the portal to find ourselves on the relatively small boat and come face to face with the small doctor aiming her cane at the portal, probably expecting some kind of attack to come through it.
"Next time tell us you can do something like this young man! You almost scared me to death!"
'Why does it feel like I'm trying to give an elderly lady a heart attack today? Between the portal now and the Devil Trigger earlier it's like I'm trying to accidentally kill the poor woman.'
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Takoba Beach, one month before the UA entrance exam.
Nezu's reaction to my demon form? A lot of questions about anything even remotely connected to what I'm capable of in that form. Certainly not the reaction I was expecting.
One of the questions the furred principal asked me was able to shock all the other boat's inhabitants.
"Would you like a scholarship to UA Mr Vergil? If you accept you won't have to take either the entrance exam or the recommendation exam, you'll directly be part of class 1-A."
It took me a good second or two to respond to the principal. That was a question I hadn't seen coming, not at all.
"Are you sure about that principal?"
"Yes Mr Vergil, I'm sure. You just did something that no one else in the world could have and immediately after demonstrated a combat level on par with, if not surpassing, that of most pros. You would make an excellent hero."
"Well, when you put it like that, what can I do except for accepting your offer."
Saying that I extended my hand towards the principal, this wasn't how I had seen myself entering UA but it's certainly one way to do it. As the principal shook my hand he also answered me.
"Welcome aboard then Mr Vergil."
I asked some questions during our trip back to Japan from the small island, one of which was directed at the recently healed number one hero.
"I was wondering All Might, why isn't Midoriya-san with us today? I believe she would have given pretty much anything to see the process of your healing."
When the hero heard me a look of sudden realization crossed over his face before he coughed to hide his embarrassment as best he could.
"You see young Vergil, that would be because I might have forgotten to tell her it would be today."
As soon as he finished speaking all three of us, Nezu, Recovery Girl, and me, facepalmed at the same time with the youthful heroine even muttering something along the lines of: "I can't believe this oaf is the successor of Nana…"
That has got to hurt.
Speaking of, Izumi pouted at All Might for a full hour after he told her of our trip to the island where he healed up before forgiving him for his mistake. By the way, today is the day in which Izumi was able to completely clean up Takoba beach, which means that she will soon be receiving One for All from the muscled hero, who has hopefully decided to just dilute a drop of his blood in a glass of water to make the entire process much easier compared to making Izumi swallow one of his hair.
Reaching the now clean beach, I see Izumi standing with her ankles just below the water level while looking at the horizon with her back to the beach she cleaned up by herself, seems like she doesn't have any hill to fall from after screaming her lungs out. A pity, it would have been funny to see All Might's expression upon seeing that.
"Congratulations Midoriya-san, how are you feeling?"
Hearing me ask her that, Izumi briefly turns her head towards me before once again looking out towards the ocean and answering me with a small smile etched on her face.
"I guess the best way I can define what I'm feeling is by saying that I'm proud of what I was able to accomplish since meeting All Might and you. Thank you Redgrave-san."
"For what?"
"For believing in me when almost no one else did, for helping me all this time and for training me in combat. Truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you."
Saying that Izumi looks back towards me before smiling so bright that for a moment it looks like a second sun appeared right in front of me… Damn it girl, if you keep doing that I'll end up blushing.
"Glad to have been of help then Izumi, I'm sure you'll make a fine heroine, if not even the best."
And now the miniature sun in front of me is even brighter than it already was a moment ago. I'm pretty sure that if I didn't have an enhanced durability and eyesight I might have just gone blind.
"*Ahem* If you two have finished flirting…"
Congratulations Toshinori, you apparently have the ability to turn off the sun, or at least one of them.
"Well, I'm done with what I came here for, I'll leave you two alone."
Once I say that I turn my back towards the ocean and start walking away from the beach and mentor-trainee duo before almost tripping over the air due to barely hearing what the strongest hero mutters under his breath.
"Just because you healed me doesn't mean I'll let you take my pseudo-daughter…"
Dad Might is officially here everyone, don't let your sons get near his daughter if you want to see them tonight.
Leaving the dad jokes alone, I continue walking towards the address that Himiko had sent me this morning to come pick her up from her friend's house. Yesterday she was practically bouncing off the walls thanks to being invited to her first sleep-over. It was cute enough that Mom tried to fuse together with Himiko by hugging her once she was able to catch the blonde vampire.
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Later
"… and then we started pillow fighting! It was so much fun! Oh Oh! Then we braided each other's hair while talking about our crushes!"
'If Himiko gets any cuter I'll start head patting her'
While the blonde-haired bundle of energy tells me about the night she had at her friend's house we're walking back towards home. Well, it's more accurate to say that I'm walking meanwhile Himiko is practically floating a couple of centimetres above the ground due to the sheer amount of energy she has at the moment.
"Ah! I just remembered something, big brother!"
Yes, Himiko calls me big brother even though we are the same age, she insisted on calling me that once she realized we had adopted her.
"And what did you remember Himiko?"
Asking her I continued guiding her back home before almost tripping over the air for the second time today due to what someone said.
"The girls said you give off Daddy energy, what is that?"
What the hell have those women been teaching my cute and innocent little sister?! I swear that if they try to corrupt her I'll have their heads mounted on a spike!
Damn it! Now I sound just like Dad Might did earlier…
Thankfully before I have to start finding an excuse to somehow not explain that staff to her, we both hear an explosion coming from a couple of houses on our right before seeing something being launched by the explosion. Thank you whoever it was for your noble sacrifice, you shall be remembered.
"Big brother, what's that coming our way?"
Himiko asks before pointing towards the something which had been launched in the air a moment ago. Looking up at where she's pointing I see something that suspiciously looks a lot like a certain pink-haired inventor flying towards us… maybe it would be better that she's falling towards us… and maybe it would also be a better fitting description to say that she's falling towards me in particular.
*thud*
That was the sound of the explosion-oriented inventor slamming into my chest before getting caught by me so that she doesn't fall on the floor.
Seeing the rather voluptuous young woman currently held in my arms gives me an idea that I hadn't given much thought to before now. Could Mei be able to replicate the Devil Breakers from the game? Obviously, she wouldn't be able to replicate some of them, more specifically Ragtime and Buster Arm, but could the others possibly be remade in this hero-filled world?
"Well, hello there."
She doesn't even seem fazed by the fact that she's just been blasted several meters away from wherever she was before the explosion nor by the fact that she's currently being held by a stranger in his arms. Gotta say it fits her personality like a glove.
"Hello, are you feeling all right?"
Hearing me ask that Mei just nods her head, not even trying to get out of my grasp.
"Ah yes, I'm fine. It's not the first time something like that happens."
Now that I think about it, how is she completely fine?! She pretty much just face-tanked an explosion strong enough to send her flying above several houses!
"And what exactly was that, miss…?"
At that, Mei gains a pondering look on her face as she answers my question."
"That was my baby, it exploded… but I don't know why! It shouldn't have! And even if it did it shouldn't have exploded with so much force!"
She forgot to introduce herself… how obsessed must she be with those babies of hers?
By the way, during this exchange, Himiko has been muttering about wanting to also be princess-carried like Mei… What the hell is up with the female population near me today?! Is it a full moon?!
"I see, well, if you're feeling fine would you mind me letting you down from my arms?"
Seeing her nod, I lower her legs down on the floor so she can stand and take a step back from her so as to leave her personal space even though from what I know she doesn't exactly know what personal space is.
"Baby-caused explosion apart, nice to meet you miss, my name is Vergil Redgrave, and this here is my sister, Himiko Redgrave."
Hearing herself being introduced causes Himiko to stop muttering to herself before waiving at the somehow unscathed inventor with her reciprocating and introducing herself.
"Nice to meet you too Redgrave-san! I'm Mei Hatsume, inventor and future member of UA's support course!"
Well, if that doesn't count as an opportunity I don't know what does.
"Inventor, huh? Well I have a couple of ideas that would certainly make for a good support item if they were able to come to life, would you-"
And before I can even finish speaking Mei's eyes get all sparkly and she practically jumps in my face.
"What are they?! I want ALL the specifics!"
"Calm down Hatsume-san. I'll tell you about the ideas I have but at another time, right now I need to accompany my sister home."
That doesn't seem to particularly deject her.
"I understand! When can we make babies together?!"
Aaand that's the third time today a woman my age almost made me trip on the very air… I swear if Mom does it too I'm going to go insane…
Handing her my phone I answer her question about 'making babies together'…
"Here, put your number in my phone, as soon as I can I'll send you a text so we can schedule a morning or evening to talk about these ideas I have."
I'm pretty sure that the speed with which she put her number in my phone was enough to break some kind of world record. I think someone with a quirk that lets them connect with technology would take longer to save a phone number.
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Three weeks later, one week before the UA entrance exam
The rest of the way home I had to princess carry Himiko due to her asking me while making puppy dog eyes, those things are enough to convince your typical demon lord to become a pacifist…
Once home Mom asked Himiko how the sleep-over went and they spent a good hour talking about that, needless to say but once Himiko told mom about our encounter with Mei mom went full teasing mode complete with asking about our projects to make babies… *sigh* what I have to endure from the women in my life.
Anyway, I and Mei met a week ago at her warehouse where she builds her babies, the same building that exploded that day, and started talking about the Devil Breakers I hoped, and wanted, her to make, because no matter what, I refuse to walk around with a casket of bananas on my arm, let alone a spinning fork or a… massager.
After the talk, we started to draw the blueprint for the first one we chose to try and make, Rawhide.
It didn't take too much time to draw the blueprint, thankfully Mei had a lot of experience drawing blueprints since she did that even before her quirk manifested, so we then started trying to make the first working prototype for the Devil Breaker. The key word being 'trying'.
For some unknown reason every single prototype we built just decided to explode, like they somehow wanted to explode and so they just did.
Moreover, every single time the prototypes exploded Mei found herself back in my arms, no matter where I was or how far I stood from Mei and the devices. I swear those things somehow gained sentience at some point and decided to go: "Fuck you in particular!"
We didn't make too much progress on that day, maybe, hopefully, we'll be able to make better staff once Mei's in UA's support course.
Anyway, getting back to the present, I'm now inside UA University, eh UAU, because Nezu wanted to spice things up for the recommendation students by offering them a chance to get extra points by fighting me. Damned sadistic chimera.
I obviously accepted his proposal.
From what he told me during our phone call he decided to change the order of the events for the recommendation exam, he chose to move the interview right after the written test and leave the physical test for last so that the examinees who chose to spar with me would already be dressed in appropriate clothes for a sparring match.
Obviously, their objective isn't beating me, none of them would pass otherwise, but it's to simply show their fighting capabilities and to last as long as possible while I have my fu… I mean while I test them in this match absolutely not made to give Nezu a reason to vent a bit of his sadism on innocent victims.
At the moment I'm waiting inside the teacher's lounge looking out of a window that overlooks the training ground where the physical exam is taking place, the room is completely devoid of life apart from me, probably because all the teachers are making the last adjustments for the entrance exam in a week apart from Present Mic, that is down with the examinees recording their time, and the sadistic chimera, who's in his office overlooking the exam from the various cameras around the ground.
Right now the last group of six has just finished their race and the cockatiel-looking hero is grouping them up before explaining to the hero hopefuls their last trial for the day. I guess it's showtime.
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Same time, Third-person POV
Once Present Mic regroups all the various examinees back into one large group, he starts explaining the last part of their exam that was added just one week ago by the principal of the university.
"All right little listeners! Now that you're all done with the physical exam we'll start with the optional part of the test! Give me a YEAH everybody!"
Unfortunately for the loud hero, none of his listeners would respond to his excitement, not that it would discourage the hero.
"This next part will consist of a sparring match against an examiner to show us your combat abilities! The matches will be 1v1 and will last until you give up, the examiner is satisfied with your performance, or I decide you're unable to continue! If you want to participate all you have to do is to simply wait here a moment for the arrival of the examiner, otherwise if you don't feel like participating you can go back to the changing room and then head home little listeners!"
With his piece said Hizashi takes out a notepad in which to note any student who leaves to go home and to soon note how the various sparring matches go.
Soon after the Voice hero finishes his explanation an almost silent murmur starts to form from the large group of adrenaline-fuelled teens. All of them wondering the same thing, who will their examiner be? Will it be a pro hero? One of their soon-to-be teachers? Is a retired hero coming back to judge the next generation of heroes to be? Maybe even a villain who's been promised a reduced sentence for their help?!
The answer? None of the above.
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Same time, Vergil's POV.
Hearing Present Mic's explanation come to an end I start to think of how to make my entrance, should I open a portal with Yamato behind them and scare them a little? Should I just simply walk there?
'Well, I guess I'll let them stew a little while I think about it.'
Around five minutes later a small smirk appears on my face, I've decided to show off a little.
Opening the window, yes I could hear Present mic even with the window closed and him being really far from me, I'm just built different, I step onto its frame before letting myself fall for a moment and then kicking at the wall behind me to give myself enough momentum to reach the training ground with enough speed to create a decently sized dust cloud on my landing point. The dust cloud is big enough to completely cover me, not letting any of the people in front of me see anything but a human shape inside it.
As soon as I make contact with the ground any and all sound coming from the group stops, letting an almost unnerving silence fill the place. It's so quiet that if any of them even breathed a little loud you could hear them, even without enhanced senses.
"Well then, which one of you little listeners feels like going first?!"
Mic certainly knows how to break the ice.
"I will!"
Hearing that, everyone turns from looking at the loud hero to looking at a tall girl with a very mature physique, her long black hair is styled in a spiked ponytail while a large strand sticks to the right side of her face. She's dressed in simple red-colored training clothes that do very little to hide her figure. Unless my existence somehow changed it, her name should be Momo Yaoyorozu.
Let's see what she can do.
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Ten minutes later, Vergil's POV.
After Present Mic started the sparring match I gave Momo the time needed to make herself a steel staff and then immediately rushed towards her to really start this spar. While sprinting towards her I took out Yamato from the Devil Bringer but I didn't unsheathe it, it wouldn't be good to cut her in half now would it?
The staff didn't last very long, after just one hit it had started to bend and dent in various places, and soon after Momo had to throw it away as it had become useless. Unfortunately for her, I didn't give her any space to make another staff or any kind of weapon.
Right now, after almost ten minutes since the start of the spar, Momo isn't looking too good and she looks like she's about to give up, which makes me think that she originally had a bit of a self-esteem problem. We can't have that now, can we?
"Is that it?"
Hearing me speak, Momo takes a second before answering.
"W-what?"
"I asked you if that's all you have. Because, honestly, I'm wondering if you're here to become a hero or just to waste my time. You've barely been using your quirk since the match started! Apart from the staff that I let you make, you've made nothing else!"
As I say that Momo twitches a little at my remark about her quirk before answering me.
"How am I supposed to use my quirk when you're constantly up in my face?!"
"You say that as if any villain out there smart enough to be one would actually let you use it!"
Another twitch.
"Moreover, you should have realized by now that I'm much stronger than you physically! Why haven't you tried to do something about that?! You can't bring down a wall using a feather! Use that brain of yours and think of something you can do!"
As soon as I finish saying this I once more rush towards her, this time a little slower to give her some time to make something useful with her quirk.
Once I'm close to her she extends her right arm towards me before jumping to her right and making two objects at the same time. One of which is a pair of goggles with obscured lenses that appear directly above her eyes, while the other is-
*Bang*
-Was a flash bang, now it's mostly just scattered fragments here and there.
That was actually smart, unfortunately, it was also useless, my eyes are more than strong enough to be able to ignore the effects of the grenade, same with my ears.
As I turn towards her she once more surprises me by pointing towards me what looks like a police taser before pulling the trigger. I could dodge the small darts coming towards me, I'm more than fast enough to do that, but I think it's better if I let myself be hit by them and keep running towards her.
Once the darts hit me I see Momo smile a little before realizing that I'm not stopping and once more jumping away from me, or trying to at least. Wrapping my hand around her ankle I swing my arm back throwing the young woman towards the ground where she lands roughly.
"Better! But it's still not enough! Don't be gentle with me, the villains you'll face in the future certainly won't be with you!"
Nodding at me Momo once again gets back up from the ground before quickly throwing numerous smoke grenades in my direction and all over our surroundings that, as soon as they hit the ground, the smoke of various colors and densities.
"That's not going to work little he-"
*cough**cough**cough*
Before I can finish speaking I start coughing repeatedly and bring my human hand to my mouth which, once I move it from being in front of my face, I can see that there's some blood on it… Poisonous gas, eh? Moreover, she made it as soon as I told her to stop holding back. Not bad, not bad at all.
Too bad for her that poison isn't really useful against me, thanks to my demon heritage it gets burned off almost as soon as it gets into my body.
Ignoring the poison cloud all around me I switch Yamato with Beowulf and immediately punch upwards towards the sky with enough strength to make the poisonous cloud get dispersed thanks to the air moving upwards, then I once more switch to Yamato, obviously still sheathed.
Seems like Momo didn't expect me to counter her poison gas strategy so easily and with it having so few effects on me because she's once more stunned and looking at me through a gas mask that hides almost all her face with the exception of her eyes that, at the moment, are almost as wide as dinner plates.
Rushing at her once more, Momo throws another smoke grenade toward me, this time without the gas being a mix of toxins, and then retreats further away from me.
'What do you have in mind now?'
Thinking that I rush through the smoke cloud and emerge on the other side a moment after looking towards Momo who's holding a-
...Is that a rail gun?!
Before I have any more time to think about what in the hell Momo made she shoots at me a small steel bar which is going at several times the speed of sound and is aimed right in the center of my torso. Unsheathing for the first time Yamato I slash in two the steel projectile coming at me just before it's able to reach me causing the two halves to fly at my sides and then get stuck several meters in the ground.
Damn girl, that could have seriously injured me!… Well done!
Putting Yamato back in its sheath I look once more towards Momo and find her extremely thin compared to how the match started, she almost looks malnourished. Making the rail gun must have taken a lot out of her lipid reserves to reduce her in this state.
Sending Yamato back to the Devil Bringer subspace I raise my arm and shout towards Mic to let him hear me.
"That's enough! The match is-"
And I'm once more interrupted before I can complete my sentence.
"No! I… can… still go… on…"
Momo says while looking at me with a gaze full of determination and with the rail gun still in her hands even if it looks like it's about to fall from her grasp.
Sighing I move behind her in an instant and put my hands on her shoulders while calling to our location the robotic stretcher that's standing nearby for situations like this one and that's programmed to bring her to the infirmary so that Recovery Girl can look over her.
"It's okay, you've done enough. You can rest now."
As soon as I finish saying that Momo falls unconscious while the rail gun, which looks a lot like the one from Helldivers 2, falls to the ground and I'm forced to hold her up princess-style while the robot stretcher takes its sweet time coming to us.
After the Yaoyorozu heiress is headed to the infirmary I turn back towards the large group of hero hopefuls.
"Now then, who's next?"
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UA University, day of the entrance exam
The only noticeable sparring matches after the one I had with Momo were the ones with the other members of the future classes 1-A and 1-B, namely Shoto Todoroki, Juzo Honenuki, and Setsuna Tokage plus Inasa Yoarashi, who would go to a different hero school due to his disagreement, if you can even call it that, with the son of Endeavour.
The spar with the youngest Todoroki went similar to how the sports festival fight between him and Izuku would, with me breaking his ice over and over again using Beowulf and with the half-and-half teen stubbornly using only his ice side. I soon got tired of the back and forth and appeared behind him before declaring the match over.
Unlike the previous significant matches against the future members of class 1-A my spar with Juzo was a little underwhelming, he kept trying to make me stumble by softening the ground beneath our feet and by swimming in it. It didn't work and the fight ended soon.
The local lizard lady was the one that gave me the most entertaining fight, she kept splitting her body up into a large number of small pieces while I launched summoned blade after summoned blade at her various body parts to force her back into a full human, it was particularly fun seeing her get scared when one of my blades almost went through her nose. My spar with wasn't the longest but it certainly didn't end immediately.
Inasa also gave me a nice warm-up, especially since he kept getting up no matter how many times I knocked him down or how hard I did so, at some point, I was even afraid of giving him a concussion due to how hard I was hitting him but, as if made of rubber, the man kept bouncing back on his feet before shortly after flying around thanks to his quirk.
Unfortunately, apart from these five spars, all the others were kind of a letdown. Most of them ended after very little time had passed since the start and the few that didn't weren't much to talk about either.
Getting back to the present I'm inside the observation room that will soon be filled by the various teachers and judges for the practical test of the entrance exam, most of the teachers aren't here yet because the various student hopefuls are still on the buses that are bringing them to their examination sites. The only other living being in this room is the famous yellow caterpillar man who will soon become the 1-A home-room teacher, the sleep-deprived legend himself, the dry-eyed man, Eraser Head!.. who's resting inside his sleeping bag with his back against the wall after jugging down a grape juice box in record time.
By the way, Izumi still tripped over nothing on her way to the exam hall and was saved by the resident soon to be gravity themed heroine but, unlike Izuku in the original universe, the current holder of One for All wouldn't have fallen on her face like a sack of potatoes but was already poised to spring back onto her feet even if in the end it wasn't necessary.
"What is a young man doing here?"
A distinctively female voice asks right after opening the door and seeing me standing in front of enough monitors to shame the average sci-fi movie. Most probably Midnight if I had to guess.
"The damn rat wants him here. Don't know why."
This time it was the mythical half-man half-caterpillar who answered the R-rated heroine. I'm kinda surprised that the chimera isn't hiding inside the sleep-deprived man's scarf but I guess he can be serious when he needs to and apparently the entrance exam counts as being a serious enough event.,
Turning around I come face to face with most of the teachers here at UA, namely Nemuri Kayama, aka Midnight, Ectoplasm, Snipe, Sekijiro Kan, aka Vlad King, Ryo Inui, aka Hound Dog, Ken Ishiyama, aka Cementoss, Higari Majima, aka Power Loader, the already mentioned caterpillar man, Shota Aizawa and, currently squeezing through the door, Toshinori Yagi, aka All Might, with the principal of this university on his right shoulder.
All of them are dressed in civilian clothes forgoing their hero costumes except for Eraser head, who's in his hero costume under the sleeping bag, and Power Loader who's also dressed, if you could call the pants he's wearing being dressed, in his hero costume, an excavator claw covering his head, the aforementioned pants and a simple pair of boots plus a pair of grey, fingerless gloves.
The only missing teachers are Present Mic, for obvious reasons, Lunch Rush, who's probably preparing the meals for the other staff members, and Thirteen, who, if I had to guess, I believe is checking up on the USJ to make sure it's ready for the new year that's about to start.
"You're early Mr Redgrave."
The principal said from All Might's shoulder before jumping off of him and landing on a table near the honestly staggering amount of screens showing the various examination grounds and right next to a console, probably used to make sure none of the robots permanently injure any of the students-to-be.
"What can I say principal, I'm excited to see how my soon-to-be fellow students are going to perform, especially for a couple of them."
At that, the principal smirks a little before turning back around towards the teachers.
"Everyone, let me introduce to you Mr. Vergil Redgrave, soon to be student here at UA university thanks to having accepted the scholarship I offered him."
Everyone except All Might actually flinched for an instant upon hearing that before quickly recovering from the shock with Midnight in particular coming towards me while shaking her hips a bit more than what would be considered appropriate.
"Well hello there handsome, I'm Midnight, your Modern Hero Art History teacher here at UA. Students usually call me professor or ma'am but if you want you can call me mommy."
I've never seen a more synchronized facepalm from so many people in either of my lives. There's only one way to answer her.
"Woof."