"T-two Quirks!? And All Might-level power!? You're joking!?"
Kirishima let out a cry-like voice in surprise, but the remaining four, rather, felt a sense of 'I see' and understood Shigaraki's explanation.
This enemy called Nomu was an existence that truly demonstrated its worth specifically against All Might.
To completely shut down All Might, who fights with overwhelmingly powerful blows, it possessed enough power to trade blows head-on, and Quirks perfectly suited for that purpose. It was essentially his natural enemy.
What was noteworthy was Shigaraki's way of speaking, as if they had 'made' this enemy deliberately to be like that, but putting that aside, one thought surfaced in the minds of the four.
'Letting this thing fight All Might is bad.'
It wasn't that they didn't believe in the invincible No. 1 Hero. However, the villains had clearly initiated this action with the serious intent to kill All Might, and they had just shown a piece with performance matching that intent.
Furthermore, the Quirks of Kurogiri and Shigaraki were also troublesome and powerful. Since it was unlikely they would just let Nomu fight while they watched, leaving them to their own devices, given they seemed to have planned everything from the start, was dangerous.
That said, they didn't think they could do anything either.
Even if it was an anti-blunt force, anti-All Might weapon, its base combat specs were just abnormal. Even if they had means of attack that could deal damage, it would be difficult for their immature selves to win.
Midoriya, Towa, Todoroki, and even Bakugo understood that.
But not a single one of them, of course, including Kirishima, tried to give up.
While everyone was hesitating, wondering if there was any way, what should they do,
"...Everyone, I have something to say. Just listen."
The one boy in this group who was the most timid, yet was said to be more 'Hero-like' than anyone else, opened his mouth, trying to speak so the four could hear him without the enemies noticing.
Whether it was a standoff or a stalemate,
In reality, faced with overwhelming power and not knowing what to do, like frogs stared down by a snake... Shigaraki interpreted the current state of the U.A. students, frozen before Nomu, in that way, and behind his hand-shaped mask, a distorted smile formed. He sneered inwardly at the pitiful sight of the Heroes, unable to do anything but stand frozen.
But he grew bored of that too and was about to order Nomu to just kill them quickly... when it happened.
The U.A. students, who he thought were frozen, incapable of moving, suddenly sprang into action as if launched.
Bakugo circled around to the side while glaring at Kurogiri and Shigaraki, and Towa charged straight at Nomu from the front. Looking at just this, it seemed like mere suicide, but seeing Todoroki creating ice masses around them in the background, one could guess they were planning something.
But Shigaraki, dismissing any petty tricks as something that could be torn apart with overwhelming power, was about to give Nomu the go-ahead again...
Suddenly, Towa undid the buttons on the front of her school uniform.
From the momentum of her run, or the wind pressure from the front, the school uniform flapped open wide like a cape before their eyes.
Inevitably, what was being held closed... or rather, hidden underneath, Towa's bare, naked upper body was exposed again.
Right before the stunned Shigaraki's eyes, as the enemy suddenly engaged in exposure, two well-shaped, large breasts swayed, jiggling.
However, if one expected Shigaraki and the others to lose their composure like the usual Midoriya or Ojiro when presented with such a service scene... unfortunately, the answer was no.
"Hah? You... What's that, planning to create an opening with seduction? How pathetic..."
"How shallow. Truly, this shows the caliber of the famed U.A. students... Not only is the thinking childish, but it's beyond brazen and downright vulgar."
"You bastards... You see a teenage girl's flawless skin and you dare talk like that! Well, it's fine though... I'm not the main attraction anyway, am I?"
"!"
At that moment, hidden by the widely spread school uniform and the ice masses Todoroki had deployed, Midoriya, who had started running, burst out from the opposite side of Bakugo, took a sharp curve, and closed in right before Shigaraki's eyes. Swinging back his arm, fist clenched.
"Hmph... So what. You're too slow for a surprise attack."
Midoriya's movements were at a level that Shigaraki, even without using Nomu, with his personal combat ability alone, could easily handle.
He was certainly faster and stronger than the average person, but his movements were amateurish. Shigaraki knew from his own experience that reading such an attack was simple.
So Shigaraki, with plenty of leeway, braced himself to catch Midoriya's attack just like before, ready to counter with his 'Collapse' Quirk. Whether it was a fist, a feint with an elbow, or a kick, by grabbing it with that hand and touching it with five fingers, he could crumble it to dust.
(Alright... Now!)
But Midoriya didn't proceed with a punching motion. Nor did he feint and throw a kick or elbow... the motion he shifted into was a throwing motion.
He threw something he had been holding in the hand everyone thought he was going to strike with, aiming it at Shigaraki's feet... Immediately after, it detonated, scattering intense light and sound all around.
"Wha... A stun grenade!?"
"You little... Such an insolent trick... Planning to attack under cover of the light!"
"Not for you bastards, though!"
Right after, Bakugo, accelerating with an explosion from his palm, flew in.
His target was neither Shigaraki nor Kurogiri... but Nomu, who remained standing rigidly even amidst the flash.
He grabbed Nomu's face from both sides with his hands... and set off an explosion. Finishing that, he immediately leaped back from the spot... and just then, Todoroki's cold reached it, freezing a larger area than before in ice.
When the light and sound subsided, Nomu was bleeding from both sides of its head, its arms frozen from the elbows down, yet it still showed no reaction and remained standing.
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