Entertainment / Halo

The moment the crying started, Yukino's face darkened.

"You shameless, creepy toilet!"

With a flying kick, she sent Mineta on the ground flying six or seven meters, rolling seven or eight times before finally crashing into the corner of a table. Only then did Yukino let out a satisfied breath.

"Ahem."

Fumikage Tokoyami turned his head away somewhat awkwardly.

Although he had been serious during the match and had not thought much of it at the time, recalling it now still made his heart flutter a little.

But Su Lin's original body was male, after all. He felt that having such thoughts about his brother was indeed rather shameful, so he immediately shook the image from his mind.

Tsuyu Asui took a sip of the drink in front of her, suddenly remembered something, and turned to ask, "Su Lin-chan, can you explain the ability you used earlier? I heard that you used a new... avatar we didn't recognize."

"Hmm... I did use a new avatar. How should I put it? Each of my avatars has a daily time limit, and during that time, I can summon them three times. The girl you're seeing now, whom I named Yukino Yukinoshita, is already the third summon. That means if I dismiss her now, she won't be able to appear again until tomorrow at the earliest."

This explanation was already far more detailed than what Su Lin had told them before. Fumikage Tokoyami and Tsuyu-chan both listened intently.

"Likewise, when summoning an avatar, I can make her appear anywhere within ten meters. Because it happens so quickly, it often looks like Teleportation. But if I transform directly, the change starts at the genetic level..."

"So after Su Lin-chan turns into a girl, even her genes become completely female? In that case, even if you don't want to be a boy anymore, it wouldn't be impossible... kero?"

"..."

Who the hell wanted to be a girl?

Why did everyone who heard about this Quirk immediately think in that direction?

Yukino lowered her head unhappily and began eating.

Entertainment Event

An hour later...

"All right, lunch break is over. Before we announce the final event, I have good news for everyone who was eliminated. The school has prepared an entertainment event that everyone can participate in, and we've even invited a professional female cheerleading squad from America to liven up the atmosphere..."

"Huh... The girls aren't wearing cheerleader uniforms?"

Yukino looked at the serious-looking girls of Class A with an odd expression.

"I remember Mineta was supposed to trick them into wearing sexy outfits in the Original Work."

With her expectations dashed, Yukino held her forehead, feeling somewhat disappointed.

"Could it have been that kick?"

Thinking of how she had kicked Mineta flying earlier, Yukino silently apologized, though she did not care too much.

Maybe that guy was enjoying it.

After all, he got kicked by a pretty girl.

While she was thinking that, the students had already gathered together. Mic once again used his noisy Quirk to broadcast his words across the entire venue:

"Come on, students! Let's have some fun with the entertainment event! After that, the four teams that advanced to the final event, a total of sixteen contestants, will compete in one-on-one practical elimination matches!"

The venue quickly fell quiet. Midnight walked onto the raised platform holding a box and said to the students below, "All right, the matchups will be decided by drawing lots. Once the groups have been decided and the entertainment event is over, the finals will officially begin. Now, the first team, please begin drawing."

Watching Midnight slowly walk down, Yukino hesitated for two seconds before suddenly raising her right hand. "Sorry, Sensei, but may I interrupt?"

"Hmm?"

Everyone in the venue turned to look at her.

"Koji Koda has announced his withdrawal. He's rather introverted, so I'm submitting the request on his behalf."

"Ah, why?" Izuku Midoriya's eyes widened.

"This is a hard-earned opportunity, Koda," Tenya Iida said, pushing up his glasses with an incomparably serious expression.

Everyone's gaze fell on Koji Koda, who stood beside them with a terrified expression.

"Because his ability isn't suited for combat." Yukino calmly stepped in front of Koji Koda and said to everyone, "He can control living creatures to help with certain tasks, such as searching for trapped people or scouting enemies. But when it comes to combat, he is relatively lacking. Koda believes his place should go to someone more deserving, rather than being wasted on him."

"Oh?" A slightly strange smile appeared on Midnight's face. After seriously looking at Yukino, she cracked her whip fiercely. "What a childish thing to say!"

"Eek!"

Yukino jumped back in fright.

Why did you have to come right in front of me to crack your whip? You scared me into thinking you were going to whip me!

"But I approve. That leaves one spot open. Then... Hitoshi Shinso, who ranked fifth in the Cavalry Battle, will take that place."

The dispirited Hitoshi Shinso jolted and raised his head. A trace of barely perceptible surprise flashed across his cold face.

"All right, enough nonsense. Start drawing."

Yukino quickly drew her opponent... Ojiro.

"He seems pretty strong."

Though he could not compare to main characters like Todoroki, Ojiro's combat ability was absolutely among the top tier when considered on his own.

When she looked up at him, Ojiro happened to be looking back. He gave Yukino a gentle smile and lightly nodded.

"Sigh, if it's him, I might need to use X."

Yukino's match was the second one.

The first match was Hitoshi Shinso. His opponent was Sero, rather than Midoriya as in the original story.

"Does this count as... a Worldline change?"

After silently complaining to herself, Yukino quietly noted down this change caused by her.

But thinking carefully, the Butterfly Effect she had brought about did not seem as strong as she had imagined. Otherwise, the plot should have been completely wrecked by now.

"Don't tell me this world has something like a World Will that forces everything back onto the right track..."

Yukino felt that there was some factor she did not understand, yet was extremely important.

Maybe the system knew, but who knew when it would finally tell her.

"All right, let's put the elimination matches aside for now. It's entertainment time. Go enjoy yourselves! First up is the scavenger race!"

Mic roared, and fireworks shot into the sky with a crackle.

The atmosphere instantly became lively.

Perhaps infected by the excitement, Yukino's mood brightened considerably.

"Hey, hey, Su Lin-chan, let's play too." An extremely excited Torhu Hagakure rushed over and hugged her.

"Uh, all right, all right."

Directly pulled along by this unclothed girl, Yukino awkwardly followed her onto the track.

"Everyone, please take your positions and get ready!"

Bang!

With the gunshot, the five people on the track sprinted forward at full speed.

Yukino soon reached the edge of a lawn and flipped over a white card with words written on it.

A hairless dog!

"Ha, what the hell is this?"

Seeing the others already rush toward the spectator area, Yukino did not think much about it and ran over with the card.

"Hey, do any of you have a hairless dog?" she called, waving the card at the audience above.

"What the heck?" The people sitting there were speechless for a moment.

"Wait, does any dog without fur count? Then toys should count too." Someone with a strange Quirk directly removed the fur from a toy dog and tossed it to Yukino.

"Thanks."

Holding the toy dog, which was a full thirty centimeters tall, Yukino turned and ran toward the finish line. But before she had taken more than a few steps, an excited shout came from the spectator area: "Su Lin!"

"Hm?" Yukino froze and could not help turning around, only to see a familiar figure shouting at her, "I love you, Su Lin!"

"Pfft."

Yukino stumbled.

Wasn't that the boy who confessed to her on graduation day in middle school, only to get sent flying by a sword strike?

"Get lost, you clingy bastard!"

After shouting the insult from afar, Yukino returned to the track and gloomily finished the rest of the game.

She did not believe those boys confessing to her had any good intentions.

They were just lusting after her body, weren't they?

But... if it were a girl confessing to her, she might actually agree.

As the entertainment event continued, a sturdy arena constructed by Cementoss gradually appeared in the center of the venue.

The finals were about to begin.

Aura

"Hey guys, are you ready?"

Half an hour later, as Mic spoke, cheers erupted throughout the venue. The U.A. Sports Festival had reached its most fervent moment of the year.

"After all those events, I'm sure your hearts are already full of anticipation."

"The highly anticipated U.A. Sports Festival finals have simple rules. You win by completely knocking your opponent out of the ring, rendering them unable to act, or forcing them to say, 'I surrender.' Of course, moves that endanger your opponent's life are forbidden. Otherwise, it will be judged as a serious foul, and you will be disqualified on the spot."

"Anyway, without further ado, the match begins..."

"Ready, Start!"

"The first matchup is Hero Course student Sero versus General Studies student Hitoshi Shinso! Let's look forward to their performance!"

"Heh heh." As Mic made his announcement, Hitoshi Shinso suddenly let out a cold laugh in the arena. "You probably won't say something like surrender, will you? That honest monkey gave up such an important opportunity merely because of his own lack of confidence. That was nothing more than idiotic behavior. If you say the same thing, then in my eyes, you won't be much better than that monkey."

His words were venomous to the extreme, but Sero merely gave a disdainful smile. "Are you a child? You're actually trying to provoke me with such cheap verbal tricks?"

Tape suddenly shot from his arms, attempting to attack Shinso. But in that instant, his movements abruptly halted, as though time had stopped. Even the arm he had raised into the air stiffened.

"Hey, what happened? Why did he stop fighting? Sero froze in place right at the start?" Mic stood up from his seat.

Outside the arena, Torhu Hagakure, who was watching the match, glanced to the side and discovered that Yukino was gone.

"Huh, where's Su Lin-chan? She was just here."

"I saw her leave." Ojiro pointed behind him.

In a secluded spot two hundred meters away.

Yukino stood in the empty space between the men's and women's restrooms, deep in thought.

"Come to think of it, the avatars have never used the restroom. They won't suddenly need to someday, right?"

If she had not happened to pass by, she would never have thought of something so bizarre.

"Su Lin-chan, what are you doing here?" Just as she was pondering, Kyoka Jiro happened to walk over.

Her gaze shifted between the words men and women, and she then looked at Yukino strangely. "Don't tell me you're hesitating over which one to use?"

While Yukino was feeling extremely awkward, Kyoka Jiro heavily slapped her shoulder. "What are you thinking? You're still hesitating over which restroom to enter at a time like this? What do you think those perverted men would do if they saw a delicate, beautiful girl like you walk in there? Are you trying to throw yourself into a pack of wolves? You're a man. Don't you know how attractive you are?"

"Pfft!"

Yukino had not expected Kyoka Jiro to suddenly become so irritable. Speechless, she rubbed her temples. "Please don't randomly imagine such ridiculous things."

By the time Yukino returned near the arena, the first match had already ended.

Because Sero did not know about Shinso's Quirk, he fell for it the instant he replied to him.