My Avatar is the Heroine Chapter 3

Izuku Midoriya clenched his fists.

All Might's meaning was obvious. This was an effort doomed to have no hope.

In a society where Quirks were everywhere, what use was there in an ordinary person training desperately? Perhaps that girl had accepted some kind of despair, yet still refused to give up, gritting her teeth and persevering here in obscurity.

Bang!

Several hundred meters away, Su Lin had no idea that two people had already imagined an entire story about her. She kicked hard, knocking the television off the cabinet.

"Ghh~~~"

The intense pain seemed to surge forth all at once. Even with the system's pain-relieving ability, it was still a little too much to bear.

She raised her bloodied arm. The wounds on it healed at a visible rate. She did not stop to examine them, instead limping over to an old table and collapsing onto it, gasping for breath.

"Feels good."

She stared up at the sky as the morning sunlight fell across her head, bringing an inexplicable warmth.

"I can't believe I lasted this long."

Perhaps because her avatar's death would not affect her real body, she did not mind doing a little more training as long as it was not dangerous.

She folded her arms over her chest and bent her legs. The two thighs beneath her skirt carried an indescribable sense of exhaustion.

Perhaps because of that, she could better understand just how fragile she was.

"If I ran into a villain right now, I'd be in trouble."

For some reason, Su Lin always had this sort of unease.

"No, I can't rest."

Thinking of the more than one hundred hours of training still ahead, she gritted her teeth again and sat up where she was.

Watching the girl resume training without allowing herself even another moment of rest, Izuku Midoriya took a deep breath. He picked up a tire from the ground, slung it over his back, and sprinted toward the distant beach with all his strength.

Even a girl was working this hard. He felt that he should not waste his time meaninglessly.

"Looks like that kid got quite the shock."

All Might was very satisfied with Izuku's current performance, but he also began to worry about the girl's condition in the distance.

A healing-type Quirk did not activate without conditions. It generally consumed the body's nutrients or potential to rapidly heal injuries. Repeatedly suffering severe wounds and healing herself like that girl was doing would definitely have adverse effects.

Driven by a hero's instincts, All Might walked toward her.

"Young lady, you can't keep doing this." Once he got close enough, All Might was fully within Su Lin's field of vision. He immediately offered a well-meaning warning in what he believed was his gentlest tone. "Even training has to follow objective laws. Constantly pushing yourself to the limit will only be counterproductive."

"All Might?"

Su Lin spoke almost instinctively.

"Huh?" All Might leaped back in fright. "You know who I am?"

While All Might became wary, Su Lin realized that she had miscalculated. She had actually blurted out his name. There was no doubt that, for the sake of his image, All Might had always concealed the fact that he could only maintain his muscular form for three hours a day. Other than a few friends, almost no one knew this secret.

There was no reason for Su Lin, who had just met him, to recognize him at a glance.

"Aha." Su Lin immediately scratched her head awkwardly. "I thought you were All Might, but then I realized you were just an ugly skeleton man. Was it just an illusion after all? Right, how could someone as ugly as you possibly compare to All Might?"

A row of black lines immediately appeared across All Might's forehead. Ugly skeleton man? Wasn't that a little too disrespectful?

And that girl's intuition was terrifying. She had actually sensed his identity at once. Fortunately, she had not concluded that he really was All Might, which let him breathe a sigh of relief.

"Young lady, I think your training method is far too dangerous. Even if you want to become stronger, you still need to pay attention to the proper method."

"Nope." Su Lin sat up, the calves in Black Stockings exposed beneath her black robe swaying lightly, still stained with a trace of blood. "This is my Quirk."

"Quirk?"

"Anyway, you don't need to worry about me."

She jumped down from the table, waved her hand indifferently, then turned and ran toward the distance. "I know what I'm doing."

All Might stared at the girl's stubborn retreating figure, momentarily speechless.

"Persuasion failed. What a... stubborn child."

"Oh, right."

Just as she reached the corner and was about to turn, the girl suddenly looked back and said to him, "There's something I need to tell you."

"What?" All Might perked up.

"I'm a man."

The vacation soon arrived. Izuku Midoriya's special training was nearing its end, and the U.A. entrance exam was approaching. As if they had reached a tacit understanding, neither interfered with the other. Every day, they trained in different ways at opposite ends of Seaside Park.

All Might had initially worried that something might go wrong with Su Lin's training, but he soon realized he had been overthinking it.

That girl really was growing day by day, without a single flaw to be found.

"How can she push herself this far?"

Once again seeing the girl training at full force during a break, Izuku's expression was complicated, his tightly clenched fists trembling nonstop.

During this time, he believed he had pushed himself to the limit. He had even added harsher training on his own, beyond what All Might had prescribed.

But it was completely incomparable to that girl's level of effort. She was practically gambling with her life, gritting her teeth through twisted features and persevering day after day.

The image of Yukino Yukinoshita as a frail long black-haired girl had deeply taken root in people's minds. Every time he saw her in pain, Izuku felt terrible.

Of course, All Might felt just as bad. But as a hero, once he learned that it would not kill her, he decided not to stop her anymore.

Because he knew that was the girl's choice.

Bang—

Her fist smashed into the glass. When she pulled it back out, her bloody hand was already covered in glass shards. Constantly regenerating flesh squirmed around the tiny fragments, drawing more and more cold sweat from her forehead.

Violent training time: 299 hours.

Obviously, her actual training time over the past few months had far exceeded that amount. But according to the system's judgment, only training carried out under the condition of sustaining a certain degree of injury met the standard. Most of Su Lin's efforts had therefore been wasted.

"Half a year ago, pain like this would have made me cry."

It turned out that repeated pain could strengthen a person's willpower and gradually numb them to it.

Su Lin gritted her teeth and picked out the shattered glass. Once she had recovered, she would begin the final hour of training.

Her second avatar—Mysterious Heroine X—was about to appear.

When that happened, he would truly possess power.

The Teacher's Question

Training mission complete. Avatar unlocked: Mysterious Heroine X.

Bang—

With the final kick, the battered refrigerator before her finally toppled under the tremendous force. The black-haired girl collapsed to the ground the next second, looking completely drained as she gasped for air.

"Ha... haa... I finally did it."

Excitement, exhilaration...

Though she looked weak enough to be bullied at will, Su Lin was already overjoyed inside. This not only meant the end of her hard life, but also that she now had enough power to protect herself.

"Let's see X-Hair's information."

Though she was an Assassin-class Heroic Spirit, X-Hair's weapon was indeed a dazzling sword. When she unleashed her Noble Phantasm, an equally powerful pitch-black blade would appear as well, forming a terrifying dual-sword style.

Skills:

Support Fire EX

Saber Star C++

Galaxy Meteor Sword C

Class Skills:

Cosmic Reactor A

Riding EX

Noble Phantasm:

Nameless Victory Sword A++

"These abilities are the same as in the game. I just don't know what their actual effects will be."

They certainly looked formidable from the descriptions alone.

Support Fire could inflict a stun effect on groups, making it a large-scale negative status attack.

Saber Star was an ability evolved from Instinct. In other words, aside from dealing additional damage, it also possessed the instinct unique to Heroic Spirits, making it excellent for both combat and survival.

Besides increasing damage, Galaxy Meteor Sword could also grant special effectiveness against the Saber class.

Those three skills formed the core of her regular combat abilities. Meanwhile, Riding and Cosmic Reactor not only allowed X-Hair to operate all kinds of equipment, but also provided powerful sustained combat capability.

As for Nameless Victory Sword, that was naturally her ultimate move. Its effects were undoubtedly terrifying.

In terms of rank, X-Hair was unquestionably extremely powerful. However, Su Lin could not currently bring out her full combat strength and could only maintain her Spirit Core Stage One state. That made her more akin to a Servant than the Heroic Spirit's true body.

Furthermore, X-Hair's usage conditions were clearly harsher than Yukino's. At first, she could only be used for five minutes per day, though that time could gradually be extended with repeated use.

"Well, it's still better than nothing. U.A.'s entrance exam is tomorrow, so I should put on a good performance."

Izuku Midoriya had already cleared the beach. The environment in this Seaside Park was now much better than it had been a few months ago.

After resting, Su Lin sat atop a pile of garbage, swinging her legs as she silently faced the rising sun in the east.

"Dawn."

Although Yukino's transformation had yet to be lifted, there was no doubt that she would be able to face others more often in her male appearance from now on.

Moreover, the way Izuku Midoriya looked at him was becoming increasingly hard to describe. Sometimes, when their eyes met, he would even blush, which disgusted Su Lin.

He had no intention of competing with someone in this world for the role of heroine.

"Let's use up X-Hair's first five minutes first."

Mysterious Heroine X was summoned directly at his side. The girl appeared, dressed in a blue robe and shorts, with her thighs fully exposed. She held a bluish longsword nearly as long as the distance from her head to her knees. A blue hat covered the top of her head, but it could not hide a certain stubborn Antenna Hair.

"It really is Artoria's face."

Her long golden hair made him realize that this body possessed charm in no way inferior to Yukino's. As for her figure, her chest completely outclassed Yukino's unremarkable one.

Alright, focusing on that was a little perverted. Su Lin shook his head and quickly tossed those thoughts aside.

Whoosh~

With a casual wave of his hand, a massive Metal Cabinet dozens of meters away was cleaved into two by an invisible blade of air. This had merely been a casual swing in the X-Hair state, yet its destructive power was already not to be underestimated.

"She really doesn't seem like an Assassin."

Su Lin was stunned by that kind of power. He understood that even in the entire world of U.A., her combat strength would definitely be considered terrifying.

February 25th, one day before the U.A. entrance exam.

At the school's request, Su Lin came to the classroom for the last time and met several teachers who had never appeared in the Original Work.

Quite a few students had come as well, including some top students hoping to apply to prestigious schools. Of course, only two students in total dared to apply to U.A.

"Su Lin, you're here?" The person seated at the front was a teacher from another class, someone Su Lin did not know well. "I heard someone's report... regarding your Quirk, if it only changes your appearance, then it won't be of any use. You should know that U.A. is the finest academy. Even qualifying for its entrance exam is harder than you imagine."

The implication was already obvious. Over the past few years, not a single teacher had seen Su Lin display any worthwhile strength, so everyone had begun to doubt what he was truly capable of.

"Looks like you all know." He, in Yukino's appearance, sighed.