Testing and joining

Standing behind Uraraka Shige was a guy whose body was covered in gray-green scales. He looked very strong, but he also gave people a strange, withered feeling as if he were just skin and bones.

This eerie feeling startled Uraraka Shige for a moment, but she quickly recovered and answered the guy's question.

"No, I'm not 'Quirk,' it's just... my 'Quirk' is far too useless... and the side effects are incredibly severe."

Instead of lying and claiming to be a 'Quirk' person, Uraraka Shige half-truthfully admitted that he possessed a 'Quirk,' but in doing so, he also downplayed his 'Quirk' to the extreme.

After all, in this world, there are unique 'Quirk' and there are also ways to detect 'Quirk'. In fact, some 'Quirk' can even be used to detect whether someone has a 'Quirk' or whether they are lying.

Just like how AFO's Quirk is forcibly activated in the original work, if someone were a Quirk individual, it wouldn't be possible to successfully activate something that didn't exist in the first place, right?

"Is that so... kid? Now that you mention it, I'm even more interested in what your 'Quirk' really is."

The creature covered in gray-green scales expressed great interest after hearing Uraraka Shige's answer and pressed him for Uraraka Shige.

Uraraka Shige and looked at the guy standing in front of her, blocking her way out of the stairwell. She seemed to be carefully sizing him up, and her expression seemed somewhat hesitant.

However, in the Uraraka Shige, after weakening his 'Quirk' by dozens of times, he finally spoke out.

"My 'Quirk' is... the ability to manipulate Gravity to make my body heavier. However, this heaviness doesn't make my punches and kicks more powerful; instead, it puts a tremendous strain on my blood vessels and internal organs."

As before, when Uraraka Shige on disguising her 'Quirk,' she also describes it in a way that is half true and half false.

His claim of manipulating Gravity is true, and his ability to make his body heavier is also true, but the claim that he can only do that is false. The claim that his 'Quirk' doesn't make his punches and kicks more powerful is false; the claim that it puts a strain on his blood vessels and internal organs is true, but the claim that it causes an extreme strain is also false.

"Hmm... I see!"

This creature, covered in gray-green scales, suddenly spread its left hand out in front of its chest and abdomen. Then, it clenched its right fist, knuckles facing down, and slammed it into its outstretched left hand, the knuckles and palm fitting together perfectly.

Then the guy suddenly grinned, revealing a mouthful of jagged teeth, and gave Uraraka Shige a very ugly smile.

You're lying, you brat!

As he spoke these words, the creature covered in gray-green scales emanated a naked killing intent and an extremely strong, oppressive aura towards Uraraka Shige, even extending his thin but powerful right hand towards Uraraka Shige's head.

This guy's words and actions instantly instilled an extremely strong sense of crisis in Uraraka Shige, a threat that was far stronger and more deadly than the one posed by the hook-nosed guy before.

Even at this moment, Uraraka Shige, enveloped by this guy's murderous intent and aura, had thoughts like, 'He really found out that I wasn't telling the truth, he found out that I had ulterior motives, he wants to kill me! He will kill me! I will die here!'

So, Uraraka Shige began to subtly activate his 'Quirk', preparing to bypass the guy in front of him and escape from the office building at any moment.

Only his memories and experiences from his previous life allowed him to maintain a calm facade and avoid panicking, which would expose his true colors.

"You... huff... no, sorry, what do you mean?"

Uraraka Shige, but just as she uttered the first word, she suddenly took a deep breath, interrupting what she was about to say, as if she was adjusting her mindset.

Immediately afterward, Uraraka Shige seemed to have adjusted her wording, and finally cautiously probed the guy in front of her with a question.

The man in front of Uraraka Shige, who was almost two and a half times his own height, stared at him with a cold and emotionless gaze. After a moment of Uraraka Shige, he suddenly spoke again.

"Um..."

The mere nasal sound nearly made Uraraka Shige instinctively clench his fist and swing it towards the guy's crotch.

Fortunately, Uraraka Shige reacted quickly enough, and his memories and experiences from his previous life allowed him to remain calm in this situation... much calmer than a real nine-year-old kid.

Thanks to this, Uraraka Shige was ultimately unable to throw a punch; he merely clenched his fist.

Uraraka Shige's reaction seemed to lead the creature covered in gray-green scales to mistakenly believe that it was due to being affected by his aura and killing intent, causing it to become overly tense.

So this guy didn't suspect anything more, and suddenly his attitude towards Uraraka Shige became more friendly.

"... Don't be too nervous or afraid. I just want to test you a little more, kid."

The gray-green creature still maintained its grinning expression, but the stiff look on its face and the cold gaze it had just displayed suddenly softened considerably.

The right hand that had been extended towards Uraraka Shige's head remained open, placed on top of Uraraka Shige 'Uraraka Shige head, and gently ruffled Uraraka Shige's hair, making his already messy hair even more disheveled.

Then, the hand that had been on Uraraka Shige's head was gently removed, and at the same time, the gray-green creature bent down slightly and presented the right hand that had just been removed from Uraraka Shige's head, palm up, to Uraraka Shige.

"Welcome to our team, kid. If you're lucky enough and perform well enough, maybe you'll really be given a brand new 'Quirk' by the adults, just like me."

When Uraraka Shige, facing the greeting from this creature taller than twice her own and covered in gray-green scales, suddenly let out a sigh of relief, her expression one of 'Ahhh, that scared me to death! What a relief!' She then nodded insincerely at the creature, replying:

"Yes, I'm honored to join you... You really can gain a great 'Quirk,' right?"