U.A. Sports Festival!... Live Broadcast
"This year's most beloved high school youth extravaganza, the U.A. High School. Sports Festival, is about to begin! Everybody, are you ready!? First-year students, enter the arena!..."
Several days passed in the blink of an eye. Ever since that day Uraraka Shige asked Shigaraki and Kurogiri about their next plans and the nuclear project, Shigaraki had been doing something else. After that, he would often leave the base around noon, sometimes returning two or three hours later, and sometimes he would simply call Kurogiri away, only to be teleported back to the bar base the next day.
Today, they once again summoned Kurogiri and used Kurogiri's 'Quirk' to teleport to another location. Kurogiri, after teleporting Shigaraki to the location, remained at the bar's base.
Uraraka Shige naturally stayed obediently in this base, but because it was too boring, Uraraka Shige turned on the TV to the news channel he used to watch to pass the time.
The news broadcast was a live stream of the U.A. High School. Sports Festival, and at this moment it was showing the first-year students. The students from each class were entering the stadium from the four entrances, introduced by Brescent Mac. The First-Year Class A, which had received widespread attention due to the 'USJ' invasion incident—the class of Uraraka Shige, the older sister of Ochaco Uraraka in this life.
This made Uraraka Shige so engrossed that he unconsciously watched, and the small hollow plastic sphere that he was manipulating with Gravity, making it fly between his wide-open fingers, fell down and was clenched in his palm... He didn't know if it was because of the camera's position, but he couldn't find Ochaco's figure or trace on the TV.
... Speaking of which, since joining the 'League of Villains', Uraraka Shige has neglected a lot of things related to training.
But there's nothing we can do about it, right?
After all, strictly speaking, the quarry couldn't really be considered a 'League of Villains' stronghold, but rather one of the 'AFO's' strongholds...
Uraraka Shige is a member of the League of Villains, not All For One (AFO), and unlike Shigaraki and Kurogiri, he wasn't purely trained by AFO. Therefore, it's neither logical nor reasonable for him to frequently train at the quarry base...
Furthermore, his current situation is also highly unfavorable compared to his openly appearing in crowded places...
This resulted in him spending most of his time at this bar.
However, Shigaraki forbade him from training or making too much noise in this base, which made it difficult for him to carry out any high-intensity training. He could only train and improve his 'Quirk' manipulation details through small balls, ribbons, and the like.
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Overall, Uraraka Shige is also having a tough time...
The live broadcast of the U.A. High School. Sports Festival on TV continued, but it frequently switched between different competition zones, which annoyed Uraraka Shige. After all, he preferred to observe his older sister rather than those 'minor' characters who hadn't even appeared in the original work.
However, this doesn't mean that Uraraka Shige won't carefully observe the situation when switching to other regions.
After all, Uraraka Shige is currently an 'enemy,' while the students of U.A. High School, especially the Hero Course, are basically destined to become 'Pro Hero' in the future. Therefore, observing their 'Quirk' in advance will be very helpful for Uraraka Shige's future.
Not to mention the principle that one can learn from others' experiences, Uraraka Shige can also gain experience that he would not normally have in order by observing how others use their 'Quirk' and how they fight, which will also help him develop his own 'Quirk'.
"... Um?"
The live broadcast, after a few introductions by a news anchor, returned to the first-year group. One scene in particular caught Uraraka Shige's attention, prompting him to instinctively utter a question.
In that scene, Uraraka Shige's older sister from this life was prominently featured!
The question uttered by Uraraka Shige made Kurogiri turn around and ask:
"What's wrong, Uraraka Shige?"
"No, it's nothing... I just discovered something rather interesting that's been bothering me a little..."
On television, Endeavor, the 'hero' Uraraka Shige encountered when he was a child, has a son Shoto Todoroki who has just activated the 'Quirk' inherited from his mother, freezing several giant robots and quickly passing the first obstacle course of the first round of the U.A. High School. Sports Festival obstacle race, Robot Inferno.
And Bakugo, who has an afro hairstyle, possesses the 'Quirk' of Explosion, and is also named Katsuki Bakugo Bakugo, follows closely behind, just like in the original work.
Later, Sero, who has the 'Tape Quirk', and Tokoyami, who has the 'Dark Shadow Quirk', were inspired by Bakugo's act of flying over the robot and each used their 'Quirk' to jump over the robot.
These are simply scenes identical to those in the original work, and of course, they shouldn't cause Uraraka Shige doubt.
In fact, what truly puzzled him was that right after the three of them was his Ochaco, from this life.
Moreover, Ochaco used a running jump to eliminate her own Gravity, directly using the shells of numerous giant robots as footholds, maneuvering and leaping to break through the encirclement formed by the giant robots in one go.
His graceful figure, decisive demeanor, and swift movements clearly indicated that he had undergone systematic training.
Moreover, unlike the original work where she ran on the ground, used her 'Quirk' to lift numerous robots into the air, and then canceled the 'Quirk' to make them fall, passing through the gaps in between... which seemed unremarkable, at least Ochaco's movements as she traversed these giant robots appeared extremely refreshing and cool.
Even Ochaco in this scene, without comparing her to the original character, is vastly different from the older sister he secretly saw when he escaped from Discipline Prison a couple of years ago.
Is this... growing up?
Uraraka Shige silently murmured this in her heart.
"Big sister... I saw it... how much you've grown since we parted."
As he watched Ochaco on television, he felt a surge of joy, a deep sense of satisfaction, inexplicably, like a father seeing his children succeed...
That's really quite strange.