I Swallowed Chapter Forty-Four! Σ(⊙w⊙)!
Uraraka Shige, wielding a wooden sword and glaring with bloodshot eyes, charged towards Ochaco and Asui.
Then...
"Buzz... buzz... Vanguard Action Squad, target recovery complete. Although it was short, it's time to wrap things up! As planned, proceed to the 'recovery location' within five minutes!"
The communicator suddenly rang, emitting Atsuhiro Sako voice.
Uraraka Shige stopped her forward charge and began to listen attentively to the information transmitted through the communicator.
Similarly, Ochaco, and even Asui, who was Toga to the ground, were all drawn to the sounds coming from the communicator.
"... Is it finished?"
After the communicator stopped ringing, all four people in the room fell silent. After a moment of thought, Uraraka Shige suddenly spoke, seemingly with a sigh.
"The task of recovering that brat named 'Bakugo'..."
His deliberately revealed information startled Asui and Ochaco.
Before Asui and Ochaco could react, Uraraka Shige walked to the side, came to a tree, and began to remind Toga again:
"Be careful, don't get crushed."
Immediately afterward, Uraraka Shige raised her right hand, lifting the wooden sword high, then bringing it above her left ear after crossing her chest. She activated her Quirk, Compress and condensing a large amount of Gravity onto the sword, repeatedly pressing it down. Then, with a powerful swing of her arm and the acceleration from her Quirk, she slashed the mere wooden sword through the air, creating a crescent-shaped arc resembling Compress air wave, before slamming it heavily into the trunk of a tree near her. (I've exaggerated here... hopefully no one will find it too unrealistic, right?)
'Boom!!'
A fierce wind emanated from the point of impact between the tree trunk and the wooden sword, causing Uraraka Shige's cloak to flutter continuously. However, Uraraka Shige seemed completely unaffected by the Gravity amplified by his 'Quirk'.
The wooden sword couldn't withstand the recoil from such an attack. It shattered the moment it hit the tree trunk, sending wood chips and debris flying everywhere. The wood inside the trunk was also shaken open by the force of the blow, and much of the surrounding bark was blown off.
Uraraka Shige endured the strong wind and the wood chips and shavings carried by it. He activated his 'Quirk' and kicked the tree trunk behind him. Because he had been constantly improving his physique in a high- Gravity environment since childhood, the flying wood chips and shavings did not directly injure him. However, the place under the bandage where he was hit inevitably developed a bruise.
'Bang!'
After the kick landed, a dull thud was heard where it struck, followed by a cracking sound, as if something was breaking.
The wood inside the tree, already damaged to a certain extent, could no longer support its weight. After being further weakened by the kick amplified by Uraraka Shige's Quirk, it finally gave way and began to fall towards the location of Ochaco and the others, driven by the force of Uraraka Shige's kick and the direction of Gravity Quirk by Uraraka Shige Quirk.
The distance between Ochaco and the three others and the tree was less than two meters, which meant that if they stayed still, they would inevitably be hit by the falling tree.
Given the weight of a tree over two meters tall, coupled with its increasing speed as it falls, the consequences if it were to actually hit someone... are self-evident.
However, Uraraka Shige seems to have forgotten one thing: in the original work, during the entrance exam for U.A. High School, Midoriya tripped over himself due to nervousness. It was during the fall that Ochaco used her 'Quirk' to make him float in the air, thus preventing a major embarrassment.
Just like now, Ochaco, who is much stronger than she was at this time in the original work, did not run away from the tree that was falling towards her. Instead, after getting up from Toga, she simply sidestepped the path of the falling tree, placed her palm on the trunk of the tree from the side, and activated her 'Quirk'.
That alone stopped the tree from falling and crushing everything.
Even so, it was enough for Toga to seize the opportunity to quickly get up and escape from Ochaco and Asui's control.
"... Let's go, let's meet at the 'recycling site'."
Uraraka Shige, quite dissatisfied with the effect of her attack, inwardly complained about losing her 'weapon' for nothing, lamented that several capillaries under her bandages had probably ruptured from the impact, and that her arm was now almost entirely red, and complained that her physique was still too weak. She glanced at Toga running towards her and said in a calm tone.
... pretending... acting affectedly... pretending...
Toga, however, clearly didn't care about Uraraka Shige's slightly pretentious behavior at this moment. Instead, he turned around and waved to Asui and Ochaco in a very cheerful manner.
Goodbye, Tsu, Ocha!
... it felt like I had truly become friends with both of them...
Even the tone of his voice became very cheerful and full of excitement...
Perhaps in her mind, she genuinely believed that this meant she had become friends with Ochaco and Asui?
All she needs to do is make that decision herself...
Toga put the knife I had picked up as I stood up back into its sheath, and let the blood-sucking syringe retract automatically. Then, together with Uraraka Shige, we headed towards the 'recycling point,' which was the entrance to the test of courage that the U.A. High School. students who had come for the training camp were holding.
Although the distance isn't too far, and it's a good five-minute walk, it's best to head over and meet up with the other members as soon as possible, just in case.
Boom...
Ochaco and Asui, who were standing in place, watched Uraraka Shige and Toga's departing figures, moved aside to clear the area where the tree would fall and hit them. Then Ochaco deactivated her Quirk, letting the tree fall to the ground with a heavy thud. She then chased after Uraraka Shige and Toga had gone.
Not long after, accompanied by the whooshing sound of the wind, a man wearing a mask and top hat, leaning on a cane, and dressed in a beige 'trench coat (I'm not sure)' leaped over them from the treetops above.
After a while, Midoriya and the others who were chasing the polite masked man (Atsuhiro Sako) caught up and happened to see Ochaco and Asui running towards the entrance of the test of courage tournament.
Then...