Genga Dead or Seriously Injured? Uraraka Shige Was a Step Too Late!

Terumi Genga's plan and ideas were good, but things did not go his way.

The doors of the houses and convenience stores on both sides of the street were shut and locked. Although there were two alley-like paths nearby, each squeezed between the walls of two residential courtyards, he could see straight through them, and they were far too narrow.

Even if Terumi Genga used his Quirk to disguise himself as something commonly found there, his real body size could not be changed by his Quirk. If the villain walked down the path, he would certainly bump into him and discover him.

Faced with this situation, Terumi Genga, only around eight years old, felt a deep sense of despair.

His family circumstances and everything he had learned and copied from Uraraka Shige made him seem a little more mature than other children his age, and better able to accept certain things. But that did not mean he had enough knowledge and experience to solve every problem he encountered.

Just as now, aside from the idea and method he had thought up in a moment of quick thinking, he could not come up with any other way to escape his predicament with the villain chasing him.

He even began to hope that Uraraka Shige would step forward and save him again. He had even begun to believe, somewhat blindly, that if Uraraka Shige were in his position, Uraraka Shige would surely find some way to shake off the villain behind him, or even turn the tables and defeat him.

For no apparent reason, he had that much trust in Uraraka Shige, even more than he had in himself.

The villain behind Terumi Genga had also realized that he was chasing only one of the brats. He briefly considered where the other two might have run off to and what they might do, but the conclusions and possibilities he arrived at were all very troubling.

The villain had realized that he did not have much time left. He had even begun to consider how much longer he should chase this brat, and whether he should simply give up on him for now, get out of here, and leave the city.

The thoughts circling in his head gradually brought an end to the words and phrases he had been delivering in that sickening tone. Without realizing it, he stopped his verbal harassment and focused on closing in on Terumi Genga, moving faster and faster. Only when he had unknowingly brought Terumi Genga within the attack range of his Quirk did he suddenly snap to attention.

The villain spoke again, bidding farewell to Terumi Genga, who still looked like Uraraka Shige, and pronouncing the death sentence he had privately passed on him.

"Farewell, brat. There should have been a grand closing ceremony, but unfortunately for you, it was Endeavor who came. His strength was far beyond my expectations, so to prevent any accidents, please just die quietly..."

The villain spoke as though delivering an operatic aria. At the same time, he extended his uninjured right arm and pointed his index finger, gradually taking aim as he ran at the spot over the heart on the back of Uraraka Shige's form, which Terumi Genga was currently using as a disguise.

Then a soundless blast carrying searing heat shot from the tip of the villain's right index finger. As Terumi Genga felt an intense sense of danger, the blast swept up some air and struck precisely where the villain had aimed, piercing savagely through Terumi Genga's body. It left a scorched hole that gave off a faint smell of meat, but also sealed the path by which blood could have gushed out, preventing the blood flowing from the wound in Terumi Genga's back from pouring out like a fountain and swiftly taking his young life.

By then, Uraraka Shige, intending to sneak up on the villain from behind, had used his Quirk to reach a position about fifty meters behind him.

Uraraka Shige, however, had not expected the villain to stop suddenly. His footsteps, previously hidden among the sounds of the villain and Terumi Genga running, abruptly became very conspicuous once Terumi Genga fell to the ground and the villain stopped running.

However, the villain's adult frame blocked his view, and the villain had not spoken loudly. As a result, Uraraka Shige did not immediately notice that Terumi Genga had been injured and fallen; he only felt a surge of unease at the villain's sudden stop.

Only when the villain heard the footsteps and turned around, briefly turning his body to the side, did Uraraka Shige spot Terumi Genga, who had fallen to the ground from his injury and looked almost exactly like him from behind. In an instant, Uraraka Shige's uneasy heart grew heavy.

"...Genga?"

Uraraka Shige murmured the question to himself, then slowed his steps and gradually raised his voice until Terumi Genga, already lying on the ground with his consciousness beginning to blur, could hear him calling.

"Genga?!"

Uraraka Shige's quiet question had become a loud cry tinged with grief and disbelief, but Terumi Genga had no strength to make a sound.

"Hm? Another identical brat?"

The villain could hardly believe his eyes when he turned and saw Uraraka Shige. He repeatedly turned his head and shifted his gaze between Terumi Genga, who had fallen to the ground, and Uraraka Shige behind him. Only after doing so several times did he calm the excitement and alarm caused by the sudden fright, then he frowned.

"Is it a Quirk... Tch! Which one's the fake?"

The villain grew impatient and finally made a decision.

"Whatever. Since there's an extra brat, I'll just kill this one too."

The villain then pointed a finger at Uraraka Shige. After muttering under his breath, he bared his teeth in a twisted, ugly smile.

"Farewell to you too, brat."

"Level rise!"

But Uraraka Shige was not like Terumi Genga. Focused on escaping, Terumi Genga had been unable to react when he sensed danger. Uraraka Shige, however, had remained alert and prepared. The instant he saw the index finger pointing at him, he activated his Quirk and leaped swiftly high toward the villain, anticipating and successfully dodging his first attack.

When the villain saw Uraraka Shige dodge his attack, he froze for a moment. Then he suddenly remembered that when he had first come to attack the three brats, Uraraka Shige had used the same method to send his homemade explosive back at him, and had also used it to dodge one of his attacks.

"So you're the real one? I wasted all that time on a fake?!"

The villain looked irritated and somewhat incredulous, but in the end, those emotions all turned into a firm intent to kill, to the point that even his tone became normal and serious.

"Whatever. I've absorbed enough explosions already. I'll finish you off quickly right here."

The villain let his left arm, injured at the shoulder, hang loose at his side and extended his right hand. All five fingers were straight, each aimed at a vital spot on Uraraka Shige's body.

"I'm no longer interested in playing around."