Even at a Small Park...

Chapter title: Even at a small park, Quirk training must not be neglected!

Half a month had passed since he was discharged from the hospital.

Uraraka Shige's family had eaten out only that once, using his discharge as a reason to celebrate. The rest of the time, they still ate at home, though their meals were considerably more plentiful than before, and their family circumstances had improved slightly. Uraraka Shige himself had also undergone quite a few changes.

Most notable among them were some scars and marks left by his burns, and his training of his body and Quirk.

The scars and marks left on Uraraka Shige by the extreme heat varied in size and were scattered across his small body. A few were even clustered close together, vaguely forming several patterns that looked somewhat chaotic and, in fact, served no purpose at all.

Those scars and marks could all have been removed at a hospital. But aside from being unsightly, they had no ill effects, and Uraraka Shige did not mind them. He was even somewhat inclined to keep them as a reminder to himself, so his parents did not insist on having them removed.

As for training, because of the incident half a month ago that had left Terumi Genga seriously injured, Uraraka Shige could no longer train in the private training room at the Terumi Family's fitness center.

It was not that he absolutely couldn't. Rather, the private training room, which had always been free for him to use, had started charging a fee. But Uraraka Shige was only eight and a half in this life. How could he pay the hefty training fees?

Thus, Uraraka Shige had moved his training to a small, nameless park not too far from home. His training no longer consisted solely of conditioning his body and improving his control over his Quirk as his physical abilities and age increased; he had added two new activities: slapping trees and playing with water balloons.

Slapping trees was mainly meant to address his inability to properly control the technique he had used to finish off that "villain." Because the range of gravity he could manipulate was not concentrated, it could even affect him.

After all, gravity was almost everywhere, and even the slightest change in it could have a major effect on an ordinary person.

Although Uraraka Shige was highly adaptable to changes in gravity thanks to his Quirk and his long-term adaptation-even to the point that he could be called a natural-born astronaut—he was not completely immune to its effects.

It was just that he could use his Quirk to influence gravity, or even manipulate it.

And when the direction of gravity changed, such as when it pointed upward, the flow of blood through his body would not slow as much as it would for others. When gravity's direction was completely reversed, it could even cause his blood to flow backward.

But he would still be affected.

Especially when he did nothing to control the direction of the altered gravity, allowing it to change chaotically and at random.

Even he would feel uncomfortable at every moment, and would even grow dizzy and lightheaded. If it went on long enough, his body's protective instincts would cause him to fall unconscious, canceling his Quirk and returning the gravity it had manipulated to its original state.

In fact, part of the reason he had fallen unconscious after finishing off that "villain" was that he had been caught in the aftereffects of the destruction caused by his own Quirk, though that cause was insignificant compared with the damage the "villain" had inflicted on him.

But in any case, overall,

the move he had used to finish off that "villain" could, for the current him, be considered something like the Seven Injuries Fist: a move that injured both the enemy and its user.

After using it, he would be caught in most of the gravity that spread outward because he could not completely confine it within his target, leaving him weakened.

For him as he was now, it was a trump card to be used only at a critical moment.

But by slapping trees, he could use the move over and over, continually refining it and strengthening his control over gravity's range. He could keep concentrating the gravity until, one day, he could confine all the affected gravity within his target without any of it spreading outward.

When that time came, he could use this trump card, which injured the enemy a thousand while hurting himself eight hundred, as an ordinary basic attack. Presumably, his strength would improve tremendously by then, wouldn't it?

Of course, judging by his current progress, it seemed more likely that he would adapt to the changes in gravity caused by using the move before that happened...

As for playing with water balloons... that method actually had almost nothing to do with the technique he had used to finish off the "villain." He had not even come up with it himself.

He was merely learning from the protagonist of a work of fiction from his previous life, hoping to master the art of forming a ball in his hand.

After practicing the method he had used to finish off the "villain" a few times, he had suddenly wondered whether, by following the training that protagonist had undergone to form a ball, he could use his Quirk to alter gravity and form one too.

So he bought a few balloons, filled them with water, and began practicing with them according to his somewhat vague memories. The result took him by surprise.

He discovered that the gravity he manipulated with his Quirk could easily make the water inside a balloon spin, without breaking the balloon!

But while he could do that, he could not make only the water spin. Instead, both the balloon in his hand and the water inside it were affected by the gravity his Quirk manipulated, causing them to spin together.

Afterward, he also realized that what he could manipulate was gravity. His Quirk affected gravity by acting on "lines." Even if one day he could make only the water inside a balloon spin without the balloon spinning along with it, and could do so without breaking the balloon...

He still could not form a ball in his hand to use as an attack. All he would make was a ball of water, sand, air, or something similar, with no real killing power. Nor could he throw it to attack like the protagonist of that work...

That was awkward...

Fortunately, this training method was not entirely useless. At the very least, when slapping trees began to make him feel unwell from the gravity, he could use it to continue practicing how to narrow the range of the gravity he manipulated and make his control over his Quirk more precise.

So he kept this training method.