The Gravity Manipulator in My Hero Academia
Chapter 89

The fight's over, time to wrap... The protagonist actually lost?!

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Faced with such an attack that would launch from the front and encircle from the left, right, top, and bottom, Uraraka Shige had only one way to avoid it: to retreat.

After all, his 'Quirk' is Gravity, not fire or anything like that. With his current abilities, he cannot directly destroy the ropes that are attacking him. He is not carrying any sharp weapons or shields, so he cannot destroy the ropes or block their attacks.

However, if he were to withstand the attack of these ropes head-on, although the attack of these five ropes might not cause him much damage, and even the rope coming straight at his face might be able to be deflected by turning his head to his shoulder instead of his face.

However, the other four ropes reaching towards his hands and feet, although they did not seem to be aggressive, clearly intended to control his hands and feet. If he were hit by such an attack, although he would not suffer any serious injury immediately, it would mean that his hands and feet would be controlled, and he would be at the mercy of others, like a fish on a chopping board.

That means the girl who calls herself Momotani Hanawa has already won the battle.

Although Uraraka Shige didn't actually care much about winning this unnecessary battle, he undoubtedly used it as a way to vent his inner emotions and pressure. However, at this moment, he didn't release his inner frustration and pressure at all, ending the battle without achieving his goal, which was certainly not what he wanted.

Therefore, under these circumstances, Uraraka Shige naturally chose to jump back to dodge the attack of the five ropes, and then look for an opportunity to advance.

What he didn't expect was that after he chose to retreat to dodge the attack of the five ropes, the rhythm of the battle was further controlled by the girl named Momotani Hanawa.

After he dodged the five attacking ropes, the numerous ropes that had been relentlessly attacking him before entangled him again. Because he had dodged by jumping backward, they even took advantage of his lack of leverage in mid-air to whip him twice.

Every time he finds an opportunity to charge forward and try to reach Momotani Hanawa, the ropes distributed within two meters of Momotani Hanawa will become active, forcing him to retreat and avoid being entangled by these ropes, just like before. He then continues to be whipped and lashed by the ropes, constantly resisting and dodging, slowly exhausting his strength.

Of course, he also discovered that his own 'Quirk' would affect the ropes, making them less flexible and causing attacks against him to lose some accuracy. Even the already weak attack power would be affected and become inconsistent.

After discovering and exploiting this, he even managed to rush into the defensive formation composed of ropes within two meters of Momotani Hanawa several times without sustaining any harm. Moreover, after activating a special ability called 'Chaos,' which disrupted the direction of Gravity around him, the attacks launched by the five ropes in coordination that had previously forced him back repeatedly failed to coordinate properly due to the influence of his 'Quirk,' allowing him to seize the opportunity to rush into the one-meter radius around Momotani Hanawa.

However, whenever this happens, Momotani Hanawa will activate various traps, such as lasso traps, set up by ropes that are dark in color and difficult to detect. These simple traps made of ropes do not require much control and are hidden in various places and difficult to detect. Even if there is a chaotic field around Uraraka Shige, it is still difficult to affect these traps that have already been formed.

The only difference was that after these traps were triggered again, what used to bind his feet and control his movement instantly became a brief time required to restrain his legs and feet and restrict his movement. However, this so-called brief time was only reduced from about a quarter of a second to about a second, merely giving him a short period of time to retreat and escape the traps he had triggered.

Even with the ropes that worked together like the previous five, he still couldn't make any progress. He could only passively endure the opponent's attacks without having any opportunity to strike back.

Moreover, this situation lasted for a long time, even causing Uraraka Shige, as if he were a fish caught in a fishing net, constantly jumping around in the net, but unable to escape the large net that had enveloped him.

In the end, the battle concluded with Uraraka Shige, frustrated, grabbing a few ropes that were whipping at him, activating his 'Quirk', and unleashing 'Chaos' to tear the ropes he was holding into pieces. He then sighed and surrendered, thus ending the fight.

Faced with Uraraka Shige's childish behavior of deliberately destroying several of her ropes, Momotani Hanawa, who considered herself older, vented her emotions and then endured the waves of hunger in her stomach while watching Uraraka Shige express her frustration with the ropes. Only after Uraraka Shige did she stop hiding her true personality and speak.

"Hey kid, what exactly is your 'Quirk'? Why is it affecting my control over the rope?"

After her voice drew Uraraka Shige's attention, she paused, then reverted to her previous pretense, pointing with a gentle smile at the ropes that Uraraka Shige had managed to tear apart by using all his 'Quirk', while making a gesture of demanding compensation with his palm facing upwards, before continuing to speak.

"Also, since you damaged my things, shouldn't you make some compensation to me, little brother? Hmm?"

As the loser in this battle, Uraraka Shige could only sulk about his weakness while gritting his teeth and pulling out the money he had previously plundered from his pants pocket.

After witnessing the girl's fighting style and tactics, and now that he had calmed down a bit, he realized that the girl would definitely help him develop his own 'Quirk'. Therefore, he certainly wouldn't do anything that would worsen his relationship with the girl.

At least until he finds something about this girl that can help him...

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