Cavalry Battle (Review)
Third place, Jilan's team!
Upon hearing their team's name, Jilan Jiyu breathed a sigh of relief; they really were about to crash and burn...
Jilan put Toru Hagakure Hitoshi Shinso was still sitting on the ground, unable to believe reality, extended his hand to him, and said with a smile, "Your Quirk is hypnosis, right? Very powerful."
"Is that impressive...?" Hitoshi Shinso raised his head, revealing his dark circles, glanced blankly at Jilan Jiyu, then suddenly sat up, grabbed his collar, and said fiercely, "If you're so impressive, why aren't you alright!"
With one minute left in the match, Jilan Jiyu stood in a safe spot waiting for the match to end. Toru Hagakure put his hands on Jilan Jiyu's shoulders and watched with amazement as Bakugo chased after Neito Monoma.
"Hey, Jilan, should we join in? Maybe we can snatch his headscarf?" Toru Hagakure suddenly pinched Jilan Jiyu's shoulders eagerly. "Isn't it better for us to rank as high as possible?"
"We're currently ranked second. Even if we improve our score, we still won't surpass 10 million. Be careful not to overextend ourselves," Jilan Jiyu rolled their eyes and said. "Besides, ask the two people behind you if they're even trying to steal it?"
"I'll listen to you," Ibara Shiozaki said immediately.
Jiro, looking weary, also said, "The class monitor is right; it's best not to cause any more trouble."
"Is that so..." Hagakure was somewhat disappointed, then suddenly said slyly, "But if someone comes looking for us, then there won't be a problem, right?"
Jilan Jiyu looked up and saw a strange combination of people: Mashirao Ojiro, Koji Koda, a sausage-lipped student from Class B, and a student from the General Studies Course walking towards Jilan.
Jilan was no stranger to this group; on the contrary, he had long paid close attention to them. When forming the team, he seemed to be talking about this group casually, but in fact, he was deliberately mentioning it.
As a student in a General Studies Course, he hadn't received any training, nor Mei Hatsume possess any amazing inventions or gadgets, let alone a strong Quirk. So, how did he manage to pass the first hurdle and secure the crucial rider position in the team?
Jilan was very wary, so he provoked Tetsutetsu and his team, stirring up Hero Course, hoping that Tie Zhe could solve this uncertainty for him.
Tetsutetsu seemed to have completed the task very well. When Jilan Jiyu Toru Hagakure the scores on the headscarves, he noticed that there was a headscarf with the same score Hitoshi Shinso's team, and Shinso's receding Shinso was not wearing a headscarf.
Want to make one last desperate gamble...?
Jilan Jiyu suddenly noticed the nonchalant look on his face; he didn't seem worried about being eliminated.
Jilan assumed a defensive stance, with Hamon ripples flowing around her body. She Toru Hagakure, "Be careful, they might have some trump card up their sleeve."
"A trump card, huh? Let me test it out!" Hagakure roused himself, straightening his body where no one could see him, and shouted, "Who goes there? State your Kaminari! I, Toru Hagakure, do not kill nameless nobodies!"
This statement had so many flaws that Hitoshi Shinso paused, then lowered his head, covered his face, and muttered, "This is way too easy! Are all the guys in the Hero Course brainless? This school's deviation rate is way too high; they really just cram all sorts of cats and dogs in..."
Seeing that his opponent was ignoring him, Toru Hagakure felt a surge of inexplicable anger. The match was almost over, but he was just a useless decorative vase, without any chance to show his skills. He had vowed to protect Jilan before the match...
She looked at Ojiro and shouted, "Ojiro, why are you helping this guy? And Koda, you too!"
However, neither of them responded to her.
Something's not right... Jilan noticed that whether it was Ojiro, Koda, or that big guy with sausage lips, they all had blank stares, as if their attention wasn't on the field.
Hitoshi Shinso raised his head, stared at Jilan, and said, "Hey, how could trash like you get into the Hero Course? U.A. High School's standards are way too low."
"What are you saying!" Hagakure's anger flared instantly upon seeing him insult himself, Jiro, and Jilan. "He's just a guy from the General Studies Course!"
Jiro stretched out the headphone cord, frowned at him, and said, "I advise you to take back what you said, or the consequences will be severe."
In Jiro's opinion, his words were an insult to U.A. High School, an insult to All Might and the teachers like Aizawa who risked their lives to protect their students!
"Your name is Hitoshi Shinso, right? You should know what you've said, and you need to take responsibility for your words," Jilan Jiyu added.
Shinso suddenly felt a pang of regret. He shouldn't have said those insulting words to so many people, but since the words were already out and had successfully elicited responses from all three of them, he had no intention of taking them back.
Oh well, I'll just apologize to them afterwards.
As a victor.
"Now, take off all your headscarves and hand them to me," he said.
Ibara Shiozaki was somewhat surprised. After the three people in front of him replied, they suddenly froze as if they had been frozen in place. Then, after Hitoshi Shinso said a sentence, Toru Hagakure suddenly began to untie his headscarf.
Although Ibara Shiozaki and Jilan teamed up only for the money, she was naturally happy to advance. She should stop Toru Hagakure right now, but Jilan hadn't given the order. Should she do that? What if he turned his back on her and refused to pay her?
If Jilan knew that Ibara Shiozaki saw him as the kind of heartless boss who would find fault with employees and withhold their wages at any time, would he feel sad?
While Ibara Shiozaki hesitated, Toru Hagakure had already taken off all her headscarves and placed them in her hands. Originally, she was supposed to walk up to Shinso and hand the headscarves to him, but perhaps Hagakure's subconscious kept telling her that this was a competition and she couldn't dismount. She became confused, stopped moving, and didn't know what to do next.
Looking at Ibara Shiozaki's hair floating in the air like Medusa, Shinso a little apprehensive. If he let Jilan and the others come over, who knew if Shiozaki might accidentally touch someone else's body.
He knew his own Quirk, and after a moment's hesitation, he still sent his "horse" to stand in front of Jilan and the others.
Realizing that Ibara Shiozaki didn't seem to have made up his mind to attack him yet, he felt relieved and reached out towards the headscarf that was floating in the air like a trophy unearthed from a treasure chest.
A glint of light suddenly flashed in Jilan Jiyu's eyes, and golden Hamon instantly enveloped Jiro and Hagakure, making them instantly awake!
In the dim light, Jilan Jiyu saw the Hamon outline the silhouette of Toru Hagakure's body...
Hitoshi Shinso blinded by the sudden light and instinctively closed his eyes, failing to see Hagakure's figure.
He quickly realized he'd messed up, and hurriedly opened his eyes to see several men who had retied their headscarves and were now glaring at him menacingly...