Physical Fitness Test

Although Jilan Jiyu did not quite believe what Shota Aizawa had said, Katsuki Bakugo was still watching him. If he did not get a reasonably decent result, Bakugo would definitely mock him for it, so... he had better take the test seriously.

The first event was the 50-meter dash. Since Jilan Jiyu had placed first overall, he was the first to go. He took a deep breath, warmed up, and got into position.

"Ready... go!"

At the signal, Jilan Jiyu sprang into a run. A closer look revealed golden Hamon streaming from his legs and scattering into the air.

"Jilan Jiyu, 5.48 seconds!"

Jilan Jiyu nodded in satisfaction. It was a decent result, a full fifty percent better than he could manage without using his ability.

"Tenya Iida, 3.04 seconds!"

This guy's Quirk is Engine. It's no surprise he can reach that kind of speed...

Katsuki Bakugo put his hands behind him, and explosive flames immediately burst from them, propelling him forward like rocket boosters.

"Katsuki Bakugo, 4.13 seconds!"

He gave Jilan Jiyu a mocking smile. Its meaning went without saying.

My Hamon doesn't do much to strengthen my body, so it's understandable that I'm weaker than them... Jilan Jiyu silently turned his head away.

Next, all sorts of Quirks were put to use in turn. Everyone pulled out all the stops to improve their results.

A somewhat narcissistic boy named Yuga Aoyama had a Quirk that fired a laser from his navel. He stood at the starting line, turned around, and fired the laser to propel himself across, but he fell once along the way and had to fire it twice to reach the finish. A somewhat vacant-looking girl named Tsuyu Asui had the passive Quirk Frog. As the name suggested, she could basically do anything a frog could, and she hopped forward.

The others' Quirks might not have been as versatile, so they ran on their own physical strength. Most of them finished the 50-meter dash in around seven or eight seconds.

The second event was grip strength. Even Bakugo, who had shone so brightly just now, was only at the level of an ordinary person, though a few people squeezed out results that drew attention.

One boy wore a mask, and seven or eight soft, tentacle-like appendages grew from his body. He joined the tentacles on one side of his body into a thick arm and scored ten times higher than an ordinary person.

Jilan Jiyu silently glanced at the grip strength meter's display. Eighty kilograms, only fifty percent higher than the others' results...

The next event was the standing long jump.

Yuga Aoyama, Katsuki Bakugo, and a few others stood out once again. One person shot tape from his elbow and wrapped it around a nearby pillar, intending to swing across, but Shota Aizawa ruled it a foul. He could only obediently take the jump again, and his result naturally went without saying.

The softball throw.

"What?! An infinite distance!" A number that seemed impossible to believe appeared on Shota Aizawa's recording device.

Ochaco Uraraka smiled sheepishly. Her Quirk was Zero Gravity, which could make anything she touched lose its gravity. She had made the softball lose both gravity and resistance, keeping it moving in a straight line at a constant speed. Given enough time, the ball could even drift into outer space and stand shoulder to shoulder with Kars.

Izuku Midoriya.

Ball in hand, he stood at the throwing point for a long time without throwing, perhaps engaged in a fierce internal struggle.

"Midoriya seems to be in trouble..." Tenya Iida observed. "He might be in last place right now. If he doesn't get a standout result..." He left the rest unsaid-Shota Aizawa would very likely expel him.

"Isn't that obvious? He's just Quirkless trash!" Katsuki Bakugo said from the side, seemingly full of disdain.

"Quirkless?!" Jilan Jiyu found that a little funny. "He was the only one who sent that giant robot flying with a direct hit in the entrance exam!"

No one else might know, but I had to use Killer Queen's power just to barely stop that robot... If he's Quirkless, then what am I, an LV0 powerless person?

"Huh? I don't believe it!" Katsuki Bakugo shoved his face up close to Jilan Jiyu's, looking like a villain. "If he had a Quirk, he would've fought back against me ages ago. He must've used some kind of trick!"

Jilan Jiyu said nothing. He simply covered Bakugo's face with his hand and pushed him back, watching Midoriya, who was still standing motionless.

If you could only unleash that kind of power once, would you use it here?

"Tch." Katsuki Bakugo merely shot Jilan Jiyu a resentful glare. He did not intend to settle accounts with him now, but he made another entry in his little mental notebook.

I, Katsuki Bakugo, hold grudges!

He looked gravely at Izuku Midoriya. If you really have that kind of power, show it to me, Deku!

Izuku Midoriya seemed to have made up his mind. He looked toward the target and raised his throwing arm, drawing it back. The blood pulsing through his arm was faintly visible, raging through him like a caged beast and pounding against his body!

"Ha!" He swung his arm in a wide arc and threw the ball!

"Tap... tap..."

The ball rolled a few times on the ground before slowly coming to a stop.

"Forty-six meters!"

Midoriya froze. Grabbing his arm, he muttered, "I definitely felt like I was about to use it just now..."

"I erased your Quirk." Shota Aizawa's hair stood on end, and the bandages around his neck floated up without a breeze. His eyes turned red, and he gripped his own hand, seemingly mocking himself. "That entrance exam was seriously lacking in rationality... To think someone like you could get in."

"Erased my Quirk..." Midoriya looked at him and suddenly took a step back, a little disbelieving. "Those goggles, I see now. You're the Erasure Hero, Eraser Head!"

"Eraser Head? The stealth hero who can erase someone's Quirk just by looking at them and doesn't like appearing in public?!" Tenya Iida seemed to know a lot about him. "His Quirk is very useful for apprehending certain criminals. You could say he's their natural enemy. My older brother once..."

He suddenly coughed twice, as though he had said something he should not have.

Shota Aizawa looked down at Izuku Midoriya. "It looks like you can't control your Quirk very well, can you? If you become unable to move in the middle of an operation, do you still expect other people to save you?"

Midoriya was about to retort when Shota Aizawa's bandages suddenly wrapped around him and pulled him close. "You might say you don't need saving, but the reality is that, no matter what, your teammates will risk their lives to save you."

"A hero once accomplished the feat of saving a thousand people, but you would become an immobile puppet after saving one person at most." He paused. "Izuku Midoriya, you can't become a hero."

Shota Aizawa did not wait for an answer. He released Midoriya, and his hair fell back down, turning him into that disheveled middle-aged man again. "You get two throws. Hurry up and continue."