The League of Villains Retreats
"It seems I awoke at just the right time." The Magician toyed with the marble in his hand. "Dabi, it's all thanks to you leaving my gadget with me; otherwise, even if I had woken up, it wouldn't have been of any use."
"I was just keeping it as a precaution; I didn't have high expectations for you," Dabi said calmly. "Although this operation didn't achieve its intended goals, it should be enough to satisfy Shigaraki. In any case, it's time for us to retreat."
"Don't even think about running!" Midoriya's fist slammed into Dabi's face, sending him tumbling several times before crashing heavily into a tree. He immediately turned and chased after the Magician, a swift green bolt of lightning reaching Magician in an instant. He angrily swung his fist, "Give Tokoyami back to me!"
"What a reckless child." The Magician adjusted his hat, letting Midoriya hit him. The next moment, as if by magic, he was beaten into a puddle of mud by Midoriya!
Midoriya was stunned. His fist hit the Magician without any sense of hitting a human body; it felt like hitting a shapeless mass of sand.
While dodging the attacks from the Nomu, Jilan shouted to Midoriya, "Don't freeze! That's the enemy's Quirk; it can create Clones!"
Midoriya suddenly looked up and saw the Magician on the tree branch above him, and Twice, dressed entirely in black Twice from him. Behind them was a spatial rift opened by the Kurogiri.
Twice urged anxiously, "Magician, let's go! That guy has spotted us. I don't want to end up like Dabi, getting punched by him!"
"Twice, could you please stop putting your whole weight on me? I'm seriously injured!" The Magician nearly choked and fell off the tree. He glared at Twice, then bowed to Midoriya and said, "Dear audience, my performance is over. Please don't be sad, and look forward to my next performance."
"You bastard, don't even think about running away! Give Tokoyami back to me!!" The blood flow in Midoriya's arm accelerated instantly, his veins bulged, turning his entire right arm into red streaks. Midoriya angrily threw a punch with 100% power!
"Hurry up!" Twice the Magician was still putting on a show, Twice anxiously grabbed the bent-over Magician, turned around, and jumped into the spatial rift!
"Boom!" Midoriya's punch, delivered in fury, snapped several trees and swept away all the leaves in a straight line. Although Midoriya's punch injured the Magician, causing him to groan in pain, the two enemies managed to jump into the portal in time, disappearing with the marbles into who-knows-where.
On Jilan's side, Dabi rubbed his face and stood up. He waved his hand at Jilan, who was entangled with the Nomu, and unleashed Ice Flame that enveloped both Jilan and the Nomu!
A moment later, Jilan stumbled out of the Ice Flame, a shocking wound on his left shoulder—the mark of being slashed Nomu Jilan's longsword after he was distracted by Dabi's attack.
Fortunately, Jilan managed to retreat in the direction of the knife's slash, so although the wound appeared severe, it did not actually break any bones. The Hamon were also working at full speed to quickly repair the wound, but for the time being, this arm was no longer usable.
"Jilan Jiyu, do you see that? Your efforts are all in vain." Dabi glanced arrogantly at Jilan and walked to the Kurogiri had opened a spatial gate in place. "Kurogiri, let's go."
Nomu's entire body was covered in frostbite marks from Dabi's Ice Flame, but he didn't complain at all. He kept staring intently at Jilan, ready to unleash his five weapons if Jilan dared to obstruct Dabi's departure.
Dabi's body was already halfway into the portal, and the Nomu, under his control, turned around, intending to follow Dabi into the portal as well. However, at this moment, Jilan slowly stood up, his eyes icy cold. "Hey, you think you can just run away after winning? There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Dabi heard Jilan's words and was about to make a sarcastic remark, but when he turned around, his eyes widened instantly. "What!?"
He saw Jilan Jiyu use his intact right hand to pick up the arm of the Naomu that Nomu fallen to the ground, which had an axe at the end, and throw it at the Nomu. It actually hit the Nomu's head, which had turned around, and the axe got stuck in the middle of the Nomu's brain!
Jilan Jiyu brought their right hands together and gently pressed down on their thumbs.
"Burst."
The arm that Jilan had just thrown, along with the axe, exploded instantly, blasting the Nomu's head in two and sending shockwave fragments piercing Dabi, leaving shrapnel-like penetrating wounds on his body!
Before Dabi could react to the shockwave, his body flew toward the portal, his resentful gaze vanishing in an instant. Meanwhile, the headless Nomu leaned forward and fell right into the portal.
The Kurogiri was in a vaporized state at the moment, so he was unharmed. The instant the Nomu collapsed, he closed the spatial gate and disappeared into the forest.
At this point, all the members of the League of Villains had surrounded Jilan had left, leaving only Jilan and Midoriya, who staggered over, clutching his swollen and broken arm.
Midoriya witnessed Jilan throwing the axe. He didn't understand how the Nomu had exploded, nor did he care to ask Jilan about such things. He lowered his head and said in a tearful voice, "Jilan, it's all my fault. Tokoyami was taken away by them."
Jilan, clutching his shoulder, calmly said, "This isn't your fault, Midoriya. Calm down and tell me what happened. Why did Tokoyami go berserk?"
Midoriya knew this wasn't the time to be sentimental, so he forced himself to calm down and recount what he had experienced.
Midoriya and Todoroki were in the second group. After obtaining the Ragdoll's proof, they continued forward and discovered the gradually spreading poisonous Poison Gas. They soon received a message from Mandalay that enemies were approaching. Todoroki trusted Midoriya's abilities, and the two hit it off immediately. They decided that the highly mobile Midoriya would use his clothes to cover his face and go back to find the other classmates, while Todoroki continued running towards the finish line to inform Mandalay about the Poison Gas and then come to their rescue after defeating the enemies.
Along the way, Midoriya encounters Shoji, whose hand has been severed. Together, they defeat an enemy who uses teeth as weapons. Then, they meet Fumikage Tokoyami, whose Quirk has gone berserk because Shoji is in danger.
Knowing that Tokoyami was afraid of light, Midoriya told Shoji to leave first, while he led Tokoyami to search for places with light. When they encountered Yaoyorozu, in order to prevent Tokoyami from hurting her, Midoriya and Yaoyorozu split up. After leading Tokoyami around in a circle, they found the Jilan with the most noise and fire.
"I shouldn't have let Todoroki leave," Midoriya said remorsefully. "If he were here, he could have quickly brought Tokoyami back down."
"No one can predict these things," Jilan comforted Midoriya. "The most important thing now is to get out of here immediately and tell the Pro Hero that Tokoyami has been taken away by the enemy."
Midoriya understood the importance of priorities, and to make up for his mistake, he nodded emphatically. "Leave this to me. I'll go tell Mandalay right now!"
"Hey, what are you two standing there for? I ran into a girl from your class, and she's been attacked!"
Suddenly, a man spotted Jilan and the others and ran over shouting. It was Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, and he was carrying a weak girl in his arms. Her name was Kyoka Jiro.