Summary: The Heroics Tournament fights come to a close, and a tiny bit of 2B's perspective for the first (but not last) time.
Chapter 23: Heroics Tournament Day 3 (Round 3)
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All of the First-Year hero students not currently in the infirmary hovered around the board. A break for lunch had been declared, with refreshments provided by Lunch Rush so that no one had to change out of their costumes. Even so, eyes continued to dart to the new brackets. Not that they held any surprises, exactly.
Bracket 1
Yaoyorozu Momo vs Jiro Kyoka
Kinoko Komori vs Bondo Kojiro
Bracket 2
Midoriya Izumi vs Tsunotori Pony
Shoji Mezo vs Yanagi Reiko
After the new brackets had appeared, several people had given Jirou and Pony pitying looks. Strangely, however, neither girl looked all that worried. Jirou was clearly pensive, but seemed more curious than alarmed. Pony, meanwhile, looked determined. She had the air of someone who knew she was out of her league but was intent on finding out exactly how much that was the case. Several of those present, even from her own Group, were giving her assessing looks, as if seeing a new side of her. Kirishima and Mina had even drifted over to her during the break and were engaged in a clearly enthusiastic conversation with her and Tetsutetsu.
Another, larger group had gathered around Izumi and 2B. 2B's previous Pod had been dismissed and a new one summoned, with the new Pod being a utility model that was capable of holographic projection. On it were being shown replays of the better fights from the upper year's own tournaments. A pair of third years in particular stood out, with a cartoonish man essentially just ignoring his opponent's attacks as they appeared to slide right through him. The other stand out was a girl with periwinkle hair, who was showing off nearly the same level of casual power that Izumi and Momo always seemed to radiate. The fact that she was cheerfully chattering at her opponents the whole time merely added insult to the injury of how easily she woman-handled each of them. There had been another stand out...but he'd seemed to show serious stage fright symptoms after his first win and hadn't returned, despite his first victory. Izumi was humming as she watched the blonde man's fight replay, focusing on the little details.
"What do you think, 2B? Illusion or some sort of phase-shifting?"
The response was immediate.
"Phase shift. His files list his Quirk as Permeation, though there are few details about it. His match in his first year was very telling, however. He apparently phased right through his clothes, his initial costume apparently not having gotten the DNA encoding quite right at that point."
Izumi winced.
"Oh, right. I remember that. It was one of the only things that made the news from the First-Year tournament that year. UA caught some bad press from it, even though the censor delay was enough for the broadcast to blur everything."
"I could get you the unaltered footage, if you want to expand your interests. He appears to be relatively modest in size, however."
Izumi spluttered, even as Momo giggled and one or two of the guys watching the footage winced at 2B's brutally casual assessment.
"2B! Why are you like this?!"
"It is only logical to gain exposure so that you're not surprised in the field. Even if your own clothes are nearly indestructible, your opponents are not."
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