Sword Art Online: Integral Factor

UA Entrance Exams

A/N Hello everyone and welcome back to Sword Art Online: Integral Factor! I am marking this chapter as the start of Season 2 of this side of the story. Well the one where Initially starts the ALO story arc, but this will be Izuku moving into the whole Hero part of the story. He will take notice of ALO but will not play it. He'd rather not get stuck in another game.

Over the next nine months Izuku would be seen cleaning Takobah Municipal Beach. The trash there was the perfect spot for him to begin training his muscles in order to become far stronger than he used to be. The fact that he was training to become an even better swordsman was something that really pushed him hard. His mother helped by helping him get his forging license through taking online courses to create a forge of his own.

Over time he had managed to gather enough scrap in order to create a blade that he could use for the Entrance Exams. And within the last month he had been taking more breaks as of late than usual since he'd been nearing completion on it. He walked over to the beach as he found the place nearly spotless as he looked at himself again. What used to be skin, and bone was now toned with muscle fibers as well as a lean frame.

"This is for you, Koharu. I will become a hero that you would want me to be. Although, I would like to meet that blonde woman again. If I remember her name was Melissa Shield, I can't wait to meet her again." Izuku mumbled as he began to clear the beach.

For the remainder of his day, he would be shown cleaning the beach. Once he was hauling the last bit of trash from the beach, he turned around to look at how it was now far more beautiful. Taking a deep breath, he pulled something out of his pocket, revealing a phone as he pointed it at the beach. Snapping a few pictures of the place, Izuku looked at them compared to the first day he was cleaning up the place.

From what it appeared in the nine-month-old photo's, the place had undergone a massive transformation. He smiled at the photo's themselves before rushing home to get prepared for the Entrance Exams that day. He ran by the forge as he found his weapon for the exams sitting in its sheath on the wall as he smirked at it. Cleaning himself up before heading out, he grabbed the weapon and left the apartment complex he and his mother lived at.

He had an Entrance Exam to begin his tests on his sword.

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Walking down the pathway towards UA, Izuku found himself letting out breaths of air as the cold spring morning had allowed him to let out small gusts of cloudy breath. He had a long winter since he'd been training for the UA Entrance Exams, and he was mentally and physically prepared for it. When he entered the school, he signed himself up for bringing a Support Item he'd created into the Practical Exams.

Although when the teacher's watched him walk through their halls with a weapon, they were very concerned. Even more so when they saw the little armband that he wore on his left arm as he traversed through their halls.  He entered a classroom to find a bunch of other students who were preparing for the written exams. Letting out a sigh, he sat down as he placed his sheathed blade on the ground next to the desk lent to him for this exam.

Some of the other students in the same room as him stared at him in confusion for bringing a weapon onto Campus, but then they saw the armband and immediately threw a glare his direction. He didn't care if they all didn't like him, all he cared about was entering the greatest school for Heroes that he knew of. Not to mention he wished that Koharu was here with him, learning alongside him, her presence would be much appreciated.

The Written test wasn't that difficult for Izuku, the young man having spent most of his time learning everything about Heroes when he grew up. And most of the questions pertained to how a Hero should act in front of the populace whilst not causing too much problems. But there were a few questions that caused him to pause, they were pertaining to those who had survived SAO.