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Chapter 5: The UA entrance exam (Part 2)

"Give me that robot. It's my 2 points not yours!"

"No, it's mine!"

"10 points!"

"3 points!"

"18 points ahead!"

The start of the mock battle exam had awakened a blood bath in the entire battlefield centers. It was every man for himself. Every candidates were honing in all that they had; skills, intellect, advantages and most especially their 'quirks'; to earn a chance of enrolling into this once in a lifetime hero academy. Obviously no one was willing to take any chances.

Shinsou Hitoshi never had a flashy or has people deemed "heroic quirk". Instead he had what they always termed "Villainous quirk": A quirk suitable for only evil deeds. So what was his Villainous quirk about? Was it powerful enough to cause destruction? No. Does it require skills? Not really. Was it battle capable? No. Was it potentially dangerous if used wisely? ...No, but could be. That was the warning label everyone only thought of his power. His quirk; dubbed "Brainwash" fell under the best use of intellect. Shinsou can only activate it when he asks someone something like a question, and any person that responds to him will most likely fall into his brainwashing ability as he can now pull the strings of the unfortunate individual to do his bidding. Another problem is he will have to be smart enough not to make the person suspecting of his ability or catch the person off guard.

Despite being blessed with being part of the 80% who had quirks; his blessing was more like a curse as people feared the abilities of his quirk. This resulted in him being beaten, bullied, avoided, and always downgraded of his chances of becoming a hero with his abilities. The purple haired teen grimaced at the past events that had played before arriving to UA's entrance (He'd rather not remember that). Who was he kidding thinking he would enter the premises of the academy and find mingling relief, only for some few who had recognized him to send wary or distrustful looks his way.

Villian

That's the word he could make out in those eyes of theirs. To top it off, he had arrived late due to circumstances and received further humiliation from that blue haired student (Lida was it?). Outrageously called out for his lack of punctuality and was instantly judged as 'unfit' to join UA, and almost not surprisingly many laughed at his untimely scolding. He thought that was it, if there was one thing he had learned: Is that many people often judged by first impression. That was until someone actually stood up for him for the first time. Never in his life had he thought that anyone could actually look past others assumptions and defend someone with a quirk like him.

But he never told Bakugo of his quirk.

Shinsou glanced back at said person; who he never told his quirk to...Who he is currently using his quirk on. If Shinsou told the blonde teen of his kind of quirk, would he still be as understanding as he was back then in the examination orientation center...

...Would he still stand by his side? More specifically, would he still see as someone who can one day be considered as a HERO?

He shook his head, not in another life certainly. As the mock battle had started, he had asked the brainwashed teen of his quirk ability. After hearing what Bakugo had as an ability, he had certainly gotten quite a catch. Explosion: The use of his sweat that acts as nitroglycerin to ignite an explosion. Now that was very practical, especially on the playing field. Speaking of which; the teen he had under his quirk was destroying any pointer robot he could get his hands on. Which in turn, was supplying points to Shinsou himself.

Shinsou walks along the wreckage of destroyed robots that many other candidates had put to waste. He might not have a powerful or highly capable quirk; but he will certainly make due of his wits.