•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 97: Did I mention I hate kids?

Well that was anticlimactic.

The UA students simply dismissed the children's quirks with a flick of their wrists. 

The children were speechless.

"They're not cowering in fear of our quirks..." a boy mumbled in shock.

"I'll go next!" the girl who seemed to be the head of the gaggle of girls with a one-sided feud with Camie spoke up. "QUEEN BEAM!"

A heart-shaped laser hits Shoto dead on.

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As the dust clears, the Icyhot boy speaks.

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"Hey, hey," his tone was unusually frivolous. 

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"Let me see your cute little face."

Ah, the powers of an Ikemen's smile.

"OKAY!!!" the girl seemed to fall under the spell of her own quirk.

But then, Shoto disintegrates before her eyes, giving way to a smug Camie.

"I'm sorry," she wagged a finger, "that was an illusion~"

"Though I'm sure you'd love to hear him say that."

The little girl was distraught.

Katsuki muffled a laugh in his gloves before giving his best impression of the situation.

"Let me see your cute little face," he sounded almost constipated with the voice he made, before doubling over in laughter.

"You should just have fake Shoto's personality!" he laughed at the real Icyhot boy who didn't seem to get the hilarity of the situation.

"Stop chatting!" Inasa urged in a not-so-hushed whisper, "let's stick to our plan!"

And that they did.

Camie blew out a colourful smoke that morphed into the aurora borealis right before their eyes as Inasa's wind lifted the children into the air.

Then they were dropped onto a large ice structure that Shoto had made.

It was like a giant slide as they slipped down the icy slope, through rings of fire.

Slowly the children began to shout with joy.

"THIS IS AMAZING!" 

"I can't make complex shapes," Shoto admitted, "so I used your quirks from earlier as a foundation."

"Your quirks are good. They helped."

Soon enough, the four teens were inundated with demands to go down the slide again.

Katsuki watched the scene unfold around him, thinking back to the earlier plan they had made.

"We have to make the brats think their quirks are cool," he had said, "if they only feel defeated by people they look down on, they'll get upset."

It seems he was pretty good with kids all things considered.

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Looking around, he spotted the blonde mouthy brat in purple from earlier, sulking on his own at the side.

He stomped over and grabbed his arm, "you should join them too."

The kid protested, calling him a number of names, but surprisingly the anger-prone boy was unphased.