•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 123: 456789

'Stupid! STUPID!'

I smacked at my head while walking towards the base for my team.

Round 5 was about to begin but my mind was entirely elsewhere.

'You're supposed to delay their confessions, not INDULGE IN THEM!!'

I smack myself a few more times before dropping my arms to my side.

'but... I really wanted to...'

"Ryo? Are you okay?" a voice chirps from beside me and I jump.

"Oh, Broccoli," I laugh gingerly as he inspects me with curious eyes. "Yeah, I'm fine."

"Of course he is," Mina laughs from my left, "he has so few braincells left some smacking around wouldn't make much of a difference!"

My brow twitched.

"I'LL SHOW YA SMACKIN AROUND YE SLIMY WRETCH!" I yelled and she stuck her tongue out at me, skating away.

'Ugh, now is not the time for this...'

I sigh, trudging the last few feet to the base.

'I have to focus.'

I'd be going against Shinso again, and the other team had a plethora of quirks that would lend towards an ambush approach.

We had to be ready for anything.

"I can act as the bait," Midoriya suggested.

'Hmm, works for me if I'm meant to trash him like Katsuki wants.'

"But," Mina purses her lips, "didn't you say your quirk was acting up?"

"Acting up? How?" I followed.

Midoriya clenched and opened his hands a few times, staring down at his arms.

"I think it'll be fine now," he eventually concluded.

We discussed how the other team would likely be on guard around Midoriya in order to avoid a repeat of round 4. So in turn, he would play the bait, laying the trap for our attack.

"Ryo," Midoriya looked at me and I nodded.

'First Tokoyami, then Bakugou, now Midoriya, I have a lot of people's expectations on me this round. I can't afford to play it safe.'

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The first attack was thrown by Monoma, having copied Yanagi's Poltergeist quirk.

Deku narrowly dodged the oil barrel that had been thrown, landing on a metal pipe parallel to Monoma's.

Expectedly, Monoma began his schpiel.

'God I have no idea how Midoriya just listens to this shit.'

Getting rather bored of the exposition, I leapt out from my hiding spot.

Monoma had barely any time to react as the kick I landed sent him flying to the level below.

I almost felt bad, but he managed to grab hold of some tubing and used Poltergeist to float himself to another platform.

"How coldhearted!" He chided but his voice remained cocky. "You know, Yamada, you're more like a villain than me or Shinso."

I knew he was trying to get on my nerves.

But damn did those words hit a sore spot.

Plus, from afar I could hear Mina and Ochako screaming.

'If it was just one of them I could chalk it up to Shinso, but now that its two...'

I jumped forward just as Monoma used Poltergeist to fling an array of screws and bolts at me.

I grabbed as many as I could in one hand and melted them into molten iron, throwing it at the boy.

He dodged out of the way narrowly.

Rather than land before him, I let myself fall downwards, breaking my fall on a platform of air that shattered from my weight.

I ran into the shadows.

Looking up, Deku began using his long-range flick attacks to corner Monoma.

"Hey, tell me," I heard his voice echo from above as I ran towards the base of the building he was standing on.

"How can Bakugou continue to smile so happily when he let himself get kidnapped by villains?"

I paused, gritting my teeth.

He was trying to make Deku upset, hell he was making me upset!

"At least Yamada had the sense to run away, but Bakugou..." I could hear the shit-eating grin in his voice.

"He's why our symbol of peace is gone."

I grabbed the base of the tower with an unnecessary amount of force, causing the metal to heat and warp.

As it shook, Monoma tried to hop off but I kept my hand on the building, watching as the steel platform he was on contorted and crawled over his legs, trapping him.

I took a bit too much pleasure in his yelp of shock as the tower came crashing down along with him.

"Midoriya," I spoke as I saw the boy land next to me. "Go help the others."

"But-" "Go."

I didn't want to see the look of disapproval in his eyes, that goody-two-shoes would make me feel more guilty with his presence.

I'll admit, I was a lot rougher than I should have been for a simple training exercise.

I stalked over to where the top of the building had landed.

Monoma had used Poltergeist on whatever he could reach as he fell, making a pile of junk beneath him to soften his landing.

Still, he had been left with quite a few minor injuries and was groaning with pain.

"Hey, not smiling so happily now that you got caught by me huh?" I smile, stepping over some rubble to look down on him.

What can I say? I'm a petty person!

He glared up at me, trying to free his legs to no avail.

He tried to use poltergeist on me but once again I just melted whatever he threw my way.

Instead, I leant down and touched the metal platform, making it wrap around Monoma's arms and legs.

"Where's your sense to run away now, Copycat?" I laugh, throwing him over my shoulder.

"Ugh," he groaned as his ribs hit my clavicle.

"Well... it doesn't make what I say any less true...!" he gritted out as I ran through the maze of pipes towards where the rest were.

I wasn't too worried, no one in 1-B had the quirk to remove solid metal from around his body anyways.

"All Might is gone because of Bakugou," I sighed deeply at his words, trying my best not to just punt him in the face.

"Y'know, riling me up isn't going to do you any favors," I mumble, grabbing his ascot from around his neck and using it to cover his mouth.

Even though his voice was muffled the loudmouth was doing everything in his power to make a ton of noise.

'Why won't he just shut up?!'

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'...why...?'

I stop in my tracks, a light peeking through the mesh of pipes in the distance.

Through the light I could just barely make out the silhouette of a person.

Monoma starts to yell and I quickly jab him in the back of the neck and he falls limp.

I slowly set him on the floor and creep up behind the figure.

As I inched closer, I could make out a man's figure.

A man with unruly hair.

'Shinso!'