•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 164: Fire on fire (but its the Sam Smith song)

Nora turns and tries to teleport, but a wave of ice halts his movements.

He presses a hand to the ice and and it melts into a puddle almost immediately before rising into steam.

Sweeping a hand, the steam rockets towards Shoto who blocks it with another wall of ice before he fires with his flames.

Once more, the flames don't last long before they're absorbed into the glowing mist, and it  grows larger.

"What happened to you?" Shoto fires once more as Nora begins walking towards him.

"You disappeared for four months, where have you even been?" 

Nora barely falters at his attacks, just continuing their relentless march towards him.

"Answer me, Ryo!"

"You're a chatty one," Shoto's eyes widen as the voice is now coming from behind him.

He's struck in the back of the head and falls forward.

His vision swims.

'I... can't..!'

He bites down on his tongue to remain conscious.

Catching himself with his hands, he quickly reaches back and pushes Nora away with a wave of ice.

"At least tell me it was all a lie!"

He stumbles back onto his feet.

The glow through the ice and now familiar hissing noise draws nearer.

"At least say you played us!"

Shoto rears back and blasts the boy point blank with fire the second he steps out of the ice.

"Say something...!"

He leaps back and assesses the situation.

Nora's aura is flickering like an unsteady flame, steam rising from him.

It was no use, he wasn't going to get a word out of the boy.

Maybe Katsuki was right, he'd have to beat it out of him.

Flames lick up Shoto's left arm before he swings it forward and douses his opponent in fire once more.

The white mist regains stability, glowing brighter than before.

It was a strange match up to be sure.

To be able to affect that burning white aura around his opponent.

His ice made it disappear, his fire made it thicker.

With the newfound knowledge that this was Ryo's quirk at work, a lot of pieces started falling into place.

Just like in training, Ryo would take in the flames and increase the energy in his body.

While ice absorbs energy with it's low temperature.

The mist around him seemed directly related to his body's energy levels.

Finally, it was starting to make sense.

With this prior knowledge, came a profound understanding of Ryo's quirk.

Not just how it worked, but its weaknesses too.

They had trained together so much after all.

And his main weakness was one of either extremes.

That is to say too little energy, which had caused the mist to disappear.