Inquisitor

- Chapter: 44 -

Izumi was frantic. She had to find a team to work with, or else she wouldn't be able to advance to the next round. She looked around herself and saw that people were moving away from her. No one wanted to team up with her, they all wanted to take her down.

That's when her eyes landed on Katsuo.

She walked over to him and decided to ask if he wanted to team up. "Hey... um K-Katsuo, do yo-"

"Sorry, I already have a team set up."

Izumi froze in shock, lightning seeming to go up behind her.

Katsuo smiled at Izumi and walked away.

Izumi stood in the same place in shock for a few moments, a voice breaking her out of it.

"Midoriya!"

Izumi turned around and saw Uraraka.

"Team up with me!"

Izumi's face lit up. "Uraraka, are you sure? I'm going to get targeted..."

"It's fine! We should team up with people we know well, right?!"

Izumi's eyes started to water. "Uraraka!!!"

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Katsuo walked over to a group of three people.

"Hey! Shinsou! Tetsutetsu!"

Two of them looked over at Katsuo, the third one looking over slightly after.

Katsuo turned to the third person. "You must be the person from 1-B I heard about, right?"

The girl answered him. "Yes, my name is Ibara Shiozaki my quirk i-"

"It lets you control your vine like hair freely, right?"

Ibara looked over at Tetsutetsu. "You already told him?"

Tetsutetsu shook his head no. "I only told him you had a quirk I thought would be helpful for his plan, nothing else! I swear!!"

Katsuo smiled at the group. "Don't worry, I'm not a stalker. I've trained to be able to tell people's quirks at a glance. Yours is... slightly more obvious than most."

Shinsou stepped forward. "We aren't here to play around. You said you could get us a win if a cavalry race came up. Honestly, the fact you guessed that is insane. So, is everything still going according to your master plan?"

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Katsuo was walking away from his class laughing maniacally. He was sure that the two students would follow him. He walked to an area slightly removed from the rest of the school and turned around. He saw the two students had followed him.

"Okay, if you two accept, then we can win the festival!! Or, at least an event...

Katsuo looked at Shinsou. "Not guessing, prediction. The plan's easy really, we just need to find the right button... and I know just what to hit."

Katsuo's face twisted by his smile, seeming strangely demonic. "Listen closely, now."

Katsuo told the two boys the details of his plan, their eyes slowly growing wider and wider.

"Wait wait wait!!" Tetsutetsu stopped Katsuo partway through. "How do you know the events?!'

Katsuo looked at him and smiled "Simple prediction."

"Yeah, but... HOW did you predict it?"

"Well..." Katsuo explained that every year, different activities were used. He explained how on average they go on a three year cooldown, at that he had figured in each event's popularity and what would go with each corresponding stage. When he was done, both boys seemed more confused.