"I'm the hero!", a young bruised Akira who was wearing a cape made out of a curtain and mask made out of paper proclaimed.
The young black haired child could only stare at him while he fought away the bullies.
Akira's mask suddenly ripped off and fell to the ground, but he still kept fighting the bullies.
'He's so cool.', the young child thought as he fought the two bullies.
"Hey, stop that!", suddenly a tall handsome male that looked kind of similar to Akira, but was older, and had a stubble on his face commanded the kids to stop.
Two old men also came to the scene to stop the other two kids.
"He started it!", the young kids accused Akira.
"No, they were tryna hurt the kid over there! I just protected 'im as a hero of justice!", Akira said defending himself.
"Sorry about this."
The adults were apologizing to one another about what happened, afterwards, the middle-aged man who looked similar to Akira, took his hand and pulled him out of the playground.
"Wait!", the young child called.
The child suddenly ran over to Akira.
The man seeing this, let him go and let them speak to each other for a while as he checked his phone.
"You- you saved me!", the child told the young Akira.
"That's the norm fer the hero of justice!", Akira replied.
The young child smiled at the smug looking Akira with cheeks slightly flushed red, and told him:
"Do you really want to become a hero?", the child asked.
"I sure do!", Akira replied.
"Then I'm gonna be your sidekick and I'll support you whenever you need to fight!", the child then proclaimed.
Akira scratched his head, smiled at the child and responded to her:
"Ya don't need to be a sidekick, I don't like peeps creepin' behind me..."
"Why don't ya become my partner instead?", Akira replied.
The child had a big smile on her face and asked Akira:
"Can I really?"
"Yeah! I'll be the strongest hero and you'll be my partner!", Akira replied.
The young child suddenly looked a little down when she heard what Akira said.
"Is there somethin' wrong?", asked Akira.
The child then showed a stern expression and looked at Akira again.
"Ummm...can I become your bride instead?"
"Bride? Wuz that?", Akira asked.
"It's...when big adults give and accept their love for each other! That's one of a girl's most special dream!", explained the child.
"You're a girl?", Akira without a hint of bad intention asked her.
She started looking dreadful with tears on her eyes as Akira asked her that.
Akira noticed this and decided to try and apologize:
"Uhhh... sorry... I said that cuz I didn' notice, but look at me! Other kids always tell me I hav' a scary face even if I keep callin' myself a hero!", Akira said pointing to his face.
"Ehehe, it is kinda scary..."
"Hey!"
The child giggled as she teased him.
"I think pink is a better color for ya."
"Huh?"
Akira pointed at her and made her feel confused with those words.
"What do you mean?", asked the child.
"I think you'd be really cute wearing the color pink on ya! That way no one would think you're a boy anymore!", suggested Akira.
"Pink doesn't suit me...", she replied with a sad expression
Akira then walked closer to her, pulled her hair up making her blush and said:
"Nope, I think yu'd be even cuter with pink.", the child's face got really red hearing Akira say those words.
"Hey, Ra-chan, let's go now, okay? Mommy's waiting.", the man told Akira who turned towards him.
"Well, I'm off ta home now!", Akira said trying to give her his farewells.
The man started holding Akira's hand and guided him away from the playground.
"Wait! Can I see you again?", ask the child.
"Sure, and at that time I'd be showing you my real handsome face! Without villain markings!", replied Akira who was basically telling her he'd show her his face without bruises.
"Thank you, Mr. Hero!"
"...Goodbye! Future partner!", Akira replied as he waved his hand and looked at her while walking away.
'Goodbye...', the child thought as Akira left.
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"Okay, just keep up the pace!", Akira was running around the track field with his fellow classmates with Sir Knight guiding them to run around the field.
They all wore what seems to be a normal physical fitness uniform that looked like the ones they wore in highschool.
None of them were using their abilities, and they were all running around the lap sweating.
"Remind me, why we have to do this again?", Akira asked Shikaku Takumi, the guy who always has a deadpan expression and has light blue upside-down heart shaped hair.
"Sir Knight told us that to be a really strong support, we have to train our stamina or else we won't be able to keep up with the saviors.", Takumi replied still with a deadpan expression.
"This is too easy. He should've just let us use our powers.", Ken Takahashi, the muscular spiky haired brawnhead commented.
"If we were allowed to use abilities, it would be too unfair.", replied Akira.
"People like the pink chick and that Izanagi guy wouldn't even break a sweat.", he continued.
"What's more is our abilities probably wouldn't be any use.", Takumi added with a gloomy tone but he still kept that deadpan face.
"Mine would be of some use.", Sora Yoshida, the red ponytailed hair girl who had the flight ability, butted in with a teasing smile, irritating Akira and Takumi while Takumi still had that deadpan face.
Akira, Takumi, Sora and Ken were the ones in the lead. Next to them are Megumi Sasaki, Koka Kawai, Avaron Fujimoto and Kazuki Inoue. Followed them are, Chiyo Mayou, Maiki Kimura, and Ryuu Akarui who was running backwards while cheering for Yurei Tomo. Next to them are Kami Nagai, Ai Abe, Tomo, Eiko Kurokku, Mitsuko Shimizu and Mizumi Hana. The ones at the very last were Izanagi Watanabe, Daichi Iro and Keima Nakamura.
The pink haired pink eyed Megumi was running at pace with the dark skinned, black haired Koka Kawai.
They were chatting happily while running.
The light violet braided haired, Avaron was running about normally while the dark blue haired, Kazuki kept a serious face.
Chiyo who had long curly hair with brown at the ends looked as if she was teasing the dark green haired Maiki who showed a creepy looking smile.
Ryuu, the bald one, was running backwards cheering the long haired long banged, Yurei Tomo on who looked as if he was guilty of a crime he never conmited.
Kami, the dark skinned guy who had dreadlocks looked as if he was struggling and trying his hardest to run faster.
The cute, short Ai but had a big chest who had an orange sidetail was struggling hard to run faster as well as she ran a cute way with her forearms up and her fist clenched.
The crimson haired Eiko, the black medium length haired freckled Hana and the dark gray haired Mitsuko were all chatting happily with each other as they ran as well.
The messy black haired with eyebags Izanagi, the curly haired Daichi who had an exaggerated tired expression, and the blond bowlcut haired shortie with round glasses Keima looked as if they're gonna pass out running anytime now.
After running for a while, the students finally finished their laps.
Keima was breathing heavily and looked as if he was inches away from dying.
"You seriously have never exercised before, haven't you?", Akira asked.
"Shut up! No one ever told me this course would be about some death-springing exercises. You mongrels wouldn't stand a chance against my ability if I was allowed to use it!"
"We just ran ten laps, dude."
Sir knight then approached the students and spoke to them:
"So, this exercise was instigated for me to learn who to lead your groups for a certain activity.", Sir Knight said.
"Groupings? What's this about, sir?", Avaron asked him.
"I used this exercise today to measure which of you have the most stamina and could share their skills with their classmates. And the four frontrunners were just the perfect ones!", continued Sir Knight
"Akira Ishikawa, Ken Takahashi, Sora Yoshida and Shikaku Takumi, will the four of you stand here beside me."
The four first finishers walked up to the front feeling a little nervous.
"These four have abilities that mark parts of what is needed in a battlefield."
Sir Knight then pointed at them and requested them:
"Will the four of you please show your abilities?"
'What's this about?', thought Akira but did it anyways.
Akira constructed a shield on his left forearm, making him suddenly show green glowing branch lines on it.
Ken Takahashi punched at the air a few times while releasing smoke from his body. The punches became like crafted shapes of smoke at the air and stayed there without moving.
Sora closed her eyes, inhaled, and exhaled quickly.
Suddenly, angel like wings spawned at her back while she glowed of a white light.
Takumi also closed his eyes, focused and opened them, suddenly making his right eye's blue pupil turn into a glowing target symbol while it glowed of a light blue light.
"The four of them display some of the most important parts to focus on the battlefield...
Namely, these are defense, offense, mobility and vision.", explained Sir Knight.
"This activity will teach you all the inportance of all four factors... so for now, I will be grouping you all into four groups, with these four as the group leaders."
'A group activity?', thought Akira.
'...but we haven't even seen our classmates' ability in action yet. Shouldn't we prepare ourselves first?'
"A group activity from the very start? Interesting.", Takumi said while keeping his deadpan face.
"Kawai-san, Kurokku-san, Nakamura-san and Abe-san will be teaming up with Ishikawa-san."
Koka looked at Ai and smiled, but they then looked at Akira who was scratching his head through all this.
Keima looked kinda relieved as he heard who he was teaming with.
"Sasaki-san, Inoue-san, Fujimoto-san and Kimura-san will be joining Ken Takahashi's team."
Megumi looked kind of down knowing that she wasn't able to join Akira', Koka's and Ai's team but the two cheered her up.
Maiki looked kind of down as well, but Chiyo just teased her to cheer her up again.
Avaron was already thinking of a strategy while Kazuki just showed a serious expression.
"Woah, the two top passers were teamed together? Can we really fight against that?", Kami commented.
"Weeee'rrree gonna looosseee! Waaahh!", Tomo exclaimed.
"Watanabe-san, Yurei-san, Nagai-san and Mizumi san will be joining Yoshida-san's team."
Izanagi just looked bored as usual. Tomo was still crying while Kami looked pumped. Mizumi was just showing a wry smile.
"And lastly, Mayou-san, Iro-san, Akarui-san and Shimizu-san will be joining Shikaku's team."
Mayou just smiled at this. Iro showed an exaggerated expression as he held a paintbrush up to the air. Ryuu was praying with his prayer beads while Mitsuko just kept her elegant expression.
"You don't have to worry, the activity will be next week."
Sir Knight then clenched his fist and pointed it to the students.
"I want you all to prepare yourselves until then. Get to know your allies' abilities and make the best use out of them. I will tell your highnesses what the activity is next week, but be prepared for a team battle.", explained Sir Knight.
"For now, go to your groups and talk to each other, look for an open schedule you all can agree on to prepare yourselves for this upcoming activity.", he continued.
The students all go to their group leaders and started talking with one another.
"So we got the chick with the weakening ability, the love girl, the time stopper and Keima.", said Akira.
"Sir Knight said we're the best group for defense, so I think we should do our best to focus on that."
"Our enemies are quite tough we even have the top passers in the enemy teams. Can we really win this?", Eiko asked.
"Fool, if we didn't have a chance of winning, Sir Knight wouldn't have put the two top passers in one group.", Keima replied.
Eiko just giggled with a wry smile.
'My ability is surely made for defense, I could use my shield to protect from one side, though I can't really use more than one or else my energy's gonna run out quick.', thought Akira.
"Hey love girl...was it Abe-san or something? You can use your ability on objects, right?", asked Akira.
"Y-yeah! I can make other people fall in love until my energy runs out.", replied Ai.
"That's kind of cute.", Eiko thought while patting Ai's head.
'That might be a bit useful actually, though it sounds kind of ridiculous.'
"Kawai-san, does your ability affect everyone near or does it only target those you aim for?", asked Akira.
"...", Koka just kept silent.
"...Hey-"
*BAM!*, from the other group, a sound of a strong punch was heard.
Everyone suddenly turned their heads to the group who made the noise.
Ken stood there, with his fist pointed towards Kazuki, trembling with anger while Kazuki sat on the ground with his cheek bruised and seemed a bit irritated.
"Don't you dare underestimate us!", Ken exclaimed.
"What's going on there!? Stop that!", Sir Knight immediately ran between Ken and Kazuki planning to stop any fights that may start.
"Tch-", Kazuki said, as he walked away with an irritated expression.
Before he could leave though, he said:
"Stop trying to fool yourself. If you have a weak ability, useless, that's it."
Kazuki said as he left the area.
"What the hell is his problem?", Izanagi asked.
"Good looking guys sure get kinda cocky sometimes.", Kami said.
The other classmates were also talking to each other and gossiping about what happened.
'The savior of one million, huh?', thought Akira.
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Savior University lets the students review their past subjects, wherein Mind Whisperer was the one who teaches them the normal ones like math, science and grammar.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
"Knowledge is still an important part of being a hero!", Mind Whisperer proclaimed as he hurt his back making Akira and the others worry.
The next classes were Ability Research, History of Supports and Saviors Part 1, Values Education and Psychology.
Sir Knight was the one teaching the first class they had, Basic Physical Training for Supports.
Ability research was taught by States, or the water bodied teacher who wore a skirt everytime she taught them.
"Your abilities are first and foremost, part of the definition of your very being... They are manifested through your desires and-"
History of Supports and Saviors was taught by Sakura or the teacher who wore a white kimono and the Noh mask.
"The long history between the alliance of support types and fighter types was started 50 years ago by a man that was named Christopher G-"
Values Education was taught by Net, the man who wore a full blue bodysuit that had yellow line on the edges.
"That's right! Being good is a-ma-zing!"
Psychology was then taught by a certain hero who looked as like a normal middle aged woman, who had brown pineapple hair, and wore an office outfit and glasses but had a buxom body, she was named as 'Strategist'.
"Criminals' state of minds are usually full of wrong ideals like 'I need to take from others what wasn't given to me', and-"
At the end of the classes, they were dismissed, just like normal students of a normal university.
"I almost forgot to tell your highnesses that you're allowed to use the simulators in the training area as long as you have permission from me.", Sir Knight, went to the students' class right after their class with Strategist.
"Sheesh, Sir Knight. You should have told them earlier, you might have failed to tell all your students about that information."
"Haha, well, at least I made it, right?"
The two teachers chatted to each other.
"To those who would like to use the simulator training centers, I give you permission to use them for a whole week. As long as the caretakers know you have my permission, they'd let you use it."
Akira and the others felt a bit relieved because of this, since it'll be hard to look for an enclosed space where no innocent bystander would be in to practice for the group battles.
"Alright, for now, let's all get to the simulators and talk it out there.", Akira said while turning around to look at his teammates.
They were about to leave the room when-
"INOUE! STOP THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF! WE'RE A TEAM, GODDAMNIT!", Ken, with an enraged tone, screamed at Kazuki.
Kazuko didn't even budge at all and continued walking out the exit which angered Ken even more.
"Dude, leave him be.", Kami walked closer to Ken and tapped his shoulder.
"Hurting or yelling at him won't change anything.", he continued.
"That damn Inoue, just because he's the top passer he can't stop thinking of himself as the best one out there.", Ken said.
Akira and the others, decided to leave the situation be and head to the simulators.
The five of them all changed into their gym uniforms, walked to the simulator training areas and left their bags behind.
"A desert field?", said Keima.
"Why?", he continued.
"If we're supposed to focus on defense, we gotta train in a place where defending would be the hardest.", explained Akira.
"In here, there are no rocks, trees or anything else that could hide or protect us from enemy attacks...
Meaning we gotta just make full use of our ability to not get fucked over by the others."
Akira then started stretching his right arm and legs as the others just watch.
"That would make it so that whatever place the battle is conducted next week, we'd be accustomed to an area where we have the disadvantage, am I right?", Eiko asked.
"Yep, spot on.", replied Akira.
"To start this all off, you!"
Akira pointed to Eiko.
"What is it?", she asked.
"Use your ability on me and try to land as many hits as possible."
""What?""
"Hiiih!?"
Keima and Eiko were confused while Ai looked a bit scared.
"If we're gonna fight next week, don't you think we should tone down on fighting each other? Foolish things like making your ally fight you won't get you anywhere. We should resist from getting any injuries before the battle.", Keima said.
"True, but I know almost nothing about their abilities.", Akira replied.
"The only way I'd get to really understand their abilities, is if I get hit by it head on."
"Are you sure this is a good idea?", asked Eiko.
"Just hit me with what you've got."
Sudddenly, in a flash, Eiko disappeared and reappeared near Akira while she glowed of a crimson light and gave him lots of bruises in what seems to have happened in one second while she pointed her clenched fist on Akira's face.
Akira was then suddenly pushed away by this.
"GAAAHHH!"
"Ah...sorry, I kind of overdid it."
Akira smiled a little while having a bruised face.
"You stopped time near me, and punched me several times before continuing it, I got the gist of your ability now.", explained Akira with a confident expression.
"Now, use your time slow ability and avoid this!", Akira suddenly shot his fist towards Eiko.
Eiko's crimson eyes immediately turned glowing red and black into an hourglass and slowed down Akira.
She immediately dodged his attack, pulled him and tossed him off the ground, when suddenly...
*Thwak*, a shield flew out behind Eiko's back and struck her at the back of her head.
"Ouch!", moaned Eiko.
"Hey, you tossed me for no reason. I told you to only try dodging my attack."
She then held her head that had been hit by Akira's shield.
"That isn't enough to take you down, is it? Come on, get up.", Akira said while showing his hand to Eiko offering her help to get up.
Suddenly, Eiko's eyes lit crimson and stopped time near Akira...
She planned to punch him again while time is stopped near them when...
A shield suddenly hit her head from above.
"Auuugghh!", Eiko held her head again while crouching on the ground.
"I see.", Akira smiled.
"You're time stop and slow ability isn't actually stopping or slowing time down, you just paralyze us for a few seconds or slow our movements down, if you don't concentrate on the object, it won't be paralyzed.", Akira explained with a smug face as if he's a detective that figured out the criminal or a case.
"That's wrong.", Eiko replied.
"...What? ...but I was sure-"
"It's true my ability lets me prevent you from moving or slow you down, but it isn't a paralysis based skill.", explained Eiko.
"For example, if a doctor comes here and tells you, you have one second left to live, I can use my ability to stop time near me to prevent you from dying.", she continued.
"If my ability was paralysis based, you would have died then even if I used my ability...
I could stop an organic or inorganic being's time for about 5 seconds at max, but I will need to rest before using it again. The only reason your attacks hit is because I didn't focus on it, and thus I wasn't able to stop it's time."
"So you can basically prevent any attacks from reaching us in a certain span of time.", Akira replied.
"Correct!", said Eiko while pointing a thumbs up towards Akira.
'An ability that stops time as long as she focuses on it. Seems quite handy.'
"Keima, you're up next. Show me what you've got.", Akira ordered him.
"What? Why me? You've already seen my ability."
"I have, but the others haven't. If our teammates don't know anything about each other's abilities, how would we make up a strategy that can counter the other teams?"
Keima sighed and went to open his bag that was left left with the other bags in the corner.
He took his PSP and came back.
"Hmmm? Are we playing a game?", asked Ai.
Sudddenly, yellow glowing wire-like lines appeared on Keima's forearms making the PSP glow and suddenly, the PSP shifted into a mini-robot that looked like a small version of the ones they used in the entrance exams.
"Cute!", Ai exclaimed as she saw the robot.
"My creation is amazing not cute, woman!", Keima replied.
"Now try it on me."
"That little thing?", asked Eiko.
*BAAAM!*
Suddenly, the small robot banged at Akira's head and pushed him away a few feet.
"Don't underestimate his ability.", said Akira as he wiped away a bit of blood from his mouth.
"Uhh...", Ai looked a bit worried when this happened.
"Keima's ability can let him manipulate machines, and even if someone tries their hardest to break them apart, they won't be destroyed so easily.", explained Akira.
"I can make the machines reconstruct easily when smashed or slashed, but if it's been incinerated or burned or splashed by water, I might not be able to use them.", Keima added.
'So his ability has that kind of weakness, huh?'
"If he has that kind of ability, why wasn't he put in the mobility team or the offense team?", asked Eiko.
"Keima's robots can be destroyed and reconstructed easily, as it had been said. If he could continuously reconstruct his machines, that would mean we can use these moving pieces of metal as our damage takers on the battlefield.", explained Akira.
"And with that girl's ability, we can make the enemies focus on the machines Keima's in control.", Akira said pointing to Ai.
"M-me?"
"Love girl, use your ability on me."
"W-what?"
"I'm gonna charge at you, if you don't use your ability... You're dead."
"Hiiih!", Ai moaned with a scared tone.
Akira suddenly charged at Ai, which irritated Koka... but when he's about to reach her...
Ai who closed her eyes and turned towards the side suddenly put up her arms to protect herself, with her palms pointed towards Akira's direction.
Small glowing pink hearts shot out of her palms and splashed at Akira.
'W-what is...?'
To Akira's eyes, Ai suddenly looked so dazzling. Ai has always been cute and sexy but now she looked 10x cuter to Akira's eyes.
'My heart is beating so fast, I never felt like this before...'
Akira suddenly approached the still trembling Ai and put his hands on her shoulders.
"You're so beautiful.", Akira said with a sparkling look on his face as he smiled at Ai.
Akira was usually an attractive guy, but because of his usual glare, people think of him as an unapproachable scary person.
His face suddenly sparkled and looked as gentle as Akio's face.
Seeing this happen, Ai couldn't help but be flustered.
"E-Ehhhh??"
Akira touched her cheeks which made her blush even more and was about to confess his love for her when suddenly..
"I think I'm in love with y-"
*BAMM*
The sand beneath Akira suddenly fell and a hole was made beneath.
"WAAAHHHH!", Akira fell to the sinkhole and hit his head showing spirals on his eyes.
The sand suddenly spread toward them from where Akira stood.
"W-what... happened?", Ai wondered.
"I weakened the sand beneath his foothold.", Koka explained while she was crouching down and had her hand placed on the ground.
Her arms were glowing with a dark pink lines on it connecting to Akira's pitfall.
"Nice.", Akira said as he climbed up the hole and smiled at Koka.
Koka just turned her head away from him as he said that.
"I've figured out stuff about the abilities of you two as well."
"W-what is it?", asked Ai.
"Since I'm fine now, and I'm not crazy in love with orange sidetail, that would mean the fall I took fixed my mind, didn't it? To put it simply...
A strong blow to the head would cancel your ability."
"That's right!", Ai replied with a hint of amazement.
"And weaken girl can use her ability in a targeted spot, that includes even inanimate objects."
"...", Koka just kept silent.
"Now that you're all done...
...next up is me.", said Akira.
"Keima, hit me."
"I was planning to do that even without your permission."
Keima's robot suddenly flew towards Akira and tried to hit him when suddenly...
*BAAAAMM*
Akira constructed a shield to protect himself against it making the robot run headfirst to his shield crushing it into pieces.
Keima then used his ability to reconstruct his robot.
"This is my first ability, barrier."
Akira then cancelled his shield and put his hands in front of his chest and made a begging pose.
"This is my second ability..."
Akira's hand suddenly glowed of a green light as his woundes slightly recovers.
"Heal."
The others were amazed to see this other skill of his.
"If you had that ability why didn't you use it when we fought each other in the entrance exam?", asked Keima.
"There are limits to this ability, and for now, I could only heal minor wounds and my ability would stop itself. Notice how I still have bruises?", Akira explained.
"And the second problem with this is skill, is that...
I can't use heal and barrier at the same time."
Keima crossed his arms, and then lifted his right arm over his mouth as if he was deep in thought.
"That would mean it would be the best if we become the line of defense, right?", Keima asked.
"Exactly.", replied Akira.
"Then... now that we have the gist of how our abilities work, we will need the help of someone to test out how any of our plans work out.", continued Akira.
"What do you mean?", asked Keima putting his hands on his sides.
"First let's make a simple defense tactic...
My barrier ability should be used in the front to prevent any damage from hitting there.
Time girl will be at the left side and Weaken girl will be on the right, both of them would slow down, weaken or stop any attacks before it reaches us."
Eiko made a slight smile and nodded, while Koka just nodded once without crossing eyes with Akira.
"Keima and Ai should stay behind us, once the enemies get close, create a robot, and make Ai use her ability to make enemies fall for it. Then lead the robot away so our opponents would turn their backs against us."
Keima just crossed his arms and replied:
"Sure, let's do it."
While Ai made a cute pose with her arms in front of her chest and said:
"Mmmm!"
"Now, all that's left is to try it out."
"By the way, who's this someone you want us to be tested by?", asked Eiko.
"Well..."
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The next day, after classes, Akira's group immediately went to the simulator training areas.
There, they seem to be in a big predicament.
"AAAAAHHHHHH!", Keima screamed as he was blown away.
"Come on, try harder.", Akio stood there, wearing a gray tracksuit while using his airblast on Akira and his group.
"ISHIKAWA-KUN, I KNOW YOU SAID WE NEED SOMEONE TO TEST OUR DEFENSE BUT THIS IS,TOO MUCH!", Eiko screamed because the sound of the air blast was too loud while hiding behind Akira trying to slow down the wind with Akira defending them with his barrier.
Keima, Ai and Koka were already lying on the ground with swirls on their eyes as if they were easily defeated.
"We'll be fighting against someone who stopped a nuclear bomb. We can't afford to get an easy way out.", replied Akira but wasn't heard by Eiko because of the loud sound.
"WHAT?", asked Eiko.
"LET'S JUST TALK LATER!"
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After a while Akira and his group were down on the ground sweating, tired and full of bruises as Akio walked up to them.
"You guys up for more?"
"No, we're quite done.", Keima replied while panting.
"Y-y-yeah.", Ai replied to him as well while panting.
"Let's just continue tomorrow.", Eiko did as well.
Koka was also panting while she lied next to Ai.
Akira was lying next to Keima as he panted as well.
"Oh, quite eager you all are, huh? I've never fought anyone as enthusiastic as you five.", said Akio with an intimidating tone as he kept a big smile on his face and gathered up air on his hand.
"W-w-wait...", Ai asked him while trembling of fear.
"We can't do it anymore...!", Keima also asked him while trembling.
"Can we just continue this tomorrow...?", Eiko did the same.
"No-can do~"
""""AHHHHHHHHH!!!!"""", the four screamed as the five of them kept figthing with Akio again.
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Third day of classes, and Megumi, Ken, Avaron and Maiki were in the classroom, discussing about their plans for the group battles.
When suddenly, Ai and Koka arrived.
"Ai! Koka! Good morni... um, are you guys ok?", Megumi called them before asking.
Koka and Ai had a withered expression and looked like they were tired.
"It's... all right...Megu, it's just the training we had yesterday was quite harsh.", Koka told Megumi.
"Y-yeah...", Ai did as well.
"You sure you're all doing all right? You seem-"
The classroom door opened again and Akira entered carrying his bag on his left shoulder with his left hand, and his right hand in his pocket, with a bandage on his face and had lots of bruises, unlike Ai and Koka who seem to have recovered already.
Megumi, seeing Akira come in, lit up and wanted to greet him, when suddenly...
"Ishika-"
"Akira-sama!", Ai called and went to run over to Akira to greet him with her chest bouncing.
'AKIRA-SAMA!?', Megumi's face suddenly turned into a withered expression.
"Yo, morning. Had a good night's rest?", Akira asked her.
"Good morning to you too! And yes, I did. Although I was a bit tired after all that training!", Ai replied to him with a confident expression.
"Well, keep up the good work. I'll be expecting more from you and stuff for the whole week.", Akira said as he patted Ai's head making her blush.
He then started to walk to his seat.
"Woah, when did thise two get so close?", Kami asked.
"Akira sure seems like a good team leader.", Takumi commented with a deadpan expression on his face.
Megumi was trembling and looked a bit irritated but kept a smile on her face.
"Koka...", Megumi called on her.
Koka who was watching the scene between Akira and Ai then turned towards Megumi.
"What is it, Megu-"
She suddenly noticed that Megumi had an intimidating aura while showing a cute smile.
"W-w-what's wrong?", Koka couldn't help but tremble.
"When did those two-"
"Akira!", Eiko who was chatting with Hana and Mitsuko, noticing Akira come in, called to him.
"Woah, Ishikawa-kun works quick.", Chiyo said while laughing.
"Huh?"
Everyone in the room except Akira's groupmates and Koka noticed how the normally cute and happy Megumi was slightly pissed off.
"Akira the spitfaced mongrel!", Keima called on Akira as well.
Ai also walked up again to Akira.
Akira, with an indifferent expression on his face, put his fist on top of Keima's head and rubbed it hard to get revenge from his insult.
"What's the matter? Why do all of you guys seem nervous?", Akira asked his groupmates except Koka who was still beside Megumi.
"Kokachi said she knows a girl from the 1st year hero class who could test our defense!", said Ai.
"We met a few supports in the third years as well who could become our training opponents", Eiko said.
"My father told me he had connections and found out that there's a hero in the third years who could test our defenses, as well.", Keima said.
Akira showed a confused expression and asked them:
"Don't we already have Akio as our practice opponent? We don't need other people.", explained Akira.
The three of them suddenly showed slight fear on their eyes.
"...b-b-but...", Ai said while trembling and faced the ground.
"Your brother, Akio is a bit...", Eiko tried to tell him but was too nervous to do so.
"Your brother is a psychotic monster!", Keima tactlessly said.
'...oh yeah. I'm sorta already used to Akio, unlike them... so I'm sure they'd feeling like this.'
"...You guys... he's not that harsh. He might just look the part, but..."
"He struck us with an Air Blast for the fifth time even when we were our of energy without mercy!", Keima who had fear in his eyes said.
"Your brother might look like a prince but he fights like a demon.", Eiko was trembling as she said as well.
"Akira-sama, please...!", Ai pleaded.
"Uhh... calm down, let's just talk this out."
The four spoke as Megumi looked like the end of the world just came to her.
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"Hmm? When did I start calling Akira-sama by his first name?", Ai repeated Megumi's question as they were all eating together in the cafeteria.
Ai sat beside to Koka who sat in front of Megumi who was holding a packet of milk with a straw on top.
"Y-yeah... You seem to have become so close so suddenly. You don't seem to be afraid of him anymore as well.", Megumi who was trying to hide her irritation told Ai as she showed her a big smile.
"Well, the truth is... yesterday..."
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"Ehhhh? Ishikawa-senpai is gonna practice with us?", Eiko asked.
Akira, Ai, Keima, Eiko, Koka and Akio were all in the simulator training area, when Akira introduced his brother to them.
"That's right.", Akira replied.
The group has mixed expressions.
Keima and Koka had an indifferent expression, Ai was slightly scared while Eiko seemed a bit excited.
"There's two Ishikawas here now, right? Are you sure you should keep on calling us Ishikawa?", asked Akio.
"If you're fine with it, I don't mind if you call me by my first name.", Akira suggested.
"Sure, it's just a name.", Keima said.
"I'll try.", Eiko replied.
"I-I-I never called a guy by his first name before... so I'm not sure...", Ai said while feeling a little nervous.
Akira looked at Ai who seemed to always have been nervous.
He walked up to her, this shocked her greatly and he then pulled up his hand in front of her.
Seeing this Ai got scared and protected her head thinking that Akira was gonna hit her.
Koka suddenly posed and planned to use her ability on Akira before he could hit her...
However...
"Just think of me as your big brother... that would make it easier for you, right?", Akira said while patting Ai's head.
Ai, noticing how gentle Akira was, suddenly blushed and nodded.
Koka stopped before she could use her ability and just stared at the two.
"T-t-thank you...", said Ai while still blushing.
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"Even though Akira looked kind of scary, he was really gentle and kind unlike his brother, who was so scaaaarryy!", Ai explained as she slightly trembled at the last phrase.
"Eeeek!", Koka moaned as Megumi squeezed the Milk packet she held as if trying to place all her anger on it.
"...uh, well... Ai. That Akira guy might have patted your head, but that doesn't entirely mean he's a nice guy.", commented Koka.
"No, he really is!", said Ai.
"Remember when we all passed out after taking too many shots from Akio-senpai?", asked Ai.
"Well... yeah. What about it?"
"I was still slightly conscious back then, since I was the one at the very rear. If you seen how Akira-sama looked like this morning, you'll notice that he's the one with the most bruises.", explained Ai.
"He was at the very front, guarding us with his shield, but because he was used to fighting Akio-senpai. He was still standing strong even after being hit so many times by his ability."
Ai then smiled and closed her eyes as she reminisced.
"All of us have mostly depleted our power and Akira-sama could have chosen to use his ability 'heal' on himself but.."
[In the desert, the simulator training area, Akira stood holding a barrier opposite to Akio and saw his teammates fall down and pass ou.
He was already full of bruises and cuts all over as Akio stood there and signaled him that he won't attack anymore.
"Haah.", Akira sighed and immediately ran over to them.
He then pointed his hands towards Ai.]
"Instead of healing himself, he decided to use the last of his energy to heal us. Even though he had the most injuries out of all of us.", continued Kana.
Megumi let loose of the milk packet and showed a genuine smile to Ai.
'He is that kind of guy after all...', she thought while gigling.
"I still won't forgive how all of you started calling him by his first name before me though!", Megumi told Ai as she showed her a competitive expression.
"...Megumi, do you like Akira-sama?", asked Ai.
"...", Megumi suddenly turned red and silent from Ai's question.
"Ah, ah! The bell's about to ring! Let's finish eating, quick!", replied Megumi trying to avoid the topic.
Ai just showed a confused expression then started eating again.
Koka could only stare at them with a serious expression.
'You're wrong, Ai, Megumi.', thought Koka.
'He shouldn't be trusted.', she continued.
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Thr next day, Sir Knight got all the students to go do a simple training regime inside the gym. (school gym)
"Okay keep going! You guys really need to pack more muscle!", Sir Knight advised as he looked after Keima, Izanagi and Iro who were struggling while doing the push-ups.
Akira and the others were already done and were just resting on the side.
"Man, training's already hard and sir's just here making it harder.", Akira told Kami who was sitting next to him.
"It really is tough, but we gotta give it our all!", Ai said while making a cute fighting pose while sitting.
"Yeah, yeah.", Akira replied to her while patting her head that made her blush.
"Dude, you're so slick with the ladies.", commented Kami.
"That's not it.", Akira replied.
"Haha, just kidding, dude."
"What about your training sessions, are you guys giving it your all?"
"Truth is, I would've liked it better if you were our leader."
"Why's that?"
"Red ponytailed angel, Yoshida-san might seem nice and friendly from the inside, but she's like hell's gym teacher from the inside."
"You would probably regret it if you were put in our team.", Eiko, who stood up to sit in front of Akira butted in.
"What's up? You got a suggestion about our formation or something?", asked Akira.
"Well, the truth is, I just came here to warn you.", Eiko replied.
"Warn me about what?"
"Remember yesterday when we went into the gym with Akio-senpai?"
...
"What about it?"
"I was a bit late back then, since I left my notebook to Mitsu-chan. So I had to go back and get it, but when I came back... I noticed something weird..."
Eiko then curled her eyebrows and put her mouth near Akira's ear to whisper to him what she saw.
Ai pouted cutely seeing this, but just let her do it.
Megumi looked a bit irritated and pouted as well.
"Inoue-san was outside the training area, and was somehow posed as if he was planning on using his ability from the outside to the training area."
'Huh?', Akira wondered.
"What was he planning?"
"I don't know..."
Eiko then tried to look at Inoue at the corner of her eyes to make sure he wasn't hearing this and when she saw he wasn't looking, she decided to continue.
"...but he left as soon as he saw me, so he probably was scheming something.", she continued.
'Why would Inoue...?'
Suddenly, Akira turned his eyes towards Kazuki and he was shocked to see his eyes...
Inoue stared at Akira with obvious anger, he had his killing intent on show, but only Akira noticed this.
"Akira-sama?", Ai asked the shaken Akira.
"...Uhhh.. yeah...", Akira replied.
"Is there a problem?", Ai asked.
"No...it's nothing..."
He then turned his eyes towards Inoue again who now reverted his eyes back to a serious expression as he watched Keima and the others.
"It's nothing..."
End of Chapter 06
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Defense Group:
1Akira Ishikawa
2Keima Nakamura
3Ai Abe
4Koka Kawai
5Eiko Kurokku
Offense Group:
1Ken Takahashi
2Megumi Sasaki
3Avaron Fujimoto
4Maiki Kimura
5Kazuki Inoue
Mobility Group:
1Sora Yoshida
2Kami Nagai
3Tomo Yurei
4Izanagi Watanabe
5Hana Mizumi,
Vision Group:
1Takumi Shikaku
2Iro Daichi
3Akarui Ryuu
4Mitsuko Shimizu
5Chiyo Mayou