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Chapter 45: Test (2)
That part of the city was burning, the reason she didn't like using that fiery attack. The sound of people screaming from outside the fire surrounding this area was riddling her heart to pump faster and faster.
This… can't be real.
She lost to a villain…. A criminal.
"Huff…"
Down on her four limbs, she looked behind her, still panting. The other heroes had tried to intervene but the villain took them down in a matter of seconds. It was kind of a good thing they didn't have to see her fall, but...
It hasn't even been 50 seconds since he took that medicine, yet everyone was down?!
She couldn't be the one to complain as her transformation had come off too, now she was back to her human form. But this was a bit disappointing too… So Japan's heroes are this weak?
"Hahahahaha!" The villain abruptly stomped on her head causing her to hit the asphalt road. "Number 9 Hero, seriously? This easy? Hahaha!! I can even take All Might like this!!"
'Heh, wishful thinking.' Ryukyu scoffed.
The villain's whole body except for the head was covered in a much bigger and sturdier armour of muscles than before, but to match All Might he'd need to go beyond this.
"Huh? What's up with that gaze, ya bitch?!"
His other leg hit her in the stomach. "Even after losing, you dare look down on me?!?!" He raised his feet and thumped on her wrist causing Ryukyu to cry out along with the sound of bones breaking. "Yes, scream, show me that desperate face!!"
He laughed and laughed while her face rested on her own blood. Her breathing started to slow as her eyes started to close by themselves, just then in the pool of blood spattered on the street, she saw the reflection of a teen as her eyelids sprung up.
She turned her head under the foot of the villain and yelled, "What are you doing here!? RUN!!"
She started to yell, the world slowing down for her while the boy simply walked to her and crouched down just beside the villain who stared at the scene with doubt-filled eyes.
"Sleep."
The boy's hand simply pressed her neck as she felt her vision distorting and going… dark.
The last thing she saw was the villain throwing a punch at her sidekick's little brother.
It took him 10 minutes to reach here, so he wasn't expecting the fight to even begin by now, let alone end. But apparently, Ryukyu is weaker than he had expected.
Neji watched Ryukyu close her eyes just as he felt a punch coming towards him. His eyes drifted to his left, the attack suddenly slowed down as he stared at the fist silently, multiple choices appearing in his head.
>Move your head 2.5 cm to the rightMove your shoulder 4 cm to the leftKick the ground and jump back 2 meters stopped him from freaking out any longer giving Neji the time to think rationally. He then stopped caring about the bleeding effect and immediately activated again.
Multiple choices came to his mind.
>Move your head to the rightMove your legs to the leftDuck down
He twisted his body, feeling the weight of all the muscle Muscular was wearing and slammed him on the asphalt with his full power causing a loud thud to sound out in the area and a crater to form in the street.
"Keuk!"
Muscular spat out blood as his body simply slumped down on the street.
"..."
Neji frowned. Did he one-shot him?
Proving him wrong, he saw a yellow piss-like liquid dripping down from Muscular's mouth that seemed to be a [Temporary Quirk Enhancement Drug], according to . The effect seemed to have worn off which caused Muscular's body to betray himself and lose consciousness just by such a weak attack.
Neji watched Muscular's Tier coming down to 5. He was still a little surprised by how high it was.
He phewed while releasing one thing. He could have died. It was very reckless of him to start experimenting with in front of such a strong enemy. "Tier 6 is too much for me. At least the Strength type ones are, I don't know about others."
The thing is, he did have ways to damage Muscular severely if he went full power on his Quirk. Just that, he wasn't getting any chance to attack because of his speed.
It was then-
[Sudden quest has been completed!!]
[Reward: 5,000,000,000 exp!]
Oh yeah, he got a quest notification just when Muscular first attacked him. It seems sudden quests don't give anything other than XP.
[You have levelled up!]
[You have levelled up!]
[You have levelled up!]
[You have levelled up!]
[You have reached level 99!]
"..." Neji chucked. "Or should I say Tier 6 'was' too much for me?"
The rich get richer.
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A few hours later,
Ryukyu's eyelids jumped up as she groaned at the sudden headache.
"Where is this…?" She mumbled while sitting up and looked around the room just as her eyes landed on Nejire's eyes who was cutting an apple on the chair beside her hospital bed.
Nejire froze.
"R-ryukyu!"
Then she threw the knife away and hugged Ryukyu.
"Oh, I was so worried!!"
Ryukyu blinked with a surprised face before she sighed and hugged her back.
"I am fine, sweetie."
"Ummu… the Doctor said your Quirk helps you heal faster." Nejire sobbed in her hug while she sighed again.
Why was his girl so attached to her? She was nothing but a mentor. 'Hah…' Not that she disliked it.
"Where is your brother, Nejire?"
Nejire raised her head and looked at her with teary eyes. "Neji? He's out to buy Milkshake. Why do you need him?" She pouted. "Is one Hado not enough for you?"
"Haha…"
Just as she said, "I am back.", Neji opened the door and walked in while sipping a milkshake from a straw. "Oh, Miss Ryukyu is up."
"Ryukyu is fine, it's just a hero name anyway." Ryukyu simply nodded. "Glad to see you're okay, but I must say it was reckless of you to fight him. Muscular was a strong opponent."
Nejire abruptly froze and looked at Neji with a frown.
"Wait, I am missing something." Neji got up. "What is Ryukyu talking about? You fought that villain?" She jumped at him and shook his shoulders with a cute frown on her face. "But you said Ryukyu defeated that villain and she was simply tired. That's why she was knocked out… so you actually fought a villain who even Ryukyu could not take down?! You dumbass."
"Chill out-"
"I can't." Nejire glared at him with a sweaty face, causing him to shut his mouth. "You could have died."
"It's fine, Nejire." Ryukyu sighed from the side. "
"He is stronger than you think, I can guarantee. From what I can see, it seems even you didn't know his true power, huh."
Nejire blinked this time. Despite her airhead personality, she was a fairly smart girl. This world is weird since even a girl like Momo can lack common sense, so it wasn't that weird that Nejire reached new conclusions without hearing much explanation. She easily understood that her little bro must have handled Muscular's case very well for such a serious Pro like Ryukyu to be this calm.
She narrowed her eyes at Neji and took her hands off his shoulder. She trusted Ryukyu enough. But she would need to have a long talk with this brat about his 'hidden strength'. How dare he hold back in their spars!?
Neji shrugged while looking at Ryukyu. "Good evening, it's only been a few hours since the fight. I contacted the police and they took Muscular away, though I had to lie that you were the one who defeated him since I didn't want to get involved in quirk laws and stuff. Hope you don't mind me borrowing your name."
Ryukyu shook her head. "Not at all. While I don't deserve the credit, I don't mind it if it's to keep you away from legal problems. I don't want to cause trouble for your future career, after all."
Neji thanked her and then asked a question he was interested in. "Though how do you know about me fighting Muscular? I thought you were unconscious."
"I gained my consciousness mid-battle. You are quite a good dodger, I must say." Ryukyu acknowledged him. "On a serious note, it might not be enough to acknowledge how you risked your life but I would like to thank you on behalf of the whole hero community, you have just saved millions of people's belief in heroes. Though on a personal note, you have saved my life back there along with my reputation, so you have my thanks there too."
Neji simply brushed it off. "It's fine, I didn't do much. Just happened to be at the right place at the right time. In fact, I violated your words by going out to the villain instead of staying in the agency."
Ryukyu laughed it off. "It's fine, I believe I shouldn't be so keen on those things against my saviour. What do you think about meeting up next Sunday? I heard you're going to the U.A and become a Hero, I believe I'd be able to teach you quite a few things beforehand. We can also have dinner at the end, of course, considering you'd be fine with it."
Neji stilled briefly before looking at Nejire who simply turned her head around while mumbling, 'Do whatever you want.'
Sighing, Neji shook his head at Ryukyu. "It's fine, I am a bit busy next sunday."
Nejire suppressed a smile.
But, "Then how about the Sunday after that?" Ryukyu pressed. "If not, maybe the Sunday after that Sunday?"
"..."
Neji was not expecting someone like Ryukyu to press on this so much… Was she perhaps interested in him? Is this one of those kids fairy tale stories where the prince charming saves the day and gets the girl?
'No way, she's a grown-up woman. She wouldn't think like that.'
'...Probably.'
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Author's Note: Am late because of the event in ma discord server 🤣.
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