The Cursed Gamer, Book 1

Chapter 94: Sports Festival (8)

Chapter 94: Sports Festival (8)

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"Washroom took you too long, the match ended already."

Momo said to Neji while pointing her finger at the arena where Todoroki had frozen Shinso's body entirely except for his face.

Neji sat down beside her and sighed exaggeratedly.

"Haaiyah, that's sad."

Momo gave him a dead stare before turning her head to the arena again.

"He is super strong, and he even challenged you before the start. Seems like in the next match, if you win against Midoriya, you'd be against him." She turned to Neji and stared at his eyes curiously. "What would you do, I wonder."

Neji gave her a small grin but said nothing.

As Momo shook her head and looked the other way, Neji gave Uraraka a glance from the corner of his eyes.

After talking to her for a few minutes, he told her to return first and then waited a few more minutes before returning himself. This way, nobody would be suspicious. Nobody except Todoroki...

Looking at the half-hot half-cold boy walking back to the tunnel he came through, Neji hummed softly.

The room Neji and Ochako were in minutes ago was the student waiting room. Anyone from Class 1-A who had their match next would go there to wait for their call. Todoroki did so too and was about to enter the room that Neji and Uraraka were in when they were hugging, but he didn't enter upon hearing Uraraka's sobs.

That was commendable, even if he wasn't being considerate and was just trying to avoid any hassle. In Neji's view, Todoroki was probably the most chill dude here. The only problem was his angst, which wasn't really a problem.

Neji planned to make Todoroki use his left side from the moment he got the quest. That's one way he'd be able to truly get the overwhelming victory that the quest required him of.

In the process, if Todoroki loses a bit of his angst... that's not a bad deal either.

"Well," Momo turned to Neji again, smiling. "Guess it's your match, Mr Charming. Go break a leg!"

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Izuku Midoriya cut the call as his mother's voice stopped flowing out of the phone. He clenched the phone in his right hand while his left hand trembled along with a crazy grin on his face.

Izuku Midoriya was sure Neji saw him in his Astral Form in the USJ incident. But his master said otherwise.

Firstly, only All For One could see Izuku's astral body, but that's because All For One didn't use his eyes to see, as he didn't even have eyes. Instead, he used one of his quirks. Meaning, to see Izuku's astral body, Neji needed an eye-related quirk too, which if he truly had would have been registered in the school's document about him.

But from the copy of the documents that the school spy delivered, that didn't seem to be the case.

Secondly, assuming Neji could somehow see him, then why is he not telling the teachers about him? Izuku was clearly acting suspicious in his astral body, and unless Neji was blind, he should have seen through it. Then why?

All this convinced All For One to believe Neji didn't see Izuku, but the latter had different thoughts.

Izuku would bet his soul against a rat's tail that his eyes met Neji's.

And maybe there was indeed something special about his blue eyes. When their eyes met, there was a red tinge in his blue eyes, but Izuku had dismissed it as blood from the fight since they were too far from each other. But if it really was because of a quirk...