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A/N: Birthday's suck but atleast there's that meteor shower that happens every year, and luckily there weren't any clouds!
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Mirio had, of course, beaten the rest of the class easily without any difficulties.
Nejire walks over to Amajiki, hand still around Y/n's wrist. "Hey, check out Togata, huh— he's gotten super powerful lately. Are you even watching?"
"Mirio's been strong ever since we were little kids." Amajiki speaks, Y/n feeling very out of place with the older students. "Problem is... He needs to learn how to hold back."
"Yeah but our cute kouhai here still managed to beat him!" A bubbly laugh rises out of Nejire's throat as she swings Y/n's arm up and down like a rag doll.
Y/n deadpans, unamused.
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"I tried to make it so you wouldn't see my willy. Sorry if you got a peek." Mirio apologies to the group who were all holding their stomachs in pain, save for one. "Anyway, that's a taste of what it's like to fight me."
"We all just got punched in the stomach without ever knowing what was going on..."
"Can't relate." Y/n quips, popping a strawberry gummy in her mouth.
"Right, so, whaddaya think?" Mirio asks the group with a large smile. "Isn't my quirk strong?"
"Yeah, it's too strong!"
"That's not fair! Mines nothing in comparison."
"How can you slip through things and warp?! Do you have two powers like Todoroki does?"
"Nope. Just the one." Mirio didn't react to the yells of the upset students.
"Just one..." Izuku mumbles to himself thoughtfully.
"Ooh. I know!" Nejire raises her hand excitedly, "I'll tell you what his Quirk is!"
"Hey, hey, can I say it?" Nejire begs as she looks towards Mirio for approval, to which she got as she looks back at Izuku and the class, "Permeation!"
"Cool, right?" Nejire beams at the group.
"Hado. Let Mirio explain his own power." Amajiki tells the girl.
"Yup! I got a sweet Quirk that's called Permeation. What you guys thought of as a warp was, you guessed it, simply an alternative application of that power." Mirio suddenly looks down to see Nejire tugging at the side of his shirt with an angry pout, "Oh, sorry Hado."
"So, how exactly do you warp, huh?" Izuku inquiries.
"I activate my Quirk in my entire body. Then, I can pass through anything I want, no sweat. Everything! That includes solid ground!" Mirio explains, tapping his foot on the ground pointedly.
Uraraka gasps, "So, that was you falling through the floor of the gym?"
"That's right, I went deep underground. And then, whenever I release my Quirk while I'm falling, something super strange happens. Apparently, things with mass can't overlap. That's called physics! So, I get repelled upward!" Mirio explains to the group.
"Think of it this way. The ground spits me out, and I fly up into the air. That's how my warp works. By adjusting the direction I'm facing or the pose I'm holding, I can change the angle I come out at, so I can aim at different spots." Mirio explains more simply.
"It's like no-clipping." Y/n mumbles, a thoughtful look on her face that soon turns into a deadpan, "Your Quirk is basically a buggy video game."
"You're able to avoid any attacks. And you can move where you want in an instant. Awe! You were born with a really strong Quirk." Tsuyu frowns.
"Not true." Mirio denies immediately, "My power's only strong because I made it that way. While my Quirk is activated, my lungs can't take in oxygen. Even if I breathe in, the air'll just pass through. In the same way, my eardrums don't work. And light can't go through my retinas. I can pass through everything. But that means I can't feel anything when I'm in that state. Even though I have a body, I can't stop falling. I could probably keep going down forever. Does that make sense?"
"That's why'd if I wanna go through something like, say, a wall. I have to concentrate really hard. I'll activate everything except one leg. Then I release the other leg and land on it. And then the first leg is the last one to go through. Even for a simple action like that, there are a bunch of little steps involved." Mirio explains to the students.
"Oh, man, if I were in a hurry, I would mess that up every single time." Kaminari grimaces at the idea.
"Seriously, if you can't feel anything, how are you supposed to move?" Mineta asks.
"Growing up, I was always behind, as you might expect. I'm no time, I'd dropped to dead last. I dropped my pants a lot, too. In order to get to the top with this Quirk, I couldn't just hope things would get better. I had to think! I learned to make combat decisions! And picked up a few new tricks." Mirio starts to explain.
"But above all, I learned to predict what would happen next. And what made those predictions possible in the first place was experience. I based my predictions on what I'd learned. This was kind of a roundabout way to get the point across, but that's why I wanted to fight. To show you through experience rather than words."
"In our work studies, we're not treated as guests like in our internships. We're regarded as one of the sidekicks, or even as a Pro! That can be super scary. Pros can get hurt, and sometimes they end up watching people die. But d fry scary and painful thing you go through is an important experience that you to can't get inside a classroom, even at UA. I transform the experience I got in my work study into power. That's how I got to the top spot! And... it's why I think they're worth it, even if you're scared. You with me, first years?"
After some applause and comments from 1-A, Aizawa refocus'a the attention back to him, "Let's get back to class now. Say, 'thank you.'"
"Thank you very much!"
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"Hey, so, do you think we got the point across? Maybe not?" Nejire asks as the group walks out of the gym.
"I'm just glad I didn't have to do anything. Let's be grateful to Mirio." Amajiki mumbles as the group exits the gym.
Making their way through the halls of UA, Nejire turns towards Mirio, "Hey, so... We thought you hurt some of them of accident, you know? But no one was seriously injured, so I think you did a good job. Way to go, Mirio. A-plus."
"It was pretty close though, a few times. And they saw me naked." Mirio points out.
"Yeah, but did anyone surprise you?" Nejire tilts her head, "I wanna know. C'mon, spill."
"Well, there's two people. I normally defeat people using the element of surprise. It's my basic strategy in a nutshell. But that problem child analyzed my first round of moves, and then predicted what I'd do. And of course there's L/n, who actually managed to beat me." Mirio's smile brightens as he adds. "I bet Sir would love to meet them!"
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Y/n lays idly in her bed later that night, thinking back to what Aizawa had told them when they got back to class.
"You've learned about what a work study is from the Big Three. But it hasn't been decided yet whether or not you'll be allowed to do one. That won't be talked about until the faculty meeting. And if we're going to approve this, we'll have to think of how we'll handle the media. That's all I can tell you for now."
Y/n sighs quietly, thinking about her work study before suddenly her phone rings.
She blinks at the familiar sound, taking out her phone to see a singular message.
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DIRECT MESSAGES
[ HANDYMAN ]
! 1 UNREAD MESSAGES !
[ HANDYMAN ]
meeting w/ league @ meeting place, 15 mins.
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Y/n stared at the phone silently for a minute before quickly opening her inventory, selecting the outfit as it appears, falling on her bed.
Quickly changing her outfit, she picks up the mask, holding it in her hand as she opens her balcony, jumping down onto the balcony under her dorm's before jumping onto the ground.
Y/n luckily remembered the way to the base as she heads towards it.
This will be interesting...
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