The cool February air tried to nip at her neck, but Kaede was plenty prepared for that; she was wearing the Canadian flag sweater Risa bought her for Christmas, the absolute best defense for the cold. She couldn't risk the winter air affecting her in a negative way, not when it was finally time for her and her friends to take the U.A. entrance exam.

"Hey, what do you think that guy's Quirk is?" Kaede asked as she and her friends watched a myriad of people pass them by on their way into the building.

"It looks like whatever he just coughed up is sticking itself to a tree, so it probably allows him to make some sort of adhesive," Kasumi said.

"Oh, cool! I could totally work with that! What about that girl over there?"

"The one with the blank expression? She's eating a giant gummy worm, so my guess is it's some form of size alteration," Isuzu said.

"Neat. I bet I could do a lot with that, too. Oh, what about that guy over there?"

"You mean the green-haired guy getting worked up over that girl barely saying two words to him? I'd have to go with the inability to talk to women," Risa said.

"I don't want a Quirk like that. I don't know what I'd do if I could never talk to you again, Risa."

"Yeah. Same." Risa tucked a bit of her face behind the scarf Kaede knit her for Christmas; it must have been colder than she thought. "Come on, let's go get registered already."

"I bet you'd like to do that, wouldn't you?" Isuzu asked. She and Kasumi both laughed a little at something and they all headed inside. The outside of the building was already filled to the brim with applicants, so it only made sense that the inside was filled with even more people. It was tempting to tap everyone around her with Devour and copy their Quirks, but she held back her desire to do so and did what she could to keep her shield away from people. After all, she'd have all the time in the world to gain new Quirks and increase her defenses once she was actually accepted.

Temptation aside, it's super hard not to do it when there are so many people around, Kaede thought. I gotta hold my shield up over my head to keep from touching people, and I don't have any confidence in my biceps, whatsoever! I'm just glad Risa and Kasumi-san are here to push people away; I'd probably fall over the second I tried to do it myself.

As Kaede thought that, she caught sight of two small girls being pushed to the ground in a failed attempt at moving through the crowd. Someone was about to step on one of their heads, so Kaede, thinking fast, loaded a Quirk into her previously empty shield and called out, "Plastic Love!" A wave of energy was released, and the two girls, along with Kaede and her group, gained highly elastic bodies; in the case of the two girls, the guy who was about to step on one of them bounced off of her and fell down, himself. He picked himself up in front of a jeering crowd, cursed them out and called them extras for some reason, and then stomped off somewhere else.

"I was hoping to keep my shield empty until the test started, but this is fine," Kaede said, stretching her arms over to help the two girls up. "Are you two all right?"

"We're fine," one of the girls said. "It's weird to be so stretchy—"

"But it's better than getting stepped on, so thank you!" the other girl said.

"I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that you're twins," Risa said.

"That's right!" the first girl said. "I'm the older sister, Mai Kinniku—"

"And I'm the younger sister, Yui Kinniku. Um, we don't always talk like this, I swear," the second girl said. As Kaede's friends introduced themselves one by one, she was able to get a closer look at them, allowing her to see that the two girls were mirrors of each other in regards to their faces and physiques, physiques that were somehow even smaller than her own, and it all made them look rather cute. The only things that differentiated them were their hair and eye colors: Mai had green eyes and long, black hair with green highlights, while Yui had pink eyes and long, white hair with pink highlights. It was a contrast that Kaede found to be just adorable.

"So how'd you two end up on the floor, anyway?" Risa asked.

"We were trying to get registered for the entrance exam, but Yui and I got mixed up after we went to the bathroom and couldn't remember where to go," Mai said.

"We tried asking someone for help, but no one's paying attention to anyone around them, and since we're so small, we ended up getting knocked over," Yui said.

"Would you like to come with us, then? You would probably run into the same issue again by yourselves, and it would be convenient for all of us since most of us are heading to the same place," Kasumi said.

"That'd be nice, but how are we going to find anything?"

"Just leave it to us. Kaede-chan, if you would be so kind," Isuzu said.

"Right!" Kaede used her elastic body to extend her neck high above the crowd for a few seconds before bringing it back down; her head bounced around for a few seconds before settling back into place. "Okay, I know where all our stuff is now. Registration for the normal exam is a little down on the left, but Risa and I have to get our support items checked, so can we do that first?"

"Yes, of course! Thank you!" Mai said.

"Yes, thank you, Kaede-san!" Yui said. Kaede could tell that these two would be a lot of fun.

From there, Kaede and her friends made their way through the crowd while forming a protective ring around Mai and Yui to protect them from getting trampled. Soon enough, they made their way to the support item registration desk, a brown-haired teenage boy with a sturdy-looking body standing behind it.

"Risa and I want to register support items for the exam," Kaede said.

"No problem," the boy said. "I take it you're registering your shield, but what about your friend?"

"Oh no, my shield is part of my Quirk. Risa and I want to register our pets." The boy had been smiling up until that point, but he lost it in favor of a confused expression.

"Your pets?"

"Yep!" Kaede pointed to Syrup, who had been floating above her head the entire time, and Risa pointed to Oboro, who had been sitting on her shoulder the entire time.

"You mean those aren't some weird toys? They look like they're made of rubber."

"That's a whole different thing that'll wear off soon," Risa said.

"Right. I'm guessing by the flying turtle that these two animals have Quirks?"

"They sure do!" Kaede said. Mai and Yui's eyes both seemed to light up in response to that. "So do we need to fill out a form, or—"

"You know you can't bring them with you, right?" the boy cut in.

Kaede's head shot up in surprise and accidentally knocked Syrup higher into the air.

"I had a feeling this would happen. I tried to warn you two," Kasumi said.

"Why can't Syrup and Oboro come with us?" Kaede asked as she fixed her head back into place.

"Because they're animals," the boy said.

"So?" Risa asked.

"So you can't use an animal as a support item. That's not how it works." Oboro let out a growl that Kaede couldn't help but agree with.

"You know, I'm actually applying for the support department, and in all the research I've done, I've never seen anything that prohibited the use of animals," Isuzu said.

"Really? Well, it's more like one of those unwritten rules, don't you think?" the boy asked. "When you think of support items, you think of stuff like jetpacks and laser cannons, not cute little animals."

"I appreciate you calling Syrup cute, but that's still unfair!" Kaede said. "What if I was a blind person who needed a seeing-eye dog to get around? Would I not be allowed to take Mr. Fluffbutt with me just because he's an animal? Or what if it was an emotional support animal? That even has support in the name, but I still wouldn't be able to bring Mr. Fluffbutt with me?"

"Why does this make-believe dog have a name?" Risa asked. Kaede shrugged her shoulders and kept staring at the boy in front of them. He looked like he was going to say something, but then he closed his mouth, scratched his head for a second, and pressed a button on a pager-like device attached to his waist.

"Yo Yo Yo, what's goin' on up in here?!" A moment later, Present Mic walked over to the desk with his trademark funky flow. He was already smiling, but for some reason, it seemed to brighten even further when Kaede caught his eye.

"These two are trying to have animals registered as support items. Is that allowed?" the boy asked.

"That is a good question. Let's find out." Present Mic reached into his jacket and pulled out what looked to be some sort of handbook. He flipped through it while muttering something under his breath, then he stopped at a page and ran his finger across. The cycle was repeated a few times before he closed the book and put it away.

"Well, would you look at that? Ain't no rule says a turtle and a fox can't be support items. Probably an oversight on our part, but if there's not a rule against it, no reason why it shouldn't be allowed," Present Mic said.

""Yay!"" Mai and Yui cheered in unison.

"Okay, thank you, sir," the boy said before handing Kaede and Risa each their own form. "Sorry about that. Just fill out these forms and you're good to go."

"It's okay. You were just doing your job, is all," Kaede said.

"That's right. You better believe that Chumon here's just a good kid doing his job," Present Mic said. "Then again, even if it wasn't allowed, I probably would've let it happen, considering that it's you two."

"Wait, why?" Risa asked.

"I said too much, so you better forget that part!" Kaede didn't have a problem with that, but she wondered if Risa felt the same way. "When you're all done with that, anyone who's taking the normal exam can just follow me to the testing room. Yeah!" Present Mic said.

"Isn't Isuzu-san the only one doing something else?" Mai asked.

"Not quite," Kasumi said. "Risa-san and I are taking the normal exam, but Kaede-san managed to qualify for a letter of recommendation."

"Wait, really? You're that good, Kaede-san?" Yui asked. Kaede gave a thumbs up and the two girls let out a unified, "Wow!" with sparkles in their eyes.

Being around those two really was going to be fun.

Soon enough, the group of six—eight if one counted Syrup and Oboro, which Kaede did—separated to go to their respective testing sites. The room Kaede ended up in was big, but not as big as she heard rooms could get to be at U.A., and while the hundred or so people in the room barely measured up to the thousands who were taking the normal exams, it was still enough to make her feel a little cramped and nervous. Luckily, Syrup floating down onto her head was enough to calm her nerves and let her breathe.

"You're a good turtle, Syrup, I hope you know that," Kaede said. The cry Syrup let out told her that he did know that.

"So, you really decided to bring an animal with you to the exam. Even if it does have a Quirk, it's quite a bold move to make."

"Thanks, I think? Also, who are you?" The person who addressed Kaede was a girl whose red hair was only long in the middle, the rest of it being short save for the two long strands sitting behind her pointed ears. Also, for some reason, she was wearing a red cape with a feathered collar.

"I saw the way you aided those diminutive girls in the entrance hall. Truly an act of true heroism, and one that makes you truly deserving of being tested against my might," the girl said.

"Neat. Who are you?"

"I thought that I would have to wait until the beginning of the school year to properly face off against you, so imagine my surprise to find that you are also one of the chosen elite. I clearly underestimated you, so in a way, you already have the advantage over me. Rest assured, this will not last!"

"Okay, but who are you?"

"I will waste no time in rising to the top of this school like a roaring fire, and from there, I shall burst into the professional world with the force of a great blazar, but the spark that starts my ignition will be conquering this test, and you shall be my kindling!"

"I don't know what a blazar is. Also, who are you?" The weird girl suddenly stuck a finger in her face.

"Tell me your name so I know who I am defeating."

"Kaede Honjo. Speaking of names—"

"Kaede Honjo. The name suits us well. It is a name worthy of respect, and at the same time, it is a name worthy of one who will soon be crushed under my heel!" Kaede moved the weird girl's finger away from her face and looked down at the ground.

"Wait, you're really wearing heels? That feels impractical. Also, who are you?" The weird girl threw a finger in her face once more.

"Know this, Kaede Honjo: today will go down in your history as a glorious day! You shall forever remember it as the day you sacrificed everything to empower the one and only Kyouma Hououin!" The weird girl, finally identified as Kyouma Hououin, started laughing like some sort of madwoman. At that point, Kaede wished she could feel nervous again instead of whatever it was she was currently feeling.

"Stop bothering people, Hououin." Hououin's cackling was stopped by a boy with red and white hair, the red and white being perfectly split in half across his head, with heterochromatic eyes and a large scar over the left side of his face. The way he so easily silenced her was rather impressive.

"Very well, Todoroki, I will silence myself. For now, anyway. This is hardly over, though. Prepare yourself for the most thorough destruction of your young life, Kaede Honjo!"

Wasn't she supposed to stop talking? Kaede asked herself. Regardless, Hououin and Todoroki walked off and left her alone, leaving her alone with a variety of emotions she wasn't sure how to process. Focus, Kaede, focus! There are more important things going on than what some weird girl is doing. Like the test that's about to start! You gotta ace it if you want to pass, and you know what? You will ace it!

Soon enough, the written exam went underway. When Kaede was finished, she had the urge to roll up in a corner and die, and the worst part about that was that she knew that would happen even without Hououin.

The written exam was, fairly speaking, brutal. Risa knew that a top-performing school like U.A. wouldn't make its tests easy, but it was still a grueling and nerve-wracking experience for her to work through. Risa only had a small amount of confidence in her score, and if it wasn't for Isuzu and Kasumi's frequent study sessions, she probably wouldn't have even finished it.

"If it was that hard for me, imagine how hard Kaede's test was for her," Risa said. With the written exam long since finished, everyone had been moved to a lecture hall so Present Mic could explain the practical exam. There was a bit of a lull when some uptight boy wearing glasses started loudly asking questions and berating the green-haired boy she saw earlier for talking to himself, but Risa didn't pay it much mind.

"I'm sure she'll do fine. Probably not on the written exam, but more on the exam as a whole. Things have a way of working out for her, after all," Kasumi said.

"That's right! If it's Kaede-san—" Mai started.

"Then she can definitely do it! Oops, we did it again," Yui said. Oboro tagged along by patting Risa's cheek with his paw.

"Yeah, I guess it won't do any good if I'm the only one stressing over her," Risa said. She knew that Kaede believed in her, something that always made her happy, so the least she could do was believe in Kaede. If it was someone like Kaede, then it would be easy for a variety of reasons; some she wanted to keep buried down, some she was more than happy to indulge in.

"Hey, if you're gonna berate people for talking, then this girl's been talking up a storm, too." Risa turned her head and locked eyes with a girl sporting a blonde side ponytail and similarly colored pairs of cat ears and cat tails sticking out of her head and backside, respectively. For some reason, she was pointing right at her.

"Wait, what are you—"

"You too, miss!" All of a sudden, the bespectacled boy was yelling at her instead of the green-haired boy. "We are in the middle of an important discussion concerning this exam, yet you think it is more important to chatter on about random nonsense! If you cannot understand the value of what we are doing here, you should go home and stop bothering those of us who do!"

"Hey, just where the hell do you get off saying I'm not serious?! Besides, we'd already be done if you didn't interrupt Present Mic in the first place!"

"I had a valid question—"

"That anyone with a quarter of a brain would have been able to figure out! He didn't bring up the fourth robot because it's worth zero points; it literally says that on the handout!"

"It does?" Mai asked.

"Hey, it does!" Yui said. A number of people began saying similar things to that effect while the bespectacled boy started to look more and more embarrassed.

"E-Even so, it is perfectly justifiable to question a discrepancy between what a handout says and what an instructor says, and that doesn't excuse you from making a scene!"

"You're the one that started all of this!"

"Okay, that's enough!" Present Mic amplified his voice with his Quirk and nearly knocked Risa out of her seat; Mai and Yui weren't as lucky, but Kasumi was quick to help them up. "I don't know about you guys, but I like to save my debates for the radio, so how about you both pipe down and let me finish, okay?"

"Yes, sir! I apologize for the interruption!" Risa gave her own apology as the bespectacled boy sat down, but her heart wasn't in it. She wasn't doing anything, wasn't bothering anyone, yet she still ended up making a scene in front of hundreds of people. It would have been easy to get mad at the bespectacled boy, but it wasn't his fault. The only reason he dragged her into it all was because of that catgirl drawing attention to her for no reason. Risa turned to get another look at the catgirl, and she saw her wearing a proud smirk while her two tails swished about in the air.

The girl was definitely going to get it.

"So you failed to conquer the first exam, did you? Well, I failed to give you a proper evaluation at the beginning of the day, so now our score is even! However, don't think you will be able to regain your advantage so easily, or even at all, because Kyouma Hououin does not lose to someone twice in one day!"

"Okay, then." Kaede had no idea what else she was supposed to say. She was feeling upset enough over how she knew she did on the written exam, and Hououin going on about whatever it was she was going on about didn't do anything to alleviate that. Todoroki gave her a moment's respite when he managed to get her to stop talking again, but she was still feeling upset over the whole ordeal. Some sort of win would truly go a long way.

Upon learning what the second phase of the exam would entail, Kaede felt that she earned that win. The second phase—the physical exam—was nothing but an obstacle course where they had to get to the goal as quickly as possible by any means necessary. The obstacle course being three kilometers long felt a little daunting, but the impact was lessened by how Present Mic made it clear that it wasn't a race, meaning she only needed to worry about finishing with a good time and not about trying to beat anyone.

She'd like it if she could beat everyone, though.

"Okay, next six runners are on deck, so take your positions!" Present Mic said. Kaede was part of that grouping, so she and Syrup made their way to the starting line. The previous group was making their way back, and as they did, Kaede watched Todoroki get into some sort of fight with a loud boy with a wind-based Quirk. She didn't know what to make of it, but Hououin, who was also in Kaede's group, looked at the scene with a sorrowful glint in her eyes. The glint disappeared the second Hououin caught sight of her and was replaced with a look of determination; a problem for another day, then.

"The thing I really need to focus on is this race," Kaede said. "Syrup, you know what to do, right?" Syrup let out a cry as he floated a little away from Kaede; she decided to take that as a, "Yes". Once Syrup had made enough space between Kaede and himself, he activated his Quirk and shifted into his giant form. The other five runners—Hououin, a girl in a ponytail, a fanged girl with green hair who looked oddly familiar, and two others with no noteworthy features—all stared at the two of them with wide eyes, and their eyes seemed to grow wider as Syrup used his head to hoist Kaede up onto his shell.

"Um, kid, what are you doing?" Present Mic asked.

"This is fine. I filled out all the paperwork, remember?" Kaede asked.

"Oh no, my problem isn't with the flying turtle that spontaneously grew to the size of a bus, that all checks out. My real question is why is it facing the wrong way?"

"Don't worry, he's supposed to do that." Present Mic stared at her for a bit before shrugging his shoulders and walking off. Hououin was looking at her as if Syrup's gigantification was some sort of challenge, and the others were just looking at her funny, plain and simple. It was almost like they've never seen a girl riding a turtle before, or something.

"And go!" Present Mic abruptly called for the race to start. Everyone dashed off the starting line and made for the obstacle course.

Everyone except for Kaede, who had Syrup fire his laser cannon and propel them straight through the course.

"It's working! It's working!" Kaede cheered as she and Syrup flew through the air. The two of them were passing over a variety of obstacles such as pitfall traps, automated turrets and trebuchets, educational television, and pools of sharks with lasers attached to their heads, all of which would make for a thrilling test of strength and strategy for anyone who had to deal with it. Kaede was not one of those people, nor did she want to be. Not when it was easy for her and Syrup to simply propel themselves forward above—and in the case of particularly tall segments, through—all the obstacles. Sure enough, the finish line soon came within view, and Kaede knew that it would only be a matter of seconds until she crossed it.

A matter of seconds later, Syrup's laser abruptly stopped and he came to a halt about three meters away from the finish line.

"No, Syrup, this is the opposite of what we should be doing. Go, go, go!" Even with Kaede's chanting, Syrup refused to move forward. Downward was another story, though, for Syrup then abruptly dropped to the ground and stared backward with a defeated look in his eyes. "Oh, you must have used up all your power just now. It's okay, you don't have to push yourself, but still, why'd you have to stop right here, of all places?"

As Kaede pouted, the sound of fireworks started to fill the air. Kaede turned around to see what appeared to be a ball of fire barreling towards her, or at least towards her general vicinity. In all likelihood, the fireball was one of the other racers, meaning that if Kaede didn't get a move on, she'd only end up with second place, at best.

"What do I do? I can just climb down and try and run the rest of the way, but there's no way I'll be fast enough to cross it in time! I need to think of something before—that's it! Wooly!" A new jewel appeared on Kaede's shield, and with its shimmering glow, four things happened: white wool sprouted around her body; curly horns sprouted out of her head; her hands and feet turned into cloven hooves, though she was somehow still able to hold onto Devour; and finally, the wool expanded further and further outward until it formed a giant ball of wool that Kaede's face poked out of. Syrup, as if he could read her mind, tilted his back ever so slightly so that Kaede would roll off of him and onto the ground where she then proceeded to bounce and roll about until she crossed the finish line.

"And number eighteen bounces her way past the finish line in record time!" Present Mic shouted for everyone to hear.

"Another happy landing," Kaede said as she deactivated her Quirk. The second she did, her victory fully sunk in, and with a smile on her face, she trotted over to Syrup, who had gone back to his original size and fallen closer to her, and squeezed him tight against her wooly body.

"And in second place, we have number three burning out!" The fireball from before landed next to Kaede and Syrup. With it now being so close to her, she was able to see that it was Hououin, who had seemingly shed her clothes and transformed into a being of pure fire.

She was also glaring at her, for some reason.

"Hey, Hououin-san, congratulations on second place," Kaede said. Hououin kept glaring at her. "I know you said you were going to beat me, but I guess you didn't? I don't really care about this stuff, so can we drop it?" Hououin kept glaring at her. "Okay, we should probably head back, so—"

"—doesn't count." Kaede could have sworn she heard Hououin say something.

"Come again?" With the sound of a massive firecracker, Hououin's body turned back to normal. Kaede was relieved to see that she wasn't actually naked and that her clothes vanishing was just an effect of her Quirk.

"This doesn't count! This doesn't count at all!" At the same time, she was confused to see that she was crying.

"Um, Houou—"

"This doesn't count as a loss because I only lost to your turtle, not you! I would have won if it was just you, so don't act like something so unfair means anything!"

"I never—"

"You're not so great just because you beat me here! I'm still Kyouma Hououin, and I'm going to beat you for real next time, no matter what animal you turn into!"

"I actually don't normally do this. Sometimes, when I activate a Quirk that I created, my body mutates the way it would if I was born with that Quirk—"

"Stop it! Now you won't even let me talk?! Let me have something today, okay?!" Hououin, still crying her heart out, started flailing her arms about randomly until she accidentally hit Kaede's shield. A new jewel appeared on Kaede's shield, and Hououin fell to the ground from the energy drain.

"Ifrit. Uh-huh, uh-huh, oh! This is a neat Quirk!"

"Don't pity me!" Hououin cried. If this was the kind of thing Kaede could expect out of Hououin, then she probably wouldn't be that hard to deal with, in the long run.

For the practical exam, everyone had been split up across ten artificial cityscapes where they would battle against robots for ten minutes, earning points whenever they destroyed or immobilized one of them. Because students from the same schools couldn't test together, Risa ended up at a different cityscape than Kasumi, and for the same reason, Yui ended up at a different one than Mai's.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no." Mai seemed to be taking separation worse than Risa.

"Hey, don't worry. I'm sure your sister will be just fine," Risa said.

"It's not just Yui I'm worried about. I'm worried for myself, too," Mai said. "Yui and I were supposed to do this together; no one told us we'd be separated like this. If Yui's not around, I don't know what I'll do. This is bad. This is super, super bad."

"Don't be like that. You don't need her to do well here. I'm sure you're great on your own."

"No, no, no, no, no, no. This is bad. This is bad. This is bad. This is bad." Mai kept pacing around while going on and on like that, and Risa let out a sigh. Kaede made impromptu therapy seem easy, but it was clear that there was actually a lot to it.

"And go!" Present Mic's voice sounded out through the air out of nowhere. Everyone looked confused for a second before people started running off into the cityscape.

"I guess we're starting!" Risa started running for a second before she caught sight of Mai simply walking at a normal pace. "Um, Mai—"

"I'm fine. This is what I'm supposed to do," Mai said. Risa didn't understand it in the slightest, but the test was already starting, and if Mai said that what she was doing was normal, then it was probably best for the both of them if Risa just went on her own, and that's exactly what she did.

"Okay, this looks like a normal city with normal buildings and normal streets. Probably won't be any surprises in regards to the layout," Risa said as she ran around with her Quirk fully active. Soon enough, she came across a couple of robots worth one point each.

""Target locked! Prepare for termination!"' the robots said as they charged at her.

"Get 'em, Oboro!" Oboro let out a yip from atop Risa's shoulders and launched fireballs at each of the robots. They tore through them with ease and reduced them to scrap, instantly netting her two points. "I'm pretty confident in my strength, but just to be safe, I'm going to wait until I can jump up to my next level before I fight them. I'm counting on you to help me out until then."

Oboro let out another yip, and the two were off. Every time Risa came across a robot, Oboro wasted no time blasting it with fire. The one-point robots went down in a single shot, the two-point robots took a few, and the three-point robots required actual effort on Oboro's part. Those ones actually managed to launch an attack or two before getting destroyed, but Risa was still fast enough to dodge them and let Oboro take them down. One three-point robot tried to be clever by sending a missile at a building behind Risa. It was timed so that the resulting debris would land exactly where she was about to be, and with her Quirk at the level that it was at, she wouldn't have time to dodge or deflect it.

Fortunately for Risa and unfortunately for the robot, Risa's Quirk managed to jump up a level right then and there. With the extra boost in speed and power, she shattered the falling debris with an uppercut clad in blue aura and sent a fragment flying into the robot with a spinning kick. The fragment of debris hit it with such tremendous force that it tore right through it and instantly sent it offline.

"Now we're really cooking with gas." Risa wished someone other than Oboro had been around to hear that, but there were more important things going on. Risa got started on those more important things by dashing off and punching and kicking every robot she came across, managing to do so even when she ended up in some of the more populated areas of the cityscape. They all tried to fight back, but with her speed and Oboro's fireballs, it was all pointless on their part. None of them were good enough to touch her, and that was just how she liked it.

Time kept on creeping forward; Risa lost track of it a bit, but she could feel that the exam was almost over. She knew that she had more than enough points to end up with a good score, but there was no reason not to do the best that she could, so when she saw another three-point robot, she quickly honed in on it and went for the kill.

The kill came, but it wasn't dealt by her. Rather, it came about from a trio of lightning bolts being fired into the robot that blew it up when she was right in front of it. Risa and Oboro were caught in the ensuing shockwave and knocked into a stoplight; it wasn't that hard of a hit, easy enough to bounce back from, but it still reset Top Gear back to its base level.

"Oh, were you gunning for that guy? Sorry, you snooze, you lose." Of course, it was the catgirl who was talking to her; she was even perched on top of a telephone pole as if to emphasize how much she was looking down on her. If nothing else, now she was okay with being mad at someone.

"What the hell is your problem?!" Risa asked.

"Hey, no one said you can't kill steal. As the old saying goes, 'Don't hate the player, hate the game'," the catgirl said.

"That's not the problem here! You had to have known I was going after that one, so if you were going to take it, why'd you wait until I was close enough to get caught in the blast?"

"Did I, though? Felt like a coincidence to me. Sure is nice to know that I was right about that aura only appearing if you manage to avoid taking a hit, though. Definitely explains why you were so carefully avoiding combat in the beginning."

"How would you—Wait, you've been spying on me?!" The catgirl merely grinned, prompting a growl from Oboro. "I oughta come up there and—"

"I wouldn't if I were you. Attacking another applicant is against the rules, remember? I'm just happy with you not getting too high a score; no need for you to not get in at all. Oh, and before you try and throw this back in my face, it's not my fault you got caught up in an attack that definitely wasn't aimed at you." Sparks were starting to pop out of Oboro's mouth.

"Oh my God, what is your problem?! First that stuff with the glasses guy, now this? Why are you messing with me so much?"

"Are you mad?"

"Obviously!"

"That's all I could ever hope for," the catgirl said while flashing a smirk down at her. Risa was very tempted to simply climb up there and punch her in the face, rules be damned. She was probably just blowing smoke in spite of it all, but the question of whether or not she would actually do anything was completely put on the back burner when she heard a massive rumbling sound. Looking up beyond the catgirl, Risa saw the lumbering form of a giant robot that could only be the zero-pointer.

In her opinion, the size was just excessive.

"I'm sure you'd love to find a way to give me a little what for, but getting away from that thing is probably of higher priority, right? I know I'm right, so ta-ta for now. I mean, assuming I didn't set you too far back." The catgirl jumped down—Risa rolled an eye when she landed perfectly on her feet—and ran off before anything aside from more growling from Oboro could be done.

"I hope she gets in, because one of these days, I will punch that girl in the face," Risa said while petting Oboro to calm him down. In the time she spent doing that, the zero-pointer had started walking in her direction, and with it came a swarm of people trying to escape its warpath. Risa was about to join them, but she found herself stopping when the robot started to lift itself off the ground in everyone's direction. The idea of a giant flying robot didn't sit well with Risa, and it only served to further dissuade her from attempting to have anything to do with it.

However, as it turned out, the zero-pointer wasn't going after them anymore. It went into the air at a ludicrously high speed in an arch far above Risa and the rest of the applicants. As it did, its body started breaking apart at the seams with various parts falling in random spots around the cityscape, and what was left of it all exploded in midair. It was obvious that the robot wasn't in the air because it was flying, but because it had been launched into the air with an attack strong enough to destroy it. Risa shuddered at the thought of someone other than Kaede being able to do something like that.

"I did it! I finally got one!" Risa shuddered a little less when she saw Mai jumping up and down with glee while oil dripped off of her right hand. It was obvious that Mai was the one responsible, somehow managing to punch it into submission.

The thought of that brought back the shuddering.

"Um, yeah. Good job, Mai," Risa said after running over to her side.

"I know! Did you see the size of that thing? It's gotta be worth a quadrillion points! I'm going to pass, for sure!"

"What? Mai, that was the zero-pointer." Mai stopped jumping around and cheering herself on.

"What?"

"That was the zero-pointer." Mai blinked twice in confusion. "So it was worth zero points." Mai blinked twice in confusion. "That means you didn't earn anything for beating it."

The realization of what was going on seemed to finally sink in for Mai. It was the only way to explain the crying that was drowned out by Present Mic's declaration that the exam was over. Probably not the best sign in the world.

Kasumi's day was going rather well, all things considered. The written exam lived up to the expectations she had for U.A., but it was hardly something she couldn't handle. The physical exam seemed like it would be fairly challenging based on how Present Mic described it, but even that wasn't too hard to deal with. The robots weren't particularly powerful, so while she did have her swords destroyed a few times, with quick maneuvering and clever usage of her Quirk, it wasn't that hard to deal with them.

"And another one down! That's twenty-five for me, how about you?" The main bit of annoyance came about through the boy who wouldn't leave her alone. The name he gave without even being prompted was Shin Bunretsu, and he decided all on his own that the two of them should make a contest out of who can destroy the most robots. Kasumi thought he was hitting on her, but as it turned out, it was because he knew she was from the Kensei Family and wanted to see how well he measured against her; she honestly wasn't sure if flirting would have been a better alternative. The response to the proposal for either reasoning would have been—and in the case of reality, was—a resounding refusal, but even with that, Bunretsu still stuck to her like glue to constantly remind her how many robots he had destroyed.

"Come on Kensei, how many—" A three-pointer came into view, and Kasumi wasted no time in launching several purple aura swords at it to shatter it into bits.

"That would make thirty for me." Bunretsu's behavior was annoying, but it would have been downright unbearable if she actually allowed herself to lose.

"Man, you really are a cut above the rest," Bunretsu said with a whistle.

"Comes with the territory of my name, I suppose," Kasumi said. She did her best to separate from Bunretsu, but he was astonishingly quick on his feet.

"You know, I feel like that might have rubbed you the wrong way."

"How very astute of you."

"It was meant as a compliment, though. It's cool that you come from such a famous family like that."

"I would like to believe that there's more to my character than just my name."

"Not saying there isn't, but it does add to your character, not to mention how it'll make my victory even sweeter."

"You really don't seem to be getting it at all." Bunretsu looked at her as if she had suddenly sprouted a second head. "My point exactly. Besides, it doesn't even matter since you won't even be able to—"

"Heads up!" Four more robots came into view. Bunretsu jumped in front of Kasumi before she could attack and threw his spiked baseball bat at one of the robots. From there, his Quirk—Division, she thinks he addressed it by—created three additional copies of the bat. Each one hit a robot, and they then kept flying around and pummeling them until each of the robots fell offline. "That's twenty-nine!"

"Great."

"I'm catching up to you, Kensei."

"Good for you."

"Oh, look! There's two more! I think I'll just help myself to those guys and be on my merry—" Kasumi charged past Bunretsu and got in front of the two robots in a matter of seconds. Before either one could make a move, she summoned Yukari into one hand, Futsu-no-mitama into another, and attacked them with a spinning maneuver that cut them both in half and left the pieces to fall to the ground.

"Thirty-two. Satisfied?" Kasumi asked.

"I'm not dissatisfied. That's the kind of feeling you should get out of a good rivalry, though," Bunretsu said with a smile.

"That's not what this is, so stop acting like—Oh no." In the middle of her ranting, purple smoke started leaking out of Kasumi's body before an entire cloud exploded out of her. Kasumi internally cursed; she didn't realize she had exerted herself to such an extent. She could already feel her body being afflicted with the negative consequences of her Quirk. She wanted to try and slip away before the smoke completely faded away, but she knew she'd just trip over her clothes, and even if she didn't, the ever-persistent Bunretsu would catch up to her in no time. There was no way to avoid embarrassment, so Kasumi decided to face it head-on. As such, when the smoke cleared, Bunretsu got a full look at her in her new diminutive state of being.

Also as such, she threw a rock at him when he started laughing at her.

"What was that for?!" Bunretsu asked.

"What do you think it was for?!" Kasumi asked as she struggled to keep her now loose clothes up.

"Hey, you can't blame me for laughing. Anyone would laugh if they saw someone like you turn into something like this."

"I suppose my friends are simply of better stock than you, then."

"Hey, we're dealing with things that go beyond friendship here."

"Says you!" Kasumi had more to say to Bunretsu, but she stopped herself when she heard a massive rumbling sound. Looking up beyond Bunretsu, Kasumi saw the lumbering form of a giant robot that could only be the zero-pointer.

In her opinion, the size was just excessive.

"That's not good," Bunretsu said. The zero-pointer had started walking in her direction, and with it came a swarm of people trying to escape its warpath. "That's really not good! Want me to carry you to safety?"

"I am capable of fleeing all on my own, thank you very much." Before Kasumi had a chance to prove that claim to Bunretsu, the robot started to lift itself off the ground in everyone's direction. The idea of a giant flying robot wouldn't have sat well with Kasumi even if she could still use her Quirk and was at her normal size, and it only served to further dissuade her from attempting to have anything to do with it.

However, as it turned out, the zero-pointer wasn't going after them anymore. It went into the air at a ludicrously high speed in an arch far above Kasumi and the rest of the applicants. As it did, its body started breaking apart at the seams with various parts falling in random spots around the cityscape, and what was left of it all exploded in midair. It was obvious that the robot wasn't in the air because it was flying, but because it had been launched into the air with an attack strong enough to destroy it. Kasumi shuddered at the thought of someone other than Kaede being able to do something like that.

"I did it! I finally got one!" Kasumi shuddered a little less when she saw Yui jumping up and down with glee while oil dripped off of her left hand. It was obvious that Yui was the one responsible, somehow managing to punch it into submission.

The thought of that brought back the shuddering.

"Friend of yours?" Bunretsu asked. Kasumi didn't answer him as she waddled off towards Yui. At the very least, he seemed to finally get the message and walked off in the other direction.

"Good job, Yui-san. You seemed nervous before the exam started, so it's nice to see that you've calmed yourself," Kasumi said.

"Yeah! Did you see the size of that thing? It's gotta be worth a quadrillion points! I'm going to pass, for sure!"

"What? Yui-san, that was the zero-pointer." Yui stopped jumping around and cheering herself on.

"What?"

"That was the zero-pointer." Yui blinked twice in confusion. "So it was worth zero points." Yui blinked twice in confusion. "That means you didn't earn anything for beating it."

The realization of what was going on seemed to finally sink in for Yui. It was the only way to explain the crying that was drowned out by Present Mic's declaration that the exam was over. Probably not the best sign in the world.

While Kaede, Risa, Kasumi, and the Kinniku twins were occupied with their attempts at getting into the Hero course, Isuzu was occupied with her own attempts at getting into the Support department. The written exam was a breeze for someone with her brains to work through, and she ended up finishing with enough time for a second breakfast. By the time her second breakfast was finished, it was already time for the main event for her department: the invention showcase. Every new applicant had to present an invention to Power Loader, the head of the Support department, for evaluation; the better crafted and more useful it was, the higher chance you had of getting into the class.

"I've definitely got this," Isuzu said. She lapped up the last remnants of her pudding cup as she finished setting up her invention for evaluation. "Done! What do you think?"

"I think it's a pile of junk," Power Loader said.

"It is not a—oh wait, it totally is. Sorry, I jumped the gun there." In her haste to finish the exam, Isuzu had left her invention as little more than a pile of hologram projectors, titanium plating, microbots, gunpowder, and sky blue paint. Isuzu pulled her goggles down over her eyes and quickly remedied that with her Alchemy Quirk. Blue lightning shot out from contact with the assorted objects until they were combined into a luminescent, sky blue, circular-shaped device. Pile of junk no more.

"I present to you the latest in shield-based weaponry. This shield can take a punch from even the toughest of Heroes and not receive a single dent, and the compact welding of the titanium alloy makes it easy to carry around for long hours."

"That's certainly impressive, but is that it? The light show was nice and all, but my students are expected to be able to create things that can go a little more above and beyond than this."

"I thought you might say that. Catch." Isuzu threw her shield at Power Loader, and without asking, he put it on his wrist. "Okay, now it's time for things to get really fun." Isuzu reached into her bag and pulled out a kukri knife she made at home out of razor blades, hedge clippers, and a kukri knife. "This'll work best if you just don't move."

"What do you mean?"

"Nock!"

"What are you—Don't do it. You better not do it."

"Draw!"

"I swear to God, if you throw that at me, I will—"

"Loose!" Isuzu threw her kukri knife in an arch at Power Loader in exactly the right way to ensure that he would block it with the shield and deflect it into the air. So far, it was all according to plan.

"What did I just say?! First Hatsume, now you, how many of you kids are going to try and kill me today?!"

"Can't speak for this Hatsume person, but this was all necessary as you'll find out in—" Isuzu was cut off when her airborne kukri knife exploded in midair. "Damn. I thought I timed it so that wouldn't happen until I finished counting back from three. There's nothing dramatic about this, nothing in the slightest."

"Forget your dramatics, kid! What in the world was that?!" She didn't want to forget her dramatics, but she was supposed to be passing a test, so it was best to get back to that.

"That is the main course of the full course meal that is my shield. When something bounces off of it, it releases a series of explosive microbots that attach themselves to the enemy that then, well, explode. I call it the Skyboom Shield; the 'Sky' part comes from the color and the direction you should send things in, and the 'boom' part should be rather self-explanatory."

"You bet it is!" Power Loader said as he put the shield down on the ground. "Gotta say, kid, this is pretty damn impressive. One of the best I've seen all day, by far!" Isuzu would physically pat herself on the back to complement the mental patting later. For now, it was time to reward herself with a victory moon pie. "Why a shield, though? Not that it doesn't work, but you'd think an offensive weapon would be easier to use."

"If the best defense is a good offense, then the opposite should be true, as well," Isuzu said between bites of her moon pie. "I say that, but when it comes down to it, I probably just had a certain someone on my mind the whole time I was working. A pretty good someone to have on the brain, though."

"There! All nice and squeaky clean!" While sitting in an empty classroom, Kaede passed her time by using the wind-based Quirk she copied from the loud boy Todoroki fought with when they crossed paths by the bathrooms to blow off any dirt Syrup had stuck to him and by using her sweater to make his shell as shiny as possible; she succeeded on both fronts. Kaede was at the last stage of the exam, the interview, so she needed to make sure the both of them looked their best and wouldn't lose points for a slovenly appearance. She also needed to make sure she didn't say anything stupid, but it was better to worry about the problems that would be easy to fix.

"So, how's your test been going?" someone asked in conjunction with the door opening.

"Fine, I think. I did really well on the physical exam, but I know I messed up bad on the written exam," Kaede said.

"I'm sure you'll do fine. You won't get far in life if you're too stressed out about stuff."

"I know, but—Whoa!"

"Whoa." Kaede finally took stock of who it was she was talking to. Dressed in a blue gi with a quarterstaff slung over his arm, the right half of his body was that of a normal blue-haired man, minus the scar that stretched out from the side of his eye, and the left half of his body was covered from head to toe in golden armor that featured large locks and valves and seemed to be welded into his flesh—it was definitely molded around his mouth to make it so it would move whenever he spoke. Despite the somewhat monstrous appearance he bore, he still looked at Kaede with a smile. Kaede only knew of one Hero who could do that and still look the way he did.

"You're the Number Four Hero, Loud Cloud!" Syrup joined her in her excitement.

"Please, I'm off the clock. Just call me 'Oboro'."

"I'm actually friends with a fox named Oboro, so can I just call you 'Shirakumo'?" Loud Cloud either blinked twice or winked twice; it was hard to tell when only one eye was showing.

"Weird flex, but okay," Shirakumo said, sitting down at a chair in front of Kaede.

"Since when do you teach at U.A.?"

"For the last three years, actually. Did you not know that? It was pretty big news when I first started."

"I don't read the paper that much, not since they stopped publishing Crust's musings column. Besides, I guess I sort of always have it locked in my head that you're always out of the country on some top-secret mission Interpol."

"Is that right? Always nice to have people remember that." Shirakumo let out a small laugh, but it didn't sound like he thought something was funny. "You know, you're asking me too many questions. I'm supposed to be interviewing you, remember?"

"Interview away, Mr. Shirakumo!" The laugh he let out that time sounded more genuine.

"My first question is the most important one and the one that'll set the mood for the rest of the interview: Why do you want to be a Hero?"

"So people won't get hurt!" Kaede said without skipping a beat.

"That's pretty noble. How do you plan on doing that?"

"By making sure I can't get hurt!"

"With your shield? You'll need more than that, you know."

"No, it's enough. I just need to keep filling it with Quirks, that's all." Shirakumo raised an eyebrow; it might have been more than one, but there was no way to tell.

"What does that mean?"

"You see my shield? It lets me copy someone's Quirk whenever I touch them with it, and the more Quirks I copy, the higher my defense gets."

"And how many do you have now?"

"I don't know, probably three or four—"

"That's not a lot, but I guess you can—"

"Hundred." Shirakumo nearly fell back in his chair.

"Three or four hundred?! How?! Why?! How?!"

"I told you how: with my shield! Sometimes I just touch people when they aren't looking, other times they give them to me because I either tell them what Quirk their baby will have or they feel grateful that I helped them with an emotional problem. The second one happens more often than you think."

"Okay, but why though? There's no way you need that many. I mean, I bet just having a few dozen already made you harder than steel."

"If people can bend spoons made of steel, then steel isn't good enough!" Just the thought of her finger being bent backward like she was involved in some magician's magic show sent a chill down her spine.

"The idea of getting hurt in the slightest seems to really affect you."

"I have self-diagnosed traumatophobia. Sometimes people say that it's all in my head, but it's not."

"Couldn't you just go to a doctor to settle this?"

"But what if he tests it out by sticking needles in me? I don't want needles to go inside me!"

"I'm not sure they even could go inside you." Kaede and Syrup both pouted at him. "Okay, so how many Quirks do you think it'll take for you to be completely comfortable?"

"Probably all of them." The look on Shirakumo's half of a face clearly said, "Why did I bother asking?" An appropriate expression, since it was a rather stupid question.

"You really think you need every Quirk in the world to feel safe?"

"Yep! And not just because it'll keep me from getting punched. If I have every Quirk in the world, then Villains won't be able to beat me because I'll already know all of their moves. They won't be able to hurt me, and if they can't hurt me, then there's no way they'll be able to hurt innocent people."

"So in the end, this all comes down to you just wanting to be tough enough to protect people."

"That's right! Makes sense, doesn't it?" Shirakumo just stared at her before letting out another laugh. That one felt the most genuine out of all of them.

"You're a good kid, Honjo, I hope you know that. You can go now if you want."

"Really? That's it?"

"Yep. I got everything I thought I'd get out of talking to you, and I'm pretty happy with the results." Kaede thanked him for his time and she and Syrup made for the door.

"I hope I can see you when school starts up!"

"Me too, kid." Only half of his face was showing, but Kaede knew he was giving a full smile, and with that, she was able to leave the room in a good mood.

"Why were you speaking with Loud Cloud?" Hououin suddenly being in her face didn't exactly dampen it, but it didn't do much to brighten it.

"I was just having my interview, that's all."

"What? But Present Mic is supposed to be conducting all the interviews. He interviewed everyone who came before you, including me, so why are you the only one to have a different interviewer?"

"I am?" She wanted to say that she didn't know anything about that, but the look on Hououin's face told her that she wouldn't listen to her.

"This doesn't mean anything, you know?! Just because you got some sort of special interview that no one else got doesn't—I'll beat you next time, you hear me?! Next time, the valorous flames of Kyouma Hououin will burn you to ash!" Hououin ran off shouting more random things of that nature.

All Kaede could think was that she was very bad at being intimidating.

The exams finally concluded; nearly everyone who exited the building looked defeated in one way or another, and Risa was one of those people. More than anything, she hated that she was the first of her friends to make it out of the building; the alone time forced her thoughts to go back to the catgirl who wouldn't stop bothering her just because she felt like it. She was already feeling nervous about how she did on the exam, so the last thing she needed was to be unable to forget how annoyed she was made to feel, yet there it was.

"E-Excuse me!" A brief respite came about when someone decided to strike up a conversation with her; it was the green-haired boy she saw two times earlier that day.

"Oh, hey. What happened to your sweats?" Risa asked, noticing that the green sweats poking out of his bag seemed to be ripped and burnt in various spots.

"J-Just a little hiccup with my Quirk, that's all! I'm still not that great with it, so—Um, I just wanted to say I'm sorry!"

"Sorry for what?"

"E-Earlier in the lecture hall, that guy wouldn't have yelled at you if he wasn't yelling at me first. You got in trouble because you got caught up in what I was doing, s-so I just wanted to apologize for that in case I never get another chance to!" If Risa hadn't spent over ten years being friends with Kaede, that much sincerity would be downright suffocating.

"You don't have to apologize, man. Neither one of us did anything wrong. That glasses guy was the one being a butt, and I put him in his place, remember? Besides, me getting chewed out probably would have happened even without you being there." Now she was feeling annoyed again. Great. "Also, what's this stuff about not getting another chance to say something? I'm sure you'll get in just fine."

"It'd be nice to believe that." Risa didn't need people other than her feeling negative, so she picked up Oboro, brought him to the green-haired boy's face, and had him lick one of his freckles.

"This is something my friend would think of, so I don't know how well it works for me. How'd it go?"

"F-F-Fine! I-I should get going now, bye!" The green-haired boy, suddenly red in the face, ran off the property like his life depended on it. There might have been something to that "inability to talk to women Quirk" idea.

"Risa!" Of course, Risa got equally red when Kaede hugged her out of nowhere from behind.

"Hey, come on, people are watching!" Risa said as she wormed her way out of Kaede's vice-like grip. "Wait, why are you all sheepish?"

"No, I'm feeling pretty—Oh, right, I guess I forgot about that. Release!" Kaede's body went back to normal as she deactivated her Quirks. "I kinda miss being fluffy, though? Which is better, normal me or fluffy me?"

"They, you know, both have their appeal." Kaede smiled as Risa tucked her face behind her scarf, and so did Isuzu and Kasumi when they joined the two of them. She only liked seeing that smile on Kaede, though, because she didn't want to think about what the other two were thinking behind their smiles. "Oh, have you seen Mai-chan and Yui-chan?"

"They already left. I tried to get them to wait for you guys, but they seemed to be in a pretty bad funk. I'm guessing Yui's performance was just as bad as her sister's."

"I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. Yui-san certainly didn't look pleased with herself," Kasumi said.

"I hope they end up with good scores, regardless. I'd hate for those precious little girls to not be able to get in," Isuzu said.

"I'm sure it'll all work out," Kaede said. "After all, it'd be a lot less fun if we all couldn't get in, right?"

"Yeah, it would." That was all Risa could manage to say, and it was all she needed to say.

With Kaede and the rest of her friends smiling in front of her, all of her negative thoughts were flushed right out of her system.

Top Ten Scores

Katsuki Bakugou Villain Points: 77 Rescue Points: 0 Total: 77

Kasumi Kensei Villain Points: 50 Rescue Points: 26 Total: 76

Risa Shiramine Villain Points 47 Rescue Points: 28 Total: 75

Eijirou Kirishima Villain Points: 39 Rescue Points: 35 Total: 74

Ochaco Uraraka Villain Points: 28 Rescue Points: 45 Total: 73

Ibara Shiozaki Villain Points: 36 Rescue Points: 32 Total: 68

Itsuka Kendou Villain Points: 25 Rescue Points: 40 Total: 65

Shin Bunretsu Villain Points: 49 Rescue Points: 13 Total: 62

Tenya Iida Villain Points: 52 Rescue Points: 9 Total: 61

Izuku Midoriya Villain Points: 0 Rescue Points: 60 Total: 60

Honorable Mention:

Mai Kinniku and Yui Kinniku Villain Points: 0 Rescue Points: 0 Total: 0

Students to Get In on Recommendation:

1. Shouto Todoroki

2. Kyouma Hououin

3. Kaede Honjo

4. Momo Yaoyorozu

Name: Oboro Shirakumo

Oboro Shirakumo, better known as the "Stone Monkey Hero, Loud Cloud", is a man of unparalleled strength and charisma. His ability to lead and encourage others is unmatched, his understanding of his Quirk is at genius level, everything about him is of high caliber. Shirakumo is so talented that during his junior year, he was recruited by Interpol to assist them with a top-secret mission outside of the country, a mission that required such a high level of security from him that he had to fake his own death and remain legally dead until he returned to Japan seven years ago. While his seven-year-long mission did leave him severely wounded, as evidenced by his famous Golden Fillet, he never lost his spirit, and once his mission—the first of many—was over, he went on to become the Number Four Hero.

*All of this is true according to public record and does not warrant questioning.

*Other achievements of Shirakumo include winning Japan's Teacher of the Year Award three years in a row, ranking fifth on the list of Heroes who Look Like Villains, and being the best man at the wedding of Shouta Aizawa and Emi Fukukado.

Name: The Demon King of the Seventh Heaven, Kyouma Hououin (Kyouma Hououin)!

Quirk: Ifrit

*I burn with the fury of a thousand suns (Allows Kyouma to manipulate, and turn her body into, fire)!

*I will never touch the ground, for I cannot be bound to the Earth like some paltry being! (Kyouma is capable of flight while her Quirk is active)!

**You are not worthy of knowing more than this (Updates on all information pending)!

Name: Shin Bunretsu

Quirk: Division

*Shin can divide something he touches with his hands into ten identical copies. The copies can then be moved with his mind.

**Updates on all information pending.

Name: Kaede Honjo

Quirk: Devour

*Creates an indestructible shield that attaches itself to her left hand. If Kaede is ever more than a meter than a half away from her shield, either the shield will be teleported to her hand or she'll be teleported to the shield.

*Holding the shield causes Kaede's natural defense to increase and make certain attacks painless. The boost in defense increases as Kaede increases the number of Quirks she copied.

*If the shield makes contact with a Quirk user, their energy will be drained and Kaede will obtain a copy of their Quirk, along with complete knowledge of how it works. Once she has copied ten Quirks, all new Quirks are sent into an "inventory" for later use.

*When Kaede falls asleep for at least one hour, all of the Quirks in her shield are taken out and put into her inventory. Kaede is then free to install as many Quirks as she wants into her shield, and she can keep taking Quirks from her inventory over the course of the day until the first time she reaches ten Quirks.

*Copied Quirks can only be activated by saying their name out loud. In addition, Kaede can combine her Quirks into new ones. Quirks used for this are immediately erased and have to be copied again to be usable.

*Devour cannot copy the Quirks of animals.

*When Kaede uses a Quirk created through the combination of multiple Quirks, there is a chance that her body will mutate in the way that it would have if that Quirk had been the Quirk she was born with. This lasts until she formally deactivates her Quirks, and if she is using multiple Quirks that activate this condition, her mutation will only be the mutation for the last Quirk she used.

*Kaede's Active Quirks:

**Plastic Love

**Wooly

**Ifrit(Kyouma Hououin)

**Whirlwind(Loud Boy)

*Quirks in Inventory:

**Long Neck(Random kid)

**Muscle Growth(Random kid)

**Glamour(Random kid)

**Earphone Jack(Random kid)

**Life Force(Kyudai Garaki)

**Bouncy Laser(Sugiko Honjo)

**Stretchy Fingers(Friend of pomeranian boy)

**Puffy Cheeks(Random kid)

**Rock Fist(Random kid)

**Nitro Wings

**High-Speed Portal Cutter

**Shield(Crust)

**Top Gear(Risa Shiramine)

**Burning Letters(Shy)

**Gas(Spirits)

**Restaurering(Lady Black)

**Sleeping Strike(Meng Long)

**Tape(Random kid)

**Triple Spark

**Lizard Tail Splitter(Random kid)

**Centaur(Random customer)

**Minotaur(Random customer)

**Minnocence

**Leap(Pop Step)

**Slide and Glide(The Hauler)

**Air Slide

**Earth Flow(Pixie-Bob)

**Gatling(Gunhead)

**Earth Bullets

**Lip Service(Random customer)

**Book Maker(Random customer)

**Angry Umbrella(Random customer)

**Duto Dodge(Random customer)

**Dark Elbow(Random customer)

**Sabotage Beam(Random customer)

**Spring Grocery(Random customer)

**Noisy Summer Beetle(Random customer)

**Beautification

**Alchemy(Isuzu Haganeno)

**Transform(Himiko Toga)

**Rabbit(Mirko)

**Slipknot(Climb Anything-Man)

**Seiryu(Azulong)

**Big Step(Rapid Rabbit/Big Sis Hayate)

**Stinger(Honey Trap/Big Sis Hani)

**Heel Stinger

**Mummification(Mummy)

**Fierce Wings(Hawks)

**Dog(Hound Dog)

**Stronghold(Barrierfreeman)

**Infinite Creation of Swords(Kasumi)

**Etcetera, etcetera

*Discarded Quirks:

**Explosion(Pomeranian boy)

**Wings(Friend of pomeranian boy)

**Knives Out(Matsuda Honjo)

**Warp Gate(Kurogiri)

**Spark(Random kid)

**Matchstick(Random kid)

**Lighter(Random kid)

**Elasticity(Gentle Criminal)

**Love(La Brava)

**Charm(Saito)

**Hair-Raiser(Mr. Brave)

**Hair Extension(Random kid)

**Cow(Cow Lady)

**Etcetera, etcetera

***Updates on all information pending