22 Chapter 22

As the three were about to face each other, Present Mic's screams stopped them dead.

Bakugo blinked and turned to Midnight "Hey there's not even a countdown, I'm asking for a minute overtime!"

Midnight stared at him for a few moments before whipping her whip in the air, "Silence! Your team has the most points, be proud!"

Quickly Present Mic begins to announce the qualified teams, in first place team Bakugo, in second place team Mydoria, third Shoto and fourth team Shinso.

Shoto blinked at his team's result and turned to Momo "How did we come third?"

The girl placed her hand on her chin "I guess it's the blindfold that Jiro stole from us a little before the end..."

For his part, Bakugo cringed, the excitement he felt before the batlle had been stolen from him.

"Come on man it's alright, there's still a test to face them you know?" Kirishima offered him a few words of comfort as he patted his back.

Bakugo waved his hand away "Yes...I guess you're right."

Finally Kirishima raised his fist in front of his chest and turned to the team.

"Come on guys, let's celebrate our victory in the cafeteria!"

"Croa"

"Yes !"

The three members of his team turned to him, their eyes full of expectation.

Bakugo gave a vague smile before nodding his head. "Let's go"

As the group walked towards the cafeteria, a hand landed on Bakugo's shoulder.

"I want to talk to you." Unsurprisingly, Shoto looked at him calmly, behind him Izuku followed looking a little embarrassed.

Bakugo stared at him for a few seconds, thinking about the answer he should give.

Finally after about ten seconds Bakugo massaged his temple before speaking calmly.

"Listen, you already know this but I'm not really suited to this kind of conversation, I prefer to make my fists talk you know, so we'll see about it during the next event, I have a meal to eat for now ."

Without waiting for an answer Bakugo turned around and started walking with his group again.

As the group walked in silence, Kirishima seemed disturbed by something.

Finally not supporting this atmosphere, Bakugo turned to the redhead "What? Spit it out"

Kirishima turned to him and gave a slight smile, "...Those words were too cool to come from you! Normally you would have said something like: "Shut up or I'll blow you up! I'm rather surprised, I didn't know you had this side in addition to the tsu side..! Ah uh forget what I said!"

The two girls also nodded.

Bakugo felt a vein growing on his forehead. "Stop disrespecting your delegate! For the trouble you will stay late at night to clean up in the classroom!"

Kirishima opened his eyes wide "Huh since when does the delegate have this kind of power! In your dreams buddy!"

"Hey do you want me to repeat myself maybe?" Bakugo replied with the nicest smile he could do, for some reason Kirishima broke into a sweat and nodded frantically.

"N-No everything is fine! I'm going to make our classroom tiles shine!"

"Good, you can take the opportunity to clean the windows from the outside, I like to admire our school without dirt."

Kirishima gulped "Y-you know there are robots for that…"

"Huh, I thought I heard a complaint, did you hear it Jiro?"

The girl shook her head with an amused smile on her face "No boss I didn't hear anything."

"Oh that's how it sounded to me, it must be all of his outbursts, that makes my ears weak you know."

Kirishima muttered under his breath "What a tyrant..."

Bakugo turned to him with a smile on his face "For these last words you will help the staff to clean the stadium tomorrow"

Kirishima opened his eyes wide, pointing an accusing hand at Bakugo "I thought you had ear problems!!"

"Hey, can't I hear you?"

*****

After the lunch break, Kirishima and Bakugo headed to the stadium, Jiro and Tsuyu apparently received a mission from Aizawa before the announcement of the third trial, leaving the pair to head to the stadium alone.

As the two walked quietly down the hall, they encountered the girls from Class A in pow pow girl outfits.

At the sound of their footsteps, the girls turned around, their faces slightly embarrassed by their outfits… Except Toru the invisible girl.

Bakugo was silent for a few seconds, stunned by the unexpected sight.

However, Jiro, the girl who seemed the most embarrassed in the group, threw her pompom in her face, shouting "Don't look like that in silence!"

Choosing not to avoid it out of respect, Bakugo took the UA-colored Yellow Pompom directly in the face. 'I don't know why, despite this view, I can't help but think of All Might in pow pow girl attire...'

Finally Bakugo retrieved the pom pom and threw it at Jiro, choosing not to drag out the situation any longer or justify his long gaze, Bakugo spoke up.

"I don't know if it's time for cosplay but whatever, let's go it's almost time."

"The best strategy in this kind of moment is flight! Thank you Joseph!'

The girls nodded and they set off towards the stadium.

Finally the small group arrived at the stadium and quickly the girls froze realizing that Mineta had tricked them.

Bakugo shook his head 'Even though I don't like Mineta...it was pretty well done this time.'

Eventually events unfolded as in the work, the students under Shinso's control gave up and two others took their place.

And after some explanations, the combat table finally appeared.

First rounds: Ochaco Uraraka vs. Katsuki Bakugo.