"All I wanted was to go home, take a hot bath, eat warm dinner alongside a very cute sister and then finally sleep in my own bed.""Is that too much to ask?"
"Answer me!"
"Is that too much to ask, huh?!"
Rito kept on screaming inside his head. His day did not seem to end quickly. It was as if the whole world had turned against him to prevent him from entering his own house and rest in peace.
With a twitching face, he looked back and found three boys trying to smile in the most vicious manner they could. But who was Rito, he had experienced the very definition of vicious and in his eyes, those smiles didn"t look vicious.
It felt as if the three boys were trying to smile for the very first time after going through a face surgery.
The boy in the middle had short, spiky black hair. The most distinctive feature of the boy was that the side of his face was actually covered in black fur and his arms were slightly longer and more "bigger" than his legs. Not only that, his arms were exceptionally bulky and muscular and they could be hardly covered by his shirt.
"I thought you were already dead! How the h.e.l.l did you even find your way back?!"
The boy had the most stupid smile on his face and he slammed his fist on his other palm.
Rito only sighed and stood in front Mikan while facing the three boys.
"How can I help you with Saruyama?"
Rito spoke in a disinterested manner. Seeing his face, Saruyama"s eyes glinted and his hands started to get even denser and bigger. His shirt ripped open and the height of his hands surpa.s.sed the length of his body, enabling him to walk using his arms.
"You can see that I am in no condition to screw around right now, right?"
Rito pointed at his arms and Saruyama"s expression froze for a moment. The two boys behind him also stopped and covered their mouth to stifle their laughter.
Meanwhile, there were two persons who were actually concerned after seeing Saruyama"s fierce appearance. First, Mikan was slightly terrified as he had just been bullied some days ago and did not want the same thing to happen to her brother.
When she saw Saruyama"s quirk, her heart started to beat faster and her expression became worried when Rito stood in front of her.
The second person to feel slight concern was a bespectacled man that was walking right behind the trio. His expression was twisted when he saw Saruyama near Rito.
He knew he had lost his chance.
"Tch, you are no fun! Either, I just wanted to send a message and I think that it has been received."
Saruyama snorted and returned normal and turned back to look at the bespectacled man.
Rito also noticed him, but unlike the original Rito, he wasn"t too interested in the man and simply ignored him.
"Ah~ Rito-kun!"
A bouncy girl arrived as she immediately hugged Rito in her excitement.
She was Ochaco Uraraka!
"S-sorry!"
She immediately made her distance with a red face and then looked at his arm.
"What happened to your arm? Weren"t you supposed to be discharged after getting healthy?"
She asked while Mikan behind her snorted.
"Mikan? Hehe, I didn"t even see you there!"
Ochaco"s expression turned joyful once again and she started bothering Mikan who kept on pouting all the time.
"h.e.l.lo, Rito-san!"
A cute girl with purple hair walked towards Rito and greeted him with a smile.
"Ah! Harunsan."
He greeted back as the expression of the bespectacled man turned full of rage and he stomped his foot before leaving.
Seeing him leave, Saruyama and the three boys also took their leave. Before leaving, Saruyama did not forget to complete the special handshake combo he made with Rito when they were kids.
It was embarra.s.sing.
Mikan, Ochaco and Haruna were stunned when they saw Rito dancing and rotating with his hand on his head. The most abnormal part of the whole dance was that it looked natural on Saruyama.
"So, what happened to your arm?"
All of them lived close-by and decided to walk back together. Haruna was quite curious about his bandaged arm and asked curiously.
"Oh, I fell!"
He replied immediately.
Ochaco tilted her head in confusion.
"What did you fall on?"
After all, he looked hurt pretty badly.
Before Rito could cook some excuses, Mikan replied for Rito.
"Mikado-Sensei!"
She spoke with a gentle snort and turned her face away.
"..."
Rito"s expression was already black. He looked towards Ochaco and Haruna who had a confused expression on their faces.
"Haha, it is like this, I accidentally injured my arm after falling on something sharp and lost quite a blood—"
Before he could complete the sentence, Ochaco quickly opened his mobile phone and showed him a video.
It was him falling from the sky with Tatsumaki!
Seeing the video, his lips twitched and Mikan and Haruna had a surprised expression. Even though they couldn"t make out the detail since the video was made from a very long distance, they were still able to recognise Rito after the video was zoomed in on.
But the quality of the video had been completely lost and they couldn"t make out the detail of his face.
Ochaco glared at him cutely and asked in an extremely serious voice.
"Is this how you got injured?"
Mikan and Haruna were also looking at him while his lips twitched continuously.
"Uh... how did you get this video?"
Rito could only ask in defeat.
"The video has just been uploaded and became viral because it involves Rank 3 S-Cla.s.s Hero, Tornado of Terror.
"Oh!"
He could only make a short response as he walked all the way without saying anything as the trio had decided to ignore him.
"Oh! Come on!"
He sighed in his heart and started to check out his skills. He knew that he had unintentionally broken through his limiter and his skill had progressed through leaps and bounds.
But he had still underestimated his own growth.
The moment he looked through his skills, his eyes almost bulged out.