Chapter 26

                                    

                                          
Izuku's POV


                          
Todoroki and Bakugo finally finish the race while looking tired and messy. The look on Todoroki's face was a promise to get even while Bakugo looked as pissed as ever. The moment he saw me, he marches straight towards me with a small bit of explosion on both hands of his. 
                          
"What the hell was that for Asshole!!?"
                          
For some reason, I got the sudden urge to laugh with I end up doing anyway. Bakugo looked like I just spit on his face with but in a way I did. He got madder which was an understatement but it was refreshing to pay him back from all the things he did before once in a while. 
                          
"Don't take everything seriously Kacchan. Learn to take a joke. It's not a good look for you to bitch about everything. You look like an angry Pomeranian you know, all bark and no bite."
                          
I then left him to watch who else made it. 
                          
One by one they emerge from the the other side of the tunnel. Most of class 1-A made and there were others who weren't in the hero course that pass. It was impressive to know and a bit excitement. It was just the first event and so far, everyone was giving their best.
                          
My thought was cut short as Midnight called our attention. The Top 42 were the one that passed and from where I'm standing, a lot of them can be a challenge to me if they play their cards right.

                          
The roulette on the large screen began to spin again and it stopped at "Cavalry Battle". An event I wasn't used to but there's no used complaining about it. I will just have to do everything I could to move to the next event.
                          
The rules were simple and easy to understand but everything turn south the moment the point system was explain.
                          
TEN MILLION
                          
I somehow felt that the staff the organized this was making a mockery of me. All eyes were once again at me and not the kind of look I was hoping for. I felt like I was a rabbit inside a wolf's den. 
                          
It's going to be a survival game at this point. I like a challenge but not like this. I was feeling like that time, when the villains attack the USJ. I now put in a corner which was outside my comfort zone and with the kind of quirk I have, was not a good situation. 
                          
We were given 15 minutes to form our teams and when that started, everyone avoided me. It was like I was fire and they were afraid of getting burn. I approach Iida but he politely decline my offer. I tried Uraraka and the same thing happened. I tried my other classmates and even other classes but the same thing happened.
                          
Everybody became the enemy in this event. 
                          
When the 15 minutes were up, I was the only one without a team. Isolation was torture but with this, I knew where I stand within my peers.
                          
I was a target, a goal, and a stepping stone for them to prove something. I was the number one's son with was a factor to some and a large drawback for me to overcome.
                          
"Izuku Yagi, will you still continue despite being by yourself?" Midnight asked. 
                          
I was a little bit humiliated by what happened. I was at the top and I was standing there by myself. I will be alright though. I was already used to it before and this won't stop me just yet.
                          
"I'm fine with it beside, who said I was alone?"
                          
My shadow on the ground expanded and from the shadow, the USJ Nomu emerge from it. I wasn't planning on revealing this secret but since I was making a stand for myself, I figure this was one way to do it. 
                          
From the look of the other students, there was a mixture of fear and anger. The heroes were cautious and the audience were having a mixed of different emotion.
                          
"Explain yourself Izuku Yagi!" Midnight demanded.
                          
"Relax everyone, I mean this guy's not here to make trouble. For some reason my quirk was able to gain control of this creature. He listens to me and no one else" I explained.
                          
However, nobody believe me. They were more scared than anything and to make make matters worse, HE just had to make an appearance.
                          
"I AM HERE!!" 
                          
He dramatically landed a few feet away from me. He was smiling but the look in his eyes says another thing. Anger and Disappointment. He made his way to me and once he was in front of me, he looked down and crossed his hands over his chest. 
                          
"Explain yourself Izuku" 
                          
"I already did before you came down here"
                          
"That Nomu is dangerous and should not be handle by someone young."
                          
I can't believe he's giving me a lecture right now and in the eyes of millions. I always knew that his hero career was the most important thing to him and I guess it will always be. I guess I will always be just someone who carry any blood relation to him. 
                          
Touya was wrong I guess. Sometimes you just have to accept the reality that there are things that you can't change or accept. 
                          
I can't and will never change the fact that the relationship between my family will never get better. Even now he continue to lecture me in front of everybody. I just choose to ignore him while he's talking. To them, he might just be a father worried about his son but the way he continue to look at me says something different. 
                          
"I get it! You don't trust me with anything. I get it. You don't have to remind me time and time again."
                          
I looked at everyone around me. Their judging eyes kept looking at me. I looked at Midnight and made my decision since there was no point in me to prove anything, not after what's happening right now. 
                          
" I'm dropping out from the competition. There's no point for me to continue"
                          
I left the Nomu where it was standing and started walking to the nearest exist. I can hear Uraraka, Iida calling my name and I can also hear my All Might and Midnight calling but like I said, there was no point of it anymore.
                          
I walk through the halls until I reach the waiting from for 1-A. I lock the door and sat down on the floor. 
                          
I took a few deep breaths and decided to call Touya.