Looking at me, Kan's facial expressions became ugly. He let a sigh, a long one. Looks like I spoiled a surprise for him, or whatever it was.
"Lee," Kan called calmly. "Can you do me a favour and get down with them."
"Why would I?"
"Because you have to cross this forest walking." He said, sighing. "Bellow, there would be a small test of how much you improved in using your Quirk. Get down there and don't tell the others."
I guess that they didn't take to account, some student like me, can fly. Pony could fly though, but I don't think she could react as fast as I can.
Lifelessly, I said. "Whatever."
I stopped flying and started falling, sliding on the cliff with my feet, before reaching the spot where my classmates were standing up.
I looked around.
Beneath us was the brown ground which was full of soil and grass. Around us, there were green huge trees.
My classmates were confused and ignored my late arrival.
"What should we do?" Rin asked.
"We got here all of the sudden." Pony made a pair of horns float beneath her feet and she flew up a bit.
"Can you see anything?" Shihai, the dark pitch guy, asked.
Pony shook her head, no and kept floating in the air.
Itsuka put her hands on her h.i.p.s and shook her head. "Give me attention please." After she said that, she walked to the centre, attracting our attention, and said.
"Since they made us fall from that direction." She pointed behind us, in the direction where the bus had stopped at. "Then, obviously, they want us to go to this one." She pointed forward, to the endless trees in front of us. I sighed. Itsuka was a reliable and smart girl. She can make her decisions in times like this.
The others nodded as this made sense. They realised that the camp may be waiting for them in the other direction. And so, we made their decision and started walking forward.
"Hey, Lee." Reiko came toward me.
"Hey," I said, slowly walking between the trees.
Reiko and I exchanged a few words.
We were walking in our civil outfit. She was wearing a green shirt, showing a big bludge on her chest area. And she wore blue shorts, passing by her snowy white thighs. Wow, never thought she was this curvy before. She surely looked cute in this outfit.
"What's up?" Itsuka came as well to the view, as she took herself out of the group.
"Nothing," I said.
"Hey, Reiko." Itsuka turned her face to see who's in the group. As I know, the two of them were friends.
"Hey." Reiko flinched, swept her hair, and turned her face.
Itsuka smiled wryly. "Is there anything with you?"
"No. why are you asking," Reiko said, walking with one hand extended?
Although Itsuka didn't talk about this with her, she had told me that Reiko, after they had kidnapped her at the Festival, was acting differently.
"Just worried about you."
"I'm fine."
Itsuka rested her head on my chest and grabbed my shoulder while walking. Reiko calmed down and walked away. I followed her swaying h.i.p.s, and I let a sigh, as I knew why she and my girlfriend aren't as friendly in the past.
But whatever. I held Itsuka closed to me.
"Hey, guys! Watch out!"
Someone screamed.
Tuning my head, after hearing a voice, I noticed.
Monsters, like dogs, bigger than horses, and made of stone-like matter, started to walk out between trees. They were made of earth-like matter.
We raised our guard. The monsters started dashing forward. The students of U.A, despite facing this surprise, their reaction speed didn't pale.
Quickly, Itsuka grew her fists and started punching everything that got near.
Reiko, despite not being able to move objects heavier than a normal human, could use rocks and trees brunches as spears to attack. Pony used her head to make horns beams and shot them forward.
The other students kept showing how much they could use their Quirks in battle. From the beginning of the year, they had improved a lot.
I didn't react as quickly as they did. I already knew that it was a test from UA, and not a surprise attack.
But despite that, I have to make a small act. Hands in my pocket, I walked forward. Four giant earth beasts dashed toward me. Star Platinum punched them into dust.
*Roar* *Roar*
As we kept moving forward, roars filled our ears as monsters kept popping out. I crushed everything in my way.
Finally, after some hours, we found an end to the trees, and the monsters as well. I turned my head when all of us stopped.
They were covered in dirt and dust, as most of them had to move and fight.
I was clean, like the moment I had come here.
"That was refreshing." Itsuka cracked her fists as she stood up next to me.
Others were panting for air. Most of them. In front of us was a long land, with a huge building in its centre. Outside of it, there were tables. Around there were other buildings, seems for training purposes, distant from this one. Far, there was a large wall. There were other biomes as well.
This was the camp. We came to this conclusion as we saw Kan walking toward us, with two pretty women next to him.
On his left was an average height woman. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, an hourglass athletic body, and her pink full lips made a large grin. She wore blue clothes, white cat gloves, and fake cat metallic ears.
"Kan, so these are your cute students." The blonde woman said.
Next to her was a woman with the same themed clothes as the other woman.
Only hers were red. She had dark red hair, which reached her neck. Her eyes were brown, and her body was athletic as well. But compared to her friend, she had stronger legs and a bigger chest. I checked them out until Itsuka gave me an elbow on my rib, which I barely felt, and I pretended to look behind them.
The dark reddish-haired woman said. "Well, they seem to be more surprising compared to the other class."
I knew these people, the heroines.
In the past, once, I had searched on the web: Cute catgirls – don't ask why I had put cute at the beginning of the search -- don't ask why I searched in the first place.
The results had led to a hero team named: Wild-Wild p.u.s.s.y cats.
Two pretty heroines, with the one of reddish hair looking cuter.
However, their fourth member, when I had looked at him, I had regretted when I had seen his picture – a muscled man wearing as his teammates… and since that day, I had never looked for catgirls on the web, at all.
"Ah, they are the brats I train now." Kan nodded.
The girls introduced themselves, and their team name.
The blonde one was Pixie-Bob.
The one with dark red hair was Mandalay.
Pixie Bob, who happened to be the one who made the monsters we had fought, was a friendly girl. She checked us and praised those who made a good performance. "You must be the one who I couldn't feel his attacks." She said as she looked at me. I nodded my head.
"A man of few words."
"You can say."
Pixie-Bob patted my back before turning to Kan. She then pointed to one building.
Mandalay took a step forward and waved with her hand. "We got your things inside. Talk with the boy there. He will show you your rooms."
When I looked around, there were some A1 students, a little boy with a cap.
Also, there was a man, whom I didn't know.
His skin was as pale as the paper. He was lean, had red hair, a blue reddish eyes.
He was standing far and was looking at us, while wearing his heroic costume, which had a cat-themed outfit, wearing like the Wild P.u.s.s.ycats – a short skirt, fake cat ears.
He didn't seem to be a part of the known team. Maybe he's their new member.
Once he made eye contact with me, he glanced at me, full of meanings, and he turned and walked away, with his hands inside his skirt's pocket.
I flinched as I almost threw up.
'Why that ducker looked at me like that."
I took a deep breath. Now, it was time to see my new room.
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