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Chapter 5 - The Martial Art Hall

Rio, Dante and Lee, stood outside the Hall. Rio pushed the door open, and all three of them walked inside. The three of them basked their eyes in the wonderful view, as they stared at the beautiful painting and design on the wall. The hall was extremely large, looking like it could accommodate up a thousand students, and it had a very large arena in the middle. What

shocked them was that, there was no students in the hall.

"Wow very nice design I like it," Rio said as he turned to look at Dante and Lee

"Now that there is no one in the hall, no one is going to disturb us. So how about we have little spare," he said you take me very creepy smile. Dante and Lee looked at each other and then look back at Rio, who was smiling mischievously as if he was expecting that to be their reaction.

"No way," the both them voiced out at the same time. Instead of Rio to be disappointed instead is smile grew wider smiling like a mad man.

"It's just a friendly duel, nothing much," Rio said, still had the creepy smile on his face, it looks as if he is partaking in a smiling competition and wanted to win at all cost.

"Let's give it a try," Lee said as looked at Dante, and this statement only made Rio's smile to grow more wider. So wide that the side of his lips were about to touch the corner of eyes.

"Oh c'mon, what's up with the creepy smile," Dante lampooned under his breath.

"Let's get started already," Rio said, still maintaining his mischievous smile. All three of them walked towards the arena. Rio stood in the middle while Lee and Dante stood opposite him.

"Which one of you coming first?" Rio asked.

"I'll start first," Lee said as he took a step forward, closing the distance between himself and Rio. Lee took a fighting stance, while Rio stood there, unmoving but not with the smile on his face anymore. Rio started hopping gently on his toes as he gestured at Lee to come at him and Lee did just that. He ran towards Rio, and threw out a punch towards Rio's face. He moved to the side, evading the attack completely.

Lee then threw out multiple punches, but Rio tilted his head, moved to the side, redirecting them and so on. Lee didn't even touch his shirt, let alone land a solid hit, Rio moved swiftly and hopped gracefully, exhibiting the traits of an excellent fighter. Seeing how his punches were evaded, Lee changed tactics.

As he was throwing out punches, he stopped for a second and did a backflip, performing a bicycle kick. What he did would have landed perfectly on another person, but in Rio's case, the attack missed him completely. As soon as Lee landed on his feet, he saw fist just an inch away from his face. The attack was too fast for him to dodge, out of fear, he closed his eyes, but the attack never landed. What hit him was the wind caused by the sheer power of Rio's Punch, which blew his hair backward, making it flutter.

Dante who was at the side watching the fight, left his mouth wide open, clearly shocked by what just happened, the speed at which Rio just moved, was something he couldn't fathom.

"I QUIT," the words came out of his mouth without his permission, as he saw a fist an inch away from his face.

"I quit, please don't obliterate my face. I know I'm not that handsome, but please let me keep my face, I'm managing it," Lee cried out. This statement made Rio retracted his hand and laughed out.

"Seriously, I wouldn't have, hahahaha, touched you, it's just a friendly duel, are you, hahahaha, that scared," Rio said, laughing in between words. Soon, Lee could hear someone laughing behind him. He turned around, only to see Dante on the floor, laughing seriously, leaving his mouth wide open as if he wants to swallow a human whole, without remorse, it was to the point that his eyes got tears in them.

Seeing Dante on the floor laughing like that, caused Rio to resume laughing.

"No problem, I'll surely get back at you for this, Dante," he said clearly annoyed.

"I'm so sorry, I tried holding it in but...," he couldn't complete his statement as he kept on laughing.

Dante stopped laughing, stood on his feet, and walked towards Rio. Rio also stopped laughing and got serious.

It was Dante's turn.

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While Dabi and Smith was walking towards the martial art hall, a girl approached the both of them. She had red hair, red eyes, Chubby face, which made her beauty enticing and alluring. The both of them, got lost for some seconds before regaining their composure.

'Such beauty,' Dabi thought.

She wasn't wearing a uniform, instead, she was clad in brown skirt above her knees, and a black T-shirt.

'I can't believe that, one day I ask help from mere humans, I should have just beat that teacher to a pulp instead,' she thought.

"Can you guys help me with something?" She asked.

"With what exactly?" Smith asked as he folded his arms.

"It's a yes or no question, just answer me? will ya?," she said, her tone sounded threatening.

"We can't help ya, since you ain't saying what you need our help for, so.....," Dabi said not completing the statement.

"It's a fat no," Smith completed the statement and they began walking away.

'Very well, I'll finish them off, no one dares to talk to me in that manner,' she thought as she followed them behind.

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Inside the martial art hall, Dante who stood opposite Rio began hopping slowly and gently on his toes.

'I'm sensing a familiar aura from this guy, that's why I wanted to do this duel, it is so faint that I wouldn't have noticed it, maybe with this duel, I can draw it out from him, here he comes,' Rio thought.

Dante who was hopping, appeared in front of Rio almost instantly. He jumped up, and spinned mid air, sending out a kick towards Rio's head and it was swift and fast attack.

"As expected, this guy.....," Rio thought.

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