Rio had this entire duel planned just to confirm his suspicion. And for that, he had to inflict pain on the latter.
He thought he could do it, perhaps, land a strong punch on the face, to force it out of him. But when he saw Dante fight, he fought like someone who's been training for a very long time.
His moving pattern, his swiftness and flexibility, all made Rio to forget what he wanted to do, he was enjoying his duel with Dante, who had the traits of a good fighter.
When he saw Mia, he remembered that he was supposed to do something, which he totally forgot about due to him getting caught up in the enjoyment.
That's when he decided that, he'll have Mia get the job done, he knows all she have to do is make Dante talk to her in a rude way. While Dante was busy chatting with his friend, Mia who just came into the hall, heard a voice and she clearly recognized the voice, it was Rio's. Telling her that just pounce on Dante if he makes any wrong move. It was more like a telepathic ability.
She didn't ask why, she just did as she was told. When Dante replied her in a rude manner, Rio considered his work done.
He only stopped Mia from killing him and just knocked him out.
When Dante stood up, with an aura threatening to raze down the entire martial art hall leaving nothing but dust, he became mindless, and the only thing that glued itself to his head was "revenge" and his hatred was shot at Mia.
He was more like a demon let loose from hell, just to slaughter who ever he sees, ending their lives in brutal and gruesome way, with his aura running wild, affecting their insides, also with the gravity pressure that descended, making them feel their lives hanging on a thread that's ready to snap at any second.
The piercing gaze from his eyes could even kill someone before he gets them.
Rio never imagined that his decision will have a devastating outcome, he couldn't imagine such power residing within Dante.
The worst part of everything was that, this power, wasn't the one he was sensing, it was entirely different from what he sensed, which plunged him into confusion.
This much power, coming from a kid was totally unexpected, which made him regret his foolish decision to do something that was none of his business.
He should have just kicked his curiosity out the window, that's what he thought.
The sudden outburst of tremendous power, rudely attracted the attention of so many students.
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It seems like it wasn't only the martial art hall and the students that received the hatred from Dante's life- threatening power, other nearby halls week also affected, with cracks on the walls and all the students within bleeding from their mouth.
Somewhere a bit far away from the martial art hall, towards the eastern part, a man who was clad in black suit, a black trouser and a black shoe, stood there, looking straight ahead of him with a frown plastered on his face.
"This much power, who is the vessel holding such power? I better find out," muttered underneath his breath as he disappeared from his position.
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Inside the martial art hall, Dante had already punctured a hand size hole through Mia.
When Dante left his position and attacked Mia, no one saw him leave his spot, or even move from his position.
They saw him standing and then in front of Mia, and not up to two seconds, Mia had a hole through her. It happened so fast that they felt their brain seize, unable to fathom the speed at which Dante moved.
Dante stood beside Mia looking at her, with his icy cold gaze. He wanted to just stomp on her head, before he passed out beside Mia.
With the life-threatening aura and the gravity pressure gone, they could all move again, they could feel their entire body ache and feeling sore. Rio ran to his sister's side, holding her in his arm.
"Mia wake up, please open your eyes," he said, with a worried expression making it's way to his face.
Dabi and Smith ran to Dante's side, doing the same.
As for Lee, he passed out on the arena, Dante's aura nearly squashed him to death.
"What just happened here?" They all heard a not-too-deep male voice infiltrate their ears from the exit.
They turned around and scrutinized the speaker.
'We're screwed.'
Rio, Dabi and Smith gulped.
Beads of sweat raced down their faces.
'It's a teacher,' Dabi thought looking at the man clad on suit with an obvious fearful expression.
"What happened here?" This time, the question was directed at Rio, as he looked at him with an "I need an explanation now," look.
Rio don't even know where to start from. He know he has to come up with an explanation. Now, he thought about three things what he thought their outcome will be.
Either he gives the teacher a devastating answer and get killed -- not actually losing his life though, give him a befitting explanation and get spared, not say anything at all and still get killed.
The entire situation is just too mind-blowing, he was totally short of words.
The teacher looked around the hall and saw the destruction caused.
Several large cracks were on the wall, it was very severe and looked like with a touch, the entire hall will crumble, with a large crater from Dante and Mia's spot that swallowed up to half of the hall.
"That outburst of power came from him, right?" the teacher asked pointing at Dante who was on the floor.
" Yes, but he didn't release it on purpose, it was all an accident," Rio tried to defend Dante, knowing fully that it was his fault.
" What do you mean, it was an accident?" He asked, looking at Rio with his eyes squinted.
"We were just sparing, it was when I landed a hit on his face, that's when he released it, that outburst of power and everything that happened was an accident, the punch I gave him might have triggered it," the words flew out of his mouth as if he prepared this line of statement for this particular situation. He decided to add some lie, leaving his sister out of the picture and taking the blame.
" Is it true?" The teacher asked Dabi and Smith who was beside Dante. For a moment, Rio thought they would say it's a lie, but surprisingly, the both nodded their heads, saying it was true.
The teacher walked towards Dante and touched his forehead, trying to do something but it seems like it wasn't working.
"We'll wait for him to wake up, the power took a toll on his body, wake he wakes up, you better give me a befitting explanation, otherwise you all will be punished," he said with an angry tone.
He held his hand up and snapped his fingers. As soon as he did this, the state of the hall immediately reverted to the way it once was, even all their body conditions reversed. The hole in Mia's stomach also closed up.
Other nearby halls too returned to their original state with the conditions all the students, back to their healthy state.
Everyone in the martial art hall was okay, even Mia woke up. The person remaining was Dante, who was still unconscious.
'Did he just rewind time?' Rio thought, even Dabi had this thought.