My graduation was just as I thought, boring, utterly boring, I end up being the best of my class to my surprise and chosen to do the final speech, I didn't put that much effort on it, I just said what people wanted to hear and that's all
I already forgot the face of most of my classmates, they are irrelevant, fodder from this world, so no need to remember any of them, that day the teacher dismissed us for the last time, as I was about to leave that school for the last time a girl handed me a love confession letter, I feel touched, not for her tho, let me be completely honest, remember my quirk? Yes? Well, I modified myself to be a very good looking person, I tried to keep most of my facial features intact but at the end I don't even know how I looked before the "rework"
The reason I did this didn't lay on lust or anything similar, people respond on how you look, they feel more comfortable and act better around a handsome man than a normal one, and since my goal is to manipulate as much people as I'm capable of I'm taking every possible method to increase those probabilities of success
I now stand at 6'1, black eyes, white hair with a black fade and a quite muscular body, nothing too jarring, I don't want to catch that much attention on me, I'm not the protagonist of this history after all, probably I'm one of the antagonists, but who knows
I'm standing in the entrance of the UA, today is the exam, as you might guess, I used all my savings for this moment, wearing a black shirt with a white stamping of a metal band, an inside long sleeve white shirt, black cargos and the most lookalike Converse I could find, pretty simple if you ask me, to finalize a crossbody backpack
Looking around I see a lot of npcs, maybe I'm passing as one of them too right now, let me tell you, I don't plan to interact just yet with Izuku, I'm getting in a different group as him to be honest, after all these years I perfected my plan, and I decided that Izuku, at least for these first steps needs to evolve on his own, I'm going to help him later, but for now I need to focus on all the panorama, not only on one single person
I follow the rest of people, and see some familiar but so distant faces, Mina results easy to spot thanks to her unique color, seeing flying clothes moving alongside the students entering a conference room might be weird, but for me, I know pretty well that is Toru, a weird sense of satisfaction enters my body, but is quickly dismissed, I don't need to talk to them right now
I quietly sit somewhere around the middle of the room and close my eyes, the following conversation feels so familiar, Present Mic enters screaming, then Iida humiliates Izuku in front of everyone and after a little more of talk we move to the city-district simulation, there's no point of intervening, I don't get nothing, maybe a little of appreciation for Izuku but that is going to be easy to get later on
So I get to the entrance of my sector, a lot of other people are standing there, no Bakugo, no Deku, perfect for me to shine a little, before I even get to scan the area the exam starts, everyone runs in, I follow them at a very slow pace
After all, my threads do the work for me
They extend all over the nearby place, before they can even get closer to the robots they are already dismantled, one after another, point after point, I calmly destroy the insides of the "villains", they are fragile so the circuits don't stand a chance against me, maybe it's enough, but I need to show off a little
I run as other people use multiple quirks to try and gain some points, I spot one and quickly run against it, without stopping I jump over him, extending my threads from my finger all over its external armor, closing both of my hands as I crunch in the top of the thing crushes it quickly, I use that impulse to modify my legs, making me jump over a building and spot the next one
I see a girl struggling to face the robot, this one is big nonetheless, sorry for her I jump from the building and using my now reinforced knees I destroy the thing by just landing on it
I touch the ground after completely crossing the robot's body, I get up to face the girl, who, to my surprise, is someone I know
We lock eyes for a second, a girl of small stature, with light skin and a slim build, lazy-looking eyes and short hair, and of course, earphones hanging from her ears
Jiro Kyoka
"I'm sorry for stealing this, you took too much time"
I say with a smile that isn't reciprocated, ok rude, she looks down at me before I stand up and she runs away in the opposite direction, looking for another robot before the time ends, I was about to leave but the sound of a gigantic machine moving made me doubt
A smile appeared unwittingly as I see that big ass thing resurfacing from some buildings, and Jiro in the middle of all that rubble, I thank The Wanderer, who probably isn't even in control of what happens, before running to my perfect opportunity
The rubble falls quick, and Jiro isn't capable of avoiding most of it, a rock hits her in the shoulder, making her lose balance, I run past her, avoiding all the debris before jumping and doing a 180° twist, like a certainly iconic spider hero, from my wrist a thread comes out and gets around Jiro's waist before I pull her out of the rumble, as she comes to me, and I fall to the ground we stumble each other, I end up with her above me as the ground hits my back
"That was a close one"
I said, looking at her slight blush, I move away because it was getting weird and I could feel the discomfort in her face, the thread is instantly retracted before I jump back to the robot, she doesn't wait for me before heading back to the exit where the rest of the candidates already are
Since all that action passed in less than 10 seconds I still have time to destroy this thing, I jump between the rubble to gain height, as that thing tries to walk I use my thread to hang to it, I jump from the building I was standing off and use inertia as my friend, in a curve I end up at the same height the head of the thing is, a deadly fall for most people, but not for me
From my two arms a thick string comes out, burying itself in each shoulder of the mechanical beast, with that, my slingshot is complete, all the force is put in my body, the tension makes my arms hurt a lot, I modify my feet to be able to cross the thing's head as I get myself thrown
The carcass of metal didn't even stand a chance against me, I destroy everything in my path before ending up on the other side, grabbing to the robot in the last second I avoid falling, maybe it wouldn't kill me, but it sure hurts, as the "dead" body descends to the ground so do I, leaving the scene intact with a smile
The body of the collapsed robot destroyed all the buildings nearby after all
After the writing test, that, I must say, was a walk in the park, we left the school, I'm standing in the entrance counting my money, hey, don't judge me, I'm poor, I don't know if I get to sit on a taxi, a bus or walk
The girl from earlier looks at me and gets closer
"Hey, are you the guy from the test right?"
She looks at me a little ashamed, I stop counting as I laugh and smile
"Yes, that's me, what's up?"
"I didn't thank you, for saving me you know? I ran away as you fought that robot"
"Don't worry, you're welcome, that's what anyone would do right?"
She smiles back at me for the first time, she puts her hand in front of me as she continues
"My name is Kyoka Jiro, what's yours?"
"I'm Matsumoto Akuma"
She seems taken back by my name, the normal reaction to be honest, before stretching my hand
"That's a strange name, is it real?"
"As real as it can get unfortunately, just call me Matsumoto, I don't have a problem with that"
"Then, Matsumoto-kun, let's hope we end up together"
"I hope so, Kyoka Jiro"
I say with a bland smile on my face