( Jason Park's P.O.V. )

Mikaru's been straying further and further from his original perverted self and towards the personality of someone who's been through way more sh!t than they can handle.

I could tell from a glance since he sorta reminded me of my father although their personalities are far from similar to each other, My dad was once a fun an optimistic person who believed that everything was possible. He loved his job of being an investigative reporter/journalist even though he wasn't even the best at his own newspaper outlet he worked hard an tried his very best, while Mikaru was just some random pervert that happened to be given an invitation to the Kurushima Academy but he's no pushover since he knows how to use a formidable martial arts. They've both changed my father changed stopped believing that everything would work out after being fired similar to what Mikaru seems to believe now.

I thought before answering Mikaru's question he asked earlier about Fukushima's whereabouts.

" I haven't seen him I heard Ken is his roommate you could try asking him. "

I said backing off seeing he didn't want to tell me, and Mikaru calmed down sighing seemingly completely sad as he looked down on his lunch.

" Damnit Fukushima, where are you ? "

But seemingly remembering something Ahmya stretched her right arm wrapping it around Mikaru's shoulder and looked Mikaru into his eyes twirling her index finger of her other hand on his uniform jacket as she began to ask.

" Uh so Mikaru are you still going to show me how to do that little thing you promised, you owe it to me after you revealed my secret ? "

And Mikaru stared at her totally clueless as I realized that this was also my chance to ask him to train me.

" About that Mikaru I've always been a fan of your master Death Arms and I was wondering... Could you please train me I wanna be just like hi-....!!!

I yelled with admiration for them both hoping that he might agree to train me but I was rudely interrupted by someone's fist that punched me away from Mikaru an his friends and towards the fencing mesh at the edge of the school's roof.

I couldn't tell who did it their punch seemed to have made my vision foggy, and I had no idea why someone would wanna attack me since I wasn't really the type to cause trouble for anyone.

But it wasn't too hard to tell that they meant business since they didn't seem to had held back, I think they almost dislocated a few of my bones with that punch.

I coughed up some blood as my vision slowly returned, I could somewhat make out who the person was that attacked me as they grabbed Mikaru by his uniform collar lifting him up from his meal.

They stared Mikaru directly in his eyes with an intimidating look but Mikaru didn't even flinch he just continued to chew his lunch after placing in another mouth full.

Mikaru didn't seem to be in the mood for all this so he politely asked.

" Could you please put me back down, what's the big idea? "

And the guy leaned in closer trying even harder with their intimidating look but Mikaru's reaction and expression remained unchanged even as they shouted in his face.

" You bastard you better give me what I want !!! "

And the guy slapped Mikaru's lunch out of his hands an stepped straight into it and began stomping the hell out of it, and that's when Mikaru became serious and said as a smirk crawled up on his face and a tattoo slowly became visible on his hand at the end of his sleeve.

" So it looks like I have a fight on my hand? I'm sorry kid my Sensei made me promise not to use his martial or else it was a life or death situation so he'd probably kill me if he found out that I taught it to someone behind his back after promising that so I don't think I'll be able to train you to use the techniques you probably wanted but I could help you out by giving you an Ahmya some advice on your own techniques. "

But unable to accept his conditions I responded letting my emotions get the best of me an I got carried away raising back to my feet with a few dislocated bones.

" All my life I've always been told that people without powers are worthless my dad wasn't very good at his job but he loved it he always did his best but he was unable to keep up with the people who were truly talented at their job an he got fired but still willing to prove his worth he ended up working so hard to do so that he worked himself to death. "

I explained to Mikaru and after mentioning my dad I began to cry inside unable to stop myself from continuing.

" For so long I've fought against what I've always been told 'without some sort of special abilities I'd never be able to influence others and I'd remain worthless at the sidelines my whole life' but then I saw Death Arms a man who became powerful because he strongly believed in something and he wanted to make it come true and ever since that day I've been wondering could I ever expect to be someone like him. You guys are strong infact your the strongest I've ever seen that's managed to climb to the top without any cheesey special abilities !!! "

I said filled with admiration for them for proving what I've believed my whole life wrong as I hoped that he might agree to train me seeing how passionate I was about it.

I saw the image of a man wearing a weird bat suit appear in my head an said.

" What are you talking about kid I'm Chiroptera Man and I've managed to influence others without any special abilities. "

But I shrugged it off thinking.

" You don't count your fiction. "

But before Mikaru could muster up a response the guy holding him by his collar yelled shoving him to the ground.

" You bastard, stop ignoring me !!! "

Mikaru landed perfectly in a squating position sliding across the ground before raising into one of his Martial Arts stance looking at his adversary obviously not aware of what he wanted from him and another student appeared out of nowhere and said.

" If my calculations are correct then this school is amusingly intelligent, they gave us our tournament entry telling us that if we won all of our greatest wishes and desires would be granted but if we lost our entry ticket we would be unable to participate due to it being non replaceable. So if you ask me this is all really a test not only to see who's the strongest and most skilled here but also who's the most perceptive and intelligent, If we aren't able to defeat another student in hand to hand combat another option would be to disqualify that person from the tournament entirely by simply taking their entry ticket. "

Oh no this guy he's Su Ogami otherwise known by the nickname the tactician, he's the 1 star class representative they say he's the smartest guy here at the Kurushima Academy even outsmarting all of the teachers.

He had an hairstyle much like Rei's but his was much more groomed as he wore a glasses with a small slender and oval shaped lens design, he was wearing our school's uniform but his had 2 honorable costume badges attached he definitely looked like an overachiever.

"Oh so that's what you jerk off's want, that guy over there in the glasses managed to figure out a few loopholes in the tournaments system an made a plan to exploit them.

While you 2 managed to just follow his orders taking out as much participants as possible while keeping a low profile in order to not allow anyone else to copy your plans, so how many other students has fell to your hands so far. "

Mikaru said beginning to understand what was going on and that's when I realized that the guy that attacked me an Mikaru along with Su Ogami was here to continue testing the effectiveness of their plan of beating the tournament before the matchs even officially began.

And I realized something Mikaru said 'while you 2 managed to just follow his orders' but I could only somewhat make out Rei Ogami the one that attacked us and Su Ogami the one explaining.

" So you saw me uh, well I guess you've managed to see through my disguise was it because of your x-ray vision, I wonder ? "

A voice said and I began to see lights fluctuate beside Rei an a red hair student slowly appeared, it was Ken but how did Mikaru managed to see him wasn't he just completely invisible.

" Nah I totally didn't even realize you were there at first but then a got a sniff of loser so I thought it had to be you since I spotted floating eyeballs an goggle lens. "

Mikaru had totally pissed Ken off an he prepared for battle but was stopped by his comrade Su Ogami who Then approached Mikaru with an proposal.

" I didn't choose to acquire an audience with you to cause conflict Mikaru Hyroyuki, I came here to propose a deal to you join us and help us take down as many students as possible in secrecy before the tournament calls for it's next set of rounds, which would allow us to prevent capable opponents by simply stealing their entry ticket or defeating them at their weakest. "

And a sinister smile appeared on Mikaru's face and he asked with obvious hidden motives.

" So what's in it for me, and how will I be able to work together with you guys if I have no idea what you're abilities are ? "

Was Mikaru really planning on working with those bastard I wondered as Su smiled and said.

" So that's how it is, I knew you would say that. Well as you saw earlier Ken's ability is called plasma, in this world there are 4 fundamental forms of matter solid, liquid, gas and Plasma. With Ken's ability he has complete control of Plasma which means he can manipulate light for example redirect or warp all the light around his body  effectively becoming invisible because our eye requires light to bounce off an object to see that object. Plasma also can manipulate heat which means he can also control the air to a certain extent by changing it's density or changing it's direction an he has complete control over electricity. "

But unfortunately Ken didn't seem too happy about his abilities being advertised like that and he grabbed Su by his collar and yelled.

" What's the idea pal explaining the workings of my ability to a guy like him, what if he refuses to accept your offer ? "

But Su smiled had already thought of a backup plan he was obviously planning something so I ran barely able to maintain my balance because of the effects from Rei's attack earlier I definitely broke something I even coughed up blood earlier but that's not important at least not now, I can't allow Mikaru to become anything like them.

" Don't worry about that Ken Mikaru won't refuse not with what I'm offering, he wants Fukushima's location as I've heard earlier and we have that, he wants revenge on K for killing a friend of his and abducting Miyabi's dad we can help him with that too, and most importantly I know all of his weaknesses 1 he has to prepare before a battle at full power, 2 his techniques put far too much strain on his body an his only solution for those issues are his tattoo that allows regeneration an his spear that takes the strain away from his body. "

Mikaru then became extremely cautious about his next move asking.

" How do you know all that about me an Ken ? "

Which Su nonchalantly answered saying.

" Well I've been watching, I have eyes, ears an connections everywhere you can think of, but don't feel threatened when we become victorious in this tournament we can ask for all of our greatest desires to be granted so think of this as an unbelievable opportunity. "

Su said and Mikaru snapped out of confusion although he couldn't understand how they knew so much about him, this was what I was afraid of Su has ways that allows him to achieve his goals he's not called the school's tactician for nothing.

" Mikaru, don't do it these guys are just a bunch of arrogant cynics as soon as they get what they want they'll just throw you away like a tool that has served it's purpose, your a hero aren't you !? Come on even you can tell that these guys are up to no good they're planning something !!! "

I yelled and Mikaru turned to look at me as his sinister smile faded an he replied to my warnings.

" Hey kid ? I can see that you're heart is in the right place and you mean well but there's 1 thing that you got wrong about me, I'm not a true hero I'm just a guy doing what has to be done to survive. I've also been told that I'd be nothing without powers but when I managed to awaken my preterhuman ability I realized that they'd be completely useless or else I had strength, what I'm saying is that if you have strength then you have the power to do anything. "

Mikaru said reminding me why he was called Mikaru the charisma his hopes an determination made him powerful so maybe mind could too.

I then stopped physically in pain but emotionally stronger than ever an unable to believe that the hero I've been looking up to this whole time Death Arm's student was contemplating joining those narcissistic bastards gang of elitist.

" I can't believe you, aren't you supposed to be the legendary hero Death Arms apprentice how could you consider their offer they're obviously trying to use you. I won't allow these arrogant f^¢kers to change you even if I have to defeat you all and drag you back over to the side of the heroes where you rightfully belong, myself !!! "

I yelled willing to put my very life at risk to save my hero's student and Ahmya, Miyabi Ken, Rei and Su all turned to look at me shocked by my conviction and unable to believe that I was for real.

END OF CHAPTER.

A/N :

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