Izuku's muscular arm and Enso's pale arm clashed in the center of the arena.

The two boys stared in one another's eyes with unwavering faces.

Enso attacked first by bringing his other arm forward and thrusting his palm at Izuku's chest.

Izuku responded by bringing his other arm to block the attack.

Enso's palm slammed into Izuku's defending arm, the force of which, sent him back several yards away. Izuku's feet dragged against the ground as he still remained standing, keeping his balance until coming to a stop.

Enso then stuck his hands outward, his aura and eyes turning blue, "Punk Style-Mind Storm."

About a dozen blue energy orbs blasted out of his palms and headed right for Izuku.

Knowing the mechanics of this move, Izuku knew that he wouldn't be able to maneuver around them.

Instead, he raised both of his hands and aimed them at the orbs, bending his fingers into flicking positions.

"10%..." His fingers lit up bright in a red hue with green electricity. "Double Delaware Smash!"

He flicked his fingers and created two directed shockwaves at the barrage of energy coming at him.

Despite Enso trying to use his telekinesis to swerve multiple energy orbs out of the way of Izuku's attack, just one got hit and resulted in a chain reaction that exploded all of the others.

Multiple flashes of blue light ignited the area by each orb exploding, and a wall of smoke now developed between Enso and Izuku.

"Brute Style"

Enso got into a fighting stance and a white aura shined around him as he prepared for something to come.

Sure enough, Izuku came through the smoke in a flash, just above the ground and swinging his leg with green electricity sparking from him.

"Smmaaaash!!"

Enso held both his forearms upward in front of his face, blocking Izuku's kick as it slammed into him.

The white aura didn't shatter. Izuku's leg bounced off and he landed back a foot away in a crouching manner, before immediately rushing forward at his opponent again.

Enso backed up as Izuku unleashed a furry of attacks consisting of punches, palm strikes, and even shoulder blows. He either parried or dodged each fast attack and continued to back up away from Izuku.

"It's like watching a fighting movie!" Mina said with a grin, her fists pumped up.

Ojiro looked surprised. "Wait a minute... Their fighting styles..."

Bakugo's eyes narrowed and he looked a little ticked off.

Izuku swiped his leg against the ground, sweeping it at Enso's feet.

Enso jumped and flipped in the air, sticking his leg out in an attempt to axe kick Izuku on the head.

Seeing this, Izuku swerved to the side and jumped back as Enso's foot connected to the ground, smashing it underneath.

Izuku landed on his feet, staring as Enso got back to his feet and put another fighting stance.

"He's monitoring my attacks and waiting for an opening to strike back. He's... actually being careful."

Izuku couldn't help but smile a little.

"At least that means he's taking me seriously."

Enso raised both of his fists in the air, the aura around his hands vibrating violently.

"Brute Style-Earth Tremor." He said calmly.

He swung his fists to the ground and smashed it underneath him. Many pieces of cement came up and started hurtling towards Izuku dangerously fast.

Izuku dashed forward and actually used the oncoming flying rubble as footing, jumping from piece to piece with green traces of electricity coming behind him.

Enso narrowed his eyes as he saw Izuku coming towards him in a zig-zag pattern.

He crouched in a running position. "Snipe Style-Piercing Shot."

He flared in yellow and blasted directly forward in the air, crashing through many still drifting pieces of rubble easily as he flew right at Izuku.

Flashes of yellow and green collided in the middle of all the flying rubble, creating a powerful impact that created an explosion of force, sending debris flying in all directions. In the middle of where all of this occurred, Izuku and Enso were right there with the green boy's leg having slammed against Enso's oncoming arm.

"What the hell!? I barely even saw any of that!" Kaminari shouted with his hands on his head.

"Midoriya and Enso are nearly at the same speed... Both of their quirks are allowing them to move faster..." Iida analyzed with hand on his chin.

Enso pushed Izuku's leg back, sending the boy a few feet away.

Izuku landed in a crouching position but then blasted forward at Enso as he was just landing too.

Enso didn't hesitate to spin and swiped his leg at the ground upon landing, sending a few small pieces of debris at Izuku as he neared.

Izuku ducked and dodged the rocks that came at him and, seeing this fail, Enso came forward and tried swinging his leg in a high kick towards Izuku's head.

Izuku spun and slightly ducked to avoid Enso's foot as it swung over his head, then swinging his own leg to the ground at an attempt to sweep Enso off his feet.

Enso had already finished his swing with his leg and immediately responded to Izuku's attack by cartwheeling over his student's leg as it swiped along the ground, placing his hands down and moving them up just as the leg swept passed.

The moment Mina saw this, she was shocked.

"Hold up... Ureshi knows how to dance too?!"

"Dance? I'm pretty sure he just avoided a kick." Kirishima said in confusion.

"Did you not see him cartwheel perfectly!?" Mina pointed with her finger.

"Weird, I didn't expect that Midoriya would dance, but even Ureshi?..." Sero added.

Bakugo gritted his teeth. "Those guys..."

Enso and Izuku continuously blocked or shoved aside each other's attacks, trying to actually get a strike on each other while in their speed-enhanced states.

At one point, Enso's yellow colors flared up and his hands tightened into fists.

"Snipe Style- Rapid Fire."

Izuku's eyes widened. "I haven't seen this attack before!!"

Alarms blazed through the boy's head and he went on the defensive, raising his forearms to shield his front as Enso dashed at him with both of his fists.

Everything went by so fast, Enso's chained together several lightning-fast punches on Izuku's arms in an instant. Each strike created a visible impact on Izuku's arms that stung for the boy as he defended these punches.

"Ureshi is bombarding Midoriya!!" Present Mic voiced.

This only went on for about three seconds before Enso performed one final thrust of a punch that sent Izuku's feet dragging against the ground several yards away while leaving skid marks from his shoes.

Izuku came to a stop but was gritting his teeth. His arms were shaking and red with visible steaming emitting from them after taking all of those hits.

"What even was that!? I barely saw anything!" Izuku shook his arms to shake away the stinging in them, glad that he didn't take all those punches directly.

He glanced at Enso and noticed that he was taking deep breaths while his own hands steamed as well.

Enso took one final deep breath before elegantly moving his arms into another fighting stance, forming open palms with his fingers sticking out.

"Brute-Style." His colors changed to white.

"He's getting on the defensive now?" Izuku wondered.

Enso brought his right arm back and clenched his hand into a fist, which suddenly started vibrating as he focused power into it.

"Nope, that's definitely offensive!" Izuku thought with widened eyes.

"Vicious Smite." Enso jumped into the air and above Izuku, who glanced up in shock when he heard him.

"I GOTTA MOVE!!" He dove away as Enso came down with his fist at him.

Another giant explosion of destruction ensued as the punch connected to the ground, sending a mixture of dirt and cement flying upward and creating clouds of dust that obscured a part of the arena.

"Eraserhead, what's with your students always being the ones to start breaking down the arena!?!" Mic shouted angrily.

"Don't ask me." Aizawa said with disinterest.

Izuku stood up on his feet while using his arm to cover his eyes from the clouds of dust.

"Why would Enso suddenly cover the arena like this? He won't be able to see me-?"

Izuku suddenly recalled one particular move that he had heard about from Iida before. And he even remembered asking Enso to use during the cavalry battle.

"He can find out where I am!"

Izuku felt danger coming at him and jumped back as a blue light dashed past him and into more obscuring clouds.

"Blue... That was Enso in his Punk-Style. He's using it to detect where I am! I gotta get away from all this dust!"

Izuku jumped to the side to get away, but the flashing blue light intercepted him and punched him in the face, then disappearing as fast as he came.

"Ugh!" Izuku landed on his back while holding his cheek in pain. He got back up to move again, but the blue light came behind him and kicked his back before disappearing once more.

Izuku landed on his knees and realized, "He's trying to keep me in here!"

He rolled along the ground to avoid the blue light that was Enso as he passed by once more, evading him this time.

"I guess I'll just have to dispel this dust instead!"

Izuku's right arm charged up, "10%-"

He heard a dashed behind him.

"-Detroit Smash!" Izuku swung his arm behind him and that was enough to create winds that blew away the surrounding dust.

In addition, his arm intercepted Enso coming at him, who had to suddenly cross his arms to defend against the punch upon realizing that Izuku knew where he came from.

Izuku's punch sent Enso slightly above the ground, to which the boy flipped himself and landed on his feet in a crouching position.

Enso's blue aura faded away as he stood back straight on his feet. He moved his hands and bent his knees in a defensive stance.

"You've clearly gotten stronger..."

"I know." Izuku responded in all seriousness.

"What an answer..." Enso then remarked.

Izuku chuckled, bending his knees and keeping low to the ground with his hands to his sides.

"Remember what I promised you?"

"You didn't technically promise." Enso responded.

Izuku wasn't amused. "Good, then you do remember."

"...Yes."

Izuku's hands tightened into fists, "I said that I'd win... So I'm going to!!!" He declared.

Enso just narrowed his red eyes.

"Then prove it."

Izuku didn't even hesitate to blast forward, body bright shining in green and red.

"Rapid Fire." Enso sprang forward as well with his fists vibrating yellow.

Both teens collided in a barrage of punches.

Enso rapidly struck at Izuku, and Izuku swiftly struck back. Izuku focused One For All to enhance the speed and power of his own punches, hitting as fast as he could to match, and go beyond, the punches that Enso threw at him.

Their fists collided continuously, both teens trying to outpace the other in their strikes, both trying to overwhelm the other.

Over a hundred punches were thrown in the exchange of these two, but soon Enso managed to punch Izuku's arm upward and aside. He then quickly used this opening to swing his fist right into Izuku's chest, striking him back.

"Ack!" Izuku was sent flying back and bounced off the ground, tumbling along it for a moment before coming to a stop on his stomach.

"Damn it... I slipped up..." Izuku used his arms to push himself up off the ground.

But he didn't even stand up all the way before he heard Enso appear next to him.

His eyes widened and he instinctively backed up as a foot swung right at his face.

The heel of Enso's shoe just grazed Izuku's cheek as he backed up, creating a cut that slightly bled.

Enso didn't stop and continued to spin his body repeatedly, swinging his legs high and at Izuku again and again while the boy tried to back up.

Izuku jumped back as Enso's leg swept at his feet, he used a forearm to take a kick Enso aimed at the side of his chest, and he leaned back to avoid a high kick aimed at his face.

At one point, Izuku tried to swing his right leg at Enso's side, but Enso slightly turned and caught it around arm while softening the impact, holding Izuku's leg between his arm and body.

Enso then used his raised his other arm's elbow and slammed it onto the leg he was holding, making Izuku grit his teeth.

"Nngh!" Izuku felt a momentary pain before Enso used his leg again to suddenly kick Izuku off his feet with enough force to send him spinning slightly up.

But Izuku gritted his teeth and had about enough.

Izuku used the momentum of spinning in the air to suddenly swing his leg back at Enso while still near him.

Enso's eyes had just started to widen before a foot connected to his face, forcing him to stumble back a step. Izuku landed on his back, but he didn't even wait a moment before sticking his legs outward and kicking Enso back.

Izuku then kicked up at the air and that rose him back to his feet, where he then proceeded to continuously use his palms to attack like a kung fu warrior. Thrusting them forward at Enso, knocking his arms away to make an opening of attack, and moving at fast precise strikes as Enso tried to block each one while recovering from the momentary dizziness caused by the kick to his head.

At one point, Enso raised his right arm up and blocked one of Izuku's palm, but his student's other palm managed to get through and slam into his chest somewhat hard and sending him onto the ground.

"Midoriya finally got Ureshi onto the ground!"

Izuku tried to rush Enso while he was open, but his mentor spun his body on the ground with his legs up, spiraling them to perform a Windmill movement that kicked his student's face as he tried to crouch down to grab him.

Izuku let out a grunt of pain and stumbled two steps back, holding his face in the place Enso kicked.

Enso continued to spin along the ground before using his hands to push himself off the ground and land on his feet.

"He danced again!" Mina shouted.

Kendo looked stunned, "Their fighting styles are so similar... It's as if-" Her eyes widened as she realized.

"-they're the same!" Ojiro finished among his own class with an equally shocked expression.

"What is? Kero?" Tsu asked him.

"Their fighting styles are the same!" Ojiro repeated.

"The same fighting style? What does that mean?" Mineta asked.

Bakugo was furious, "He really taught him... That edgelord really taught that nerd..." He gritted between his teeth, still glaring down at the fight.

"Nani? Nani? Ureshi taught Midoriya how to fight?!" Kirishima exclaimed after hearing Bakugo.

Jiro formed a look of realization. "He did teach him how to project his voice... Was that part of his training?" She muttered to herself as she remembered encountering the two at the karaoke bar.

Momo smiled, but kept her eyes on the fight, "Well Izuku, looks like they found out."

"Brute Style." Enso's aura turned white and he kept his arms and fists up as if mimicking a boxer.

"Okay, now he's actually going defensive." Izuku thought.

Enso took a deep breath, "Brute Style-Bulk Up."

The white aura around him looked to be growing denser.

"He's trying to increase his protection!" Ten percent of One For All shined around Izuku as he dashed forward to keep Enso from continuously adding onto his defenses.

"Detroit..."

He swung his fist with intense power around it, aiming for Enso's face.

"Smaaaaaash!"

Enso backed up only enough to make Izuku's fist go at his chest instead, breathing deeply before it came at him.

Izuku's fist connected onto Enso's chest with a mighty slam, creating a small shockwave and causing Enso to flinch from the impact.

"He took the attack!?" Izuku thought.

But there was something noticeable that happened.

Izuku saw ripples emerge from the spot he had punched on Enso's chest. The ripples were on Enso's aura, but they traveled around his body and to met up at one specific location.

Enso's fist.

"Brute... Style..." Enso said with some stress in his voice. His fist started vibrating violently while brightly shining.

"What's this!?!" Izuku tried backing away from Enso, but his mentor grabbed him using his other hand and brought him close.

"Revenge." Enso finished in a cold tone, swinging his fist right into Izuku's stomach in an uppercut.

The impact looked devastating. There was a visible black and red shockwave that emitted from Enso's punch upon connection, showing just how hard he had struck.

A giant blast of air blew behind Izuku, indicating just how much force he took. Enso's fist looked as if it would pierce through Izuku's stomach in any second. Izuku's eyes rolled to the back of his head and he stopped breathing, feeling all the air forcibly knocked out of his lungs.

Enso pushed his fist forward and launched Izuku back, sending him flying with sweat flinging in all directions from the intense force.

Ochako's eyes widened as she saw Izuku fly through the air, making her shoot from her seat in fear.

"Deku!!"

Izuku fell to the ground and clutched his stomach, struggling to breathe and closing his eyes closed in pain. Tears starting to form in the corners of his eyes and the colors of One For All's power faded away from around him.

"It hurts... It hurts..."

He forced himself to turn his head and gazed over at Enso, who was far away from him with his fist steaming again.

"Revenge?... Was that... another move?..."

"Midoriya is down for the count!!!?! What was that devastating punch!?!"

Enso shook his hand, feeling some stinging from it. "You didn't think that you saw all my techniques, did you?" He called over to his student.

Izuku's eyes dilated, "Wh-What?"

"I absorbed the shock from your punch and swung it back to you along with my own striking power." Enso explained when he saw the look of confusion on Izuku's face.

Izuku formed a shocked look of realization, struggling to breathe as he kept his mouth open.

"Then ripples on his aura... That was the shock from my punch traveling into his hand?!"

Enso used a hand to feel his chest, touching the spot that Izuku hit, and flinching upon feeling it.

"Ow..." He then rubbed his hands together. "I prefer not to get hit at all... But I had to absorb that attack to get you down faster."

"That edgelord just keeps pulling techniques out of his ass... How many of them does he have with each of those damn styles of his? Not even I have that many moves. So for him to have so many... He had to have been training with his quirk for a long time." Bakugo thought in almost a confused manner.

Izuku moved up onto his knees, using one hand to clench his stomach in pain while his other hand was helping to push him off the ground. He glared at Enso while breathing hard now to try and regain the air he lost.

Enso then blasted forward at Izuku, fist intending to connect with the boy's head.

Izuku's eyes enlarged and he forced himself back up to his feet despite the pain his stomach felt in doing so. He raised his right arm slightly up to block a punch aimed at his stomach again, but even though he did block it, another punch hit him in the face.

"Ugh!" Izuku backed up, and Enso kept rushing forward. Enso repeatedly punched and kicked Izuku in precise areas, not showing any mercy. Izuku couldn't jump away, he couldn't charge One For All around his body, and he couldn't move fast enough to block all of Enso's attacks.

"He keeps aiming for my stomach first!" Izuku thought as a punch slammed into his cheek, making a drop of blood fly from the corner of his mouth.

Izuku kept his arm around his stomach that was still in pain, knowing that if Enso successfully attacked him there again, then he would just be down for the rest of the fight. Enso knew this and kept mixing up his attacks, keeping a constant threat of hitting Izuku's stomach so that the boy wouldn't remove his hand from there, allowing him to keep striking without worrying about getting struck back.

"I can't defend with one arm! And Enso isn't allowing me to charge up One For All!"

"Midoriya is in a pickle! He can't get Ureshi off of him! They're both heading to the edge of the arena!"

"What?!" Izuku glanced back for a second and realized that indeed he was nearing the edge. But in that one moment, Enso jumped and swung his leg, kicking Izuku's face and sending him falling to the floor.

"This looks bad!" Mina thought, cringing after seeing that kick slam into Izuku's face.

"You can do it... You can do it...You'll think of something." Momo whispered with her eyes glued in Izuku.

Izuku did indeed think of something, but it was something he didn't want to realize.

"I can't beat him like this... Even if I somehow make some space between us, my body has been worn down too much at this point. He's been punching me everywhere and each punch feels like getting hit with a brick. Everything hurts..."

Izuku panted while getting up from the ground, his arms shaking and sweat dripping down his face.

"I won't be able to last longer... I have to be able to end this fast."

"Midoriya is at the edge!? Is this the end for the crowd's favorite?!"

Izuku knew the out of bound was basically right next to him, making him close his eyes and grit his teeth.

"Not yet..."

Enso jumped forward and sent his fist forward with the intent of knocking Izuku out.

The emerald teen's eyes snapped open.

"I'm not done yet!!" Izuku turned his head to Enso and forced his aching right arm to swing at Enso as he got close.

Everything moved slow for a moment, but Enso saw green sparks coming from Izuku's hand, but only from a specific area.

His eyes widened.

"Don't tell me he's going to-!?"

A look of genuine concern formed on his face. Enso crossed his arms while panting his feet to the ground in an attempt to screech to a halt just as Izuku's finger aimed at him.

"I have to defend!" Enso charged the defenses of his white aura as much as he could in that split second.

"SMASH!!"

Izuku maintained his ground and flicked his finger at full force.

The blast of pure power instantly shattering Enso's white aura. Even with his increased defenses, the boy was sent flying back with his arms in aching pain from taking such an attack up close.

"Midoriya sent Ureshi flying with one attack!?!"

Enso bounced off the ground twice before using a hand to push off the ground and flip himself upright, landing in a crouching position and sliding to a stop.

He glanced at his arms and saw them shaking, he looked behind him to see that he was the one near the edge of the arena, and he knew that he cut it close.

"Phew..."

"What happened?!" Hagakure asked.

"He broke his finger!?" Mineta yelled with bulging eyes.

Momo cringed upon seeing Izuku's red and swollen finger.

"H-He did it again." Ochako muttered next to her, looking just as uncomfortable as Momo.

Enso gazed across at Izuku shakingly stood up straight, panting while holding onto his right hand's broken index finger.

"I should've known..." The mentor muttered held onto his own aching arm.

"You shouldn't be surprised at this point." Izuku joked despite his stinging finger.

"You're going too far."

"You think I don't know?" Izuku responded, going back to a serious voice.

Enso could only stare at him in bewilderment. "Why... Why go so far for a festival battle? I understand what you were doing for Todoroki, but right now, you're not saving anyone. So why break your finger? Why even think about hurting yourself so much?"

Izuku just chuckled, raising his fist up and clenching it tightly despite the broken finger.

"Because I promised..."

Enso stood still.

"I promised that I'd beat you!" Izuku shouted with his eyes closed.

Enso swore that the boy's shout shook the arena for a moment, as you could feel that much powering determination from him.

Enso tightly held his hands into fists.

"This is foolish... I hate it... He's willing to destroy his entire body to win a festival battle? No one is even in trouble, yet he's choosing to do so much to himself to try and get through me... He's shown that he's willing to do so much, willing to do much worse to win this battle... He shouldn't go through such unnecessary pain."

Enso looked back at the white line behind him.

"If I were to just step out of bounds here, then Izuku would have no reason to hurt himself, he could just move on..."

Enso glanced back at Izuku's determined expression, staring at the face of a boy who was giving it his all, and who was expecting it back.

"..."

Enso looked down as he thought about it.

"No... If I stepped out now... Then he wouldn't forgive me."

He remembered how much training Izuku went through and remembered the exact words of the promise his student made.

"I'm going to find a way to beat you. I'm gonna fight through you and whatever style you throw at me! I'm going to win the festival, I'm going to make sure no one forgets me! I'm... I'm going to show the world that... 'I Am Here!'"

Knowing what he had to do, Enso sighed.

"I'm going to be an idiot to go along with this... But he deserves a fight till the end. If he's going to be hurting himself, then I have to stop him the right way."

He raised his head, his eyes flaring red.

"I have to finish this. Not for me, but for Izuku."

He slowly moved his arms and slid his feet into a fighting position, taking a deep breath.

"Legendary Style-Reaper of Worlds."

His eyes gleamed red and a black aura suddenly erupted around him with enough force to violently crack parts of the ground.

Izuku's eyes stared in awe as he saw Enso's demonstration of power explode around him, the aura giving him and the audience chills.

Iida felt his skin crawl. "This is the same demeanor he showed on the day the media got in!"

"Isn't this what he used to kill the monster at USJ?" Kirishima thought in worry.

"I-Is it just me, or does Ureshi look really scary right now?" Kaminari shook in his chair.

"When doesn't he look scary!?" Mineta shouted.

"Enso-chan's going all out?..." Tsu thought with a worried look and her fingers entwined.

"He knows Midoriya may keep breaking his body to unleash attacks like before..." Todoroki figured out.

Nezu chuckled and sipped his tea menacingly, "Giving the boy what he wants, good on you Enso."

The crowd began to whisper to one another in wonder at Enso's new demonstration of intimidating power.

"I haven't seen this yet!" One shouted.

"Did Midoirya push him to use his full force again like he did with Todoroki?" Another asked.

"He looks kinda scary." A third cried.

Sweat dripped off of Izuku's face as he stared at Enso's power, trying not to let this aura of intimidation fade him by keeping a grin.

"S-So I made you use it, huh?"

"If I don't use it, then I'll either get blasted away or you'll break every single bone in your body." Enso responded with his focus on Izuku.

"Heh, maybe both." Izuku answered confidentially.

"Young Midoriya... Young Enso..." Toshinori thought from the crowd, looking concerned like many of Izuku's classmates.

"Go, Enso-kun!" Lunch Rush cheered with a large flag of Enso's face that he somehow had.

Enso's eyes flashed red and he vanished from his spot, leaving an afterimage that showed just how fast he moved.

Izuku's reactions kicked in, he managed to make out Enso coming from his right and turned in that direction quickly.

His right hand's middle finger brightly sparked as he pointed it in the direction Enso was coming from.

"SMASH!!"

He flicked his finger at full force, bursting out a shockwave that sent rubble flying and sent Enso's feet dragging back against the ground several yards away. Upon skidding to a stop, Enso stuck both of his arms out and started spiraling in place, moving so fast that he formed a tall tornado that he disappeared within.

The flying rubble suddenly looked to have stopped midair before getting pulled into the tornado Enso made, spiraling around it quickly.

"Nani!? Ureshi just twirled like a ballerina into a tornado!! Hold on to your seat folks! And your hats! Hold on to everything!" Present Mic shouted, face pressed up against the screen.

Enso then stopped spinning, but with one last turn, he punched forward where he knew Izuku was.

His punch pierced through his own tornado, but all the rubble that had been collected within it was flung in a barrage at Izuku.

Izuku grit his teeth and aimed his ring finger this time, flicking it full force right at the torrent of concrete and stone.

"Nngh!" He felt the pain from his own atttack but managed to unleash a blast of air.

The pure force of Izuku's attack easily shattered right through the flying debris, then continuing to travel right at Enso.

Enso saw the powerful winds coming right at him. He formed his dagger in his right arm before crouching down and piercing the ground with it to keep himself in place.

The shockwave blazed passed through Enso. His long hair flowed behind him from the winds but he managed to keep himself in place with a tight grip on his dagger.

Izuku panted and looked down at his right hand, three fingers used so far.

Enso got back up and pulled his dagger from the ground. It disintegrated in his hand before he then putting on another fighting stance.

"He's not using his dagger against me. I guess that makes sense because he isn't intending on killing me, but isn't that style of his weaker without it? Aren't his attacks centered around his dagger?"

He then remembered Enso's words when he had countered his punch earlier.

"You didn't think that you saw all my techniques, did you?"

Izuku knew he had to be careful.

"There must be more to his Reaper Style, not just around his dagger... I have to look out for other moves by him. If I get hit by one while his body is still enhanced, then it may be over. But at the same time, if Enso gets hit by one of my attacks at 100%, then it may be over for him."

Enso opened his palms and started blasting multiple black energy orbs at Izuku.

"They're faster than before!" Izuku moved his head to the side and narrowly avoided one an orb. He dodged and rolled along the ground to avoid getting hit by any more of these spheres coming at him.

Enso then clapped both of his hands together, slowly pulled them apart where he formed a more massive black ball of energy than any of the others before. He raised it over his head before then firing it at Izuku with a shockwave created by his throw.

The energy sphere rolled along the ground and left a trail of destruction in the ground as it rampaged towards Izuku.

Izuku grit his teeth and stuck out his hand at the oncoming attack.

He charged power around his pinky and let loose.

"Smaaaaaash!"

A blast of air collided with the ball of energy, causing a massive explosion that expanded in all directions. Enso and Izuku both had to crouch low in hopes that they wouldn't be blown away from the force while their hair violently blew back.

Class 1-A covered their eyes from the intense winds.

"Man, what the hell?!" Sero remarked.

"So much raw power..." Tokoyami said in awe.

Clouds of dust were kicked up from the explosion, but Enso didn't hesitate to run inside in Izuku's direction. He kept running with his senses at full force, detecting exactly where Izuku was.

But he heard the sounds of something charging up.

Enso felt his state of danger go up and jumped upward as soon as he could.

"SHMPHAASH!" Izuku's mumbled voice tried to shout, yet you could tell that something was in his mouth.

An explosion of force dispersed all the clouds of dust in an instant.

But Izuku hadn't sent that attack along the ground, he had sent it upward.

Enso's eyes widened when the dust dispersed, revealing Izuku with his thumb broken and his mouth partially opened as the shockwave of his attack hurtled at his mentor in the air.

"He predicted I would jump up and used his thumb!?" Enso pointed his palm diagonally up to the right, firing a sudden blast of energy that propelled him down to the left.

"He must've used his mouth to keep his thumb in place before flicking it, but now he's used all the fingers in his right hand!" Enso thought as he flew in the air.

He then sent another blast of energy behind him to drive himself down at Izuku.

Izuku was still recovering from his own attack as Enso came down at him, his eyes widened and he only had a moment to react.

"I can't move out of the way!" Izuku raised his left arm as Enso started spinning rapidly in the air, before then performing a large swing with his leg aimed at Izuku's head.

A rather loud sound of Enso's leg slamming into Izuku's arm echoed in the arena, but along with that, there was also the sound of the ground cracking underneath Izuku.

"Nngh!" Izuku felt his legs being pushed down, forcing him to one knee. "He didn't break my arm, but it sure feels like it!"

Izuku pushed Enso off of him, sending him only a few feet away. Enso landed on his feet and dashed forward at Izuku before he points more fingers at him.

"He's trying not to give me a chance!"

Rather than back up, Izuku dashed forward and tried to swing his left arm forward.

"Go on the offensive when he least expects it!"

He swung his arm at Enso, but the mentor grabbed the arm Izuku swung and actually used it to flip himself over the boy in an act of athletic mobility.

"He used my punch to dodge!?" Izuku was barely able to turn his head before seeing Enso swing his leg while still in the air, his foot colliding on the side of his head.

"NNGHH!!" The kick was strong enough to launch Izuku off his feet and to the side, his head hurting and vision blurring.

Enso landed on the ground and didn't even wait for a second to blast forward in a streak of black, intending on catching up to Izuku to yank him from the air.

Izuku opened his eyes while flying to see the burst of black that was Enso nearing him already.

"I need to get him away!" Izuku managed to aim his left hand's fingers this time while flying. "Delaware-!"

*Crack!!*

Izuku blink, his mind processing what had just happened.

One moment, Enso looked to have been several yards away from him, but right before he had flicked his finger, his mentor had suddenly appeared right next to him.

Not only that, but he was holding onto his hand, a now disfigured hand.

"He-! H-He-!?" Izuku was shocked.

"He broke his hand!" Kendo said as she put her hands to her mouth with a look of horror.

Enso suddenly gripped tightly to Izuku's left broken hand.

"NNGH!!" Izuku felt the pain of his broken bones.

Enso then pulled him from the air and brought him close with an arm wrapped around his back, whispering into his ear.

"I'm sorry... But this has to stop."

Izuku then felt Enso start pushing him towards the edge of the arena.

"No! NO!" Izuku planted his feet to the ground and tried to push back, but Enso's aura flared up and gave him more power to push him.

"His fingers and his other hand are broken!" Jiro couldn't bear to think of how painful that must be, but she was more concerned with Izuku getting pushed out. "What can he do?!"

As if responding, Izuku brought his head back, an orange hue forming with green electricity.

"Get-!!" He swung his head forward and slammed into Enso's forehead, "-OFF!!!"

Enso actually grit his teeth and let go of Izuku, retreating back while his head was dizzy from the impact. He jumped several yards away, using his right hand to feel upon his red forehead's stinging.

Izuku skid to a stop before his feet could go across the white line, panting heavily and holding onto his broken left hand.

Enso looked visibly annoyed as he moved his hand off his aching head, "Tsk..."

Izuku glanced down at his current state. All the fingers of his right hand were broken and his left hand along with his fingers had been crushed all at once by Enso's brute force He tried bending his fingers, but a sharp pain spiked.

"Ngh! Damn!" He flinched from the pain holding his fingers with his also hurting right hand. "He was able to break my fingers all at once!?!"

Enso stood up straight and his black aura faded away, examining his opponent's current state.

"It's over, Izuku..."

Izuku focused his attention on Enso again, "I'm... I'm still in the arena..."

Enso narrowed his eyes, "Look at yourself. Look at the state your body is in, you're in no condition to continue."

Izuku had his head down, shadows over his eyes. "I'm... not done..."

Enso sighed, "No surrender in the end... It makes sense from you. But I've given you the battle you wanted, so now you can go down honorably."

He stuck his palms up and bright blue colors formed. He charged up power in them before then releasing over a dozen energy balls into the air.

At the same time, he used his telekinesis to circle the orbs of energy all around him, ready to be sent forward at any moment.

"There's no way Midoriya could avoid all that!" Kirishima shouted.

"Poor Midori... He really did his best..." Hagakure thought depressingly.

"This looks to be the final stretch, folks!"

Izuku's arms were still shaking, two single tears came from the shadows of his eyes while he gritted his teeth.

Enso took one last look at his student, closing his eyes.

"You really are an amazing idiot..."

He swiped his hands down, sending his arsenal of spheres forward and honing directly at Izuku.

Izuku didn't know what to do.

"Even though I tried so hard... It wasn't enough... I even went 100%, but Enso just kept holding on..."

Izuku heard the cries of the audience suddenly drown out from his ears while he kept going through his thoughts.

"I want to win... I want to prove to everyone that I could be the best hero ever... I want them to know that I can win any battle, that I could save anyone from any situation!"

The sunlight of the world around him suddenly started to dim down.

"I promised... I promised Enso I would win... I wanted to show him that I'm strong enough to beat him, that I'm strong enough to save him and anyone else!"

Izuku closed his eyes with a tear dripping down his nose, but he didn't even notice the ground turn completely back around him.

"Damn it..."

Suddenly a voice shouted.

"You thought you could be a hero!?"

Izuku's eyes snapped open.

"What...?"

He rose his head up, discovering that he was standing in an abyss of pure black.

But in front of him, there was a rectangular panel that contained a familiar blonde teen grinning evilly.

"Ka...chan?" Izuku thought in confusion.

The panel with Bakugo in it grinned in his junior high uniform, "What the hell can you do?! You're quirkless!!"

Izuku's eyes dilated and he felt his heart ache from those words.

He then heard laughing and more panels formed around him. He saw all of his previous middle school classmates, all of them laughing at him while showing off their quirks.

"You can't do anything!"

"You can't save anyone!"

Izuku started shaking, he felt his traumas building back up again.

"No..."

"You'll just get in the heroes' way!"

"You'll just get yourself, and everyone killed!!"

"S-Stop it!" Izuku grabbed his own head with his hands and looked down at the ground with something building up, not even noticing that he somehow didn't have any injuries on him.

He heard Bakugo's chilling voice.

"If you wanna be a hero that badly, there's a quick way to do it."

Izuku could practically see the grin his tormentor had.

"Believe that you'll be born with a quirk in your next life and take a last chance dive off the roof!!"

"ENOUGH!" Izuku shouted, causing all the panels around him to shatter in an instant.

"Why now?! Wh-Why am I remembering!?"

He felt a sweep of emotions come to him of exactly what he had felt during those moments. Pain, sadness...

Anger.

"What's going on!?"

"Even so, I still love you, my pathetic little brother..."

Izuku heard this unfamiliar, but powerful sounding voice and looked up to see two blurry silhouettes in front of each other. One was of a man in what appeared to be a suit of looking down at another man who looked rather frail, but angry.

The man staring down at the other grinned evilly, and Izuku felt a chill.

"You're my only family, after all."

Izuku felt his blood boiling.

"What!? What is all of this!?! Why do I feel... so angry!?! Why!?!"

He felt his body burning up, he felt his head was hurting, and he felt his body shaking. Izuku saw so many other panels form around him, each one containing the same tall man wearing a suit, the man grinned menacingly in each panel, but there some horrendous sights around him. There were people on the floor, people running away, people crying, and people facing the man with their hands balled into fists and with looks of rage.

"Who is that man!?"

With each of these visions emerging, Izuku felt his blood turning to flames. His heartbeat was so fast that he could swear it might burst out at any moment.

Then all of a sudden, he saw a black aura form around him. First, it was around his feet, then it went up to his legs, bringing an even more intense pain building up around those body parts.

"NNGH!" Izuku fell to his knees from the sheer pain he was going through, looking down at the lower half of his body that was surrounded in a black aura.

"Th-This black aura!? No way, i-it can't be!?"

Izuku heard the sound of something forming ahead of him. He turned his head saw something else that was different from everything else going on.

Seven black silhouettes of different people stood in front of him. Each one of their eyes completely filled in with a blood-red color, and they were all staring at Izuku on the ground.

"Seven people? Eight, including me?"

Izuku could feel the aura around him going up to his torso now, bringing a burning pain as it did so. The sclera's of his eyes were turning black and his irises red, but despite this, his gaze seemed forced to remain on the seven people standing.

"What's happening to me?..." Izuku thought with a whimper.

He then saw all seven of the standing figures close their eyes, hiding their red color while a denser black aura started to form around them.

They suddenly faded away, forming into some sort of smoke-like aura that combined together and moved right in front of Izuku.

The contents then formed into one person, one that Izuku was the most shocked about.

Himself.

It was a clear silhouette oh himself, as you could immediately tell by just the hair and shape. But it had formed the same purely filled red eyes as the other seven people that had just been standing ahead a moment ago.

Izuku was still on the ground in pain, struggling to keep his arms up as the black aura now went all the way up to his forearms and neck. He didn't know what to do, he didn't know what he could do. He couldn't explain anything happening, he could only watch in pain as the black silhouette of himself reach a hand down to him, as if offering it to him.

Izuku found himself reaching his own hand up to his silhouette, whether he was conscious of it or just desperate for help.

The moment he took its hand, he felt his heart stop.

Izuku's eyes dilated as the black aura went around his head and nearly enveloped his face.

And the black silhouette of himself formed a jagged, red smile, giving off a breathing sound.

"Let's win."

The aura then completely enveloped Izuku.

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Enso watched as his large number of spheres of energy neared Izuku, ready to overwhelm the boy and finally send him out of the arena.

But that didn't happen.

"SMAAAAASH!!!" A demonic voice echoed.

Enso's eyes widened as an explosion of force came from Izuku, a force that blasted every single ball of energy from the air with bright bursts of white.

"What the-!?" Bakugo's eyes grew open in shock.

Everyone was stunned, they all had no idea what happened.

The powerful shockwave kept rampaging at Enso, the boy caught so off guard that he barely had enough time to react.

He crossed his arms, "Brute Style!"

A white aura emerged around him just in time. He took the powerful force head-on, feeling it slam right into him and forcefully dragging his feet back against the ground.

He kept sliding until the winds died down, breathing heavier than before and moving his arms out of the way with a new surprising look.

"What just happened!?" Someone in the crowd shouted.

"Did Midoriya do that!?" another yelled.

"Look down there!"

Everyone had their eyes upon Izuku.

The boy was standing in place with his body slightly hunched over. His entire body was surrounded by a familiar black aura and he was hanging his head down.

Momo's eyes grew in fear, "Th-That's-?"

"H-He used that power again? Right now?" Ochako muttered in a similar concern.

Izuku raised his right hand in front of him, revealing to everyone what he did.

His fingers were red and swollen, or at least, that's how they were all supposed to be. But one of them, his index finger, had turned purple with some blood on it.

"He... He used his already broken finger?!" Todoroki muttered.

Hearing that, Izuku's whole class felt a sense of uneasy feelings.

"You can't be serious..." Tsu said with an open mouth expression.

Izuku took a deep breath in, then breathing out a visible black breath that faded into the air. He then balled his left hand's fingers into a fist, cracks of his broken fingers echoing and making many people wince at the sound, yet the boy looked unfazed by his own actions.

Enso could feel a new aura of intimidation. He kept his own white aura up and maintained a defensive position just in case he was attacked.

"You can't be serious... Now Izuku? Of all the times you could bring it out, you somehow do that now?..."

Izuku raised his head up, and sure enough, his eye colors had once again changed into a blood-red, along with his scleras turning black like Mina's, but with red veins bolding out within them. He looked furious, showing his teeth pressed together with a menacing glare directed at Enso.

"You're using Ikari again..." Enso said. "Did you really get so angry from thinking you were going to lose that it activated in response?"

Izuku didn't say anything back, he simply kept glaring at Enso, breathing heavily with a black breathe coming out with each release of air.

Enso knew that something else was wrong.

"Izuku? Are you alright? Are you able to use-?"

"NNGAAAAAAAHH!!!" Izuku raised his hands onto his head, and his right eye suddenly blinked back into emerald green.

Enso was shocked to see the two different colors of Izuku's eyes, this wasn't anything like the other times he had used Ikari before.

"Izuku!" Enso took a step forward, a serious look on his face. "What's wrong?!"

"I-It... hurts..." Was all Izuku was able to faintly say, tears going down his eyes.

Nezu wasn't smiling now, he stared at the event unfolding down in the arena.

Toshinori was standing up in his seat with his eyes completely open.

"Young Midoriya! I hope you can control it! Don't let your power get to you!"

Enso turned off his aura and started running towards the boy in pain. "Is Ikari making him lose control again?"

Izuku lowered his head and took a step back, grinding his teeth together.

"Win..." Izuku's hands cracked as he moved them off his head and he flared up in black.

Enso was nearing Izuku when he noticed this, stopping at the menacing voice and actually recognizing it.

"This is the same voice I heard in Izuku's consciousness when I looked into his memories!"

"Fight..." Izuku looked up and black erupted from his back, shaking the ground as his momentary green eye disappeared into an intense red color that glared over at Enso.

Now, this was where Enso saw a particular shape emerged from behind Izuku.

It was a silhouette of some sort. But in it...

"Red eyes!" Todoroki was shocked to see the red eyes that he remembered seeing during the cavalry battle.

Enso stared at the red eyes behind Izuku and narrowed his own eyes at it.

"I see..."

He got into a fighting stance.

"You're not Izuku."

The silhouette's red eyes narrowed at Enso.

"I don't know who, or what you are, but..."

Enso's suddenly erupted in black, his eyes blazing red as his dagger formed into his hand.

He tightly gripped onto it.

"Give. Him. Back."

The figure just stared at Enso for a few more seconds before retracting back into Izuku, making him rise up to his feet with a threatening stare.

Enso tightened his fist and grip around his dagger.

"So be it. Izuku, I'm sorry. But if you're in there..."

He flipped his dagger in his hand.

"I hope you don't feel any of this."