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Everyone froze the moment they heard the loud crack, staring with looks of horror as they thought that the worst had happened to Izuku's head.

But what they didn't expect to see, was the Nomu's fist stopped by some sort of black, aura-like barrier in front of the boy's head.

It turns out that the cracking they heard was actually the barrier that had suddenly manifested in front of Izuku, as it was now visually cracked.

Izuku's eyes were red and he panted with a look of anger, staring directly at the fist over him. He had a small, black aura around his head that had solidified to block the fist, saving him moments from death.

"What the hell? Why are you still alive?" Shigaraki asked, tilting his head and getting slightly irritated.

Everyone so saw the event was shocked that Izuku had somehow managed to block the attack with... with whatever it was he used.

Tsu reeled back her tongue in the moment of confusion she felt.

Izuku was sweating hard, his vision was getting blurry, and he could feel tired just by having used that power for a moment.

He turned his head to the side and passed out from the pain and exhaustion, the aura fading away as well as the barrier.

"Hm? Did he burn himself out of something? Oh well, Nomu, continue." Shigaraki coldly stated.

The Nomu raised it's fist once again, letting out another cry of attack.

But then Shigaraki heard the sound of something whistling through the air.

He turned to see a rocket coming right at him, making his eyes widen. Luckily, the Nomu worked on instinct to protect it's master and stopped what it was doing, immediately appearing in front of Shigaraki and taking the rocket explosion.

In the confusion and smoke, a sudden tongue shot out to Izuku and wrapped around the boy, then reeling him back.

Shigaraki turned around and his eyes widened when he saw Izuku gone, "How in the world-?!"

He didn't get to finish the thought as two more rockets came at him.

"Enough of this!" Kurogiri appeared in front of them in an annoyed tone and used his quirk to open two portals that teleported the rockets in separate directions, both exploding in the distance.

When the smoke cleared, the villains saw where the rockets came from.

Momo, Jiro, and Kaminari each held a rocket launcher in their arms, with Momo breathing heavily after using too much of her lipids to create them.

Kaminari looked rather scared now, "No way! They stopped all three shots!?"

"Annoying..." Shigaraki turned his head and saw Tsu in the distance holding onto Izuku, gently resting him down with a look of worry and guilt on her face, Mineta was still unconscious next to them giving no real way for the girl to escape with the two easily.

Shigaraki's hands tightly gripped into fists and his eyes dilated in anger, "Kurogiri, you take care of those three brats over there, Nomu and I have unfinished business with these other ones."

"As you wish." Kurogiri nodded, immediately teleporting over to Momo and the other two.

Momo, Kaminari, and Jiro were all shocked to suddenly see purple suddenly emerge in front of them, covering any sight ahead.

"You're being a thorn to Shigaraki's side! The punishment for that is death!" Kurogiri shouted as he attempted to open portals underneath the students.

"Don't let him catch you!" Momo warned them, jumping back and away from a portal.

Shigaraki then focused back to the other group.

"Now then, Nomu, for the love of god-" He raised his hands up and shouted, "-just kill them this time!!"

Nomu didn't hesitate and blasted forward, leaving behind a crater from its speed and reaching out to Tsu's head with a muscular hand.

Tsu barely had time to react as the Nomu's shadow overwhelmed her, her eyes widened as the Nomu's hand neared her.

She was honestly scared, there was no way she would be able to avoid him and protect Izuku or Mineta at the same time. It was impossible, so she did the only thing she thought she could do.

She hugged Izuku's body, putting her own above his, hoping to protect the unconscious boy somehow.

"Someone, save us!" Tsu cried out in her mind.

All of a sudden, her prayers were answered.

"Snipe Style- Piercing Shot."

A yellow blur passed by Tsu and rammed right into the stomach of the Nomu, the attack was so strong and fast that you swear that you could see the Nomu's stomach nearly get penetrated by the precise blow, before it was suddenly sent backward.

However, the Nomu didn't get sent flying, it's feet just dragged against the ground as he was forced back a few yards away, still standing tall.

Tsu blinked as she tried to process what happened, tilting her head up to look at who rescued her.

"Ureshi?" She weakly called out.

Enso stood with one leg forward and the other one back, with a fist forward and steaming from just punching the Nomu with a powerful blow. His eyes and aura were yellow for another moment before it faded away. He took a deep breath and stood up straight, then adjusting his tie as he kept his eyes on the Nomu.

Near the entrance, the students that weren't teleported felt the force of the attack all the way from up the stairs, the wind even blowing on their faces rather strong.

"No way, he actually managed to send the thing back!?" Sero exclaimed.

"Sugoi." Ochako muttered.

Enso just narrowed his eyes when he saw the Nomu still standing.

"That attack was designed to put him out of commission by the force, but it hardly even reacted to it."

The Nomu's head just grotesquely looked up ahead at Enso.

"This one is clearly a different threat than any of these other villains."

Shigaraki was actually surprised to see Nomu get sent back, rather than absorb the attack completely. His focused changed to Enso with a glare.

"Who the hell is this damn kid?"

Ojiro arrived from the fire zone and stopped next to Tsu, completely out of breath from running. "Man, *huff* you're so fast..." he panted.

Enso crouched down and took a look at Izuku's unconscious body, examining his arms and breathing.

"He'll live..."

Ojiro looked down and slightly recoiled in shock, "Midoriya!? What happened to him?!"

Tsu turned her head to the Nomu in the distance as she stood up, "That happened..."

"No way, he really tried to fight that thing?" Ojiro uttered in disbelief.

Tsu looked down in guilt, "No, he... he got hurt protecting me..."

Enso sighed, "Of course he did, this idiot always just has to jump in and help someone, doesn't he? For now, you two-"

Before Enso could finish, the Nomu suddenly appeared behind him, swinging his arm downward to slam it upon the boy.

"Look out!" Ojiro warned him.

Enso turned around just in time to see the monster attacking, his eyes dilating in shock from the sudden appearance.

"It's fast! I looked away for one second and it's already here!"

Enso jumped back just and narrowly avoided the Nomu slamming its fist right into the ground, but the force of the punch caused a rather powerful shockwave that sent the others flying.

"Ah!" Ojiro covered his eyes from the winds and he flew in the air, then landing in a pile of bushes away.

Tsu held Mineta in her arms and stuck her tongue out to wrap around Izuku's waist in the air, safely landing away from the fire area building.

Enso flipped in the air and landed in a crouching position, keeping his gaze completely focused on the monster that just created a rather large crater in the ground.

"I didn't sense it coming at me?"

He didn't look away as he spoke, "Asui, Ojiro, try to wake up Mineta to help take Aizawa and Izuku to safety! I'll handle this!" he called to them.

Ojiro got up from the bushes and looked unsure, "You're gonna fight that... 'thing'!? Do you really think you can beat it?!"

"I can distract it at least." Enso responded confidentially.

Ojiro gulped nervously, "Then... Then we'll leave it to you." He rushed over to Tsu a few feet away from him and helped carry Izuku.

"Now... Let's see what kind of abomination you are." Enso remarked, getting into a fighting stance with the Nomu staring him down.

However, Enso heard a whoosh next to him,

"Aren't you forgetting about someone?" A blood-chilling voice told him.

Enso could feel his life in danger and split his legs onto the ground, ducking as a hand swung right over his head, narrowly avoiding getting his whole head disintegrated and letting Shigaraki pass him.

But the Nomu came in for another attempt to get him immediately after, his hand aiming to crush his head.

Enso used his hands on the ground to spin his body on the ground to avoid the Nomu grasping his head, he was then completely upside down as he used his hands to push himself off the ground, spinning in the air before slamming his leg right on the side of the Nomu's head.

But it didn't even budge.

"What is this thing made of?" Enso kicked himself off of the Nomu and landed a few yards away from him, now on the defensive.

"Having trouble there?" Shigaraki taunted from behind the Nomu.

Enso didn't even get to answer before the Nomu rushed towards him with its arms open and outward, attempting to hug the boy and crush him.

Seeing that if he jumped to the side or back he would get caught, Enso went up, leaping high in the air to put distance between himself and the Nomu.

The Nomu actually tried to chase after him, suddenly blasting upward with a cry and arms still open.

"This thing is aggressive!"

Enso's pointed both of his palms downward and formed a large white energy ball using, both of them blasting it downward.

The Nomu rammed right into the energy ball, causing it to explode on contact with a big cloud of smoke forming in the air.

Enso was forcefully launched back in the air from the explosion, but he did multiple flips before landing gracefully on his feet.

He saw that the Nomu hardly moved in the air despite taking the explosion, simply falling straight down to the ground and landing on his feet with a large crash.

The Nomu didn't give Enso a break as it vanished from sight and appeared in front of the boy, already swinging another arm.

"Relentless!"

"Brute Style!" Enso raised his arms up and his body glowed white right before the Nomu's fist collided, suddenly bouncing off the barrier-like aura.

The Nomu wasn't even fazed by the aura and just continued to throw punches at it with his fists, the force of which continuously dug Enso into the ground inch by inch, even constantly making large gusts of wind with each punch.

Enso felt to one knee at a point as the Nomu just bashed at him, small cracks were starting to form in the barrier.

"If this goes on he'll crush me! I need an opening!"

As if on cue, the monster raised both of its fists up with a loud cry, ready to finally shatter the barrier with one more attack.

Enso narrowed his eyes, "Now!"

He jumped over the Nomu right before it slammed it's arms down, landing behind him as the ground shook.

He spun and charged more power into his right fist, making it glow white rather intensely.

"Brute Style-!" He thrust his fist forward in one straight punch, "-Vicious Smite!"

The moment Enso's punch connected to the Nomu's back, a giant explosion of white occurred.

It seemed to blink everyone for a moment, but when the light faded the Nomu was now in the middle of the fountain, water sprawling around.

Enso pulled his fist back, now steaming a bit after that punch.

Shigaraki's eyes dilated as he realized what had happened, "He managed to send Nomu flying with a punch?!"

Ojiro, Tsu, and the now awake Mineta had carefully sneaked off while carrying Izuku and Aizawa, forming looks of disbelief to Enso fighting the Nomu.

"No way, that thing hasn't even gotten a hit on Ureshi yet." Ojiro said.

"But... Ureshi looks like he's having trouble fighting that monster, it barely even flinches from his attacks." Tsu pointed out.

"But he just sent it flying away!" Mineta declared.

"I wonder how much power he had to focus to actually do that though..." Tsu muttered.

"Just hope he could last until the pros come." Ojiro said, looking back at Enso standing still in a fighting stance. "To think that he's this strong, he seems so... experienced."

Now seeing that he finally had a moment to speak, Enso turned towards Shigaraki. "Shock absorbance... correct?"

"Huh?"

"That 'thing' has shock absorbance, doesn't it?"

Shigaraki clenched his hands into fists.

Enso confirmed it based on that action.

"I see... You think I wouldn't notice when so many of my attacks barely moved him, if at all?"

"I didn't expect you to live long enough to even notice!" Shigaraki chuckled at him.

"Fair enough, but that shock absorbance of his has a limit, doesn't it? I focused more than twice as much power and struck into one specific area of it to send it backward after all. Your Nomu didn't seem to be able to take all that shock at once in one area."

Shigaraki was completely silent, staring at Enso from a distance. His fingers twitched and his red eyes seemed to intensify into a more menacing glare than before, as if he would lash out at any moment.

But then he chuckled again.

The chuckle turned into a laugh.

And the laugh proceeded to get louder, lasting for a few seconds.

Enso narrowed his eyes at him.

Shigaraki managed to calm down and formed a toothy grin behind his hand mask.

"Yeah, you're right, but-"

Enso felt a presence behind him.

"-so what?" Shigaraki spoke in a chilling manner.

Enso saw his own death flash in his eyes and immediately turned around with only enough time to raise his left hand and charge whatever shielding barrier could muster around it in such a time frame.

Just as the Nomu's fist connected to it.

The white aura around his fist was instantly shattered. There was a mixture of cracking and shattering sounds simultaneously, the students watching the battle from the top of the stairs gasp as they saw Enso get sent flying backward into the air.

The white pieces of the small barrier were even sent flying like him, disintegrating in the air.

Tsu, Ojiro, and Mineta stopped with looks of fear.

"No way! Did he just get-!?"

Before their thoughts could get worse, Enso spun and landed on his feet, although nearly missing the landing.

He stood up and everyone got a clear view of his left hand.

Completely broken, swollen, and with mixtures of red and purple colors. The red color of blood was along his hand, actually cut from his own shattered pieces of the barrier his aura made when the Nomu punched through it on his hand.

Enso didn't seem too fazed by his hand, he was more shocked by something else about the Nomu, a certain realization he made about it.

"I didn't sense any murderous intent when it neared me again, despite clearly aiming to kill me. There could only be one explanation for that..."

He watched the Nomu stand up straight and let out an inhuman growl.

"This thing isn't alive. Not in the normal sense that is."

Shigaraki walked next to the Nomu and laughed, putting his own hands out. "What's wrong?! Weren't you just confident a moment ago for figuring out Nomu's quirk?! Weren't you gonna find a way to beat him by knowing that!"

Enso narrowed his eyes, " There's no way I could beat that thing with brute force. The most effective way I could beat it may be by using-"

Flashes of blood went through his mind,

"-'that' style."

Enso formed his dagger in his unbroken right hand and tightly held on to it, taking a step forward.

"Legendary Style- Reaper Of Worlds."

His aura suddenly flared up into a fiery black, his red eyes flashed and the ground started to violently shake as Enso stared menacingly at the Nomu.

The whole area around the students seemed to turn in a dim red, some strong winds circled around Enso and the students couldn't help but shiver at this.

Ochako could feel herself shaking, "Scary! It's the same thing he did at lunch yesterday!"

Of course, being a mindless monster, the Nomu wasn't fazed at all and just started to walk towards Enso, getting faster with each step.

Enso leaned forward and got to one knee, keeping his head down and putting his dagger to the side of his waist. He closed his eyes and he took a deep breath.

"Reaper Of Worlds Style-"

The Nomu let out a cry as he leaped forward at him.

Enso's eyes snapped open with a flash of red as the Nomu drew near, he blasted forward and passed by the Nomu at faster speeds than before.

A single slice rang through the air.

The next thing everyone knew, Enso was behind the Nomu with his head still down, while the Nomu didn't even seem to notice that Enso was behind him, freezing in place for a moment.

Enso then breathed out, finishing his move. "-Utter End."

The instant he finished saying that, the Nomu suddenly split, blood splattering as half of its body, starting from his torso, went flying up in the air.

Everyone's eyes formed looks ranging from shock or fear to see half the Nomu's body spin in the air, before finally slamming into the ground.

The Nomu's legs simply fell to their knees and then to the ground, remaining motionless.

Enso stood up and the dagger, as well as the black colors around him, disappeared as he turned back to the Nomu's two pieces on the ground.

"I wasn't careful while doing that, then I might've broken my arm this time..."

Mineta's eyes widened with happy tears, "He did it!!!"

Kurogiri teleported out of the way of a sound wave from Jiro when he felt something was off, turning for a moment and shocked to see the Nomu split in half.

"That boy managed to slice through it!?"

Momo looked and her eyes widened as well, "He, he did it."

Enso turned to Shigaraki, who surprisingly didn't seem fazed by the Nomu falling.

"You should leave while you have the chance."

Shigaraki just chuckled, "Now, you don't think that's it, do you?"

Enso then heard the Nomu starting to make noises, making him turn and form a look of shock to see its torso start to mold. Flesh and muscle grew on it until two brand new legs and feet emerged, making the Nomu whole again.

"I didn't say that Shock Absorbance was all he had." Shigaraki grinned.

"Another quirk!?" Enso thought in disbelief.

He didn't even get time to think of how this was possible before the Nomu already shot up and swung at him, barely giving him enough time to react.

He formed an energy ball in his right hand and moved it in front of himself before the Nomu could hit his head, letting it explode with enough force to send himself back.

He landed with a small slide as he eyed the Nomu again.

"That... was a little too close." He muttered.

The Nomu stood tall and wailed once more, standing tall and revealing a... delicate area below.

"Nomu... Please put on your pants from your other legs." Shirigaki irked.

Mina and Ochako had deadpanned faces from the top.

But then they saw Tsu, Ojiro, and Mineta carrying Izuku and Aizawa up the stairs.

"Look!!" Ochako let everyone around her know.

Sero, Shoji, and Sato saw them and rushed down the stairs to help.

"Crap, crap, crap! Midoriya is in terrible shape!" Sero said as he helped carry him up the stairs carefully.

"Aizawa too... They both ended up like this to protect everyone else." Shoji said calmly.

"And now Ureshi is down there too, but that monster seems to be giving him trouble! Can he still fight with one hand?!" Sato exclaimed.

Tsu looked down in guilt as she saw Mina and Ochako nearly crying as they glanced from Aizawa's state, to Izuku's crippled status.

Her mind flashed back to when Izuku jumped in the way of Shigaraki's attempt to decay her, then heroically punching him away but only for the Nomu to stop and hurt him.

"I'm sorry Midoriya..."

"Should we get them out of here for help?" Shoji asked.

On the ground with them still, Thirteen, who got put out of commission by Kurogiri using his own quirk against him, responded. "No... If you move them, then you might make the bleeding and pain worse... For now, let us wait for the pros."

Ochako had a tear in her eye as she gently caressed the unconscious Izuku's hair, then turning her head and looking down at her other classmates in trouble.

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After noticing the Nomu actually get sliced, Kurogiri turned to the three students he was currently facing, "I apologize, but I believe that Shigaraki needs assistance." He then teleported away.

"Hey! We were so close to getting him!" Kaminari shouted.

Momo lowered her staff and glanced over at Kurogiri emerging next to Shigaraki now. "We have to help Ureshi out!"

"I think we got our own problems now!" Jiro shouted as she looked behind them.

Momo turned and saw another group of villains with menacing grins coming towards them.

"Hey, hey, why now?!" Kaminari said, looking rather blue in shock.

Momo narrowed her eyes, turning from the villains, to Enso. "Hold on longer Ureshi..."

Kurogiri appeared next to Shigaraki, "Shigaraki, do you need assistance?"

Shigaraki turned angrily at him, "Why the hell would I?! Go back to killing those kids!"

Kurogiri looked nervous, by that tone, "But I noticed that child slice apart the Nomu, it's clear that he's no ordinary one! I mean, take a look at... his eyes."

Shigaraki turned and saw the cold and emotionless eyes of Enso as he kept a fighting stance, waiting for any movement the Nomu made as it finished putting on its pants.

"One of his hands is broken though." Shigaraki argued.

"But the pros will be here any second if we idle any longer!" Kurogiri warned.

Shigaraki was quiet for a brief moment before answering,

"Tsk! Fine... Just help me kill this kid and we can leave."

Kurogiri looked unsure but sighed. "As you wish."

Enso heard a portal appear right beside his head and heard something go through it. He instinctively leaped back and saw that Shigaraki had stuck his hand through a portal at an attempt to grab him.

The hand-pulled itself back in the portal as Nomu attempted to strike Enso while he had jumped back.

Enso managed to land one foot in the ground just in time to jump back even farther as the Nomu's fist smashed the ground, creating a large shockwave and strong winds that slightly went into Enso's eyes.

He then heard a portal open behind him and instantly performed a backflip right over it before he could fall in, then landing on his feet.

"Damn brat is jumpy." Kurogiri said in an irritated manner.

Despite looking so emotionless as he avoided attack after attack after attack, Enso's had some doubts about fighting all three of them in his mind.

"Facing one person dangerous is enough, but three... There's no way I could counter-attack. One wrong move and I'll either get slammed, disintigrated, or split in half."

The hardest part about this was the Nomu, who just lashed out at Enso with swing after swing of its arms with incredible speed, limiting his movements.

"Luckily, both smaller villains can't attack me at the same time as the Nomu is, it's too fast. But they cover the openings it has after swinging. I just need an opening to charge up and attack."

Enso had it close when two of Shigaraki's fingers actually managed to graze him at once point, before he smacked them away and spun backward to avoid more incoming attacks.

"I need someone to distract them."

He backed up, dancing around many purple portals that had opened in the ground around him.

He then felt Shigaraki's presence reaching behind him, heard two portals open near his feet, and saw the Nomu heading right in front of him.

Enso grit his teeth, "I may have to..." He felt his dagger begin to form in his right hand.

But then an answer came.

A trail of ice traveled through the floor and caught the Nomu by the legs and continued to freeze the rest of its body, then leaving only it's head open.

Another person came in and sent explosions at Kurogiri, forcing the walking portal to retreat back. "Who in the world-!?" There was then a hand that grabbed his chest and slammed him onto the ground.

Enso was surprised to see that it was ironically Bakugo and Todoroki who came to his aid. Bakugo pinned Kurogiri down while Todoroki had frozen the Nomu's body.

Kirishima came in at an attempt to hit Shigaraki, but the villain just backed off and avoided the attack. "Damn! I didn't get to show off!"

"Shigaraki-!" Kurogiri was about to move before Bakugo threateningly let out an explosion with his hand, grinning menacingly.

"You try to move, then I'll blow you up!"

"Could you at least try to act hero-like for once?" Enso asked.

Crossviens appeared on his head, "EH!? What was that edgelord!?"

Shigaraki turned from Kurogiri to the Nomu. "We're in a bit of a pinch. Our portable teleporter is being held captive by kids."

Kirishima grinned, "We got this now!"

Shigaraki chuckled, "Do you?" He turned to the Nomu completely frozen in ice. "Nomu, get our gate back."

The ice shook for a second before instantly shattering apart, shocking all of the heroes around.

The Nomu left a shockwave behind him as it blasted towards Bakugo, no one even processing the speed.

Except for one person.

Enso dived towards Bakugo as he charged up his power, eyes and aura white.

"Brute Style-!" He didn't finish before a giant explosion of force occurred, forcing everyone back and covering their faces with their arms from the winds.

"Bakugo!" Kirishima yelled.

Tons of dust covered the area from the amount of force the punch caused, one able to see through it.

Kurogiri teleported right next to Shigaraki once more, looking relieved.

"Thank you Tomura Shigaraki."

It took only a moment for the dusk cleared and reveal Enso standing right in front of Bakugo, his arms up and his aura looking three times as dense as ever before, having a completely pure white outline that went around his body.

"-Bulk... Up..." Enso finished, trying to keep up his strength to the Nomu's fist trying to push through his arms. However, because of his left hand being broken, Enso could feel stinging of pain going through it as he kept his focus to make the aura as dense as possible in such short notice.

Bakugo was on his behind as he looked up at Enso and the Nomu with a shocked expression.

"I... I saw nothing... I didn't see anything... And he just took that attack..."

He grit his teeth in anger.

"Just what the hell is up with this guy?"

The Nomu pulled its arm back and tried to thrust his fist at Enso again, but Enso leaned the side and avoided the straight punch at him.

He clenched his right hand into a fist at the same time, white aura flaring up at it once again.

"Brute Style- Vicious Smite!"

He swung his fist and pierced the Nomu in his stomach, the aura around his body suddenly focusing up into the punch.

He created another giant explosion and managed to send the Nomu flying back, even strong enough to blow away Shigaraki and Kurogiri on the sidelines.

"He managed to get through the shock absorption in one punch again?!" Kurogiri thought as he got sent back.

Enso panted as the remaining aura in his fist faded away.

Todoroki quickly rushed to Enso's side, "You should've aimed for the head."

Enso narrowed his eyes, turning to the boy. "I was only focused on protecting that idiot."

Bakugo shot up to his feet, "I'll kill you!" he shouted comically.

Kirishima rushed next to him as well, "Holy shit! I can't believe you took that attack!"

"Yes, but at the cost of a lot of energy..." Enso said as the Nomu landed in the distance. "That monster only listens to that villain, shock absorption, and even a fast regeneration quirk... So I'm sure the only thing we could do to stop it is to completely obliterate it's head off."

Bakugo grinned, "I could do that."

"No, you'll have a much larger chance of dying." Enso immediately shot it down.

"Huh!? What the-!?"

"You didn't even see the Nomu when it came at you, correct?"

Bakugo grit his teeth again as he remembered actually getting 'saved' at the moment.

"So, then you're gonna say that you're the only one who could do this?" Todoroki asked him.

Enso nodded, not moving his eyes off the Nomu ahead. "Yes, but I need you guys to distract the other villains. Bakugo you take care of Kurogiri, the portal villain and use your explosions to avoid any portals he tries to put you in. Todoroki, you fight Shigaraki and use your ice to keep him at a distance. Don't. Let. Him. Touch. You."

"Don't tell me what to do!" Bakugo shouted.

"What about me?" Kirishima asked.

Enso motioned him further with his fingers. "You may not like this idea, but I need you to take one full swing from the Nomu with your quirk. You'll get hurt, but I calculate that you can take one attack rather well."

Kirishima shivered, "Wh-Why!?"

"I need you to keep him still for a moment for me to charge up one certain attack. I'll keep it busy for a moment and find a good opportunity to let you defend me."

The Nomu got up and dove towards Enso.

"Good luck." Enso said before focusing power once more. "Snipe Style-Ricocheting Bullet." He glowed yellow and became faster than ever, zooming past the Nomu and circling around him.

"Damn it!" Bakugo shouted as he saw Enso go right to the Nomu. He turned to Kurogiri and blasted towards him. "Eat this!"

Todoroki sent ice towards Shigaraki and tried to wall him out. "Better get ready." he told Kirishima.

The Nomu stood completely still as Enso circled around it, head simply looking forward without any emotions whatsoever. Enso, despite running so fast, kept an eye on the Nomu as he repeated the same pattern of steps, waiting for a precise moment.

Kirishima looked rather nervous, "When will I even know to step in if you're moving that fast!?!"

The Nomu let out an inhuman cry as it raised both fists up, ready to slam the ground and smash the area around him.

"There!" Still running, Enso jumped up and away from the Nomu, landing behind Kirishima and getting into a crouching position.

The Nomu slammed the ground and created a crater with a large radius around him, with clouds of dust also being kicked up in the process.

Kirishima covered his eyes with his arm to avoid getting dust in them, before looking back at Enso, who had his head down and arm across his stomach with his hand near his waist.

"Get ready, it's going to jump out." Enso warned him, head remaining down in focus.

Kirishima gulped nervously as he faced the cloud of dust, activating his hardening quirk and raising his arms in an X shape.

Enso formed a dagger in his hand and took a deep breath, aura fading from yellow to black.

For some reason, at the thought of killing the Nomu, Enso remembered Nezu's words.

"You said so yourself that you wished to change the way you did things, didn't you? Try to live up to that claim please, there is always a way to avoid bloodshed. I hope you find that way for the sake of yourself."

Enso hesitated, eyes still closed. "But... This is different."

He then remembered something else, "No matter what happens, prioritize in saving the students."

The dust cleared and the Nomu saw Enso and Kirishima out. It leaped out with a roar and proceeded to dash towards Enso with a fist forward. "Shit! Shit! Shit!"

Kirishima stepped in front of its path, also rather nervously, and activated his quirk to the fullest.

"I'll be fine! I'll be fine!"

The moment the Nomu's punch collided with Kirishima, a powerful shockwave occurred, yet the boy was able to stay in place with pain in his arms.

"Hey, I'm... I'm doing it!" He grinned.

But the Nomu then grabbed him by the head.

"Uh oh."

It forced Kirishima right into the ground, slamming his head down and cracking the floor.

Kirishima felt intense pain in the back of his head, but he still kept his quirk up.

"Just hold out! Just hold out!"

Todoroki saw the trouble. "Kirishima!" he sent an arm forward and was about to send a wave of ice to help.

Shigaraki appeared next to him, "Where are you looking?"

Todoroki felt three of the villain's fingertips touch him, making him shiver. He created jagged ice pillars around him, forcing Shigaraki backward.

"Damn it! Why is he so fast despite looking so out of shape!" He thought as he sent another wave of ice to separate him and the hand villain.

The Nomu raised its fist and slammed it down on Kirishima again.

"NNGH!" Kirishima felt his arms sting as he struggled to keep focus.

"Enso! Any time now!" He thought, but couldn't say because of the pain.

Enso still thought about the principal's words, his hand gripped tightly on his dagger and remembering when he didn't even detect any murderous feeling from the Nomu twice. "The Nomu, is only a puppet... I wasn't able to detect and murderous intent because it even isn't thinking about it. All it does is follow orders, no feelings involved whatsoever. Could... Could that really be considered it 'living'?"

Bakugo blasted left and right to avoid portals on the floor, heading towards Kurogiri.

"SHINE!" He shouted as he let out an explosion in from of him, trying to aim for Kurogiri's main body.

But he just teleported away.

"My, my, this is getting rather scary." he remarked.

"Stop running trash can!" Bakugo shouted as he blasted towards him once again.

However, from the corner of his eye, he saw the Nomu slam a foot onto Kirishima.

"Kirishima!" Bakugo stopped his assault and instead blasted towards the red-haired teen, but a sudden portal emerged in front of his path.

"Damn!" He was forced to blast back and tried to go around the portals emerging, but Kurogiri just kept forming portals wherever he tried to go.

"Trying to leave, are we? That won't do." Kurogiri said.

"Shut up!" Bakugo shouted, trying to focus from Kirishima to the villain.

Kirishima had many bruises on his hard arms now, teeth-gritting form all the pain.

"What's taking him so long!?"

"I don't know what the principal would say... Would he consider the Nomu alive? I don't wish to leave here so soon, I would rather not be treated as... a monster. But..."

The Nomu then let out a loud shriek and raised both of its fists up, ready to crush Kirishima's head.

"Ureshi!!" Kirishima shouted desperately.

The moment Enso heard Kirishima's voice above him, his power spiked.

"Damn it! I have to do it!"

Enso eyes shot open in blood red, veins turning black.

"Reaper Of Worlds Style-"

He tightly held his blade and dashed up at the Nomu's head.

The Nomu was somehow able to detect Enso coming and stopped it's attack on Kirishima, instead reaching it's arms out to crush Enso.

But that was when the teen tightly held his dagger and struck.

"-Reaper's Harvest"

Many flashes of white occurred with each strike of Enso's blade, pieces of meat scattering all over the place.

Bakugo had just forced Shigaraki back with an explosion before they both noticed what happened. The same happened when Todoroki sent ice towards Kirogiri, who avoided the attack before a chunk of flesh went past their eyes.

When they turned their heads, they were surprised to see that the Nomu's head hand hands had been split apart into over a dozen pieces, pieces of brain scattering as well as some splashes of blood.

Everyone froze as Enso landed on the ground in a crouching manner, then raising his head up with a cold look and splatter of blood on his cheek.

"That was faster than I thought it would be." Todoroki remarked.

Bakugo was stunned, then gritting his teeth, "Just... Just who the hell is he!?"

The rest of the Nomu's body fell to the ground, not just decapitated, but its head and brain completely split apart into several scattered pieces.

Enso turned to Shigaraki, menacing black aura and intimidating red eyes shining.

"Can your Nomu heal from that? I wonder if it can listen to orders when it's brain is scattered all over the floor?"

Shigaraki was furious. "No way, impossible." He started to furiously scratch his neck, "Nomu! Get up!"

The monster laid lifeless on the floor.

"No, no, no, no! Did he use a cheat?!"

Enso turned his full body to them, where everyone realized something.

His arm looked rather disproportional, almost as if it was crushed, yet he seemed unfazed by it.

Enso's mind flashed back to the exact moment when he had sliced apart the Nomu.

"It somehow managed to grab my other arm and crush it in an instant... Such force." He thought, looking at it bleeding.

The two front doors were then blasted open, revealing All Might standing in a suit. "I AM HERE!"

"I'm afraid that we may have come rather late." Nezu said, sitting atop of the blood hero, Vlad's, shoulder with many other pro heroes standing with them.

Ochako formed a happy smile, "All Might!"

"Teachers!" Sero exclaimed.

All Might looked down and saw the injuries of Aizawa, Thirteen, and Izuku. "I'm sorry I couldn't come sooner... I used my quirk too much this morning..."

The other pros saw many students still fighting villains in the distance, some of them immediately set out to help them.

But for those such as All Might and Nezu, alongside Vlad, they froze as the saw the remains of the Nomu in the very middle of the large room, Enso standing beside it with a partially crushed arm and a dagger in his other hand.

Bakugo, Todoroki, and Kirishima all glanced up the stairs and saw the heroes, feeling more relieved.

But Enso stood still and stared up at him, the blood that splattered from the Nomu on his cheek slowly trickling down.

"Oh dear." Nezu said, looking rather serious.

"Enso... What did you do?" All Might thought in shock.

Kurogiri turned to his boss, "Sh-Shigaraki! We must leave!"

Shigaraki sighed, "Yeah, yeah... I may have failed this time, but..." He turned to Enso's direction and gave off a maddening glare as the portal overcame him, "Next time, I will kill you."

Then they were gone.

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Izuku slowly opened his eyes and found himself in the nurses' office once again, a dim orange color filling the room.

"Deja vu..."

"Finally, I was beginning to think you wouldn't wake up today."

"Judging by the pattern..." Izuku slowly turned his head left and saw Enso standing beside his bed. "Yup."

"What?" Enso asked.

"Nothing." Izuku chuckled, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath.

But then his eyes shot open and he sat up quickly as he realized, "Wait! What happened!? How are Tsu and Mineta!? Whatever happened to the villains!? How-"

Enso thwacked him on the head. "Quiet."

"O-Ow, Ow..." Izuku raised his hands on his head.

Wait, raised his hands?

Izuku glanced down in confusion and found them completely healed, also with a few small scars.

"Eh? Nani? I'm fine?"

"I used a bean on you, moron."

"Oh, th-thank you very much..." Izuku embarrassingly said.

"Um, I'm here too you know." Izuku turned to his right and saw Toshinori sitting on a chair beside the bed.

"A-All Might!? U-Um-!" Izuku was confused and turned to his left to Enso and realized that Enso's left wrist was bandaged, "Wh-What happened to your wrist?! A-Actually... Could you guys just explain to me what happened?"

Enso sighed, "I'll start explaining from the moment you passed out."

He explained in a few minutes how Izuku passed out from the Nomu, then got save by a few of his classmates, and then heard that Enso had fought against the Nomu and, with the help of Bakugo and the others, he had managed to successfully take it down.

"Th-That happened!?!" Izuku exclaimed in shock, even hearing the part where Enso had his arm crushed by the Nomu.

Enso nodded, then pulling his sleeve up showing the bandages wrapped around his arm, "Yes, but it was an easy fix for Recovery Girl, I had plenty of stamina left for her to heal me."

"I see... So everyone is okay then?" Izuku asked.

"Yes, they're alright." Enso reassured him.

Izuku laid back on the bed and let out a breath of relief, "I'm glad..."

"Although, I'm surprised you're alright Izuku." Enso remarked.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Izuku blinked.

"In the distance, I had seen when that Nomu slammed its fist on your head. You... survived."

Izuku went back to his memories to the Nomu, where his eyes then widened in realization.

"Y-Yeah! I did! I-I think I may have used my power again!"

"So you remember using it this time!?" Toshinori exclaimed in shock.

"S-Sort of... After I saved Tsu and got pinned down by the Nomu, I just thought... I just thought that I wanted to live. I thought about all my friends so far, I thought about you and All Might, and I felt something... build up from that."

"How were you feeling at the time?" Enso asked curiously.

"I... I felt mad. Angry, I thought I was gonna die but I wasn't scared, I just kept thinking about the people I would be leaving and just kept screaming to myself that I wasn't gonna die."

"So it's nearly the same as when you fought with Bakugo..." Enso sighed. "My theories are still the same then, either your special power activated because you were in a life-or-death situation, or because your emotional distress triggered it."

"So it appears that way, but this time Midoriya was more conscious when he used it." Toshinori told them.

Izuku nodded, "Y-Yeah... I saw the black stuff right in front of my face as the Nomu slammed it's hand down, I even saw the crack in it."

"Crack?" Toshinori asked curiously.

"Y-Yeah, I made some sort of barrier which was what protected me in the first place, it withstood one of the Nomu's punches, but it cracked as well. I think that took the rest of my energy because that was when I passed out."

Enso put a hand on his own chin, "I see, so your power may have multiple abilities. Hopefully, you can discover more in the future."

"I-I'll try... I'll try to use it and master it the best I can!"

"So... did you think what to name it for now?" Enso asked.

Izuku flinched, "N-Not really..."

"May I suggest a name then?"

Toshinori and Izuku turned to him curiously.

Enso gave a momentary paused for dramatic effect before proposing a name.

"Ikari."

"Eh? I-Ikari... As in 'wrath'?" Toshinori asked, rather surprised to hear this.

Enso nodded, "Whether his power activates because of his life in danger or because of emotional trauma, both times he did activate it, we've seen him... furious. I think you'll agree that we've never seen or heard that Izuku gets angry unless if it involves his power."

Toshinori looked down, "I see... but I don't think we should make it final yet."

"Of course not, but it just seems like the most suitable name for now."

"Ikari..." Izuku repeated, looking down as he thought of the name.

Enso looked up and crossed his arms, "There's no doubt that bringing out 'Ikari' again would be rather difficult for Izuku, especially since he's naturally timid, but I don't think we should force him to get angry to activate it."

He looked forward to the two again.

"I may be able to find an answer connecting how Ikari works. If I look into Izuku's past, then I might be able to find something to explain it."

Izuku and Toshinori's eyes widened, "You could do that!?!"

"Once a day I can look through a person's memories, but not my own..." Enso sighed. "I think we should do that another day, for now..." he looked at the sun nearly down on the horizon. "It's getting rather late."

"You can leave now sonny. Your injuries were fine a while ago." Recovery Girl said to him from her desk.

"O-Oh!" Izuku moved out of his bed, realizing that he was still in the gym uniform of U.A. "I-I gotta get changed..."

Enso reached on the nightstand and grabbed Izuku's U.A uniform, "I brought them for you. You could change in here, I'll wait at the front for you." He said to him.

"Before we leave, one last thing." Toshinori said, standing up in his chair.

Enso and Izuku stared at him.

He then bowed to them.

"E-Eh!?" Izuku uttered.

"I'm sorry... I used my quirk for the entire morning and ended up not being able to use it in the afternoon. Because of me going out of my way to save other people, you both had to fight through that experience."

Enso narrowed his eyes, "Don't apologize for saving people. You did what you felt you had to do, saving random people who needed help. You shouldn't regret that."

"I see... but-"

"Everything turned out fine didn't it? Everyone was fine." Enso said.

"Y-Yeah! I-I'm just glad that everyone was alive!" Izuku agreed.

Toshinori stood up and chuckled, "You know... I kind of expected you both to say that."

"Then don't apologize next time." Enso said.

Izuku, Toshinori, and even Recovery Girl sweatdropped.

"What a rude youngster..." Recovery Girl sighed.

Toshinori couldn't help but smile though, "Let's just go."

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Tsu was back in her uniform, but she didn't head home like nearly the rest of the class, rather, she headed straight to the nurses' office, her head down and fingers fiddling, keeping a look of guilt on her face.

There had been something on her mind ever since the USJ attack.

Izuku's state.

She couldn't get it out of her head. She was going to die at the moment that Shigaraki reached for her face, she should've died, yet Izuku jumped in front and got his arm heavily crumbled. He even tried to hit the villain away, just so he would stay away from Tsu.

"DON'T TOUCH HER!"

She stopped walking when she remembered those words, looking down and feeling slightly warm, but also very guilty. After Izuku managed to save her, he ended up being the one in more than just trouble. He got an arm broken, the other one decayed, his head bled, and she could swear that even his back broke.

All of this was because of her, she kept thinking that over and over again. So she was going to see Izuku now to apologize for all of it.

She caught sight of Enso and a skinny blonde man exiting the nurses' office, both catching sight of Tsu.

"Who is this? Kero?" Tsu asked, taking a look at Toshinori.

"Someone I know that I thought could help Izuku's state." Enso thought up immediately.

"U-Um, I'm Mr. Yagi Toshinori." He went along.

"I see..." Tsu looked up at Enso, "How is-?"

"He's perfectly fine. You managed to help save him just in time."

Tsu looked down, "He... He was the one who saved me..."

"Then thank him." Enso simply responded, walking by the girl and heading farther in the hall.

Toshinori sweatdropped before turning to Tsu, "H-Have a nice day." He then ran off down the hall as well.

Tsu looked back at them for a moment before turning to the nurses' office door.

She slowly slid open the door. "Excuse me?"

Izuku was just finishing buttoning up his shirt when she came in, then getting clearly surprised. "T-Tsu!?"

"Oh? What is it deary?" Recovery Girl asked from her desk.

"I would just like to speak to Midoriya."

Izuku rushed to put on his red tye, rather embarrassed. "G-Give me a moment!"

"Okay." Tsu slid the door closed and waited outside, leaning her back against the wall and looking down, collecting her thoughts on what she wanted to say.

After about a minute and hearing some shuffling of clothes, Izuku came out of the office wearing his U.A uniform, although looking rather nervous to see Tsu there.

"H-Hello Tsu. I-I didn't expect to see you here."

Tsu nodded, "Hello Midoriya, I... I just wished to speak what was on my mind."

Izuku let out an awkward laugh, "Y-Yeah, you told me that you tend to do that, huh?"

Tsu looked down, "I'm sorry."

Izuku froze, "Eh?"

"I'm sorry..." She repeated.

Izuku could tell that something bad was on her mind, "F-For what?"

Tsu was silent for a moment before speaking. "You got hurt because of me... You saved me from a villain that I didn't even notice coming right at me. You got your arm hurt, you nearly died, and I couldn't do anything..."

Izuku's eyes widened.

"Because of me, I put you in a lot of pain and danger... "

Before this got any more depressing, Izuku knew that he had to reassure her, flailing his arms and interrupting her.

"N-No! It's alright Tsu!"

She looked up at him, surprised by his sudden shout.

He scratched his chin, "Y-You shouldn't say sorry for having me save you, otherwise, then I should be apologizing to you for having you save me."

Tsu blinked in confusion.

"E-Enso told me that Momo and two others fired rockets at the villains to distract them, but you were the one that saved me from them by using your tongue to retrieve me. In the end, everyone turned out fine didn't they? You saved me."

Tsu looked away, "That was-"

"-what a hero should do." Izuku interrupted, finishing the girl's sentence for her and having a smile to go along with it.

Tsu looked surprised.

"You and I simply both did what heroes should do. We both saw someone in trouble and went to save them. You shouldn't apologize for being the one in trouble, that was out of your control. I should be apologizing for not being strong enough..."

Tsu was rather confused. She came to apologize to the boy, yet he turned it around and apologized to her for a reason that he shouldn't even blame himself for. Of course, he wasn't that strong now, that's why they were in U.A after all.

She couldn't but smile, knowing exactly what kind of person he was.

"You shouldn't apologize for that Midoriya. You are one of the strongest among the class, you did exactly what you could to save me."

Izuku let out another awkward chuckle, "You think so?"

Tsu nodded, "Yes, so instead of letting me apologize to you..." Tsu did a closed-eyes smile at her. "I want to thank you instead. I'm alive because of you Midoriya. You may think you're not that strong now, but you're already a strong hero to me. My hero."

Izuku madly blushed by the frog girl's smile and looked away rather embarrassed. "I-I-It's n-no p-problem... L-Let's just goes back now..." he uttered, fiddling his fingers.

"Kero!" Tsu happily croaked.

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Izuku and Tsu walked side by side out of the school building, with Tsu looking much more cheerful than usual.

"I guess what I said did cheer her up?" Izuku wondered with a small smile.

He looked up in the sky and saw that it was night time now, stars brightly shining and the moon looking rather large.

"Izuku!"

"Hm?" Izuku looked forward right before a few arms wrapped tightly around him and held him into a tight huh. "E-EH!?"

His eyes looked around to find Momo, Ochako, and even Mina all hugging him at different sides, each one with relieved looks and even small tears forming in the corners of their eyes.

"Wh-Wh-Wh-Wha-!?" Izuku turned as red as Kirishima's hair and steamed as much as the smoke that came out of Iida's exhaust pipes after he ran.

Enso, Iida, and Hagakure all stood beside one another, all staring at the small group as they waited for them to stop getting emotional.

"You're not gonna join in?" Enso asked Hagakure.

"Eh? Hold on now, I'm not on that friendly terms with him." Hagakure told him.

"And?" Enso raised an eyebrow.

"..."

"..."

"Meh, what the heck? Make room!" Hagakure laughed as she ran to the group with arms open as well.

Enso turned to look at Iida, "What about-?" he then only saw a dust silhouette of Iida, turning back to also see him joining the hug with a small smile on his face.

Tsu passed the group and walked up to Enso, "Hello."

Enso looked down at her, "How'd it do?"

Tsu partially smiled, "He... He's too nice."

"I know that." Enso sighed, "I just hope that won't cause him trouble one day."

"You're not gonna join the hug?"

"Do I look like the type of person that would want to?"

Tsu curiously stared at him, "I think you would feel happy."

"Doubt it."

"Quite a cold person isn't he?" Tsu wondered, getting a much better idea of Enso now than before.

By now the hug disbanded, with everyone asking Izuku a variety of questions.

"Deku, are you really alright now!? We saw what happened to you!" Ochako said to him.

"You worried me so much!" Momo added.

"I'm sorry that I couldn't get help sooner!" Iida shouted.

"I thought you were gonna die!" Mina said.

"I... I didn't really see what happened, I just heard about it. But good to see you alive and kicking Midori!" Hagakure slapped him on the back.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! You shouldn't be sorry about that Iida! And I'm sorry!" Izuku said to each one of them, even slightly bowing comically to each one with each apology.

"Good grief, you really have a habit of attracting trouble don't you?" Enso asked as he took a few steps to the boy.

"S-Sorr-"

"Would you stop apologizing already?" Enso cut him off.

"Oh, Sorr-! My bad..." Izuku embarrassingly said.

Enso sighed and got in front of him, moving a hand up and placing it atop of the boy's head.

Everyone's eyes widened as they saw Enso rub Izuku's hair, including Izuku himself.

"Good to see you still alive."

He removed his hand and turned around with his hands in his pockets, starting to walk. "Let's go back."

They all stared at Enso with comedically large eyes as he walked away, with Izuku feeling more embarrassed than ever before and even covering his face when everyone stared down at him.

"Heh, I guess even he was worried." Hagakure joked, nudging Izuku with her elbow.

"We all were." Mina said, then forming a smug look at Izuku's embarrassment.

"You really worried everyone Midoriya." Tsu smiled.

"I-I'm... s-sorry..." Izuku meekly let out.

Momo smiled, "I think that's enough. We should be getting back to our homes."

The group then started to walk together out of U.A, having lighthearted conversations about a variety of things while Izuku got over his embarrassment and glanced at everyone.

Mina mimicked punches and kicks that she saw Enso do while speaking how 'cool' they were, while Hagakure laughed at how she mimicked them.

Ochako was talking with Tsu, one getting to know the other better and laughing a few times.

Momo and Iida were in a rather intense conversation about the villains at USJ and how they as students could be better prepared the next time something like this happened.

And Enso just walked silently with his hands in his pockets, simply staring ahead at their path.

Izuku looked down and formed a slightly sad and worried look. "In order to be able to protect them, in order to be able to save them, I have to get stronger... I have to master more of One For All, but not just that, I have to learn how to actually use 'Ikari' as well without causing problems to myself or others. I'll make sure to become the number one hero that everyone will feel safe around, that everyone will look up to and smile."

He felt a tap on his shoulder, "Eh?" He glanced up at Enso looking down at him.

"Don't think that you have to be strong all by yourself to save everyone."

Izuku was rather surprised to hear this from him, but at the same time, he felt reassured from his words.

"Yeah... He's right..."

He turned to everyone now staring at him with a smile.

"We'll all get stronger together."