[You cannot seem to catch a break, huh?] Miss Justice remarked, sighing.
Luke kept quiet, Midoriya, Bakugo, Tenya, Todoroki, Kirishima, and others standing to his left and right.
Behind them, Sir Nighteye stood eyeing the 1-A's students.
Between them, holding a whistle in her hand, Aina screamed, "3… 2… 1!"
The whistle hissed across the resort.
In the next moment, the students threw themselves into the Hot Spring.
It was a swimming competition that encouraged students to use Quirks to outdo each other.
Without Sir Nighteye here, they wouldn't have been allowed to use their Quirks. With a Pro Hero watching them, none dared to hold back now that they could with his permission.
Bakugo boomed across the space, firing successive explosions from the palm of his hands. He had only recently evolved his Quirk. So, he found it pretty easy to hold himself back from using explosions from the soles of his feet. It would have been a different matter if he had actually been born with the evolved Quirk.
Also, after his afternoon-long talk with Rikuya Saionji, Bakugo had decided not to reveal the matter of his evolved Quirk. At least not until he could chance upon an opportunity to make the Heroes believe that he awakened his Quirk in the heat of the moment.
Next to him, freezing the Hot Spring's layer, Todoroki slid over the water.
Ever since the end of 1st year at UA, he had secluded himself at home, trying to work on his training method. Luke's Delay would only help him if he himself knew how to use it. With the turmoil growing on an international scale, he really wanted to make the Training Camp count.
Momo shot underwater, carrying a handheld propeller.
Everyone seemed to have grown in the last few weeks, she realized. Tenya was faster, Bakugo was louder, Todoroki was quieter… Even among the girls, Uraraka, Mina, Kyoka, and Tsuyu had upped their games.
Then there was she… constantly worrying about the future.
Two weeks had gone by in the blink of an eye, and Momo had done nothing but think about how to improve herself. Improvement. This was what people expected of her. Her teachers. Her friends. Her family… They all looked at her as if she had figured out everything already.
Well, she hadn't!
Being a Class Representative didn't mean that she knew everything, right?
Day after day, Momo had been putting herself in different scenarios… scenarios that her classmates had found themselves in the last year… scenarios that she had luckily avoided till now. All in the hope of finding a way to reach a quick resolution to that situation using her Quirk, Creation.
That had been her warm-up training, it felt now — Overthinking!
She didn't want to take Luke's help, like others, too.
Luke… Momo shook her head several times, trying not to think about him. That was a mistake.
The handheld propeller shifted and took her in a completely different direction, bubbles escaping Momo's mouth.
Luke swam like he was possessed.
Surprisingly, despite not having Nyx by his side and daring not to use any Beyonder ability while constantly limiting his enhanced strength, he wasn't in the last position.
Mineta, Kaminari, Toru, Kyoka, Kirishima, Mina, and Yuga were all behind him.
Luke had no intention of chasing after the likes of Bakugo, Midoriya, and Todoroki as well. Not that he could, with all the things storming in his mind.
Welcome to Sir Nighteye Agency?!
Aina's words were ringing loud in Luke's mind, like a death knell.
No matter how much he tried to Decrypt the situation, he couldn't find any reason for the Pro Hero to offer him any job or internship. He wasn't Sir Nighteye's type anyway. So, either it meant that Aina had misunderstood something or, worse, Sir Nighteye wanted to keep Luke closer to him.
One way or another, as Nyx would put it, he was fucked!
For the last hour, Sir Nighteye had done nothing but sit and watch the students. Luke had seen his head bobbing from him to Midoriya and back to him many times. There was no doubt that Sir Nighteye was here for him, but the Pro Hero's interest in All Might's successor seemed to have bought him some time.
That time was running out with every stroke of his arms.
The moment the race ended, and he reached the other side, Sir Nighteye would definitely take him to a corner and use his Quirk Foresight on him.
And all would be over instantly.
What to do?! Luke shouted in his mind, helpless. What to do?!
If there were just any other Hero in Sir Nighteye's place, then he could use his Beyonder abilities and trick the guy. But Heroes like Nighteye and Erasure Head had trained themselves to notice the tiniest details.
Luke still had two years of School left.
The student persona had helped him a lot in keeping himself close to action, allowing a timely use of his Dr. Blessed identity when needed.
For the first time, all his plans were on the brink of shattering… just because of a misunderstanding, it seemed.
Tch… Luke tsked within, a whistle announcing the winner of the race reaching the other side.
[There must be some way you can deceive this Sir Nighteye, right?] Miss Justice asked, failing to assist Luke in this troubling situation as well. [Is there no weakness of Foresight?]
Luke's mind jolted, and he slowed, Toru swimming past him, shocked.
Weakness… He repeated the word, not minding Kirishima going past him as well. There is, in fact, one weakness. I studied Foresight in detail, but was never able to bestow it upon an animal in my previous life…
[… what is it?!] Miss Justice asked.
Time… Luke replied, disheartened. If there's a Quirk involving Time in my future, then it can disrupt Foresight. However, even then, Sir Nighteye would already know my identity as Dr. Blessed…
That's why Luke hadn't thought overly on disrupting Foresight, because even if Sir Nighteye failed to see a full or accurate future, he would still know many details that Luke wanted to hide.
But the System's next words suggested that this was it.
[Luke!] Miss Justice screamed. [Pray to Mr. Fool!]
Mr. Fool?! Luke asked, almost reaching the finish line. Why…
[He is the King of Space-Time! Hurry! Pray before…]
Neither the System could finish her words, nor did an excited Luke get the time to ask more.
Sir Nighteye was standing in front of him… reaching out with his hand to pull him up!
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