Shoto Todoroki looked solemn. Unwilling to waste the sacrifice of Tenya Iida and Denki Kaminari, he formed an icicle attack with his right hand.
"I said, with your half-baked Quirk, you don't even qualify to make me serious."
Lock's eyes flickered. He predicted Shoto Todoroki's attack as it came into his sight and conjured his answer with one hand.
Using only one hand made the magic easy to destabilize, but right now no one could interfere with him.
Shoto Todoroki's half-hot, half-cold Quirk actually had a big flaw: his attack pattern had to be fixed.
For example, if he wasn't using his fire side, he had to attack with the ice from his right hand.
"Ice-Make: Scythe!"
A blue magic circle appeared, and a cold current struck, instantly chilling the surrounding air.
An absurdly large ice scythe appeared in Lock's left hand.
Waving the scythe in his hand, it gave off a bleak brilliance, chilling and terrifying.
"Boom!"
The icicle Shoto Todoroki had just formed was cut open almost instantly by the ice scythe, and Lock didn't stop there.
Lock kept slashing at Shoto Todoroki's neck, and in that life-or-death moment, the latter finally swung his left hand across.
Tongues of flame erupted suddenly!
Leaping from his left hand in a life-saving move, the scorching heat melted Lock's ice scythe.
"Yo, you finally used your fire."
Lock whistled teasingly. He had finally forced out Shoto Todoroki's Quirk, so this was getting interesting.
And once you'd done it the first time, the second time and countless times after were simple. All that was missing was the first step.
"But it's too late. Dark Shadow!"
At least for now, Lock didn't want to fight him. That kind of thing could wait for a one-on-one.
Hearing Lock's words, Shoto Todoroki wanted to turn his head in astonishment, but a black shadow and the feeling of something being torn away had already flashed before his eyes.
The next moment, under the gaze of everyone holding their breath, the battle ended.
The three headbands on Shoto Todoroki's head had disappeared and now appeared in the mouth of Tokoyami's Dark Shadow. With that, Lock's team had snatched all 12 headbands from the entire field!
The headbands of every team in the arena were now concentrated on Lock.
"Want my treasure? If you want it, come to my head. I put it all there."
For some reason, Lock wanted to shout this line to the audience.
But thinking about it, forget it... The scale was too small, and a headband had no appeal at all.
At the same time, Momo Yaoyorozu, on the flank of Shoto Todoroki's team, blamed herself. "I'm sorry, Todoroki, I made a mistake..."
She was the one responsible for creating defenses with her Quirk, but she hadn't been able to block Tokoyami's sneak attack, or Lock's attack.
In that instant just now, when the ice scythe slashed at Shoto Todoroki, she had quickly used her Quirk to create a barrier.
But the black shadow that suddenly appeared had interrupted her creation process in an instant and went on to snatch Shoto Todoroki's headbands successfully.
"No, it's all because of me."
Shoto Todoroki stared at his right hand as if in a daze, completely lost. Lock had completely seen through his attack.
Although he had said those provocative words to Lock in the lounge, the long-standing resistance in his heart still made him hesitate.
If he had decisively used the fire in his left hand from the beginning, would the result have changed?
If Lock were to answer this question, it definitely wouldn't have changed.
Of course, the scene couldn't be replayed anyway. Everything was already settled.
Iida, as the horse, was out of commission, and Kaminari had turned into an idiot. It could be said that their team had completely lost any chance of competing for headbands again.
However, there were still two teams that hadn't given up and rushed in to compete for the headbands.
In the commentary room, Present Mic explained, "Lock's team has snatched every headband from every team in the arena. Incredible! Wait, at this moment Bakugo and Midoriya have rushed in. At this last moment, is there any hope of them getting a few headbands back?"
The ice thorns Shoto Todoroki had raised from the ground surrounded them in a narrow circle, meant to block the escape route and keep other teams from interfering.
Katsuki Bakugo chose to fly over the ice spikes, using the impact of his explosions.
As for Rikido Sato, the front horse of Midoriya's team, his Quirk was Sugar Rush, which increased his strength fivefold for three minutes, although it would impair his brain function afterward, much like Denki Kaminari, who now looked like an idiot.
In short, Rikido Sato used his Quirk to punch a hole through the ice thorns in front of him and let Midoriya's team charge in.
"Die!"
Katsuki Bakugo was full of anger, and he roared and fired an explosion in Lock's direction.
He was extremely irritable now, feeling that he had gotten nothing out of this Cavalry Battle.
First, Monoma had snatched his headband off. After a long chase, he had finally gotten it back, and then Lock, who had broken in midway, had snatched it off him.
On top of that, he had been held back by a nobody named Bondo, and it had taken a lot of effort to get Mina Ashido to use her acid to corrode the adhesive and get rid of the guy.
"We have to snatch a headband. Any one will do."
Likewise, Izuku Midoriya was full of regret. He had neglected Kaminari for a moment and been caught in his indiscriminate discharge.
In the current situation, all the headbands were concentrated on Lock. Even if they snatched the lowest-scoring headband, their whole team could advance to the next round!
"So, you two are still too young."
However, Lock leaped into the air, and his familiar wings spread out from his back.
He didn't stop there, and kept rising... flying high into the sky.
Izuku Midoriya suddenly despaired. Bakugo had been blasting against Monoma for too long, and his Quirk was nearly used up. It was impossible to reach the current height with his Quirk.
Not to mention, the opponent was like the king of the sky, and he had simply taken the chance to head up there.
There was already a gap in strength, and fighting in a field you weren't familiar with, but the opponent was, would mean a complete loss.
"Hey, it seems both Midoriya and Bakugo have failed. Can no one stop Lock's invincibility in this Cavalry Battle?" Present Mic sighed and couldn't help feeling a little dizzy.
The question was what to do once the match was over. Since only Lock's team had points, they couldn't just let those four advance to the next round, right?
Exactly!
Lock still didn't count toward the rankings, which meant the other three members of his team would directly secure first, second, and third place.
Are you kidding me?!
If it really turned out that way, this Sports Festival would definitely become a joke!
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