Mountain Disaster Area

  "Ah!!"

  "They're here!!"

  Two sharp female voices pierced through the air, the sound eg across the rocky terrain. The vilins, who had been teleported in advance, sneered as they looked up at Kaminari, Momo, and Kyoka, who were in free fall.

  "This isn't good!" Kaminari thought, realizing the danger. Ag quickly, he activated his Quirk, his body surging with goldericity. Twisting mid-air, he spread his arms wide, grabbing the panicked Momo and Kyoka, one on each side, pulling them close.

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

  Just below them, a vilin with two dog heads for hands grinned wickedly, ready to strike.

  "Future Heroes? Eveer!" he snarled. "Regret your choice to bee heroes in your final moments, kids!"

  With lightning speed, the vilin's dog-like hands soward Kaminari's legs, aiming to bite down hard.

  "Get lost!" Kaminari yelled, kig the vilin square in the face, sending the snarling creature flying back. Using the momentum, Kaminari aheir fall toward a nearby hill.

  "Crag—"

  "Ah!!"

  "Ugh!"

  A split sed ter, they nded hard on the ground, but with Kaminari's quick thinking and lightning reflexes, the impact was softehe two dog heads groaned in pain as electricity surged through their bodies, leaving them twitg on the ground.

  "Boom!"

  The surrounding viliated, eyeing the fierce dog-head vilin who y smoking and unscious. For a moment, they were stunned, uaiher to advance.

  "There's… a lot of them," Kaminari muttered, sizing up the situation. At least sixty vilins stood before them, and although they'd just taken one down, the odds were far from favorable.

  "Kaminari, we o focus on defense!" Momo said, her expression serious as she quickly created a knife and staff for herself and Kyoka to use as ons. Kaminari didn't need any his lightning was more than enough.

  "Hmm."

  Kaminari nodded, moving them slowly toward the mountain wall. "Stick close to the rock face. Momo, make more speakers ahem up in a semicircle."

  Kyoka's mind clicked into gear. "You want to use my Quirk to amplify the sound and terattack?"

  "Exactly!" Kaminari replied, keeping his eyes on the vilins.

  "What about you?" Momo asked as she began f the speakers.

  "Me?" Kaminari grihe golden sparks dang around him. "I'll buy you time."

  With that, Kaminari unched himself forward, turning into a blur of electricity as he rushed toward the advang vilins.

  "Be careful!" Kyoka called out, her grip tightening oaff.

  Momo didn't flinch, fog oask. She khat pleting the defense as quickly as possible was the best way to help Kaminari right now.

  "You think you handle us by yourself, kid?" A vilin with fs and massive arms charged at Kaminari, swinging wildly.

  "Stop looking down on us, brat!" another vilin growled, activating his Quirk to create a barrier of sharp spikes.

  But Kaminari didn't flinch. He weaved through their attacks effortlessly, dodging the massive arms and spikes with lightning-fast movements. With a single electric-charged punch to the gut, he sent the fged vilin flying. In a swift move, Kaminari leapt out of the encirclement, only to be surrounded again by more enemies.

  The vilins weren't prepared for Kaminari's speed and agility. In mere moments, more than a dozen of them y unscious, twitg on the ground from electric shocks.

  But Kaminari knew he couldn't keep this up forever. His Quirk didn't gee electricity, it stored and released it. If he kept using up his power on individual attacks, he'd be drained before long.

  "I need a better strategy," he thought, dodging atack. "But I also o buy more time for Momo and Kyoka."

  Then it hit him.

  After knog another vilin out with a lightning-charged fist, Kaminari gnced around. About thirty vilins remained, but the time for hesitation was over.

  "You're all done for if you keep ing at me!" Kaminari's voice dropped, the usual pyfulness gone. His eyes burned with iy. "Don't bme me for what happe!"

  Up until now, Kaminari had held back. He didn't want to seriously hurt anyone, but the reality was simple: if he showed mercy here, he and his friends might not make it out alive.

  "I'm sorry," Kaminari thought to himself, his expression hardening. "But I'm not ready to fall here."

  Without hesitation, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a simple one-hundred-yen . He flipped it into the air, catg it between his fingers with practiced ease.

  "If someone has to be taken down…" he muttered, electricity crag up his arm. "Then it's going to be you."

  A ring of electricity formed around his hand, glowing brighter with each passing sed. The vilins immediately sehe threat.

  "What… is that?" one of them stammered, his eyes widening in fear.

  "Not good! This is bad!" another shouted, terror flooding his voice.

  Those closest to Kaminari could feel it—the raw, unfiltered pathering in his hand. They could feel the danger radiating from him, sharp and palpable, like a bde pressed to their throats. Their instincts screamed at them to run, to flee, to do anything to get away.

  But their legs refused to move.

  Uhe crushi of fear, their bodies froze. Despite the frantic orders in their minds, their limbs wouldn't respond.

  They were paralyzed by the sheer force of the moment.

  "Bah, bah, bah—"