"Less than five minutes left—time to go all out!"

  With that decration, Todoroki unched himself off Iida's shoulders. As he desded, a fierce burst of icy wied from his right foot, creating a t icicle beh him.

  "Whoa, whoa, resent Mic shouted into his microphone, his voice eg across the stadium. "He's left his horse! Is that allowed?!"

  Midnight, watg from her statioated before responding. "Acc to the rules… as long as he doesn't touch the ground and maintains some tact with his team, it's allowed!"

  Hearing this, Bakugo smirked from across the field. "If that's how it works, then fine by me!"

  Without a sed thought, Bakugo leapt off Kirishima's shoulders, ung himself forward with explosive bsts from his palms. He tore through the air, eyes locked on Monoma, who had stolen his headband moments ago. With a savage grin, Bakugo snatched it back from Monoma's ne one swift motion.

  "Get lost, side characters!" Bakugo sneered, gng around at the dazed Monoma team before turning his eyes towards Kaminari, who was encircled by an imposing wall of ice Todoroki had erected around him.

  " up, it's you, Kaminari!"

  Meanwhile, elsewhere on the field, Midoriya's team was busy seg their own points. Tokoyami's Dark Shadow stood at attention, keeping a lookout. "Midoriya, our score's looking solid. What's the pn?"

  Midoriya adjusted the headband he'd just snagged from another Css B team. "Let's py it safe! With Hatsume's gear, we've got a height advantage. Let's stay airborne and defend what we have!"

  But ihe ice wall surrounding Kaminari's team, something ued was brewing. A sudden, blinding golden light shone from within, pierg through the id filling the stadium with a brilliant glow.

  A Minute Earlier

  "There are less than five minutes left," Todoroki muttered, perched on top of his icicle. "It's time to end this."

  With that, he unleashed a wave of icy spikes, direg them at Kaminari's team to immobilize Tetsutetsu, Kyoka, and Momo. His iion was clear: to trap them, making it impossible for them to escape.

  "Go for both teams! Take all their points!" Mia yelled, hurling his sticky purple balls from another dire, while Asui's tongue whipped out, aiming to snatch the headband from Kaminari's neck.

  At the same time, Tsunotori from Css B, riding oeammate's shoulders, lowered her head. The tips of her hlowed before she fired two energy bsts from them, targeting the left and right sides of Kaminari's team to box them in.

  Seeing the ining onsught, Kyoka turo Kaminari, her voice tense. "Kaminari! We're surrounded!"

  Kaminari's eyes narrowed with determination. "Leave it to me!"

  In one fluid motion, he grabbed a handful of steel balls crafted earlier by Momo a a weak electric charge through each of them. Theossed them out in a wide arc. As they hovered in midair, he held out his hands, letting goldericity surge between his palms and the steel balls, f an intricate web of electrified lines around them.

  Within seds, Kaminari's "Lightning " had transformed into a defe. Hundreds of electries crisscrossed in front of them, intercepting Todoroki's icy spikes, Mia's sticky balls, and Tsunotori's energy bsts.

  The attacks hit the electric web with a series of loud cshes, geing fshes of light and bursts of steam as the et Kaminari's intense heat.

  "Perfect!" Kaminari thought to himself as he maintaihe current flowing through his hands. "Turns out I only o power this 'Lightning ' through my hands instead of my whole body. This works way better!"

  Suddenly, a scream echoed from nearby.

  "Ahhh!" Asui cried out in pain as her exteoouched Kaminari's electrified web, sending a shock straight through her. The electric current traveled down to Mia and Shoji, who were part of her team, and they all dropped to the ground from the shock.

  Iands, Present Mic was quick to react. "Oh no! Shoji's team has taken a direct shock! Is Kaminari's team going to get disqualified?!"

  But Midnight quickly reviewed the repy and shook her head. "Nope! Kaminari didn't attack them directly. Asui's tongue actally made tact with his electric field while she was trying to grab their points. The shock was an unintended sequence of their own as."

  She raised her whip, making the call official. "Shoji's team is disqualified for nding on the ground, but Kaminari's team is still in py!"

  The croed, the tension palpable. Kaminari's defeeique had not only held strong, but it had also iently taken out aire team without breaking any rules.

  "He's using those steel balls with aric field… that's a clever application," Aizawa murmured from the announcer's booth, his eyes fixed on Kaminari's handiwork. "This 'Lightning '—it's versatile. It works defensively and offensively, be used alone or in a group. That kid's got serious potential."

  Present Miodded enthusiastically. "Wow! That's gotta be a signature move, right?"

  But Aizawa's keen eyes noticed something else happening on the field. Kaminari was shifting the steel balls around, eaoving in a trolled orbit around him, their paths guided by his eleagic field. The currents eg them began to rotate, creating a vortex of crag electricity.

  The currents iwined, f a spinning wall of lightning that encircled Kaminari's team, shielding them from all ahe sheer energy radiating from the vortex was enough to keep even Todoroki at bay, who had momentarily retreated with Iida.

  From the stands, All Might watched Kaminari with wide eyes. "Could it be…? Has he already developed a teique of this level?"

  Kaminari's "Lightning " was now a defensive barrier, but as he increased the speed of the rotatiour into something far more formidable.

  Aizawa's narrowed his eyes, his normally stoic face betraying a flicker of awe. "He's… maniputing the electricity so precisely. That's beyond anything I've seen from him so far."

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