Chapter 9: The Hope In The Cold
"Boom!" A car exploded near them.
Shinji and Midoriya ran towards the villain, but were stopped by the snowmen.
"Midoriya, it's time to put to the test what we've been training for this whole time. Are you ready?"
"Yeah, let's go."
While fighting the snowmen, he remembered a certain blond boy.
"You wanna pretend to be a hero? You don't stand a chance without a quirk, Deku."
His face didn't show an ounce of emotion.
'You're wrong, Kacchan. I will definitely become a hero.'
Midoriya punched the snowman, the head was destroyed.
A small smile started to form on his face.
"Look out!"
Regaining his attention, he barely dodged the extremely sharp arm of the snowman.
"Thanks!" Shinji looked at Midoriya, he lacked experience fighting people with quirks.
'I have to be on the lookout in case he gets hurt.'
The snowmen started multiplying quickly and headed for Izuku.
"Midoriya! Aim for the villain, ignore the snowmen. I'll make some room for you."
Getting close to Midoriya, he started fighting with the snowmen in his path.
Now running full force ahead, Midoriya approached the villain.
"S-stop what you're doing!"
He sent out a fist in his direction, but only hit the air.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
The snowman god started laughing uncontrollably, sounding like a dying rat in the process.
A grimace formed in Midoriya's face, he couldn't take this villain seriously.
"You dare laugh at my beautiful face?"
Having made the snowman god angry, Midoriya felt something at the base of his feet.
A branch was about to slice his leg off.
Jumping out of the way, he promised to be more careful.
Rushing at the villain once again, the outcome was the same.
Nothing seemed to work, he was always faster. The same routine of hit, dodge, and run followed.
The snowman god was gliding through the floor while laughing uncontrollably, his talk about world domination was starting to bother Izuku.
Snow started filling the streets, making an environment perfect for more snowmen to pop out on all directions.
The chilling wind burned his nose and made him slower.
The destroyed architecture coupled with the overturned cars made it seems as if a painter had just depicted a snow apocalypse.
He looked behind him at Shinji, snowmen were slicing at him from all directions, blood was pooling on the ground.
He was getting overpowered by the unending snowmen that wanted to bring him down.
'I need to hurry up for Yuuji's sake."
He changed his strategy.
Instead of approaching him, he stood still watching the snowman god intently.
"¡Hey! You keep calling yourself a snowman god, why are you running then?"
"Oh, does it look like I am running away for you? I couldn't have expected less from an uneducated monkey."
"That's what it looks like you're doing, why are you running away?"
The snowman god was now standing a few feet away from Midoriya.
"Let me explain it to your simple brain then. Does a ruler need to fight himself? Does a ruler need to ask for gifts? Does a ruler need ask if he can do anything?"
He opened his arms wide and looked at the sky.
"The answer is no! Everything in this world is mine, you are just a fly buzzing around and being annoying. You only pay attention to the fly for a few seconds before completely destroying it."
The snowman god looked back at Midoriya, but he wasn't there.
He felt a tug at his robe before his body was raised high in the air.
Doing a shoulder throw, Midoriya didn't let go of the villain and started doing an armbar.
"Stop using your quirk before I break your arm!"
Stars were showing up in his vision, the lack of air in his lungs made him greedily try to breathe in more oxygen.
Izuku started hyperextending the villain's arm before he regained his senses.
"Wait! Stop, I will do as you say."
Midoriya kept a strong grip on the arm and waited for the snow to disappear.
"Gah!" His right leg was pierced, and the snowman god escaped.
"You sneaky little shit, you thought you were smart. It is time for me to end this."
Just as the cold started to intensify around the area, Shinji arrived.
The snowman god was kicked heavily in the face.
Despite kicking him with all of his strength, there was barely any visible damage.
Shinji was bleeding heavily from his wounds, and he wondered if he should reveal his true self, a monster.
Looking at Midoriya writhing on the ground, and the snowmen that were approaching him, he decided that it was now or never.
But just as he was about to revert back to his original form, there was something that boomed behind him.
Looking at the source of the sound, his eyes opened widely.
In his vision, there he was, Japan's number one hero.
The figure stood up slowly and said powerfully, "It's fine now. Why?.. Because I am here."