My Hero Academia: Restless Gambler

Chapter 9: The Starting Line

Phase Shift was possibly one of the best abilities I could have feasibly gotten.

It instantly made up for my lack of offensive AND defensive capabilities. The only problem was that it was rather energy-demanding so I probably won't be able to run it with Cellular Overdrive as managing that kind of energy would be bothersome to say the least.

I needed to test the proper parameters of it first however, I may have read the Western comic it was featured in but I don't have perfect memory and I don't think the power translates one to one across universes.

"Hey Toga-chan, want to help me test my new ability together?" Hearing me address her Toga immediately perked up.

"Sure~! Where are we going?" She replied instantly, just eager to spend time with me I suppose.

"Well, I was thinking maybe you might know some secluded place I could test my ability at without getting in trouble with the law?" Hearing my words Toga fell into thought as she cutely placed a finger on her lips before slamming a fist down on her palm as she got an idea.

"Oh yeah, I know a place! Let's go, follow me Hakari-kun!"

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"Here! We can practice all we want! No one ever comes here, I usually use it to practice parkour and knife throwing!" Toga spread her arms to present her hideout, it was an abandoned construction site a little ways away from Musutafu, I could see a tree with numerous indents from what I assume was Toga's British skill practice.

It was basically perfect for what I wanted to do.

"Alright then, Toga-chan, hit me as hard as you can." Hearing my words Toga tilted her head cutely like a cat.

"Why? Are you sure?" I nodded "Well, okay then" I held my arms in front of me as Toga reared her arm back and punched while bending her waist to generate more power.

*Thud!*

Ow.

Toga was deceptively strong as I felt like my arms were hit by a sledgehammer. That was definitely bruising.

I shook my arms like I was trying to shake the pain away. "Okay, now then, I will activate my ability, hit me again" Toga nodded as I activated Phase Shift.

'Defensive Form'

I felt my body get heavier and sturdier as my eyes glowed yellow and my body up to my face turned a dark amber-ish grey.

"Woah! Is that your new ability? So cool! Alright, brace yourself." Toga said excitedly, rearing up another punch and swinging but this time.

"Owie, that hurt." Toga said wincing as she rubbed her knuckle while I sported a stupid grin.