"You're the only one left now, Shoto Todoroki."
The three members of the Hero team who had threatened the nuclear weapon had all been eliminated. Lock flapped his wings and landed slowly on the ground, looking toward Shoto Todoroki, who had broken free of the Flame Prison.
After all, Lock had stopped supplying magic power, and Shoto Todoroki had been using his half-cold side the whole time, one surge after another, so of course this was the result.
However, Shoto Todoroki's body was soaked and his chest heaved violently. He seemed to be in bad shape.
The only good news was that he wouldn't suffer backlash from overusing his Quirk.
Because any frost that formed on his body was melted instantly by the surrounding high temperature.
Lock said firmly: "Didn't I tell you before? If you don't use your half-hot side, you'll lose without any resistance."
Hearing this, Shoto Todoroki was slightly surprised, wondering how Lock knew about the half-hot side of his Quirk, but he still insisted: "I won't use it. I'm going to become number one with only my half-cold side!"
"Don't be a fool."
Lock snorted disdainfully, and a burst of golden light erupted from his body again, dispelling the Flame Emperor Armor he was wearing.
Saying you'll be number one is extremely arrogant!
If you have the strength to back up that arrogance and become number one, that's called self-confidence. But if you don't have the strength to become number one and still say such arrogant things, then you're extremely stupid!
"I'll let you feel the despair of being defeated in the thing you're most confident about."
Lock let out a breath, his eyes like a bright moon and frost, giving off a blue, icy coldness.
He had no intention of repeating the original story, where Izuku came forward in the ring at the Sports Festival, told Shoto Todoroki a lot of hard truths, and threw away his own chance for nothing.
Redeem Shoto Todoroki?
Lock didn't hate that approach, but what he did hate was sacrificing your own victory to go and redeem your opponent!
So, to put it bluntly, the way to force Shoto Todoroki to use his half-hot side was to make him feel a gap that was absolutely insurmountable.
He wanted to be the No. 1 Hero with only his half-cold side.
"Ice-Make: Floor!"
Lock stepped forward and stomped heavily on the ground. The magic power of ice poured in, instantly creating a smooth sheet of ice that raced out in all directions.
"How can this be!"
Seeing this, Shoto Todoroki's pupils widened. He had never expected Lock to have ice-based methods as well.
He also stamped his right foot on the ground and used his half-cold side with all his strength, and the ground beneath his feet quickly spread and froze into ice.
A clash!
Suddenly, two icy forces pushed against each other and turned the whole building into two realms of ice.
In the monitoring room, everyone exclaimed in shock.
"No way! What kind of power is this?"
The monitoring feed was completely down.
The freezing had destroyed the cameras inside the building, so Class 1-A and All Might could only see the building from the window of the monitoring room, a short distance away.
They saw that the entire surface of the building was completely covered in frost, and the chill kept spreading, gradually frosting over the street outside.
That was enough to show how fierce the confrontation between Shoto Todoroki and Lock was inside the building!
"This..."
Katsuki Bakugo looked at the scene and clenched his fists. He remembered the fear he had felt facing Lock's extreme cold under the ice that day.
He had originally thought that as long as he worked hard, he would quickly close the gap between them.
...
The cruelty of reality had given him another slap in the face.
Feeling this cold ice again, Katsuki Bakugo still had a fear in his heart that he didn't dare face!
"No! I'm only just starting. I will definitely..." Katsuki Bakugo muttered like a madman.
Inside the combat training building.
"You're not the only one who can use the power of ice."
Lock looked down from above, condescending, as Shoto Todoroki staggered back on unsteady feet.
Both were ice, but they were worlds apart.
The same ice spread out, but Shoto Todoroki's ice was suppressed, and his domain was defeated and invaded by Lock's ice.
In the first clash of ice, Lock won.
"Damn it!"
Shoto Todoroki gritted his teeth, his eyes blazing with pride. How could he accept that his half-cold side was inferior to Lock's?
The next moment, he swung his right hand and created a huge ice spike, thrusting it toward Lock.
At the same time, he stepped onto his own ice spikes and ran over, taking the initiative to launch a two-pronged attack.
"Rushing in on your own. You're really brave."
Lock still had a contemptuous attitude on his lips, and jumped sideways, dodging the ice spike attack without any haste.
And Shoto Todoroki had also rushed up in front of him, and instantly used his half-cold side with all his strength, and a huge ice mountain rose from the ground.
The ceilings of countless floors at the top of the building were suddenly pierced by the tip of the iceberg, and its area even covered the entire floor.
This was the widest-range technique Shoto Todoroki currently had!
"Ice-Make: Hammer!"
However, before Shoto Todoroki could wonder whether he had gone too far,
a blue magic circle appeared before his eyes, formed as Lock punched his fist into his other palm.
With the ice appearing, a huge ice hammer was instantly created, and then Lock slammed it down.
Boom!
Crack!
The destructive power of the huge ice hammer falling vertically was extremely astonishing.
The iceberg Shoto Todoroki had created was shattered straight through from the point of impact.
Countless cracks spread through the ice, showing that it couldn't bear the force.
In an instant, the ice shards scattered, pieces of broken ice of different sizes fell from the sky, and a white ice mist appeared.
Tiny cuts dotted Shoto Todoroki's horrified face, flecked with blood and carrying a slight chill.
At this moment, the right half of his body was completely covered in frost.
He had overused his Quirk and was suffering backlash.
But even so, Lock had still easily defeated his strongest technique, breaking something stubborn in his heart.
That was the confidence in his half-cold side that he had held since childhood!
"Use all your strength. You, who won't use the flames on your left side, are weak enough as it is."
Riding the icy fog, Lock's figure rushed in front of Shoto Todoroki, and the frosty glow of moonlight stretched across the air.
Shoto Todoroki could no longer use his half-cold side unless he activated his half-hot side to remove the frost from his body.
However, Shoto Todoroki lowered his head with a gloomy expression.
"How boring." Lock frowned, and cast Ice-Make Magic on Shoto Todoroki, who had given up resisting: "Ice-Make: Prison!"
Immediately afterward, Lock's frosty palm touched Shoto Todoroki's shoulder.
Crack, crack, crack.
The magic power of extreme ice produced blocks of ice that condensed and spread in an instant, wrapping Shoto Todoroki inside and freezing him!
Looking at Shoto Todoroki, who had become an ice sculpture, Lock said indifferently: "Even if you hate your half-hot side, it's your own strength, isn't it? Blindly avoiding it will never solve the problem."
He had held back at the last moment and hadn't really frozen Shoto Todoroki, only freezing his outward form without penetrating into his body.
Therefore, he was sure that Shoto Todoroki, inside the ice, had heard every word.
Anyway, this combat training was rather dull. Even at this point, Shoto Todoroki still hadn't been forced to show his full strength.
Afterward, All Might led everyone in Class 1-A to the building covered in frost.
No one cared about the outcome of the combat training. What they cared about was what had happened and whether anyone had been hurt.
Fortunately, nothing serious had happened. Shoto Todoroki only looked scary and wasn't seriously injured.
Instead, it was Minoru Mineta who had fainted, and he was shivering nonstop from the cold air that had gotten into his body, and had caught a cold.
In short, the afternoon's Hero Basic Training was over!
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