A few moments before,
Luke blinked away the monstrous presence of All Might weighing him down.
His plan to let Bakugo keep All Might occupied, while Midoriya distracted Erasure Head, and then bolt to the Exit, had already gone down the drain.
That plan was based on the assumption that All Might and Erasure Head wouldn't go full-throttle against kids like them.
As Luke did not know how the Final Exams' Practical part had actually gone down in his previous life, he had come with a practical plan, keeping the Pro Heroes' natural side in account.
Of course, he had underestimated how far UA's teachers were willing to push the students.
The good thing was — as a Magician — it had become Luke's habit to never rely on one plan, making ample preparations to suit various scenarios.
And those plans triggered when Erasure Head took the scene, canceling their Quirks.
Unlike Midoriya and Bakugo, who hadn't come out of All Might's murderous aura and hadn't realized that their Quirks had already been canceled, Luke was different.
He had already confirmed during the Quirk Apprehension Test that Erasure Head's Quirk canceled all his bestowed Quirks.
The moment Luke sensed his Spirit Particles returning to him, and Nyx lost the bestowed Gigantification Quirk, they both learned that it was time to go for Plan B.
There was no point in screaming to let Midoriya and Bakugo know that Quirks were useless, either.
It would only make Erasure Head focus on him even more, Luke knew.
So, the best way to take advantage of this precarious situation was to — subtly remove himself from the scene.
Switching to the Trickmaster Sequence, Luke created a gust of wind, bringing a mass of dust in front of him.
As creating an illusion would leave behind a greater footprint in the video camera recording him, given the fact that he couldn't even use his Quirk anymore, keeping it as imperceptible as possible was the way to go.
The moment the dust cloud just happened to roll in front of Luke, he used all his natural Beyonder strength to kick himself back.
Just a mere dust cloud wouldn't be enough to regain his Quirk.
So, as he kept distancing himself from the scene, keeping the dust cloud in front of him, he made his way to the closest ruins of a multistoried building, Nyx flying behind him even faster.
The moment they reached the building, Luke jumped into the structure, not stopping before reaching the farthest corner.
"Let's use Gigantification and fly high up after regaining the Quirk!" Nyx suggested. "Even All Might can't just reach above the clouds…"
Luke doubted that.
What if All Might kicked the air and used air pressure to push himself up?!
When it came to the Symbol of Peace, who was bent on acting like a Villain, it was a mistake to count on impossibilities.
Plan B was to reach the EXIT via the sky, using Gigantification.
As Luke shook his head, rejecting it, he remembered the Plan C — Use Reinforcement and circle the scene and go for the EXIT.
Reinforcement would let Luke reach a strength equivalent to 5% of Midoriya's One For All.
Of course, unknown to all, it also accounted for this natural strength, which had risen to inhumane levels after becoming a Sequence 7 Beyonder in two of the three Pathways.
Moreover, given that Erasure Head had canceled their Quirks, it meant he must be at least within a range of 200 meters or so within the scene of battle. Beyond that, and because of the sheer amount of destruction and dust, he wouldn't have been able to keep the boys in his vision.
It all raised the chances of Plan C's success quite high.
It was just…
"… if we can think of this," Luke said, mentioning the Plan C, "then Erasure Head and All Might must have thought of it, too. They know Midoriya and Bakugo don't get along. After All Might neutralizes both of them temporarily, both Pros will come after us with everything they've got. I doubt we can reach EXIT even with Reinforcement, then. Also, let's not forget that we cannot use more than one Quirk at a time in the match…"
As much as Nyx disliked admitting, she knew Luke was right. "… Plan D, then?"
Luke nodded.
They had no other choice.
And, to initiate Plan D, they needed to find Erasure Head first.
The best way to do that was to let Nyx perform a Dream Divination, finding where Erasure was hiding.
But if there were hidden cameras here, then he wouldn't be able to explain that later.
He could explain some of his own oddities, though.
Luke hurriedly grabbed a broken iron rod, his blue pupils dilating to the extreme as he took his Spirituality's assistance.
Then, asking for Erasure Head's location, he let the rod go.
The iron rod hovered at its place unnaturally for a second, and then fell forward, pointing toward the direction where All Might was beating the boys up.
Luke and Nyx exchanged glances and scuttled forward, peeking out from the corner of the building.
Without a Far Sight-like Quirk, even the two Beyonders couldn't see far enough to know where the Erasure Head was hiding.
Still, there was one way to make Erasure Head stand out in his visions.
So, switching to Magician, as the 3-second Cooldown was already over, Luke activated Spirit Vision.
He ignored the monstrous, blinding golden masses representing All Might, Midoriya, and Bakugo, and focused behind them.
There, on the 10th floor of a building, Luke saw a few blurry, golden particles — Erasure Head!
All of a sudden, he felt some kind of weight lifting off his Spirit Particles.
He could use Bioalchemy again!
Bestowing the Quirk upon Nyx again, and grinning, Luke snapped his fingers.
Cyan-colored, electric circuit-like veins appeared on his body, glowing azure, as he activated Reinforcement.
In mere seconds, and keeping him outside All Might's vision, he rushed around the buildings and reached the skyscraper where the Pro was hiding.
Leaving behind glowing afterimages, Luke reached the 10th floor, silently appearing behind Erasure Head like a wraith.
Right at that instant, Erasure Head was turning around, rubbing his eyes and thinking of going after Luke… when he spied the boy in the corner of his eyes.
It was already too late, though.
Cyan-lightning rumbled around Luke as he blurred and slammed into Erasure Head, his momentum throwing both out of the building, shattering the ceiling-high window.
And the moment they reached into the open, surrounded by shards of glass —
— time paused for them as Nyx activated Delay!
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