Now, there were five teams in which Class A students were the riders.
Besides Lock's team and Midoriya's team:
Class A's Bakugo team: the rider was Katsuki Bakugo, the front horse was Eijiro Kirishima, and Hanta Sero and Mina Ashido were on the flanks.
Class A's Todoroki team: the rider was Shoto Todoroki, the front horse was Tenya Iida, and Momo Yaoyorozu and Denki Kaminari were on the flanks.
Class A's Mineta team had an unusual lineup of two riders, Minoru Mineta and Tsuyu Asui, and only one front horse, Mezo Shoji.
In addition, a few Class A students had teamed up with students from other classes but hadn't become riders.
Yuga Aoyama, Mashirao Ojiro, Koji Koda, and Hitoshi Shinso from Class C formed a team, or rather, the first three were chess pieces controlled by Shinso with his brainwashing Quirk!
Back to Lock.
"So Hitoshi Shinso has already scored points halfway through the match."
Lock murmured softly. He remembered that in the original story, Shinso had gained points at the last moment and taken third place, shocking everyone.
But who cares? Right in front of him was Shinso's team, and there were three headbands on his head!
Grab his headbands!
"Tokoyami, the next target is the mind-control team. Also, remember to keep your mouths firmly shut, and don't let him provoke you into saying anything."
"Got it." ×3.
Lock gave the order, and Tokoyami immediately rushed toward Shinso's team.
Seeing Lock's team charging at him menacingly, Hitoshi Shinso's face changed, and he quickly ordered Mashirao Ojiro, who was serving as the front horse, "Run!"
He hadn't wanted to take headbands so early. He had originally planned to stay low in the standings during the qualifying stage, letting people look down on his low score, and then make a big splash at the end.
But unlike the original story, Tetsutetsu's team had been defeated by Lock's team and had its headband taken, which made the united Class B focus on him as well, in addition to Class A.
Two Class B teams had rushed over immediately, wanting to snatch his headbands to make up for Tetsutetsu's team, and he certainly wouldn't hand them over to anyone else.
So he used his Brainwashing Quirk to provoke the riders of the two teams, and then leisurely snatched their headbands.
That was the origin of the three headbands.
People brainwashed by his Quirk would actually move a little stiffly.
After a while, Tokoyami caught up with Ojiro and cornered him.
"Hand over all your headbands obediently."
Lock stretched out his hands with a smile on his lips, like a villain about to do something bad.
In other words, all four people in their team were evil!
Hearing this, Hitoshi Shinso secretly clenched his fist. He wanted revenge for the humiliation he had suffered at the door of Class A's classroom!
At the start of this Cavalry Battle, he had actually been watching Lock's team closely, and he was also familiar with the extra rules Midnight had announced.
Lock couldn't directly snatch headbands.
As for the headband on Lock's head, Hitoshi Shinso had no way to deal with it at all, and his own Quirk was of no use against him.
Then he would switch targets and go after someone else.
For example, the person who actually snatched headbands for Lock's team was the bird-headed guy serving as the horse.
So Hitoshi Shinso raised his voice and put on an expression that deserved a beating. "Your Class A is a bunch of trash. Even the trash from our general class can't compare, and you'll all be eliminated in this round."
"You, the guy with the crow's head, if you wake up in the middle of the night and look in the mirror, won't you be scared to death by yourself?"
"And that girl over there, you really are flat as an airport runway, aren't you? All that flattery, and short hair. Wait! Could you actually be a boy?"
"You're the only girl from the Support Course who passed the qualifier, right? The rest of the people in your department are really useless, relying on you as a girl. And you should quit making support gear. You don't have the talent!"
Huff! Huff!
Hitoshi Shinso's chest heaved violently. He had cursed too much in one breath, and he was panting dryly and even felt a little tired.
However...
In his line of sight, no one on Lock's team paid attention to his provocation. They remained silent, enigmatically so.
Why?
Hitoshi Shinso's expression froze, replaced by a look of astonishment.
He had insulted them like this, so why didn't the other side respond angrily?
Back at the door of Class A, Lock had been so surprised that he had accidentally blurted out the name of his Quirk.
Lock shouldn't have known about the activation conditions and so on.
But in this situation, it was obvious that every member of Lock's team knew his Quirk and its activation conditions in detail!
"Sorry about this."
Hitoshi Shinso panicked, looking at Lock's outstretched hand growing infinitely larger in his sight, the other's voice lingering in his ears.
Swish!
A black shadow pounced from the side, took advantage of his confusion, and directly pulled and bit off the three headbands on his head.
At that moment, his lips turned blue, his forehead went cold, and his face was as pale as a blank sheet of paper.
Throughout the whole process, Hitoshi Shinso just stood there blankly, like a granite relief.
It wasn't that he didn't want to resist. He simply had no way to resist!
He wasn't suited to head-on combat, and even if he used his Quirk to brainwash an opponent, he couldn't make them perform any complicated moves.
In other words, none of the three people he had brainwashed into serving as his horse would have been any use here.
So, facing Lock's outstretched hand, Hitoshi Shinso knew exactly how likely his resistance was to succeed.
"0%!"
There was no possibility of success. No matter what he did, he would definitely be robbed by Lock's team.
In the face of pure overwhelming strength, all plots and schemes were pale and powerless.
After snatching the headbands, Lock's team had no need to stay, and Lock ordered Tokoyami to turn around and leave directly.
"I'm really upset. I almost want to scold him back."
Kyoka Jiro gritted her teeth angrily. She had been continuously insulted over exactly what she cared about most, and he had even said she might be a boy.
Her anger was ready to burst.
She almost couldn't hold back and nearly threw a lightning spell.
After all, even if you knew the other party was deliberately provoking and mocking you, once the words reached your ears, anyone would feel extremely angry!
"Don't worry. Your own strength is what matters most." Lock softly comforted Kyoka Jiro, then looked back at the devastated Hitoshi Shinso and couldn't help feeling a little amused.
Kyoka Jiro said, "Hey, Lock, are we really going to do that? Snatch all the teams' headbands?"
"Of course. That would be interesting!"
Lock smiled brightly. What he had told the three of them earlier was to cause some trouble, and just as Kyoka Jiro said, it was to snatch the headbands of all eleven other teams!
Only he, the one whose result didn't count, would hold every headband and all the points, turning this Cavalry Battle upside down! With his own headband, Lock now had five headbands.
Just like at that very moment, in the commentary room, Present Mic commented excitedly, "Oh! My God! Lock's team has snatched three headbands from the fourth-ranked Shinso team! Unbelievable! Does he have some kind of plan?!"
The audience in the venue was once again ignited by the actions of Lock's team and cheered like a tsunami.
Generally speaking, if the results didn't count, it would definitely be a bit boring. But Lock did the opposite and kept taking the initiative to attack, snatching one headband after another. This move was truly...
Marvelous!
As a spectator, don't you just want to see such wonderful things happening on the field?
"These are all just tools."
Lock spread his hands happily, and listening to the audience's cheers, he could already foresee his popularity skyrocketing.
"The next target is Monoma's team!"
"Got it." ×3!
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