NOVEL NEXT 50 – Esther 6:8
Esther 6:8
let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set.
Himiko woke him up in an exciting way the next morning. He found her already working his morning wood like her life depended on it and who was he to deny her?
After an exciting breakfast… and a normal breakfast James and Himiko picked up Momo from her home.
The curriculum of U.A. High's hero course included regularly required high school classes, like English, in the mornings.
Mina couldn’t seem to quite make up her mind as she was struggling between elated excitement and some shyness after what happened the previous night. It seemed even the bold girl wasn’t quite able to act like it was nothing, but it didn’t stop her from continuing to try getting his attention.
He wasn’t the only one to notice the change though. Both Himiko and Momo looking at her sternly while some of the other girls seemed curious. They sensed something had changed. Nothing he could do about this and unless they took it too far he wouldn’t bother interfering with some minor friction as long as they worked it out in the long run.
Lunch was at the main cafeteria, where they can buy gourmet food for reasonable prices formulated by U.A. special nutritionists for optimal nutrition.
And then, in the afternoon, they finally get to participate in Hero Basic Training.
“I am... ...coming through the door like a normal person.” All Might jumped in through the door dramatically.
“It's All Might!” Denki yelled out in surprise.
“Wow, he really is a teacher!” Eijiro exclaimed.
“That's a costume from the Silver Age, isn't it?” Tsuyu said.
“I teach Hero Basic Training. It is a subject where you train in different ways to learn the basics of being a hero. You'll take the most units of this subject!” All Might explained.
“Let's get right into it! This is what we'll do today... Combat training!” he said.
The girls were all giddy and Himiko and Momo seemed to be staring at each other competitively. This was nothing new though as both liked to prove how they were the best in front of him. Himiko had been acting like she was above it a lot though ever since they started sleeping together, which Momo hadn’t managed to achieve yet. Given her current expression it seems she isn’t entirely above it though.
“Combat…” Katsuki started in excitement.
“…training.” Izuku completed in equal excitement.
“And to go with that are these! Costumes made based on your Quirk registrations and requests you sent in before school started." All Might explained while the walls slid open revealing their costumes.
Before they enrolled in U.A. High, they all submitted their Quirk registration, physical measurements, and desired designs so a support company under exclusive contract with the school could prepare state-of-the-art costumes for them.
“After you change, gather in Ground Beta!” All Might said.
“Yes, sir!” The entire class shouted in excitement.
Everyone scrambled to get their clothes in excitement. Now that they had hero costumes they finally felt like they were really becoming heroes.
The boys and girls split up after collecting their costumes.
In the boys changing room most of the other boys were staring at James. His outfit's primary piece was a midnight blue, almost black, spandex-like body armour that clung to his every nook, cranny and curve. This showed off his ridiculously sculpted physique almost as well as being naked, but worst of all it struggled to hide the bulge at his crotch.
Some effort had been made to hide it and the dark colour helped a little too, but there was only so much those things could achieve leaving a bit too little to the imagination. It made most of the other boys self conscious when comparing themselves, deflating quite a bit of their excitement in trying out their brand new costumes. James wasn't concerned though as their insecurity wasn't his problem so he didn’t even call them out for inappropriate staring.
To complete his costume he put on a collection of polished bronze coloured accessories. This included some bracers, pauldrons, a belt and greaves. He wasn't sure exactly what material they were made from since they were definitely tougher than bronze, which was good since bronze would never have been able to put up with his strength. He wouldn't want to wreck his costume in his very first clash.
He noticed the back of his costume had some overlapping slits to allow his wings to pass through unobstructed. They seemed to have taken into account most of his concerns. Unlike some of the others that needed costumes to improve the functionality of their quirk, his main concern was a costume that didn’t get in the way of his quirks and could withstand his quirks. The tight body armour’s resistance wasn’t to protect him, but to remain intact during super powered clashes and would be able to remain intact even when experiencing a rocket impact. It did little to actually stop the impact from harming him though as that had been made a secondary priority.
For the moment the greaves and bracers might still act to reinforce some of his attacks, but he was sure given some further improvement of his quirk and there would be few materials if any tougher than his body itself. Style still counted for something though.
A cape would have looked classically stylish, but didn’t work with his wings and was a major hazard so none was included with his costume. Edna who had insisted on being part of the design process had also made her opinions very clear on the topic.
Her inspiration for the costume had been the heroes of old meeting modern heroes by combining the modern spandex-like bodysuit common among the current heroes with the bronze armour accents representing the ancient heroes of legends. She was going on about it being timeless or something, but James didn’t listen too closely and just took her word for it.
She wasn’t a multi-award winning fashion designer for nothing after all. She even did the whole thing for free if you disregarded the amount of advertising it would give her work when he made it to the big leagues, which she was absolutely convinced he would. Despite her sharp venomous tongue she was a surprisingly supportive person.
When they gathered back up with the girls he finally got to enjoy his time at U.A. some.
Himiko’s tastes had remained quite similar from her canon ones which lead to her superhero costume still being heavily inspired by the schoolgirl aesthetic and James added in some of the elements of her final villain costume. He toned down some of the more concerning elements image wise and insisted on upgrading all of the fabrics from regular clothing materials to ones suited for superhero costumes. He also made sure to add a thin flexible body armour underneath the sweater protecting her center of mass. Himiko agreed to it due to it not interfering with the style of the costume.
She ended up demanding a large tank to hold his blood even if it meant less room for tanks that could hold other blood. Odds of her coming across stronger quirk holders wasn’t too high though even if she was only able to use his to a reduced degree. The syringes were replaced by gloves lined with countless microscopic needles that drained blood simply by grabbing on to bare skin. The gloves were connected to the blood tanks. They had used state of the art materials and needle design to make them strong and able to penetrate almost any kind of skin powerful quirk users may have. The downside was that despite the effort they had put in, it still drained slower than an oversized syringe would have.
James didn’t really personally mind the syringe look she sported in the original, but it did clash with the heroic image expected of pro heroes so they had to redesign it. They had made it a little less conspicuous, but they could only compromise so much given what her quirk was. Using James blood made her less reliant on draining other people, but she couldn’t only rely on that as it would severely hamper her versatility.
The first thing she did when she James was tease him by acting like one of her knee high socks had slipped down. She bent over sensually while keeping her legs stretched and running her hands up her leg as she “adjusted” the sock. Making sure to draw his gaze to her smooth exposed thighs and the panties she was almost flashing him.
“Like what you see?” She asked teasingly looking back at him.
James smirked giving her a confident nod which actually elicited a slight blush, not enough to stop the flirtatious behaviour though.
“Of course you do,” she mumbled.
There wasn’t much of a change from Momo’s canon costume aside from some minor tweaks in materials and design. There wasn’t much you could do to change the costume when the main requirement was keeping as much of her skin exposed as possible/appropriate since she could only create things from her exposed skin which limited the options quite a bit.
