"Your sister is, for a lack of a better term... dead."
Weeks past by, and Denki never once left the room he was sent to in the orphanage. He was in shock, and the workers there started getting worried that he would die, since he wouldn't eat the food laid out for him. This behavior kept going on until a day came by that, while it didn't exactly give him hope, but gave him a new purpose in life.
A week after being sent to the orphanage, Denki overheard something that the police officer that told him of his sister's death.
The boy listened to the man speak with a scowl. He didn't like the man, whose name was Tsukauchi, since he associated his face with all the dark feelings and thoughts in his head. He was only a child, after all.
Denki shook his head to clear his head of those thoughts and resumed listening, still with a scowl on his face.
"-think we found out who was behind the murder of the sister of Denki Kaminari," Denki's eyes widened, shock written all over his face.
The blonde pressed his ear closer to the door, intent on finding out this bit of information.
The owner of the orphanage spoke next, "Oh, so you found that out? I'm glad, maybe little Denki can come out of his room and eat now."
Tsukauchi answered with a sigh, "No, we mustn't tell the boy yet, he's not ready," Denki's scowl deepened, "But enough of that, the people behind the murder are-"
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*
Denki jolted awake with a start, shocking the alarm clock in the process. "Darn, now I need to buy another one," he complained with a frown on his face.
The frown deepened as he recalled the dream. I thought I could escape my troubles through sleep, but I guess not...
Oh well, now's not the time to dwell on that, I need to get ready for the entrance exam!
Denki wasn't really paying attention to the explanation, though there was one serious guy with glasses who asked a dumb question about the exam, and then proceeded to call out a plain boy with green hair. He didn't really see what the big deal was about one guy's quiet muttering, but he wasn't one to get into other people's business.
All right, now let's beat up some robots,
Denki thought as he went to his station. He looked around to look at his competitors. There was a guy with spiky red hair who looked pretty tough, so Denki thought he might be able to get in. One the other hand, there was a really short guy with grape-like balls on his head who did nothing but stare at the girl competitors the whole time. He's definitely gonna fail.
Present Mic started speaking, "ALRIGHT LISTENERS, IT'S TIME TO START BUSTING UP SOME ROBOTS! GO!"
Denki started running to a bunch of robots that were worth 3 points and started charging up electricity in his fingers. The robots suddenly turn towards him, "TARGET ACQUIRED."
One of the started charging at Denki and swiped a robotic arm at him, only for the blonde to duck under it, grab it's torso, then electrocute it's circuits thoroughly. One down two to go, he thought.
Then he charged up a ton of electricity in two of his fingertips, then launched two streams of yellow electricity at the two respectively.Denki had a smirk on his face as he electrocuted robot after robot, until he decided to stop at 45 points, since he didn't want to draw too much attention to himself. He then put up his iconic 'Wheey' face, with blank eyes and a dumb smile, walking around the cityscape with a double thumbs-up.
He almost broke out of character at the 2-minute mark, when he heard and felt a loud BOOM across the city. Denki's face turned into a shocked one for a split-second, as he watched several building collapse under a huge robot at a different station before turning back into his dumb one. What the heck was that?, he wondered, right before Present Mic yelled, "TIME!"
FOOTNOTE
Thank you guys for all the support you've shown so far, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I kinda wanted to add some more fight scenes during the exam, but I'm not all that good at writing fight scenes right now, and I kinda thought it would be more fitting if Denki finished early, so that he scores lower on the scoreboards but still gets in. Thanks for reading!