After the exam, A U.A. staff member escorted the examinees from battle center A to a luxurious room with comfortable couches, bean bag chairs, bright colorful decoration as well as drinks, and snacks provided by the school.

They had informed the examinees that the written portion of the examination would be starting in an hour, causing almost all of the examinees to groan, still physically and mentally exhausted to be even thinking of the next portion of the exam.

Luckily for them, the staff member had stated that anyone who did not want to do the written exam today was free to leave the premises within the hour and come back tomorrow, U.A. knowing that this was going to happen.

Once again, the majority of the examinees cried out in relief and joy as a large portion of them had started to head for the door.

Ayajo was laying down on a bean bag chair holding up her GBU while continuing to play her endless game in Vakkan 23, not even reacting to the commotion that the examinees made around her.

Zero had laid down beside her to watch her play, both of them not even noticing the deadly glare they were receiving from an ash-blonde haired examinee from across the room.

A few hours later, the pair had exited U.A.s premises, Ayajo having completed the written portion and were currently standing just outside the main entrance.

There was a funny incident when a staff member came to their room to escort them.

Zero, who was again fully covered with clothing had told them by writing on their notepad, that they wouldn't be part of the exam and would be waiting here as Ayajo took it.

The staff member had immediately changed their respectful demeanor to one of strictness and had told Zero to leave the premises immediately or they would be forced to call security.

They were probably highly suspicious of Zero due to their clothing that made them look extremely dodgy, thinking that Zero wanted to commit a notorious act in the school. It didn't help that they thought that Zero had written that message instead of saying it out loud so as to not reveal their voice.

"Pfft!" Ayajo had laughed felt Zero panic internally, as she went over to the staff and explained that Zero was part of her quirk and revealing Zero's wooden nature.

The staff member was a little shocked at the revelation and apologized for the misunderstanding.

Thinking back to that incident, Ayajo's mouth slightly turned up into a small smile.

'I know its funny and all, but i was seriously worried when that staff member had actually threatened to call security, only goes to show how serious they are keeping malicious intent at bay, seeing as they are the first ranked hero school that produces top tier heroes.'

Two people had come out of the entrance and had noticed Ayajo and Zero to the side, one was the slick-haired teen and the other the teen who wore a crown.

"Ayajo!! I see that you have completed the exam before us!" The crowned teen called out to Ayajo in a loud voice, with his signature expression that revealed a slight arrogance on his face.

"She probably rushed through it since you only need to pass instead of a get a good score, especially since the practical portion has a higher weightage." The slick-haired teen commented while rolling his eyes as he followed.

Ayajo gave a small pout, barely noticeable, towards the teen before turning her head away and continuing to play on her GBU.

The teen shook his head as he let out a small laugh, the group of four started walking to the bus stop to go home for the day.

'How was the exam? And you know i mean the practical portion of it' Zero had asked via his notebook to the slick-haired teen.

"Stephen and i had been talking a little bit when we met each other after the exam and he definitely got a higher score than me just listening to him."

"Stephen did what?" Ayajo asked, she knew that Stephen's quirk while very versatile and powerful, and had a lot of potential, but it had little actual firepower.

"This Majesty did not expect to do as well as I had."

"I had originally planned to command the robotic villains to send a single attack towards their nearest ally to instigate them to fight and destroy each other as i had assumed they were programmed to attack anything that attacked them in addition to attacking any and all examinees."

"Then i had noticed that the robots i had commanded had no visible delay or hesitation when carrying out said command."

Ayajo listened on in interest at Stephens retelling of events, already guessing where it was going.

"I had assumed their programming would act as their will in relation to my quirk, but it didn't seem to be the case, so i attempted to use an auto-command to control a one-point villain and it had used multiple times less of my royal energy compared to controlling just one of Ayajo's regular puppets!!"

"Stephen... made robot army?" Ayajo had guessed out loud, inciting Stephen to make his arrogant grin bigger as he laughed out.

"HAHA! Yes, I did! It was the first time since I had gotten my quirk that I felt like a true king with his own personal army!!"

"After discovering that, I breezed through the rest of the exam while sitting atop one of the many three-point robots under my control" Stephen stated proudly.

"Though unlike Ayajo who had split the battle center into six different areas and distributed her puppets into them, you had purposely kept all your robots near you and manually commanding them instead of commanding them to move around the battle center and attack all enemy robots"

Although Ayajo, Zero, and Stephen had noticed that they had not revealed any of the facts he had just stated, they were not surprised as they knew it was just his quirk at work and the fact that he does this frequently.

"That may be true, but watching my army annihilate every villain that crossed their path was utterly invigorating, not to mention the fear and panic displayed by every peasant that encountered my army was priceless!!"

"Zenchi, my dear friend, you would not understand..." Stephen placed his hand on Zenchis' shoulder, shaking his head in mock sadness.

"Big robot?" Ayajo asked, wanting to know how her friend had dealt with the zero-point villain, wondering if he had successfully controlled it as well.

"The zero-pointer? That was decimated by my army, naturally! Though i did have them do a final suicide attack to finish it off... since i would not have needed them past that point"

"You didn't even attempt to control it either, that would have been an impressive feat in its own right..." Zenchi sighed at his friend in disappointment at a lost opportunity.

"Impressive or not, there is no denying that a pile of metal scraps that was once the zero-pointer has a much greater emotional impact than leaving it without a single scratch, despite it switching sides," Stephen explained logically.

"In addition, I did not consider it at the time as I was only thinking of watching it crumble under my army's sheer power" He added truthfully.

"Though there is still one that i cannot get my head around, why is it that despite Ayajo's puppets and the robots being nearly the same, her puppets are able to resist my commands and robots cannot?"

"Both are basically non-living constructs implanted with a purpose, goals, and sets of actions that they are able to follow, acting as their 'will' in relation to my quirk"

"The robots may not be counted as having a will due to their non-living nature and that your quirk wouldn't recognize code, programming and artificial intelligence to have a will." Zenchi speculated, wanting to help his friend learn more about his quirk.

"Ayajo'a grandfather had taught us that humans are more than just the electrical signals in our brain and that we all have a soul which is the basis of our very existence."

Ayajo and Stephen nodded in understanding, that piece of knowledge had been taught to them at a young age, and had been deeply ingrained into their mind.

"For Ayajos puppets, they are basically an extension of herself as she uses her quirk energy to create them"

"So what if instead of the energy latching onto a material and allowing it to move and be manipulated by Ayajo, it was actually breathing life into it, it would explain why they are so life-like in terms of behavior."

"I can imagine that every time that Ayajo creates a puppet, she is infusing a portion of her soul into it, it would explain why she is able to control and command them, as well share senses with them, and even communicate telepathically like with Zero."

"So that would make her puppets count as living things and thus their designated purpose and goals that they had been assigned with would be counted as their will, thus being able to resist your commands!" Zenchi finished, satisfied with his logical explanation.

"While that was a very good explanation, i cannot help but notice how much you had built upon Ayajo's own quirk and even made it sound cooler than it ever was while doing so!" Stephen had exclaimed, slightly boggled on how Zenchi had come up with all of that.

'Oh, i love how you phrased that, and it would explain me quite perfectly, seeing as how I'm like a permanently separated part of Ayajo's soul, it would explain my emotional growth and mental that exceeds normal human standards' Zero had written down, showing to the three teens.

Zero was happy at the analogy that Zenchi had created for Ayajo's quirk, proud to actually be considered living and having a soul, despite it only being a part of their master's soul.

"Soul energy!! You should name your quirk energy Soul Energy! You will finally have a personal name for your energy like the both of us." Stephen shouted out, soul energy was very cool sounding and was proud of having come up with it, even though it was inspired off of Zenchi's analogy of Ayajo's quirk.

"Soul Energy...cool" Ayajo gave a nod in approval as her lips upturned into a small smile, happy to with the name Stephen had come up with.

'Looks like we'll have to update your quirk documentation book now don't we?'

Ayajo nodded in agreement at Zero's question, eager to get home quickly to write down everything that Zenchi had said before she forgets.

In the distance, the quartet had spotted their bus to their neighborhood arriving to at the bus stop, Ayajo rushed towards it first, not wanting to wait for the next one as the trio behind her shook their heads in unison and ran right behind her.