Quirk Control Test

Katsuki Bakugo propped his legs on the desk and waited calmly for the teacher to arrive. He wondered who would be teaching Hero Class A. Hopefully it would not be some weakling.

"Don't put your feet on the desk!"

A loud shout rang out as Tenya Iida, wearing glasses, stepped up in front of Katsuki Bakugo and spoke sternly.

"Huh?" Katsuki Bakugo raised an eyebrow at Tenya Iida, wondering where this guy had come from.

"Don't you think this is disrespectful to U.A. High School's upperclassmen and the people who made these desks?" Tenya Iida gestured with both hands as he spoke.

Katsuki Bakugo snorted. "No. Which middle school are you from, kid? You're just some minor character."

As the two argued, Yang Xiao noticed something. Izuku Midoriya had not arrived. According to the normal plot, Izuku Midoriya should have already been in the classroom by now, standing at the doorway.

Yet Katsuki Bakugo and Tenya Iida had been arguing for so long, and Izuku Midoriya still had not shown up.

Yang Xiao waited for a while. Only after Tenya Iida and Katsuki Bakugo stopped arguing did Izuku Midoriya enter the classroom.

"Deku!" Katsuki Bakugo called out angrily.

Izuku Midoriya immediately shrank his neck like a frightened chick and looked at Katsuki Bakugo with concern. "Kacchan..."

"How did you get into Hero Class A? How did you pass the entrance exam?" Katsuki Bakugo stared at Izuku Midoriya. He had heard some things about what Deku had done during the exam, but he did not really believe them.

Someone he had bullied so often before, someone so weak—how could he have become this strong now? How long had it even been?

"Ah... it's... it's nothing..." Izuku Midoriya became incoherent. The thing he feared most was Kacchan asking him questions like that. He had no idea how to answer.

"Huh? So you just don't want to tell me?" Katsuki Bakugo shouted. Tenya Iida, who was sitting nearby, could no longer stand it and wanted to get up to argue with Katsuki Bakugo again.

"Hey, you fluffy-haired wallflower." Just then, a girl's voice came from the doorway. Izuku Midoriya turned his head and saw that it was the girl he had saved.

Ochaco Uraraka looked at Izuku Midoriya with delight. "Present Mic was right—you passed."

Izuku Midoriya's face instantly turned red. He was not good at talking to girls and was terribly shy.

"But of course you did. Your punch was so amazing," Ochaco Uraraka said, waving her small fist. "Smash, smash, smash..."

"Well, actually, it was thanks to you going to negotiate that I... um..." Izuku Midoriya stammered.

Katsuki Bakugo narrowed his eyes at Deku, who was chatting with Ochaco Uraraka nearby, and anger rose in him. What was going on with U.A. High School? Even someone like Deku had gotten in—and into Hero Class A, just like him!

Right, there was one more person. That guy sitting in the corner looked so weak, yet he had also joined Hero Class A. It made no sense.

"If you want to play at making friends, go somewhere else."

Just as Izuku Midoriya did not know what to do, a weary voice sounded. Then he saw a yellow sleeping bag lying behind Ochaco Uraraka, with the face of a bearded man sticking out from its front.

"This is the Hero Course." The bearded man pulled open the yellow sleeping bag a little, took out a carton of milk, and sucked from it. He looked rather strange.

"Th-there's something weird here." The people at the door were startled. Who exactly was this guy?

"All right, it took you eight seconds to finally quiet down. Time is limited, and you all seriously lack rationality." The speaker was, of course, Shota Aizawa, U.A. High School's handsome teacher. If he paid even a little attention to his appearance, the school's female teachers might all have admired him.

The key was that Shota Aizawa disliked standing out and hated trouble, so he never shaved his beard or tidied his hair. He looked like a vagrant who had struggled through life out in society.

Yang Xiao remembered that MS. JOKE, the homeroom teacher of Class 2-B at U.A. High School, liked Shota Aizawa. But Shota Aizawa had clearly stated that he did not want to date.

However, MS. JOKE was not a woman who gave up easily. Even now, she continued to watch Shota Aizawa in silence.

"So that person is also a Pro Hero?" one of the students asked doubtfully, looking at Shota Aizawa as he walked in through the doorway.

"But I've never seen him before. Someone so listless..."

"I'm your homeroom teacher, Shota Aizawa. Nice to meet you." Shota Aizawa seemed not to have heard the murmurs. His half-open eyes swept across everyone before finally settling on Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao had a strange feeling. It was as if he had been singled out.

That should not have been possible. He had been so utterly ordinary; logically, no student or teacher should have paid attention to him.

Had something gone wrong somewhere?

Shota Aizawa withdrew his gaze, adjusted the sleeping bag in his hands, and took out a set of clothes. "No wasting time. Put these on and come to the field."

There was a uniform for everyone. Yang Xiao suddenly realized that the class seemed to be missing someone.

Only now did he react. Everyone should have been present by this point, so who was missing?

Yang Xiao swept his gaze over all his classmates before finally realizing that the missing student was Koji Koda. His Quirk was Animal Voice: he could imbue his voice with his will to control animals and insects.

That student had somehow been removed without a trace?

Yang Xiao felt inexplicably bewildered. Still, that made the number of characters in the class even.

After Shota Aizawa gathered everyone on the field, he announced the purpose.

"Quirk control test?"

"What about the entrance ceremony? The school tour?" Ochaco Uraraka asked in confusion. In her mind—no, in everyone's mind—the first day of school should obviously have an entrance ceremony, followed by an introduction to the school.

How could they start directly with some kind of test?

"If you aspire to be heroes, you have no time for such leisurely activities," Shota Aizawa said to himself with his back to the class. "One of U.A.'s biggest selling points is its free-spirited school culture, and that applies to teachers as well. You did this in middle school too, didn't you? Physical fitness tests with Quirks prohibited."

"Our country still uses those standardized records to establish average benchmarks. It makes no sense at all. Well... that is the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology neglecting its duties." Shota Aizawa turned around, his gaze landing on Yang Xiao. "Bakugo got first place in the practical exam, right?"

"It's Bakugo. Why are you looking at me?" Yang Xiao felt inexplicably confused. He could not shake the feeling that Shota Aizawa was targeting him. Shouldn't he have been looking at Katsuki Bakugo at this point?

The next moment, Shota Aizawa shifted his gaze to Katsuki Bakugo. "How far could you throw a softball in middle school?"

"Sixty-seven meters." Katsuki Bakugo answered truthfully. He did not put on airs in front of a teacher.