42 The start of the tournament

A few minutes have passed and Mio was now watching the start of the tournament, she was sitting with the other teacher while drinking tea. The other also drink their own, each of them having their unique taste.

On the huge screen, Present Mic appeared with his electrifying smile, as he announced the tournament "It has officially begun! The Sports Festival of this year!" causing the audience to applaud.

After finishing the announcement, he now presented the class for the audience "I think everyone is anxiously waiting for those fledgling heroes that you have heard so much about, let's not speak more, here to everyone... the first-years of the hero course!" With that in mind, everyone watched closely at the entrance has students began to appear.

"Now, the departure of heroics, Class 1-A!!!" Present Mic shouted passionately at everyone, to whom every single person exclaimed excitedly.

As the class 1-A walk onto the field, they were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of people cheering in the stadium. And adding Present Mic introduction them to the audience, they felt many eyes fall onto them.

"S-SO MANY P-PEOPLE!" Izuku trembled at the sight of the audience.

Looking around, Ilda couldn't help but comment "Can you draw out your best performance with so many eyes gazing from all directions... it's seems this is another test by U.A." He said like he was praising the school.

"Wow! They're really praising us aren't they. Even I'm starting to feel nervous with all this attention." Kirishima said after hearing the applause for their class "What about you Bakugo?"

"Heh, I'm used to it." he said cockily.

Izuku looked around to find his mentor and found him with Mio drinking tea. Mio see Izuku eyes on her and All Might, smile and waved. Which made him turn a little red remembering what she made him wear.

After Present Mic introduced the other classes, Midnight took the center stage and drew the eyes of many males from both audience and the students.

"Dude check it out! The R-Rated hero Midnight is the chief referred for the freshmen stage this year."

"R-Rated? Is it okay that she's in a high school with so many hormonal teenagers around?" Tokoyami asked with concern. Which Mineta grinned with his thumb up.

Before Midnight explained the rules and Bakugo represent, Mio was chatting with Nezu about the incoming event that she will be in part with "Are you sure, that's a good idea, Nezu? I mean this is the first time that I heard that a teacher will play a role in the festival."

"Don't worry, I want to change a little bit. So please trust me." He said. But in truth, he wanted to see more of Mio's abilities, as he has a feeling that she had hidden more abilities inside her.

"Now, let's get started right away!" Midnight's said, behind her was a large board that was displaying what will be the first round of the festival will be "The first game is what you'd call a qualifier! Every year many are forced to drink their tears at this stage! Now here is the fateful first game!" In which, the board began to spin until it settled on a obstacle course.

The other class who saw that is going obstacle course smiled as they decided to settle their matter on Class 1-A.

"An obstacle course!"

"Whatever, let's show those class 1-A jerks what we made of!"

"Let's crush then!"

In meantime, Mio seeing that it will still follow the plot decide to make a bet on to Nezu "Want a bet Nezu?"

"A bet?" He said in surprise, as he doesn't understand why Mio want a bet with him "Indeed, if you win, I will tell every single abilities that my quirk can do and the secret I hide..." hearing this, he was surprised, he didn't know that Mio already knew his plan of trying to uncover her secret and she said without care.

"But if you lose..." the tension grew a little until she said "I pet you when we are alone for the rest of the years whenever I want to."

'What!? Was that all?' He was surprised, he didn't understand.

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In the meantime, all 11 classes were brought to a narrow tunnel and were told to prepare to start.

The whole classes 1-A had a focused expression on their faces as they knew that getting through this round was essential to showing their worth to the pros.

All the students waited in anticipation as the countdown started. It was only as the final few seconds came down first round begin with Present Mic saying.

"START!"