Over the two-day weekend, everyone in the class learned from the news that Tenya Iida's brother, Ingenium, had been seriously injured.
They consciously or unconsciously avoided the topic, instead talking about the trouble the U.A. Sports Festival had caused over the past two days.
Because of the event, all of Class A got a ton of public attention.
On their way to school that morning, almost everyone got surrounded by random people asking them all sorts of questions.
"How about you, Momo?"
Mina Ashido asked Momo Yaoyorozu.
"Well... my family drives me, so I didn't run into anyone trying to talk to me. Kind of a shame."
Momo Yaoyorozu's answer made everyone feel the huge gap in economic status.
"By the way, isn't Arthur here?"
Izuku Midoriya changed the subject.
No sooner had he spoken than a loud roar came from the school's outdoor playground.
Everyone in Class A turned to look, and there was a helicopter hovering right above the playground.
Arthur suddenly opened the cockpit door, jumped out, hooked his right hand on the window sill of Class A's classroom, and swung himself in.
Everyone was completely blown away by this ridiculously cool entrance.
Momo Yaoyorozu reacted first, walking up with a gentle smile. "Arthur, you're back."
"Yeah..."
Arthur, who'd left his bag at school, sat in his seat with his hands clasped over his stomach and said with his eyes closed, "Sleeping on the plane was really uncomfortable."
"Arthur seems pretty tired, ribbit," Tsuyu Asui said, tilting her head.
"He just flew back from Hawaii. I thought he wouldn't make it in time," Momo Yaoyorozu explained.
"Two days in Hawaii over the weekend? That's insane!" Eijiro Kirishima exclaimed.
"Vice rep, were there a lot of bikini girls?" Denki Kaminari and Minoru Mineta asked, drooling.
Whoosh
The classroom door slid open, and the last person, Shoto Todoroki, walked in.
"Yo, Todoroki! You're really late!" Yoarashi Inasa greeted him enthusiastically.
"I got held up by a bunch of people on the way. Hard to get away," Shoto Todoroki said casually.
"He did get second place at the Sports Festival," everyone sighed, realizing that made sense.
A lot of them who didn't even make it past the third round had gotten plenty of attention, let alone Todoroki, who got second overall.
But the one who got first place, judging by his entrance just now, probably didn't get surrounded either, just like Momo Yaoyorozu.
Hearing the words "second place," Katsuki Bakugo, sitting by the wall with his right arm in a cast, almost flew out of his seat in rage.
He and Yoarashi Inasa were tied for third.
"Good morning, everyone..."
Just then, Shota Aizawa, whose bandages had been removed, walked in with his usual tired tone.
Arthur was looking at his phone, more specifically, at a photo with Melissa in his album, wondering whether to delete it.
Even though he figured it probably wouldn't happen, if Momo Yaoyorozu found it, she'd probably give him a hard time, right?
Noticing Arthur's situation, Shota Aizawa pretended to ignore him and just tapped the desk as a hint.
Seeing that, Arthur gave Aizawa some respect and put his phone away.
In the end, he didn't delete the photo.
"Today's hero class is a little different."
Shota Aizawa's words immediately made a lot of people think of tense stuff like "exams" or "reviews."
Under everyone's nervous looks, Shota Aizawa spoke. "We're going to decide your code names. Your hero names."
As soon as he said that, Denki Kaminari, Eijiro Kirishima, and the others jumped up excitedly, only to get shut down by Aizawa's glare the next second.
"This is also related to the 'Pro Hero Internships' I mentioned before. It's a course originally meant for second year, but I think you all know things are completely different now, right?"
Shota Aizawa continued. "So the school has decided to assess your potential as heroes early..."
He took out a remote, pressed it, and a stats table appeared on the blackboard projection screen.
Arthur: 6824
Shoto Todoroki: 2866
Yoarashi Inasa: 1943
Momo Yaoyorozu: 1244
Katsuki Bakugo: 765
Fumikage Tokoyami: 549
"These are the numbers of internship offers that pro agencies have sent each of you since the Sports Festival," Shota Aizawa explained.
"Damn, Arthur's got nearly 7,000!"
"As expected of the strongest Quirk!"
Arthur's overwhelming number of offers really blew everyone away.
Even Shoto Todoroki in second place didn't have half of his total.
"Impressive," even Todoroki himself couldn't help saying.
"Probably just a bunch of idiots who want to study The World's ability," Arthur said calmly.
Unconsciously, he'd already taken out the letter Togata Mirio had given him a few days ago.
"The gap between Yoarashi and Bakugo, who are tied for third, is actually that big?" Denki Kaminari said in surprise.
"What did you say, you electric idiot?!" Katsuki Bakugo roared, his pride wounded again.
"Well, that move against Itsuka Kendo from Class B was pretty brutal. Everyone probably holds a grudge," Eijiro Kirishima chuckled.
"You want to die?!" Bakugo kept yelling.
"You're so loud, Durian Head," Arthur raised an eyebrow and looked over.
"You want me to rip out your throat?"
"You bastard..." Bakugo gritted his teeth but didn't dare treat Arthur the same way he treated Denki or Kirishima.
"Amazing... Arthur can shut Kacchan down like that..." Izuku Midoriya thought in disbelief.
"Hey Midoriya, you've got zero," Minoru Mineta said, shaking Izuku's shoulder from behind.
Last row:
Izuku Midoriya: 0
Really standing out.
Hero names mainly serve to intimidate enemies, boost your reputation, and to some extent hide your identity.
Since they were going to do "work experience," they'd need to use these.
"Anyway, that's how it is. But if anyone picks a ridiculous one..."
"Then I'll show them what hell looks like!" Shota Aizawa hadn't even finished when someone from outside cut in.
In Momo Yaoyorozu's view, Midnight walked onto the podium with a very strange pose, kind of similar to Arthur's usual weird stances, showing off her curves.
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