Chapter 73: Saved by the bell

Soon, the twins get a flashback before the exam started, with Kouna talking to Camie and Hisashi talking to Inasa and Seiji. Camie congratulated Kouna on becoming the champion before saying that not only she admired her extreme strength, but her determination to become a pro hero just like her family, causing Kouna herself to thank her before allowing her to feel her muscles. After Camie felt Kouna's muscles on her arm, she warned her about Hisashi's possible comeback to get her overshadowed by him again, causing Kouna to get mad before telling Camie that her twin brother will never be that jealous to get her under his shadows and make everyone pay more attention to him again. Camie then sighs and told Kouna that ever since the sports festival, she has been hearing rumors about Hisashi's getting so jealous, that he's going to make everyone see her as a nuisance, so she won't be admired and praised again. Kouna then gets furious and thanked Camie before vowing to not Hisashi turn her into the black sheep of the Midoriya family. Meanwhile, Inasa and Seiji warned Hisashi about Kouna because they have been hearing rumors about her going to give him a taste of his own medicine by making him look shameful as number 2, and if Hisashi don't start getting all the attention back to himself with his intelligent ideas, Kouna will steal his title as the world's number 1 hero. The flashback then ends with the twins vowing to not let each other get in their way of becoming the number 1 hero of the world. Soon, Class 1a huddle up together until Hisashi told everyone an idea to finish this off. However, Kouna told everyone to just stick to her plan, causing Hisashi to get noticeably frustrated and told Kouna that her idea will just get everyone killed. After Kouna sarcastically told her brother that she was going to say the same thing about his ideas, she and Hisashi began arguing much to everyone's annoyance.


Soon, students from other hero schools took advantage of this and tries to get the twins eliminated, but got stopped by their cousins, who then break the twins up, so they can focus on the exam and not argue about each other differences. Suddenly, one of the opponents snuck behind Kouna and Hisashi, causing them to give him the hailfire death glare before throwing their balls at him, which also caused a montage of the twins teeth clenched teamwork until time is up, with Class 1a fortunately passing the first part of the provisional exam to get their hero license, which caused Class 1a themselves to look at the twins, who are now glaring at each other intensely now because of their poor teamwork during the first part of the exam. When everyone got back to the waiting room, the twins kept giving each other their respective death glares until the U.A. Warcraft and the hero council came as Izu told the twins themselves to stop giving each other glares. The twins then angrily turn away before Kouna continues lifting weights while Hisashi continue reading a book, causing Ochaco to make a sad noise before telling her husband that she's scared. Toad then told the adults that they try to get them to stop fighting, but somehow, it's like they're becoming more like enemies than brother and sister, causing Griswell to say that it's probably because of the sports festival since Kouna is the one who defeated Hisashi during the third round in the first place. Kiawe then told Griswell that the twins escalated rivalry have nothing to do with the sports festival because of the World Hero Billboard Awards.


Everyone then realized that Kiawe's right as he explained that his four sons were just in a fight because they can't put their differences aside and let their pride in their strength put a strain in their relationship, so one of them will be the future number 1 hero. Soon, Ganma told everyone about the similar situation with her two kids named Hansel and Gretel. Last week, they were in a fight because they think they get in each other way of becoming number 1 hero. Ganma then told everyone that just like her and Kiawe's kids, there's cold tension between the Midoriya twins. After the council look at Izu giving them the same blizzardly glare that Hisashi gives people as he told them that he's now having second thoughts about the upcoming first ever World Hero Billboard Award, Otto have enough and took the twins themselves somewhere private so he'll talk to them about their rivalry is getting in the way of what's more important, which is becoming pro heroes together so they can make their cousins proud, causing Kouna to tell him that it's Hisashi fault for trying to get attention all to himself, which also caused Hisashi to blamed Kouna for trying to be an one-upper. Otto then prevents the twins from fighting again before sternly telling them to get their act together or else they won't pass the exam, which caused the twins to give each other annoyed looks before reluctantly agreeing to cooperate with each other.