Chapter 197: Warriors and champions

As everyone gathered to a room to watch the battlefield, Pomegranate told Prince that since they are on Team Heroes against Matilda and Madeline, (who are on Team Villains) they must strategize a plan to outsmart them and capture their flag to win within the time limit. A montage then begins as Class A115 and Class A114 faced each other as the Professors decided that they all passed just like Cadet 1a did, causing the Peanut Gallery to be proud of themselves as most of them call their parents to tell them the news. Soon, after four breaks, it was time for Class A113 to go, with Team Celia (Celia and May) vs Team Stan (Stan and Manny) going first.


The match begins as a bell rang, which caused Celia and May to enter the battlefield to put their plan into action. Their plan was to flood the battlefield with water and freeze it once they got Stan and Manny caught in it. However, just as May was about to unleash the super move tidal trap, Team Stan ambushed them before Manny uses his quirk to capture the girls, but Team Celia quickly escape because Celia herself uses her ice quirk to freeze the net before she and May began clashing the boys, which caused the professors (who are watching from a higher platform) to start discussing about how well they are cooperating with each other until Celia and May created a new super move called ice-skate bowler, which lets May creates fast flowing water for Celia to skate on, so she'll charged towards the enemy before unleashing piles of ice on them as she skate through them. soon, Team Celia managed to subdued Team Stan as Celia quickly grabbed the flag, causing the announcer to say that they have won, which also caused everyone else to cheer for them.


Meanwhile, Hisashi got Esme to help him train to get strong enough to overpower Kouna during the final match, which caused Esme herself to ask him if there's a reason why he wants her to help him instead of Kouna. Hisashi then told Esme that before the sports festival of Harmony Island, everyone look up to him, admired him, and expect him to be a pro in everything to live up the Midoriya name. however, after his defeat to Kouna, everything is changing so fast, starting with Kouna getting recognized as a pro hero and admiring her for her extreme strength. Esme then gives Hisashi a sympathetic look as he wraps it up by admitting that ever since he was four, he couldn't smile because of the heavy burden of responsibilities and growing pressure that he's being getting, and now, everyone is expecting him to be as strong as Kouna. Esme then put a hand on Hisashi's head and lectured him about how everyone can be warriors and champions if they have people to share their burdens with people they cared about, causing Hisashi himself to blush as he sees Esme as the titular character of Sofia the first, which was his and Kouna's favorite show from their childhood. Soon, Esme began training Hisashi as they start it off with blackwhip.