Chapter 107

On the bridge, AP Shot: Auto Cannon has just scattered both Seiji Shishikura and the flesh fingers he kneaded, and he blames Katsuki Bakugo's crude aggression for lowering his guard. Denki Kaminari watches the severed fingers rejoin their owner's skin as Seiji rebuilds them and vows to teach Katsuki the value of dignity. Sick of the lecture, Katsuki rushes in while Denki fires from the rig on his arm. Seiji slips the shots and decides to remove Denki's fire first, which infuriates Katsuki into another Auto Cannon, blocked by a raised wall of flesh. Seiji denies ignoring anyone and points out the lump already resting on Katsuki's shoulders, sent looping beneath the bridge. Contact alone converts a person, and Katsuki joins Eijiro Kirishima as a ball of meat.

Meatball lets Seiji crumple human flesh into spheres, but his skill has grown past that: he can shear off his own flesh, steer it telekinetically, and merge pieces to bulk them up. Convinced that All Might's retirement makes strong successors urgent, he reads the exam's real purpose as culling the weak, which is why he blocks a class he deems unworthy. He warns Denki that the meatballs still feel pain, so blanket electricity would hurt his friends.

Fingers fly at Denki, who answers by throwing an object that detonates and breaks the volley apart. It is one of Katsuki's grenades, handed over during the earlier speech, since Katsuki can rig simple explosions into them. Denki then fires a controlled beam from a fingertip and electrocutes Seiji. He explains that the arm equipment exists because he cannot regulate his own current, and that Katsuki chose the short-range AP Shot precisely to avoid catching Eijiro or him. Katsuki is reckless, Denki says, but nobody takes heroism more seriously, and mocking people you know nothing about is contemptible. Seiji, enraged, retorts that he was telling them their place.

Explosive and hardened fists land on Seiji from behind: enough damage cancels the flesh prisons, which is why he fights at range. He goes down, Katsuki and Eijiro bicker about their timing, and Denki notes every other victim has reverted too. Elsewhere Ochaco Uraraka floats debris for Hanta Sero to fling with tape, burying examinees under weighted rubble. Yokumiru Mera calls seventy-six through, then three more as Izuku Midoriya, Hanta, and Ochaco tag six targets and clear the round. Mera spots the pattern: despite everyone hunting U.A., Class 1-A has yet to lose anyone. The rest of the class works in pairs and trios across the field, and with the first exam nearly finished, Mera hands preparations for the second over to a company of senior citizens and children who are looking forward to rattling the examinees.

Seiji's Meatball Quirk reduces Katsuki and Eijiro to lumps of flesh.

Denki frees them using a grenade Katsuki slipped him and a directed electrical beam, and the three finish Seiji off together.

Izuku, Ochaco, and Hanta immobilize their opponents with floated debris and tape, passing the first exam.

The remaining members of Class 1-A are shown still competing, and the Help Us Company is set up to run the second exam.

The nineteen-page chapter appeared in issue 42 of 2016 on September 17, 2016, belongs to volume 12 under the Provisional Hero License Exam arc, and covers Katsuki, Denki, and Seiji. A sketch variant accompanies the cover art.

Episode 56 adapts it. The Help Us Company debuts here, and Quirks on display include Invisibility, Tape, Hardening, Electrification, Zero Gravity, Explosion, and Meatball.

Horikoshi's author comment marks forty years of the magazine's serialization with disbelief.