Chapter 24

Class 1-A files out onto the First Year Stage at U.A.'s Sports Festival, with the other first-year classes following behind. Midnight, serving as Chief Referee for the stage, calls up the player representative, and that turns out to be Katsuki Bakugo. He takes the stage and informs her he intends to place first, which draws jeers from every other class.

Midnight then announces the preliminaries. The First Event is an Obstacle Race running nearly four kilometers around the stadium.

The start goes badly for Izuku, who cannot find room to move in the crush. Shoto Todoroki solves that problem by freezing the ground, pinning dozens of students in ice and skidding into the lead. All of Class 1-A gets clear of it, and Shoto notes that while he expected a few of them to dodge, more managed it than he planned for. Minoru tries to strike him with his Quirk and gets knocked aside by a Robo Inferno. Then the first obstacle reveals itself: a wall of Villain Robots left over from the entrance exam, blocking the route. Shoto flash freezes a swath of them, and the falling machines seal the way behind him while he pulls far out in front.

Villain Robots corner Izuku, who decides this is the moment to put his head to work, no longer frozen with fear the way he was during the Entrance Exam.

Katsuki takes the first-year representative slot for the festival. The Athlete's Oath never happens; he uses the microphone to promise the crowd he will win.

The Obstacle Race gets under way.

The chapter was published on December 22, 2014 in the combined issue 4-5 of 2015, spans nineteen pages, and is collected in Volume 3 under the Japanese title 駆け上がれ蹴落として, read Kakeagare Keotoshite. It belongs to the U.A. Sports Festival arc, and Episode 15 adapts it.

Twelve Class 1-A students share the cover, among them Momo Yaoyorozu, Katsuki Bakugo, Izuku Midoriya and Hitoshi Shinso. Two chapters precede it, Chapter 23 and the bonus Chapter 23.5, and Chapter 25 follows.

Events unfold at the Sports Festival Stadium inside U.A. High School in Musutafu. Pop Off, Brainwashing, Tail, Acid, Dark Shadow, Navel Laser, Creation, Explosion, Half-Cold Half-Hot and Invisibility all feature, alongside Explosive Speed, the Capturing Weapon and the Villain Bots.