Chapter 9 (Team-Up Missions)

Katsuki Bakugo, Shoto Todoroki and Eijiro Kirishima meet their assigned partner outside the amusement park Future Park: Camie Utsushimi of Shiketsu High School. Eijiro's booming introduction gives her Inasa Yoarashi vibes. A tiny man dressed as a clown announces himself as the park's chief executive officer and the client who requested them, promising them the run of the place, then walks them next door instead. Their real destination is Retro Land, a formerly thriving park that has been bleeding customers since Future Park opened, with no budget to fight back. Katsuki works out they are there to drum up business, and the CEO hands out scripts for a hero show.

The plot he describes is pure formula: a villain attacks, heroes arrive, the heroes falter, the crowd's cheers lift them, victory follows. Eijiro loves the classic setup while Katsuki calls it stale. Rehearsing alongside professional performers led by a woman in a wolf costume playing the villain, they hit the defeat scene badly. Eijiro overacts, Camie underplays, Shoto stays blank, and Katsuki flatly refuses to be beaten by anyone. The wolf asks for more effort and tells them to settle their formation order. Camie and Katsuki immediately fight over the center spot, hers by seniority, his by strength.

Eijiro notices Shoto staring at a mechanical animal ride and, since they were told to enjoy themselves, pushes him onto it, admitting he has not been to a theme park since starting high school. Shoto quietly says he has never been to one at all, and the two head off with Camie in tow. Katsuki sulks alone through the carousel and coaster, calling them babies, until Eijiro proposes settling the center position on the spinning teacups: least sick wins. Goaded into it, Katsuki spins the cup as hard as he can. Only Shoto walks away intact while the other three are left retching.

On performance day, two cameramen turn up calling themselves experts and hoping for something special. As the show runs, the CEO watches the students work happily until a representative from Future Park corners him, demanding he sign the land over so the rival can expand. He refuses. Backstage during downtime, the students spot the confrontation and recognize the men as villains. Two assistants are set on them; Camie warns the others they are due back onstage, but Katsuki, Shoto and Eijiro stay and drop the pair quickly. One of them gloats anyway: their backup plan had already dismantled sections of the roller coaster rails, and the resulting accident would sink Retro Land's reputation. Eijiro Hardens and sprints for the track.

With her heroes missing their cue, Camie improvises using Glamour. Her illusory Shoto purrs at the villain to turn hero instead, and the wolf, thrown by his beauty, blurts out agreement, baffling the audience. Needing to keep going, Camie conjures an Eijiro who declares himself the villain, confusing them further. Out on the track, Eijiro catches the coaster and tries to hold it. Katsuki latches onto him ready to blast, but Eijiro objects that the park will panic. Shoto tells them Camie's performance has the crowd too transfixed to notice, so Katsuki lets loose an Explosion strong enough to stop the cars. The cameramen weep at the play's ending, where villainous Eijiro is redeemed by heroic Katsuki, the audience cheers, and Camie sags from overusing her Quirk.

The CEO and the wolf thank the students, the villains are arrested, and a recording of the show draws real crowds back to Retro Land. It also saddles Katsuki, Shoto and Eijiro with an unwanted fanbase, the two cameramen watching them from the bushes.

The three U.A. students are paired with Camie Utsushimi and assigned to save Retro Land by performing a hero show.

Agents of Future Park pressure the CEO to sell and sabotage the roller coaster rails as a fallback scheme.

Katsuki and Eijiro stop the runaway coaster while Camie carries the entire show alone with Glamour illusions, and the broadcast revives the park's business.

Yoco Akiyama writes and draws this ninth chapter of My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions. It ran in the January 2021 issue of Saikyo Jump, dated December 5, 2020, runs 31 pages, and was collected in Volume 2.

Camie Utsushimi, Katsuki Bakugo, Eijiro Kirishima and Shoto Todoroki appear on the cover.

Inasa Yoarashi is mentioned but does not appear.