Disparity

After the competition events were announced, Midnight, as Renault had expected, explained the rules for the competition. Namely, contestants were allowed to use their Quirks freely.

This was quite interesting, as even Class A students had not revealed their Quirks to the outside world despite facing villain invasions before. Today would be the first time they would expose their Quirks to everyone.

It's worth noting that this is where U.A. shines, as they aren't worried about their students' Quirks being exposed and potentially used against them in future hero career assessments or by competitors. It seems that U.A. also sees this as a test for their students.

Soon, all the first-grade students gathered in the narrow pathway leading to the sports field. After all, it was the U.A. Sports Festival, and the distance of the Obstacle Race was not short.

"However, this pathway is a bit narrow..." Renault said, looking at the now crowded passage after everyone had squeezed through. It seemed that the first elimination round had already begun. If someone couldn't even gain an initial advantage at the starting line, it would show their poor reaction and adaptability skills.

The countdown began, and Renault slightly crouched down. Todoroki Shoto, Bakugo Katsuki, Iida Tenya, Midoriya Izuku, and a few others were all ready to go behind and beside him.

"Three! Two! One! Begin!"

*Dong!*

The green light, which signaled the start, lit up, and everyone rushed towards the outside of the passageway.

However, it was not a problem when they were still. Now that they started moving, many people found that there were simply too many people, and they were unable to move due to being squeezed on both sides.

"Ah! It's too crowded!"

"Move aside!!!"

Various voices were constantly ringing in their ears, and of course, the students from classes like the General Department and Management Department were the ones who complained the most.

Looking at the scene before him, Renault was ready to activate his Quirk and force his way through. Of course, he would control his strength to avoid hurting the people around him.

However, just before he could take action, Renault's skin felt a chill.

"What's this..."

Renault immediately reacted and leaped into the air, controlling the air behind him to push himself outward.

At the moment Renault acted, the walls of the entire passage were covered in spreading ice.

At the same time as everyone who didn't have time to react was frozen in place, Todoroki Shoto emerged and was tied for first place with Renault, who had come from the air.

After landing, Renault started to run alongside Todoroki Shoto, as it wasn't fun to start using flying ability right away in the Obstacle Race.

"I really didn't expect you to use this method," Todoroki Shoto said, glancing at Renault who was running easily beside him. "If you can't even avoid this, then you don't have the qualifications to continue competing."

"That's true, but... the people in our class are not among them," Renault replied, glancing behind him. Bakugo Katsuki had rushed out ahead of everyone else, using his exploding hands to propel himself toward the two.

"HEY! YOU TWO! STOP!"

"Still as irritable as ever, Bakugo..." Renault looked at Bakugo Katsuki and also noticed other Class A students who had activated their Quirks and charged out from behind him. Even Uraraka Ochaco and Midoriya Izuku, who had not used their Quirks, were not frozen by Todoroki Shoto's ice and easily rushed out, indicating that they had sensed it at the first moment.

This scene was also visible to all viewers through the large screen.

Inside the broadcast room, Present Mic slammed the table with the microphone in his hand and shouted, "Ah! Todoroki Shoto of Class A! He froze the passage for an instant and charged out! And Renault of Class A, why did he switch to running after flying? Eraser Head, can you explain it?"

"Don't call me by that name..." Aizawa Shota, with his eye under the bandage, glanced at Present Mic and said, "I guess, he thought it would be too boring."

"Boring?"

Nodding, Aizawa Shota said, "If they had used their full strength from the beginning, this round of the competition would have been too predictable. Didn't you see that all the Class A students were handling it with ease?"

Under Aizawa Shota's explanation, the audience looked at the Class A students in front of the pack on the screen and had a sudden realization.

Todoroki Shoto's ice under his feet continued to disrupt the people behind him, which was useless for Renault and Bakugou, but no one expected that someone would rush out at this time.

Taking off the purple grape balls from his head and throwing them onto the ice, Mineta Minoru quickly leaped forward and caught up in an extreme time.

Jumping into the air, Mineta Minoru held a grape in each hand and said with a sly grin, "Hahaha, didn't expect that? Today, let me use my ultimate move to defeat you two with one strike! Come and take it!"

*Bang!*

In the next second, Mineta Minoru was knocked out by an attack from the side.

Renault, Todoroki Shoto, and Bakugo Katsuki all stopped and watched as several huge robots slowly closed in front of them.

"This...the Villain Bots from the entrance exam?" Todoroki Shoto was the first to identify the type of these robots.

Renault nodded, looking at the slightly smaller robots other than the few super-huge ones, and said, "In addition to the zero-point villain bot that was mentioned at the time, there were also robots with different scores."

At this moment, other students from behind also rushed over one after another, stunned as they looked at the numerous robots in front of them. Especially those General Department students who did not participate in the Hero Department exam were shocked and scared as they listened to the simple explanation of these robots on the broadcast, saying, "These... were the enemies that the Hero Department's students dealt with during the entrance exam?"

"How are we going to fight them?!"

"How do we fight?" Renault turned his neck and looked at a zero-point giant robot in front of him and then said to Todoroki Shoto, "One-on-one?"

"Whatever works, even if it's just me alone, I can handle it." Todoroki Shoto put his hand on the ground as he spoke.

"Well, in that case..." Renault glanced at Bakugo Katsuki and hooked his finger.

"Let's go one-on-one."

With that said Renault jumped into the air and charged toward the giant robot.

"Hmph, watch me take it out in an instant!" Bakugo Katsuki saw this and followed Renault out.

In the next moment, in front of everyone's eyes, a zero-point villain bot was frozen and unable to move. Additionally, one had its head broken and slowly fell to the ground, while the last one was directly torn apart.

The disparity between the three of them and everyone else was clearly revealed.

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