This volume contains rounds two and half of three of the U.A. Sports Festival. Round two is a calvary competition where three classmates make the horse for a fourth. The fourth holds all the teams points in the form of a bandana, and must protect theirs while stealing bandanas from other riders. Deku got 10,000,000 points for coming in first during round one's relay race, and everyone else is in the hundreds. Everyone is coming after his team, so his strategy is to avoid them all as long as possible. The top four teams with the most points advance to the third round which is a 16-man tournament of 1-1 matches. In the first level of the tournament, Deku goes up against General Studies student Hitoshi Shinso, whose quirk is being able to control any person who verbally responds back to him.
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Illustrated by Andy Kubert, digital paint by Richard Isanove
Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster, Sir Nicholas Fury, is attempting to secure the weapon of the Knights Templar by sending his man, the Bard Murdock, to make sure it arrives in England safely. The queen’s personal physician, Doctor Strange, struggles to divine all of the moving mechanisms throughout the world. King James of Scotland messages Enrique of the Inquisition through his son Petros to coordinate the removal of Carlos Javier’s School of Witchbreed Children. Meanwhile, Virginia Dare and her protector, the Indian Rojhaz, sail to England to be the Queen for more men and resources for the colony of Roanoke. Count Otto Van Doom the Handsome plots to steal the weapon of the Templars and take over the world. He bilks the crew of The Fantastic into divulging secrets he can exploit to become stronger. All these characters and more are plucked from the pages of modern comics and woven into Elizabethan England for a grand out-of-their-time adventure 
Our heroes finally find who the traitor is within the Myodha and now the left eye has been taken. Ossamu harbors all the secrets of the Order against Bon's wishes, and Rin tries to mediate the father-son squabble because of his guilt with Father Fujimoto. Afterwards, there are 40 pages dedicated to bonus stories. There is an adventure with Yukio, Rin, and Shiemi fighting a phantom demon subway ferrying unsuspecting riders to their doom. Then there's one with Kuro running away because he thinks Rin is intentionally cooking foods he doesn't like to starve him.
In this volume, we're finishing up with villains who broke into the USJ by displaying All Mights heroics and a save from a few other teachers. Then it’s time for the UA Sports Festival, which is as popular as the Olympics were before everyone developed quirks. Event one is an obstacle course around the arena, complete with killer robots, tightrope walking, and a mine field. All Might talks to Deku beforehand about using the sports festival to announce to the world that he was a serious hero, and what better way to do that than winning the obstacle course! Of course, this paints a huge target on his back for the second event, coming in the next volume.
Yona, Hak, Yun, and Gija are continuing their search for the dragon warriors. Gija leads them across the Fire Tribes lands in search of the Blue Dragon. They come upon a village dug into the mountain range. Here, they find that the villagers are not very welcoming, and all the unwed villagers wear masks. They make fleeting contact with the Blue Dragon before he is lost to the caves. The villagers shun Yona's group for pursuing the cursed young man, and they reveal that the power of the Blue Dragon is shameful to them and something they have tried to hide from the outside world. Elsewhere under the mountain, the Blue Dragon reflects on his harsh childhood where he was ostracized by his family and raised by the previous Blue Dragon, Ao.
Yukio, Shura, and Rin head off to investigate the robbery of the Deep Keep, where exorcist were keeping the left eye of the Impure King, a demon who brought poisonous gas and death to Japan in the 1800s. Yukio goes off with another team to track down the thief, and Rin, Shura, and the classmates travel to Kyoto to help the branch office keep the right eye secure. Several of the classmates are from Kyoto, so we get a lot more insight into the backgrounds of Bon, Shima, and Konekomaru.
Vol 2, Head Games: illustrated by Gabriel Rodríguez
Bode uncovers another key while fishing in a pool on the property, but he can’t figure out what it opens. At school, the drama teacher recognizes Ty's friend Zack as Luke, who was Rendell's friend from so many years ago, and Zack can’t have that. As Uncle Duncan says goodbye to go back home for a while, Bode sees a keyhole at the base of his skull and starts to wonder if that’s what his new key opens. He shows Kinsey and Ty, and they find they can look inside Bode's head and see his thoughts and memories. They take out the lady in the well house, and Bode instantly forgets her. When they put her back in, he remembers her again. Ty theorizes that they can add things to their brains by stuffing it in their open skulls, so he experiments with his English homework by shoving novels in his brain. Ty wants to share this discovery with his friends, including Zack. Kinsey uses the key to remove her fear and sadness. 
Summer vacation is coming to an end, and it's the first time Komi has felt sad about that. In previous years, Summer vacation just meant a lot of boredom, but now she has friends to hang out with. Once school starts again, it's time for the Sports Festival! Everyone wants Komi to be on their team for events like the relay. The ever-competitive Yodano desperately wants to beat Komi in at least one event, but can't. During Komi's portion of the relay, she slips in the mud, and everyone is so concerned and happy she's ok that they celebrate her finish more so than the victors. We also meet Nokoko, a transfer student from a country school, who is likewise enamored by Komi.
Yuma, Mikumo, and Amatori have joined the Tamakoma branch of Border, and their hope is to rise to the level of S-Rank so that they can be chosen for a mission to the Neighbor home world. We learn that Yuma, as well as Jin, possess Black Triggers, the strongest of all triggers, and Border wants to take Yuma's trigger from him. But, Black triggers are made when someone sacrifices their life for you, so transferring of Black Triggers is nearly impossible. Yuma and Jin both tell the story of who sacrificed for their black triggers: for Jin, it was his mentor; for Yuma, it was his father during a battle when he was young, preserving Yuma as a twelve-year-old. Yuma also has a limited amount of time to solve the problem of his preserved body, because it is deteriorating. We also learn that Yuma's side-effect is really handy, especially when it comes to dealing with the squads from other Border branches who come to steal his black trigger!
During the test in the forest, a powerful demon named Amaimon attacks the camp, seeking to draw Rin out and use his power. Rin obliges when it's clear that Amaimon is a threat to everyone present, and finally lets his classmates see who he really is. They don’t take it so well. Rin is immediately taken to the Vatican to an Exorcist Court where President Mephisto is on trial for harboring the Son of Satan. He convinces the council to let Rin study to become an exorcist, and they agree. However, Rin only has 6 months to train enough to pass the exam, and he can't use his flame until he passes the exam.
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