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The bus settled with a hydraulic sigh at the edge of the licensing grounds, a modern colosseum humming with restrained panic. Faces peered from the windows, wide-eyed at the scale of the challenge. My classmates from Class 1-A disembarked in a ripple of nervous conversation. I held my notebook like a shield, my gaze sweeping the daunting arena. Ahead, Aizawa waited by the entrance, his posture a masterpiece of feigned lethargy after managing the adjacent, boisterous group. His eyes, heavy-lidded and assessing, passed over his students and the gathering throng of rivals. 'Try not to lose your heads,' he intoned, his voice a dry rasp. '*Don’t* make yourselves bigger showmen than you already are.'