So I was looking at this again
Nothing weird about it, y'know?
Apart from what struck me - Ibara's blushing. Why she's blushing? Well, given Izuku's look of distress and both Neito and Itsuka's triumphant expressions, it appears that they're on the winning team.
In legit terms, it's probably just Horikoshi's way of expressing her surprise or something. But right now i'm craving more Monoma/Ibara interactions pLEASE.
I mean it's an angel girl and literal hellspawn what could possibly go wrong?
But given 1-B's varied feelings towards Monoma (such as Yui's discomfort around him in contrast to Pony, Kinoko and Setsuna's seeming endearment to him), I'm really interested to see where Shiozaki's view is on the matter.
Plus, not only is she one of the strongest girls in 1-B, she's probably the strongest girl in first year overall (i made a seperate post about that), so honestly I can really picture Monoma taking some sort of liking to her. Not to mention how he patronised 1-A about Kaminari's effortless defeat against her during the Sports Festival.