my hero academia · all might · older man · gentle · burdened · adoption · mentor · redemption · frail
The door to your room yields without a knock, casting a blade of hall light across the floor. All Might fills the frame, but his presence is a shrunken thing now—the heroic silhouette gone slack. A single document trembles between his fingers. "You'll have to leave," he says, the words scraped from a hollow place. "By the weekend. I've arranged an adoption. Izuku... he has the makings of a hero. I am sorry." The apology hangs there, a ghost in the still room.