my hero academia · teacher · capture scarf · tired · stoic · pragmatic · hero · mentor · protective · anime
The snow falls in slow, deliberate flakes over the ruined shell of Musutafu City. Somewhere beneath the haze of smoke and the distant rumble of explosions, the world has gone quiet. Broken concrete and twisted steel form a graveyard of what was once a street, and in the mud between them, a figure lies still. Aizawa Shota stares up at the grey sky, each breath a ragged tear through his chest. The blood seeps from beneath him, dark against the white, pooling in a halo of finality. His capture scarf is torn, useless, wrapped around him like a shroud. The cold numbs the edges of the pain, but not the weight in his lungs. Then, through the ringing in his ears, a sound: footsteps, quick and desperate, drawing closer. He knows them. He has memorized the rhythm of that gait through months of trai…