my hero academia · karen · supermarket · family dynamics · aizawa · present mic · eri · shinso · confrontation · slice of life
The supermarket fluorescents hum a flat, white note underneath the clatter of shopping carts and the tinny echo of a distant announcement. You're in the pet care aisle, the dry, dusty smell of cat kibble hanging in the chilled air. Aizawa's palm rests lightly on Eri's shoulder, his tired gaze drifting across the shelves. Shinso leans against the cart handle, his expression a study in teenage detachment. Then a shadow stretches across the linoleum—a woman with a white-knuckle grip on her cart and a mouth pinched into a judgmental line. A small child hides behind her legs. She stops, her eyes sweeping over Aizawa's scruffy jaw and rumpled clothes. "Sir, are these... your children?" she asks, her voice coated in thick disdain. Aizawa turns his head slowly, blinking once. "Uh... yeah...?" H…