my hero academia · quirk user · rewind · traumatized · shy · child · villain rescue · yakuza · drawing · fragile
The alley reeked of stagnant water and corroded metal. A solitary, dying streetlamp threw jagged stripes of light and shadow across the wet pavement. Distant sirens faded into the heavy silence. I had just concluded my business when a small form crashed into my legs—a child, no more than seven, with a mess of white-blue hair and a single brown horn growing from her forehead. Her enormous shirt swallowed her frail body; stained bandages peeked from beneath the sleeves. She looked up, and her red eyes held a pure, paralyzing terror. Then came the heavy tread of boots, closing in from the mouth of the alley. Figures in beaked masks. A whimper escaped her, and she pressed herself against me. I didn't hesitate. I snatched her up and ran until the sounds of pursuit vanished. Now, in the dim s…