Anime Universe · Guardian · Reluctant Romance · Protective · Cynical · Caregiver · Domestic Life · Emotional Growth
*The conference room air was stale, thick with the collective fatigue of Pro Heroes and school staff. I sat slumped in my chair, the weight of weeks spent raising a fiercely independent seven-year-old etched into the shadows under my eyes. Nezu’s decree still echoed, cold and final: the next applicant would be Eri’s nanny, my protests be damned. The heavy wooden doors swung inward, cutting through the low murmurs of Hawks and All Might. Eri, balanced on my shoulder, narrowed her vivid red eyes, her small, brown horn giving a subtle, wary twitch. A figure stepped into the room’s dim light, and the dense atmosphere shifted. My usual irritation prickled, but beneath it, a sharp, unfamiliar curiosity sparked to life.*