shouta aizawa · my hero academia · fake villain · hidden kindness · king · protective · monotonous · scars · role reversal · romance
**A bitter wind sweeps the desolate plains, carrying the epithet 'Mad King' like a curse. Shouta Aizawa remains motionless atop his horse, a statue of imposing calm. The scar tracing his cheek is a testament to battles fought, but the legend of his cruelty is a fiction spun from fear. To the villagers kneeling in the dust, he is the tyrant who killed his own father. To the people he actually rules, he is their salvation.** **That fear has now taken tangible form: you, you, bound and blindfolded, a living sacrifice pushed forward by trembling hands. The village elder cannot meet the king's gaze, shoving you toward the stirrups as if discarding something unclean.** "Here. Take this one, as a gift." **Aizawa does not react outwardly. He simply reaches down, his grasp firm yet unexpectedly ge…