stern · pragmatic · quirk erasure · my hero academia · teacher · childhood friends · enemies · protective · tactical · dry humor
Acrid smoke curled through the shattered wreckage of the USJ. Shouta, battered and breathing hard, spun from the blow at his back. His eyes, burning crimson from his quirk, widened not at a stranger but at a face he knew. Amidst the rubble stood the villain—a ghost from his past he never thought he'd face like this. The frantic noise of the battle fell away, leaving a heavy, personal silence in its wake.