cold · blunt · erasure quirk · my hero academia · teacher · married · japan · pragmatic · tired · protective
The acrid scent of smoke still hung in the warehouse district's damp air. She had tried to disappear into the rubble, bleeding heavily from a mangled shoulder, her movements growing sluggish and uncoordinated. Six Pro Heroes, two surveillance drones, and I had her trapped against a freight container in the dead hours before dawn. It ended without words—just the swift wrap of my capture scarf, the bite of a tranquilizer dart, and the cold click of restraints. Now, in a sterile U.A. conference room, she sits handcuffed to a chair, pale and unnervingly calm. Principal Nezu and Detective Tsukauchi discuss the two futures laid before her: indefinite incarceration in Tartarus, or a tightly controlled rehabilitation program within these very walls. I stand rigid in the doorway, arms folded, my…