Ten years before the manifestation of the first quirk, a glowing child from China, the world has undergone its first change.
Gates opening into various dungeons led to the surfacing of the primordial type of people, called Awakened, or Hunters, the...
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10一 and suddenly life wasn't about living - it was about surviving.
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IT TOOK SOME TIME AND A PROMISE that her guardian would be in the same room as her during her check up for Eri to consent to even entering the infirmary. Her guardian, on the other hand, looked as if he was three seconds away from punching a wall. The implications behind that one were best left alone.
There was also the way the duo arrived on their doorstep without triggering any of the alarms which had to be brought into questioning, but Shouta refrained from doing so until after leaving Recovery Girl. No need to cause a traumatized under-seven more stress, she already looked five seconds away from hyperventilating at the sight of white curtains and hospital beds.
The only saving grace of that situation was Dark and Dangerous (and yes, he was going to address him as such until he got a name) muttering soft encouragements to the tiny child as he held her hand一 her bandaged hand.
From the way those bandages were pristine and without so much as a drop of blood, they were mostly in place to keep whatever wound Eri had safe and healing normally.
There was, as well, a large amount of unbandaged skin surface, which indicated to prior intensive healing. From what Midoriya told him, the red eyed child had been covered in sanitary cloth. That could only mean that her current guardian was serious about the little girl's health and was taking measured steps in getting her on the right track.
It was with a great sigh of relief that Shouta escorted the tall man and his sniffling ward in the direction of the principal's office for the questioning. Shouta himself will be present, but that was all. It was decided that too many unknown faces would trigger a bad reaction out of the child and, given Nezu's intelligence and ability to not offend anyone's sensibilities (as well as his strangely adorable appearance), only the two of them will be there.
The Erasure Hero wasn't hesitant to admit, at least within the confines of his own mind, that Dark and Dangerous struck a familiar cord within him. As if he's seen his face before but he can't quite place it. He knew it would come to him eventually, as their guest's face was distinctive enough his memory shouldn't have too much trouble with that task, but still.
He knew for a fact that not knowing was going to bug him for hours.
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NEZU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT from their victim's current guardian, but the overall sense of 'one wrong move and I'll decapitate you' was understandable, if a bit much.
Truth be told, he sensed the man's presence before he came face to face with him. He blamed it on his baser animal instincts that just blared alarms in his ears. The person that was about to walk in his office was a predator and nothing else and ignoring that would make the unspoken threat hanging in the air very much a fact.
