Juxtaposition

CHAPTER 1

A Story With No Beginnings

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Enter Legal Name

There was a click of nails against dark, almost black wood. The screen taunted him as he ran a digital pad down a list of names that were written in scribbled cursive. The paper was crinkled and smudged with ink, having been shoved into his paws as quickly as it was put away in a small computer bag that he had been carrying.

Midoriya Rinku Izuku|

It was a specific name and rather uncommon due to the second name the boy had been registered with. However, beady eyes glanced between the list of names and the screen, he doesn't exist. The registry held the names of every person born and dead, entering the country and out, the only source of every trackable person in Japan's technological history.

No Results Found

It was peculiar, despite every single interview both second and first-hand witnesses, there was no registered child under that name. No one was ever even born with such a name. There was a stillness in the air, almost uncanny and eerily familiar. Despite the uncomfortable feeling of defeat creeping forward, he tried again.

Midoriya Izuku Rinku|

It was a desperate attempt really, at that point it was the only option before reporting his findings. It was a dreadful feeling, not being able to find answers, not being able to do his job. There was that sprinkle of doubt, however, a puzzle that had more than the complicated layers it had initially presented as, a darkness that seemed almost impossible to see through. A darkness that, for once, made him afraid to cross into. Yet his curiosity was insatiable.

No Results Found

He was far from the perfect representation of humans, yet he still somehow inherited that innate curiosity, an old and forgotten feeling that had long been felt since the mutation of quirks in both animals and humans. The darkness felt ominous, a curtain draping the puzzle in chains yet he could see it. A darkness of a bottomless void that he stared into, the curiosity impossible to ignore, and a newfound fear. He only had two choices, jump in willingly or be pushed into the depths of what he could only describe as a trap.

And so he jumped.