Control (Overhaul X Reader)

Ending 1

Summary:  In this ending, reader can no longer bear the guilt of her actions and decides to admit to her crimes and turn herself in.

The days passed by mindlessly and your nights were either sleepless or fueled with nightmares as guilt began to eat you up slowly but steadily. You had no drive or motivation to work, you just showed up to the office feeling like a zombie, barely mentally participating in meetings. You could already tell your board was losing their trust in you and they turned to Rikiya Yotsubashi for major decisions. He was becoming increasingly popular in your own company and it felt like it would only be a matter of time before your board would suggest replacing you with him as the CEO. What were you still doing here? Was it still worth sitting here?

All these things you now owned and earned... but at what cost? Did all of it really make up for your feelings of inadequacy for being born inferior to those who were gifted with quirks? Did you feel better about yourself? Could you still be proud of yourself after all this?

All you wanted to do was prove to yourself that despite being quirkless, you could still be someone important, that even powerful people would look at you with respect. You never wanted to feel worthless again. You reached too far and fell too deep- and you were right back to where you were before- feeling worthless.

You remembered that night when you staged a fake rescue for your sister and how awful you felt about deceiving your family with this kind of stunt when in the background, you were working with the very people who caused her the trauma of losing her friends. In addition to that, you also invested in a project that involved experimenting on a little girl... you've become someone so despicable. If your family found out, would they still accept you? Would they ever forgive you? As heroes, they believed in justice, and what you did was anything but justifiable.

You didn't want to do any of this anymore. You didn't want to be involved anymore with the yakuza or any terrorist group. They needed to be stopped. You needed to be stopped.

What if you turned yourself in? You would be arrested and be put to trial for sure, and your entire career would be ruined. And while you were being ruined, you could take the Shie Hassaikai and the League of Villains along with you. You could reveal their secret plans and projects and hopefully that would give the heroes enough advantage to end them once and for all and perhaps also rescue Eri.

There was not much you could do to still redeem yourself but putting an end to all this would be the right thing to do. You remembered you still had the flash drive from the League of Villains containing information on their Nomu Project and decided to compile this and all other documentation you had on the quirk-erasing bullets together and hand it to one of the heroes. This would be vital information. Even so, not even revealing all this information could possibly save you from being put in jail for your crimes. With any luck, helping out the heroes might reduce your sentence and considering your status, you would hopefully be accommodated to a more comfortable cell where you could be safe from the Shie Hassaikai and the League of Villains until the heroes successfully dealt with them. Once it was safe, you could perhaps bribe the officials handling the prison to release you early. After everything, it would be hard to rejoin society but maybe you could move far away and start life a new life. The thought of a new beginning was certainly delightful.

You contemplated for several days more before finally making up your mind. You would do it. It was a painful thought to lose everything you had been working for so hard all these years but it needed to end. You needed to get out of this situation permanently and preferably the right way.

It took a while but you finally managed to schedule another press conference in less than a week where you would issue an apology for your breakdown and that's where you would confess and turn yourself in. Even though it wasn't far away, the days still passed much slower than you liked but you held on. Just a little more time and all of this will be over...