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Once upon a time, a star fell from the sky.
No, really.
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"Alright, you've all had time to think this through. Let's see your Future Career printouts."
Arukania's middle school's third year had a single class with exactly seventeen students. For a town in the middle of the Japanese mountains, it wasn't surprising. Most people were old. There was no highschool. It wasn't even a quaint little town with hot-springs, tourism or traditional crafts. It was a mining town for a middling mine that closed another shaft every couple of years.
And if the company needed more workers, it got more workers, and they almost never brought any children.
Naturally, just about everybody wanted to leave. Since there was no highschool, just about everybody put down school in the nearest cities, a few aiming further away.
"Oh." Except for one. "Sachi, that's really ambitious. We're all rooting for you."
Chatter erupted. "You're really aiming for that fancy hero school in the big city?" A girl with a rough texture for skin turned around in her seat.
A white-haired girl with starry eyes nodded. "UA. The more well-known hero school in the country. One-hundred percent main character bait."
"Freak. You and your folks..." Was said with a certain fondness. "Man, but with your quirk..."
"And my brain."
"And your grades, yeah, yeah. I think you'll make it. Show all those capital rich kids what village folk is worth, won't you?" There was general clamor. Over the noise, the bell rang and they were summarily dismissed.
Sachi shrugged. "That's the plan, I guess."
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After a very long train trip, she was at the gates of UA. She gave them a glance, shook her head at the eccentric building design and walked in. She was almost late, due to the previously mentioned long voyage.
As she followed the signs to the amphitheater, she was amazed at the amount of people. This was definitely the first time she'd ever been so close to so many teenagers. It was a little disgusting, all the hormones and competitiveness. She sighed. Life in the city was going to be very different, wasn't it? She almost missed her weird parents and she definitely missed the wilderness and old, abandoned buildings. Instead, she was one of nearly two thousand teenagers applying to the most prestigious hero school in the country.
Well, she'd made her choice.
Paperwork having been handled by mail, she was handed a brochure-like form and assigned a seat in the auditorium.
"GOOD MORNING LISTENERS!!!" Her ears, why. Present Mic was not very popular back home and this was not endearing her to him.
She grumbled under her breath.
"That's his appeal. And kickass music taste." The girl next to her whispered.
She had a downright cool hair-style and fashion choices, with a leather jacket that Sachi very much wanted to own a copy of. Her quirk was some sort of subtle mutant type, giving her long earlobes that ended on jacks. Not wanting to be caught staring, and since she was here to become a hero after all, Sachi re-focussed on the presentation. Then somebody way braver and far too much of nitpicker started asking questions as loud as Present Mic, without getting a sore throat.
