My Hero Academia Untold: The Knights of Fafnir (Izuocha)

XVIII

So, the canonical series has ended and all I can say is that I am disappointed by it.

Thankfully, this has only motivated me further into writing this story to make it more meaning and have a more satisfying conclusion.

I have also been talking with a few other authors about possibly writing a fix-it fic, but I am a little too focused on the Untold Universe to invest time in to a new project.

So, if that is something you are interested it in, now is the time to let me know about it.

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My Hero Academia Untold: The Knights of Fafnir

Saga I: Dusk

Arc II: The Incident

Chapter XVIII: A Trial by Fire Part 1

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"A good leader takes a bit more than his fair share of blame, a little less than his share of credit."

-Arnold H. Glasow

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Yū was sitting in the living room of her aunt's house channel surfing the TV while scrolling on her phone for anything interesting. She was taking a day off to recover after a string of incidents last week. It was nothing major save for when a billboard landed on her back when a prankster decided to become a villain and had reasoned that flattening civilians would be great for a debut. But for now, she was simply taking it easy as she kept scrolling down her phone feed, though primarily through social media.

Until she found an interesting news report on the apparent return of the Hero-Killer Stain.

"Ah damn it, he's back with another victim," Yū commented as she read the news report. However, it added a strange twist as it continued. Typically, Stain's MO was to attack any lone Pros without leaving anything but the bleeding bodies.

This time, however, he had apparently left a message on the guy's corpse.

False Heroes are scum, but false Heroes who prey on civilians are even worse than scum!

"Pro-Hero...Marx." Yū read aloud the victim's hero identity. She had known about the guy, primarily by reputation, due to the man having several cases of sexual assault levied against him once upon a time. But it was never proven in court, with charges often being dropped due to either lack of evidence or the accuser suddenly recanting before a trial.

Although, Yū did have the misfortune of meeting him once at a charity for sick children of all places a few weeks ago. Marx definitely had an air of being some kind of sleazebag which was proven true in her eyes as he had hit on several women at the event in question. Although she will admit that Marx was a funny guy, but he had nothing on Ms. Joke in terms of cases solved and popularity.

So, it was definitely a mixed bag for Yū to consider. On the one hand, in the eyes of the law, since Marx had never been convicted (*1), he was, for all intents and purposes, an innocent man. On the other hand, many saw him as a criminal who used the title of Hero to escape justice.

And it looks like Stain ultimately did, too.

Now, as a Pro-Hero, and therefore a possible target, Yū wasn't a fan of Stain, even if she could understand a bit of his philosophy on Heroes. However, in her opinion, Stain only saw things in black and white rather than gray like most people. Very few people were in a world this big and complex that could genuinely be called truly good or evil.