𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘴

11. feral fighter

[Kill Your Heroes]

Rin quietly followed Todoroki with her hood up, letting him lead the way. Something about his pace didn't let her match him, and probably for good reason after their train ride. Though to avoid awkward side glances through lack of conversation, she had no desire to catch up. The allure of two awkward, dejected children being fake friends for a week had lost its sparkle.

The building wasn't hard to miss, a tall office building accented with gold and a label calling it so.

"Welcome, Todoroki-sama. Your dad is in the office," a woman said at the front, greeting them from behind a desk. A couple of side-kicks were shuffling through, probably there on full-time internships trying to make it to pro hero. She looked skeptically at Rin, who was unhooded, an audible sharp intake of breath once she'd locked onto her eyes. "You must be Hinata-san-- Well, Tempest now I suppose. I'll take your bags, and Todoroki-sama knows his way around."

They handed their bags over, Todoroki again taking the lead and going over to the elevator. He was completely silent as the doors shut, he pressed the fifth floor and they were going up. "Endeavor isn't like other heroes, you know," he said.

"Yeah, no shit." A bite too deep made her mouth draw blood, which she quickly swallowed back with a mixture of saliva and folded her lip inwards with a wince. "He burnt away half our house in arrest. He made an offer to me, knowing full well who I am," she said. "I know I'm in for a ride."

That ride so far took her to a room, larger than a normal office. It had its desk and chair, big enough to suit Endeavor's needs with all his appliances and stationary someone would expect to be at a desk. He had tiled flooring decorated by a large carpet in the centre, with a couch, chairs, and coffee table. A chandelier overhung and pushed further was a large desk in front of a landscape painting. Much blander than Rin has expected. The windows opened up into the city life, taking up all the walls.

"Welcome, Shoto, Hinata—No, you're Tempest here now," he finished. A room big enough to fit the flamboyance and fat fucking ego of Endeavour for sure, sitting in his desk chair.

He stood, a build rivalling All Might and he was lucky to have such a tall ceiling. "You're both here now, so now that you've come I'll show you what it means to be a true hero. I don't usually put in two nominations, but I'll tell you why I chose you and my son."

Here it comes, Rin thought, biting her lip.

"People are wrong to deny power in its raw form, it will go astray from being pushed away. We lead neglected power to evil. Heroes failed to recognize a weapon that could be tempered. Instead, they saw a villain who was no more, and if anything they should have changed that bad to good if that's what they were viewing at such a young age," Endeavor said, almost like he pridefully won the lottery or an auction.

"Old man, she's not a thing for you to use," Todoroki snapped with ice in his voice, raising the hairs on the back of Rin's neck.

"No, when I encountered her before the semi-finals, she looked feral. Straight at me."

It wasn't like she was an animal in the wild either. "Sorry for that, but I was annoyed," Rin interrupted annoyedly as she was then. "Instead of talking about me, it'd be great to hear an intro to the world from pro heroes from one of the best himself."

"Well, my team and I have the tally of most solved cases in Japan. We stop crime when cases roll in from the police, which are sectioned off by zone," he begrudgingly went on to explain. "The police decide our merit, saving innocent and stopping villains and such, and then we are inspected by special agencies before our government commissions are collected."