Sands (BNHA x antihero!reader)

The First Step to Fake Heroism

Edited

Bold means English. Normal means Japanese. 'Thoughts' are always in the character's native tongue.

"Sir, if I may ask, what is the real reason why you sent a mere girl to Japan?" A woman with chestnut brown hair tied up in a tight bun asked the man in the chair.

"Well, as you know, there are some...people, who have some debts. And when those people don't pay their debts, bad things happen. Like that girl for instance. And children, they're just oh so easy to manipulate. And even if they try their damnedest to tell the truth, nobody will believe a word they say, thinking they're just pining for attention. No one will be able to help her. No one will want to help her. And if she dies, all the better. I want those people gone. And I want everyone from that family gone..." He sighed and turned to look at her. "It truly is a corrupt world, Karen. But, then again, I'm the one who benefits from its corruptness."

. . .

After doing nothing but listening to Japanese on the radio and studying up on the language in various books for almost four months, I had become decently fluent and could understand what they were saying on the radio most of the time. I never left my new home, seeing as I didn't need to. Whenever I ran out of soap, food, or whatever I needed, another person would show up to my home and resupply me with whatever I'd need. I spent most of my time sitting around and listening to the radio. I enjoyed looking out at the snow on the engawa while listening to the news in the winter. The news liked to focus on what villain attack there was that day and which hero defeated them and how. Sometimes there would be a live encounter, and they would speak as if they were a commentator of a sports game. There was one day in January where it was almost a foot of snow. Or 30cm I guess. I've got to get used to using the metric system since I'm in Japan now. But I took a day off that day to just run around in the snow and then listen to music in English again, just to make sure I wasn't losing any of my English, which I wasn't, thankfully.

It was now the first week of February, which meant that I had one week until the U.A. entrance exams took place. I had already registered online with a laptop the organization provided me with, but since I had no internet service, I had to take the train into town and go to a local library to get it done.

"That means I've got one week to train. I think I'm good on my Japanese for now, so all I need to do is practice."

I opened up the sliding door to the engawa and placed the radio onto it. With that said, I walked back to the genkan and slipped on my winter coat and snow boots, and hat, forgoing the gloves. As I stepped outside the front door, I could hear the two inches— sorry –5cm of snow crunch satisfyingly beneath my feet. I walked over to the side of my house where the door leading to my room from the engawa was. Reaching over without stepping up onto the raised engawa, I pulled the radio I had placed on it a little closer before turning it to a music channel rather than the news channel. Once I finally hit a song with a good beat, I faced away from my house.

"Alright, let's do this."

I hopped a couple times to get a feeling for the beat and rhythm of the song before I started. I twirled in an overly-dramatic fashion, and stopped, pointing at a tree a good twenty meters in front of me. A thin beam of light shot out of my finger, leading straight to the tree. The beam only lasted a second before I had to stop, lest I lose control of it and let it go all willy-nilly. Seeing as I still had full control over my quirk, I went up to the tree to see the damage I had done with my beam. Even though I had only been using a fraction of my full potential, my beam had still bore its way completely through the tree, leaving behind a round tunnel not even a half a centimeter in length. Deciding to have a bit of fun, I pointed all five fingers at the tree and fired, boring five more tunnels into the tree, all perfectly controlled.