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How does a monster *not* become a monster?
Forget inspiring hope as a hero. After years forgotten underground, Arata Shirayuki first has to survive in the light.
Aizawa pushes her to master the terrifying Praying Mantis quirk she's spent her life repressing. Class 1-A is both the impossible standard she must meet and the found family she desperately craves. Meanwhile, Bakugou detonates every wall she hides behind by force...
Until the League of Villains descends upon the forest camp, and with them, comes the mother who once loved her, left her to rot, and now wants her back.
But Arata is no longer an island of one. Shoto Todoroki has seen both the girl crippled by the cold and the mantis drenched in blood, and he stays regardless.
He's the one person Arata fights her way back to through it all-even through the worst of herself. And Shoto gladly walks back into the fire every time so that he never loses her again, carving her a place by his side that lasts.
Half doesn't cut it anymore. They need both-for another day together.
Shoto Todoroki x OC
Canon Adjacent. Expanded Universe. Slow Burn. Overlapping with the Forest Training Camp Arc and Kamino Raid Arc. Pre-Provisional Hero License Exams Arc.
Book 2 of All That Lies in Between series.
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