fair_stories
In a society built on heroes, some children are forgotten long before anyone notices they're gone.
At barely eighteen, **Aiko Sato** lives alone in a quiet apartment paid for with the money her parents left behind after a devastating villain attack took their lives. The world outside is loud with hero sirens, villain battles, and destruction-but inside her small apartment, Aiko tries to create something the city seems to lack.
Safety.
While walking home one rainy night, Aiko finds a tiny, trembling boy hiding in an alley-dirty, starving, and scratching at his skin like he's trying to crawl out of it. His name is **Tomura Shigaraki**, though back then he's just a scared child named **Tenko** who no one stopped to help.
Everyone else walked past him.
Aiko didn't.
What starts as giving him food, clean clothes, and a place to sleep slowly turns into something bigger. More children begin appearing-runaways, abandoned kids, and those whose quirks scared their families away. Kids the hero society overlooked before they ever had the chance to grow up.
Aiko never meant to become their protector.
But when one of those children grows into the villain the world will one day fear most, the line between saving someone... and creating something dangerous begins to blur.
Because sometimes villains aren't born.
Sometimes they're just children the world left behind.