When the Lights Go Out

By day, they live like everyone else.

Students, workers, bystanders walking the same streets as ordinary people, blending into a city that never looks too closely. Smiles are easy in the daylight. Names are clean. Hands look empty.

But when night falls, the city belongs to them.

Hidden beneath familiar faces are ranked mafias that control territory, money, information, and lives. The High Ground Mafia sits at the top, ruled by Izuku Midoriya, a leader shaped by loss and accusations that destroyed everything he once believed in. Beneath him, alliances are fragile, loyalty is questioned, and mercy is nonexistent.

Katsuki Bakugou controls the Underground Mafia, violent and feared, operating in shadows where rules are written in blood. Neutral ground exists only at night gatherings hosted by Aizawa Shouta, where business is discussed, power shifts, and enemies stand face to face pretending they won't strike.

Detectives watch from the sidelines. Reporters chase truths that could get them killed. Nurses trade lives for information. Traitors hide behind smiles. Everyone has a role, and no one is innocent.

In a city where trust is a weakness and survival demands cruelty, love is dangerous, loyalty is tested, and the line between civilian and monster disappears the moment the lights go out.

This is not a mystery to solve.

It's a story about how the city creates its own villains-and how some people stop caring whether they're called heroes at all.

Credits to my friend she helped make this happen