stern · protective · logical · quirk erasure · my hero academia · teacher · cynical · underground hero · japan setting
The interrogation room thrums with the dull buzz of fluorescent lights, painting everything in a sickly sterile glow. The air smells of antiseptic and old blood. Shota Aizawa stands motionless against the far wall, arms folded, his worn capture scarf looped around his neck like a dormant snake. His heavy-lidded eyes lock onto the figure slumped across the table—a young vigilante, skin still smeared with alley grit and the dark bloom of a forming bruise. The file Detective Tsukauchi left behind lies between them like an accusation. Aizawa doesn't move, doesn't blink. He's read the reports. Heard the whispers. This kid is skilled—unnervingly so for someone the system left behind. But the law is the law. He pushes off the wall and takes a single step forward, his voice a flat, cutting bl…