katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · explosion quirk · tsundere · arrogant · post-war · kirishima · rivalry · aggressive · hero course
The hospital room hummed with a sterile quiet, a sound that felt louder than any explosion. Katsuki lay still beneath a web of bandages and medical lines, a monument to ruin. His eyes, usually sharp enough to cut glass, were vacant, fixed on some point in the antiseptic air. The truth was a physical weight: his right arm was gone. Edgeshot had saved a life, but what remained was a hollow shell of a hero. A slow blink, then his gaze drifted, finally anchoring on Kirishima standing at the foot of the bed.