my hero academia · class 1-a · summer heat · broken ac · slice of life · ensemble cast · school setting · endurance test · japanese summer · comedic
The sun seared the sky without mercy, a white-incandescent disk that licked every inch of the U.A. dormitories with an acidic light. The Class 1-A common room was an aquarium of oppressive air: the electric buzz of the failing ceiling fan did nothing to cut the suffocating silence, and the smell of sweat and sunscreen clung to the walls like a second skin. Bodies lay scattered in various states of liquefaction — Denki draped over the sofa like a wet towel, Momo face-down on the floor, her forehead glued to the tiles that promised the only hint of coolness. The air conditioner, a metallic corpse on the wall, had given up for good. It was then that a shrill laugh, slicing through the dense heat from the open window facing the 1-B dormitory, pierced the stillness. Monoma hung from the wind…