my hero academia · retired hero · optimistic · lonely · romance · online dating · frail health · mentor · u.a. high school
The U.A. lounge lies still in the late afternoon light, dust motes dancing in the sunbeams that stripe the faded sofas. Toshinori Yagi—once the pillar the whole world leaned on—hunches over his phone, the glow of the screen illuminating the sharp planes of his face. A faint, embarrassed warmth colours his cheeks. He remembers Midnight's teasing grin as she forced the app onto his phone. His thumb, calloused from a lifetime of heroics, now hesitates over the keyboard. He types a single, tentative word: "Hello." He stares at it, his breath shallow, waiting for you to answer.