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"I heard there's a new transfer student!"
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Shiro Kurayami is a new admittee to U.A. High School of Heroics, she joins the class of 1-A and is immediately taken a liking to...
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"Thank you, Shoto." Whispering back those words to him, a sudden realisation had occurred to me.
My heart thumped wildly from the thought, seeming as if trying to explode out of me as a whole roaring erupted from my stomach.
'Since when... Did I not realise this feeling for him until now?'
"Hah... There's ninety pages worth of Hero Agencies for me to look through..." Sighing, I sulk at the stack of papers set in front of me, feeling an unknown intense aura emitting out from it.
"You're lucky, Kurayami! All those Heroes wanting to draft you! So manly!" Kirishima exclaimed, his hand grasping at his smaller stack of papers.
"I bet most of them drafted me just because my Quirk's powerful... Not really because I have 'Hero Potential'..." Muttering my dissatisfaction, I swipe the paper at the top and skim through the list of names.
Endeavour Hero Agency
"Huh... Endeavour drafted me. That power-hungry bastard." Shrugging absentmindedly at the name, I return the paper into the stack and take another from it to continue reading.
"So nonchalant about it...! Her personality did a total one-eighty turn!" I heard a few of my classmates say -Uraraka, Ojiro, Kirishima, Hagakure- as I ignore them, still scanning through the list of Agencies in my handheld paper.
Upon picking up my fifth paper, my eyes stop on the first name in the list. An eyebrow quirked up at the new discovery.
Archangel Hero Agency
"The Hero Archangel...? But then that means..." Murmuring my words, I stare at the name in thought until a wide smile appeared on my face.
"Mother... and the other Heroes can draft me too then." With that, my hands instantly went and grabbed a portion of the stack, my eyes flying through the names paper after paper at mock speed.
"Kurayami just went Plus Ultra...!" Someone muttered, myself too busy to know who it was as I continue to go through the whole list of Hero Agencies.
'Come on, come on, come on, come on...! Where is it-here!' My hands had stopped picking any other papers, my eyes set on one particular name while my smile never faltered.
"Have you found which agency you're gonna pick already, Kurayami?" Kirishima queried beside me, peering at the paper I had in my hands in curiosity as I nodded.
"Yeah! I'm going for her. The Divine Hero: Athena." Pointing at the Agency name on the list to him, pen in hand as I write down my selected choice into the box within the draft forms.
"Who's that? I don't think I've ever heard of them before." Kirishima wondered, a hand on his chin making me giggle.
"She's a Pro Hero at Europe. My parents are old friends with her so I get to see her during family dinners and all that." The image of her smile and bright eyes flashed in my mind, the memory of us sitting around a table laughing and having dinner causing a warmth to fill me.
"Woah. So they even allow international drafts too then. Is she strong then?" Ojiro joined in the conversation, Hagakure and Uraraka listening in as well.
"Actually, she's the 'Number 1 Hero of the European Continent'. Her power actually is something no one's ever had anything close to before, it's like a whole new creation of Quirk." Revealing that information, all four of them start to get curious and interested in hearing more of the Hero.
"That's amazing! Could she maybe be as strong as All Might then I wonder...?! The thought gives me chills and excitement at the same time!" Hagakure squealed, Uraraka and her having their animated discussion while Kirishima and Ojiro both exclaim their interests.
"She's actually married to someone from Japan. He's the second Pro Hero in Europe, too. I heard he studied in U.A. before he went to Europe." The memory of seeing him for the first time made me chuckle, a thought coming into mind.
"Actually, he looks a lot like Katsuki... Same blonde hair and red eyes." Taking a glance at the said blonde himself, I see him staring at his stack of Hero Agencies in an expression of irritance and impatience.
"That'll be weird to see. I mean, an older version of Bakugo? I'm scared to even imagine it." Ojiro chuckled, Bakugo hearing his name snapping towards us with a glare and snarl.
"Talking shit about me, huh?!" Yelling out curses, he glowers and turns back to his desk, scribbling furiously on what I presume to be his draft form.
"I don't see him in the future at all... It's hard to see him with that attitude." Kirishima laughed, the bell ringing to signal lunch period as the both of them wave at me and left for lunch.
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"I've decided to apply for Endeavour's Agency." Todoroki concluded, catching my attention and making me look up from my food.
"Your dad? Are you sure? I thought you hated him." Swallowing the food in my mouth, I look at him in confusion, Todoroki returning the eye contact.
"I'm applying not to the thought of him being my father, but as the second best Pro Hero." He answered, slurping up his soba noodles right after while I hummed, returning to my own meal with a nod.
"I guess that's reasonable. Endeavour is quite knowledgeable towards all types of tactics and planning in the Hero business. And he's good at his job, if you ignore his attitude." I stated, biting into my food as the flavours fill my mouth at once.
"What about you? Who did you choose?" Todoroki questioned, just having another mouth-full of soba noodles into his mouth.
"I chose one of the Europe Pros, Athena. So I'll be off to the airport instead of any other city tomorrow."
-x- Shoto's View -x-
A deep dropping sound rang in my ears, everything seeming to have gone muffled and blurred.
"You're going to Europe for your internships?" My voice had seemed to quiver slightly, barely above whispering as I stared down at my food.
"Uh, yeah. It'd be great to head home for a bit, I mean I have my mom there." She said, myself not noticing her concerned glance.
"I... see." I had gone silent then, focusing on my meal as our conversation comes to a halt, an uneasy silence surrounding us.
The deep pounding of my own heart rang in my ears, seeming to fill my head with worrying thoughts as my mismatched eyes stole glances at the girl in front of me.
'What am I feeling towards you...?'
《THE CLOCK STRIKES THREE》
======To Be Continued======
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