❈║Reminiscence║❈

                                    

                                          
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❝Have you heard of the sixth wonder? The Three Clock Keepers...❞
                          
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Hitoshi Shinsou had always wanted to be a hero.
                          
That fact about him had never changed, would never change. He remembered waiting patiently for his quirk to develop after his fourth birthday. Quirks did play an important role as to what kind of hero one was going to be. Maybe it would be a mixture of his parents' quirks or a mutation. He didn't know. But his goal was certain. Be a hero. Shinsou wondered if he was going to be a strong one like All Might or was he going to be like Edgeshot because the purple head thought the latter was cooler. But both of them were also greatly known heroes and the boy himself wasn't good with popularity. Like, at all... He learnt of Eraserhead afterwards and he immediately became his role model. 
                          
It was a few months after his birthday when his quirk came in; brainwashing.
                          
Shinsou thought it was pretty cool actually. That was until other people learnt of his quirk and started treating him differently. An outcast, they said. Wasted potential, they called him. Ruined dreams, they pitied. A villain, they singled him out. Shinsou never had any problem with what people called him, he couldn't really give two shits about it all. But when he first heard the word 'villain' directed at him — a boy who had nothing but wanted to be a hero, someone who would protect these exact people... That's where Shinsou drew the line. But not the giving up line, the starting line for it only fueled him to prove them wrong. After all, the satisfaction of proving others wrong was too addicting.
                          
So, despite all the harsh words and actions, Shinsou still aimed for the top, prepared himself for UA and strode to the entrance exam. Though, call it a hunch or a foresight, Shinsou somehow felt that he might not make it with his quirk under all that confidence. For under all that strong armor was a young boy who was only told that he did not belong. Subsequently, Shinsou applied for the general course and the hero course at the same time.
                          
He took the heroics exam first and immediately realized how right he was to apply to general studies as well because oh, they to fight robots! What was UA on? Was physical prowess all that mattered now? Had the society finally forgotten the true meaning of hero? Maybe he should take them out to see those old movies. Yeah... If he survived this then for sure.
                          
Shinsou tried (and failed) to get at least one of the robots but the others were just so fast and strong and everything that society called a hero. Shinsou hated it. He felt judgmental gazes burning behind him, a lot of eyes focused on him alone and probably thinking that he couldn't be a hero. There was no way someone like him could pass. Within a blink, Present Mic announced that only two minutes were left. Only two minutes... Yeah, Shinsou totally failed. At least, he got to make it out in one piece.
                          
Or not, considering how the ground suddenly began to rumble, how these 'heroes' screamed and ran away in fear and how the zero pointer stood multiple metres over the buildings of the fake city or how his eyes landed on a random brunette stuck under all the debris. Heh, he despised his luck sometimes.
                          
He knew he couldn't do it. He knew there was no way he could save the girl or defeat the zero pointer. But he ran towards it when everyone ran away. He still needed to prove them wrong. He still had to tell them what a hero really is. He still had his dreams secured somewhere in his chest. Shinsou ran towards it in hopes to get the girl out of the way if not anything else.