"I'm home…," I softly called out to an empty house.
He must not be home yet…
I slipped off my shoes in the walkway and made my way upstairs. I put my bag on my desk and shuffled through the envelopes my uncle left before he left for work this morning.
They were all from Hero Academies hoping to meet with me over applying to their school for the next term.
I sighed, bringing the envelopes down to the kitchen so I could start on dinner.
After I got the stew and rice cooking in their respective places I proceeded to open the invitations I was given.
"Isamu…Shiketsu…Ketsubutsu… Huh?"
He didn't-
"I'm home," a voice chimed through the house as the front door opened.
"W-Welcome home!" I called out as I began to set the table.
"Ah, they are being quite persistent," my uncle said as he looked through the invitations I had received.
I sat across from him and silently ate my dinner.
My uncle was quite odd looking, but that was because of his quirk. Actually, he isn't human but an animal that was able to gain a quirk that allowed him to live as a human.
Of course he still looked as he was born—an animal that looks like a bear, a mouse, and a dog all in one.
"Haruka," he said, pulling out a large yellow envelope. "I don't want U.A. to be overlooked."
Isn't it already decided that I'm going there…?
"I think I want to apply to Ketsubutsu Academy…," I mumbled as my uncle spat out his food in shock.
I collapsed on my bed and stared up at the ceiling. My uncle lectured me during dinner about the differences in teaching quality between Ketsubutsu and U.A., but that's not what I was getting at. He knows what I was implying. He knows how one-sided this decision was.
I don't want to be a hero…
My name is Asano Haruka and this is the story of how I escaped my fate and became one of the greatest heroes in the world.