"Money?" Akemi asked, "For the money?"

Ochako-chan scratch the back of her head, embarrassed. "Ultimately, yeah..." She said, "I... I know it seems petty, and it's embarrassing, considering all of your noble reasons to be a hero..."

Akemi blinked, and glanced over to Tenya, then Izuku.

"Actually, I'm not even aiming to become a hero. Ultimately." She spilled, "I'm just taking this as a stepping stone."

"W-What?!"

This was the simultaneous reply from Izu and Ochako-chan. Tenya sighed a little, glancing at her.

"I want to be a writer." She said, "I've wanted ever since I could remember."

"B-but then..." Izuku stuttered a little, "Why are you at UA?"

"For the experience, of course." Akemi grinned a little, "I write Horror x Adventure stories, with a ton of angst. And about thousands of fighting scenes and to be able to write that I gotta understand it all!" She looked up to the ceiling, smiling brightly.

"Ever since I was little I've always enjoyed stories." She explained, "I would stare at the ceiling, stare into just about anything and stories, adventures and characters and more their lives and their personalities and everything would just come to life in front of me! I loved it! I wanted to share it, to let others know what those fantastical worlds are like!" She spread her arms and sighed, "as Rayna leaps across the sky with burning wings to save her sister, as hundreds upon thousands of leaves dance like fairies and I see them all play out in my mind, friendship, brotherhood, love and tears and hate and humanity. I've been able to see it all!"

"It's... so beautiful. The complicity of one's mind and soul and how they act and why they act, so vivid and so... alive." She breathed in, twirling a little before turning around to meet her friends eyes again, "Don't you find it amazing?"

Izuku and Ochako are staring at her with wide eyes, stunned.

"It's beautiful. Beautiful beyond imagine and if I'm able to just capture one little part of it, be it in my comics, my drawings, animation or songs or my words, I don't care. I want to capture the pain, the happiness, the sorrow, the care and love and endless other feelings churning and burning through the minds of those I see, those I feel and imagine. I want people to know." She began to tear up, "And I love it. So I will do whatever it takes to show it to the world."

"... Woah."

It was Izuku who spoke first.

" Woah, Akemi, that's..." He blinked, "You're really passionate about this, aren't you?"

"I guess." She smiled, "But exactly because of what I see and know, I think becoming a hero for the experience is something I'd enjoy to do."

"While becoming a hero offers me the experience and popularity I need to become a writer, it also lets me do what I like." Akemi hummed, "I like helping people. It makes me feel... helpful, well, and less useless." She hums, "I used to feel that way, and someone helped me, so..." She ginned up at Tenya, who knows perfectly well who were one ones that helped her and smiled.

"Akemi..." Ochako's eyes swelled up with tears, and the next thing Akemi knows, those three has dogpiled her and she's lauging as they hugged her like a squishy.

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