Chapter 2 - Encounter

When Shiryoku wakes up, she moves her hands around and feels the mattress she is on.

No patterns on the bed sheet, Shiryoku knows she is in the school nurse's office.

Shiryoku listens for any voices, and when she hears none she moves her hand along the bed until she finds her cane and her bag.

As she gets up she feels a few burns along her arm from the explosion that knocked her out. Still, she exits the nurse's office, knowing that the school is just going to push the fight under the rug because Bakugou is hero material applying to UA and she is a functionally Quirkless person who in their eyes has no future.

The world can truly be unfair, but that is something Shiryoku is fully aware of. However there are ways she can use that to her advantage.

Being able to leave school early is one of those advantages. Midoriya is able to get all the assignments she missed and they always study together at his mother's apartment.

In return she is his only friend. Someone who truly understands the struggle life can bring, and someone who can listen when life gets rough.

So when she hears a notebook falling through the hair she catches it before it lands in the pond below. Shiryoku, knowing the layout of her school, knows that the window above the pond is the window of her classroom. And the hot feeling notebook in her hands has bumps that to someone like Bakugou has no meaning, but to Shiryoku it is her way of reading.

Her fingers move along the braille bumps on the cover of the notebook.

Hero Analysis for the Future. No 13

Shiryoku scowls knowing that Bakugou was behind it based on the burnt feeling, and knowing that Midoriya would never throw something this precious to him out of a window.

She makes a mental note to smack Bakugou with her cane again, maybe somewhere that would hurt like his knee, or maybe that one spot on the elbow that sets off every nerve in the body.

Her anger is for the most part short lived, as she knows Midoriya will be worried about his notebook, and that handing it to him would be a helpful way of meeting up to walk home.

So Shiryoku waits for the bell to ring, making sure to cover her ears as it does. And after a little longer she hears the back door of the school open, followed by the sniffling of Midoriya.


Izuku Midoriya knows he isn't the most courageous of people, and today has certainly been proof of that.

First Kac-chan bullied both him and Shiryoku, then she was sent to the nurse's office after she tried to defend him, and finally Kac-chan blew up his notebook and threw it out of a window.

"Hero Analysis" Bakugou said, having read the words above the braille "Deku you really think you could analyze your way to being a hero!?"

B O O M

"If you really want to be a hero, Deku, then take a swan dive off a roof and hope you get a good Quirk in your next life."

Midoriya snaps back to attention as he is hit on the head "Yo Izuku" Shiryoku says as her cane taps the top of his head again "You alive buddy?"

Midoriya looks at Shiryoku, her long wavy black hair and her clouded whitish-grey eyes are the same as usual, and the same goes for her blank stare in his general direction-

Her cane hits his head again. "Izu, an answer would help."

"I-I'm ok" Midoriya stammers "Kac-chan was-"

Shiryoku scowls, the lines under her eyes move with her narrowing eyelids as she glares off in a random direction "Why do you keep calling him that? He's a bully. Not our friend."

"H-he can be a little mean, but he isn't that bad."

Shiryoku lets out a long drawn out sigh "I swear, you are too nice Izu. Let's just go home."

"R-right" Midoriya says, feeling flustered by Shiryoku's nickname for him, "I wanted to try out a shortcut today."

"If it means avoiding Baka-gou then sure."

Midoriya knows all too well that Shiryoku doesn't like Bakugou, and he has tried to change her mind but she just can't find a reason to like him.

Which Midoriya gets, he was friends with Bakugou before they got their Quirks, and Shiryoku only moved into their apartment complex after everyone but Midoriya manifested their Quirks.

Midoriya's mind then wanders back to when they first met as Shiryoku's uncle had to go on some type of business trip and his mother offered to watch over Shiryoku for the time her uncle was gone.

They started out a bit uneasy with Shiryoku being quiet and sticking to reading simple braille books. From what Midoriya knows her Quirk had recently manifested and so she had to adapt to being blind.

It wasn't until Midoriya expressed his interest in heroes Shiryoku started to open up, and from then on she would occasionally visit his apartment to hang out.

"Man Izu you are spacing out a lot today" Shiryoku points out "Also where are we going?"

"A tunnel" Midoriya says, on their way home Midoriya usually acts as a guide to her, and if heroes ever show up Midoriya makes sure to explain everything to her in detail.

Shiryoku narrows her eyes as her ears twitch "I'm guessing there's some type of sewer in there because it kind of smells… are you sure this is a tunnel?"

"It is" Midoriya reassures "I didn't notice any smell the last time I took this shortcut, and I really don't smell anything now."

"Hmm… alright Izu" Shiryoku says "Just tell me if I'm about to step onto some kind of sewer grate. I do not want to drop my cane into it by accident."

"Don't worry" Midoriya says as they start walking through the tunnel "Nothing is going to hap-"


Shiryoku pushes Midoriya away from the sound of sloshing which gets louder and louder until she feels some type of sludge slam into her, pushing her onto the ground.

"Score! Two brats at once!"

"A-a villain" Midoriya cries out.

Shiryoku opens her mouth to sarcastically thank Midoriya for pointing out the obvious, but before she can say a word sludge is poured into her mouth.

Shiryoku immediately tries to claw her way out of the villain's grasp, but as she swipes she only feels sludge and no physical body.

As the seconds continue to pass Shiryoku feels her strength fading as her body starts to run out of oxygen and before she loses her remaining strength she tosses her cane over to Midoriya.

S M A C K

"AH MY EYE" The sludge villain yells in pain.

Shiryoku feels a boost of adrenaline and she moves through the sludge and swings her bag at the source of the thwack sound.

"AH AGAIN WHAT THE HELL!" The sludge villain pushes Shiryoku against the wall of the tunnel "SCREW BEING CAREFUL! I'M GONNA TURN YOU INSIDE OUT!"

Shiryoku's hearing starts to fade as the sludge completely envelopes her, and she just barely hears Midoriya cry out her name.

Without warning the sludge is then ripped out of her mouth and a blast of air almost knocks her over, Shiryoku coughs as bits of sludge are still in her mouth, and as she still tastes the sludge in her throat she vomits.

Shiryoku takes a deep breath as she wipes off her mouth and she realizes that they have been saved "Izu… what happened?"

No answer.

"Izu?!" Shiryoku feels the ground until her hand hits her cane and she grabs it "IZUKU!?"

"Sorry young lady, your friend is merely unconscious, I believe this slimy and slippery villain knocked him out."

Shiryoku knows that voice from all the times Midoriya has had her listen to any videos or any voiced merchandise of his favorite hero.

"But fear not young lady, for I am here" The number one hero of Japan, All Might says.

Midoriya wakes up at All Might loudly announcing his catchphrase "OH MY GOSH! ALL MIGHT! WHERE'S MY NOTEBOOK?! AHHHH HE SIGNED IT ALREADY!"

Shiryoku covers her ears as All Might lets out a booming laugh "It appears I have saved a big fan! And if you're still worried about the villain, have no fear, for he is inside these eco-friendly recyclable bottles!"

"That's All Might for you! The greatest hero!"

"Thank you for the praise young man, now if you excuse me I must deliver this villain to the police!"

"Wait sir" Midoriya calls out, Shiryoku listens as Midoriya's footsteps approach the hero's position "I have a questi-"

Shiryoku is forced to cover her ears again as All Might takes off, and as she uncovers her ears they twitch as she hears a faint scream from Midoriya coming from high in the air.

"Dang it Izu," Shiryoku says "You fanboy."

She moves her cane in front of her and Shiryoku moves as fast as she can in the direction All Might lept.


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