The Psychopathic Hero Chapter Pushover
Park Jiyoung 24 Months before the arrest…
"So remind me again, what do you plan to tell your father?" said a nasally voice.
Park Jiyong groaned out loud, "D-do you have to k-keep nagging m-me about it?"
He shuddered as his father's face popped up in his mindscape, his puffed-up chest with the usual "I'm so disappointed with you" expression.
The air was cold that afternoon and with each step, Jiyoung pulled his overcoat a little closer around himself as he nervously looked over to the side towards the nasally voice. It belongs to one of Jiyoung's middle school classmates, Takumi Yui.
Though he was walking next to Jiyoung and being friendly, he knew better than to trust him. He was the type to hang with the popular kids while eating their bread crumbs to get connections. Not that, that was an entirely bad thing, since they had to survive in this quirk ridden supernatural world, but Jiyoung was too timid to point the flaw out to him.
Yui scoffed, "I am only trying to help you out! As your friend, you can trust me in these types of situations. I can totally tell you from experience that failing one test towards the end of the semester isn't that big of a deal. My mom beats me all the time for failing tests, and since it's your first one this year it's not really an issue."
Jiyoung warily looked over at him and he couldn't help but cringe at the irony of his statement and didn't bother listening in to the end of his ramble.
"Y-yeah b-but it's different w-with m-my…" He started to nervously protest but was cut off by Yui throwing his arm over Jiyoung's shoulder.
He ended up dragging him the last few meters to their city bus stop, despite Jiyoung's weak mumblings of complaint.
"Let me tell you a tip Park," Yui continued puffing his chest, and Jiyoung struggled and failed to get out of the headlock.
"As our middle school days are ending, you need to confront your father and tell him how you feel! The more you allow him to walk over you, you'll always stay as a pushover for the rest of your life!" finished Yui smugly, as he tightened the grip on Jiyoung's neck, causing his body to stumble back and forth.
Jiyoung could only let out an awkward laugh in response and nodded his head, however, he felt repulsed and bitter by Yui's words. There was only one thought ringing in his head, as he waited for his bus with his classmate.
It must be nice for those to have such a simple mindset.
Jiyoung sighed as he climbed up the stairs of his dark and damp student study apartment. It took him almost two years to convince his family to allow him to move to a single study dorm after they moved from Korea to Japan to further franchise and expand his father's Korean barbecue restaurant.
He finally bought them over by simply making a convincing claim that it would help him to focus and study for the U.A exams, the prestigious hero highschool he promised his family he would get in, by allowing him to do so. Rather than telling them, it was to get away from the stress and grief they caused him.
Jiyoung slouched down the third-floor hallway to the last door on the right. He could hear the echoing laughter of the painful memory of when he first told his family he would consider pursuing the career of a hero.
"You a hero?! Don't make me laugh, you might just become a financial assistant instead like your older brother!"
"Jiyoung you barely have any control of your quirk, it wouldn't look good for the family business, if you get accepted into an agency somewhere."
"The villains would destroy you! You act as though you're quirkless!"
Jiyoung rolled his eyes and entered his room, as his step-mother and father's confused and amused faces popped up in his mindscape. They only think of their reputation and status, not taking the time to listen to their so-called timid, pushover son that doesn't have a future apparently.
Shaking his head, he threw his bag on the ground and walked over to a shelf he had placed in the far corner of this medium-sized dorm room. The self was covered from classic to modern horror movies. He even had a couple of movie posters for different horror previews, decorating around the wall behind his TV stand, but none of them were graphic.
Jiyoung's nerd-like fandom of horror movies started when he was twelve and snuck up on his older brother and his girlfriend at the time watching a rerun of, "The Shining."
It was something he proudly kept a secret from others for the longest, to avoid being questioned or judged for liking. And now that he was living in a place by himself, he recently felt more comfortable and relaxed without the feeling of multiple sets of eyes on him at once, and not as timid or weak.
Smiling he casually picked up a random one out of the many, he didn't even bother reading the title as he placed it into his DVD player. The TV, that started to play the beginning of the movie, was one in which Jiyoung fixed after picking it up from a beach near his family's restaurant and house.
Changing into a simple white T-shirt and plaid pajama bottoms, Jiyoung flicked off his lights, with the exception of a desk lap on a nightstand by his sofa. Grabbing his bag, Jiyoung pulled out his homework that was assigned and a study book that held old exam questions for U.A.
He looked at the exam book and snorted. Of course, he would try to get in, but honestly who or which hero high school would want to accept someone who is too afraid to use his own quirk?
Running a hand through his natural light brown curls, he took off his fake circular glasses and lazily started to work his way through the assignments, while the horror movie played in the background mindlessly.
After a while he pulled a blanket that was on the ground over himself and rested his head against the sofa's armrest, unknowingly closing his eyes.
Bang!
Jiyoung jolted out of his doze like slumber, his blanket sliding slightly off of him and the movie he put in earlier was rolling the ending credits. He yawned half-awake and grabbed the remote flicking the TV off. Still dazed, however, he blinked his eyes uncertainly and looked up towards the roof.
"Is that starting again today? It's been a while…" Jiyoung thought half-awake hoping that it wasn't, but after a few seconds of staring up at the roof, it turned out like he expected it would.
Srrrchhh…..Bang! Bang! Bang!
Huffing annoyed, Jiyoung looked towards the clock above his regular bookshelves, huffing again when he saw how late it was.
He glared up at the roof once and more, "Seriously guy? For several days now you've been doing this, what's the matter?!"
With no response, of course, Jiyoung suddenly stood up from the sofa, his blanket falling to the floor. With a burst of confidence and annoyance, he grabbed a jacket off his desk chair, shoved his slippers on, and briskly walked out his door up towards the top floor of the building.
He climbed the last two flights of stairs rehearsing in his head what he would confidently tell the guy living above him.
"Enough is enough! You've been doing this for several weeks now around or past midnight each night! Is there an issue that you're having? Cus if so please fix it as some of us are trying to sleep and be prepared for school tomorrow!"
He nodded to himself with a small grim smile to himself, he just had to deliver it just like that with enough assertiveness to prove his point. What he was doing was perfectly normal and there was no need for him to cower or be nervous.
He paused outside the last floor of the fourth hallway, the room directly above his. Taking a deep breath he slowly exhaled and rang the door buzzer.
Jiyoung's confidence that he had slowly started to fade away as he listened to the buzzer noise echoing, alerting the person inside of his presence. With a trembling hand he drew it slowly away from the keypad and let out another shaky breath, that confidence was definitely replaced by an intense amount of nerves.
It seemed like a while before he came to the conclusion that the person inside wasn't going to come to the door. Turning away he breathed out a sigh of relief, relaxing his body to a slouch as he started to shuffle tiredly back towards his room.
A sudden wave of annoyance, however, hit him, causing him to pause in his steps. "Jiyoung are you really going to suffer another night with a lack of sleep?" His thoughts stabbed at him as he stood there frozen. He then thought about the test the other day and his frustration at that moment peaked.
Turning back around he stomped his way back to the door. "No way am I going to suffer another night of this!"
But before he could do anything the door swung open so fast at that moment it ended up hitting him right in the face hard.
Blinded by a wave of pain Jiyoung stumbled backward with a painful shout, tripping over his own slipper he crashed down on the cold dirty concrete hallway floor.
Another wave of pain struck his shoulder and he slowly moved to glare up at the person and yell at them for not only being loud but careless.
Well, that was his first intention until his eyes made contact with a pair of blue sweatpants. And as quickly as his burst of confidence came, the quicker it left him right then and there.
"What...the…" Jiyoung mutters slowly looking up at the figure that silently stood over him. He flinched violently at the intensity of the glare the other person was giving him and he stumbled quickly back up on his feet holding his throbbing shoulder as a sense of security.
Jiyoung then nervously studied the person in front of him and his body started to tremble. The older boy at first glance looked like a foreigner, but as he stepped into the light Jiyoung was corrected that he indeed was, in fact, Asian as well. He instead appeared to get a tan, he was wearing a black tank top tucked into his blue sweat pants and fingerless boxing gloves covered his hands that were clenched into fists. He was sweating profusely and Jiyoung flinched violently as he stared coldly at him with sharp gray eyes. His hair was styled with black dreadlocks and his body screamed pure muscle.
"I think I finally know what the cause of the noise was…" Jiyoung thought slowly, regretting his on the spot fake determination he had only minutes ago.
"What's with your freakin head on my threshold?" The guy snapped coldly, causing Jiyoung to jump again startled by the seriousness in his voice.
Shaking harder than before, Jiyoung licked his dry lips. "Come on think of something stupid!"
"A-ah...t-that i-is…" stuttered Jiyoung as his eyes darted from the guy's hardened face to around the area he could use as an excuse, seeing the others room number his short-circuiting brain came up with an idea.
Swallowing the hard lump that was forming in his throat, Jiyoung looked back at him, his mouth trembling in time with his body, "I-isn't t-this apar-rtment 308?"
Continuing on the role he started Jiyoung cleared his throat, determined to get away with the idea he accidentally confused room numbers.
The other on the other hand silently continued to stare him down.
"O-oh. It's 408! I-I'm s-sorry look-ks like I c-confused r-rooms, haha…" said Jiyoung as he forced out a hopefully convincing tone.
The older boy looked down at his hand, slowly nodding his head as if confirming something within himself, before twisting the wrist of his right hand, the older boy sighed and calmly approached the violently trembling Jiyoung.
Jiyoung couldn't help but coware as the older boy neared closer to him. He licked his lips and averted his eyes to anything but the figure staring him dangerously down.
"Where do you go to school?" The older teen snapped at him coldly.
Jiyoung felt his lip tremble as he squeaked out an automatic response.
"H-hibya M-middle…"
"Ah, that's not too far from where I go. You heard of Aldera?" The boy said with a forced grin.
Jiyoung's eyes quickly darted at all the possible exits, he could imagine himself taking action if things turned for the worse.
"Yes I-I know it."
"Cool, I'm assuming you're a senior also, so let me give you a piece of information." The boy said, leaning back down to Jiyoung with a crazed look in his eyes.
"You see I'm training and studying to go to U.A, the hero academy. I'm sure you know how hard it is to get accepted there right?"
Jiyoung nodded his head, shrinking further away from the boy as he possibly could.
The boy scoffed and snorted at his reaction.
"Finals are coming up for us seniors, so work hard. But..." The boy's tone of voice suddenly got ten times darker and Jiyoung swallowed the lump growing in his throat.
"If I ever see you up here again during this time demanding moment…" The boy paused again as he grabbed Jiyoung's shoulder roughly and squeezed it so painfully, that Jiyoung had to bite his tongue to prevent from crying out.
"I'm tossing your ass."
He glared into Jiyoung's eyes until he in return nodded his head rapidly. The boy released his grip from his shoulder and Jiyoung watched his retreating back with a blank expression and body still trembling.
"I-I'm s-sorry." He found himself telling the boy as he opened his door.
The boy silently looked back at him, however, Jiyoung bowed to further express his apology, only to hear the other boy scoff again and slam his door behind him.
The tension and fear quickly left Jiyoung's body and he slumped over in that darkened hallway. Breathing heavily, Jiyoung blinked away the tears threatening to fall and the burn on embarrassment.
"You freakin idiot." He swore to himself before quickly making his way back to his room.
"Alright class there's only ten months of school, today I'm going to be collecting your end of the year career and highschool review sheets."
The entire class ground loudly and Jiyoung found himself with them. After last night's ordeal, he ended up staying awake and was paying the price for it.
Rubbing the exhaustion from his eyes Jiyoung was so out of it he almost missed the teacher calling his name.
"A-ah y-yes!" He stuttered, bolting up he stood from his desk as his classmates laughed at him.
Flushing in embarrassment he rubbed his hands on his pants.
"Do you know where your desk partner Takumi Yui is at?"
Jiyoung glared down at the empty desk and refrained from rolling his eyes.
"N-no I d-don't" He replied in a soft voice, but knowing his deskmate he was probably playing video games at home.
His teacher sighed as the other students around him whispered insults about him to each other.
"Park is such a pushover!"
"He's so lame dude! He wants to be a hero apparently!"
"No way he is so weak and timid, he most likely quirkless. Who would want that?"
"Silence!" Their teacher snapped and the others quieted down. Jiyoung bit his lip, frustration was building up inside of him.
But it was pointless to do anything about it, as he knew they were right in some aspect of it.
He was indeed a pushover.
"Anyways let him know he needs to turn in his report as soon as he comes back to school, okay?"
Jiyoung nodded his head. "I-I tell him t-to submit i-it."
"Good, now start passing them up!"
The class went back into a wave of complaints, as Jiyoung sat slowly back down with a sigh.
He rolled his eyes and plopped his head on his hand, he was more annoyed about the fact that he had to be the one to remind Takumi to turn in his assignments all the time.
Pushing the thought aside he allowed himself to drift in his thoughts, tuning out their teacher speaking about the exams.
He was never worried about that aspect, for he excelled very well academically, he needed to start training more diligently physically if he had any hopes of passing the U.A exam without using his quirk in any way.
His quirk was way too difficult, dangerous, and he lost control every time he tried to use it. It got to a point in which he was afraid to even try.
But then again it made him, the timid pushover, feel confident in some way he didn't really know how to express.
Turning away from the window he caught himself staring out of, he focused back to the front.
He had a lot of work to do.
Hello everyone!
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! More characters are going to be introduced in the next chapter and we get to see how Jiyoung plans to train himself for the U.A exam! Please let me know what you think! What do you guys think his quirk could be? Why is he so afraid to use it?! Do you think he should witness the sludge villain attack? Let me know any thoughts or feedback! Thank you for reading!