Today was just not Shinso's day.

Monoma was being an asshole, like usual, to anyone who got in his way. This time it was Hagakure, a girl from class 1-A.

Poor Hagakure. She didn't do anything (this time.)

Well... she does tend to steal things and sneak around... but today she's been behaving well.

Normally Shinso would brush it off, maybe try to help if he felt up to it. Today however, he absolutely did not feel up to it.

Shinso got about an hour of sleep last night. Not to far off from the usual, but today was worse.

Today he had three tests, all in a row. He didn't study for any of them. He didn't have time. So now here he was.

Bruised, sore, and so tired he wish he could die.

He got thirty minutes of sleep. That's it.

It was times like these where he really reconsidered all of his life decisions. He found himself asking why he ever decided to become a 'vigilante'.

He would like to say that it was because he wanted to help people. In reality, he didn't know what he wanted. He just wanted... something. Something good.

Yet all he got was new bruises and impressive under eye bags.

Wonderful.

Today wouldn't be so bad if everybody was unobservant enough to notice.

Just my luck that half of everyone in this school has an IQ of over 9000.

Shinso had a mental list of people he had to watch out for the most. The most observant and intelligent people in school, not just limited to students.

Monoma (for some reason).

Bakugou.

Yaoyorozu.

Midoriya.

Aizawa.

Tokoyami.

Iida.

Todoroki (...maybe-sometimes he seems rather unaware of other people)

Midoriya. (did I already list him?)

Shinso was sure there were more (because he's paranoid), but he didn't know enough about his classmates to say who. /Authors note: lmao he has no idea/

What he did know for sure was that they were all dangerous. All of them.

Well, maybe not physically dangerous. Monoma and Midoriya are good examples of that.

The most physically dangerous are Bakugou, Tokoyami, Todoroki, and maybe Aizawa. Yamada might be as well, because although he may not the brightest, there's something...strange about him.

Shinso had seen how they react to seemingly perfectly normal things. Even a pencil dropping had them all alert. They all had wicked fast reaction times. Even the way they walked spelled danger. He didn't exactly know why; he just had a feeling.

Shinso shook his head a bit.

Now isn't the time to focus on such things.

Shinso knew he should focus on his tests.

Not that there's a point-I'll fail anyways.

However, his train of thought kept going.

I know they have secrets.

He knew he shouldn't try to meddle. After all, he could end up accidentally revealing himself.

Doesn't mean I can't wonder.

He shook his head again. He looked at the clock and saw that the bell was about to ring.

Only a few minutes left.

I'm glad I'm too tired to really freak out.

Too bad I'm too tired to really care about anything except... it doesn't matter anyways. Don't think about it.

When the bell rang, he made sure to take his sweet time getting up and leaving the classroom.

Partially because he was sore from a fight last night, mostly because he wanted to delay the inevitable.

He slowly walked to his next class. It took all of his willpower to not skip class.

He knew he couldn't afford it... his grades were already bad enough.

Shinso sighed internally a he stepped into the classroom.

Almost everyone was already in their seats.

At least nobody cares to notice.

He begrudgingly sat down in his seat, just moment before the bell rang.

The teacher immediately began to pass out tests. She was saying something about the tests, but he wasn't really focused on that.

He was busy looking at the questions and realizing he's in deeper water than he thought.

As he looked at the questions on the first page, he vaguely realized that the teacher was telling them to start.

Shinso sighed internally again, and picked up his pencil.

Might as well at least try.

Shinso started filling out his paper, ignoring the heavy feeling of dread.

At least I'm getting it over with.

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He hadn't even finished the first page before he heard the gunshots.

/what a terrible ending lmao, thanks for reading/