p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="6f9e26a7e2e488e9b5df77ed47f73cef"The quiet screams of a young woman greeted my masked ears. It was difficult to make out through the beating of the pouring rain, though her whisper could not be mistaken./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="0110a474d14515d65af715d5463bc413"My neck snapped and my gaze shifted to analyze my blind spots. My eyes darted frantically, scanning the dystopian landscape that encompassed me. I wheeled around rapidly, attempting to find my target. My presence, however, was not enough to quell the screams of the frantic pedestrians./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="5ad35e4ba18f72c67db58f03b0faa94e"A villain? Where? Why are you all yelling? Don't you understand that I am here?/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="92ef8673eed7db41b74613eb344f795d"No matter where I faced, no matter where I looked, I saw no villain. Danger sense was not active, though for all I knew the villain had a quirk to counter my own. In today's world, there was no time to assume that I was comfortable./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="400d3c0b4f51c826a93c1e6c561814c7"I felt my costume becoming saturated by the shower from above. Gosh, I wish this rain would stop. It's so loud. How can I concertante in this?/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="2feab6d426fd9349bb45c078060d397d"For the first time, I looked down./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="06a0fb050bdc28c64bbc7f05029c4d8a"Turning, I saw a small frail boy cowering behind a car that was left for rot alongside the road. His eyes were overflowing with tears that stood out clearly in the rain. He was shaking and gripping the side of the car for support. In his free hand, I noticed the vague outline of what must have been another rock. Just as my prediction indicated, he wound up his short arm and pelted it at me to the best of his ability. It hit me with a faint tap on the shoulder and then rolled down./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8f2f85040dd7e5024cb5760d82e14f01""It's okay! I am here to-" I started to defend myself and offer reassurance but felt another tap./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="197803a47471113413a81072634a98a2"As the rocks kept coming through the rain, I took my sight away from the child and down to the puddle that was forming in the new crack I busted into the road. My eyes were greeted with the same hunched silhouette that I saw before./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="a8f8534e0dd0267e524617401f2c2315"And then, just for a split second, the pounding in my head paused. My life played through my head like a video clip set at maximum speed. I saw my mother hugging me with teary eyes as she apologized my quirkless state... Bakugo swatting away my hand in the river... the sludge monster... All-Might at the beach... and Shigaraki's cracked skin and dead eyes fighting me with everything he had in him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="0110a474d14515d65af715d5463bc413"My neck snapped and my gaze shifted to analyze my blind spots. My eyes darted frantically, scanning the dystopian landscape that encompassed me. I wheeled around rapidly, attempting to find my target. My presence, however, was not enough to quell the screams of the frantic pedestrians./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="5ad35e4ba18f72c67db58f03b0faa94e"A villain? Where? Why are you all yelling? Don't you understand that I am here?/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="92ef8673eed7db41b74613eb344f795d"No matter where I faced, no matter where I looked, I saw no villain. Danger sense was not active, though for all I knew the villain had a quirk to counter my own. In today's world, there was no time to assume that I was comfortable./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="400d3c0b4f51c826a93c1e6c561814c7"I felt my costume becoming saturated by the shower from above. Gosh, I wish this rain would stop. It's so loud. How can I concertante in this?/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="2feab6d426fd9349bb45c078060d397d"For the first time, I looked down./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="6378d2d2b86de87a738ecfa6c62dd223"In the glassy reflection of the puddle was the outline of a figure I did not recognize. They were clad in a greenish suit that covered them head to toe. They appeared hunched over, as if ready to strike at any move. Their face was masked by a fake, eerie smile and the yellow frays of a scarf were wrapped around their neck. For the first time in weeks, I felt a genuine fear creep over my being. My spine stood up and I could sense the threat that the enemy posed./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="4c71e462571e946f01fe3f8914948587""One for all! Full cowling, shot style!" I screamed in fear as the power of my quirk crept over my foot. I reared my leg back and unleashed a vigorous kick at the villain hiding in the puddle. The force of my attack deepened the crater in the road and cracked the surrounding pavement. Water that had previously been sitting in the puddle splashed up and got mixed in the rain. My breath was heavy as I stared down onto the street. Where did that figure go?/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="7d711b1ce9391fd8beb7326d3b4a69eb"Then I felt a pebble hit my side./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="06a0fb050bdc28c64bbc7f05029c4d8a"Turning, I saw a small frail boy cowering behind a car that was left for rot alongside the road. His eyes were overflowing with tears that stood out clearly in the rain. He was shaking and gripping the side of the car for support. In his free hand, I noticed the vague outline of what must have been another rock. Just as my prediction indicated, he wound up his short arm and pelted it at me to the best of his ability. It hit me with a faint tap on the shoulder and then rolled down./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="c5ff20b7ad3a8760837bbe2181d1330f""Please..." He wailed through his tears. "Leave! I don't want a villain here!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8f2f85040dd7e5024cb5760d82e14f01""It's okay! I am here to-" I started to defend myself and offer reassurance but felt another tap./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="0cffbc023dcf2c6468d3242cf78abd12""LEAVE NOW, VILLIAN!" He cried, throwing more and more pebbles at me. Stumped and defenseless, all I could do was take the punch./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="197803a47471113413a81072634a98a2"As the rocks kept coming through the rain, I took my sight away from the child and down to the puddle that was forming in the new crack I busted into the road. My eyes were greeted with the same hunched silhouette that I saw before./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="a8f8534e0dd0267e524617401f2c2315"And then, just for a split second, the pounding in my head paused. My life played through my head like a video clip set at maximum speed. I saw my mother hugging me with teary eyes as she apologized my quirkless state... Bakugo swatting away my hand in the river... the sludge monster... All-Might at the beach... and Shigaraki's cracked skin and dead eyes fighting me with everything he had in him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="15acb71953a92923cd5d5ebf3990d8b0"It all, well, clicked./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="1cf4e7f449ac53c398a061c7aa3b6a05"Maybe the woman was right to scream. Maybe the citizens were right to flee. Maybe the boy currently hitting me with rocks was right to attack./p
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