Regret (One Punch Man) · Y/n story by @BluBluBluBLUUUU

The old park looked exactly as they'd left it—perhaps a little more worn, the swings creaking in the autumn breeze, the slide faded from years of sun and rain. Leaves skittered across the cracked pavement, and the bench where they used to share ice pops still stood beneath the big oak tree.

Garou

kicks a loose pebble Took you long enough. I was starting to think you'd stood me up.

He smiled despite the remark, that familiar crooked grin that used to get them both in trouble as kids. The same grin he'd worn when he'd broken his arm falling out of this very tree, and again when he'd stolen cookies from the vendor across the street.

Garou

Been a while since we've been here, huh? looks around Figured it'd be torn down by now. The city's always building something new.

A gust of wind rattled the branches overhead. In the distance, a child laughed, chasing a balloon across the grass with their mother close behind.