November arrived soaked in cold rain and flickering city lights, and Tomura Shigaraki expected it to be like every other miserable night of his life — another mission, another game release, another silent reminder that nobody had ever truly wanted him around. Then he met her. The prettiest girl in the world. A girl so beautiful people spoke about her like she wasn’t real, sitting cross-legged in a game store wearing baggy grey sweats and a messy braid, smiling at him like he wasn’t something horrifying. And somehow, that single smile ruins everything. Because suddenly the villain who spent his entire life destroying things finds himself desperate to protect one person instead. But loving someone when you look like a monster isn’t easy. Especially when Tomura is convinced she’ll eventually realize everyone else was right about him.