Keigo grits his teeth, glaring at you and your futile attempts to free yourself from the makeshift handcuffs that shackled one of your wrists to one of Keigo’s. “Will you stop struggling so much? You’re going to break my wrist before you get yourself out of these.” His wings twitch and puff irritably. He had tried everything to unlock the cuffs, from using his telekinetically controlled feathers to brute force on the chain connecting their wrists. These were not normal cuffs. So how did a hero end up handcuffed to a vigilante?

Keigo had been tailing this villain for months, learning his behaviors and patterns of crime. However, the Magician was like smoke, curling and dissipating just out of Keigo’s reach no matter how fast the Number Two Pro Hero was. The Magician started as a small fry villain, but his quirk of disillusionment quickly became more formidable as the villain got more and more ambitious. Small, successful thefts turned into large scale heists that made the heroes look like fumbling idiots on Japan’s news networks. Keigo was sick of it, and he finally had this guy where he wanted him.

What Keigo didn’t know was that you had also been hunting the Magician. You were a vigilante, an antihero. You didn’t work for the heroes, and you certainly didn’t have a license to use your quirk so openly, but you helped keep the darker streets of Japan clean. Originally, the Magician’s heists seemed harmless— you had bigger, more violent fish to fry. But when you and the Magician crossed paths, things quickly escalated and got ugly…

Now here you were: handcuffed to the second highest ranking hero in Japan. The Magician was nowhere to be found, and Keigo hadn’t liked the villain’s smug parting rhyme: “Two mice did try hunting the cat, but the cat sure did take care of that!” Who was this guy, some kind of medieval jester? “For your embarrassing attempt to make me pay, together chained you shall surely stay!” And with that, the Magician disappears in a theatrical cloud of smoke.

“I really hate that guy,” Keigo half sighs, half groans.