She stood at the edge of the clock tower.
Kira.
Wind tugged at her white hospital gown. Eyes blank. Soul floating in static.
Below her—time collapsed.Reality blurred.
And for the first time since she awoke, she remembered something.
Not a name.
Not a place.
Just a choice.
Eri.
Crying.
Blood on her face.
The bullet coming fast.
And Kira, without thinking—stepping forward.
One second. One action.
But that one moment shattered everything that followed.
Because she hadn't been meant to choose.
Not in this world.
Not in any.
In Nezu's war room, Power Loader slammed his fist on the console.
"She's collapsing time corridors now. Creating paradox scars across Musutafu."
He threw up a map.
Red slashes cut across the city like veins of lightning.
"Shops disappearing before they opened. Buildings decaying in seconds. A family forgot they had a daughter—she just vanished."
Midnight whispered, "Is she doing it on purpose?"
"No," Nezu muttered.
"She's trying to find her origin point."
"She's trying to figure out why she exists."
In the dorm hallway, Eri stood barefoot.
Her horn pulsed again.
Midoriya was already behind her. "Don't go out there alone."
"She's calling me."
"You don't owe her anything—"
"She's me."
He froze.
"She's what I could've become. If I broke the wrong way. If I rewound too far. If I gave up trying to be human."
She stepped past him.
"I owe her a name."
Kira sat in a broken alley.
The sky was blue now.
A child ran past her—then froze.
Looked at her.
Wide-eyed. Curious.
"Kira?" the little boy said.
She looked up.
But he wasn't speaking to her.
He was looking through her.
The world flickered—
And suddenly Kira stood in a memory she never lived.
A woman's voice.
"You'll be late for school!"
A hallway.
Her hands—smaller. Human. Warm.
She blinked.
The vision crumbled again.
She collapsed to her knees.
"I was supposed to be someone," she whispered.
But all she was… was a ripple.
A left-behind possibility.
A choice made by someone else.
UA's alarms shrieked.
A singularity opened at the northern gate.
A swirling mass of broken time.
Inside it—
Kira.
Hovering above the ground.
Not walking.
Not breathing.
Frozen mid-loop.
Eri reached the gate first.
She didn't hesitate.
She stepped into the singularity.
The air burned.
Colors bent.
Eri stood face to face with Kira, within the eye of the glitch.
"You're not supposed to be here," Kira said.
Her voice echoed in every direction at once.
Eri walked forward.
"You're wrong."
"You're just a shadow."
"And you're just a mistake."
Eri raised her hand.
"I don't believe that."
She reached out—
Her fingers brushing Kira's cheek.
And for the first time, Kira didn't glitch.
She cried.
Silent. Still. Human.
Eri's horn shone gold.
A soft hum filled the singularity.
"I don't want to erase you," she said.
Kira whispered, "Then help me exist."
The horn pulsed—
And time froze.
Not stopped.Balanced.
For one moment, the world stood between breaths.
And Eri made a new choice.
She rewound Kira—
Not to nothing.Not to death.But to a beginning.
A time she never had.
A childhood.
A name.
A chance.
The singularity collapsed inward.
Silent.
Gone.
Outside, the sky cleared.
The scars across the city vanished like mist.
Midoriya ran toward the gate.
"Eri!"
Smoke faded.
Eri stood alone.
But not quite.
Beside her—
A girl.
Younger now. Alive.
No static. No glitch.
She blinked in confusion, then looked at Eri.
"…What's my name?"
Eri smiled.
"You tell me."
To be continued.