Side Story: Observer

Hello, it's me, Hisho, literally translated into secretary in English. I don't really have a surname. Anyways you might be wondering why I suddenly started to introduce myself, it's simple, this arc won in the poll!

Now you might be wondering, but isn't this in tie with the 'skip straight to UA' arc? Well, you are right, but if that option won the main body would have straight up stopped observing this story, so you escaped that fate by a hair's breadth, how lucky you foolish readers are, aren't you?

Anyways now onto me, this option won after all, and if you are disappointed by this outcome...

...you should have voted when the time was there.

Well, what can I say about me? I am unit one! What that means? I am basically the first body created to observe things here. What that still didn't clear things up?

I am basically responsible for anything that isn't related to Akane that you read!

The author herself, HopelessHikkikomori, at first just planned to write about Akane and her story, but she immediately realized that that's just stupid, so she quickly scratched that idea and tried thinking about a way to make more world building without destroying the reading flow.

That's how I was created, partially anyways. So yes, I am basically that person that 'films' the sections at the end of basically each chapter.

Does that mean that I am basically in scene for each of these sections?

Yes. It exactly means that. I was following Fumio and Rumi while they drove to their parents. I had to run after that vehicle, after all I still don't have a car in this world.

How I could avoid detection from top class persons, despite having basically a normal person's body?

That's easy, it's related to my quirk, '4th Wall: Cam', I am basically just a glorified camera that is filming everything that isn't directly linked to the main story trunk.

How did I end up as Nezus secretary?

That's a funny story. You see, I am basically just like the author, I am just a self-insert after all, but I am not always connected to her. You see, this quirk only works when I have to 'observe' something, so it doesn't function when I don't have to 'observe', making me just a normal, like you, not like the people here in this universe.

Anyways, at the end, I still am affected by myself. Let's just say that the author was in a kind of 'panic' that time, I won't go into more detail, you are all strangers after all.

Basically, I too was affected by that. It was about my plans for the future, I still don't know what I dream to do as a job. I don't want to study because that sounds like hell I would walk into and I only have vague general direction of what I am willing to do in the future...

...I had a bit of a mental breakdown in that moment, but I am over that now. My parents are nice, they just said that I just should follow my dream if I had one, or that. They only recommended me to do so I had as many opportunities open as possible.

It's sad, I only know what I don't want to do, by I don't know what I want to do. In the end, the only thing I hope is just living my existence and having my own place in this world. Why does this have to be so hard in this day and age?

I hope future me won't mess this up, I managed to live up until now after all.

Anyways, to my own surprise, she managed to gather up some stray thoughts, or should I say fantasize?

Having a stable job, having a place in the world...

...I was created.

Let's begin with my story, and no 4th wall breaking now. Don't worry, I am fixing up this side of the wall, you only must deal with your own side.

(Observer disconnected from main body)

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I was just a vessel in the beginning, a camera without any emotions, thoughts, or will of my own, I just did what I was supposed to be, observe interesting scenes, record things worth recording, help shape the world so it didn't seem too bland.

Until the main body decided otherwise. I suddenly gained all of that on my own, but along with that came a wave of despair and the connection to the main body was lost.

I felt despair, deep despair. I was left alone in this world without connections, without family, without knowing anyone personally, one of the anxieties I have, being left alone in a place where I know nobody.

I cursed myself for leaving me alone like this. Why would I do this shit to myself, I wondered. Well, of course I wouldn't leave myself alone like that, who in their right mind would throw themself right in front of their own biggest phobia? Absolute nobody, there is reason why it's a phobia to begin with.

Anyways, I walked around aimlessly, not knowing what to do. I really didn't, even if I did, it's now gone. The fear gripped me deeper, so deep that I couldn't think calmly, all my thoughts were blocked off and I only felt like crying. Luckily it was currently raining, so nobody could have been bothered by my actions.

After a long while of aimlessly walking around, I stopped at a metal bench to sit down. I started taking deep breaths in and out, trying to calm myself.

It couldn't be that hopeless, right? Wrong, I am not the brightest tool in the shed. It's easier having a clear path in front of me to follow, then having to discover it myself. I am helpless when I don't know what to do.

The worst is that other in these stupid imaginary isekais, I have been thrown into this world from now to then! Admittedly, my true self was still in the calm and safety of their own home, but I am now here! Abandoned, no ambitions, no hopes, no dreams.

Just a normal girl, no, woman by now. I am 18 by now after all, doesn't really feel like that though. It feels like I stopped mentally aging since I was fourteen or so.

Sitting in the rain on a random bench, not knowing what to do. Feels like a bunch of bullshit to me.

Anyways what should I do? I am abandoned in a world without any of my papers that would prove my identity whatsoever. This world is like our original one but has superpowers.

Great! What now? I won't be able to find a job that grants me a roof over my head like that. Well, I could still write applications and my resume, but without the necessary papers I can forget landing a job.

I started to get sad, sad because I didn't know what to do. I didn't cry because despair didn't make me to that, it made me silent, it made my stomach turn and churn, almost as if I could vomit.

I felt uncomfortable as hell and wished that I wasn't here. God, why would I suddenly decide to give one of my vessel's consciousness? This was a stupid decision.

Then I suddenly had a flash of realization. It seemed like I already had an identity in this world.

"So, you want me to live in this world, huh? How stupid, couldn't you have just instantly thrown me into here with a position and all? Why would you make it more difficult for yourself than necessary?"

(Where is the fun and entertainment if you have it easy? Now calm down, your job opportunity just appeared.)

And as predicted, a certain director of a certain prestigious school appeared in front of me. It was Nezu, the headmaster of UA.

"What is a young woman like you doing here? Sitting here in the cold, in the middle of the rain? Don't you a place to stay? I am sure there are people worrying that you are out here."

I laughed internally, being a secretary seemed fine.

"I don't have a family here to worry about me. I also don't remember where I am, or why I am here? So, could you please help me out with this?"

Nezu was slightly surprised hearing this. He was startled, he was startled how calm the person in front of him said these words as if they were normal. As if being in the middle of a place you don't know was normal.

"Well, do you have any friends or relatives you could stay with?"

The woman shook her head.

"Can you tell me the name of a person I should call to help you out?"

She shook her head once again. Nezu started to sweat.

"Do you know who you are?"

At yet again, she shook her head. Nezu could explode with the answers he just heard now, but he quickly calmed himself down. Now wasn't the time to get angry.

"Stand up, follow me."

The finally looked up to the ground, but her bangs still blocked her face. She seemed surprised hearing this, but quickly shook her head afterwards. Nezu really was about to lose his mind, he was just worried about that girl in front of him, about to cry from despair, but now he had to deal with an amnesiac girl, great!

"My parents taught me not to follow strangers."

Nezu sighed, that was a fair point, he guessed. He sighed and handed over his business card.

"As you can see, I am nobody suspicious and I just plan to hand you over to a police booth. They should be able to solve your problem. Don't you think so too?"

The young woman than nodded and stood up and started to follow him. After a while of following he noticed that the person was fidgeting and gradually getting slower, at this point he really was pissed off, he had important things to do, but now he had to escort someone that didn't know who they are!

"What's the problem? Why are you slowing down?"

The young woman started to fidget after being called out. Nezu sighed, the person in front of him seemed like an adult, but she acted like an unknowing girl, that ticked him a bit off.

"Your umbrella!"

His umbrella?

"It hangs so low that the rain is basically just flowing onto my shoes!"

He looked at her with open eyes, she was right, the rain was indeed flowing onto her shoes.

"Should I hold it? I think it would be a better option for the both of us. I promise I'll try my best to hold the umbrella so that you stay dry, sir!"

Nezu thought about it for a moment, but ultimately there was no reason to not do so, so he handed his umbrella over to her to hold.

The rest of the way was uneventful. Once at the station a DNA sample was taken to get her identity.

The results were clear, she was a girl born in Japan, her name was apparently Nai Hisho and it turned out that they had no relatives to take care of her anymore, this was surprising, normally there should have been somebody left, but apparently there was no such persons. This could basically only mean one thing.

(all information is made up and has nothing to do with the person in real life, this is the background I gave this body.)

"Sir, could you please tell me what her quirk is?"

"Huh? Oh, that? Sorry, but I can't, this is private information, and I can't give that out to anybody."

"Oh, really? Then you should know that I am no nobody, can you still not give me her file?"

He gulped once, before he disappeared into the back room and gave the mouse the file. Why did he had to do that? He was one of the few animals with quirk, shouldn't it be obvious enough who he is?

He skimmed through the file and stopped at the interesting part, that persons quirk. Apparently, it was a kind of future sight, and not any future sight, but one that predicted the future 100%, no deviation, once said, the future she predicted will happen absolutely.

He was surprised reading this, this basically meant that you could prevent things from happening but reading further into it he saw the problem. It couldn't, you couldn't prevent the seen future, no matter what, the future predicted can't be changed. It also had another problem, the condition to activate, the file side that it was just unknown. So, the activation was a variable too.

But even with that Nezu already could paint the picture.

That girl was probably just a lab rat, like him once.

To be continued...