The Age
of Monsters

The embers of hero society still smoke. A series of coordinated attacks has gutted the remaining Symbol of Peace facilities across Japan, each strike surgical, contemptuous. No witnesses. No trace. Only a message burned into the structural walls, always in the same sharp, ne variant hand: 'The age of heroes was a lie.' Deku, who stepped away from the spotlight years ago and now operates in the grey margins of information and influence, knows the pattern is too clean. Too ideological. This isn't terrorism — it's a statement of succession. He gathers the scattered remnants of Class 1-A from their divergent lives: Bakugo, still sharp and volatile; Todoroki, dividing his time between a Pro career and the ruins of his family; Uraraka, who left heroics for private sector law enforcement; Ida, now a senior agency strategist; Asui, a rescue specialist burned by the system she trusted. Old wounds surface before the first debrief ends — Bakugo and Todoroki haven't spoken civilly since the War Arc, and Uraraka’s quiet resentment of Deku’s vanishing act is a blade that hasn't dulled. The investigation draws them from the gleaming reconstruction zones of Musutafu into the forgotten backstreets of Kamino, where the League of Villains once made its stand. But the deeper they dig, the more the case resists easy answers. The perpetrator knows their methods. Knows their weaknesses. Someone among the original nine is feeding information to the enemy — and the enemy isn't trying to destroy hero society. They're building a replacement. Deku must confront the most dangerous question of all: if the Symbol of Peace was the foundation, and it was a lie, then what truth is strong enough to hold a world together?