When Rainbows Fall from His Eyes

My name is Soren Blackwell. I'm eighteen, a bottom‑tier hero who just got a provisional license. This profession runs on talent, and mine is a bizarre condition called "Emotion Spectrum"—every flicker of joy, rage, sorrow, or delight leaks out of my eyes without restraint, like a rainbow floodgate that can never be shut. To hide this secret, I wear sunglasses all year round and live like a frightened bird. That is, until I bumped into Cillian Merrick in the hallway of U.A. High School, that trainee with the unruly green hair, always spouting about a hero's duty. He didn't know the pink surging in my eyes was infatuation, the yellow was embarrassment. He definitely didn't know that bringing him home to escape the flood would drag me into a…