"Nooo! I can't be late for the first day! I absolutely can't!"

A woman with short slightly messy blonde hair and aqua green eyes ran through the hallway, clutching a clipboard to her chest.

She clambered up the stairs, almost tripping at the top, before continuing down the left corridor. She stopped at the third classroom along and allowed herself to catch her breath, before standing up straight and fixing her hair.

This woman was Shiina Motome. It was her first day as the homeroom teacher of the 79th Class at Hope's Peak Academy. This was their first homeroom of the year.

Shiina took a deep breath, before sliding the door open.

"Good morning, everyone!" she started but she stopped short.

It was empty. The classroom was empty.

Shiina frowned and took a step back, closing the door. She quickly checked the room number, before returning and opening the door again.

She stared at the empty desks, confused.

It wasn't until five seconds later did Shiina register what was going on.

Her clipboard clattered to the floor, the sheet of paper that had been attached, landing next to it.

It was the first year and the first homeroom for the 79th Class at Hope's Peak.

And not a single student had shown up.

You might say this was a one off. Maybe all the students had gotten the date wrong. Maybe they were all running late. Maybe Shiina Motome had actually been early. You could come up with just about anything, after all, the students at this school were said to be eccentric. As long as you kept feeding yourself what you thought to be the truth, anything could make sense.

But the reality of the situation was as simple as it looked.

None of them had come to school that day. Well, maybe they had, but they certainly hadn't come to class. And majority of them rarely did.

That was the way it was throughout their entire first year. There were some students who showed up most days, some who maybe showed up once a month and those, who perhaps only came once or twice that year. There was even one student who never came at all.

None of these students were bad. If it had been a normal school they probably would've been described as "delinquents". But of course, Hope's Peak Academy was no normal school.

They weren't skipping class because they didn't want to be there. They were skipping class because there was somewhere else they wanted to be more.

Whether it was the forest surrounding the school grounds or the gardens or hiding away in the smallest corner of the school or even just wandering the halls, all of them were stuck in their own tiny worlds.

The worlds where their talent was everything and the only thing that mattered in that world, was improving their talent.

After the incident on the first day, Shiina Motome eventually returned. She quickly became used to there only being two or three students a day and even more so, used to there being no one. She quit the following year.

But that year is where this story begins. The second year for the 79th Class at Hope's Peak Academy. One faithful day, that changed their lives.

It sounds cliche, yes. But cliches are funny. The events that took place on this day, I'm afraid to say, were anything but.