Normally I think this would be rude for me to derail this, but since they're the same QM...
Honestly though there been a huge amount that needs a recap, its largely been isolated social actions, prepping for UA and the insanity that was the battle trail, but I'll do my best.
Daiki Shinsoo (cousin to the canon Hitoshi Shinsoo) is a UA applicant who's good at social stuff and less so good at physical. He has the powers to copy the quirks of people he's friends with however an incident in the past left him isolated with just his sisters and one friend he couldn't shake and not a whole lotta interest in making more.
At the time of the start of the quest Shirohime (the one friend) appears to have finally broken through that high school is a new start and inspired Daiki to attempt to go for his old dream and to make friends while doing it. The day starts off pretty much as you'd expect, some character introductions are met, we're given insight into Daikis relationship with his elder sister via flashback of studying and the battle trial starts. Here things go off the rails. Daiki gets a critical success on a roll to make people coordinate and work together to pass the test and pretty soon he's at the head of a team of thirty odd students, a display of leadership skills which naturally left an impression on everyone in the group, as the authors notes puts it
Coordination happens and the big robot is destroyed. We get our first harem warning flags as several characters seem to be interested in a date.
The quest moves onto a stage where we're twiddling our thumbs through the final weeks. Kirishima (who we met fighting big robot) and Shirohime put Daiki on a training program to overcome his awful physical stats. We get a job at a cafe owned by a Takeshi Toga whose blood seems to taste sweet and has a missing granddaughter (We have literally no clue who that could be
). It's announced that our older sister will be a teacher at UA. We hang out with Bunnygirl!Healer!Haruka and get
another social crit, during this we learn OoC that she's never had a friend before and so was totally unprepared for the Raiju whirlwind. We get introduced to Mina and right now we're hanging out with two of the other OC's from the battle test.
Theres some other stuff and minor details. Which I thought I'd leave spoilered in case I've told you enough that you want to pick up and read it.
While we don't know much about the pre story incident we do know:
- Shirohime seems to feel some responsibility.
- It resulted in the death of Daiki's mother. And estrangement from their father due to blaming them.
- It left Daiki with some kind of agraphobia that only kicks in when alone?
- Left Daiki with a fear that people would react badly to learning his quirk.
