Chapter 1

"We Heroes have a mission. That is, to protect the "Heart" of this Earth itself."

- Spirits to Shy

"I Am SHY" (シャイなので) is the first chapter of first volume of SHY manga series.

Summary
The world was at the brink of the World War III but Heroes with special abilities appeared and, through their efforts, the peace was achieved again. The American Hero, Century, saved an airplane and all passengers were rescued without heavy injuries. The Russian Hero, Spirits, captured a gang of bank robbers easily. The British Hero, Stardust, performed a giant concert for charity.

Meanwhile, Shy is trying to talk to her public as she was invited to attend Hero Heartman's show in Himawari Land. Her timidness, though, bored them. In the end, she couldn't do much and left the stage but one person wished her good luck and she thanked him. Shy returns to her dressing room and is very embarassed. N-Villio, her partner, tells her that she needs to get used to being in public. Each country has its Hero and Shy is Japan's Hero.

Suddenly, they hear a scream: the rollercoaster just stopped in the middle of the loop. A girl reassures the boy at her side that someone would help them and Shy appears, saying that everything would be okay. She tells N-Villio to stand-by and it agrees. The girl asks for her to save her brother and the other kids first and she does saves them all but just as she is about to save the girl, the cart starts moving backwards and get off the rails in the process. Trying to save her, Shy puts herself in front of it and the public applauses.

Shy caughts up her breath before checking up on the the girl but she didn't expected that the other would be so injured.

The news reported that the girl, named Iko Koishikawa, was hospitalized and many blame Shy for this in social network. One month later, Shy, now as Teru Momijiyama, is on her room and N-Villio tries to cheer her up with a problem in the next prefecture but she tells it that she can't transform since her Heart is not in it. It tries to convince her again, however, a teary Teru is insecure about herself as everyone is talking about how bad she is as a Hero because she couldn't save Iko properly.

All of a sudden, Spirits appears in her bed, telling her to not beat herself up so much. Teru asks her why she was there and the Russian Hero seems to forget the motive of her arrival for a moment, but then holds the teenager by the shoulders and tell her that she can't save everyone, using an example with beer and confusing her. Teru gets upset but Spirits assure her that she is not mocking her, saying that she should be happy for those she could save and carry the lives of those she couldn't save. Teru tries to respond but Spirits receive an emergency call and leaves.

Teru thinks to herself for a moment, still insecure. A few days after that, she is at a book store still thinking about what Spirits had told her. Two boys behind her start talking about her heroic identity and she gets nervous. As she didn't want to hear what they were talking about, she left the shop in a hurry. Then, a fire truck passes by her, making her notice that a building was on fire. She tried to transform in an alley nearby but remembered Iko's bloody face and couldn't.

As Teru starts to cry, she hears a firefighter telling a boy that he should be away from the building but he tells him that he was Shy and he had to save those people. The firefighter tries to drive him away again from danger but he refuses to leave: he says that anyone could be a hero if the wish to save people is there. His words encourage Teru, who was listening. A part of the building explodes and a debris falls on the kid but Teru is able to save him at the last second. After checking if he was fine, she contacted N-Villio. The boy asks who she is and she responds that she is Shy, finally transforming after a long time.

While jumping to get in the building, Shy was internally freaking out. Once there, she looked for someone only to find a mother and her crying child in the ground; she checked the woman's pulse but didn't feel any. Before she could think negatively, she took them from the ground and tried to get out the building, however, an explosion happened just next to her and the baby slipped from her hands, flying outside. Trying to save the child, Shy jumped and held the baby tight in her arms.

As if her call was heard, Spirits appeared to save them and she cut Shy's question about why she was there as they needed to save people. After the fire was supressed, Shy and Spirits watch over the civilians by the building's entrance, and noticing her expression, the Russian Hero asks her what's wrong. She responds that she was wondering if she could say that she saved those people but before Spirits could answer her, many people recognized her and started to asking her many questions. Shy comments on how she is popular and she herself isn't.

That is until that same boy came to thank her not only for saving him this time but at the amusement park, too, telling her that his sister is fully recovered and can return to school by now. He then says goodbye to her and left Shy thinking. Spirits hug her from behind and tells her that the woman she saved back then regained consciousness at the hospital and that she should be proud of herself. Shy says that she is proud while crying. Spirits tries to cheer her up and when they're leaving the scene, she states that she remembered why she came there.

Spirits looks at her and asks her how much she believes in the power of her Heart, telling her that Heroes had a mission: to protect the Heart of Earth itself.

Appearances
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Characters

 * Century (mentioned)
 * Spirits (debut)
 * Stardust (fantasy)
 * Shy (debut)
 * Lady Black (fantasy)
 * Iko Koishikawa (debut)
 * Iko's brother (debut)
 * N-Villio (debut)
 * Stigma (background)

Locations

 * Japan
 * Himawari Land (debut)
 * Teru's house (debut)
 * T-1 Hotel (debut)

Items
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 * Heart Conversion Bracelets (debut)

Trivia

 * This chapter is the longest in the entire series, covering a total of 60 pages compared to the average of around 15-20 pages per chapter.