[IC] A Certain Chaotic Academy

[LokiLeo789]

Zentaro Ray

Your question has been answered. Ray watched as more and more students walking into the Hall. "Finally we can this this show on the road, instead of making useless small talk." He mumbled inaudibly. Unfortunately, that small talk will eventually get you good friends, maybe even a girlfriend...but don't get you hopes up yet. You have yet to talk to a girl. Ray sighed, his conscious did not hold back the truth, he really needed to start getting a bit more social.

Ray's eyes flickered over to the podium were a teacher was speaking. Ray agreed with the rules just like everyone else, and let everyone else's voices drown out his during the song and the pledge. People will think you lack self confidence if you don't sing. "Shut the hell up, thats just illogical." He mumbled angrily.Ray looked back up at the stage. He felt his heart skip a beat when a Magician Teacher was mentioned. That was perfect for him, he would be able to learn more magic spells, without struggle alone. Ray smiled at this prospect, this school was turning out to be a good in already.

Ray could also not help but smile when he heard that JUDGEMENT would be the new student council. That meant he would he hanging out with...people, he could possibly make some friends there. Don't get to excited. Unfortunately, his excitement disappeared when he heard that he was one of the Vice President. He was not told of that development. Ray sighed and stood up, "I'll see you later" he mumbled to the guy who had sat next to him. He walked with confidence that he really did not have, anf walked onto the stage. He stood next to the President with his arms crossed and his head held high. He had a hard expression on his face, but that was just his usual expression, he really looked happy. He noticed on of the student stand up and gaze up at them, Ray wanted to sigh but he held it back, he knew this guy would be a trouble maker, or at least one of the many.

"Esper, huh." He mumbled as he gazed down at the one.named Absolute Zero. He could not help but feel a bit giddy when he saw her, he was beautiful. Unfortunately, Esper's and Magicians never really mixed well. Does that really stop you from trying? "Yes it does!" he yelled back in his mind. Maybe you should actually talk to here instead of discriminating. "Fine." He thought. All he needed to do, was to find away to actually, meet her.

[Kiso]

Ah this is going to be a hassle Justeaze thought as she walked up to the stage. Though the fact we as members was not briefed about this pisses me off she continued in her thoughts. Reaching her destination she stood with her other members as she watched the reactions in the crowd quite a few people seemed upset about this revelation those would be the faces to look out for she noted. Sighing silently she stood up straight and presented herself with airs might as well show the masses that she wont be a push over. Looking around she noticed quite a few unsettling characters present in the mass what was the headmaster thinking letting those people to join the academy what about the safety of those that can protect themselves? No it was her duty to protect them than she thought as she presented herself though it was after smoothing out her skirt it would do no good to flash them even if by accident that would be overly embarrassing.

[chukklehed]

"I suppose it's time for me to make my entrance," Tsumiki said, pushing himself up out of his chair. He made it up to the stage with little difficulty, though he did bump into an empty chair at the end of the row, and stood in front of the microphone. Moving his hand from the side, he grabbed the stand when it touched his arm and removed the mic.

"I suppose you expect me to make a speech now." He said flatly, then sighed and stood up straight.

"Welcome, students of Hybrid academy. My name is Tsumiki Tatsuya. As your student council president, I will ensure that each of you, esper and magician alike, is treated with respect and equality. Every person here is here working toward the same goal, an end to the tensions that have plagued the shaky peace between science and magic. I will ensure that goal does not fall prey to that very enmity. If you have any problems, please come see me at any time. My door is always open."

Stepping back from the stand, he took his place with the other student council members.

[chukklehed]

*removed*

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Seiji turned to the person who seemed to be addressing him and frowned. Even if the boy wouldn't tell or anything, there were probably some Judgement members who were monitoring the area and probably would be notified if he tried. Following along with the boy's encouragement would more likely than not still end with trouble for him... And he had had enough of that for now.

"Nah, I'll pass." Seiji said, leaning back in his seat and looking over the acceptance letter again. "I'd probably prefer to read when things aren't pulling my attention away."

That person probably wasn't the kind he'd prefer to associate with... Probably. He was already trying to kick the habit of slacking off (albeit with little success), so letting himself be swayed by that would only make what he was working on useless. Digging his own grave? Most likely. To be fair, it would make him look like a stick in the mud... But it wasn't something to fret about. Probably.

[Hebigami Shiho]

The reaction from the stiudents was just bliss. A hint of a smile came to Kae's face, feeling accomplished, she stepped forward, bowed down and waited for her turn to talk. When it came, she went to the podium to get to talking and introduce herself. "Ehem, ehem.... Hello, everyone, I am Hoshira Kae. My name is written with the characters for 'Star', 'Naked' and 'Return'. I am not into exhibitionism, though." Giggling a bit at her own joke, Kae then cleared her throat before going on with what she had to say. "I am giving a lot of subjects, I am kind of a genius, after all. Come to me with any questions you may have, I will be able to help you, that 's the work of a teacher after all. However, I want you to never forget this, boys...." Looking at them with a bigger smile than before, Kae seemed to be quite amused at what was happening, seeing some of the boys getting hopeful at the fact that Kae seemed to be a great teacher.

"I work part time as a mad scientist. My laboratory can be found here in the school campus, but I strongly advise all of you to always knock before getting in. It can be quite a shock, after all. Besides from that, what else is there to say? I am a 21 year old female, single, my hobbies are experimenting and eating candies. I like to spend my afternoons in quiet strolls through the bea-"

"Don't turn this into a dating site advertisement!" Someone shouted from the crowd, making Kae turn her head and clicking her tongue. "Did you just click your tongue?! Aren't you the teacher here!?"

"Ignoring the improvised straight man from the crowd, I'll get a bit serious now. My blue skin is an effect of my experiments, however, you do not need to worry. My experiments, as well as myself, have matured. People cannot turn blue like me now. This is not dangerous, and it would trouble me immensely if you thought so. My office is always open for you, and I am willing to teach just about anyone about magic, Magician, Esper or otherwise. I hope we can get along well through this whole year." Kae bowed down again, having finished what she had to say. Still, the announcement of her being the head of the magic department also came as a surprise to her. She went back to her seat and waited for everything else to end.

[Masaki Haruna]

Ceremony Finished

With everything done; Kiyoshi ends this segment and proceeds to assign the classroom to all the students. Class 1-EX-1A, to be fair, they are so few and it is logical enough to put them on the same room therefore conservative. It saves electricity bills, water bills, and the funds required as how the world operates, it is a cycle of debt and pay. Ria steps down and be the first to move on the class while Kiyoshi uses his telepathy and tells JUDGEMENT of the situation they are in and will be explained further after school. At the same time he told them that he will be their homeroom teacher, and there will be two more homeroom teachers; total of 3 homeroom teachers is the new curriculum of some schools in Academy City, Hybrid Academy being one of those advanced curriculum schools and further information of schedule will be announced in class.

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Kihara Eita and Nadia Grace

Nadia

Silva Rogan

Silva

"Anderson Jistudan. Isn't it." The young man who is in his age group reeks of ominous feeling, mysterious as unsolved cases. Information is important but not everything; To Eita, it is only a matter of advancement with or without information. Eita shows keen interest on Anderson. This is Kihara Eita, one of Academy City's brilliant minds. "Nice of you to break rules.. ouch~ my apologies, I seem to find it interesting. Pardon me for intervening with privacy." He smirks right to his companion.

Nadia Grace; Eita's companion. A level 3 Telepathic Esper and Eita's personal "pet" and most loyal comrade. Most people mistakes them to be a couple. The young scientist implies that his quiet friend read his mind. Giving off a sinister vibe but of arrogance it seems. The arrogant scientist has a list of important people to play with.

Remotely, a copy of Kihara is projected by Nadia's telepathy. In the front seats, we see Kihara Eita giving a lustful look on a girl smoothing her skirt and as if flashing it. "Justeaze Lizrech Jaeger, Eita-sama." In the other location, Kihara remembers a few interesting people in his list. Hybrid Academy has yet to norm its chaos.

A young blonde boy and one of Eita's associates. Silva Rogan; A 15 year old American Magician. This punk teleported a young man with white hair. He is loud as the lion. "HEY! HEY! HEY!" His childish acts. "I got Aki-chan, Eitan~" Eita glared at his companion and ignores the presence of the white haired young man. "Apologies again... hahaha. If you want to see more of COOL. See you at class. Oh that's right, I forgot to give you my name.... Kihara Eita. Nice to meet you." He walks away with his "friends". Somehow generating enough hate, tension, heating it up before chaos becomes the norm.

SEGMENT CLASS

[ClocktowerEchos]

Anderson glossed a smile, good enough to cover up he had no idea what was going on. He had been lost in his own musing of attempting to hack the school's mainframe when this Eita character greeted him. As per usual, he had information on him, he knew about his crude humor and strange tastes but he was a potential rival of Anderson.

With a knowledge rivaling that of the adults in the school, Anderson felt as if he might be next on that list. Like him, Eita likely saw the world in a similar fashion to that of Anderson, one giant game of secrecy and intrigue built upon a web of shadows and lies. He watches as the lion headed boy teleports in while taking note of the second copy of an Eita-like figure staring at a girl. He didn't know what was causing this, it was mental flittered to be at the top of his list. Eita seems more different that what he remembers.
"All loops have inconsistencies." Anderson reminds himself as he looks at his pocket watch, opening it up to reveal a cracked lens and the picture of an unknown girl, "I'll just have to find them all again."

---

Kazeno stretched, he had fallen asleep during to opening but woke up in time to see a humanoid smurf give the strangest opening speech consisting of a mix between a self-introduction and a date site profile.
"Shall I put her on the list?" Chi Ni floated around Kazeno with an eager pen.
"Don't you dare." Kazeno grabs the pen and breaks it.
"Maybe you should hook up with her then~"
"Sorry, I like my girl less blue."
"Then maybe me?"
"Like hell."

Kazeno gets up and walks towards the door, his seat was on the end of the row and with the help of some air cushion from his power, he stalks away without altering anyone, he hopes at least. Once out side he sighs and plugs in his headphones. He was overdue to get some new music, he had listen to the current track well over a few dozen times now. He looks out the window and repeats a portion of the lyrics of a song he had. It had a very personal connection with Kazeno, mostly since it reflected his first time trying to fly,
"Jump and don't look down, that's how you fly."

[Raijinslayer]

Akira blinked as he found himself teleported from his seat next by the blonde american boy. That was rather strange, not to mention rude, but Akira just went with the flow and waved as the trio left. 'An odd bunch, but I'm sure they'll be interesting people and good friends to have.' Akira thought, completely ignorant of all the animosity that the class was directing at them as they left.

After they left, Akira gave a friendly nod and smile to the one the boy had been talking to, before he walked over to the magic teacher, Kae-sensei. He did have a passing interest in the field of magic, so it would be good to speak to her. That, and the fact that he could use a mad scientist help with his mask. . . if she could keep a secret of course. 'I've got to find someone to help me with this, but is a teacher the best kind of person to go to for that. Oh well, I'll just see whether she'd be willing to help in the first place before I worry about the rest.' With this in mind, he approached the blue teacher with a wide smile and gave her a bow of greeting.

"Hello Kae-sensei, it's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Akira Kurogami, Level 4 Esper, and I'm looking forward to the class. I also have some interest in the schools hybrid program, is there anything you can tell me about it?" Akira was very much tempted learn magic, but he was hesitant due to his lack of knowledge on the subject. "Any knowledge you can tell me on magic would be great, and I'd also be glad to help you with your experiments as well."

[Stern Algorithm]

As the ceremony ended, Shizuka's hearing picked up what seemed to be a disturbance happening closer to the front of the room. She decided to ignore it for now; every class had delinquents, and in Academy City, a lot of the delinquents could get away with being flashier than most. She headed to class, hoping that she'd get to see Kurogane-sensei heading there. In the paperwork that she had, she could see that she had been assigned a seat. She entered the classroom, a bit ahead of the crowd, and located her spot.

[LokiLeo789]

Ray finally relaxed when the Ceremony ended without him having to make a speech of any sort. Only the President and the Magician Teacher were allowed to make the speeches, which was alright with him. Ray unfortunately was not much of a person, his childhood was filled with fighting against old men and learning the inner workings of Mathematics. Ray sighed, maybe it was not such a good idea for his parents to keep him out of school for so long, it looked like it did him no good. You brought it upon yourself, if you had refused to participate, they would have left you alone. "Ha, that's a choice that was actually unavailable to me." He snapped back in his head.

As Ray walked of the stage, a voice explained to him what he would be doing with JUDGEMENT as Vice-President. Ray felt a bit violated, it was not something you got used to, a voice I'm your head. Fortunately, Ray immediately realized that it was the speaker, which made him calm down a bit. No need to worry, I'm the only permanent voice in your head. "Let's hope so." He retorted.

Ray headed off for class, he would have to keep up an appearances as the Vice-President. It unfortunately would have looked bad his he got to class late without a valid reason. At least your trying to act responsible. Ray sighed. He prayed that one day he would grow out of this weird conscious thing going on. Ray entered the class and took a seat with his assigned number. "9." Ray mumbled when he took a seat. It was the last seat in the first row, and it was next to the door. "That's gonna be a problem." He mumbled with a hint of disappointment. Good luck, your gonna need it. Ray sighed. Yes he would.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Anderson took a seat at desk number 7, his assigned seat. Noticing the boy who he had conned earlier, he brought out the money he had given him as the bet and wrote "Fake" on each on of them, waving to the boy. As he looked away, Anderson brought out his laptop and went to work. He had recently learned of something interesting hidden away under layers of digital security and protections. He immediately went to work.
"This should prove interesting." Anderson opened several windows and went to work, fingers gliding across the keys like it was a piano.

Sure enough, by the time the bell rang for class, he had already found something very, very interesting. It seems that his plans would have to be rewritten again for the 15th time.
"Only the first day and I've had to rewrite it twice." Anderson sighed as he closed the lid, "But this time will be the last."

[Hebigami Shiho]

After all was done with, Kae decided to go to the classroom she'd be teaching in. Until a small fry student approached her. She was pretty chummy and friendly, by the looks of it, calling Kae by her first name right off the bat. She'd have hit him with her scythe had she been carrying it with her, but given that that wasn't the case, she sighed and hand-chopped the guy right in his head. "That's Hoshira-sensei for you, Kurogami-kun. I see you appreciate it better to introduce yourself in the western order. I'm guessing you spent some time overseas?" She asked the boy in front of hair.

"Very well, leaving your rudeness aside, I can say I am overjoyed to hear someone is actually looking forward to the class of a blue woman. I've been called a lot of names since I came here, Creepy Blue Woman is one of them. I also look forward to having you in my class, Kurogami-kun." She gave him a small hint of a smile, before continuing her way towards the classroom, but she first had to go get some things. Her scythe, for starters and some books as well. "Follow me, Kurogami-kun. I will show you my office, slash, laboratory. If you ever feel like you need something, come look for me there. My studies in both supernatural abilities and magic have come very far, I can help you in both. If you want a quick crash course on magic, though, the best I can tell you is that it is a set of laws and knowledge completely unknown and outside the grasp of common human understanding. Magic searches to change reality and distort it to its will. Convenient, no?"

She made her way towards her office, and before opening it and going in, she turned her head in the same unnatural way from before, to look at Akira. "However, and as I said before, just knock before coming in. This also works as a second home to me, or more like it is more of my home than my actual house. I spend more time here than in the other place. And I like sleeping naked." She jokingly said, before opening the door and letting herself in. "Now, come in. Do not be afraid. I don't keep the alive ones in here." She went to take her scythe and the books she needed. "Now, why don't you talk me about your interest in the Hybrid program while we walk to the classroom? I'll see whether or not you are able to learn magic depending on what you answer."

---

After the entrance ceremony, it was finally time for Noboyuki to go to his classroom. Now, what kind of teacher would he have? He only hoped he didn't have one too many classes with the blue sensei. He might want to be experimented on if she was his teacher. The thought of, 'Abuse me, sensei!' Would be change by the thought of, 'Experiment on me, Kae-sensei!' His reputation as a lolicon, sadist, masochist could be ruined if he just turned into a guinea pig.

Then, he decided to set off for his classroom. It was bad enough that it had been decided for him to be in the Student Council without warning. He was a part of Judgement all right, but well... Just, why? It didn't make sense. At the very least, they didn't make him a vice-president, or even worse, the president for that matter. Perhaps it was his status as a Gemstone. It was not until alter that he noticed that Ria had left him there and went on her own.

"Um? What?! Damn Ria, why would he leave me here! That frigid chick..." Noboyuki sighed. Well, what else could he do? He resigned and continued on walking. Maybe someone would approach him and he would be able to kill time. Or maybe not. He just hoped something could be done.

[Raijinslayer]

Akira rubbed his head and pouted a little at K-Hoshira-sensei's reprimand, though it was completely justified.

"Gomen, Hoshira-sensei, My step-father is from America, New York to be exact, and while we're not exactly close, I still seemed to have picked up his bad habits." Akira quickly bounced back, and followed his sensei with a perpetual hop in his step.

"I'm glad to be in the class to, and I don't think you're that creepy. In fact, I think your blue skin's actually kind of cool. Would you mind if I paint your portrait sometime, it's a hobby of mine to paint things that are unique and interesting."

They soon arrived at the lab, where Hoshira explained some ground rules, which Akira made sure to write down in his note-pad, also adding in some of the events of the ceremoney that seemed important. At her joke about sleeping naked, Akira surpressed a blush with his ability, one of the many lesser-known uses for haemokinesis he had discovered over the years.

"Got it, knock first." Akira confirmed, eyes fastened to the scythe aa he walked in. 'Yeah, defintely will not be forgetting that anytime soon. Also, Hoshiira sensi is offically the coolest teacher ever, no contest.'

Focusing back on said teacher as she asked about his interest in magic, Akira took a moment to think about why he wanted to learn magic. Following her to the classroom, he took a few minutes before answering.

"Magic is such a vast and interesting power, filled with limitless possibilities to explore. I want to expand my horizons, to go beyond the constraints of reality. Plus, it'll give me more power to protect my friends, my family, and anyone who needs help." Akira's smile faded, however, as he voiced his final reason, eyes growing slighty dim as he delved into his memories. "And maybe Magic will be able to help me get rid of a problem I've had for a long, long time."

[chukklehed]

Tsumiki silently entered the classroom, taking his seat at the front and folding his hands over each other. On the outside, he was still and silent, a statue in human form. In his mind however, the world was a chaos of plans, lists and formula, a chaos he sailed through with glee.

I should get to know the student council better. They're all judgement, but the only person I really know is Ray. He tapped his finger on his desk, lost in his musings. Too bad Ria declined my offer again. No matter, I'll get her to join one day. It's just a matter of time. His thoughts continued to swirl as people filed into the room, and would up until the bell rang and his attention was undivided from the teacher.

---

"Oh no, I'm late!"

Luna Cordilia hustled through the halls, moving towards the auditorium. "I got so caught up in my puzzles that I didn't notice the time!" She clutched a stack of papers with equations covering every inch, her so called 'puzzles'. Turning a corner, she didn't look where she put her feet, and slipped. She fell on her face, scattering her papers everywhere, almost hitting a very bored looking man standing in front of her.

"Uwugh..." Luna groaned, pushing herself upright. Glancing up, she noticed the man and her papers scattered everywhere and hastily began gathering them. "I'm so sorry Kiyoshi Sensei, I must have tripped. Please, don't mind me!"

[ClocktowerEchos]

"I hate to ruin your day, but I'm not Kiyoshi-sensei." Kazeno bent down and held out a hand, "Yamato, Kazeno Yamato."

Before the girl started talking, Kazeno bent down and picked up one of the pieces of paper and could feel his mind melt within seconds of reading it. He was good enough at math, but the numbers and symbols on paper could easily baffled Newton or Einstein. Ignoring his overheating brain, he snaps his fingers and all the papers fly up into his hands in a neat stack, not one of them is out of line. He hand the stack of incredibly advanced numbers and signs to the girl, "Can I ask who is it I'm helping?

---

Anderson looked out the window out the window and amused himself by shuffling a deck of cards, "White Chapel Ghoul, huh? So that's what he called now."

He took out his pocket watch and looked at the clock, he was five minutes ahead of it. He pressed the small button that would otherwise be used to open the lid and sat back and watched the world move slower around him.
"Time is of the essence." He looked around the room, "Who will be my friend this time around?"

[LokiLeo789]

Ray was getting bored. Teachers were supposed to be on time, it unfortunately felt like the teacher was late. Ray knew that it was only him that was feeling that way, but he could not help it. It is illogical to be inpatient without a valid reason. "I do have a valid reason." He thought back. Being overly excited is not a valid excuse. Ray sighed, if being excited was not a valid excuse, then he did not know what was.

Ray began to despondently twirl his pencil. Hiz pencil was being gracefully spun through his fingers and on his knuckles. Ray had a lot of experience with being bored, and he was adept at dispelling it. Sort of sad don't you think. "I don't think so." He retorted in his head. Ray knew for sure that this was not logical. He was keeping his brain active, some student were playing around instead of actually sitting down and waiting for the teacher.

Ray glanced around the room , maybe he could better dispel his boredom by actually getting social. That's actually a good idea, you really have not had a valid conversation with anyone since the Ceremony. Ray looked around that class and his eyes landed on slick bug, he really did not want to talk to that guy, he was illogical. Ray looked around the room once again, there was a couple of students in the classroom. Unfortunately, it went against Ray's philosophy of walking across something just to speak to someone, so that ruled out the girl in the back. Ray sighed, making friend was much harder that actually expected. Ray felt a shiver go down his spin, he could tell when someone was manipulating wind, he had a close connection with the Archangel that ruled over it, he would feel it. Ray smiled, there was possibly another Magician who wielded that same Magic that he did. His former bordum was replaced with excitement, he could not wait to meat this Wing Magic using Magician. You know it is illogical to assume that it is a Magician. Unfortunately, Ray did not listen to his counsious.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Seiji sighed and folded up the letter as the announcements ended, placing it back into his pocket before looking around and standing up from his seat. Finding his classroom didn't take long; memorizing the school's layout hadn't taken much longer than it would a normal student to read a few paragraphs to him, so the matter was simple enough. The class he was with, though, kind of put a damper on whatever mood he had left- the people that seemed to be floating around didn't exactly strike him as 'friendly', 'outgoing' or, as most might have put it, 'normal'. Then again, the tagline for the school had warned him prior; if he didn't see it coming from a mile away, then there were no excuses to be had.

Glancing around, Seiji noticed his seat sitting alone in the middle of a row, with everyone else mostly organized near the other end of the classroom. It felt as if he was some sort of grade-schooler being ostracized by his classmates, but that likely wasn't the case here. Shrugging, he took his seat and pulled out his novel before continuing to read. Being a background character had its perks, after all.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Kazeno walked in to the room, a small stack of papers in his hands with Luna carrying a similar stack next to him, telling him about how to find the root polynomial of a fraction or something of that nature. He hoped that the stack of papers he carried would be the weight of his salary one day as he dropped it on to the teacher's desk that was still empty. He amused himself by lifting up all of Luna's papers with a gust of wind (who let out a little "Eep!") and straightened out all of them in the air with his power, maybe some cute girl would take note of it or something immature like that. All the meanwhile, Luna was giving a mean stare at Kazeno's sudden use of power. She walked up to Kazeno and pouted, "Why didn't you tell me before hand?"
"Jesus, sorry," Kazeno embarrassingly rubbed the back of his neck.

Panning around the room, he thought of which way he should go to get to his desk. As he turned around, he found himself seeing into the face of the boy Anderson tried conning at the assembly.
"Are you a magician?" He asked with hopeful eyes.
"No." Kazeno said a bit too bluntly, "I'm just a level 4 esper."

Kazeno turns his body a little and directs the boy to the delicate girl who glanced back from her papers, "She's Luna, and an actual Magician."
"Hello." Luna innocently looked away from the stack of dead trees to greet the boy.
"Oh, I thought you were a Magician who used wind like me." The boy suddenly looked disappointed, "Sorry for bothering you."

As the boy walked away, Kazeno tapped his shoulder and waved his hand up and the stack of papers began doing the Dance of the Sugar Plum around him, "My ability is called 'Vortex', it aerokinesis. My name is Kazeno Yamato." Kazeno formed a paper broadsword with the paper and pretended to sheath it before reaching out an hand, "What's your?"

---

Anderson was looking down at his phone, he had just received as message from one of his many agents.
> The White Chapel Ghoul has been sighted
> I trust you know more about him?
> Sorry sir, all we have are some security photos
> Damn, what the location?

Anderson's eyes widened with a bit of panic and a bit of shock at the response he got. He rushed out of the room and dialed a number on his phone as he checked his coat pocket for his gun. While nobody said anything, most people agreed in their heads, Something has gone wrong, something had gone wrong enough to even shake Anderson.

[Lennon79]

With the end of the ceremony, Wataru found himself fading into the background as the student body slowly poured from the room. He took the chance to study the other JUDGEMENT members, most of whom he had only met once, if at all. The president and his aids seemed professional enough, although each had their own idiosyncrasies that worried him... The half girl pleasantly surprised him however; from his past experience of foreigners within Academy City, he had grown to expect nothing but criminality from them. As his eyes drifted across the assembled students, a few likely examples stood out... Hopefully they wouldn't prove too big an issue, although he reasoned that any trouble they caused would be in the realm of the Student Council rather than JUDGEMENT. Not a thought that alleviated his concerns given their recent 'promotion'. And with all this hawk-eyed observation of his fellow students, Wataru studiously avoided the gaze of his new teachers; that blue one especially unsettled him. The skin was bad enough, but something in her voice had chilled Wataru to the bone...

Finally deeming the route sufficiently clear, he headed out to their designated classroom and tried to drown out the leering voices of his new peers as he went. Here and there Wataru spotted other isolated individuals, others who might perhaps share his less-than optimistic outlook on life here at Hybrid Academy, but hung back for the moment. Highest on his priority list was settling down with the rest of the Council and find out just what the fuck was going on in this school. The teacher's unwelcome mindrape hadn't helped much, but nevertheless Wataru looked forward to this afterschool meeting and the answers it hopefully held. When he finally reached the classroom, he found that most of the others had already settled in, which at least made it easier to find his assigned seat. #19, third row, far left... Who'd have thought. Suppressing a dry smile over his for pulling this particular seat, Wataru meandered slowly over, taking the time to give each and every student a surreptitious once over enroute. As he suspected their class seemed to have gathered the cream of the school's collective nutjobbery into one room. Foreigners, magician looking types and one guy that practically exuded bad intentions. And I have to police them. Fuck my life.

Still, there were a few normal looking sorts, like the bespeckled girl seated next to him. Wataru took his place and set about withdrawing what books and stationary he might need, finding to his mild disappointment and private relief that no teacher had shown up yet. In the silence he decided that making friends would be a good start if he was to stay sane. 'Good morning.', he said to the girl, flashing a friendly smile. 'I was worried that I might end up seated in the middle of a group of strangers and I'm no good with that.' Brushing a stray lock of hair out of his eyes, Wataru extended a hand in greeting. 'Satou Wataru, esper and I guess now a member of the Student Council. Joy. Nice to meet you?'