While he has been enrolled since his birth in Darkeas, the school of supervillains, Uchiri Nanaya ends up by mistake in Aitori ... the school of the Magical Girls.
Life had resumed normally at SDA. The students barely paid attention to the workers who came to change the windows and put down the cameras. Nanaya was also able to get his room back after two days, with a modified decoration. Earthwolf-sensei had indeed understood that Nanaya liked blue, so these were the main colors she had chosen for his new bedding, the other having been destroyed. Hyokko also had a new cabin, and the bedroom walls had been cleaned and repainted in bluish tones.
Two weeks had passed. Class 2-S was in the gymnasium at the end of a grueling sports class. Fishy-sensei, their teacher, had organized an orienteering race outside of school. He had previously placed beacons in the forest, each with a stamp with a different pattern. Armed only with a card which they were to stamp as they found the beacons and forbidden to use their powers, the young heroes were released into the woods in three groups of five and one of six.
Fishy knew how to be obeyed, while remaining appreciated by the students.
After running through the forest to find the markers, the students had returned for a briefing and the announcement of the grades, in the gymnasium. They took the opportunity to cool off, the vast majority of them still carrying a gourd.
Tomeo almost dropping to the ground next to Kotaro. Even without using his power, his comrade was faster than the others. They had teamed up together with Rakko, Monaka and Nihoshi Chokio. The latter had been more of a handicap for them than a real help. Chokio had for mutation, a luminous halo around the head. In the dorms, he slept with the upper part of his face buried in a pillowcase so as not to disturb his comrades. From this halo, he could capture the light and manipulate it as if it had been solid. Only this made him blind, since the halo passed right in front of his eyes. He was usually accompanied by a dog in school, but the animal would have found the markers too easily, which is why Fishy had kept him with him. Even though Chokio could spot this by sounds and smells, which allowed him to train without endangering his dog, a forest and its usual noises was not the best terrain for him.
Tomeo sighed and wiped the sweat from his face with a side of his t-shirt. He wasn't even listening to the teacher, berating another student. He turned to Kotaro, who was taking a long sip from his gourd.
"Hey," Tomeo called, "will you pass it to me? I forgot mine again."
"Dream !"
Tomeo raised an eyebrow. It wasn't the first time and Kotaro generally agreed, albeit grumbling. He leaned over him, thinking to tease him.
"Just a sip," he said, "you're not going to let me die of thirst, right ?"
"And why not ? Clear !"
Kotaro put his hand on his comrade's face to push him away violently. Tomeo grimaced, rubbing the back of his neck. The sudden, forced movement had hurt him. He didn't have time to ask his friend what was wrong with him, when the teacher signaled the end of class and invited them to join the locker room. Kotaro got up immediately, closing his gourd and left the gym first. He still looked good despite the grueling class.
Tomeo decided to let it go for the moment. He also left to change.
But as they exited the locker room, Amaretto waited at the entrance to the hallway with several students from the other two schools, including Rena, Ita, Enko, Yuto and the twins.
"Sensei?" Monaka wondered.
"I couldn't do fighting lessons tomorrow," the adult announced, "so I moved on to today. Since your class was in the forest I couldn't tell you."
"Didn't you have lessons with the first years?" Rakko asked.
"They're at the training center for the day. Those who are not in my class, please go. The others, turn around, put on your sports uniform."
Kotaro growled and walked through the door first. The combat course was special. It mixed students from the three schools for two hours. The students who participated were those whose power was not offensive or those without any power, with or without mutations. They learned how to fight with and without weapons. They were the only students with access to the school basement, where a shooting range was located. The hatch to access it was in the gymnasium and only Amaretto and the directors had the key.
Tomeo and Monaka therefore walked away with the rest of the class, greeting Kotaro, Rakko and three other comrades, Aomine Chikako, who could change the consistency of her body to become slime, Yanai Shuko, able to clone himself and Hirota Naoya, entered Saurity on recommendation, whose very special power allowed him to heal someone by transferring the wound to his own body.
Chikako was the only girl in their class with non-offensive power and hopped around back to the women's locker room, followed by her classmates from Darkeas and Aitori.
Today's class was going to train them at using staff.
Tomeo and Monaka had joined their friends on the roof. They found Nanaya tinkering with what appeared to be a very old phone. One of those that was already no longer selling in 2020 and was therefore almost relics.
"Where did you find this?" Tomeo exclaimed. "The last time I saw one it was a museum dedicated to the evolution of the telephone!"
"It's Orio-chan's," the young man replied simply, "I can add a few features to it, but most of them are not compatible with this model. I had never even seen one before."
"Why don't you get a newer one, Orio?"
"My parents aren't heroes, you know." Replied the young girl, blushing.
"Neither do I. I don't have the latest, but I have at least the one that came out two years ago."
"But they have a successful restaurant."
"Yeah... sorry. And what are you doing, babe?"
"I'm putting a touchscreen and a new cover on it," Nanaya explained, "its keys aren't even visible so it'll be better for now."
He pointed to the phone keypad he had completely separated from the rest. Most of the numbers had been rewritten by hand, several times, judging from the double traces.
Tomeo joked that he offered to donate this antique to the museum and Mineko slapped him on the shoulder.
Nanaya was chatting with them while tinkering. He was done in just an hour and his friend had to rediscover her almost-new phone. He helped her a bit taking the remaining hour, since he had added some features.
She was having fun with the newly placed camera on her cellphone when their comrades finally returned from their fighting class. But something didn't seem right.
Kotaro walked back, head bowed, cheeks flushed. While on the contrary, the gentle and shy Yuto dragged a Darkeas student by the wrist. She was visibly furious even made her guardian leave when he tried to land on her shoulder.
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