UnOrdinary Adventures

22. Realizing

Arlo: ".........."

Remi: "Arlo?......Are you okay?"

Arlo: "S-she w-w-wouldn't...."

Seraphina immediately handed Arlo the box of tissues. 

Arlo: "Thanks..."

Remi: "Arlo, w-we know you looked up to her a lot...but I thought that you deserved to know..."

Arlo: "I-I can't believe s-she is p-part of...Ugh...now it makes sense! All that stuff about hierarchy...she'd the one who taught me about it...and I just followed it without question, I just blindly agreed with a MURDERER!"

Blyke: "You didn't know that! Plus even after years of believing that, you still saw the flaws."

Arlo: "I-I guess but for all those years I was reinforcing THE STUPID HEIRARCHY!"

John: "Wow...that was..."

Isen: "Unexpected..."

Arlo: "You know I saw how wrong it was my entire life, but because of her I just accepted that it was how the world functions...it sounds so dumb thinking about it now..." 

Sera: "Nah...I was taught the same way, and I also turned a blind eye to all the wrong that was happening...but I never really looked up to or liked any of my relatives, except my sister, who was also against hierarchy, so it wasn't too hard to go against it..."

Remi: "She's right you never could have known, you were just brought up that way."

Arlo: "Thanks...I don't know how on earth I'm gonna face her after this...Remi...was she the one who..."

Remi: "...she and one other agent were the ones..."

Arlo wiped away a few more tears that had formed in his eyes

Arlo: "You know if I put aside what I was taught...it's so clear...superheroes went against the hierarchy the authorities didn't like that so they started killing them off! It's so messed up!"

Isen: "You know I hadn't realized that till recently..."

Arlo: "Remi, I'm sorry about getting mad at you for becoming a vigilante...I think I would've done the same now..."

Remi: "That's alright. You don't have to apologize, you were just worried."

Arlo: "By any chance did Rei read unOrdinary?"

Remi: "Yeah, I think he did..."

John: "Umm...Why do you want to know that?..."

Arlo: "I was wondering if I could read it, it seems like a good book...if the authorities hate it, then I have a feeling it sends a good honest message about hierarchy..."

Remi: "I haven't read it, but I think he had gotten rid of it to avoid suspicion..."

Arlo: "That makes sense..."

John: "You guys really wanna read it?"

Blyke: "Yeah, actually...while talking to Kuyo he mentioned that he had read it and that it was really good, I've been more interested in it since then..."

Isen: "I mean if that book got so many high-tiers to see the flaws of the system, then it must be really good..."

Sera: "Actually it is..."

Remi: "How do you know?"

Sera: "I've read it, that's why I got suspended for a month..."

Arlo: "Do you still have it?"

Sera: "No I had to destroy it..."

John: "*sigh* Give me a minute...I'll be right back..."