Chapter 398: Day 1.4 – That name is boring!

“And and and!” Glory was telling Alexa everything they had done since Alexa last saw them! “I was like bam! And Alan was like fwooooosh!”

“So they got like poooowwwhh?!?!?!” Alexa asked, from the mental image she got that was what it felt would happen.

“Yes!” Glory confirmed it, “But some went like pop!”

“They went pop?!?!” Alexa had not expected that one, that meant that Alan not only went wooosh, “Then Alan also went swiiiiish?!?”

“Exactapulary!” Glory nodded sagely, “Then an Angel came and took us back.”

“Oh?” Alexa perked at that, “An Angel? With glasses a suit and a mask?”

“…Yes.” Alan was the one to answer that one, “Have you meet [The Fallen Angel] too?”

“You could say that.” Alexa said scratching at her chin, she had seen some of that from the recordings that Ale saved, and other things she knew because she asked [Main Core].

Still, so that’s where [Gabriel, The Fallen Angel] had been.

“And the girl from the other class?” Alexa asked next.

“The girl from the other class?” Alan asked back confused, “What class?”

“The rude one?” Glory seeked clarifications, Glory truly got Alexa. “The one from the school festival?”

“Yes.” Alexa nodded back, since Glory had gotten what she was asking, “She was there right?”

“We didn’t see.” Alan was confused, “We saw other side kicks around our age, and a few that may had been older, but I didn’t saw her.”

“I think she was around.” Glory was in her thoughtful mode, “I felt her [Feels].”

That made Alexa stop cold, slowly looking at Glory and narrowing her eyes.

“[Main Core]?” Alexa said touching Glory with her index finger, “Scan.”

[Initiating full dive scan.]

[Setting up virtual machine.]

[Starting Mana probe.]

[Categorizing data, comparing with stored data, starting deep scan.]

[Comparing with database… Updating model.]

[What data do you require host?]

“Alexa?” Alan asked confused, his muscles were tensing and Alexa could notice how his mana density was climbing very fast. “Is something the matter? You are scaring Glory.”

“Me? I am not scared.” Glory turned confused at Alan, “Alexa is just hugging me with her finger!”

“Did Glory develop a [Core] similar to Meli-Meli?” Alexa asked, not to Glory or Alan, but to [Core].

[Information inconclusive.]

“…She has not.” Alan said as his eyes sharpened and his fist balled, “You have my word.”

Alexa nodded and removed her finger. She ensured that all her Nanites returned back to her too.

“Okay!” Alexa then nodded and dialed back all her squiggles, at some point a few of them had leaked, at least since she had turned them invisible before since Ale didn’t seem to be able to see them, her squiggles hadn’t been visible.

So no one would have noticed that Alexa’s squiggles had leaked!

“Aww… I liked the squishy squish…” Except for Glory who had gotten hugged by her squiggles, the girl really was Alexa’s bestestto fren, she understood the magnificence of the squiggles!

“Did one of your family members got into the victims?” Alan asked gulping, “I can guarantee that we Harmonia are doing our outmost to heal them, I can see if Father can-“

“No.” Alexa raised a hand and shook her, “Ale was hurt, but she is okay. And nothing you can do is better than what [Big Brother] could do. So Alexandra is a done deal.”

Alexa didn’t like remembering that, it was like, something that got her sadge, and she wasn’t supposed to get sadge, Alexa was supposed to get Happy. That’s the whole deal.

“Anyway!” Alexa decided to not think too much on that, [Core] said that Glory would not become like Meli-Meli, and that was all that mattered!

“Is your sister still angy at me?” Glory asked in a small voice, “I can give her my juice and ice cream! My maid picks the most tasty ice cream!”

“Alexa can take it and eat it for Ale!” Alexa magnanimously accepted the peace offering, she would share the memory with Ale later. “It will be as if Ale ate it, you can trust Alexa.”

“Good!” Glory was happy at that, “See Alan, I told you! The ice cream and juice are the key for global piss!”

“Global peace.” Alan for some reason say the same thing that Glory said, why was he repeating it? “If you can I would like to speak with her later.”

“Alexa will ask, but Ale is not answering right now.” Alexa nodded, “Alexa can give you her A-frens account so you can send her a message.”

“You have different accounts?” Alan was surprised at that, “It doesn’t matter, sure, here send it here.”

Alan pulled out his hand up and showed Alexa his bracelet, so Alexa showed off hers.

[Receiving data stream.]

[Decrypting… A-frens profile friend invite detected. Accepting it. Do you wish to inspect the data of the device?]

“[Main Core] send that data to Ale.” Alexa decided to not peak (For now), “So, anyone else that Alexa knows is around?”

“Most of our classmates picked different schools depending on their political alignments.” Alan answered shrugging, “Most will end up here later anyway since the class of the elite will be hosted here. So that is a pointless endeavor from them, we ended up here because of that too. Father asked if I wanted to go elsewhere or not.”

“And Papa said that I could go to any school so long Alan went there!” Glory chimed in with her side of the story. “I wanted to see the other schools, but Alan said that we would be wasting our time, and he said that we might as well go to your school first!”

“So you knew where Alexa was going to go?” Alexa was surprised! Not even Alexa knew where she was going to be after all!

“We told the local AI to just put us in your class.” Alan said with a smirk, “And they sent us here, I just tried asking and it worked so that was that.”

“You are smart.” Alexa nodded sagely, Alan had mastered the ultimate technique, asking what you needed from someone who had it. “Alexa is wondering what happened to [Teacher Baking], Alexa was supposed to only be away from her class a few weeks. And it’s been ages.”

“Teacher Baking?” Alan was surprised, “Your former teacher?”

“Does she give tasty bread?” Glory of course asked the actually important thing, not the obvious, “Do you think she has shortcakes?”

“Alexa hopes she does.” Alexa answered back with her hopes and dreams, “Alexa wants short cakes too.”

“If she was good at her job, she may have been poached to one of the schools here.” Alan decided to answer the question instead of dancing around the topic, “The Saintsworths brought many teachers from all over the world, and if possible they brought as many teachers from the schools they got us. I think our teacher is also around actually.”

“The crazy guy with weird shadows?” Alexa remembered him, he was weird, he moved and didn’t move, and he also had like a ton of people stuck in his [Consciousness Stream.]

“Teach Medicine!” Glory raised her hands and did a two person wave with Alexa, since Alexa was polite (Unlike Alan who didn’t join the wave).

“Teacher Tristan De Medici.” Alan nodded, “He may end up being our teacher again. But that depends on the school syllabus. And how much freedom they give him, his syllabus is not particularly… normal.”

It was the theater person! Wonder if Alexa would get to find out why he had the weird shadow thing? Was he a baddie? He was a villain too, but would that make him a baddie?

He gave Ale work before right? And he kinda helped? He was fighting against the scrambled guy, which is something good right? The scrambled guy was a baddie after all, everyone said that he was a baddie.

He also was an enemy of [Fan Girl]! And everyone Alexa knew said he was a baddie!

“The Scrambled guy is a baddie right?” Alexa decided to ask the opinion of more informed people around her, as a big girl should.

“He is the worst of the worst baddies!” Glory quickly said, confirming Alexa’s suspicious, “Every time he shows up Papa pushes the red button and everyone picks up Glory and throws her into that weird room with no toys!”

That sounded horrible!

“That sounds horrible!” Alexa confirmed Alexa’s statement.

“You can say that he is among the worst kind of Super Villains there is.” Alan nodded at Glory’s statement, “He is also among the very few S-List Super Villains we know and have a confirmed existence.”

“Oh right, [The List].” Alexa said in understanding, everyone and their grandma had spoken about that thing for ages, but no one ever spoke as an actual list of it did they? Alexa wondered if someone forgot to explain it, or had Alexa forgotten when it was explained? One would never know.

“Exactly, he along [The Teather Master] are some of the very few confirmed S-List threat.” Alan nodded seriously as he spoke, “So yeah, you can call them a baddie. They are actual existential threats, even if one of them is quite ridiculous about how they go their life.”

Alexa nodded sagely as Glory did, since they both totally got what Alan was speaking about, Alexa wouldn’t go as far as calling them ridiculous though.

“Even if he is [The Scrambler] I don’t think changing people’s mind is that ridiculous.” Glory pointed out.

“Yeah, the scrambler guy is probably very serious about what he does.” Alexa was of the same mind as Glory, “He is probably doing it for some evil master plan.”

“… You can’t be serious.” Alan facepalmed himself again, did he had a place he wanted to scratch? That shouldn’t be possible, his power was like Alexa right? He could do the wiggle thingie. He should be able to scratch from under his skin (The best way to scratch a scratchy scratch, Alexa can confirm that.). “I mean [The Theater Master].”

“The theater person?” Alexa was confused, why was he ridiculous, he was a very formal and serious person doing his best though?

“[The Theater Master]?” Glory was also confused as she voiced her confusion, “But his plans are a masterful execution of a master theater director!”

She looked like a fan.

“Who else but the most great peep could pull out stealing all the knowledge from human kind?” Glory pointed out as she pulled out her cellphone and showed a picture of a library whose doors were no longer there, “He stole the literal doorway to knowledge!”

Oh… Alexa can see it.

“If people can’t use the door, they can’t get into the library!” Alexa gasped! “Such cunning! Such intelligence! Truly what one would expect from an S-List Super Villain!”

Alexa was impressed, and that was not easy thing to achieve.

“Let’s just go to class.” Alan sighed yet again and started moving to the building, “It’s too early for this and I am at least thirteen years away from being able to legally drink.”

Drink?

“The awful sour thingie?” Alexa asked tilting her head.

“Sour?” Glory asked confused, “But the one they gave us at the party was bitter.”

“Alexa doesn’t like bitter things.” Alexa shook her head, bitter was the enemy of Alexakin, “I don’t know why Alexandra liked that thingie.”

“It’s a grown up thing.” Alan shrugged, “You will get it when you need one.”

Alexa didn’t think there would come a time where she would want to taste something bitter, but if Alan was saying it, then there may be something to it. He was smarter than Alexa after all.

“To the classroom!” Alexa declared.

“Classroom!” Glory confirmed.

“So they moved, they went through terrible dangers and experienced great adventures, their friendship deepened as they moved.” Alexa narrated as they walked.

“They found monsters and creatures from the dark.” Glory added to the narration, “Terrible evils that needed to be vanquished!”

Alexa nodded at that, all evils had to be vanquished, that’s what one did with great evils after all.

“And here we are.” Alan finally joined the narration! “Class A7.”

A7? That didn’t sound right.

“Are you sure Alexa goes here?” Alexa said confused, it didn’t sound coolz, or had any funny name or number, it didn’t sound like an Alexa class.

Alexa couldn’t help but look around waiting for a grown up to come and point Alexa to the right direction.

“Yup.” Alan pushed a button on his bracelet and a blue screen materialized, it was his student ID in the form of a blue screen!

Hmm…. That indeed confirmed that Alan was here.

“Glory you too?” Alexa turned to look at Glory.

“Let’s see.” Glory stood and looked around, as if to ensure no one was going to get in her way, “Magical Girl Glory transform! – By the power of the Shade created by the Crimson Moon!”

And after doing a very complex choreography that Alexa would take ages and probably around six hundred sixty six words to describe, Glory pushed the exactly same button that Alan had done. Only she had her right hand in front of her with the palm open and covering her face.

Summoning another blue screen.

Glory was indeed in this classroom, then that meant that it was really Alexa’s classroom? But it was boring.

“Cool right?” Glory said smiling pleased with herself.

“Yup.” Alan nodded with a serious expression on his face, he probably was regretting not preparing a transformation sequence, perhaps he wasn’t as smart as Alexa had thought?

“Your turn!” Glory said doing small jumps, “We need to be sure!”

Alexa nodded and looked at her hand, she hadn’t used the bracelet thingie, usually [Main Core] would be the one to do it after all. But closing her eyes, Alexa thought about it, she was a big girl, she could do it. Even if she hadn’t prepared a transformation sequence.

She had a couple transformation sequences, but those were to pull out Ale, not for showing her student ID. So without anything else to do…

“Glory, can I borrow your transformation sequence?” Alexa decided to ask, it was the polite thing to do.

“Of course!” Glory nodded with a pleased smile on her face, “It is the best transformation sequence ever! It embodies everything we Blackthorn are here to do!”

“…” Alan sighed for some weird reason. “I am not going to use those, no way you want me to embody everything the Harmonia stand for.”

“But you would look so cute in a mini skirt!” Glory complained puffing her cheeks.

“Not happening.” Alan denied the Glory approach.

So while those two were speaking, Alexa went ahead and did the very complex choreography as Glory had, she moved exactly like how Glory had done without missing a single movement, she went as far ahead as to make the same movements even if their body size and complexion weren’t the same.

That burned a couple [Biomass] grams to achieve, that dedicated was Alexa!

“Oh…” Alexa said as she went over her ID. “So I am in this class… But the name is boring!”

Really, couldn’t they come up with better names?