Chapter 399: Day 1.5 – Alan is part of the problem?!?!

“That seems…” Alan said as he looked at Alexa’s blue screen, I mean, Alexa’s student ID. “I don’t get paid enough to deal with this.”

And in the end, Alan said nothing.

“You are getting paid?” Glory asked confused.

“You deal with this?” Alexa asked confused, why would he deal with this? Wasn’t this something for grown up? Growner up grown ups that is, because Alexa was a big girl now! She had decided that like… today! Probably today? It felt like it was today at least.

“Let’s just go to our seats.” Alan said shaking his head.

Alan was saying so many things! While Glory was asking so many things! Like Alexa!

“To the seats!” Alexa declared.

“The comfiest seats!” Glory proposed.

“Onwards!” So Alexa accepted that decisions, since she liked being comfy, who didn’t like being comfy after all, that was not normal, who didn’t want being comfy? Were they okay? Probably not.

If you don’t want being comfy there is something seriously wrong with you, Alexa declared as much.

“So. Who do you think we got?” Glory asked Alexa.

“Probably some awesome super duper powerful hidden master!” Alexa nodded sagely.

“I know right!” Glory nodded in understanding, “That’s the trope, you get the hidden master teacher that will take you in as their disciple and help you become a more powerful version of yourself.”

“Are you joking?” A voice came from behind them, had someone been seating besides them?

Glory and Alexa had picked up a set of seats almost at the very back, Glory had wanted the farthest back of course, but Alexa had refused. Why? Because in that spot the AC dropped the air, and Alexa didn’t want to be cold, she wanted to be within the most comfortable spot, and under the AC was not that. It was nice if you wanted to be cold.

But Alexa wanted comfy!

So they sat a couple lines more forward. She didn’t check if someone had been seated there tho.

“That’s only right if we are in a school arc, which we aren’t.” The girl from before said shaking her head, “This is obviously the city arc.”

“But we are at school.” Glory pointed out, “So it’s obviously the school arc.”

“So you weren’t at school before?” The other girl shook her head disappointed, “This is why rich brats are so…”

“You are a brat too! Your mother’s a brat! Your auntie is a brat!” Glory fought back! She was pulling the heavy hitting punches!

“You take that back!” The girl stood up, she was firing up her aura! There was a pink-ish aura around her! “My moms are not brats! They are coolz!”

“You can’t have more than one mom!” Glory said staggering back, “That’s cheating! You are cheating!”

“Am not!” The girl stomped at the floor. “I am special! Mom said so! And Mom said that Mom was always right!”

“Isn’t ‘Mother said that Mom’, that sounds better right?” Alexa chimed up helping.

“I think in this case using part of their name would make it less confusing.” Alan pointed out, “Also Glory, we can’t judge them just because she has two Mothers-“

“I am not judging!” Glory said turning to Alan almost crying, Glory that is, “I also want two Moms! You could get tucked in the bed twice!”

“I know right!” The other girl said nodding, “If Mom Elisee is busy then Mom Rona can do it! So I always get tucked into the bed!”

“See! She is cheating!” Glory pointed out, as in actually point at the girl that was showing off the advantages of having two Moms.

“Alexa doesn’t have a Mom but she gets tucked in anyway.” Alexa said confused, “Also why is she here?”

“Because I got assigned to this class.” The girl said shrugging, “Also you!”

The girl suddenly pointed her finger at Alexa! Halp!

“… I’m sorry about before.” The girl said in a small voice, “Master said that if I did something bad I had to apologize.”

“Master?” “Master?” Both Alan and Glory said at the same time.

“Master told me to apologize, so I am doing that okay!” The girl said again, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath of air, “Name’s Beatrice. You can call me Beato.”

“You already have a master?!!?” Glory jumped in and took Beato by her hand, pulling her in forward towards them, “How?!?! I have been trying to get one for ages but I haven’t managed to get one!”

“To be precise, all the teachers we get assigned to us are being paid by our parents, and Glory wants to pick herself one.” Alan added the right context from the side, “We do have teachers, but no one that we can call our Master…”

For some reason Alan was also looking at Alexa while speaking…

“Alexa has no master either!” Alexa decided to reveal the truth, “Alexa is all talent! And [Main Core]… And [Big Brother]… And Ale… But most of those are Alexa so its okay!”

“Yes, I got my Master a few weeks ago during a deployment solo mission!” Beato proudly stated as she proudly stuck out her chestto, “She is so awesome! She is the first person who has been able to hold against my attacks!”

“So your master is Alexa?” Glory said confused, “Alexa can be a master?!?!”

“What? No!” Beato said confused looking at Glory, “My master is Rhapsody! A hidden spy agent seeded within the forces of evil!”

“But Alexa defeated you before.” Glory said confused, “You said that it was someone who was able to hold against your attacks.”

“I mean yeah!” Beato groaned as she answered, “But that didn’t count! That wasn’t a fight!”

“It was the school festival – Sports edition!” Alexa said nodding sagely, “But Alexa doesn’t mind if you want to [Fight].”

Alexa was rusty! All the fights had been at the hands of someone else after all.

“I can’t…” Beato said deflating, “Master forbid me from fighting unless I had to…”

Ale had?

“So you aren’t ready.” Glory nodded in understanding, “Classical hidden expert moves, so did your master send you to clean cars yet!”

“She hasn’t!” Beato sighed, “I wanted to ask her if I should brush the street, clean cars or put on and remove my jacket… But she was gone and no one knew where she was! I even asked Mom to check!”

“Gasp!” Glory gasped surprised, “And they didn’t know? Then she must be a very powerful hidden master!”

“Right!” Beato nodded as her eyes burned with the fires of determination, “Mom said that they would check, but they hadn’t answered before we got the letter to come here.”

“You didn’t apply?” Alan asked surprised, “You had to apply to get here.”

“Alexa didn’t apply either!” Alexa said raising her hand. “Or I don’t think I did? Maybe Ale did?”

“Some don’t have to apply.” Alan was putting his thinking face on! “Saintsworths automatically get accepted, those close to them do so too but…”

Alan was looking at Beato, was he looking for something?

“Black hair, brown eyes…” Alan mumbled that bit, “Can’t be a Saintsworths. What did you said your name was?”

“Listen and pay attention!” Beato suddenly said as she jumped back, standing up on a bottle of water, so cool… “I am Beatrice Starcroft! [The Beacon of Justice]!”

“So coolz…” Glory said from the side, “I forgive you for being a meanie!”

“Thank you, thank you.” Beato said as she stepped to the side and fell besides them.

“So a Core User.” Alan nodded in understanding, “Probably a Misc or a Special type too, but is that… No wait… [Beacon of Justice]… You are the girl who went all the way to the enemy base during the raid?”

“Gasp!” Beato almost jumped backwards as Alan spoke, “How did you know I was there! No one but Master and SuperForce should know!”

“We were deployed there too.” Alan shrugged, “If secrets identities aren’t a thing then might as well… I am Body and she is Soul.”

Alan revealed his secret card too easily!

“And Alexa is Alexa!” Alexa decided to also reveal her most hidden secret, her… Identity!

“I see… I don’t think I saw you there, so you must be scrubs huh.” Beato nodded, “It’s okay, I can pass my Master’s teachings to you.”

“…Don’t hit the little girl… Don’t hit the little girl…” Alan was whispering something as his eyes seemed to want to tremble, which was weird since he had a power like Alexa, he should be able to control those things.

Heh.

Alexa put a hand atop Alan’s shoulder “It’s okay, Alexa can also teach you how to use your powers better.” Alexa was a magnanimous person after all.

“I should lobotomize myself.” Alan nodded, “Yeah, that’s for the best. Glory alone is hard enough, but now other two? Might as well.”

“Alan!” Glory suddenly turned to Alan, “She said she can share the secrets of a hidden master! We should take her help! We can become more powerful like that!”

“We aren’t even in the list.” Alan said shaking his head, “But yeah, why not. What is the first teaching that Rhapsody gave you?”

For some reason Alan was looking at Alexa while saying that, did they ever told them that Alexa was Rhapsody? Alexa was having some issues with some of her memories. She should probably check on that.

But that was for later! It was probably some weird bug from how Ale was having a hard time being connected to Alexa. Nothing serious, besides Ale was already working on that, it should fix itself soon.

“Okay, pay attention and listen!” Beato said turning her serious face on, “First lesson!”

Alexa paid attention, and suddenly she became aware that other kids around were also paying attention to them, “Never… ever… go into the pool after eating! You will get tummy aches!” The words were said with such gravitas… with such seriousness…

“They are a genius!” Glory couldn’t help herself but clap, “That explains so much!”

“I am the dumb one for expecting anything.” Alan added his opinion too! “That’s what I get.”

*Clap*

And while everyone was nodding sagely at the advice from Beato, someone clapped once in front of the room. Everyone turned to look there as if forced, so Alexa looked there, she didn’t want to be left behind after all.

“Morning kids.” There was a man wearing a very expensive suit and a very weird shadow behind them, as if a thousand person were trying to be forced into one, “Please return to your seats which… are not numbered, named or assigned, that is to say, seat wherever you want.”

“Teacher!” Glory said waving at the man wearing the very expensive suit.

“Good morning to you too Miss Gloria Blackthorn.” The teacher man said nodding at Glory, “Please take your seat.”

“Aye sir!” Glory saluted and quickly sat down, pulling Alexa and Alan with her, and looking at Beato… Glory only had two hands after all.

“I’ll seat here, one needs to farm the aura as Master said.” Beato said seating herself behind them, looking down upon the world as only the student of a hidden master could.

Alexa would need to ask Ale about that, was someone else going around with their name? What were they supposed to do? How was Ale supposed to fight a hidden master? Alexa would need to help her! That was the only option!

“For those that don’t know me.” The teacher person turned behind himself and started writing with a very neat handwritten text his name on the board, “My name is Tristan De’Medici. I was a teacher at the Class of the Elite in Columbus, Ohio.”

There was some mumbling at that statement from the other kids around them, a few of them nodded and some others seemed to look around as if searching for something.

“Some of you know me, some don’t.” The Teacher person continued speaking as if nothing was happening, “For those of you that don’t know what the Class of Elite means, let me explain.”

Then the teacher person snaped his fingers and the blackboard behind him shifted into a tv screen, some information flashing around, Alexa of course recorded everything and sent it to [Main Core] for analysis at a later date. It may be important!

“It was made as a program to teach the most talented and advanced students.” The Teacher person started, “Most often than not, that meant teaching students who had private teachers at home. So it was my job to teach them stuff that didn’t got covered, as thus, my credentials are quite extensive if I so say myself, even so, our Saintsworths overlords thought that this may be too much as I am used to students that are… Above the normal.”

Some of the classmates of Alexa seemed to be nervous, why? The teacher person was a good person! He listened to Alexa’s questions!

“For that reason I am here.” Then a new voice joined, one that Alexa knew!

“[Teach Baking]!” Alexa jumped out and pointed. It was her teacher!

“Hello Alexa.” [Teach Baking] waved at Alexa smiling, “I am Eloise Baker, I was a teacher for a sort of special class too, unlike Mister Medici, mine was focused on more special kids.”

“She was tasked with teaching the most vulnerable and the more troublesome.” The teacher person said for [Teach Baking], “She is prepared for the most hard to educate, and she was the former teacher of our top scorer, so her credentials are that good.”

“The top scorer?” “But she said she taught the dumber ones.” “How do we have a top scorer if the school just started?” “I like trains ._.”

“As for the top scorer spot.” The teacher person didn’t let that go, “There was some fight over it, we haven’t used our internal scoring to decide it, instead we went by the average score across your multiple schools system from before you came here.”

“That means that some had more advantage than others, as the curriculums of some of you was easier than others.” [Teach Baking] continued where the teacher person left it, “As you can imagine not all went to the same schools, and even among those of you that went to the same school, not all went to the same classroom.”

“The balancing of scores.” Alan mumbled from the side.

“Exactly Mister Harmonia.” The teacher person clapped as he nodded, “That’s right, some schools have the terrible habit of giving extra points to some students to inflate their own success, terrible example those teachers give.”

And with a clap, a blue screen showed on the tv behind the teacher person.

“These are the top scorers by the way.” The teacher person pointed behind, “As you can see the fight for the top was close, but only from the second spot forward.”

Alexa, Glory and Alan couldn’t help but turn to look behind them.

“Hmph, Momma Elisee said that all you need to do is be cute, pretty or beautiful and intelligence stops mattering!” Beato hmphed as she said that.

“Please tell me the one who said that isn’t a blonde.” Alan mumbled by the side.

“You know Mom Elisee?!?” Beato stood up surprised, “Isn’t she pretty? She is the most pretty Momma ever!”

“Of course it was a bimbo… Stop making me sound like part of the patriarchy, I am six!” Alan groaned as he let himself faceplant into his desk.

What was the patriarchy? And why was Alan part of them?