'The next day, after school, I went to cram school (can it really be called cram school now?) with Alex and found out that we would actually keep learning about what we were learning about before, only with much more study material, mostly about hidden schemes not known to the general population.'
What is this? Are they seriously teaching this stuff to highschoolers? Oh, and Mrs Shimura said that we will start the program about superpower development an hour from now. Now that I think about it, I forgot to ask Yuki to clear my doubts (not that I expect her to actually clear them all. My family is quite secretive, I feel like the odd one out, though they are weird, not me. I think). Oh, Shizu-chan is explaining the program to Alex?! Something tells me that Alex is not that clueless, though? He yawned? OK, he's taking advantage of Shizu-chan to slack off. Well, yeah, despite appearances, unfortunately, she's always been easy to exploit. Should I say she's both naive and strong? Wait, no, but he's also wasting her precious time! "Alex, come here, I can explain it to you in an understandable way in half a minute~". Ok, he might oppose resistance, but if he does, I'll just talk nonstop in his ear 'till he gives up. I tried doing it once, and it worked (though my sister ended up blushing, which was quite weird. By the way, it was Chiyo-nee herself who asked me to do it and insisted until I gave up. Obviously, I refused to say what she asked me to say. It would have been too embarrassing. Ok, I'll admit that it might not work with other (normal) people, but it gives the confidence boost of a hidden card, I guess? And Alex is not that normal either). Eh? Why does he look terrorised? And Shizu-chan is staring at me with admiration mixed with something else that I can't exactly describe? (It gives me the chills. It reminds me of Tanaka's gaze towards Daisuke sometimes, which is not a good thing. For now I'll just ignore it). Ok, at the very least Alex listened to me. I'll ask him later why he looked like he'd seen a ghost.
'And so time passed and the time to start our lesson about superpowers came.'
"Write about yourselves" is what Mrs Shimura said (Ok, maybe she didn't use these exact words, but that's basically what she said. She asked us to write about our strong points and personalities. Why do we always get this kind of embarrassing activities that seem like those for little children??!). This is really hard. It seems like they want this to know the conditions to let us manifest our powers (which aren't exactly powers, but that doesn't matter). Does this mean that if I don't write anything I'm good at, I'll never be able to manifest mine? No! I refuse to believe that! Ah! Mrs Shimura said that we should also ask the people around us how we are in their eyes, so for now I'll just do that. "Alex, can you...?!" What in the world is he writing?! Ok, I should have expected this. He wrote he is a docile person who, in moments of need, becomes like the fearless protagonist of a manga and he already knows his superpower, but never revealed it, scared of the consequences, mostly because he thought he would be rejected by society? Did he escape reality too often? A person in such a situation surely wouldn't reveal it like this. Also, does he understand that after having written this nonsense, he'll have to prove it? Should I say something? Nah, if he's not being an idiot, he is smart, so there's no need for me to meddle (and I'm definitely not avoiding doing it because I'm lazy. 'Cause I'm not!). "What's up, Kei?" Ah! I'd almost forgotten. "Alex, can you help me?" He's looking at me like I'm gone crazy. Well, yeah, if the task weren't so weird and hard, I would think the same. After all, from this depends on if I'll be able to use powers or not, I can't underestimate it and write whatever, and then find out that it was all for nothing. Though it seems not everyone is taking it seriously. At least one-fourth of the class is still in shock. Some have blank faces since yesterday, shocked and unable to process anything. Aren't they taking too much? Or maybe it's the opposite, and it's us who adapted too quickly? Either way, it doesn't matter. Beige able to use a superpower is quite cool, so obviously I won't slack off. Ah, and for whoever is wondering (who am I even talking to?), I'm not gonna ask Shizu-chan now that she's writing. "You want help?" Ah, right, I had almost forgotten. "Yeah. Obviously, I can try helping you too""No need. Asking for help is the same as losing". Losing what?! Alex, please, at least accept help! Just kidding, it's all fine if you help me. "Ehm, okey, well, I've already written something, but I feel like it's not enough in the slightest""Did you write that you have self-esteem issues?""Eh? I don't!""Ok, maybe more like self-awareness? Or both?""No, I don't have any of them""Okey, okay, if you don't believe me, just ask Aikawa""Fine". The heck was that? Where are these mental issues supposed to be? I have a perfectly objective opinion: I'm a person with a normal personality and not exceptional at anything, but also not awful. Wait, maybe in the eyes of others I come off as gloomy? But I don't have self-deprecating thoughts. Though it would explain why I don't chat much with most of my classmates. Why so I feel like I mostly chat with total weirdos? Ah, no, Daisuke is normal (I mean in personality, because at school he is quite popular, though somehow Alex's presence increases that popularity? Let's not think about that, it makes my blood boil). Oh, and Shizu-chan is normal too.
'After everybody gave the papers back (and, no, I didn't write what Alex told me), we got called in alphabetical order and brought to another room.