The New Era Project

Wu Ya who was previously in a swimming suit was able to put on a shirt and some shorts. She was waiting outside with Haruta and the others who she was able to b.u.mp into when exiting. Haruta was the first to notice Feng Ye and Chu Feng and waves while calling out Feng Ye"s name.

"Feng Ye! Over here!" Haruta shouts.

Hearing Haruta"s call, Feng Ye brings over Chu Feng. The group takes a look at the two. "Feng Ye.. your hair..?" Haruta inquiries.

"Yea.. long story.." Feng Ye shakes his head.

Wu Ya also comments, "Feng Ye.. back then...are you actually -"

Feng Ye interrupts Wu Ya"s sentence. "Yes, but we can discuss this later in a more quiet area."

Wu Ya looks around and nods and no longer finishes her sentence. Haruta, Yotsuba, and Akihiko show a confused expression.

Yotsuba who rarely comments takes a look at Chu Feng who is held by Feng Ye. "What happened to him?"

"No clue, but looks like he had a rough day.." Feng Ye replies. At this time, Haruta, Yotsuba, and Akihiko"s vibrated. Feng Ye"s phone is in his system s.p.a.ce as he had immediately put it in there when he had put on his shirt and saw the mutation in the pool area, thus, he wasn"t able to know if his phone vibrated. Chu Feng probably had lost his phone as well as it seemed that he didn"t have one on him. As for Wu Ya, her phone is probably still in the pool area perhaps not even in one piece.

Yotsuba takes a look at the notification.

"IMPORTANT- Campus Ranking Event Cancelled

Due to a series of premeditated attacks to all five campuses, the scheduled upcoming campus ranking event is cancelled until further notice. Cla.s.ses will also temporarily be suspended for a period of two weeks as the campus administration, student council, student enforcer team, and board of directors will investigate further into the issue to determine that no subsequent hidden dangers are present within the campuses, cla.s.ses may resume.

All students should be sure to keep up to date with notifications as any changes will immediately be relayed directly through mobile."

Akihiko and Haruta check their phones and see the same message.

"Well.. that sucks. Was looking forward to the campus ranking event. I guess..now I have to decide what to do with this two week period.." Haruta sighs.

Yotsuba interjects, "I saw an ad online that had stated the Renai series concert event is soon..looking at the date, it is actually next week...Haruta, did you even claim the prize? Check the info on it."

Haruta is suddenly enlightened. "Right, I did claim it. Hold on, let me pull up the follow-up email I got after claiming it."

Haruta pulls up the email and takes a brief look.

"Yeah.. it"s the same one. However, there"s a slight issue..it"s in the middle of next week- yes… but.."

"What"s the problem?" Akihiko nearby inquiries.

"We will probably need to get approval to leave the city of Aven. As it seems that this concert is held in Aichi prefecture. Aven city which used to be referred as Tokyo is 258.59 kilometres away from Aichi prefecture which is where the event is held. Attached in the email is also six tickets and QR code which we just scan at the airport and for checking in at the hotel. This QR basically just forwards the expense to the organizers of the giveaway. The package includes a prepaid trip, prepaid concert tickets, and two nights at a 5 star hotel."

Akihiko knits his brows. "This may be troublesome."

"It"s fine, I"ll try to see if I can pull a few strings." Feng Ye comments.

Yotsuba"s eyes light up. "Right, Feng Ye- you are definitely a key training object, perhaps, you can pull a few strings."

***

At this time, the bookworm girl named Yuka was wandering within the aquatic centre in the lobby. She was still at the scene when Suzi, Watabi, and Honoka had rushed to the pool area to support. At this time, in her hands is a mobile phone. If Haruta and the others were nearby, they would definitely recognize that this phone belongs to Chu Feng.

With a rather frantic look, Yuka holds Chu Feng"s phone and tampers with it…

***

Kotomi Miku, Suzi, Mito, Watabi, and Honoka at this time see Feng Ye and the others grouped together. They approach.

Seeing the approaching five individuals, Feng Ye only recognizes Kotomi Miku, and Mito.

"Feng Ye!" Kotomi Miku greets.

Mito nods.

"h.e.l.lo Feng Ye, I"ve heard about you from Mito-sensei. I am Suzi, a high level instructor like Mito-sensei here." She refers to Honoka and Watabi. "These two are your seniors..two top ranking second years with awakened abilities."

"h.e.l.lo, I am Honoka." Honoka introduces herself with a rather mysterious tone.

"Watabi." Similar to an individual with few words, Watabi only states his name.

"h.e.l.lo, I"m Feng Ye. Do you need anything from me?" Feng Ye inquiries. Nearby, besides Wu Ya, Haruta and the others are shocked. These are some pretty big weights. High level instructors are said to extremely rare sightings. They usually don"t interact with the typical students but train only the elite top tier students who have awakened their abilities for their smooth transition to either society, to continue their education at Aven Inst.i.tute of Technology, or to take on other important tasks as Kami Inst.i.tute Alumni. Thus, the appearance of two high level instructors along with the two elite second year students was a shock. The disparity between the elite of the first years and the elite of second years is huge.

The rankings for first years which only take into account the academic tests and overall performance for the inst.i.tute year of study only are based solely off of potential for awakening. It is expected that with an overall higher intelligence quotient or extremely high emotional quotient, it is more likely to awaken. Emotional quotient is more difficult to a.s.sess, thus, all the campuses focus solely on the intelligence quotient.

Second year elites are completely different from first years. These have already been selected and have gone through awakening as an esper. Each elite stands at the peak of their cohort and has true power rather than simply potential. These elites are the ones who usually continue education at the Aven Inst.i.tute of Technology as espers. Students who haven"t awakened also may attend with high enough marks and obtaining a certain percentile in a written exam which is weighted against all examinees who take it, however, they would only be pursuing the same education and learning as pretty much other universities. The only difference would be that the Aven Inst.i.tute of Technology has better equipment, cla.s.ses, lectures, etc.

A lot of graduates from the campuses who aren"t able to awaken also transfer to attend other universities.

Mito looks at Feng Ye and replies, "We need you to come with us to discuss with the student council president."

Hearing that he had to meet with Akeno so quickly, Feng Ye wasn"t surprised. Most likely Akeno already witnessed all that had occurred. He turns towards Haruta and the others, "Sorry, guys- I"ll meet with you all at a restaurant later tonight. I"ll text you all. As for Wu Y I"ll meet you later and knock on your suite."

"Yeah. No worries. We"ll meet you then." Akihiko replies. He brings Haruta and the others to leave.

At this time Chu Feng awakens. A peculiar change can be noticed. As he awakens and opens his eyes, he sees Feng Ye with the same silver hair as the loli he had saw earlier.

"Feng Ye?" He asks in a startled tone.

"Yes…long story-" Feng Ye replies, however, he doesn"t finish his statement as he also is startled by Chu Feng"s change. Within Chu Feng"s eyes is an odd pattern. If one looks closely, it seems that the pattern in Chu Feng"s pupils closely reflect the yin-yang symbol. Mito, Kotomi Miku, and Suzi sees this as well.

"We"ll bring your friend along as well." Mito says. A confused Chu Feng follows Feng Ye and the others to a rather armored van which seems to be a high tech militarized transport vehicle.

"This is one of the vehicles we had brought along with others to rush to the scene. We"ll be using this to travel quickly to the student council office." Kotomi Miku explains.

The group enters and heads on their way.