A/N: This is kind of an exposition chapter before anything happens. Just to get people up to date. And also this contains spoilers. So yeah...
A History Lesson
"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Man that took a while," Kelvin relaxes as he walks through the streets of Academy City a few hours after midnight. "But I also had some extra time to do other stuff on that computer. Normally I wouldn't be able to access those kinds of files but, luckily, I got a freebee today…" The guy wasn't talking to anybody but himself. He seemed kind of lonely since there was no one for him to have conversations with. Suddenly, some drops of water fell onto his head. The level five looks up into the sky as the rain became heavier and more frequent. "Looks like I have to go home soon. Should've brought one of my hats with me… or a jacket that has a hood… Well, I'll just go and buy an umbrella to make up for it then." Kelvin starts to walk down the streets again under the lights provided by the lampposts and the moon.
At that moment, a shadow passed through the street behind him, so he couldn't see what was going on. Then more shadows started to move in the light. Figures swiftly went from lamppost, to trashcan, to mailbox, etc. The hidden shadows were following Kelvin.
"Hmm… I should probably remind myself about how this war started anyways," Kelvin smirks to himself, "It's World War III, so it's probably going to be in the history books and the students are going to be tested over this stuff. Might as well study up," he then stops walking and looks behind him, "You guys want to learn a history lesson?" Kelvin puts his left hand near his right hip; which was where a certain weapon of his was placed.
A single beat of a second passed and the figures slowly came out of their hiding places. A local gang had heard that a weak level 5 was walking in the middle of the night, so they decided to get rid of this esper. The gang consisted of ten males; they were dropouts that were probably given the rank of level 1s or 2s. They surround Kelvin in a circle and all of them had a smile on their faces as if they were wolves about to attack a wounded deer.
The level 5 draws out the sword that he kept hidden under his trench coat. The weapon was some sort of an Asian straight sword. The haft on the handle appeared to have short wings that pointed outwards. At the end of the handle was a pommel that was shaped like a crescent. But the sword seemed like it was crudely made since the blade itself was chipped and dull. "So children, shall we begin?"
Tsuchimikado, who is still wearing sunglasses in the night, is lying on a door outside of a certain dorm room. He looks to his right and smiles reminiscently to himself. "Ah Kami-yan, just how are you going to solve this problem... Oh well, I guess there's no helping it now." All of a sudden, sounds of steps clanking on a metal ceiling were heard. The Hawaiian shirted teen looked off into the direction of the parking lot for bikes when the clanking stopped. Then a teenage girl jumps onto the parapet as she stares menacingly at Tsuchimikado. The girl wore a long sleeved shirt with large green and brown horizontal stripes; there is also a hole in each sleeve for thumbs to go through. Along with that, she wore a long pair of jeans that went to her ankles. "Ah yes, welcome to my dorm. I'm glad you could attend your meeting, nya," Tsuchimikado reacted with a lame response.
"Who the hell are you and how'd you get my phone number?" The girl grabbed his collar, "Don't answer and you die."
Still smiling, the teen wearing the sunglasses answered, "The name is Motoharu Tsuchimikado and I know quite a lot of people, nya. So I'm not dead now, right? Well anyways I really want to talk to you about something, miss Miyazaki Amaterasu-yan."
"You realize I had to sneak out of my dorm to get to you. I see that Kelvin isn't here. You tricked me, damn bastard."
"Oh, what's with these harsh words-nya? I didn't exactly lie, though. All I said was that Kelvin was going to need you for something," Motoharu says as he rolls his eyes, "I assure you that that was no lie, nya."
She lets go of his collar and said, "Fine, what is this all about?"
"It's rather cold out so I'll tell you inside. Oh and don't worry about me pulling anything on you, I only have eyes for my little sis, nya," Tsuchimikado laughed as he opened the door and both of them went into his dorm room. "I'll get straight to the point: Kelvin needs an extra member in his group, nya." He snickered to himself when he said that final word.
"What the hell kind of group are you talking about?" Amaterasu demanded.
"It's a special optics team that will carry out the will of its creator, nya. So try to think of it like GROUP or ITEM, but much more secret."
"And who is this creator?"
"It's a certain someone that I won't be able to disclose without putting myself and my sister in danger. So please understand before threatening me, nya."
Amaterasu thought to herself for a few moments and then responded, "Why should I join? I don't really want to take part in something that would cause me danger…"
"But that's the fun part about life," retorted Tsuchimikado, "Without danger and survival life would be meaningless. Anyways, you shouldn't worry since a level 5 is going to be there to protect you, nya."
"No way, I will not work with that douche!"
"Didn't you want to settle a score with him-nya? He's beaten you in everything so far: cooking, tests and grades, fighting, and all that other fun stuff. I mean you guys do have a past of rivalry, or rather just you. He doesn't really mind you much and barely pays attention to you, nya." Amaterasu drooped down in embarrassment since he told her the truth of the matter. "My point is that you can always challenge him at any time. So you can always get a chance to finally defeat him, nya." She sat to herself, thinking about the possibilities. "You also get to travel around the world."
"I'll do it," Miyazaki replies immediately.
"Oh, that's good," the teen with the sunglasses was surprised at how easy it was to convince this girl. "Oh yes, I've been curious about this but what is your power-nya?"
"Hmm…?" Miyazaki raises an eyebrow and then responds with, "It's called 'Gravitation' and I'm a level 4."
Kelvin stands on the sidewalk with his sword over his shoulder. Broken bodies of thugs were littered around him. All of them were beaten badly but none of the injuries were fatal. Kelvin swings his sword a few times around himself and then sheathed his sword. The weapon was once more hidden again inside the long coat that he had.
"And that concludes our lesson," Kelvin happily said, "In review: A man named Fiamma of the Right from a group, God's Right Seat, managed to convince to Russia that Academy City was going to destroy the country. So in order to have a preemptive strike of sorts Russia declared war on the city. Y'know, like any rational country would. And this war in Russia is going to cause enough confusion so Fiamma of the Right can get a certain something without notice. I think that about sums it up. Well it was a good lesson with all of you, so as of now… Class dismissed!" Kelvin walks away while waving at the fallen with the back of his hand. "Oh Putin, I wonder where you are now…"
"Anyways, now that the rain has cleared up I guess I'll go home now," Kelvin said with a sigh. "Can't wait for tomorrow."
A/N: There's going to be a lot more characters soon... Sadly for me because it's kind of hard to keep track of every single person... So whatever