Here's the next chapter. I decided to wait for a while, so the posts won't catch up to what I've written too fast. Also, there's a DC reference hidden in both chapters. I prefer Marvel, but that isn't important. Let's see if any of you can find out what it is. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Light gathered around my hand. It extended into a long pole and condensed into an actual sword. I drew it and discarded the sheath. It was a long katana, this is an anime, what else would it be? It had a black hilt, with red lines in it, which extended down the blade. There was a small circle on the end of the handle, a little larger than the handle. It had a long, thin white bandage flying off of it. It glowed slightly as I swung it, and it cut deep into the robot. The robot flew and hit the wall. I jumped onto it, my sword glowing red-hot, and stabbed its head. I pulled my sword out and ran at the next enemy. I crouched to dodge its strike and cut upwards. I then jumped back to dodge its collapsing form. I looked around and saw a robot standing over a cowering person in a full body suit. I ran in front of him and blocked the robot's attacks with the side of my sword. I countered by stabbing the robot. Electricity arced out of my sword and into the robot, which collapsed. "Be more careful next time," I told him.
"Yeah." He said.
I got into some kind of trance, attacking the nearest, what did they call them again, villains? I also saved a few more people. They'd probably be fine, but it most likely counts for points. We're trying to get into a school to become heroes, so saving people should count for something. Eventually, time ran out and I let go of my sword, and it dissolved into nothing. An old lady came around asking if anyone needed to be healed after a while. I only had a few small cuts and bruises, so I let her go and heal someone else. "Here, have some Haribo candies, don't be shy!" She tossed some candies at me. I caught them and looked down at what was in my hands. She threw gummy bears at me, what the crap? Who… well, I guess heroes have their quirks. Oh wow, that's a bad pun. That was not on purpose, I'm truly sorry.
I went and found my cousin. It actually took a while, her area was decently far away. It's not in alphabetical order like you would expect, they're scattered around. "Hey, Keiti!" I called out when I found her.
"Oh, hi." I walked up to her.
"How do you think you did?" I asked.
"Pretty well, I got fifty-something points, how about you?"
"Um…" I rubbed the back of my neck. "Yeah, I didn't keep track."
"What about the written part, I never asked you about that?"
"I feel very confident, it wasn't that hard."
"Jerk." She lightly punched me in the arm. "That thing was hard."
"Well, you shouldn't worry, you kick butt." I sat down and pulled a Cliff bar out of my pocket. I unwrapped it and ripped out a large chunk of it.
"Do you have another one? I forgot mine." I pulled another one out of my pocket and handed it to her. "Thank you so much."
"No problem." I laid back on the ground. "I wonder if anyone here thinks we're dating."
"You know," She started. "A few months ago I would have told you no, but now… probably."
I smiled. "Her face when she found out we were cousins…" I started laughing. "I barely kept a straight face."
"You didn't."
"Oh yeah." I finished off my bar and stuffed the wrapper in my pocket. "When did Aunt Bikutoria say she'd come pick us up?"
She looked at her watch "Half an hour ago."
"Oh, we should probably find her." I yawned and closed my eyes. "Let's go do that."
"Do you want help up?"
I held out my hand. "Yes please."
I opened my eyes and laid in bed for a minute. I just laid there and waited for my brain to reboot. Then I jumped out of bed when I realized that today we get our letters to see if we got into Yuuei. I ran out of my room and saw my aunt and cousins sitting at the table. There was toast, ham, and eggs on the table. I sat down and got some toast and ham.
"Have the letters come yet?" I asked.
"Yes." My aunt held up two letters. "I wanted you to open them up at the same time."
"Oh, that's a good idea." I held my hand out.
"After breakfast."
"Fine." I dug into my ham.
We sat on the couch with my aunt in the middle, me and Keiti on either side, and Era sitting on the armrest next to Keiti. "We never did this for when I got my letters." Era said.
"How is accounting by the way?" I asked.
"It's good. But hurry up and open your letters."
"On three?" I looked over at Keiti.
"Nah." She ripped open her letter, and a small metal disk fell into her lap.
"Oh, thanks." I opened mine and a small metal disk was inside mine too.
"What do we do with these?"
"I think there's a button in the middle." Aunt Bikutoria pointed it out.
We pressed them at roughly the same time, and a screen popped up from both. I looked over at hers, and there was President Mic on it. "Congratulations! You have passed the entrance…"
I looked at mine. There was a guy with tired eyes looking at me. He had unruly black hair, some kind of white scarf, and a black shirt of some kind. "You passed. Good job I guess." He blinked a little slowly. The hologram shot off. That was very underwhelming. Keiti's letter is more what I was thinking. Once I saw the holograms, of course, before that I just expected a mass produced letter with our names inserted in there.
"What was that?" Keiti asked.
"I'm not sure, but I think my dude was the opposite of yours." I stared at the disk. "He looked depressed."
"Eh, some heroes are weird." My aunt shrugged.
"Was my mom weird?" I asked.
Her face fell. We sat in silence for a few second before she spoke. "Not very. She had a few small things, but nothing big." She sniffed and wiped her eyes.
"I'm sorry," I said.
"No no, it's okay." She smiled sadly. "It's natural to be curious."
"I'm going to go out, that okay?"
She nodded. "Of course, text me when you're finished."
I got up and went to my room. I threw on a coat and grabbed my phone. When I went out I saw my cousins and aunt chatting. "I'll be back soon, love you!"
"Love you!" They all called back. I left the house and walked down a now familiar path to the heart of the city. I found the large white building and walked towards it, narrowly dodging a car in the parking lot and entered. I walked up to the desk.
"I'm here for a visit."
"I'm sorry," The secretary said. "Visiting hours are over, you'll have to come back, oh! Hello Jasupa." She looked around. "Okay, you can go up. But next time you come around I want some chocolate."
"Okay." I walk past the desk and down the dark hall. This is always the worst part. The hall is just so depressing. I found the room, room 130-02. I pulled a chair over to the side of the bed and sat down. I took the woman's hand. "Hi Mom. I passed the Yuuei, exam. Just like you did…"
That room number is important. Not to the story, but to me. Let's see if you can figure out why.