005. Aptitude test !
During his interview with his seven first-year students, Erik wanted to get an idea of who he was facing and thought he knew a little more about his budding G-ni. Now, to find out what his new sheep are worth in a practical case, following the presentations, he asks them to follow him to a place on campus full of trees, such as a large garden. Everyone exits the amphitheater on the ground floor of Building A and heads towards the garden of giant trees!
Akihiko: (Surprised!) Wow! Was there a place like this in Tensai?
Hime: (Running in all directions!) Ooowww! It's all so pretty!
Kodo: (While picking his teeth!) What is the lease, Mr. Wazai? An aptitude test in such an enclosed space? These trees are going to get in our way, right?
Erik: Do you think so? I see that it is a place very suitable for easy combat; you have every chance of winning.
Keijo: Uh…win what, Mr. Wazai?
Erik: Your mission is to find me in the middle of this large garden and confront me without any restraint! Make teams of two and enter this forest. The first team to find me will be awarded an A+! Since it is just one member of a team who arrives, the A+ will always be valid for the other member. Of course, some players can use other players from other teams to find me!
Hari:…!
Keijo: What!? Is this an exam?
Erik: We can say it like that; except that it is not enough to find me to win, you must also succeed in putting me in difficulty. The A+ is really only there to motivate you! The teams that arrive after the first will also be able to take part in the game and compete against me. Is it clear to everyone?
Akihiko: (Looking stupid!) A game...!?
Keijo: I admit that I didn't…
Erik: Okay, that's great! Let the great hunt begin!
Erik Wazai disappears!
Keijo: And there he is gone! What do we do now ?
Hari: We form teams as he asked us!
Kodo grabs Akihiko by the collar of the jacket and pulls him towards the forest, plunging the youngest first year into terrible fear!
Kodo: (Pulling Akihiko by the collar of the garment!) You're coming with me!
Akihiko: (Panicked!) Yes boss!
Keijo: What a mismatched team!
Hari: Kodo couldn't take anyone else, he doesn't want to take the risk of teaming up with someone who might be stronger than him; so naturally, he attacks the weakest, or more precisely the one he takes to be the weakest. Their team is complete...Akihiko will be very useful for this mission in my opinion.
Hime: I'm going with Evana; I find her so sexyyyyy! I even think about changing sides when I see her...! I wish she would give me the secret to being like her! So, are you coming Eva?
Evana: Um…okay! See you boys and good luck!
Keijo watches Evana leave to the point of getting lost!
Keijo: She's so nice!
Hari: Well, it's just the three of us left.
Keijo: The instructions were to form teams of two.
Hari: It was probably to reduce the chances of being easily spotted!
Chusei: Spottable? But by whom?
Hari: I sense several other IQs in this forest than those of our comrades. Mr. Wazai made his arrangements and posted G-ni or students like us throughout the forest; We have to do everything we can to not let them slow us down and I think I have an idea for that.
Keijo: Huh?
Chusei:…!?
Hari: I don't know if you noticed, but the other two teams rushed into the center of the forest; this means that they have already set a position for Mr. Wazai.
Keijo: Maybe they're referring to his IQ, right?
Hari: Impossible! Currently Mr. Wazai's IQ is off; therefore we cannot locate it.
Chusei: Then why did the others go straight to the center of the forest?
Hari: Because it's instinctive! This is not the first time that we are faced with this type of situation; even if we haven't seen it in real life yet. Logic based on our knowledge of the matter would dictate that Mr. Wazai would be in the center of the forest waiting for us, but I don't think that's the case; or at least I don't think it's there yet; otherwise the obstacles would be of no use.
Keijo: << I just like what's original...!>> But of course! Why didn't I think of this sooner? Mr. Wazai is not going to wait for us in the forest because he hates what everyone does and already knows.
Hari: That's not really what I meant but let's move on...
Chusei: The problem now is where to find it!
Hari: No, it's not a problem; It's even much too easy.
Keijo: Huh?
Chusei:…!?
Hari: When he said it was possible for a team to use another team to find him, it wasn't just empty words. We need someone with an intellect capable of tracking Mr. Wazai's scent. Since he has managed so that no one refers to his footprints or his IQ, his smell is the only data still present in the air; This is the only way by which it can be found.
Chusei: But which of our comrades can track scents?
Hari: Akihiko Kuma. He is the only one whose intellect gives him animal characteristics.
Keijo: And how do you know that!?
Hari: Sometimes you just need to have a part to find the whole just as you can use the whole to find a part. It was thanks to his motivation that he mentioned earlier that I was able to get an idea of his intellect. And the fact that Kodo chose him as a teammate only confirmed what I suspected. The aim of the game is to team up so that our skills form a perfect tandem. But, there is something else in this review...!
Chusei: Wow! This one is strong!
Keijo: And how do we go about finding him then?
Chusei: Besides, I don't really see this famous Kodo letting us take the little one back from him. He scares the shit out of me!
Keijo: Why haven't you mentioned all this since? Could we have taken Akihiko on the team instead of sticking the guy from the Edo era?
Chusei: (Shocked and in tears!) Is he calling me an Edo era guy? Not nice...!
Hari: Finding Akihiko to find him, I see a bit of the genre...he wants to make us aware of the importance of everyone's abilities. Only, these other people whose IQs I sense through the forest? Could this be to test us?
Keijo: Hey! Are you even listening to me?
Hari: Keijo, you take charge of finding Akihiko. So you're going to go to the center of the forest too! Chusei and I take the right and left sides. And we find ourselves in the center.
Keijo: You know that I didn't understand much from your explanations earlier?
Keijo: You understood the essentials and what you needed to understand. Find Akihiko! We will meet in the center.
Keijo & Chusei: Received!
The team made up of Keijo, Chusei and Hari divides themselves by taking the right, left and middle paths to first find Akihiko and then find Mr. Wazai. However, from above a tree in the forest, Professor Wazai observed the whole scene!
Erik: Hari Kotsubaki…Over 4 years in middle school and 3 in high school, he always finished first; he inherited the respect of his entire establishment who venerated him like a little god, he is one of the rare Geniuses in the eighteen-year-old group to have a keen sense of deduction; which earned him the nickname Mastermind. His reasoning was perfect; he thought of everything. But, the forest is riddled with obstacles; I want to see how they manage to get rid of their adversaries and find me. I think I'm going to go make some tea to observe them better and see how it all ends.
Hari and the other members of his team had gone after Kodo's team in order to take Akihiko from them, who was the only one who could know Professor Wazai's position!
Hari: (Running!) I think it was the best thing to do. It won't be long before we run into Professor Wazai's obstacles. Depending on their different positions and our positions, it is at least 90% likely that Chusei will not encounter any obstacles, which will spare him the fight given the capacities of his intellect which are 95% defensive; which will perhaps allow him to catch up with Kodo and Akihiko while Keijo and I occupied ourselves against the obstacles. Well, speaking of Keijo, even if I don't really know what it is yet, he has a very particular power and Mr. Wazai thinks that it could be the object of several desires. I would like to believe it, but why? I need to understand, why can a guy who doesn't have the necessary IQ have powers?
#Hari Flashback#
After the incident of October 3, Hari had finally woken up and found himself in his room which was in a hotel; he saw Professor Wazai in a black suit as usual, but with a green shirt inside this time. They both left young Kotsubaki's room and headed into the hotel restaurant!
Tokyo: Shinjuku district; Sunlite Hotel Restaurant. October 7, 2020; 7:11 p.m.
Erik: (Sipping a cup of tea!) Well, your parents must be rich to rent you a whole hotel room for yourself, and not in just any hotel! How long have you been here?
Hari: Stop beating around the bush and tell me why you're here.
Erik: (Who smiles!) You're direct, huh! I like !
Hari:…!?
Erik: I need your help Hari.
Hari: My help?
Erik: Yes. You are the only one who was present that night, when Keijo used a mysterious power even though his IQ did not allow it.
Hari: So what? It's none of my business. He can do whatever he wants, the other psycho.
Erik: Just like you, Keijo will be enrolled in Tensai.
Hari: (Surprised!) What? But it's against the law, right? Keijo is not a Genius, and only Genius can become G-ni; but he doesn't even have the IQ required to become one! I saw what he did that night and I admit that it's something that I think I understand but which is still difficult for me to explain. Despite the fact that I don't believe in miracles, I am tempted to think that that night, the death of his friend triggered in him the possibility of producing a miracle.
Erik: A miracle in perpetual repetition?
Hari:...!?
Erik: Listen Hari, I think people are wrong about what the term Genius means. They attributed this name to people who for them are the builders of a world protected from all calamities, a holy world shining with happiness. For today's society, the Genius is the one who puts his plural or domain knowledge to work with the sole aim of protecting it. It's like with God; god in its sense implies the one who has all power, the unshakable, the greatest, the infinite. But the world has transformed the meaning of god into what they want god to mean; that is to say, he who has omnipotence to do only good. What proves that the one with the greatest power, the one the most respected and the most honorable is only there to advocate good, is only there to preserve lives other than his own?
Hari lowers his head, a little embarrassed!
Hari:...!
Erik: You are right on one point; The discovery of Keijo is a miracle for the world and a great revolution in the fight against the Emomonsters. His energy is certainly very strange and uncertain, but that does not make him special. For me, Keijo is a Genius among Geniuses because a Genius is the one who has exceptional mastery of what he feels comfortable in or even what he feels strongest in. Try to see Keijo as a nuclear missile, a gigantic weapon capable of razing all the Emomonsters of this country and perhaps this world and tell yourself that he has value in terms of his power as a Genius.
Hari: There are only three sources of energy for a human being. Most are affiliated with IQ. Which means that if Keijo represents nothing by his IQ, he is most certainly in the SQ; I don't mention EQ because it is impossible for a man to resist the rush of emotions because of EMOREVO, you know that as well as I do.
Erik: You will know everything when the time comes Hari. Just know that for now, even if I'm not here, you have to watch Keijo. Never be far from him. Unlike you, Keijo is in the crosshairs of several people. If its power ever becomes known to the world at large, the missile will perhaps change direction...!
Hari:…!?
#End#
Hari: He didn't speak clearly to me. Well, I didn't clearly understand what he meant; but…
Even though he was deep in thought, Hari was stopped when he suddenly saw around fifteen mirrors appear around him!
Hari: (Surprised!) But, what the...!?
??? : (With a male voice!) GAMMA RAY: REFLECTION!
TO BE CONTINUED !