In the crowd of students, a dark-haired guy with short hair stood out. He constantly looked around and seemed to be looking for someone.
"Sorry, do you happen to know where Zen is?" he asked. But no one answered him.
The problem was that it was the first day at the academy and most of the students didn't know each other. The exceptions were guys who entered together with their brothers or sisters, or who were classmates in the past. There was still an opportunity to remember someone's name after two by two fights, but the fights lasted about 8 hours, so the chance that someone would remember someone else's name was minimal.
Suddenly a blond guy with big eyes approached the guy.
"Maybe you are looking for me? My name is Rosen, but friends often call me Zen."
The dark-haired boy looked at Rosen from head to toe and smiled.
"Oh yes, I was looking for you. Follow me."
"What for? And where?"
"One of our classmates was looking for you. He went to the toilet, we can go to him while he comes out."
"Who?"
"A…. Aram."
"Aram? I do not know him."
"He said that he saw your fight and wanted to discuss it."
"Hah, okay. Let's go. Only, let's do it fast, the test will start in 5 minutes."
"Oh sure."
"Rosen, where are you going?" a girl with long, light purple hair asked.
"I have to go to the toilet, I'll be back soon."
"Okay, just don't be late!"
She looked at the dark-haired guy who was walking next to Rosen and held her gaze for a couple of seconds.
"Weird kid. What's going on inside him? Scary," she thought. "Although it is the exam day, so many things can happen in the minds of students. Not everyone can be as cool and calm as I am."
Aram's team members began to gather to discuss the next test.
"Guys, do you happen to know where the toilet is?" Aram asked.
"I know," David said. "It's on the second floor. As you climb the stairs, you turn right and walk to the end of the corridor."
"Oh, thank you," Aram said, embarrassed. "He's probably not such a bad guy," he thought. "I will be fast, guys. For now, understand what we should do and what the task is. When I finish I will immediately go up to the third floor and join you there."
"Okay," they all said in unison.
Aram ran to the toilet.
"Wait," Reia said. "Aren't the men's toilets on the left side? I didn't seem to notice that there was a guys' toilet on the second floor on the right."
"Yeah," David said. It's not there."
"Oh my god, then why did you tell him..? Reia said.
"Just wanted to," David replied.
"Did you want to laugh at him, or what?"
"No, Reia, not at all," Ksyu said. "Don't think of David as some dumbass. He did it to smooth over the guilt."
"How is it? Making a stir in the girls' restroom?"
"Almost. Thus, he will dispel the eerie environment that was a couple of minutes ago. Both David and Aram feel uncomfortable with what they said and did. When Aram realizes that David was making fun of him, he will return viciously to us and start yelling and getting angry."
"I got the idea. But which is the "good" part of it?"
"It's just that this time they will start another quarrel, but it will be an ordinary boyish one. After it, they will not have any heavy sediment that will interfere with them on the test, and indeed later."
"On the test and that's it!" David said blushing. "I am only interested in the result of the exam and that's it. I don't want to lose because of some moron."
"Yes, of course," Ksyu said smiling.
Meanwhile, Zen brought Alex and Kano to the guys.
"I think everyone is more or less familiar with each other already," Zen said.
"Yes," Ksyu said. "Only now it would be better to know each other's superpowers. I made a couple of notes in my notebook during the fights."
Ksyu took out a black notebook with a small gel pen from her pocket.
"And so what we have..."
Ksyu: passive superpower -?
active superpower - change appearance
Aram: passive superpower -?
active superpower - chains
Reia: passive superpower - /////////// \\ / \ / \ / \
active superpower - ?
David: passive superpower - instilling negative emotions
active superpower -?
Kano: passive superpower -?
active superpower - bandages
Alex: passive superpower - crafting?
active superpower - water
Zen: passive superpower -?
active superpower - fire.
"Why didn't you write your superpower in the notebook?" Kano asked.
"Ah that. Here I wrote down only the superpowers that we showed at the tournament," Ksyu replied. "As for my passive superpower, it is a little creepy and not always necessary."
"Tell us", David said.
"I can communicate with spirits."
"Do you talk to ghosts?" David wrinkled his face like Munch's "The Scream".
"Take it easy. I really don't like talking to them, and they sometimes moo and can't connect two words themselves. So let's go. What about you? What's your superpower?" Ksyu asked.
"My active superpower is blood. It's hard for me to explain what I can do with it, but for now, this information is enough."
"Okay, what about you, Zen?"
"You wrote my active ability correctly, but the passive one is memory control. I don't know how to do much with it yet, because it is dangerous."
"What interesting and varied abilities you all have," Ksyu said. "Alex, what about you? From what we've seen, you can craft objects?"
"Almost. It is not a superpower of object crafting. It's kind of like materializing the visualized."
"In short, you can create anything you think of?"
"Yes."
"So, Kano, what have you got?"
"I can control flies."
"Wrote it down," Ksyu said.
"What did you cross out here?" Zen asked, pointing to the spot where Reia's name was written.
"She was just wrong," Reia interrupted. "My active superpower is super speed. And passive is darkness."
"Well, as for Aram, we know that he only knows how to throw chains. And let's ask about his passive ability upstairs," David said.
"Yes, let's go already. The break time is almost over," Alex said.
While the guys were climbing to the third floor, Ksyu decided not to miss the opportunity and find out what in general would need to be done during the test. When they reached the room on the third floor, Aram was still not there.
"It's strange," David said. A minute later, Felix approached the first room.
"He is handsome," Reia thought to herself and blushed.
"Interestingly, they specially assigned the most beautiful detective to the students so that the girls try to study well, or is it a coincidence," Ksyu thought.
"Handsome," David thought and blushed too. - "What am I…" he thought and began to beat himself in the face. Meanwhile, Felix, seeing what David was doing, smiled and opened the door. But then he stopped for a second.
"Why are you only six?" he asked.
"Our classmate will come now. He went to the toilet," Ksyu said.
"Okay. You have little time. You will have only 30 minutes to solve this puzzle. You can do whatever you want in this room, and everything that concerns it. I just ask you not to destroy or undermine anything, this building is very old and has great historical value. And for you, it will soon become a home."
Felix paused briefly and opened the door all the way.
"I hope you won't be too scared. Good luck."