"Call me Hunter Campbell.
I'm a Mentalist and my professional class is assasin "
The students all looked at him. They had all been waiting to hear the powers of the cripple, or what he could offer or do. Him being a Mentalist sounded fair enough, as he wasn't born with a power that would lay wasted cause he didn't have some legs. But him saying his professional class is an Assasin, now this was definitely one of the highlights of the day.
After a mutual silence of five seconds, like they were all respecting the dead, immediately they all began to laugh. Some could be seen rolling on the floor, as one even highlighted his point with a shout:
"An assasin without legs, how does he want to kill me, by throwing his dagger from a fixed position?"
"or wheeling towards me to slit my throat" another said.
"But how's he going to reach the throat if he can't stand up, I mean look, I have got legs to stand on"
This only made it worse as they all kept on laughing.
Truth be told it was funny, as Miss Cathy, couldn't help but chuckle as she stared at Hunter and wondered what he was going to do.
Hunter knew this was going to happen, and it would still continue as far as he still didn't have legs and the students weren't tired of making fun of his situation. But then at times, ignoring isn't always the best decision, something had to be done. Though he knew that the joke was funny only if you weren't the joke. But hell no, it wasn't funny.
"I guess it can't be helped". He muttered under his breathe.
His voice caught Miss Cathy attention who was watching the students behaviour and actions as she turned towards him. Whipping out a penicil from his dimensional storage, he spinned it up in the air and used his index to flick it towards one of his jesters.
"whoosh"
Immediately, the air became dense, it felt suffocating heavy and overbearing. Everyone was still conscious but it was like there was an invisible weight upon their shoulders holding them down. Those that had their mouth wide open, laughing found out it was taking time for them to snap their jaws shut.
Immediately, Miss Cathy stood up and faced Hunter who was surprised and shocked that he wasn't affected.
"Don't worry, my power won't affect you if you don't leave that space you are. I'm able to control it very much well, I mean I'm your sensei"
With a cute pout, she continued
"But that was naughty of you Hunter. Did you attempt to pluck his eyes out because of a joke?"
He nodded softly as he still stared at his class mates around him all trying to come to their bearings but nothing was making sense for them.
"Someone has to be taught a lesson ma" He spoke quietly.
"You been a bad boy Hunter, next time just ask" she said as she flicked his nose playfully, and walked up to the almost unlucky boy and grabbed the pencil from his line of sight.
"Can I drop papers in their mouth " Hunter asked cheerfully like a little kid as Miss Cathy laughed out loud before nodding her head.
"Mind you, I didn't pause time, just increased gravity and thus they would be aware of who did what, but moving their muscles to prevent the incoming papers would definitelybe impossible. So they can only watch and not act".
She cautioned him, knowing fully well that a retaliation would be bound to happen.
Would he do it knowing fully well that he could get jumped on later in school? she thought to herself.
"Ahh, no worries Miss Cathy. I figure if I'm going to be getting bullied and been laughed at, I might as well have some form of payback".
"Retribution before the crime is even committed ?" She asked with a surprised tone.
"Yes ma'am. Some may say it should be done after the deed to justify the action and reason, but I say try and nip the bud before the deed is done". He said. She stared at him for some seconds before giving her approval.
With a nod from her, he took out a book from his storage and began to aim perfectly for those who had their mouths open. Only those with close mouths were the lucky ones, as they didn't get to chew on paper as soon as gravity was restored.
"Snap".
With a snap of her fingers everyone returned to normal. Those who laughed the hardest had their mouths bulging with papers as those who were the lucky ones giggled at their comrades, especially the ones that laughed but closed their mouth on time.
"The paper stays in there until the next period".
Miss Cathy said sternly as those who had pushed it out quickly, slowly returned it back to their mouths as Miss Cathy stared at them hard until it was in their mouth, even though it had reached the floor already.
Seeing that she had everyone attention, she proceeded with the next lesson which was Mana Absorption.
"Mana absorption is the fundamental rule for anyone to know, both in theory and practical. If you can't absorb Mana, you can't use your powers. Mana absorption can be done consciously and unconsciously.
Consciously, through the use of Mana stones, meditation and just begin in a highly dense Mana environment. And unconsciously by sleeping".
"Naturally, when one sleeps, their body undergoes rejuvenation and absorbs Mana from its surroundings to replenish the lost one's."
"Any questions ?".
A short brunette quickly raised her hand up and after getting a nod from miss Cathy, she stood up.
"Miss Cathy, what about Mana capacity, can it be increased ?".
"Good question".
"When it comes to mana capacity, two factors are taken into consideration.
One is, how many abilities does the person hold. The more abilities, the higher your Mana capacity. And secondly, what kind of abilities do you posses".
With a pause she continued.
"For example, you stand up".
Pointing at a balck haired boy on glasses, she asked him:
"How many abilities do you have, and mention them".
"Two Miss Cathy, Earth and Metal". He confidently replied.
"Remaining standing" she said as she pointed at another boy beside him.
Standing up quickly, he answered:
"Two Miss Cathy, Water and Frost or ice".
"Alright, you both can seat".
"Now Ray has an Earth and Metal ability, comparing his Mana capacity with that of Peter, on a basis of number they are equal". But on a basis of quality, they aren't. who can tell me why ?"
With his hand raised quickly in the air John quickly stood up after getting an approval.
"Because Ray is more of solid, that's two solid unlike Peter which is one liquid and solid".
With her palm on her face, Miss Cathy dropped her head down slowly as the class bursted into laughter.
"How did this nuthead gets admitted" someone muffled voice askes as he tried to avoid chewing the paper while speaking.
"Another person ?" she asked as John sat down with an unbothered smile on his face, as if he hadn't just embrassed himself now.
The girl who asked the question previously, stood up and answered.
"It's because Metal is more of a rare ability than Ice ".
"Good". Miss Cathy was impressed, at least someone was thinking in her class. She stared at Hunter one more time before going into further details of the lecture, and also giving the students an outline of their courses for the term.
"School period ends now. Report to your dormitory and settle down. Wish you an interesting and chaotic schooling year" she giggled with an evil smirk as she dismissed the class, while ordering those with papers in their mouth to dispose it outside her class.
It was a funny scene for other first years to see some Class D students vomiting out paper after walking out of their class.
"The loser class learning on how to eat paper" A fat boy who just came out of Class B laughed at the class D students he saw pulling the paper from their mouths into the waste bin.
"Food is hard to come for the dumb ones "
One of the guy walking beside him said.
"or they are just dumb and love eating trash" another henchman said as they all burst into laughter, as the class D students closest to them quickly parted aside making way for them.