The ride back to the administration building was silent, with Lisa and Hector wearing grim expressions. As both were second-generation espers, they were aware of the esper world from a young age and knew more about its depths than Kaizer or Rina.
They had heard of S-class espers, as these fellows were the ones who stood at the top of both the esper world and the real world, being the leaders of the S-rank factions or the top echelon, trained carefully from discovery to be the best of the best.
Even within the esper academies worldwide, S-class espers were super rare but not impossible. Every year there would be one or two, admitted specially to the Special Echelon for the most intense and favored training possible, their every action watched by all esper factions that would pay any price to recruit them.
