AGENT: The Agent of Mutants

04. Still Pretend

I was still silent on the spot, while the five mutants in front of the auditorium stage were already able to calm his panic. I-I still can't believe I just said that.

Mutants.

Zav holds Ruby who has fainted from pain, and...

... disappeared.

Okay-okay Claire.. Don't make a sound! Nay!

Holy jeez!! I really wanted to scream so cool the thing I saw just now!

But I'll hold back, just calm down. I won't scream here, later in the dorm room.

I guess I've got to get used to this, because I already know what they are.

Actually I'm really happy! This means I'm not on this mission alone, am I? Aye right...? Uh, or maybe.. They're here for a different mission, and they don't know anything about the missing AOM chip? Could it?

The fact that Brian didn't tell me anything about this is confusing enough for me. Even if it turns out that they are my partners, why is Brother Brian hiding it? Does he want to make this a surprise for me? But it feels impossible, the mission of an agent is something really solid planned carefully. There's no way something like this could happen, right?

The point is, if I had a partner, Brian would have told me.

Meanwhile, they did not realize that there was one person who could move in this sea of people whose movements had stopped. I'm. Me!!

I could even hear clearly their conversation, because even though my distance from them was quite far, but I had a sharp hearing.

"As far as I'm concerned, Ruby would be in pain like this if there was someone who wanted to harm the person she was protecting with her supersonic waves."

Supersonic waves?

Oohh.so it has super active powers. Yup right! The superpowers of the mutants are classified into two, the first being active.

This super power can hurt humans directly (i once had a fight with my schoolmate who had supersonic waves first, unfortunately I ended up in the UKS because I was never allowed to use my power, he said, I don't know why) Ruby's powers, but I never knew that supersonic waves could protect someone. I think she got them on her 17th birthday, because of every mutant who had stepped on seventeen years, his superpowers would grow stronger.

Ah yes, the second is super passive power, can not hurt anyone (unless he is seventeen years old, I do not know what passive power can be as great as). For example, Rylan who had super-fast power earlier, and Zav with his teleportation. Ah, I was really fooled! I thought they were ordinary people!

"We'll talk later, we can't stop too long." Rylan was serious.

Then, they all walked back to their seats, when Valerie came next to me, I immediately pretended to be sculpting like the others, I know this is ridiculous, but how else? I don't know what to do but this!

After that, time suddenly returned. But...

Hm...

I think it happened a little bit over and over again...

When Ruby's name was called.

COOL ONE!

"Ruby Chase."

Then the woman - whom I had not known her name - raised her right hand.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, he's sick so he can't come" she said.

Yes...

He's not completely lying.

I hope Ruby is okay, hopefully she will recover quickly from whatever hurt her.

"Alright, next.."

"... Ava Adeline's."

By the way...

Now how should I?

I've seen them unleash their power before my eyes, but they didn't notice it at all. So, if I tell them that I'm an agent too, it'll look weird. How so? 'My fellow foresters! You know, I'm a mutant too!'

Ouch.

Then I'll pretend I don't know, until there's a good time to tell you this.

"Kimberly Fern."

Go forward to a woman who turns out... Oho! he was the one who helped Ruby!

Hm...

I remembered something.

'Kim, stop it!'

What does... Kim is that him?

Kimberly Fern's?

If yes, then...he who stopped the time earlier dong!?

Whoa!! that's cool!!

"Everything I've called, for the new kid, welcome to International High School! Impress me with your achievements, yes. Everyone's spirit!" he smiled warmly, "Secret from me, thank you." said Ms. Linda briefly in a friendly tone, I hope that later all the teachers will be as good as him.

And you know what's better? In the closing part like that, I really crave a teacher like Miss Linda, because...

... because they don't talk much!! Yup!!

All the students stood up and started walking out of the auditorium.

Valerie looks ordinary. Yes, I know, we agents are trained to deal with all situations calmly.

Ehh?

Just sec...

I didn't realize Nancy wasn't next to me.

Ah, maybe he went to the toilet.

All right, now I'm going to bathe during my walk to the dorm.

Now the problem is... How can I find the chip? I almost forgot my mission...

And how is Ruby doing now? I'm being thought..

Val says Ruby is in pain because the person she is protecting wants to be hurt. Whatdoes thatmean?

And Rylan said, they'll talk about this again later. Do I need to follow?

But an agent is not that stupid until it is easy to follow.

But right, I'm also an agent, which means I'm not that stupid to get caught following people.

But think about it, every agent's science is the same. That means even if I'm good at following him, he's good at knowing it. Uh!

I'd better wait until the right time.

Huhhhhhhhhhhhh...

I'm out of ideas.

"Claire, you go back to the room first, I have a little need" Val said.

Nahh, now is the time to meet with other agents?

I held up my thumb, "OK." I answered as neutrally as possible, as if I knew nothing.

After that, I saw him walking away, looking very calm. Looks like he's been 'down to the field' for a long time, unlike me who's just the first time. I walked up to the elevator, got out of the main building, then went back to the dormitory.

There's just me.

Nancy, I don't know where she went.

[Valerie's POV]

HOLY JEEZ!!

Am I not wrong?!

Claire...

... is the agent!?

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23.40

I've been in the room now, I've had a shower and stuff..

Many changes to the schedule in my tab, which was only a short sentence about the prohibition on wearing uniforms outside school days, now has a lesson schedule for 5 days a week, he said, as well as the uniform schedule for each day, maybe this came about because I've already shared the class announcement.

Class 11 IPA 1.

Not bad...

By the way, neither Nancy nor Val has returned. Did something happen?

But there's no way something's going on with Val, because he can definitely take care of himself right?

And what about Nancy?

No one knows where he went.

Do I have to look for him?

But, I think he's okay, really. I don't have to look for it.

Well, I admit today was exhausting.

Hopefully I can get that chip in, then get back to AOM as soon as possible.