The Valdios Vector Academy was a self contained environment. Despite the fact that it was a school it was more like a city in how it operated. The AD has many buildings for things like registration etc. And it is just outside one of these buildings that Johan was, sitting on a bench with his palms covering his face. Only a fool would not realize that this was a stressed young man.

Juan was sitting next to Johan with an amused expression on his face. Johan had just confirmed that Juan had indeed been chosen as his mission partner. The usually depressed Johan was even more down than usual. From time to time Johan would create a gap in his fingers and observe his counterpart, hoping perhaps that he would see someone else. Alas fate was not on his side.

Juan tried many times to amuse the young man but to no avail. So Juan decided to sit and wait for Johan to accept his fate, and surprisingly he did.

"Alright, let's go and register you." Said Johan with a grim expression.

Juan frowned, "Register me for what?"

"Before I explain that I need to know which major division you are in and the name of your ability. Please describe it if you can." Said Johan with a look of resignation.

Juan's face also became grim as soon as he heard Johan's face. This piqued Johan's interest, as he had not seen Juan reveal an unpleasant expression before.

Could it be that he has a really embarrassing ability?

There are many abilities that are useless and even amusing to others. Johan once heard of a person who had the ability to increase the size of men's manhoods. That rumor spread like a wildfire among nobles.

Yet what Johan heard wa not quite what he was expecting.

"I...I'm a Beta type and my ability is Electromagnetic Wave Manipulation....and I have no idea what that is."

When Johan heard the answer he opened his mouth in surprise. Beta type students were usually logical and emotionless to a certain extent. There was a saying I'm Valdios, 'If you see a beta then you better not crack a joke.'

So when Johan heard that the seemingly happy go lucky Juan was a beta type he was more than surprised. As for Juan's ability, it was neither embarrassing nor shocking. Rather EM wave manipulation was a very common ability among beta users. Or rather it was better to say that it was a common category.

"Um Juan, what you said is a category, not a power." Said Johan with an awkward smile

"What do you mean by that?" Juan asked.

"Well EWM is a category of abilities. Its not an ability. What I mean by that...is ...um.." Johan started sweating bullets under Juan's intense gaze. Johan was not a person who was used to socializing much, and Juan had not realized that he giving an intimidating look.

"What he means is EWM is a phrase to describe a type of ability rather than one particular ability." The source of the voice was a young man who was walking past the duo. He was quite tall reaching almost 2 meters. He had long limbs and was wearing a black uniform with gold regalia. Gold level origin. An extremely rare sight in the academy. Whenever a student with gold regalia walked they would receive stares of envy and respect.

Yet despite his clothing what was most eye catching about this young man was his face, or rather his beard to be more precise.

The young mas without a doubt of eastern decent, with eyes that gave a sharp feeling of intelligence and an asian hairstyle foming a neat bun atop his head. He had a long moustache and an even longer beard. His beard was incredibly well maintained to the point that Juan believed the tip could piecer through iron.

"Ah! Thanks for the tip bro!" Juan immediately got up to greet the bearded youth and thanked him.

"No sweat. I'm Keanu. What's your name?"

"I'm Juan. I'm a freshmen." Replied Juan with a friendly tone.

The two seemed to hit it off quite well and started having a conversation. After a few moments Juan realized something and spoke, "Oh yeah, before I forget this is my roommate and partner Johan. Johan this is Kea-"

Before Juan could finish he swallowed his words because Johan was shivering in fright while staring at the floor. Juan looked at Keanu to see if he knew what was happening but the latter shrugged his shoulders.

It's him! its him! its him! its him! its him!

Mentally Johan was screaming because he knew very well who the young man before them. Almost everyone attending the school did. It took all of Johan's strength to remain conscious due to his fear of this man. Johan was constantly bullied over his lack of talent, and gold level origin students were a constant reminder of how pathetic he was. Thus he avoided them whenever he could.

Last year a certain group of gold level origin students had bullied him to the point that he wanted to kill himself. Had it not been for the senior who was his partner last year Johan might not have been standing at that moment. Thus gold became a bane in his eyes and the cause of many of his nightmares.

Keanu's eyes flashed with understanding. "Let me take my leave. Juan, Johan, it was nice meeting you. I hope we can be friends." With this words and a flick of his thin beard Keanu departed.

Juan smiled in amusement and also bid farewell. After Keanu was gone Johan sighed in relief. Juan raised a brow. "What's wrong with you?"

"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you?! Do you have any idea who that was! How you be so casual?! Do you have a death wish?!" Johan fumed.

Juan scratched his head, " I'm to lazy to answer all five so let me just answer the last one. Nope."

Johan opened his mouth and didn't know quite what to say. After gaining his wits a lecture burst from Johan's mouth the likes of which Juan had never seen. Johan kept talking about how being disrespectful to silver and gold origin students can get you killed etc. Juan was amused thus he let Johan go on, until the latter was nearly out of breath.

"Before I forget you said register. Register for what?" Said Juan after Johan stopped to catch his breath. A gasp escaped Johan's mouth and he grabbed Juan's hand and ran in a certain direction. Juan wanted to shout that he isn't gay but the urgency on Johan's face made him think otherwise

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When one joins the academy they have to go to the main AD registration building and register for courses that suit their abilities. There were mandatory classes but for the non mandatory ones, one had to register themselves. One also had register for other things like the war league and so on.

Thus Johan led Juan to the AD headquarters. A massive skyscraper with a constant flow of students going in and out.

After arriving on the floor they desired the arrived infont of the freshmen registration desk. There were multiple booths lined up with queues in front of each booth...except one.

Johan stated that they were late for registration and that both of them would get punished severely if they didn't make it in time. On the way Johan also explained the various things one could register for and advised Juan on what to register for.

When they arrived in front of the registration booths Juan was annoyed by the long lines and looked at the empty booth, "Hey Johan, why is that line empty despite the fact that the booth is open?"

"That's the line for gold and silver level origin students." Said Johan with a depressed tone.

Juan narrowed his eyes and saw that there was no sign saying such, nor was there any attempt to single out that booth from the others besides the fact that the ones meaning the booth were wearing white uniforms.

It's not an official rule. There is no way I'm standing here when there is an empty spot.

"So Juan have you decided on which courses you...are...doing?" Johan looked to the side as he saw Juan do the unspeakable. Walking to the special booth!

"This year's bunch looks bad doesn't it. Not as good as our generation." Within the special booth a beautiful girl with brown hair was holding a tablet looking through information regarding the promising students from this batch. Next to her was a stern plain looking youth with glasses looking through a book. Both were wearing white uniforms with gold regalia and exuded an aura of power just fro sitting there

Behind them within the booth were other students in white, but they only quietly observed the duo in front of them without doing a single thing.