Tedashii walks through the school hallway towards the cafeteria as students around him gossips about him.

"Yeah that's him, he's Tedashii Hamasaki, I heard he's hanging on by a thread."

"Dropping out right before one of the board of directors shows up. He really got some balls."

"I heard that he's paying the principal to help him cut corners."

"I heard the only reason he came back because his new girlfriend made him."

Tedashii looked over to the gossip but as kids his age walked past him. Surrounded by gossips around him looking left and right until a flash of light flashed between his eyes and a sudden voice echoed as a curse dream.

"You think you can go back to school and have a normal life after the wrong you done?! You killed me!! Haha they're right you know. Your a fucking monster bitch that deserves what's coming to ya you pip squeak Guinea pig rat!"

Tedashii quickly turned around to the sound of that last voice but to his imagination he was hallucinating.

"So weird, I thought they said he's the smart ass bastard."

The bell for lunch rang, and Tedashii sat down under a tree that he relaxed for peace, every other school day with the rooftop being the other spot. He laid back against the bark of the tree and opened up his bento box. Back then Tedashii never bothered trying to make friends, the past events of his life he focused his time trying to improve his Esper ability to all means to trying to destroy Academy City with his new found hatred. The ones who have tried to get close, he pushes them away and tries to avoid them at all cost. No one could break the formula to his heart but that's when she came around.

Ever since that scarlet red hair girl snuck into his life the path to rip everything of science apart with a virus was invaded, by that girl. The troubles he was going through here was nothing to him as long as he can graduate so he can make a formula for the ideal life for that girl.

"I will be the hero that protects the girl at the end, And the name Code Vader that the dark side gave me will be the name that fights with the light. However I might have exaggerated that last part." Tedashii mumbles to himself upon the tree." Two students stare at him talking to himself and continue gossiping about him. Tedashii shook his head then took a bite of his meal and closed his eyes. "It's not like I actually considered being some her—o..."

"Hyaaaaiiiii!!" Tedashii opened his eyes to see a girl standing above him where he could see magical powered kanamin design panties with one leg above flexible enough to her foot next to her head. Drifted her foot down performing an axe kick at Tedashii. Tedashii flinched for the worst, closing his eyes shut once more. He felt not an inch of pain as he slightly opened one eye to the girl with shoulder length black hair, light sea green eyes as their eyes met locked to each other. After her foot purposefully missed hitting the bark aside of him. "Just kidding!" The girl said with a grin smile.

"Tch!" Tedashii came to his senses to realize it was Li Mei Xiaodan. "Rainbow head what the hell you want?!" Tedashii said, annoyed with a flustered blushing face.

"Nah Hahaha!" Li Mei laughs uncontrollably as if she was evil. "Tedashii Hamasaki!! I see you were hiding from me, but I know what you've been up to." She announced moving aside and sitting next to him. Tedashii glare wondering does she realize he can't stand her. "You've been trying to gain some stat improvement for your defense base and special defense points! Trying to hide your secret relaxing training art are Yoouuuuu!!! To increase your level to get up ahead of me but that won't happen because I will be doing that as well!"

"Well, if so you have to shut up then!" Tedashii said sarcastically, puzzled by whatever she was talking about. Trying to go back to his meal, he notices the girl face close up into his personal space.

"It's that a special nutrient that increases your stats for a temporary time?! That would probably raise attack, Esper points, Defense points, but if you ask me, instead of focusing on your defense base status you should really focus on your attack status and combat skill technique only. You're really not good in close range combat. I've observed your lackluster performance. You can't rely on your intelligence to hold you forever, you know."

"Do you watch everything I do?" Tedashii said looking away from and scooting away from her.

Li Mei slides closer to him sitting so close that he can smell her perfume. Tedashii blushes covering his face with his hand as students look and pass by.

Is that Aura Storm and Tedashii sitting at a tree?

"Yeah I think it is! Tête-à-tête there actually sitting on a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Literally!!"

Tedashii looked back up to Li Mei who met at close range causing his flustered blushing face to heat up more. "Hey! Can you like back off Rainbow head! people are staring and it's the worst time for you to be coming around!"

"Why are you calling me rainbow head all of a sudden?" Li Mei asks tilting her head and getting even more close, so close that their lips almost touch. "You've dropped out then came back all of a sudden acting all different, it can't be true is it?"

"Huh?" Tedashii said, stretching away his face further back from her. "What are you talking about? What's with you? You're being weird."

"Do you have a girlfriend or not?!" She quickly asks, interrupting him. Tedashii paused as his mind thought about Hisoka. He thought about strangling and killing em, but knowing that Hisoka is a level 3 esper that would just kick his ass in the end.

"Damn it! Dat Little Snitch Rabbit! I'll kill em. Ow that damn brat lucky he's stronger than me. Look Hisoka goes around making up crap alright, it's just nothing but a misunderstanding!"

"Oh really!! Yes! Hahahaha!" Li Mei said jumping up off Tedashii as she almost wanted to start dancing.

"What's so awesome about that!" Tedashii said, annoyed.

"It would mess up your training that's all..." Li Mei awkwardly said jumping back to her senses. "And you have to get stronger alright so our promise can be decided!"

"Tch, whatever..." Tedashii saids scratching his head. All he could think of was what's up with this girl. It wasn't just Akahana, Tedashii to himself has failed the formula known as girls. They were all different, and some of their actions made no sense to him. He was someone that scientific had to understand the concept to deal and act and modify the outcome that was Tedashii's style, however from most individuals that know girls, it was said they work and think by what is called emotions to what he was told by a certain pervert with spiky blond hair and shades a long time ago.

Emotions are biological states associated with the nervous system... brought on by neurophysiological changes variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. Emotion is often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, creativity and motivation. There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition so he's  stuck dealing with misleading formulas and because of that, girls are scary to him. Tedashii though, so if he couldn't understand a normal girl, what good is there understanding a crazy trigger happy Esper like Li Mei Xiaodan?

"Hey Tedashii are you even listening to me!!? Say something!!" Li Mei said releasing and emitting aura that sports a crystalline aura with hues of animated rainbow color blend, being red as it's base color. She released a beaming laser coming from below up. Tedashii barely dodge her attack with a glimpse of almost losing his entire life.

"Something!" Tedashii said, jumping back away from the girl who's crystalline aura fades away.

"Hey?" Li Mei said tilting her head surprised he didn't bring his weapon with him. "Where's your black malice thingy."

"........" Tedashii pause and then shrugs scratching his head. "...I- I guess I forgot it. "

"What!? But you go no where without it! Who are you? You can't be Tedashii Hamasaki!!"

*Swat*

Tedashii sighs looking at the bento that he was eating now under Li Mei's foot. "Tch thanks a lot!"

"Oh... opps. Guess your gonna be hungry huh?" Li Mei look back and forth from the bento and Tedashii, dumb founded.

"You think?!"

"I'll have to make up for that huh?" She said pulling out her foot out of her shoe and wipes the shoe against the ground.

"............" Tedashii pauses and starts scratching his head again. "Just forget it I'll-"

"I'll buy you some food and we can sit together!" Li Mei announces putting her shoe back in and pointing at Tedashii dramatically.

"Huh?"

"You just seem a little too lonely, is it... Tedashii Hamasaki has no friends!?"

"..... Tch! We're done here!" Tedashii announces picking up his school bag.

"Oww crap! Sorry Tedashii!!"

"Huh?" Tedashii looked at his bag and realized there was a burned mark left on it. "Tch got damn it I should report you every time you use your damn annoying Esper ability!"

"Wshh!! Please don't tell anyone of what I just did to you... hehe I forgot I'm tryna not go around using my Esper ability too much at the moment!"

"Oh really? Am I a joke to you or is this a prank?"

" No I'm serious!" Li Mei said jumping on his back. "You see I've been trying out for Judgement and I got really lucky, there gonna let me do a test pretty soon, and I'll finally become an official protector of Academy City!!"

"... Judgement?" Tedashii said continuously, trying to yank the Esper off of him.

"That's right." Li Mei said with a focus peering stare. "Not too long ago a day or two ago a certain teleport jumper got harmed during duty giving me the moment I've been waiting for."

"I see." More students pass by whispering causing Tedashii to sweat bullets. "All right! Are they right!! Just get the hell away from me!"

"Okay..." Li Mei let Tedashii go as he started walking away from the tree.

Li Mei appeared on the side of him walking next to him. "Man what now?!"

"I just realized I left my phone with Jeong-Min!"

"Huh okay and that's your problem."

"Yeah but... I need my phone for GPS!"

"Where are you going with this?!"

"Today I'm supposed to go to the Judgement branch 121! And you gotta help me find her before then!"

"Why don't you just ask the teachers or something?!"

"I don't wanna get her into such trouble just for my phone. I don't want the teachers to assume anything either."

"Oh really... because you didn't mind the crap that happened just a few minutes ago."

"Hmm?"

"Tch never mind. This is too ridiculous I'm pretty sure you can find her on your own anyways, and besides what could she possibly be doing besides attending class anyways?"

"Uh, okay..." Li Mei's head drops completely down as a tear slowly begins to drift from her eye to her cheek. Tedashii looks back at her in disbelief that she was really hurt by his decline. He then thought back on a certain Judgement boy telling him he was a jerk back at the shopping center.

"Damn it..." Tedashii mumbles to himself, and thinks maybe she has alternative reasons. "Geez fine just give me a break already!"

"Alright let's get da moving!! Hahahaha!!" Li Mei said with a teardrop disappearing instantly jumping with enthusiasm.

"What the hell where you just pretend?!!"

In a certain district four girls walked together, one being the level 5 Mikoto Misaka, Ren Hiroto, a girl with blue eyes and long black hair with a small, white flower on the left side of her hair Wearing medium length skirt. And another small girl who sports short black hair and has golden-brown eyes with a headband made out of artificial flowers.

"Saten, Uiharu... you guys alright?" Misaka asks looking back at them and checking for bruises.

"It's fine, before you arrive some other Esper shows up and is like guts this! Guts that! Then a colorful explosion occurred after he made a punch. It was amazing!" Saten said thrilled and excited over the certain incident that occurred during a fight going on by two cheerleader groups. "Then you came, you stole the show with your amazing railgun blast! To see it from up close!"

"Eh..." Misaka said fidgeting. "Umm.... I'm sorry, that was a little too close."

"You save them didn't you?!" Ren said looking at Misaka annoyed, "So why are you apologizing! Your friends thank you too, so stop being so goodly good and take the thanks."

"Hey, that's rude for you to say!" Saten tilts her head looking at Ren. "You're from Tokiwadai as well?"

"Hmph well, I'll have to say I'm pretty amazing I know." Ren saids cartoonishly getting big headed. "And not only am I a student but I'm an elite class Esper."

"So you're level 4 so cool!"

"Eh..." Ren pauses nervously shaken at her claim. "Well I wouldn't say..."

"What's your Esper ability?"

"... Um.."

"Oh yeah! You said you wanted to make an attack better than my railgun." Misaka recalls with a smile.

"Well...I said that didn't I..."

"You got any ideas? I'm actually interested in your challenge."

"Eh...." Ren frozen up about how Misaka would zap her fry and gulp at the thought, sweating as her head cartoonishly shrinks back. "Didn't I tell you not Yet!!"

"Oh, I see... you need help."

"....Help?"

"Yeah, your ability was it?" Misaka and Saten said getting close to Ren which made the level 3 Esper blush.

Uiharu stares deeply at her phone, not paying attention to the group of girls. An unknown number sent a text message and she read, saying "ARE  YOU OKAY." The text with a double space as whoever texted this rush the message even accidentally writing it in caps. "I wonder why he always has a new number..." Uiharu mumbles.

But suddenly with a shameless little Saten  flips Uiharu's skirt up in public. "Uiharu!!"

"Yeeee Kkkkkk!!!" Uiharu squealed and cried out dropping her phone and pulling down her big skirt. "Saten-San!!!"

"Tete," Saten giggles leaving Misaka and Ren behind Saten in fear of her power in shame. "Pay attention you been like that for a while now after Kuroko's incident."

"Yeah, but I help, so I must take some sort of responsibility." Uiharu said, picking up the phone.

And besides, someone mysterious appeared that day... what did he mean anyways when he said he would save her... was it him.

"Hey you guys there's something I have to do I'll be back."

"Huh?" Misaka tilts her head a little concerned.

"I'm sorry, just go on without me..." Uiharu said with a soft pitch, running off.

"Oh, Uiharu... she must really be talking it pretty hard... But Kuroko will be fine, right Misaka?" Saten asked, looking at Misaka who was frowning as well as Saten.

"I hope so..."