Math time shenanigans

[utopiamods]

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Location: Math class

It's a bright and sunny weekday morning. The sort of morning one should be spending sleeping in, or failing that, outside playing with friends.

Sadly for all of you, you're in this classroom studying logarithms. (Well, except for those of you who are cutting class. Good luck when finals roll around!) Right now, you've been split up into groups of three and four and should be quizzing each other on the questions from the end of the chapter in your textbook. If you're anything like ordinary high school students, though, you're probably discussing something completely different.

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[swordofzero]

Suzaku wasn't completely ignoring Sora's despair but his mind was racing. Japanease? He looked back at the book but everything was still in English and he was sure they were speaking English while Sora had claimed they were speaking Japanease.

"Sora!" He wanted to touch her shoulder, to check if she was alright or if the despair of maths had consumed her entirely, but he didn't want her being in pain because touching her would invoke the warning penalty.

"We are speaking English, at least I am hearing English," he paused and thought. He opened his mouth to say something in Japanease, but... there was nothing, no Japanease words in his head at all.

He panicked slightly, no... "Himoto Sora, do you know any English words? Try and say them, or any other language..."

[allurprincess]

"Um," she blinked, and rolled her head so she was looking his way. "I can't, I don't remember any English." Maybe it was one of her memories? Back rolled Sora's head, and her next sentence was muffled by maths book, "I was really bad at it anyway, so that's fine..."

[swordofzero]

She couldn't remember any English... So had whoever stole their memories stolen Sora's memory of English, and Suzaku's memory of Japanease. His hands were shaking, how could he have forgotten Japanease...

Well he had forgotten his family name, these people who had them would stop at nothing. But his language? Concentrating on this problem, rather than the other problems of why he was hearing one language and Sora was hearing another, or the overlying problem of maths, he spoke in a quiet voice.

"I think I have forgotten Japanease..."

[allurprincess]

"Huh? But... you're speaking Japanese right now."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku blinked, he wasn't speaking Japanese, he was speaking English. But...

Wait! "But you've spoken to Gino, and Euphemia! They are Britannian, they can't speak Japanese..."

What was going on? Why were they speaking different languages, and was it just something to do with the school, or had those that were holding them stolen his memory of how to speak Japanese?

[allurprincess]

"Everyone's been speaking Japanese." She paused, trying to remember if that was true. She hadn't really been thinking about the language at either time, but she didn't know any other languages.

But, Suzaku was acting upset about something that was helping them. She leaned over with a sudden smile, "Maybe the school just wants to be sure we can all understand each other!"

[swordofzero]

"Yes but..." Suzaku gave up, he had explained it and Sora did not seem to understand what he was saying. He sighed slightly and then froze as a teacher approached them. Were they in trouble? He supposed they had been doing more talking then maths work.

"Are you two finished?" She didn't seem tall enough to loom effectively, but she managed it anyway. "You must be, if you have time to waste your time chatting." As she moved to the next table, she added, "If you had asked at reception at any point, you would know that due to our Exaclan system, you hear all languages as if they were yours."

Suzaku blushed at her comment and looked back at the maths book. His mind though was wirling, they heard things as their own language? It made sense now, but he was trembling with fear. "But English isn't my language..." His voice was even quieter and he sounded like he was going to cry, except he wouldn't he was beyond that.

"So... maths..."

[allurprincess]

"Suzaku, are you--" Her expression of concern fell as he changed the subject, and she huffed. Determination! That's what they needed. Determination and belief. "Maths. Alright..." Sora stared down at the questions again, paper crunching beneath her grip.

For about five seconds. Thud. A groan into the tabletop.

"Let's ask someone else, okay?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku shrugged, he was so confused and angry. Why had they taken their memories? Or was it a memory loss? What had the teacher said, that the Execlan system, whatever the Execlan system was made it easier for people by making them hear everything in their own languages.

So what if it wasn't just a loss memory, what if their system had just assumed that English was his language.

He remained silent though, they had to do this maths. Lloyd had always helped him with maths, because the Count was a genius and, Suzaku thought, he couldn't stand to watch Suzaku getting it so badly wrong.

But Lloyd wasn't here. Lelouch however was... He wasn't in class though. "Lelouch is a genius, but he isn't coming to class..." Gino was there also, but Suzaku didn't really want to approach him. Suzaku saw Grenn also, but there first meeting had not gone very well. "I don't know anyone in here that can help..."

/Summoned!

[veepofchess]

But Lelouch was not about to leave a pair of Knights to struggle like this. He hurried into class, making an appropriate apology to the teacher, as any respectable student would. He went over to where Suzaku and Sora were working, and made himself at home. He had a few typical supplies with him, but one thing in particular stood out: the Exaclan manual.

Something about this assignment made him scoff. Like he'd had to do something much more complex than this in some ridiculously tiny timeframe. But he didn't dwell too much on it. He took his seat and set to work, finding his way through the first equation as though he'd already mastered this stuff.

[allurprincess]

Sora perked up from her communing with the maths book as they were joined by Suzaku's prince. That was convenient! With her head slightly lifted from the tabletop, she could see his working as he wrote, and her shoulders immediately fell in a melodramatic slump. Greeting forgotten, she mumbled, "Lelouch, you get it just like that?"

She sounded, if anything, as though he'd betrayed her and everything she stood for. So she turned to stare at Suzaku instead. "I thought you were exaggerating."

[snakesonaprincess]

While Tsuki hardly saw much of a point in attending class here either, she still usually made a point to do so. At least, when she didn't have something more pressing she felt like doing. As it turned out, today had been one of those days. So she arrived to the classroom late, strolling through one of the doors without so much as a glance or acknowledgment of the teacher. If anything, her demeanor made clear she had no apology to make, but noted with curiosity the gathering around Sora.

...she was probably making a fool of herself, wasn't she?

"Are you having trouble with this?" she asked, as she walked over and stared down at the book Sora was so troubled by.

[swordofzero]

"No, he really is a genius," Suzaku said in a low voice to Sora and looked up when Tsuki came to their table as well. "Hello Tsuki," he looked back at Lelouch who could probably do these types of logarithms in his sleep. He didn't speak but his eyes asked for him, help?

[veepofchess]

Lelouch slid over a bit closer to Suzaku, both so that he could help him better, and so as to give Tsuki some space to sit if she wished. He didn't seem to take notice of her otherwise. He started to help Suzaku as the two girls talked.

[allurprincess]

Sora sat up properly when Tsuki arrived. Not for appearance's sake, but because otherwise she couldn't lean backwards to grin at her upside-down. The smile was still polluted with maths-related despair, but it was a smile nonetheless.

"A little," she admitted. "We finished one of the questions-" she held up the book and worksheet so Tsuki could see a lot of frantic scribbles in pencil, "- then we got distracted, and the teacher told us off. And this is really difficult." The last came out as a childish whine. She tapped the seat next to her that Lelouch had just vacated, radiating hope. "Save me, Tsuki?"

[snakesonaprincess]

"Hello Suzaku," she replied to the greeting, as she took a seat next to Sora herself. She glanced at the question they'd completed, trying to make sense of how they'd gone about it. At the least, they'd managed to arrive at the correct answer some how, eventually.

"This is fairly simple once you get the basis concept," Tsuki said, as she placed a finger down on the next question in the workbook before beginning to give an explanation that was probably far more complicated than necessary.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku tried to concentrate on what Lelouch was explaining, it was ridiculously complicated though and Suzaku was having trouble focussing. He glanced to the side at where Tsuki was trying to explain the question to Sora, hearing the explanation the girl was giving Suzaku a headache. "I think you might need to explain it to Sora as well," he muttered to Lelouch.