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Math time shenanigans

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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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"At the beginning, I guess." The older one had been getting a weird vibe, but then shrugged it off. "You know what logarithms are, right?"

She blinked.

"S-Sure I do!" she replied quickly. "It's... It's this thing, with numbers and... stuff, right?"

"If you don't know, it's okay," Kallen laughed. "A logarithm of a number to a given base is the power to which the base must be raised in order to produce that number." She paused. "The base is usually b equals ten."

"I think I get it," she paused for a second to let the definition process in her head. "Can we do an example, Kallen?"

"Sure." She takes a piece of paper from her notebook and drafts a formula. Kallen writes down:

2³ = 8

{Is now cheating even more and is using this website. lmao}

"It's just that?" Hiyo questioned the older female, looking at the example a second time. "That didn't seem too hard..."

"Basics are important is all."

"Yeah, I guess they are." She looked at the pages of her book to see if there was anything that seemed troubling. "It says to figure out the logarithms for these numbers and order them... The numbers are big though," she murmured.

"Yeah. They usually don't break then down too often." Kallen tapped the pencil onto the piece of paper. "See if you can solve this."

log₂32 = 5

The horrors of mathematics. The horrors of logarithms. Hiyo didn't even want to try, really, but she stared long and hard at the given problem anyway.

And she just. ended up staring at it for what seemed a very long time.

"I-I can't do it."

"It's all right." Kallen understood that there was no way Hiyo was going to get through this math class. "I wonder if there's someone we can talk to about this."

"I-I'm sorry for being able to do this..." she glanced off to the side, at the feet of some other poor soul in class. "Do you know anyone who's good at math?"

"No, don't apologize. It's not your fault, Hiyo." She looked up at the ceiling for a split second. "I am good at math, but if you can't remember how to count, then none of this is going to make any sense, no matter who helps you. And it's not fair to you to have to be in this class because of a memory you didn't choose to get taken away from you."

"Isn't there a way to restore memories?" she asked, as she had heard about the method to regain those last fragments, but Hiyo wasn't too occupied with the idea of regaining them, however they seemed important to get back (why the hell did she forget how to count?).

"There is from what I remember. To be honest, I haven't picked up the book they gave us in the beginning. But from what I gather from the videos, there is." Kallen set her blue eyes on Hiyo. "I wonder if you could choose what memories you can have returned to you."

"Knowing Iwahijiri," Hiyo paused, taking a moment to look darkly into the air. "It's probably at random. I don't think they'd give you the freedom to choose which one you'd get."

"Iwahijiri?" That was a unfamiliar name to Kallen. But were they behind what was going on? As to why their memories were missing?

Hiyo contemplated whether or not to give this type of information to Kallen; while it was common knowledge amongst a small amount of students, she wondered if knowing more about the masterminds behind Utopia Academy and it's game would make it easier to lure this other student in as an ally.

She decided to say only just a little bit.

"They're a group of people - men - who had control over my version of the school and game," she started, "They take pride in male dominance and used the game as an excuse to show it off. The male students oppressed the female students, we had no freedom." The little girl wanted to go on more about the group of men she wanted to overcome, to rant and let out the frustration she had pent up but she reminded herself to keep it all cool; things would eventually fall into place.

"Do you think they're the ones calling the shots here?" Kallen treaded carefully. She remembered Tsuki giving her Hiyo's name. She figured that the older girl would have told her but maybe she didn't remember that either.

"Most likely. If they went so far to get other people from other places and bring them here, making them fight with us..." She looked up to Kallen. "Have you been participating in the battles, Kallen? Do you have an owner?"

"No, on both accounts. I am not going to fight blindly.. I don't plan on giving the enemy what they want when I don't know what's going on." That was her story and she was sticking to it.

There was an interesting answer. She would have laughed, but now was not an appropriate time.

"Oh, I see!" She chirped, nodding. "That makes sense. Why take part in something when you don't even know anything about it?" A smile enlightened her lips.

Kallen almost jerked her head back in shock. People that she was being silly or wreckless with her plan... but to have someone understand without explaining her life story (not that Tsuki heard her life story but the important parts). "Huh..."

"I was done fighting in my world. I'm not doing to 'jump' worlds and start fighting again."

"What about your friends here? If something happens to them while they're playing Exaclan, would you ignore them?" she tilted her head, questioning Kallen's mindset. She couldn't just ignore everything, she'd have to have some sort of role in all of this.

"Gino can handle his own. He's the only friend I have here." Well the only friend she considered for the time being. Their relationship was back on good terms. As for Lelouch and the others... she wouldn't exactly call them friends at this point.

Math time shenanigans

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hi i don't know what logarithms are, but WIKIPEDIA DOES.

wikipedia has all of my answers

I never learned what the function did on my calculator lmao

i've never heard the term before in my life lmfao but i know what the concept is

I know nothing about this. Math outside of algebra is either null or I just suck at, like geo.

algebraaa /having exams on algebra I now...

algebra makes me happy.... It's the only math thing I'm good at lmao

loev algebraaa but even as I look at this site I can't... figure this out lolol /fail

LMAO I would never be able to figure this out.

we would totally pass this class like winners

LMAO CLEARLY

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orzorzorz sorry ;;

lmao it's okay

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