Seraphina/Season 1

## Plot

### Beginning

Seraphina is first seen on the roof of the school playing a game on her phone before receiving a text from John to keep him company in the infirmary. Once Seraphina arrived, she made to leave and promised **not** to wait for him after school. Seraphina stayed with her powerless friend, however, and the two spent their time playing Slappy Pig; despite his best efforts, John's final score of 187 was no match for Seraphina's 212. As the duo argued about the legitimacy of Seraphina's score, they were interrupted the room started rumbling. The infuriated Doctor Darren began to leave to investigate the racket, but not before giving John a stern warning to stay. John had no intentions to stay however and left the infirmary with Seraphina as soon as the doctor was gone.

Once the duo got out of the infirmary, however, the first person they encountered was Gavin; fortunately, Seraphina took Gavin out and John got out without a scratch. The two then went out for a drink, which John had to pay for.

While the two were enjoying their drinks, John recalls how he threw Gavin out of the window much to Seraphina's amusement. After John finished his story, Seraphina expressed to him that constantly living on the edge like that would be exciting, but he disagreed. After hearing John complain about the world being violent, Seraphina explained to John that there is no need to waste time talking to weaklings when they can easily be overpowered. John disagreed, and the two remained silent until the news reported that EMBER's newest victim, X-Static was killed. Despite the good works performed by X-Static, Seraphina and many others believed that people like him should mind their own business. John attempted to defend the vigilante's altruistic actions but was cut off by Seraphina's question: "*Do you feel safer... Now that he's dead?*"

### Kovoro Mall

Sometime after on a weekend, Seraphina was at John's house at 2 pm calling him. She wanted John to come with her to Kovoro Mall, but he claimed that he needed to clean his house. Unfortunately for John, Seraphina was already at the front door during the call. Even worse for John, his claim of his messy house was just a lie to avoid going shopping. The only thing that was out of place was John's boxing gloves.

After shopping for clothes and buying a "LAME" shirt from Andy's Fashion Boutique, John noticed an ability gauge and wanted Seraphina to try it out. Seraphina agreed after enough begging from John; however, Levani's threats on the Ability Gauge Vendor held up the line forcing John to intervene. Seraphina stood by John's side as he called security and witnessed the vendor giving Levani her refund. The grateful vendor then gauged Seraphina and gave her a teddy bear.

By the time he and Seraphina left Kovoro Mall, it was already evening and they had to take a bus home. The closest bus station was already full so they decided to walk to another station. Along the way, Seraphina told John to look at the bright side of that day's battle, and John mentioned that the teddy should be named after him. Their conversation was cut short however when John somehow sensed an assailant and ran off with Sera. Unfortunately, John and Seraphina got cornered by the assailant, but John was able to locate the assailant by throwing his recently bought "LAME" shirt onto the attacker. This gave Seraphina the opportunity to attack the assailant and get herself and John away to the bus station.

Once the two realized they were safe in John's house, Seraphina asked how he was able to even sense the assailant in the first place, but he simply responded: "*I don't really know...! Just a feeling I guess?*" Initially, Seraphina was going to go back to the dorms, but John convinced her to stay the night. While John was preparing dinner, Seraphina found the copy of the infamous book *Unordinary* and was intrigued by it. After revealing that the book was written by his father, W. H. Doe, John let her borrow it despite the risk of possessing such a cursed book.

In the early hours of the next morning, Seraphina remained sleeping until John came back with their breakfast. While eating breakfast, Seraphina noticed that John was abnormally quiet and attempted to pry, but John simply yelled that he was fine. Despite John's apologizes, Seraphina saw it best to leave him alone and left. As soon as she reached the dorms, she encountered a rather angry Elaine.

### Turf War

Elaine was not happy to hear that her roommate was at a cripple's house and began scolding Seraphina, but didn't get to finish because she was frozen in time. After warning Elaine not to mess with her business, Seraphina released her roommate, walked into her room, and received an apology from John in the form of a text as well as a warning to keep *Unordinary* out of sight. As Seraphina was about to start reading the forbidden book, Arlo walked in told her that Agwin High School challenged Wellston to a Turf War. Even though Seraphina didn't want to participate, she joined after hearing that Remi was unable to make it.

Seraphina was later seen in the train texting on her way to the battlefield.

When Team Wellston arrived onto the battlefield, Seraphina realized that Wellston instigated the Turf War on Agwin and not the other way around. Once Arlo (re)introduced Seraphina to Broven, the opposing King began to fear the inevitable loss that would befall him.

Seraphina remained on the sidelines with the rest of her team during Blyke's battle against Gou. While spectating Blyke's battle against Rein, Seraphina called Blyke back to get himself healed knowing that the Jack would have died if she didn't call him back.

During Arlo's battle against Rein, Seraphina watched in horror as the King began to strangle his opponent. Taking matters into her own hands, Seraphina stopped Arlo from suffocating Rein by shattering his Barrier .

Seraphina's actions prompted Arlo to investigate John.

### Investigation

Back at school, Seraphina was on the roof playing games and recalling her past before getting a text from John to eat lunch together. On her way down to meet John, Seraphina heard everybody whisper about her, but unlike her previous self, she didn't care.

The next day, at the dorms, Seraphina was reading *Unordinary* before she needed to step out for some fresh air, leaving the book on her bed. As she was going out, Elaine offered some fresh-squeezed orange juice which she accepted for later. As she was walking outside, Seraphina thought to more about the premise of the book and realized how there is one glaring similarity that the strong can influence society. Unfortunately, due to Seraphina accidentally leaving *Unordinary* on her bed in plain sight, it was eventually discovered by Elaine.

Later that day, John was on the rooftop with Seraphina with the former being nervous about report cards coming later that Friday. Even worse for John, Seraphina admitted that she will be unable to return *Unordinary*. After berating Seraphina for her carelessness, John asked her what she was going to do next. Despite John's protests, Seraphina promised to keep authorities from tracing the book back to him. Reluctantly, John let Seraphina handle the situation.

John then asked her for her opinions on *Unordinary*. While Seraphina initially thought that the book's premise was absurd, she admitted that she did not fully understand the content and asked John to clarify. To answer Seraphina's question, John explained how everyone must be protected as everyone has something valuable as well as his admiration for the vigilantes working their way to make that ideal a reality. Seraphina apologised for her carelessness and John admitted that he needed a break from the book after reading it too many times anyway.

While Seraphina was reading *OFR Ice* back at the dorms, Remi stopped by to thank her for substituting as Queen; in return, Seraphina thanked Remi for taking the Queen's burden off her shoulders. While the two were talking, Seraphina noticed that Remi was distracted by her bear. Remi told Seraphina that she sensed a weird circuit within the bear and asked Seraphina if she can open the bear up. The two realized that the circuit is a tracking device and that they should be careful; they were powerful, but they were not invincible.

Seraphina was called to the Headmaster's office after Elaine reported her findings to the school administration. After her arrival and their introduction to each other, Nadia began interrogating Seraphina by asking a series of questions. Seraphina figured out a way to get past the detector by deliberately leaving out some details about the event. By doing this, she is technically not lying so Nadia wasn't able to find any info about John giving her Unordinary. Nadia then ceased her interrogation with relief before politely asking Seraphina to leave as she had things to talk to the headmaster about.

After the interrogation, Seraphina texted John to meet her at the school gates. Upon John's arrival, Seraphina told him that she would be leaving for a month. Despite John's concern, Seraphina was nonchalant about the entire situation and promised that everything would be alright once she came back. In the meantime, John had to deal with school life without anyone to protect him.

### Suspension

About four hours after Seraphina's departure, she texted John that she just got off the plane.

Sera's absence proved to be rough for her as her mother vowed to fix her act during her stay at home. Despite the amount of work her mother assigned her, Seraphina still found time to entertain herself with games. While working on an assignment, John texted if she wanted to call, and she accepts. After an awkward greeting from John, Seraphina sent the homework to her forgetful friend and introduced John to a new game that she played, *Angry Pigs*. Despite John's loss, he was determined to beat *Angry Pigs* with the weakest material, wood. Seraphina had to terminate the call however since it was 2 AM.

Seraphina texted John later that morning and teased John that she had no school to go to. She expected John to text back, but never got the text from him. John later contacted Seraphina via laptop and told her that his phone broke in a fight. Noticing John's demeanour, Seraphina cheered him up by telling him that phones are replaceable. When she asked about *Angry Pigs*, John immediately cheered up and told her that he had progressed using only wood and planned to beat the entire game with only wood, with a determination that amused her.

Unfortunately for Seraphina, her maid had reported to her mother about her gaming and texting habits. Narisa reprimanded her daughter for pointless socializing and games and for being such a disgrace like Leilah, much to Seraphina's annoyance and anger. Seraphina was then forced to spend the remainder of her suspension with no phone nor WiFi. Needless to say, she was unable to contact John for quite some time.

During her absence, Seraphina was forced to do many assignments such as book reports. While working on another book report, she fell asleep and dreamed about how she met John. Unfortunately, when Seraphina woke up, her maid came to inform her that her father had set up an interview for an internship with NXGen Research Facility for the next day and she had to gather information on the company to prepare for it.

### True Colours

According to her maid, Seraphina's application was rejected by NXGen.

### Monster

After weeks of oppression from Narisa, Seraphina decided to stand up to her mother by telling her that her behaviour was unacceptable, that she would no longer follow her orders, and wanted to take a flight back to Wellston early. When her mother tried to slap her with Time Manipulation, Seraphina countered it, thanks to her higher ability level. Then after adding that she wanted a first-class ticket, she walked out of the room triumphantly, leaving Narisa speechless.

Later, Seraphina was seen arriving at the airport and taking a taxi to Wellston.

Once she arrived in Wellston, Seraphina waited at John's porch and saw her friend angrily throw his backpack. Initially happy to see him after her long suspension, Seraphina's happiness soon turned to worry as she saw the normally confident John broke into "'a thousand pieces.'" Curious and concerned with what had happened during her absence, Seraphina took John inside to rest before calling Elaine.

While John was resting on the couch, Seraphina in a joking manner, put a cup of ice-cold water on his neck, surprising the resting teen, causing John to freak out and move his injured arm (causing a jolt of pain). Seraphina then told the now-conscious John that she will be crashing with him and that Elaine was coming to heal him. Before Elaine arrived, however, Seraphina asked about John's emotionally distraught state, but he simply dodged the question and told her that he didn't want her to see him in a defeated state and that everything will go back to normal. When Elaine arrived at John's house, Seraphina forgave her for ratting out about *Unordinary.* While John was getting healed, Seraphina spent her time unpacking. By the time Seraphina finished unpacking, she noticed that Elaine was already gone and that John was not fully healed. Even though John claimed that the Healer had to leave in a hurry, she wondered why she had to leave without saying bye.

### Aftermath

For the remainder of her suspension, Seraphina stayed in John's house. While waiting for John to arrive home, Seraphina got to meet the infamous author, William H. Doe. While W. H. Doe was confused with Seraphina being in his son's house, she explains that she was suspended because of his work, *Unordinary*. However, she remained nonchalant as she was going back to the dorms at 4:00 pm that Friday. When Mr. Doe asked Sera who was stronger, she chuckled and said: "*That's a good one-.*" Seraphina remained in John's house while both father and son discussed the latter's situation, privately, and helped John do his homework once the two Does came inside.

During a game of poker, William and John were able to bluff out Seraphina, causing her to become vocally frustrated with the game; to help her get better at poker, William gave her a tip that other player's perception of her is as important the cards in her hand. Part way through the next game, William forfeited and left John and Seraphina to continue. After losing to John, Seraphina not only was upset about losing the game but began to think about how John's normally expressive behavior was unreadable.

The next morning, William decided to go for a jog after his son left and asked Seraphina if she wanted to join. She refused. Later that morning, Seraphina and William went out to grab some sandwiches. As they were walking back to John's house, Seraphina asked what was the inspiration behind *Unordinary*, and William answered with a short overview of his struggles as a cripple and his altruistic demeanor. William also revealed to Seraphina that John was a troubled boy and that the book was the best way to get to him. He then thanked Seraphina for protecting his son in such a rough environment, but Seraphina responded: "*He takes care of himself just fine.*"

After William left, John asked Seraphina if she was excited to go back to school, but she responded that she would have preferred to be expelled and do whatever she wanted. John, however, told his friend that nothing good can come if someone as powerful as she had such a stain on her record, only to find out that she was joking.

### Rage

At 1:47 PM the next day, after she finished preparing for her return to Wellston, Seraphina had two hours to kill before her suspension ended and decided to go to Woaba Boba. After purchasing her drink, Seraphina was approached by a blonde-haired woman asking her for the time. While helping the woman, Seraphina felt a weird feeling that made her drop her phone and left her hands shaking. She continued walking off however only to barely avoid a van that nearly ran-over her. The driver and the passengers within the van tried to take her inside the van in the façade of going to the hospital, but Seraphina insisted that she was fine. She soon realized that she was being tricked when she was injected by a man who had sneaked up behind her. She managed to defeat all her captors and tried to interrogate one but was stabbed in the back.

Seraphina was shocked at first but quickly recovered, using her Time Manipulation to send the woman flying through the air. She then ripped out the knife, froze time around her stab wound, and used the knife to take down the remaining assailants. However, as soon as the attackers were down, the wound unfroze and begins bleeding again. Unable to repair her wounds, Seraphina knew that she needed help, so she limped through town all the way to John's house. Wary that the attackers could potentially be following her, Seraphina threatened a man who tried to help her. She managed to make it back to John’s house and collapsed, only to be found by a horrified John.

Seraphina remained unconscious while John called Arlo and Elaine who then healed her and was taken to a bed to rest. However, the same van from earlier approached John’s house, and one of its passengers managed to distract Arlo, Elaine, and John long enough for another captor to kidnap Seraphina. Before the kidnapper could escape, Arlo trapped them in a Barrier. However, the kidnapper held a knife to Seraphina’s throat and threatened to kill her if Arlo didn’t take down the Barrier.

Seraphina was still unconscious during her rescue, and the argument between Arlo and John. Elaine worried that they should go to the hospital and report the incident to the authorities. Arlo agreed with her course of action, but John suggested an alternative: to take her to Doctor Darren, talk to Headmaster Vaughn, and keep the authorities out of it.

By the time the three had fallen asleep, Seraphina had woken up, groggy, sick, and confused about recent events. She realized that she was not feeling well and ran to the bathroom to vomit. When John checked on her, Seraphina realized that she was still dizzy and couldn't use her ability after trying it on an alarm clock. Elaine and Arlo followed Seraphina and John into the bedroom, much to her confusion, but John happily explained why the school King and Healer were present.

John managed to get the cranky Doctor Darren to arrange a meeting time for Seraphina and the two went to see him thirty minutes later. After running some tests on the Doctor assured the Ace that her abilities would be back in four days; if not, she would have to visit the infirmary again. While Seraphina was concerned about her temporary life a cripple, John assured her that nobody will notice in those four days... He would be very wrong.

### Secrets

Upon her return to school, many of the students were talking about the rumors about the Ace's suspension, though they were still fearful of her presence as they were before her suspension. However, not everything was the same for Seraphina; during an escapade from class, Seraphina complained about her cracked screen and found her gaming performance declining. When John came up to ask how her day went, Seraphina stated that nothing was different, though she had no doubt that somebody will find out about her ability's condition. Yet, she was not worried about getting found out and maintained her nonchalant behavior, until John warned her about people becoming crueler, once the strong fall. Outwardly, she heeded his advice but John's difference in behavior did not elude her.

While Seraphina was walking along the hallway, she saw a student, Brea, bullying Evie. Initially, she was going to ignore the two but she ultimately decides to intervene; she saves the student by grabbing Brea's wrist. She orders the girl to return back to her class while she warns the bully to "stop wasting other people's time". Seraphina then lets go of her arm & starts to walk away. Brea, now angry at Seraphina for defending the girl who's weaker than her, attacks her from behind. Seraphina, in panic, shields herself from the attack, but when she feels no pain, it was then she finds herself inside of Arlo's barrier. Arlo traps Brea inside his barrier, forcing her to apologize. Brea in fear apologizes to Seraphina with Arlo reminding everyone that they will all have to answer to him if he sees anyone overstepping their boundaries. Arlo then tells Seraphina that they have to talk.

While inside a room, Arlo reprimands Seraphina of her actions------about her always being on the rooftop skipping classes & defending those weaker than her. She just scoffs off his "lecture", saying that she would rather have her mom lecturing her. Arlo then tells her not to blow up her cover about the fact that she temporarily lost her ability. Seraphina, having enough of being manipulated by other people, demands an answer from him as to why he would protect her when he could just let the other students ruin her while sitting comfortably on his throne. Arlo then tells her that since she's higher in ranking than he is, he will watch her back until she recovers, hiding the fact that John actually threatens him that he'll come after him if he sees even a single scratch on her, leaving him with absolutely no choice but to obey. Seraphina, not believing on his statement, walks out of the room.

While she's on her way towards the girls' dormitory, she sees that her phone has so many missed calls from Fyora, wondering as to why she would call her even during school hours. She then scrolls down her phone only to find that she got a call to Arlo. She wonders as to why John would call Arlo after calling Elaine on the day of the incident. She then realizes that John's story doesn't add up, knowing that Arlo would never spend his time "tagging along" with Elaine and that he values his time unless Arlo has something to benefit from it. Remembering a broken John, she threatens Arlo in her mind that she will come after him if he ever hurt John.

In the girl's dormitory that night, Seraphina decides to call her maid Fyora for all the missed calls initially thought that the maid was calling her on the request of her mother. However, Fyora called to warn Seraphina about Keon.

Four days had passed since she saw Dr. Darren and her ability did not return. While she was on her way to see the doctor, her head was struck by a rock, leaving a bloody wound on her head; the girl responsible injuring her apologized for "missing the shot," and Seraphina simply dismissed it as no big deal. She made her way to the infirmary to have her injury fixed and ran into John, who was recovering from his tussle against Mardin and Zeke. John was not at all pleased to see Seraphina wounded and was even less pleased to see Seraphina's nonchalant reaction to the entire situation. However, before John could properly reprimand her, Seraphina pointed out his current behavior and asked what happened between him and Arlo. Once John admitted that Arlo had tricked him, Seraphina angrily cursed the King of Wellston and vowed to make him pay.

John had fallen asleep, Seraphina was called by the doctor regarding her test results. Unfortunately, she was told that the drug that sedated her ability was still in full effect, and Dr. Darren had to send her results to the hospital. Seraphina then left the infirmary to Headmaster Vaughn's office in order to meet with Keon, but on her way, she bumped into Arlo and threatened to end him if he got close to John again.

Later that day, Seraphina was called into the office by Headmaster Vaughn in order to see Keon and Nadia, who had arrived on campus to discuss the effects of *Unordinary* on the god-tier. Once the interrogation began, Seraphina answered most of her questions truthfully, and even told her interrogators that she had lost her ability after she had prematurely returned from her suspension. However, Keon knew that Seraphina was forbidden from stepping onto campus grounds and suspected that she stayed somewhere else. Seraphina attempted to tell half-truths in hopes to avoid Nadia's Lie Detection, but once Keon had heard that she stayed with a friend, he began to force Seraphina to say the friend's name. After the Headmaster gave Seraphina permission to say the anonymous friend's name, she answered, "*John*". Keon recognized the name and began to press Seraphina about *Unordinary* and eventually got her to break. Nadia managed to pick out Seraphina's lies and Keon ended the interrogation; Seraphina had broken down and revealed that she was indeed open to the ideals of *Unordinary*.

After leaving the Headmaster's office, Seraphina began to worry that she managed to drag John into an unfavourable situation and began to walk down the hallway. She took notice of some students eyeing her with contempt as opposed to fear like they usually did. However, the other students were the least of her problems because she found herself pushed down the stairs by Juni...the same girl who had thrown a rock at her. With her leg sprained and her arm injured, Seraphina attempted to limp back to the infirmary, but Remi saw the limping Ace and help her on the way to the infirmary.

Remi was concerned about Seraphina and began to ask her questions regarding her injuries. It was not long before Remi discovered that the Ace had lost her ability. Though Remi tried to ask Seraphina for more details and expressed her worries regarding the loss of Time Manipulation, the Ace was unwilling to answer more questions since she had just returned from an interrogation. After Remi left, John had entered and realized that the green-haired-bun girl was behind all of Seraphina's injuries. Tough Seraphina managed to crack a joke, telling John that he looked just like Darren, she soon began to worry and told John that she revealed her connection to John to Keon. Yet, despite everything that happened, John comforts Seraphina and told her that everything will be alright.

### Change

Two days later, John complained about his constrained dorm life to Seraphina, but they were met with a crowd of people, huddling around the billboard. To their horror, news had gone around that Seraphina was powerless, and everyone in the school knew. Now that both John and the former ace were being targeted, John attempted to escort Seraphina to safety, but Crail and Skrev gave chase, determined to take the two cripples down. But before the two bullies could do any harm, John managed to fend off both Crail and Skrev without the aid of an ability and continued to run, only to throw himself in the way of Krolik's Lazor that was aimed towards Seraphina, who had not noticed it coming until John pushed her out of the way. Weakened, John was vulnerable to a well-placed Strong Punch from Crail and was downed, unable to defend himself. Despite the overwhelming odds, Seraphina shoved Crail and stood between the bullies and John. Determined to continue protecting Seraphina, John managed to stand up, but the fight was already diffused by Blyke.

Seraphina thanked the Jack for his intervention, and a flustered Blyke told her "*it was no big deal*" before dashing off to class with a smile on his face. Seraphina and John then managed to make their way to the infirmary, and for the first time in her life, the once god-tier realized what it was like to be powerless against unfavourable odds. She had felt powerless and was betrayed by all the students, because of a simple bulletin board. John told Seraphina that many weaker students, especially those at the bottom would take the opportunity to fight back if given the chance, thinking of himself as he said this. Though Seraphina looked bleak and gloomy, John attempted to cheer her up, telling her that her condition was only temporary.

The next morning, John met up with Seraphina and comforted her to not think too much about her lost ability. Unbeknownst to them both, Zeke was behind them, hoping to ambush them in front of Wellston's student body and declare himself the *Godslayer.* As Zeke had the two beaten and bruised, Arlo had taken notice, and for the first time in front of the student body, the King had lost his temper, and chastised his subjects for wasting their time on Cripples. Once the rest of the students left the hallway, John attempted to get Arlo to help Seraphina to the infirmary, but the once composed Arlo was not in a helpful mood. After reminding Seraphina that she was a cripple and should act like one, Arlo left the two with these foreboding words, "*Both of you need to grow up and accept reality."*

Arlo's words began to stir up uncertainty within Seraphina, and her current state of powerlessness began to worry her. Though John tried his best to comfort his best friend, her worries began to plague her to the point of uncertainty; she eventually did calm down and fell asleep in the infirmary, not knowing that John planned to get even with Zeke.

However, Seraphina was unable to sleep that night, feeling sorry for herself and her inability to protect herself, but John decides to train Seraphina about self-defense on the school roof, until another Wellston student forces them both to leave. Though John was less than willing to comply, Seraphina took the path of least resistance, and made her way down, with John reluctantly following suit. While encouraging Seraphina to stay strong, he spots the green-haired bun girl walking down the hallway and excused himself to the infirmary. Seraphina, not knowing John's true intentions, went to class, where she would be under supervision by the teacher.

The loss of her ability continued to take its toll on Seraphina, but she remembered John's words to stay strong. She had had enough; Seraphina stood up from her bed and began to practice what John had taught her on the rooftop that day. Determined to mow through her predicament, Seraphina practiced all night, and even had Elaine punch her to further condition herself. Though she barely slept and ruined her outfit, Seraphina was ready to tackle more self-defense techniques from John. The very next day, John and Seraphina entered the hallway to class as usual, though rumours of Juni's hospitalization began to circulate among the students. Seraphina was initially fearful of this mysterious attacker, thinking herself a potential target, but John assured her that she would not be a target.

### Capture

With her outfit ruined, Seraphina forced John to go shopping at the Kovoro Mall. There, they purchased new phones, and went clothes shopping, much to John's dismay. When she finally picked out an outfit, John had purchased drinks for them. As the two continued to browse the mall, they noticed the absence of the Ability Gauge Vendor and began to discuss how a bunch of mid-tier thugs managed to best Seraphina, Arlo and, Elaine. Perhaps their biggest question was the drug that was used to wipe Seraphina's ability; how did the mid-tiers acquire such a potent drug? Sadly, neither of them knew the answer, but Seraphina suggested that she would talk to Remi, hoping to find answers.

The next day, Seraphina spoke with Remi regarding the Ability Gauge Vendor as well as the ability nullifying drug; it was during this conversation that Seraphina heard of a drug that amplifies abilities as well as Remi's theory about the two drugs being possessed by EMBER. However, when she spoke with John about her findings, the two friends dismissed the notion of the kidnappers being affiliated with the shadowy organization. Seraphina decided to skip class that day and separated from John until the end of school, but she encountered Hower, who was bullying another student for a bad grade.

Seraphina chose to intervene with Hower's bullying, and despite receiving a minor burn wound from Hower's Heat Palm, she was able to defeat bully, using the self-defense techniques she had practiced. Unfortunately, while Seraphina waited outside for John, Hower would return with backup. She would later find herself in an abandoned house, with her phone destroyed, and tied to a chair by the bullies. Now powerless and almost defenseless, Seraphina began to realize the duplicity of the lower tiers and how they only kissed up to her because of her power. She was then given a chance to fight back against Illena and Misa, but was easily defeated. The bullies left her tied up and vowed the reconvene at the same abandoned house the next day.

The bullies reconvened in the abandoned house the next day, and Illena continued to mock Seraphina. Not fully satisfied with last night, Illena proceeded to humiliate Seraphina further and attempted to get the former Ace to say "*I am the most worthless student in Wellston, and I will act as such.*" Seraphina refused to say those words, and Illena continued to bring physical harm to the point where the other mid-tiers saw her methods as "*excessive*." Barely conscious, Seraphina was finally rescued by Elaine and Arlo and taken to the infirmary.

The bullying from Illena had left Seraphina completely deflated of any confidence she had left, and she began to understand the reality of her situation as a Cripple. But despite Arlo declaring her powerless and at the bottom of the social hierarchy, she asked the King, wondering why he still took the time to rescue her. Arlo only responded with, "*Who knows?*" John entered the infirmary soon afterwards and witnessed Seraphina's sorry state. Seraphina couldn't bear to look at him, ashamed of her failure to overcome her own crisis. In order to ease her emotional turmoil, John embraced his friend and assured her that he would be there for here. Not long after, Remi and Blyke noisily entered the infirmary to see Isen, who was in the bed next to Seraphina's. When Remi and Blyke mentioned that Isen had been defeated by a *masked attacker with multiple abilities*, Seraphina observed with keen interest. Isen seemed too afraid to elaborate in present company, so the subject was dropped for the time being.

### Joker

Once Remi and Blyke left the infirmary, Seraphina fell asleep.

The next day, Seraphina continued to beat herself up over her powerless condition, and John assured his best friend that the bullies were in the wrong; however, John also admits to Seraphina that their current society is not fair. As the two friends continued to walk, Mardin began to heckle Seraphina until Cecile shut the bully up with her ability.

Once the two parted ways, Seraphina made her way to class and noticed (for the first time) that Evie was one of her classmates. Later, during lunch, Seraphina found Evie sitting alone at the table and decided to sit wih her and thank her for aiding Arlo. Despite the Ace being powerless, Evie still held her in high-regard and wished to have the same confidence that Seraphina possessed; even though Seraphina was clearly scarred from previous events, Evie continued to admire her anyways.

Later that day, Seraphina overheard the loudspeaker call John to the office, and after school she met up with her best friend. Once John revealed to Seraphina that he was interrogated by Keon, Seraphina noticed her friend was shaking and grabbed his arm. However, John forcibly released his hands and continued to downplay his problems as if everything was fine.

Seraphina would continue to spend more time with the low-tier Evie, who wished to introduce the former ace to her friends. Unfortunatley, Evie and Seraphina would find the bully Clio beating up one of Evie's friends, Roland. Seraphina was reluctant to intervene with the bullying, but Evie courageously tackled the bully before being defeated shortly afterwards. Clio then focused her attention on the powerless Ace and forced Seraphina to retaliate. Though Seraphina did not wish to retaliate (due to her previous experience with bullies), she was forced to defend herself against the bully, all the while thinking about the unfairness of her situation. After retaliating against Clio, Seraphina went to help Evie, but Clio got back up and began to use her Dizzy Punch against the former Ace. However, Evie used her Illumination ability to blind Clio, giving Seraphina an opening to land a well-placed punch. With Clio fleeing the scene, Roland thanked Seraphina for her intervention and praised her ability to defend herself. Seraphina then told the two low-tiers that anybody could what she did and offered to have John teach the two. However, Seraphina's suspicions began to grow once Evie and Roland mentioned how John ignores the two and gives them condescending looks...

That same day, while she and John were hanging out, Seraphina noticed that John had been absent during his free blocks, but John claimed that he had been skipping class as of late and had to spend most of his free blocks working on extra assignments. He then noticed a wound on Seraphina's cheek and admitted that he hated seeing his best friend hurt in any way, all while calling himself weak and worthless for his "inability" to protect her. However, Seraphina assured John that she would keep fighting, just as he did before, and suggested that he train Evie and Roland. John politely rejected the offer and managed to convince Seraphina train them instead.

While eating lunch with Evie, Roland, and Terrence, Seraphina and the rest of her new friends began to talk about recent events regarding the Joker. Though Seraphina figured that Joker was just climbing the ranks like any student would, Roland and Terrence feared that the Joker would attack just about anyone. Later that day, while working out with John, she noticed his lack of concern towards the Joker and asked her friend how he was so calm if the Joker could potentially attack anyone indiscriminately. John simply replied that the Joker was just doing what every other student was doing, climbing the ranks, and even admitted to saying that he was "*low-key rooting for the Joker*" in hopes to see Arlo defeated. Seraphina admitted that seeing Arlo defeated would be satisfying but worried over the Joker's future battle with Remi. John kept silent about the matter until Seraphina began to continue the workout.

The next day, Arlo confronted Seraphina to talk to her, but she just brushes him off and walked away. This causes Arlo to tell her that John was Joker, but she did not believe him, thinking that he was trying to get John involved with the Joker and went on to rant at him about how he has been trying to destroy their friendship. However, much to Seraphina's shock, Arlo then suddenly apologized and left. That night, Seraphina pondered about why Arlo acted so strangely, causing her to stay up all night. Next morning, Elaine confronted a sleepy Seraphina about why she had trouble sleeping, causing her to tell her about what Arlo told her. Elaine reacted in shock, but Seraphina said that it was probably just one of Arlo's typical underhanded tricks. When she asks why Elaine why is getting anxious over this news, she claims that there might have been some alternate meaning behind Arlo's "joke", but Seraphina dismisses this.

Later that day Seraphina was out for a walk between classes with John. John was talking about how Blyke has stopped coming to their shared dorm, but Seraphina wasn't listening. She still couldn't get her mind off of Arlo's newfound obsession with John. This led her to realize both boys had begun behaving strangely during her absence from Wellston. She wondered if what John had told her about what happened at Turf Wars was true, then tried to figure out why Arlo suddenly took it upon himself to become her guardian angel. But the most puzzling mystery in all of this is why Arlo was so hostile towards John when it came to fighting back against his tormentors. She didn't understand why he would have high expectations for a cripple, but she then remembered that Arlo had claimed that John was Joker. Despite the fact that Arlo had never given her a reason to believe him before, she couldn't get the thought out of her mind. John noticed Seraphina had something on her mind, and asked her about it. Nervously, she asked him if he was Joker. He reacted in alarm, but denied it before asking where she got such a ludicrous idea from. Seraphina revealed what Arlo told her and asked her to do something about it, to John's frustration. Seraphina added that she told him off, but John told her to ignore everything Arlo tells her from now on, for good measure. John proposed they get on with their plans for the day, but Seraphina continued to be plagued by doubts.

The next day, Seraphina met with Evie at the school library. She was in the midst of receiving thanks for study tips when Holden suddenly came running up to her. He explained to Seraphina that he's under orders from Arlo to find and bring her to watch the fight between Joker and Remi. Arlo's persistence piques Seraphina's curiosity, and she comes to the conclusion that either he or John has been lying to her about Joker. She agrees to follow Holden, who gives her the last known details of Joker's progress against Remi's team. When they arrive at the window overlooking the scene, they see that Arlo stopped spectating and entered the fray to help Remi. Seraphina then got her first look at Joker in action, and immediately recognized the fighting stance he was using. After watching the rest of the fight, Seraphina fell to her knees in shock. She realized that there was only one conclusion that could be drawn from Joker's familiar fighting techniques: it was John under the mask after all. As she reflected on every interaction she had with John in the past, she wondered how many times he had lied to her. She was so distraught that she didn't notice Evie trying to comfort her or Holden announcing that Joker had effectively replaced Arlo as King of Wellston.

## Bonus Episodes

### Introduction

Seraphina is introduced by Uru-chan as a super cool person who plays games on her phone.

### App Store

Seraphina teaches Uru-chan how to find fun games: searching "Pigs" on the App Store.

### Scary Movie

After John is scared by a horror movie jump-scare, Seraphina freezes time to take an embarrassing photo of him.

### Boob Envy

Seraphina enviously compares her breasts to Rein's.

### Levels and Tiers

During Uru-chan's lesson on ability levels, Seraphina is given as an example of a god-tier in the tier descriptions. Near the end of the lesson, Seraphina was revealed to be playing on her phone the whole time.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 4
2. ↑ Chapter 5
3. ↑ Chapter 6
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 8
5. ↑ Chapter 9
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 11
7. ↑ Chapter 12
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 13
9. ↑ Chapter 14
10. ↑ Chapter 16
11. ↑ Chapter 17
12. ↑ Chapter 19
13. ↑ Chapter 20
14. ↑ Chapter 21
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 22
16. ↑ Chapter 25
17. ↑ Chapter 28
18. ↑ Chapter 28
19. ↑ Chapter 30
20. ↑ Chapter 31
21. ↑ Chapter 34
22. ↑ Chapter 39
23. ↑ Chapter 47
24. ↑ Chapter 51
25. ↑ Chapter 53
26. ↑ Chapter 57
27. ↑ Chapter 58
28. ↑ Chapter 62
29. ↑ Chapter 63
30. ↑ Chapter 64
31. ↑ Chapter 65
32. ↑ Chapter 66
33. ↑ Chapter 67
34. ↑ Chapter 68
35. ↑ Chapter 69
36. ↑ Chapter 72
37. ↑ Chapter 73
38. ↑ Chapter 74
39. ↑ Chapter 75
40. ↑ Chapter 76
41. ↑ Chapter 77
42. ↑ Chapter 81
43. ↑ Chapter 85
44. ↑ Chapter 86
45. ↑ Chapter 87
46. ↑ Chapter 88
47. ↑ 47.0 47.1 Chapter 90
48. ↑ Chapter 89
49. ↑ Chapter 91
50. ↑ Chapter 92
51. ↑ Chapter 101
52. ↑ Chapter 102
53. ↑ Chapter 106
54. ↑ Chapter 107
55. ↑ Chapter 110
56. ↑ Chapter 111
57. ↑ Chapter 113
58. ↑ Chapter 114
59. ↑ Chapter 119
60. ↑ Chapter 120
61. ↑ Chapter 121
62. ↑ Chapter 122
63. ↑ Chapter 128
64. ↑ Chapter 129
65. ↑ Chapter 131
66. ↑ Chapter 132
67. ↑ Chapter 133
68. ↑ Chapter 134
69. ↑ Chapter 136
70. ↑ Chapter 140
71. ↑ Chapter 141
72. ↑ Chapter 147
73. ↑ Chapter 148
74. ↑ Chapter 151
75. ↑ Chapter 152
76. ↑ Chapter 155