Chapter 131

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*- Seraphina to Elaine*

This is the 131st episode of *unORDINARY* an the first episode of the Joker arc.

## Summary

Seraphina is in the infirmary with Arlo and Elaine. Elaine expresses her indignation at the students responsible, but Seraphina soberly reminds her that she was no longer the Ace. As her kidnappers said, there is no need to speak to her with reverence anymore. Elaine tries comforting Seraphina, assuring her that they would watch over her until her ability returned. Seraphina questions whether or not that still applied if her ability never returned. Regardless, Seraphina rejected the offer to be babysat, seeing that someone who now officially had no value wouldn't be worth the hassle. Taking a moment of self-reflection, Seraphina realizes that she took all the authority she used to have for granted. She's come to believe that she deserves to be powerless after ignoring the problems around her all this time. Arlo silently watched as she bared her soul. Shifting gears from somber to inquisitive, Seraphina asked Arlo why he decided to come to her rescue after clearly telling her that she should learn her place as a cripple. Rather than telling the truth of why his actions didn't line up with his words, Arlo cryptically replied "Who knows?" Elaine insisted that they were all worried sick about her, adding that Arlo organized a big search party as soon as he learned Seraphina went missing. Seraphina, recalling Illena's cruel words of how she had no allies left, finds these claims to be dubious, at best.

John bursts into the infirmary looking for Sera. He walks past another bed, not noticing a terrified Isen curled up under the blankets. John pulls back the privacy curtain, and is shocked at the sight of Seraphina's terrible injuries. When she sees him, she immediately looks away, unable to make eye contact with him. She expresses terrible shame over letting him and his teachings down with her failure to apply what she learned to overcome her predicament. Seraphina apologizes for not being strong as he is, but John hugs her and comforts her as she cries. He assures her that these kinds of things take time, and that he'd be alongside her through it all.

The scene cuts to Doc who is checking his phone. Remi and Blyke burst into the infirmary calling out for Isen. After giving them an angry reprimand for making so much noise in the infirmary, Doc directs them to Isen's bed. Isen is not in the mood for company at the moment, given the presence of dangerous students the next be over. Speaking of, Remi opens the curtain separating Seraphina and Isen's beds, and is surprised to see Arlo, Elaine and Seraphina. She missed John, but Isen didn't. An angry glare from the guy who landed him here sent Isen into hysterics. He swore that he didn't eavesdrop on anybody. Blyke tells Isen he looks like crap, to which he responds with a claim of falling down the stairs. His friends are not fooled, having heard the story of Isen's beatdown that was spreading like wildfire throughout the school. As such, they also heard about how that masked student responsible seemed to have multiple abilities. Seraphina is intrigued by this development, and listens in. Isen glances over to the next bed, and is terrified to see both John and Arlo glaring at him. Wondering how they've never heard of any student with such power, Blyke and Remi question Isen on the subject of why he might have been the target of such an uncalled for attack. With that information on a need-to-know basis, Isen claims that he's too beat up and embarrassed to talk about it. He curls up under his blanket and demands that he get a chance to recover before being interogatted, and asks his friends to leave. They decide to comply, but before leaving Remi turns to Arlo and asks him to weigh in. He promises to look into it. Remi bids farewell to Isen, who asks that they take notes for him. He barely manages to speak while quivering in terror under the blanket, hoping that they'll leave. Remi thinks his behavior is weird, to which Blyke replies that Isen is a weird individual. John, cross that his activities were now under investigation, watches them leave.

## Appearing Characters

* Seraphina
* Arlo
* Elaine
* Illena (flashback)
* John
* Isen
* Hower (flashback)
* Misa (flashback)
* Darren
* Remi
* Blyke

## Appearing Abilities

* Strength (flashback)
* *Repulsion* (flashback)