Early in the morning, noisy sounds woke up Ethan.
Rubbing his eyes, Ethan got up.
“You’re awake, buddy!” Fireman John turned his head and greeted Ethan.
At this moment, he was playing games in front of the TV.
The characters on the screen kept making sounds like “Adoken, Hao You Ken.” That’s right, he was playing ‘King of Fighters,’ and the character he chose was Kyo Kusanagi, who uses fire.
It seemed his skills were quite good.
He had easily defeated several characters and showed no fear facing Orochi.
“Where’s Bobby?” Ethan asked with a yawn.
“Isn’t he right there?” John pointed towards the balcony, where a young man with a buzz cut was carefully watering a potted plant.
“Morning!” Noticing Ethan was awake, Bobby warmly greeted him.
“Morning to you too.” Ethan had already gotten out of bed and was starting to wash up in the bathroom.
Ten minutes later, a refreshed Ethan walked out and waved to the two of them; “Let’s go, let’s get breakfast.” “No need, I have enough with these.” John pointed to a pile of snacks in front of him.
“Oh, is that so?” Ethan said, then picked up a bag of potato chips from the floor and started eating them on his own.
“Buddy, you can’t do this.
That’s my last bag of those chips.” John was about to snatch it back when the situation on the TV screen immediately reversed.
Frightened, John quickly turned his gaze back to the TV.
After a frantic series of operations, John’s Kyo Kusanagi was still KO’d, and at the same time, that bag of potato chips had already been wolfed down by Ethan.
“Now can we go eat breakfast?” Ethan threw away the chip bag and said calmly.
“Alright.” John, looking disappointed, stood up, and the three of them walked towards the cafeteria.
Three days had passed since the Liberty Island incident.
By delivering Magneto to Professor X, Ethan’s mission was considered complete.
As for how Professor X would deal with his old friend and what the subsequent impact of the Liberty Island incident would be, that was none of Ethan’s concern.
He was now just an ordinary Mutant student waiting for classes to start.
Speaking of classes, the school’s start time seemed to have been delayed again because the teachers had collectively disappeared again and again.
It seemed impossible to have normal classes this week.
What kind of bizarre school is this?
If parents ask why students’ grades are poor, should the students reply that the teachers don’t teach classes and are busy saving the World all day?
Saying such a ridiculous reason would definitely result in a mixed double beating.
Students want vacation, but having a National Day holiday every week gets boring too.
Isn’t it better to have five days of vacation and two days of classes a week?
Ethan wondered if there was a Student Union or something in the school.
If not, he would form one himself.
Anyway, there needed to be an organization that could dialogue and contend with the teachers, and protect the students’ legitimate rights, especially the sacred right to attend classes.
Ethan, who had been idle for three days and was bored stiff, was formulating his plan in his mind.
Unconsciously, he had already arrived at the cafeteria.
There weren’t many people at the X-Men School, at most around a hundred.
During this holiday period, the people seen in the cafeteria were naturally even more scattered.
And at the center of the cafeteria at this time, there was a huge television set, which was broadcasting news about “Liberty Island.” Ethan watched the news while eating breakfast and quickly gained a general understanding of the Liberty Island incident.
The Liberty Island incident had now been officially classified as a regular terrorist attack, with the purpose of blowing up the Liberty Statue as a demonstration, and the Strange light cluster was explained as a new type of optical weapon.
It is worth mentioning that S.H.I.E.L.D.
also got involved.
The S.H.I.E.L.D.
spokesperson stated that they would definitely catch the culprit and bring him to justice, in the name of democracy and freedom.
As for the word “Mutant,” it only appeared once in the news from beginning to end, and it was just a simple clarification, stating that this matter had nothing to do with Mutants.
This made Ethan secretly startled.
Professor X’s methods were much more powerful than his own; he had actually managed to suppress this matter.
But if you really think about it, Professor X, as one of the strongest psychic ability users, living in a so-called democratic and free country is undoubtedly very terrifying.
If he wanted to support a congressman, he could completely use his ability to dig up all the opponent’s secrets, and whose hands among those politicians are completely clean?
He could even use psychic power to sway public opinion, or even control someone to publicly shout ‘Hail HYDRA!’ Of course, Professor X has principles; he would absolutely not do the latter two things.
This would violate his consistent advocacy for peace and also touch the bottom line of other hidden forces.
But this does not mean that Professor X really did nothing.
Undoubtedly, Professor X is a kind person, but he is also an excellent leader, so never expect Professor X to be like God’s righteous man Captain America.
And this time, it was clear that Professor X used his influence in the government to successfully shift the blame from Mutants to Terrorists, calming the Storm.
That’s right, this Storm can be considered calmed.
Of course, there were still angry public demonstrations, but did you really expect this matter to escalate into a “9/11”?
Although the Liberty Statue is one of U.S.’s faces, not many people died in this incident.
Moreover, this is the Marvel Universe!
In this World, there are definitely more than a dozen evil existences who constantly think about bombing the White House and have the power to do so.
People in New York are long accustomed to one or two incidents of bombing buildings and robbing banks.
With their thick nerves trained over time, it would probably take aliens coming to bomb New York to stop them from calmly having afternoon tea.
Since this matter could be declared over, Ethan naturally lost interest and calmly started eating his breakfast.
But at this moment, John took out his phone, opened a video, and mysteriously leaned towards Ethan.
“What do you want to show me?” Ethan asked curiously.
“Of course, it’s the truth about the Liberty Island incident,” John said excitedly.
As he spoke, the video had opened.
The first thing that appeared was the Liberty Statue, and on top of the Liberty Statue, two figures could be vaguely seen confronting each other.
Seeing this, Ethan already understood that this video recorded his battle with Magneto.
Fortunately, the image looked very blurry.
After all, it was at night, and Storm had created mist.
To be honest, Ethan admired the person who recorded the video for having some skill to even capture human figures.
As expected, the comments below the video were full of negative reviews, with people uniformly complaining about the quality being worse than an AV, and most people also questioned the authenticity of the video.
“These stupid Muggles, they actually question the authenticity of this video, it’s ridiculous.
The one manipulating metal in the fight is clearly the famous Magneto!” When mentioning Magneto, John’s eyes clearly lit up; he seemed to highly admire Magneto.
“Compared to Magneto, I’m more interested in who was able to fight Magneto without falling behind?” Bobby also leaned over and said at this time.
“How would I know?
Do you think it could be Professor?” John turned his head and asked.
“Do you think a Professor in a wheelchair could fight so exaggeratedly?” Bobby rolled his eyes at John, then calmly analyzed.
“And although the video is blurry, you can clearly see that this figure should be a young man, at the very least no older than forty.” “A young man who can fight Magneto without falling behind, holy cow, I’ve decided!” John slapped the table and stood up excitedly.
“I’m going to find him and make him my boss.” “Cough, cough!” Ethan, who was drinking milk, almost spat it out.
“Morpheus, you don’t have to act so exaggerated to make fun of me,” John said unhappily.
“It’s okay, it’s okay, you continue.” Ethan waved his hand and lowered his head to continue eating his bread.
Bobby, at this moment, looked at Ethan with confusion.
He remembered that Ethan had gone out to see Professor X that night and didn’t come back until very late.
Could it be…?
Thinking of this, Bobby quickly shook his head.
How could this be?
It’s impossible.
My roommate can’t be this awesome!