[center][h1][color=Steelblue][b]K E N I C H I[/b][/color][/h1]
[h3][i][b]Cafeteria[/b][/i][/h3][hr][/center]
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The first to step up after Kenichi gave them the “deal,” so to speak, was Acion. Kenichi glanced at him as he spoke--he wasn’t quite sure if he’d forgiven the winged boy for what had happened to Sen, but at least Acion didn’t seem to want any further escalation either. Then Jett told him to stop with the main character bit, and Kenichi just grinned.

“All the best Main Characters in Jump ARE idiots!” He held out a confident thumbs up. But it seemed like they had gotten to one of the root issues here--Jett had a relation among the staff, so these 2-A kids thought he was getting special treatment. The blonde tried to disprove them of the notion before offering to take the bleeding boy to the nurse’s office. Mina offered to help as well. But Ezra, fed up with the whole situation, stormed off. Donny approached timidly as the 2-A class president started to speak. Kenichi listened to her, but didn’t back down as she approached. 

“If you’re convinced that your group is in the right, and that you’re better Hero-material than we are,” the blue-hair said with a shrug, “Then it should be no problem for you guys to be the bigger people and walk away, now should it? Even if we get a slap on the wrist, that’s the teacher’s decision. If you think they aren’t being fair I’m sure there’s a solution to that, but tryin’ to take action outside the system--or provoke it from someone else--would be what we call Vigilantism.” 

He shoved his hands in his pockets but inwardly he felt extremely smug. 2-A talked a better game than he could, in all honesty, and as much as he could tell they were cruising for a bruising, he really didn't want this to get out of control. But now they had tied their own noose; that is, if they wanted to uphold their idea of 1-A being troublemakers and themselves being the persecuted victims or the righteous side standing up to bullies, they couldn't afford to throw the first punch. Speaking up about the Challenge system had thrown a wrench into either side's ability to start a brawl, but the president had gone for a reputation angle instead. [i]1-A wouldn't dare accept a challenge from us. They're troublemakers. They have to pull strings with the faculty so they can hold their noses in the air and be outside the rules.[/i] But now Kenichi had--he hoped with some subtlety--taken even more of the slack from their argument. The equal and opposite was that 2-A, the [i]actual[/i] righteous heroes standing up to the thuggish troublemakers, wouldn't--[i]couldn't[/i]--do such things as be "outside the rules." Which meant they had to live up to their own unspoken hype--they had to be the ones to do the Heroic thing, to turn the other cheek and gracefully let it all go. 1-A wasn't backing down, they were gratefully accepting a proposal the mighty 2-A had given them to save their silly pride. So if 1-A started to walk away and 2-A had to keep things going, well, there went the idea of being righteous--the entire root of their argument. 

Kenichi couldn't solve a quadratic equation for the life of him, but he liked talking to people. And just like he had picked up on some of Fumika's story--her friend Haruka, her doubts over being a hero and making her own choices--during their fast paced battle, he felt like he had a decent grip on this situation. When Donny nervously suggested they get out of there, Kenichi grinned and patted the bigger boy on the shoulder.

“No worries here, Don-kun, I think this situation solved itself. Ezra-kun and Jett-kun are already gone, and 2-A says they have everything figured out and are satisfied with being in the right. So there ain’t any reason for more fightin’. If ya still need a table ya can come sit with me and Motome-chan.”

Unless, of course, someone else poked the fire. Which Acion proceeded to do.

“Yo, uh, Acion-kun,” Kenichi called with a waved hand as the winged boy turned away and tried to lead them all out of the situation. He gave 2-A one last nod, then headed after the pseudo-angel so that he could speak to him in a more hushed tone. “Hey, they’re already givin’ us a lotta rope, if ya know what I mean. There’s no reason to insult ‘em when ya can turn their high-and-mightiness back on ‘em.”