"Recess" --
Those words evoked a feeling long since forgotten within Kyousuke.
The last time he had attended school had been at the age of seven -- he had joined the Japanese army's Esper Unit that summer, and from then on his life had been one of constant strife and struggles, first against the Allied forces and then against the normals who sought to oppress espers the world over.
Technically, then, he had never completed even elementary school -- however, the life experience he had gained from over seven decades of fighting and surviving had been something very few individuals could ever dream of... as was, Kyousuke supposed, the situation he was currently in; he had been kidnapped along with seventeen others and forced to take part in... something, the true nature of which he had guessed at but which had yet to be confirmed.
At any rate, the man left the classroom after explaining to his "students" the rules of the game in which they would be taking part. Kyousuke was highly tempted to follow him; after all, the mastermind likely had a secret room somewhere, on the campus at least if not in the school building, where he could monitor and direct the events across the island. A voice at the back of his head, however, the result of decades of outwitting and outsmarting others, advised him against it -- who knows what the man would do to him were he to stick his nose where it did not belong.
Additionally, as tempting as it was to explore the forbidden zones into which the man had warned against venturing -- under penalty of death by collar explosion -- Kyousuke was not certain that he would be able to activate his psychokinesis in time to shield himself from the blast and repair any already-incurred damage by the time the damage to the collar caused the limiter to deactivate...
Kyousuke silenced his thoughts. Such speculations were pointless in the face of the palpable dread that permeated the classroom.
"What say you?" asked Kyousuke, turning to the side to address the person next to him. "Have you an idea of what we should do next?"