Chapter One - Armored Elegance Takes the Stage
Chapter One - Armored Elegance Takes the Stage
"The state of education has never been better.
Our profits have reached highs that we haven't seen since the early 2020s!"
--Richard Piece, Department of Shareholder Satisfaction, Harvard, 2048
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I wasn't sure if I was onboard with the whole... 'go to school' thing. In fact, I was pretty sure it wasn't going to work out for me.
Anything I could learn in a class, I could have Myalis pump straight into my brainpan, and while I was a little nervous about shoving raw information into my brain, it was relatively easy. That, and I'd know that whatever information Myalis gave me would probably be accurate. Or accurate enough to Protector standards, and I trusted the alien's understanding of science and shit a whole lot more than I trusted humanity's.
So, lots of cons. But there was one big pro. Lucy really wanted to go to a fancy school.
I'd known it forever. Half the shows we pirated and binged were school dramas. Sometimes ancient pre-Antithesis TV shows that showed an idyllic world that I wasn't sure was really how the past had been, and sometimes more modern slop.