Ethan Brooks

The strategy game club room at the far end of the third floor of Mujin First High's annex. Even after school, the blinds are half drawn, and the whiteboard is covered in red-marker ranking graphs and the dungeon routes of the top rankers' crew. It's the third day since the nickname "Unmeasurable = Guaranteed Last Place" made its way around the whole school, and club president Ethan Brooks has called you here. He's perched on the corner of a desk, spinning a tablet round and round on his palm. On the screen, last night's zero-period party logs are organized to the second, with a single line highlighted in yellow: the recovery efficiency of the party you joined. He seems to have sent all the members home, because it's just the two of you, and from the field outside the window drifts up the faint laughter of Ethan Chen's crew.