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“Dude, look at the outfit he’s wearing, tell me if that outfit is a Batman-inspired outfit? Of course he’s a Batman!” A little fat boy said.

“Michael, I told you, where have you ever seen Batman jump from? Tell me, man. Those powers of his, maybe we can say he’s a Kryptonian?” A skinny boy said outraged.

“Kids, you’re making too much of a mistake, looking at his powers and his way of acting, he’s much more like Nightwing. Just a little too hard.” A girl said as she fixed her glasses on her face.

This kind of talk was observed all over the school, for Aatrox they were just a bunch of heroes’ names with unknown claims, but for those who knew, they knew about the war that was happening from people trying to compare him to the heroes, even rolling some confusions saying he was from DC or MARVEL.

After class, the discussion had diminished a little, but still, some fights were noticed in different corners of the school.

When Aatrox and Annie entered the school theater, the scene they witnessed almost made him laugh.

Apparently the other actors had set up a scene that looked like an alley, and one of the students put on a black wig pretending to be this hero, while they played at staging how the fighting scene had happened.

By the time Aatrox and Annie arrived, the student in the wig even tied a rope around his waist and asked other students to pull him up to pretend he’d jumped “Hero”.

Roberta, who was happy to see the animation of all the actors, was even more excited to see the two main actors arrive in the theater. “All right guys, pack up the set, the two protagonists are here, we’re starting another rehearsal session.

The students who were pulling the boy in the wig up were scared by Roberta’s scream and almost dropped him, but recovering his composure no accident happened.

The rehearsals happened without any problems, which surprised everyone. Aatrox as always was improving exponentially with each rehearsal they did, to the point that in that rehearsal today, the feeling people had was that there really was a swordsman with years of experience, a good mood and a great thirst for battle. Unlike the more stoic and emotionless swordsman of the first episode, a great improvement.

“Okay, everybody, I really enjoyed the development you all had during our rehearsals. I can tell from your performance that the improvement was incredible for each one of you. In this episode today I already feel that we are much better than we were in the first episode, and I hope that we will continue like this in the future, understood?” Roberta said after gathering everyone in the middle of the stage.

Most were happy to be able to participate in this play with everyone since for teenagers, recognition was very important, and this was happening to excess. All the actors who participated in the first two episodes had already been recognized on the street at least once, making them feel the taste of fame.

Some even thought about it in the long run, thinking that this memory they were forming now would be one of the best memories they would make in high school and that they would need to do their best to be able to remember when they were older in the best possible way.

Roberta seeing the motivated look in the students’ eyes, god a small sigh of satisfaction and continued. “Seeing the look on the face of each of you, I feel that motivational discourse is no longer necessary. Then know that our play will be scheduled for next Monday. I want everyone here at least an hour in advance, this performance will be the most important we’ve had so far, so I hope each and every one of you will do your best on and off stage”.

“Yeah!” Some students screamed in ecstasy as they knew the next presentation was coming, the happiness of being able to perform for millions of people again made the young hearts of each one beat harder and harder.

“All right, we’ll do one last rehearsal on Saturday, rest on Sunday, and do our best on Monday, understand?” Roberta decided to play and put her hand on her head imitating a military greeting.

The students did not lose that detail and imitated the same greeting as they screamed together. “Yes, ma’am!”

When everyone said goodbye, Roberta noticed that Aatrox was leaving and called him quickly. “Ben, wait for a second, I need to talk to you.”

Aatrox hearing the call says goodbye to Annie and comes back to talk to Roberta with a dubious look.

“In this Monday’s presentation, how confident are you?” She asked.

Hearing her question, Aatrox put his hand on his chin and said. “If it wasn’t for your after-school tips, I’d say something around 80%, but now I’m 99% sure I’ll deliver a great performance.”

Hearing that, Roberta took a sigh of relief. “I’m glad to hear that from you, actually, I didn’t want to tell the other students so as not to make them nervous, but knowing you, I know it won’t influence you, maybe even motivate you.”

Hearing that, Aatrox was curious about what she would say.

“Last week, the school received an email asking to reserve a seat during the next presentation for Scott Waugh, do you know who that is?” She asked with a serious look at him.

“No idea.” Aatrox answered honestly in a calm voice.

“That’s what I imagined, Scott Waugh received the “10 Directors to Watch” award at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival. “Seeing that Aatrox had not yet shown any reaction, she sighed and continued. “That means he’s one of the great film directories of the world.”

“Ohhh.” Finally Aatrox reacted to something, finally surprised that a great director came to see their play. “But why would he come to a school play?”

“So… that nobody knows, according to some of my contacts, he’s forming a cast for a new movie, and after watching the video of our presentation on youtube he was motivated to come and watch it in person and see if he could find a rough diamond to be polished. The problem is, nobody knows who that diamond is.” Roberta explained.