[Chapter—24]

After we got inside the jet we flew across the city and into a huge ass manor where when I looked down on the window I found hundreds of mutants just doing their things making me amazed.

' they have a lot of number's here, are there no bombings every week days here like the comics suggest?' I asked myself as the jet descended down besides the manor's lake and sunk inside before entering a secret base under the manor.

'…that's actually a good entrance.' i thought with a smile.

" –Icho, Jericho!" I was brought out of my musing my the calls of Jean, jean who was standing beside me as the other X-Men walked out of the jet looked at me strangely.

" oh?, we are already here?." I asked her making her nod as I walked alongside her out of the jet.

" Also…how do you know my name?." I asked genuinely intrigued as going through my memory of the last hours I hadn't told her anything about me.

" W-well urh..I-i.." Jean froze for a second before she began stuttering making me raise an eyebrow at her unexpected reaction.

" It-it's my ability…" Jean spoke softly as we followed the others who when I focused on them were actually listening in, Scott on the other hand with his fists clenched and frown adorning his face probably wanted to beat me up.

" Oh you have the ability to know people's names, that's a owesome power." I said out loud while chuckling looking at her, Jean hearing what I said widened her eyes before looking at me and shaking her head.

" No, no, that's not my power. Actually that does come with the entire package but no, I have telepathic powers and I'm also a telekinetic." Jean said looking at me.

"…two powers in one, you just be a strong one." I said after a brief pause emulating suprise.

" Well I wouldn't call myself strong, but I can hold my own." Jean said with a smile.

' heh, your ass could fuck my current human body over ten times over, i wonder if you could fight my demon body though?…I haven't really focused hard enough on it yet because of the shortage of items I could use to grow myself stronger without going on a slaughter in the hellplanes.' I thought to myself already making plans on getting back to my demon body after all this and hoping that the time shittery around this and my world doesn't fuck me over.

Getting out of my thoughts I stare at the red haired beauty besides me talking about the X-Manor and what they provided as I consumed all that knowledge as I already resigned myself on staying here mostly due to the screen that had just appeared Infront of me.

[Ding! Multiple Protagonists have been detected in your vicinity]

[Note: Due to you using a different body besides the one bonded to the protagonist killer system all rewards will be given to the Nathaniel Hawthorne Body instead of any Avatar created.]

[Note: You are still able to gain 'item' rewards as you share the same inventory with your main body though.]

' oh?…so I can use clones to hunt down protagonists huh?, That's actually good to know.' I thought as me and Jean walked up the stairs towards where Jean said to be the Professor's office.

" wait where did they go?" I suddenly interrupted Jean who was telling me more about the manor.

" Oh the others went back to their own things, we are taking the long way to the professor's office so he can finalize your staying here."

" oh that makes sense." ' no it really doesn't.'

" Anyways…do you mind telling me about yourself?.." Jean said while looking at me expectedly.

" Oh?, I thought you were a telepath, can't you just read my memories?" I asked as I didn't care that I was literally giving her the consent to enter my head but I wanted to know if she could enter my head with the amount of protection I placed on my head and even if she did enter I had already put 'my' memories deep, deep, deep inside my head and just left the memories of Jericho floating around along with some fake memories of today.

" i mean…okay, okay alright I can't read your mind!" Jean said with a sigh followed by a groan.

" Oh?, You can't or you won't?" I asked actually interested now.

" I mean I don't know, normally I am able to read the thoughts of anyone in my vicinity and then some but with you I don't hear anything, it's like you're empty." Jean told me with a frown.

" Wait, are you saying I am dumb?" i asked out of a sudden with a hurt expression on my face and some sarcasm mixed in, which now that I had said that and from jeans panicking expression i probably didn't seem like I was joking.

" NO!! NO! That's not what I meant! I was just saying that unlike others i can't read your mind!, I wasn't insinuating that you were dumb at all!" Jean spoke rapidly looking a bit helpless which prompted me to laugh a bit.

" Haha-haha!, Okay, okay I understand, I was just joking, I'm not mad or anything." I said stifling a laugh in-between my words.

" Jerk!" Jean pouting said with an annoyed expression.

" oh come on, I was just playing" i said with a smile " Anyways, so you can't read my mind huh?, How about if you tried?" I asked.

" Still nothing, I try but I just get brushed off by something…maybe it's your ability?" Jean said and asked at the end with a raise of an eyebrow.

" An ability that allows my mind to not be read by telepaths…that seems like a stupid ability if you asked me." i said as ee walked to a hallway with a dozen mutants walking off carrying bags filled with books or just chatting.

" Trust me, there are a lot of dumb abilities out there…" Jean said with a chuckle as she led the way towards where I assumed was the professor's office as not that far from the door we just came out off was an elevator.

" But from the professor said, you're an omega level mutant so you probably have a powerful ability." Jean said with a shrugg leading me off to an uncrowded area.

" That's…cool, I guess" I said with a shrugg.

" You don't seem that…excited at knowing that you're powerful." Jean said looking at me with an unreadable expression.

" Well if you asked me I'd rather have a weak ability and be normal the have a powerful ability and have everyone gunning for me" I said with a frown but inside I knew that was a lie, I wouldn't give a single fuck even if I had the most powerful ability in the world and in exchange I was hated by everyone in the multiverse even, sure it would get lonely but power is power, and there isn't anyome who doesn't want it.

" Yeah, I feel you" Jean said with a sad smile as she led me to a lone door by the end of a hallway.

" Well, this is it, the professor is inside." Jean said with a shy smike as she started rolling a lock of her red hair between her fingers.

" It has been a pleasure talking to you Jericho…" Jean said to me looking at me with a beautiful smile.

" And onto you too. Hope we do this again…" I said making me smile just a bit larger before she erased it and nodded to me.

" I wouldn't mind. See you later." Jean said before she waved at me and walked back.

' wait….I didn't even get her name throughout this entire thing.' I suddenly thought bit shrugging that off I held my hand to the door and opened it.

' And onto the bald one we go.' i thought with a smile as I entered.