Bruce had still made everything seem too simple.
He had assumed that if the two students most skilled in the Psychoanalytic Method chose to compromise and stopped causing trouble in class, the atmosphere would quiet down, and he would be able to regain the initiative.
But in truth, group conflicts were not so easily resolved, especially when they had already arisen and worsened to the point where personal attacks were beginning to emerge. Trying to address the root cause now only meant that all the subsequent problems had become new root causes themselves, impossible to solve so easily.
Controlling one's emotions was quite an advanced skill. Not everyone possessed it, and it was even rarer among young people. This world, when all was said and done, was built on Pride and prejudice.
Some people had initially merely disliked Jena's claims. They were advocates of Behavior Analysis and quite talented in the field; they could plainly see that Jena was talking nonsense.
But later, their distaste for the theory escalated into distaste for the person.
When class began the next day, Bruce sensed that the atmosphere was strange. Before the lesson started, people were already whispering below. Once class began, Bruce noticed that no one was sitting beside Jena.
These top students all competed to sit near the front. Jena's seat was in the second row, which should have been packed full. It had been that way every day until now, yet today Jena sat on the left side of the second row, and there was not a single other person on that side.
Bruce frowned deeply. Only then did he realize that he had still been thinking too simply. Things had deteriorated far beyond what he had imagined.
Fortunately, following Batman's habits, he had installed listening devices between the seats.