"I really didn't expect so many people to show up."
Sitting in the classroom and looking at the crowd around her, Saten Ruiko could not help but sigh.
As far as she could see, the lecture hall was packed with students, almost all of them girls. Their uniforms came in all varieties. Most were from Tokiwadai, but there were also quite a few students from other schools. She could even spot uniforms from Kirigaoka, Nagatenjouki, and Private Shidare Sakura.
Judging by the uniforms alone, there were only a handful of ordinary-school students like her. Everyone else came either from elite girls' academies or prestigious schools for Esper development. It felt as if they were attending some important course on Esper development.
But in fact, the current lesson had nothing whatsoever to do with Esper development.
"Next, we will discuss the three laws of materialist dialectics. First is the unity of opposites. We must understand that every thing in the world, both internally and in relation to other things, contains two aspects of contradiction. The two sides of a contradiction are both opposed and unified. The movement and development of things lie in the movement of their own contradictions. The struggle and unity of contradictions, universality and particularity, are unified in objective facts..."
Standing at the front, Fang Zheng wrote several lines on the blackboard.
"Then there is the law of quantitative and qualitative change. Everything undergoes a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. When quantitative change reaches a certain point, it causes qualitative change and produces a new quality. Then, on the basis of that new quality, a new quantitative change begins... Many of you here are Espers, selected from countless people. Perhaps you had abilities to begin with, or perhaps you did not. So how were you selected