"And, ah, is there a reason why you're not coming forward publicly about it?"

"Yes."

"...is it a secret reason?"

" - yes?"

"We have reason to think it'd cause a stir among some powerful capes who currently aren't causing one, to oversimplify."

"...I see. Should I just—assume this is being competently handled? I'm just a therapist. I'm a good therapist, but..."

"It's being handled with lots of resources by very dedicated and competent people, and there'll be more of them available soon."

She nods. "I'm glad, then."

"Of course. Are you all right?"

"...yes. I think I am." She smiles. "My world has just been turned upside down but... yes."

"Good."

"I should probably go arrange things so that Epic doesn't need to attend school anymore."

"That makes sense. You can write him if you need anything else from us."

"I will. I suppose I should thank you for—saving the world, if that's what you're going to do."

"You're very welcome."

"We do it a lot."

She laughs. "That's good to know."

He takes Maitimo home. He bounces back. "Thank you for getting me out of school."

"You're welcome," she says, half-smiling. "Thank you for—telling me everything."

Nod.

And he can go do whatever while she does whatever she needs to do to make sure he doesn't need to go to school again.

He goes to his room.

Legend's written him a letter asking him how he's doing.

He composes one to drop off in return once he can. It explains that they made him go to school but won't do that anymore, and that the military dictatorship has been made to stop torturing people he would kind of have appreciated knowing about that sooner.

He works on his artifact.

Doctor Ximenes successfully manages to arrange it so he does not need to go to school any longer.