(OOC: I know the professor is there, Undrave. It's just Xue ran off to help Max that she is just now regrouping with the others. Sorry. ^^;; Oh, and I hope it's alright if I can control the professor for this sequence. )
Seeing Jiro start talking to the young boy made Xue satisfied for the moment. "Good. You can take care of him!" Xue felt like going on another angry tirade in Chinese when she noticed that the person who gave her Sectreader to her was here. "You! I've been boiling with questions ever since I got this thing! What the hell is this 'B-Factor' the damn report papers keep mentioning!" The professor just chuckled, amused by Xue's attitude and annoying the chinese girl even more.
He then addressed the others who were now probably curious about it as well, save Megumi as she probably already knew. "It's what allows you to use your armor in the first place. Not everyone has it and it's reaction is stronger or weaker depending on the person. Take you, for example, Miss Hong. Your B-Factor level, compared to everyone else's, runs the middle ground. It's not high enough to get you in Squads A or B, but it's not so low enough that you were excluded." This news made Xue's eye twitch. Seeing that she could explode any minute, the Professor continued, hoping the next bit of news would calm her down. "We didn't assign you purely on B-Factor level. Take Miss Kyuuhana, for example, her B-Factor is higher than your's, but it was decided that her combat abilities weren't high enough to warrant her joining either of the other squads. You were also assigned to compliment each other and to shore up each other's weaknesses-"
"WHAT?! You mean this girl, who could barely even fight out there today, has a higher B-Factor level than me?!" Apparently, this was considered a great insult to Xue, who still felt that Saori didn't prove her worth, at least to her. "I think I've heard enough! If anyone needs me, I'm going to check if my room is still in one piece! Look for my name, Xue Hong, if you're foolish enough to want to talk to me later!" She then stormed away from the others, trying to find the nearest exit. What a waste of talent! Both her and that idiot with the black armor don't know what they are doing...can I really work with idiots like this?