41 Teacher Peter

All of a sudden, teacher Peter entered the classroom with a lot of papers in hand. The teacher has been unusually energetic recently, and even the students have noticed this big change. He went to the office and slammed the papers on it, interrupting them. The man, who was in his 45 years, stood up straight on the podium and examined the class, "Look at you... you are more energetic today, huh... it looks like you're well-prepared, for today's exam... well... well... so let's make this exam more exciting, how about the last three will have to clean the class for a week?''

"Teacher Peter... look... look... who we have here today... doesn't that mean there is already a reserved place..."

"You are right... I think we need not know the last place, as it is clear from the beginning... hahaha..."

Everyone laughed upon hearing that, and some started mocking Rash with some silly gestures, trying to insult and anger the boy.

With his eyes half closed, Rash continued to look at everyone. He did not react to their behavior and found it useless, yet he wondered, "Just how dumb those colleagues whom I have?"

Because Rash was not an abilities' user in the past, he attended Highland College according to his grades, and even though he was not a brilliant in his grade and being average most of the time. For some reason, he was sent to study here.

Not much has passed since the school year started, so why does everyone think he will fail? Just because he was not able to respond to the harassment does that mean he is stupid too? Their way of thinking is very foolish.

This time he would make them swallow their tongues once and give them a big slap in the face. Plus, he had the Inventory as well.

At that moment, Teacher Peter hit the office so hard with Bang, there was some dissatisfaction in his tone, "Everyone's shut up…" Then, as if he had just spotted Rash, he walked to him.

The students felt that his behavior was a little strange. Hasn't Teacher Peter hated Rash so much since that incident? Why is he dissatisfied with their mockery this time?.

Rash, too, had a complicated mindset towards Peter. He did not understand him in the past and thought he was a good person to him. Yet he changed a lot after the accident. And every time he sees him, he feels some regret at causing him to lose the promotion position, even if the matter is not literally his fault.

Here and now, he knew that the teacher would explode in his face with anger because of the many problems he had dealt with because of him in the last few days. Because the teacher is directly responsible for their class, this is his job. Rash did not want to complicate matters further between them, as this is not in his best interest at first, and perhaps that will make him feel a little better.

But it astonished him with what teacher Peter did with him. Immediately upon reaching Rash's seat, he grabbed him by his shoulders and stared directly at his facial features for several seconds, then gave him a firm hug.

Rash: "…" Wat Dhu Fakman… People will misunderstand.

Everyone: "O ... O"

Teacher Peter: "Good... Good... Seeing you here again, safe and sound makes me thrilled... What you've done has made me proud of you... Do you know, because of you, I have great hope for the future..." It was expressions of joy in his eyes like never before, and this was the only genuine time that he felt this way about Rash and the first time in his life.

All the students found this behavior implausible, how could this be?

... they started groaning and whispering between each other. Teacher Peter, however, ignored them and presented Rash as introducing a new student to the class for the first time, he said, "Everyone... you must know, the student Rash and only by his normal body has saved someone's life... with heroic behavior and great courage. He is an example of a good person and What the society desires. You too, you have to work harder from now on, society needs you, the world needs you... every person in his own field... is this understandable?"

Some students nodded to the teacher, and some disliked seeing him praising Rash that much, but they did not comment after his words. Respecting teachers is a necessity.

Although everyone knows that teacher Peter is a normal person; yet his position qualifies him to make him the first person in charge of them in the college. He has a significant distinction about them.

However, there was one person in the class happy from his heart upon seeing this. Class president, Terry Davis, sensed that there was new hope in Rash's life and believed in himself that teacher Peter somehow might not have been affected by the strange spells in the classroom and what was going on.

'Because of you, I found out about that Thing ~~ and this is my reward for you…' Peter gave Rash one last look as he whispered to himself.

After that, the teacher came back to the office as if nothing had happened at all. He gave the papers to the class supervisor to be distributed among the students. Davis gave everyone a paper and left upside-down on the table. When the teacher gave the signal, they started working on the test.

There are about thirty questions in the paper and you have to choose the correct answer from among many wrong answers. Some students were working seriously, and some were trying to convey the answer from their classmates, some of them even tried guessing it.

Rash is the only one who didn't start even after several minutes had passed. He still found things incomprehensible, "Why are so many people acting weird today?"

It started with Davis, and now it's teacher Peter as well. He was not convinced of what the teacher said though and found that there was something strange about it. Maybe Peter is close to the Haynes family?

Rash shook his head. Because he found this was just a remote possibility.

There was also something that made him deeply confused. When he activated the appraisal skill on the teacher to search more about him, he didn't get any information.

<Name: ?????? ~ Level: ??>

Rash felt shocked, 'Isn't teacher Peter a normal person, what does all this mean? Don't tell me he's just using a fake ID and hiding his actual information? But can someone do it at Highland College?'

Even without mentioning it, the college has many experts and powerful people between its walls. So hiding here is very impossible. Also, Rash does not know if this is legal or whether it is somehow related to the administration.

Because he didn't spend much time here yet. Maybe this is really normal.

Rash took the paper and began answering the questions. Now wasn't the time to think too much about other things.

He was lucky because it is a mathematician test, and he was good in this aspect from the start. Therefore, he did not find much difficulty in overcoming the obstacles and was able in a short period of time to answer many of the questions that were easy.

Some questions needed more work and there were several questions he could not solve. Because he was absent for over ten days, he expected them to be things they studied recently, and he still did not see most of them before.

It's not bad anyway, and Rash finds that he can get as good a mark as he has answered a lot and will be far from the last. Just a quick look at the rest of his classmates, and he found there were many of them struggling with their answers.

Steve was one of them. He was looking at his paper like it was a doctor's prescription, full of vague symbols. He raised his head to find many of the students were deluged by their answers, and he could see that Rash had already answered a lot of questions.

"Tch... sure he picks random choices." He stared at him with a look of contempt. How could he accept that even someone like Rash would answer questions when he had answered none of them yet?

Steve looked at Clarke to find him staring at him too, he too could not answer the questions either. The two despise each other, but if there's one thing they have in common, they both have been harassing Rash to the extreme. A sly smile flashed on their lips. It looked like there would be some unfortunate person this week.

Using his Inventory, Rash answered all 30 questions without exception. As long as he was sure they were correct he would most likely score the full mark, and many of his colleagues would get a slap in the face this time. He put his paper on the table and closed his eyes, then studied more. He wanted to use the remaining time to complete the last daily mission and get the reward.

After the allotted time had passed, the teacher ordered for the papers to be collected, as usual, each person passing the paper to the person in front of him until it reached the first one.

This time Rash did not want what had happened in the past to happen again, so he observed carefully so none of his colleagues would hide his paper. He did not want to waste his time on their banalities too much and tries to use his time on more important matters.

And everything went smoothly. At the end, Rash breathed comfortably when he saw his paper reach Teacher Peter. It looks like everything is fine now.

Teacher Peter took the papers from the front tables for each line, then checked everyone in the class one by one until his gaze fell on Rash in the end.

At that point, he used his pinky and thumb fingers to crackle three times in a row.

Pop ~~ pop ~~ pop ~~

Everyone was attentive to the teacher's moves. Yet the next moment Rash felt a powerful wave, as if he suddenly entered another domain. All the confusion, uproar, and the noise in the C class palled completely. And everyone stopped any movements like they turned into corpses in one moment, and Rash felt danger.

During that moment, he quickly activated the appraisal skill to investigate the matter, <The target is under hypnotizing>

When did this happen, and who suddenly attacked everyone?

He thought it might be because of a monster that suddenly appeared in the place and attacked everyone, but Nightmare did not warn him, and also why would not the same thing happen to him if it was like that.

Then he overheard teacher Peter laughing, "What?"

Hehe... he he he... he he he he ~~~~

Slowly, his laughter turned hysterically. Rash held everything and stared carefully at Peter. Something was wrong.

However, the teacher halted suddenly and looked at him with a sinister smile, "Every time I see this scene again, it makes me much better and I can never get bored by this... Huh... you really make my day... Hey, Rash. You tried to commit suicide again by attacking the monster, right? Should I punish you for your foolishness... hmm?"

Peter did nothing, just standing still on the stage. Rash realized he is in an awful situation, but no one can help him in this difficulty. He didn't understand what was going on. Exactly what was happening?

Yet Peter's words gave him a terrible premonition. Rash tried to control his nerves, saying, "Teacher... what are you talking about?" No one knows that he attacked the monster in order to commit suicide, so how did the teacher know that, and why did he act in this way suddenly?

"I've heard this question a lot in the past, and as long as you will forget everything after a few moments, why bother answering? Just as I said every time, I will not let you kill yourself so easily. In the end, you have to pay the price first before that happens."

Forget everything... I have to pay the price... Don't tell me...

"Uh… let me see…" Teacher Peter didn't care about the fluctuations of emotions in Rash's face, he saw this scene far too often. He used to record many such moments as well. But little by little he wants him to go through the utmost despair until he wishes death and does not find it. He took Rash's paper exam from among the many and started reading it carefully for some time, "Oh... very great... you could answer all the questions this time, even the questions you have not studied yet... You are really studying seriously, huh? Unfortunately, this time you have to be punished..." Then with his fists he crushed the paper into a tiny block, and threw it in the trash.

Everything happened before Rash's eyes, as it shocked him. He wanted to do something about it, but he was different this time and could control his feelings a little. He knows teacher Peter is not a normal person from the beginning, and this makes him wonder why he does this to him? Is it because of the upgrade?

"Don't think too much about it, because you will not understand it and you cannot do anything about it either... This time, I think it is good to give you some fun again, after all you rest for a long time in the hospital... let me see... aren't James and Clarke excited about you... well, you are going to spend a wonderful week this time with them cleaning the class... don't you think so?" Peter was calm, like water. Even when he uttered many harsh words, the distant look in his eyes did not change at all, just as he deals with everyone else.