The next morning.

As usual, I was dragged out of the bed but this time brother wasn't as cruel as before.

I'm still not used to wake up this early in the morning.

I've been sleeping leisurely for the past decades. (Andy's leisurely is from 1 AM to 1 PM)

Sitting on the table, I noticed that Mervin was staring at me.

With the opportunity given, since he did saw me studying last night. I think I could convince him so that he won't get worried anymore.

"Brother, I'll study hard from now on."

"Good."

A short reply was given even though I mustered myself to say something embarrassing for over seventy years old to say.

I then tried to read his mind, but nope, nevermind, I can't see through anything.

Despite that, I lived longer than my father and should have vast experience.

In my past life, I never properly socialize with other people. I died being single and alone in my house.

Maybe I'm a loner without me realizing it?

I mean, I do prefer being alone.

From what I can see, Mervin's expression is giving a terrifying vibe as though he wants to devour me.

'I'm going to see if you really going to study properly today!'

More importantly, He's eating faster than his usual speed.

In just a minute, Mervin finished his breakfast.

"This is your allowance."

Putting the money on the table Mervin went to work.

I wonder what Mervin does?

Anyway, I finished my breakfast, wear my uniform, pack up my things, and run my way to school.

Not long later, I arrived at school and arrived in my classroom.

The first thing I should've done is probably apologize to every person I have bullied.

Especially toward Kervin.

I need to befriend him so that he could help me with studying.

Not right now, since primary school studies, I think I could manage to understand everything without extra tuition or help.

But once I reach High-school, things might not be the same anymore.

I never went to high-school so I planned to at least get into high-school in this life.

In other words, befriending him to get a study partner is a good idea.

I was sitting in my desk, waiting for an opportunity to approach Kervin but no matter what I can't find the opportunity to do so.

Seeing me staring at Kervin, Micheal gave me an anxious stare, thinking that I was planning to 'attack'.

"Um, Andy? Do you want to bully Kervin? I don't think it's a good idea, the girls are around him, we shouldn't attack yet."

Micheal timidly advised me as he didn't want his friend to experience hellish pain for nothing.

"No, I'm not attacking."

Realizing that Andy will not 'attack' he was then relieved.

Ding-Dong*

The bell rang, signifying that the class will start soon, and the teacher is on their way now.

Most of the children went back to their seat but there's one annoying child that went outside as though he's a watchman, waiting at the corridor of the class only until he caught a glimpse of the teacher's face, he quickly went back in and return to his seat.

Yeah, I'm used to be one of them.

Now that I looked at it, it looked very stupid to do such a thing.

The class starts normally.

It was quite boring because I have already studied the topic on my own.

The teacher repeats everything on the textbook anyway. So there's no different than reading the textbook on your own.

Even so, I didn't sleep. I was diligently writing the simplified version of what the teacher said.

Seeing how unusual of me, writing in the notebook, the teacher was unpleased. She thought that I was doodling in my notebook.

'This kid, I need to teach him a lesson or else he will not understand.'

The teacher called up my name and asked me to explain what she explained.

"Andy, please come here and bring your notebook too."

"Can you please explain, how can you find the main idea of a paragraph?"

'Hmph if he really takes notes, he should be able to get it by simply read his notebook. I did allow him to bring his notebook.'

She was planning to embarrass me in front of the class but I'm not letting her do so.

Without a problem, I answered her questions perfectly without even looking at the notes in my hand.

For that, she even praised me unconsciously even though she supposed to scold me.

Not willing to give up, she grabbed my notebook and opened it, only to find out that it was full of notes of what she has said.

"Miss Fitri, Can I return to my seat now?"

"Uh. Of course, you can return to your seat."

The class continues normally as though nothing happened but I could see that it affected her.

She was frantically trying to finish the topic quickly and leave the classroom before the class ends.

In the end, the bell rang and she left as fast as she could.

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[Teacher's Office]

Inside of the teacher's office, a teacher wore an interesting expression while holding a paper.

His colleague, The PE teacher, Imam, he saw and got curious.

"What's wrong?"

"Is it another ridiculous answer? Let me see it."

"N-No that's not it."

The colleague went slide over to his colleague's side. It turned out that someone scored a perfect score.

"Wow! Someone scored a perfect score on your test. Now, that's rare!"

"There's no need to get so shocked over a perfect score!"

Imam said that but then when he saw the name of the student on the left corner. His jaw was dropped to the floor, leaving a dumbfounded face.

"W-what Andy?!? It's not Kervin who scored the perfect score? Is there other Andy that I don't know of?"

"Unfortunately, no. There's only one Andy in 4-B. Now, do you understand why I'm shocked?"

"How could that be?! He's the usual Andy that gives ridiculous creative answer right? How did he score a hundred? Are you sure he didn't cheat?!"

"Do you think he could cheat on my watch?"

"Y-you're right."

His friend here, Ridwan, was nicknamed 'Devil' by the students due to his strict teaching method and scary face.

No one would dare to cheat with him around because everyone that tried to cheat didn't end up with a light punishment.

"Moreover, it's a math test! Simply knowing the answer still won't do, you have to show the steps."

"Even though he got the answer correct but the steps he used don't make sense, I wouldn't mark it as correct."

"Argh! I can't stand it anymore! I'll just call him over and ask him."

Mr.Ridwan immediately stood up from his seat and headed over to the announcement office to make an announcement.

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Now it's a good time to approach him.

He's now alone.

"Hey, Andy! Want to bully the 'lioness' again!"

Lioness? Somehow, that sounds familiar.

If Andy asked who is Lioness right now. The boy standing in front of him would look at him weirdly.

The nickname 'Lioness' was made by Andy for a girl which used to be his mortal enemy.

"N-no, I'm good. I have something to do. you should go and eat your lunch. I'll head over there later on."

Andy urged Micheal to go and eat first.

Micheal agreed with a sad expression on his face. He then went to the canteen to eat his lunch without waiting for Andy

"O-okay... I'll go first then. I'll see you later."

Right... now that we're alone, I should properly apologize to him.

Andy was about to approach Kervin but was stopped by the announcement.

"Andy Lee. Please come to the teacher's office."

"I repeat- Class 4-B, Andy Lee. Please come to the teacher's office and find Mr. Ridwan."

...What the?

Out of nowhere an announcement was made, calling Andy to head over to the teacher's office.

When Andy left the classroom, Kervin's loosened up, he was relieved that he was saved by the announcement.

'Serves you right... you should get into trouble more!'

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[Teacher's office]

"Good Morning Mr. Ridwan."

"Good Morning. Sit down."

Mr. Ridwan offered me his seat and ordered me to sit down however with his stern expression any kids will still be scared.

Thankfully I'm not a kid, or else I wouldn't dare to sit down.

"Say... How much do you think you scored on your math test?"

How much I scored on the test...

Should I say a hundred confidently or be humble and pretend that I don't know.

Hmm...

Saying I don't know will create more suspicion, I guess I'll just be honest with him.

"I believe that I answered everything correctly in the test. Was there a mistake that I didn't notice of? If so, I apologize for that, I'll do better in the next test."

The lengthy and polite answer I gave made Mr.Ridwan frowns.

'What's with his lengthy answer? Since when did he become this polite?'

"Ehem, Don't worry about your test. There's no mistake at all and you have done very well on the test. I called you here to confirm something."

"Can you explain what you did here?"

The question Mr. Ridwan asked was to confirm that Andy really does everything on his own and he understands what he wrote in the test paper.

When he heard the confident answer from Andy, he was then sure that Andy did the test on his own.

Mr.Ridwan quickly dismissed Andy and allow him to enjoy his break time.

As soon as Andy left, Mr.Ridwan sighed.

Calling over a student to just dismiss him instantly was not his style.

'I'll reward him something good in the next class when I hand out the results.'

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"Phew, he didn't suspect a thing about my handwriting."

Andy was relieved that Mr.Ridwan didn't notice the change in his handwriting.

He couldn't just say that he changed his handwriting a few days ago. That wouldn't make sense.

Anyway, it's good that he didn't notice it.

I have to go and eat before the break-time ends.

After I was released by Mr.Ridwan, I quickly went to the canteen to accompany Micheal.

As soon as I arrived at the canteen, Micheal waved his hand to call me over.

He even reserved a seat for me.

"I heard that you're called by Mr.Ridwan. What did he do to you?"

"Hm... it's nothing. He just wanted to ask me a few questions."

"Really? The devil didn't do anything? That's weird..."

"By the way just now what you did is cool! Miss Fitri probably didn't expect you to answer her question. Even other students didn't expect you to answer them."

Hmm, it seems it did cause some impact just like what I wanted.

As usual, Micheal caught on quick. He noticed that Miss Fitri was shocked. Other children wouldn't be able to notice the changes in adult expression and make information out of it.

He's indeed a bright child but I don't know why would he follow me.

While I was sipping on the soy milk that I bought, Micheal stared at me too.

"What's wrong?"

"Um, the bell rang already. Do you want to ditch the class?"

Oh, I didn't hear it.

I was thinking about what should I do with Kervin. Whether I should give up on him or not.

There's no way for both of us to be friendly with each other anymore.

I mean, he's not the only one that could become my study partner.

Micheal is a possible study partner and the best choice too.

After all if not because of me, I think he could at least get the top ten.

I need to change his bad habits which are caused by me.

As for now, just in case, I should also find another study partner that could help me study.

Wait...

The bell rang already?!!?

After this was math! Meaning it was Mr.Ridwan's class!

"No. We're not ditching class. quick! We need to return to the class."

I don't mind getting punish by Mr.Ridwan, it was something that usually happened to me already but I will feel guilty if Micheal gets punished because of me.

He stayed behind waiting for me to in the canteen despite knowing it's Mr.Ridwan's class.

We ran as fast as we could but unfortunately, Mr.Ridwan was already inside. We could hear everyone inside was greeting him.

Not wasting any time to worsen the situation, We greet Mr.Ridwan at the door.

"Good Morning, Mr.Ridwan!"

Both of us greeted in unison. We then stood there waiting for our punishment but unexpectedly, he said.

"Hurry and return to your seat."

Micheal didn't look surprised at all as he calmly returns to his seat but as for other students as well as me, everyone was shocked that we could return to our seat without any punishment.

Kervin was extremely disappointed that his mortal enemy wasn't get punished.

'Is Mr.Ridwan in a good mood?'

The reason Mr.Ridwan didn't punish Andy was that he knew he took away some of Andy's break time but mainly was because Andy has done perfectly well in his test which made him happy for him.

So for once, he won't say anything about Andy being late.

"I have marked your test. For the one that thinks that he has done poorly in the test, please be prepared."

"I'll start from the highest marks to the lowest."

Kervin has already stood up from his seat before he heard his name get called out but upon hearing the name he was shocked.

"100 out of 100. Andy"

The whole class went frenzied when they heard Andy was the highest.

"Andy got a perfect mark?!"

"Did he cheat?!"

"A hundred in math are you serious? And its Andy?!"

Bam*

Hearing the loud commotion, Mr.Ridwan slammed the table, silencing the students from being noisy.

'Well, this is a normal reaction. I'm glad I wasn't the one that was shocked.'

Mr.Ridwan understand them, he was also very shocked that Andy got a perfect score.

Kervin sheepishly went back to his seat. He was relieved that everyone was so shocked that they didn't notice him.

'How did this happen?!'

'Andy got a hundred in math?! He didn't even listen to the class! He sleep the entire time!'

While Kervin was dumbstruck, contemplating how Andy suddenly became smarter, Mr.Ridwan for the first time, praised Andy.

"Good Job. As usual, I prepared a 'gift' for the one who score poorly and as well gift for the one good in their test."

Yeah... the type of gift varies depending on the score.

Mr.Ridwan gave me a toy car for scoring the highest.

It was his idea to reward those that do well in the test but as for the one that fails miserably in the test, he will also punish them thoroughly similar to a carrot and stick approach.

Seeing Andy receiving a toy car, Kervin gritted his teeth with anger.

'It's supposed to be my toy car!'

Kervin did ask Mr.Ridwan to specifically to reward a toy car last test, but now it ended up in Andy's hand.

"Next, Kervin 96 out of 100."

"Good Job, just a slight mistake on number four, next time be more careful."

Kervin received a bag of snacks. He definitely was dissatisfied with the reward he received. However, he didn't show it in his face.

'Next time, I swear I'll beat you!'