Next morning.
"Kirt, what happened to coming to the new dungeon? Your character was offline all the time, you didn't even enter God's Lore yesterday, didn't you?" with a confused gaze, Jade asked Kirt.
He knew this friend of his was aiming for more loregems and to get them, he would participate in any event concerning it. The dungeon yesterday would've awarded many loregems yet he didn't participate in it.
Did something happen? Or did he just sleep from exhaustion?
After all, they had done two all-nighters this week. It could be reasoned that way but still, it was strange because no matter how exhausted he was, he could've just taken a refreshing pill.
In reply, Kirt answered Jade's question gruntedly. It was obvious he was still sleepy.
"I slept from exhaustion"
Seeing his grunted attitude, Jade already knew the answer before Kirt opened his mouth.
"Do you not have refreshing pills anymore? I have a few of them. You could borrow them if you want"
...
The day passed quietly and time for the AE class came. AE, Ability Education was a lesson that concentrated on developing the abilities of students. Specifically, the esper ability for 9th graders.
Due to concerning the supernormal abilities of the students, the class was a bit different from the other classes. It functioned by the law of the jungle.
Bullying between students and teachers was a common occurrence there.
As being students in the average category, both Jade and Kirt disliked the lesson. They didn't hate the lesson but they disliked it because they could fall into the abyss anytime there. The hierarchy of power may not be so obvious in other lessons but in AE, it was as clear as the day.
After they had changed to the clothes for AE, which was a white shirt and black shorts, they were ready to go.
So they went down separately to the field in front of the school.
The field was quite large, more than enough for the 30 students from my class.
Right now, the students were lined up neatly and in front of us was a male teacher in black clothing. His brows were sharp and his mouth was curved down, it was obvious he was in a bad mood.
After staring at us for some time, he opened his mouth.
"As you all know, the High School national test's date is nearing by the day. Therefore, the school has been putting more pressure on my shoulder."
"All because of the failure on the last test by the school" he stayed silent for a while before continuing.
"So all students will be running around the field 3 times today. And especially you. Piggy. You will be doing 15 laps." with that said, he pointed at the last person on the row and gestured him to come forward.
At his gesture came out a short fat person that reminded people of meatballs.
Students lined up by their strength and talent. The student the teacher pointed at being at the last of the row clearly said about his talent.
He was the trash of the class - 9C.
With parents that weren't much different from normal people and wealth that amounted to not much, he only got into this school by luck and by his parents' hard work.
His father was a construction worker while his mother was a cleaner. It was obvious that with his background, he would be the main target for bullies not to mention he was also ugly in outer looks.
So ever since his parents came during the opening ceremony for high school, his fate within the school had already been decided.
Well, he and Jade were of the average people. They neither got bullied nor was given any special treatment. Both of their parents were espers and their families were quite well off after all.
"Yes sir!" the rest of the students shouted and began running around the field.
...
After the three laps around the field, the students were completely tired out. From them, there were no magicians nor any martial artists except two people. And those two would usually be given special treatment and not participate in these kinds of trainings.
Therefore, all of them were tired out due to using their normal meat bodies.
Currently, they were resting on the benches nearby.
They were drinking milkshakes bought from the canteen in order to relieve the stress put on their bodies.
They just watched on as the piggy - Rubil ran around the field as if his life depended on it. His fat juggling all over his body along with the clothes drenched in sweat made out quite a comical scene for the students as some of them laughed around.
"Pitiful soul" Jade said as he looked towards Rubil, clearly indicating pity towards the student.
"Hush. Don't be caught by the teacher" which I replied back.
Neither he nor Jade wanted any unnecessary attention. So they knew when to shut up.
...
"Now students, I will be testing your ability development. The rules will be the same as before..."