1 month has already ended, the level of student anxiety stack on top of each other so much it can cut the sky in half, here in Chakava academy is just the daily disease month. Everyone can even sense the smile on their teacher's face from a mile away. When a day before the exam begins, all the villagers living on the base of the mountain would have to suffer the same sleepless night as the students because all of their reciting and reviewing are too loud, it can ego through the whole mountain, even more, the shrines have more crowded than ever before, some student would even burn incense sticks in front of their classroom door pray for the ghost and god to help them, and few give up on study halfway and started learning fortune-telling.
How about cheating? The answer is simple if you're caught three times you'll get expelled. Over the years as the student cheating system starting to develop so as, the teacher-catching system, that why praying is the safest method there is. Is there a way to even pass?
Then let talk about the top of the class what is their trump card of passing the final exam and even get good result? There is the method where the top students use.
There are many varieties of subjects for the student to study, from military tactics to even sword dance. For the male student the subject that military-related is used as their main subject whereas, the female student used it as their side subject. All the wise students would break the subject down into three categories.
The first category is the "recite subject" which consists of history, geography, astronomy, mathematics, and poetry. The secret to memorizing all of this subject is to be crafty, they don't need to recite the lesson, again and again, to remember, instate they would listen to other students reciting, teaching other students, using an easy to understand language, or even draw reflecting their feeling behind the meaning of the poem for better memorizations. Then they would try to find the pattern in the exam. The teacher would always hand over the exam paper after correcting making finding trends in the exam have become useful thus, predicting the question in the future is a lot easier and more clear for example some teacher would always put the lesson from the previous chapter or before the chapter they teach as a bonus question and some are paraphrases question tricking student to think they haven't learned about it before.
The second category is the "critical thinking" subject such as military tactic, philosophy, and politic which require the question asking for the student opinion, for that it can be tricky because there is no real answer so students can only come up with as many ideas as they can thus, making it the subject to deducted students full score. The final category is called the "side pointer" which means the activity base on school performance homework, beautiful handwriting, and side subjects such as sword dance and medical aids. It offers less point than the main subject, however, it will determine the total score.
The final exam is over, everyone gets to relax and let their soul fly free only to call it back in again a week later for checking their result. In the hallway, the student had gathered to see their result, some are happy jumping with joy and other are crying while a few thanking gods and their ancestors. The mix of emotion fills the hall with noise and chaos making it a sight to remember by all the students. The final exam is over however this isn't the time for vocation, Here in Chakava academy this is just the beginning of the real emotional rollercoaster. students have one week to head down to their home and prepare for the next mission. The first place this year with a perfectly full score belongs to "Chan Treia".
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"Hey, Did you hear what happens to the royal rebel? "
"I know it unbelievable, How did he do it? "
The sound of students charting about the hot news which recently happened around the school. This is about the new teacher of the school Master Rahu. Recently the news of him catching students cheating has been spreading around the school,but not only that he is able to see through all student's schemes and tricks and he can even predict the sword movement of his opponent. People started to call him "The devil eyes master"
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1 week had passed, In the early morning, all students and teachers are standing in the same hall, each one of them started to pick a pair of chopsticks in a wooden box putting on top of a table covered with red cloth. After all 12 teachers finished picking their chopsticks with the red ribbon wrapping around its base then students started to take their turn following their teacher. They divided themselves into 5 lines and each line consisted of 12 students each takes turns picking the same looking chopstick as their teachers. After the students finished all of them have to wait for the headmaster called to unwrap the ribbon revealing with hidden inside. This is the tradition of picking teams in Chakava academy. There are 1 teacher and 5 students in one team If their chopstick has the same picture that means they are a team. The picture would reveal the team's first mission. The only way for students to pass this third stage toward graduation is to finish all 12 missions. Each teacher will act as a mentor guiding their students forward to face the world that is unfamiliar to them, in other words, is similar to prepare them for adulthood. Finally, The teachers get to pick the name of their team
"Student and teacher! We are gathered here not by mere coincidence, but by fate. As your headmaster, I am so proud of you all for passing your exam and moving your life onward to a brighter future" the headmaster stroke his long white bread as he smiles happily at all of the teacher and student then sit himself down on his chair already prepare in the center of the hall.
"Now the very moment has arrived, May the red ribbon bind you together by fate, May your fate guild you toward the light with them"
After the headmaster finish, people in the hall started to unwrap the hidden pieces inside. "golden mice, white horns cow, orange tiger, snow rabbit, red dragon, green snake, blue legged horse, wooden goat, silver monkey, black roaster, gray dog and, pink boar. All of these are the hidden pictures on the base of the chopsticks and the next ceremony begins with each team presenting themselves and tied the red ribbon for one another.
" Golden Mice!, you may present yourselves now"
The team started to gather one by one in the middle of the hall performing the ceremony, some students are happy to see each other in the same team. As the ceremony go on cool name started to ego all over the school
"Emperor eyes", "Rain master Ox", "Wing tiger cubs" "...."
"Snow Rabbit!" Students and teacher with the snow rabbit picture in their hands move themselves toward the middle of the hall. As the team starting to form, familiar faces have shown up, However, no one expected the devil's eyes himself to pick the chopstick with a small white rabbit imprinting on it.
"I MASTER RAHU present"
"I chan treia son of the Sangha clan present"
When Chan Treia present himself everyone started to breathe a sigh of relieved "Thank heaven he isn't with us, otherwise our team will be cursed for sure"
"I LOTUS lady of the pawn village present"
Then the mood of the students started to swing once more "Noo why is the goddess fallen to that team!!!"
"I MAYU son of the Garuda clan present"
"I REAM son of the Naga clan present"
Both Mayu and Ream see each other and instantly thought "WHY is this guy again!!!"
"I TACHI daughter of the Kla ro Khen household present"
Just by seeing the member of the team, we can surely say that this the team to laugh and cry for, both curse and blessing at the same time
"Now you may begin"the headmaster gives master Rahu a nod and he started to recite the script for the red ribbon ceremony then his teammates followed after him
"By the power of the red ribbon, we are brought together by destiny. we shall be bound by blood from today to eternity until the ribbon cut. We are called upon by heaven as the promise keeper earth master as the witness by the power of this red ribbon our name and soul are one and from today on we shall be called "The flower warriors"
After Master Rahu was done, the teachers are impressed by his style of naming his team. 'The heavenly flower warrior' is a name people given to a war hero who is a Tavada (heavenly official) for a long time ago, by naming the team after him shows that the team embodies the spirit of both strength and compassion.
"Black roaster" A big man shows up in the middle of the hall and the students carrying chopsticks with a black roaster imprint on its base step forward from where they stand after seeing their now mentor show up."Good you may start now"
" I MASTER MA HONG present"
" I YUMARI son of the Neakarech (Dragon) clan" "Yes golden goose truly lay a golden egg," Yumari thought to himself
"I SAGI son of the Bakkgu scholar household present"
"I SAVATAK son of the Gream household present"
"I LONG son of the Sky dragon clan present"
"I SAVY son of the Noble household present"
"Good you may start now"
"By the power of the red ribbon, we are brought together by destiny. we shall be bound by blood from today to eternity until the ribbon cut. We are called upon by heaven as the promise keeper earth master as the witness by the power of this red ribbon our name and soul are one and from today on we shall be called "The golden chick"
"The golden Chi-" suddenly, the room went silent, no-one utters a word, they just stare at the team in front of them with disbelieving in their eyes, even a tear of pity almost drop from their face. As for the team, their eyes went white making many kinds of faces, and end up puking blood everywhere. What is wrong with "Golden chick"? If you think reasonably this is an all most perfect name for their teacher pick for them because all of them are coming from a clan that wears golden color as their symbol, However, everything is wrong, if you were to put the word "Golden" and "Chick" together you'll get the name of the chicken soup known in every restaurant. In the hall, only the headmaster laughs the out loudest clapping his hand while everyone else stays silent and the ceremony continues
The ceremony has ended the last thing to do is to relax and reprepare the material needed for tomorrow's mission.