Patty opened his eyes and he was suddenly inside the classroom with the rest of his classmates. He looked down and was pleasantly surprised to see the system made sure that he was still in his mobile massage chair.
"Cool chair bro," some of his classmates commented on his new ride, which he was more than happy to show off. After all, he paid really good money for it.
"But aren't you going to change into your PE uniform? You do know that it's the Physicality Test today, right?"
Of course, Patty knew that. However, he didn't need to go and perform arduous tasks for an arbitrary score that didn't matter in the real world. After all, he won the bet against the professor, allowing him to have a perfect 100 score on his Physicality Tests without even doing anything.
"You know who you're talking to? He's Patty, the resident lazy sheep in our class. Of course, he forgot that it's the Physicality Test today."
"Oh, yeah. I forgot. I commend you for committing to your laziness. It's like you don't care if you get recruited by a company or not."
Patty simply shrugged. After all, he didn't need anything. He got all the money he could ever ask for and he'll become stronger each day without exercising. He was incentivized to not do anything at all. If he saved up his energy, he could get more summon scrolls and summon powerful minions that would give him powers automatically.
But, they didn't know that. They only knew Patty as a careless guy who didn't care about his future at all.
"Don't even waste your energy on this guy." One of his classmates named Mario walked up to the small crowd that gathered around Patty. He was the one most worried about the results of today's Physicality Tests, and he wanted everything to go well for him.
Seeing Patty still lazing about and not taking the Physicality Tests seriously made him angry. Today's tests involved group competitions, and he didn't want his classmates to get infected by Patty's laziness.
"I don't care if you want to waste away your life, but don't bring down others for your own sake." He sneered at Patty.
Usually, Griff and his lackeys were the ones to teach the weak ones a lesson. He was usually the one who used violence to make the weak sheep in the herd shape up. Even though he didn't say anything back then, he was silently agreeing with their actions.
For him, it was fine to bully some classmates, especially someone like Patty who knew nothing but to stay in bed and do nothing all day.
However, Griff and his lackeys have been absent from school for a week now. Because they were gone, no one was there to teach guys like Patty a lesson. He wished that Griff was here so that he would beat up Patty in front of the classroom and make him feel humiliated.
Maybe then, Patty would finally shape up and try to do his best to get recruited by some companies. Maybe he could even get recruited by the Ruobber company like he was. In his perspective, Patty would be immensely lucky if he even got a pitiful F-class Teqx from some middling company.
Since Griff and his lackeys were gone, Mario thought it was his responsibility to be the leader of the classroom. It was his job to whip Patty into doing his best for the Physicality Tests.
"Patty. Go change into your PE uniform, now. Or else I would have to teach you the difference between a Dreamer with a D-class Teqx like me or a mortal like you."
But instead of cowering in fear and listening to his words, Patty dazedly looked at nothing but the air. He looked like he was daydreaming or something. This made Mario even angrier.
"Don't ignore me! You can't bring down our classroom with your incompetence. I'll have to score at least a 70 in our group scores. I don't want your low score of 0 to bring down the whole average of our classroom!"
But Patty still ignored him. What was most annoying about it was the whirring sound of Patty's massage chair. Even during this tense time, he still dared to turn on the massage option of his chair! It was as if Mario's words went towards Patty's left ear and immediately exited to his right ear.
This prompted Mario to raise his hand. He was ready to turn violent just to get Patty's attention. He was the best performer in class. He was just trying to make everyone better, but Patty's lazy actions were sabotaging the efforts of everyone.
His D-class Power Teqx was called Negative Air Resistance. His movements, no matter how fast he was, were devoid of any friction from the air. This allowed him to move faster than anyone and with more power.
A slap using his powers would surely knock Patty back into his senses. Although Patty might get hospitalized because of it, Mario didn't care. If Patty got hospitalized now, it might turn out better for the whole classroom. Patty would be exempted from the Physicality Tests and his horrible score wouldn't affect the classroom.
His hand glowed a slight bluish-green as he activated his powers. And just as he was about to slap Patty into oblivion, the classroom door opened and Professor Ortez entered the classroom.
"Okay class, go back to your seats." Behind him was a girl with short and straight black hair down to her ears. Her bangs obscured her eyes, and nobody could see where she was looking. She had her head down as she walked.
"Before we get to our Physicality Tests, I'd like to introduce you to our new transferee. Her name is Ytiz Terioso. I know it's late in the year, but please welcome her as your new classmate." He looked at her and gestured for her to introduce herself.
"Hello…call me Ytiz…" her voice was low and a little bit hushed. She didn't seem all that eager to become friends with her new classmates.
Once her introduction was done, she quickly excused herself, walked towards the back of the classroom, and took her seat at the very back. While she was walking, her eyes were obscured in her bangs kept looking over at her classmates without anyone noticing.
With just one look, she was able to memorize their faces in her mind. Nobody noticed her or paid any attention to her as she walked. Everyone thought that she was one of those anti-social kids who had low self-esteem.
They didn't see her looking at them with a calculating eye.
Her eyes lingered on some of the students, taking more time to analyze their faces and their movements. Some, she simply gave a single glance before moving on to the next student.
When she looked at Patty, she saw the strange mobile massage chair that stood out in the classroom like a sore thumb. However, that was the only thing that stood out about him. She looked at his face and didn't notice anything else. He didn't even notice that she was looking at him.
After she finished her survey, she walked down to her seat and stayed there.
"Now that things have settled, I hope that all of you are ready to perform in the most important event of your senior life, the Physicality Tests."
Some of the students who were confident in their abilities shouted in eagerness. They wanted to show off their new powers and they wanted to show off the fruit of their hard labor this past year. They wanted to show the high scores they got in this Physicality Test to hopefully get recruited by a good company.
Some students groaned. They weren't confident in their strength. And having their physical qualities turned into simple numbers made them even more depressed. They didn't have to know that their physical scores were below 50 to know that they were weak.
Only Patty remained indifferent. His weird chair was still working overtime to massage his legs, his back, and his neck at the same time. He was so relaxed and casual that he just stared at nothing but the air.
Even though everyone thought he was arguably the weakest out of everyone here, he was the one most indifferent to the test.
Mario couldn't take it anymore and talked to the professor. "Sir, Patty still won't change his clothes into his PE uniform! We can't be late in our group track relay! Also, is he allowed to bring that massage chair into the classroom?!"
Professor Ortez looked at Patty and sighed. No matter how much he wanted Patty to shape up and take the Physicality Tests seriously, he couldn't do anything. A bet's a bet.
"Patty doesn't have to go to the Physicality Tests," the professor said.
"Why sir?"
"It's because…he already has a perfect 100 score"
Mario felt completely embarrassed. He was the one saying things about Patty bringing down the whole classroom. It turned out that Patty already got a perfect score without even doing anything!