Today will be the last exam for this year. Even so, after the exam has ended students still need to go to school for a class meeting.

It is held by the school to celebrate the end of the final exam of this term and as well for the students to spend time with other students.

During this time, the students could do whatever they wanted to do. Whether it is participating in events or just sitting in the classroom and hang out with friends.

The events are pretty normal, it's your typical school meeting events.

There's drawing competition, eating contest, relay race. They're all for kids to enjoy...

I'll have to pass on this one. I'll just watch as a spectator on the side.

"Yulia, I found out where Micheal was at. He's currently staying at Jakarta, probably due to some unexpected important family matters."

As soon as I arrived, I went to tell Yulia about Micheal's whereabout.

"I know."

Huh? Yulia knew?

Andy was prepared to explain how he receives the information but the preparation he made was useless as Yulia already knew it.

"Where did you heard it from?"

"Mr.Ridwan told me."

Yulia went to the teacher's office every morning to ask whether there's news from Micheal's parents or not.

Today, the school finally received a letter from Micheal's parents. It announced that Micheal is transferring to another school in Jakarta and studying there.

I shouldn't have said it if I knew this.

"Don't you find the news to be weird? Why would Micheal transfer when the final exam is approaching. He could've transferred to another school after he finishes the final exam here. He also left without saying any word to us."

Of course, I found it to be weird too. Micheal must have been forced to transfer by his family.

I suddenly remembered the day Micheal acted unusually. It must have related to that.

"You shouldn't think too much. He should be fine."

There's no use worrying about Micheal as we can't do anything for him. Both of us are still a child.

The bell ring and the exam was starting soon.

I went back to my seat, preparing my utensils, and wait for the teacher to arrive.

As usual, I was the first one to get out of the classroom. Next would be Yulia and Kervin.

Ignoring Kervin who's waiting for his 'girlfriends', we then went to the canteen to discuss the upcoming exam.

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Time passed and we return to class again.

After the exam, I then went home by myself.

For the past few days, there's a feeling of something missing.

Without a cheerful person around us, the atmosphere wasn't, no the sun just wasn't there. It felt gloomy without Micheal around.

Sigh*

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"This is what I prepared for you."

Borrowing from the original Phyton which you can easily download from the internet. I modify the current version of phyton into my own version.

This version should be the same as Phyton from 2070. The main difference was, of course, the efficiency, I would say I increased by a twofold plus a bunch of new functions.

"You should try them out by yourself first."

Old Man immediately starts messing around with Phyton.

After he plays with it for a while, he's able to do basic things such as displaying something or getting input from the user.

Afterward, I taught him some loop functions. The first one is 'for' function, a machine-controlled loop and the second one is 'while' function, a condition controlled loop.

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...

"It's 6 P.M already, time for you to go home but before that I to give this to you. I want you to solve the problem when you reach home, just write the code on the paper."

"Just follow the tips I gave and you shouldn't make small mistakes such as missing bracket or quote."

The homework I gave him, it'll only take him five minutes to solve. It's not a particularly hard problem.

I just gave a scenario and want him to create a problem based on the scenario given.

Once Old Man went home, I can finally use the computer to check my email.

[The things you ordered have arrived, what should I do with them?]

[Place them into your storage room or something, don't touch any of them and some of them are fragile too, handle them with care. On the weekends, I'll go pick you up so that you can go buy a car or something.]

Ding*

The reply was fast...

[Got it.]

I'll visit James either Saturday or Sunday. That way I'll have plenty of time to work on the supercomputer.

There's still a long way until I could reach VR-MMORPG, but at the same time, there's still plenty of time left.

If I assume that there's no accident that happened to me, I should be able to live at least seventy more years.

I became extremely excited as it's clear that I could make my dream come true without a problem

I will definitely--

Pak*

"Stop staring at the computer! Go and eat!"

"Uh, yes."

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[The next day at school]

"Congratulations, the exam has ended."

"Tomorrow, as you guys knew. Today is a class meeting and you guys still need to come to school for attendance as they will still are marked, understand?"

Mr.Ridwan strictly announced to the students reminding that to the students that they have to come to the class meeting.

"Yes!"

All of the students answered Mr.Ridwan in unison while being disappointed inside, though some of them are looking forward to the class meeting, most of them aren't.

"The class rep will take the attendance and report to me for the rest of the class meeting and also, for the students that want to join in competition or tournament, inform the class rep too."

"Mr. class rep, can you do all the things I mentioned?"

"Yes!"

Finally, the exam was over. The result of the exam will only be out on the last day of the class meeting.

Today there's nothing much happened as this is the first day of the class meeting. Students registered themself on this day so they could participate in it tomorrow.

As for me and Yulia who didn't plan to join any of the events, we just sat in the classroom and play chess.

It's miserable, I lost no matter how hard I tried but at least we got things to do because without Micheal around, things are boring and not lively like before.

Heading home, I continue Old Man's coding lesson, I'll be teaching him until the store closed.

"Oi Andy, I've been curious for a while. How the hell did you even get all of the knowledge you taught me?"

Sigh*

I guess It has gotten to the point even Old Man question it. Indeed, even Old Man has loose screws in his head and doesn't have common sense, the situation was unbelievable to the point Old Man started asking questions. He usually would just go with the flow and won't ask anything.

"You see,"

Hearing that particular word coming out of Andy's mouth, Old Man frowned.

That word was the forbidden word for him, right now Old Man wanted to stop Andy from speaking any further but at the same time, he also wanted to know where the heck Andy learn all of these.

Holding the urge of stopping Andy was hard-quenching that Old Man needs to close his eyes and grit his teeth like a madman.

I continue explaining nonsense, all the sentence I said is of course gibberish and lies that I could think of, trying to keep them as long as possible until...

"Stop! Don't mind what I ask just now, you should continue with the lesson."

Yep, I've been waiting for you to say that.

The lesson continues without much hassle, and my random story blabbering skill was slightly improved.

A few hours passed and it's already 6 P.M, the time for Old Man to return and me to work on the Super AI program.

Afterward, I eat and spend time with Mervin and Father for a while and go to sleep.

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The next morning at school.

It's finally the real day of the class meeting where competition and tournament are held.

The school is very lively, with the boys running around playing tag and girls gossiping.

"The tug of war is starting!"

"Really?! I need to go downstairs, I've registered myself yesterday."

"Me too!"

The students that registered themselves yesterday went downstairs to prepare themself.

As for us who are only planning to spectate the competition, we watch from here, from the classroom window.

Oh, it's starting already.

On the left side, which was Class 5-B, the team consisted of three small boys and two normal-looking girls.

The girl looks stronger than the boys...

While on the other side, 6-A, There are three tough-looking boys and two giant girls.

Judging from the body size it's obvious who's going to win.

In fact, I can easily predict that the 6-A will win this whole tug of war competition.

Those kinds of healthy physiques are rare after all and they're sixth grade. They're basically unbeatable.

Bam*

Someone suddenly barged into the classroom. The person is in such a hurry that he knocks the door with force to open it.

"Andy, we need you!"

He's the class rep, Yanto.

"Can you join us in the tug of war competition? We need one more people."

Hm? Why so suddenly?

"Did you guys not gathered enough member or something?"

I wanted to reject him politely, but first I want to know why would he ask me to join. If it was because I look strong, then no thanks.

"Heli, he didn't come to school, he's absent and now we lack one guy."

"Try to ask another person-"

"I did it! They all rejected me."

Before I could finish the sentence Yanto Immediately intercepted

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"You're the only one that I can ask. Please."

Yanto was pleading toward me, to the point he bowed. From the sweat of his clothes, I can see that he got it from going around the whole school to ask someone to join.

"This is a good opportunity to put good use of your buffed body. You should join."

Seeing me hesitating, Yulia interfered in the conversation.

What did she mean by that?

"Are you afraid of losing? This time I think you could win."

Ah... she meant that.

My miserable thirty-three loses streaks in chess against Yulia. She noticed my depression when losing.

"Fine, I'll join."

"Great! You should head downstairs now, it'll probably be our class to go in a few minutes or so."

The class representative left in a hurry as he has to report to the teacher that I will replace the missing member.

It's sure troublesome to be a class representative.

We walked out of the classroom, heading to the field, but not as fast as Yanto.

"What will you do on school break?"

Yeah, after the class meeting was over, we'll have another two week holiday.

Gahhhh!!

Thinking about having nothing do pain me!

Eh, wait.

This time I can do things unlike Chinese New Year, where I have to relax and spend time with family.

This is just school holidays and I could use that time to go to James' house.

"I'll be helping out in the convenience store, I guess."

"Your family runs a convenience store?"

"Not exactly but it's a friend of my father. What about you?"

"I'm helping my mom and sisters in the store too."

While both of us are chatting, suddenly the announcement speaker called out my name.

"Andy from 4-B. Please head to the field now."

Hearing the teacher calling out my name with his mic, It's definitely our turn now.

"They're calling your name."

"Yeah, I'll get going then, see you on the field."

"Go and do your best!"

With all my might, I reached the first floor in mere minutes, and then I got to the middle of the field, where Yanto and others are at.

"You're here!"

Seeing me, the class representative smiled at me. I didn't know that he's participating too.

Well, this is good for me as he's no doubt the strongest in our class in terms of strength if I'm excluded.

He was after all picked by class as class rep because he looks the strongest and to put it simply he's a muscle brain.

"Andy at the back followed with Christian, Tracy, Fiona."

Standing by on the back, I hold the rope as hard as I could, I decided to give all out on this one because we're against class 4-A which has three strong-looking opponents.

They supposedly won't pose any problem at all but looking at the members in our team, only me and Yanto can be considered a member.

The other three, looking at their face, they're thinking. 'Ah, I'll just let this lose and go and do my own things.'

They're not even trying to win. They just wanted to lose and get over with it.

I'm guessing they're also forced to join by Yanto like me.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

The whistle was sounded by the referee, we then started to pull or to be exact Yanto, and I started to pull.

With me and Yanto who's unusually strong for a mere fourth-grader, we easily won the match for our class.

"Class 4-B... unexpectedly won!!"

Ah, that was fairly easy.

"Wow, we won guys!"

Yanto who tried his best cheered joyfully to the other three that didn't try at all.

While Yanto was cheering, the other three was confused as to how did they win.

'How did we win?'

'I barely pull at all.'

They did slight put some force on the rope but they're actually prepared to let the rope go.

Unfortunately, before they could, they have won the match.

The next game was fairly easy too. Our class won again and moved to the next stage.

'Are actually strong?'

'We might really win!'

The three that at first didn't want to try, gained their confidence. They're now trying their best due to a certain person trying too hard to win despite not wanting to.

The competition went on until we reach final and we'll be fighting against the possibly strongest class in this school, the class 6-A, they're two years older than us and much bigger than us in terms of size too.

Though I'm almost the same size as them, as well as Yanto. The others, not so much.

Five bears against two grizzly bears and three bear cubs.

"Guys! This is the final! We should give our best shot! We can do it!"

"Yeah!!!"

Wow, since when they're so hyped in winning this competition.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

Peep!

This time as expected, the enemy didn't lose immediately. There's definitely some fight going on.

I'm really trying to pull as hard as I could. until the vein was bulging out of my arm, but no matter what they won't move from their spot.

Everyone is trying their best, but our strength is evident, we cannot win against them.

Seeing the people in front of me wasn't willing to give up, especially the other three, which at first barely trying are now trying their best.

At least we tried our best...

Four of them already have their grips loosen up, they have fallen down. Only my who's standing mightily fighting against five of them alone.

I tried to hold as long as I could but then I loosen up my grip due to exhaustion and that one moment causes the loss of our team.

"The winner is Class 6-A!"

The crowd cheered and yelled excitedly, the last game was really intense, it was as though you're watching a professional match.

It was exciting because of everyone's serious expression.

All of you have done great.

"Ah, the 4-B really has done their best. They almost won and embarrassed their seniors."

"I know right, they put up a good fight at least."

Despite our loss, many clapped and cheered for us

"4-B!"

"4-B!"

Four of them who was about to cry when they lost, but after the crowd cheering them they managed to stand proudly.

One of the class 6-A, the most strong-looking boy, went over to shake Yanto's hands.

"You guys have done great."

"You too!"

When both of them shake each other's hand, the crowd cheered loudly again.

It was a wonderful sight to see the leader of both teams, admired each other. A bromance scene.

Now that the competition is over, I went back to the classroom.

Yulia who saw me returning also followed me back to the classroom

Puff*

The competition is really crazy...

I've never tried so hard in an athletic competition before.

This is definitely different compared to when you force yourself to continue working out.

It's much more intense.

"You really tried your best out there."

Yulia smiled at me who's laying down in my chair lifelessly. I can't see the smile though, I'm laying my head down and was closing my eyes.

"I guess, I did."

"By the way, since I've joined one, why not you participate in one of the events too. I remembered there was a chess tournament. If you tried you can still get yourself registered."

I suddenly got the urge of wanting her to join a chess competition. If she really won then I won't feel bad for losing against a kid anymore.

"I only play chess for fun not competitively."

"Then, treat it as a normal game. It's not an official competition anyway. You're just playing against other students in this school, or maybe you're afraid of losing against others?"

I followed what she did to persuade me to join just now but on that method of persuading is not effective on Yulia as she said she's not competitive in chess and she treated it as a normal game for fun.

"It's not going to work. I'm not joining."

"You are going to because I'll go and register your name later."

"You dare!"

Yulia pinched me on the arm. I'm already drop-dead on my chair but the pinch jolted my body that I stood up from my chair.

Damn, I don't know why a woman's pinch always hurt.

To take revenge, I pretend laying on the ground like a dead body, once she got closer, I caught her off-guard and pinched her on the cheek gently.

Her soft cheeks, definitely worth to pinch at.

Yulia who didn't expect I would touch her cheek was frozen on the spot that she forgot to get angry.

I then quickly ran out of the classroom and just like what I said I'll do, I'm going to teacher's office to register Yulia on the chess tournament.

"Andy! Come back here!"

Nope. You'll pinch me to death.