" Ok, let's talk about the game first, I'll be challenging you to hack my node while defending yours and I'll be doing the same, the first one to breach into opponent will be the winner. What do you think about it?" I proposed my game to Zack, as both of us are geeks so this game is really fun for us.

"Yeah, let's do this !!" Zack replied enthusiastically.

Hacking the nodes aren't as easy as it seems in the talks between us, there are a lot of challenges and also a lot of technical know-how, as for time required it exceeds here as compared to normal hacking. Here neither of us has to perform only hacking or the only defence, this will really be an intense game.

We both logged in to our systems in the network and started our work. If an outsider can see the scenario in the room he can directly feel the murderous intent raging in the room, it feels like both the God of life and death have descended on earth and in this room their battle continues over the life of a person, they both are trying to defeat each other for their work to be completed, they are both drenched with sweat, several sweat drops are forming and evaporating while the intense battle continues.

It's undoubtedly not possible for both of them to win but neither of them backed down.

After about an hour, the raging intent started to fade, there were more traces of humankind that can be found rather than a multitude of Godhood. As the fog of rage faded the winner with the glorious body was visible, it wasn't me but Zack. Even though I proposed this game but I didn't know his skills would have risen above me after these few months of his withdrawal from City.

"Hahaha… I see Alex, you never imagined that I'll be winning but this was really fun seeing you lose. What if the world knows that the Genius Alex has fallen and now he is not genius anymore" Zack celebrated his winning.

"This isn't the first time I am considered a loser. In past, once I was too" I mumbled.

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Several days of Grade 2 have passed since I have joined the class here. More or less till now everything was the same as it went on my first day. I still constantly ignored everyone, Sofia still butts into my matter without me asking her for any help and the only thing that changed is, now I brought my lunch every day.

Since I was not used to eating with lots of people around, I used to eat alone on my desk. Sofia went to eat with her friends, I asked Ian to not join me during lunch and enjoy himself, so now I was alone, enjoying my lunch during lunchtime.

I still ignored teachers in the class and do nothing other than seeing and feeling the mother nature outside the window. Although Sofia still occasionally scolded me, I took the scoldings as air and didn't bat an eye to them.

As few days of teaching has passed and teachers had already covered a few chapters of the entire course, so now was the time for the class test to check the understanding of the students.

The test day arrived and in the class, the environment was still tense and everyone was revising everything taught till that time so as to secure a passing score. I entered the classroom and I was already feeling the hellish atmosphere, I ignored everyone just like they ignored me and went straight to my desk, only to see piles of books. There were books of all the subjects for the exam piled there, amidst those books was the fairy, who wasn't looking like a cent of a fairy due to exam pressure.

I stacked together the books that were lying in my area and then gently swept them towards Sofia' side as it all belonged to her. I kept down my bag then I started my usual work, that is to observe the world outside.

Sofia who was on my side was dumbfounded upon seeing my actions. Any student with the tiniest bit of concise would definitely read or even glance through the books once but all I did in class was staring outside, and now also I was doing the same.

Out of her nature to butt into others matter she came near my ears silently then suddenly shouted "Aaaaah". I was scared shitless due to this sudden scream in a girly voice, so it took me time to come back to my senses again but when I came back I only saw other students in the class were staring at us.

It was really awkward for both of us.

Suppressing my embarrassment and anger I asked her softly, "What the hell did you do now?"

She too replied softly, "That was only to prevent you from dozing out again. You are still not serious during the tests? What you'll be doing during the tests? Come on revise with me."

I again took her talk like air and turned towards the window again to see the birds, the leaves all rejoicing every part of their lifetime, it's the life I wanted but it's not my bowl of rice.

In anger, she gnashed her teeth and mumbled, "Forget it!! You'll cry when your parents know your results."

With that everything went silent for about an hour and after that Miss Stella entered our class and instructed everyone,

" Students pack your belongings and be ready for the test"

With this announcement, everyone started packing things up and was getting ready for the test. All I did was to take out a pencil out of my pocket and just like a thug I sat on my allocated place for the exam.

Bell rang and the test began.