You’re funny

Third Person's POV

June 6, 2xx1

Atlas arrived at the library; he has 2:00 hours of vacant time. As he enters the library, he remembered his first time coming here, he was so fascinated by how large the library is but even though he hadn't toured around all the parts of this library, he already saw it using the scanning ability of the rubrics cube.

He commanded the system to show him the 3D Hologram of the library once more and skims towards the books he needs. This university accepts elementary to graduate studies that's why the books here vary from elementary level, high school level, senior high school level, undergraduate level, and lastly graduate levels. For now, Atlas wants to focus more on the basics to enhance his foundations, he's already done with the elementary level last time after reading a total of 6 books in 5 hours.

This time he'll be studying at the high school level, he starts off by searching for basic Algebra in the massive collections of books in this library. He skims through the 3D Hologram provided by the system and finally, he found a potential book. It was the standard book that the first-year high school student uses, the perfect book to review and upgrade his foundation. He immediately goes to the shelve where the book is placed, it took him about 2 mins to reach there, that's how large this library is.

After he reached out and got the book off the shelves, he went to the nearest table and took a seat there. He immediately opened the book as he can't waste any time he thought, and when he entered the realm of mathematics as he reads the book. Unknown to him, that while he was reading the book, the world in his mind continued to expand as new information rushed into his head.

He immersed himself in reading for 2 hours and he wouldn't have stopped if it weren't for the timer, he set in order to wake his self from the learning atmosphere he couldn't have stopped from reading. When he reads a book, he completely forgot about the time, that's why he set up a timer to stop himself.

Despite reading for 2 hours, he didn't manage to completely read the whole book, this only represents how vast the difference between elementary level and high school level knowledge is. He finished reading the utmost ¾ of it, but the knowledge he gained already overwhelmed him.

He tried to see if he can still recall all the information in the book to test if the system helped him memorized it all and the system didn't disappoint him indeed. Last time where he only reads the basic arithmetic casually the system comprehends the information for him but now that he's focused the system's comprehension almost touched the intermediate level. The system would enhance any learnings he got, even if he can't understand some of them at the moment but it was just stuck in his head, he swears to study about it more in the future.

The basic Algebra seems to be insignificant for some students but only now did Atlas learned it's importance. All the lessons about calculus makes more sense to him now, and above all, this is just the basic!

Thinking about the intermediate levels of knowledge makes Atlas excited, sadly he can't continue reading anymore because he has a class right now. He just memorized the last page he is on and he put the book back on the shelf and rushed out of the library to go back to his classroom.

By the time Atlas arrived at the classroom the professor is already there, his class right now is just a minor subject so he's really not that enthusiastic about it. His professor doesn't have any distinct feature, when he saw her he exclaimed in his head: 'Finally a normal-looking professor!'

She has those normal vibes of a professor that any student would imagine in their high school life. Ever since Atlas started studying here, almost all the professor that handled their class is a young professor if not middle age but this one really deserves to be called a professor just by how she looks. She is old and huge; she befits the description of an old terror professor.

Just as Atlas steps inside the classroom, the professor turns her head to him and glared. This sudden movement has shaken Atlas to the core as he felt his surroundings suddenly became cold.

"Why are you late?" She said with her cold but large voice.

"Good morning Ma'am, I'm Atlas ---"

*PAK*

"I said Why are you late!?" She slaps the table with her stick that caused Atlas to flinch in terror. He gulped his saliva and prepared to answer the question despite almost falling on the ground because his knees turn soft just now.

"I-I w-we-went to t-the l-li-library m-ma'am" Atlas' old hobby showed up again as he answered with fear. His whole body is shivering from fright because of how intense the pressure he felt just now, it's even more intense than the pressure he felt when he faced off the 4 assassins. Just as the cold sweats started to appear in Atlas' forehead the whole room suddenly laughed.

'Pfft-bwahahahahahahha'

Some are even clutching their stomach because of how hard they laugh, even the cold Alia chuckled after seeing his appearance. Atlas has no idea what is happening, he just stared at the whole class then turned his head toward his professor hoping to get an answer. Fortunately, the professor gets his message.

"You may now go in, take your seat. You're funny!" The old professor said as she stifles her laughter afraid to embarrass Atlas further.

Atlas proceeded to the back row and noticed that Flint and Beatrice aren't around, he saw Sophia beside Alia.

"Atlas!" Sophia runs towards his side after seeing him.

"You're so funny!" She said as she slaps his biceps while laughing.

Atlas just took his seat and Sophia followed suit.

Because Flint and Beatrice aren't present, the back row is vacant. Their seating arrangement is:

Sophia-Atlas-Vacant-Vacant-Alia

Atlas looked at Alia's direction and he caught her looking at him.

Alia immediately turns her head in the other direction feeling embarrassed after getting caught. She blushes in shame, 'why did you stare at him!' she blamed herself. She could still feel Atlas' gaze towards her making her more embarrassed. 'Why is he looking at me?!' she couldn't help but feel somehow happy that Atlas' attention is in her but it doesn't last long because Sophia entered the scene.

"Atlas where did you go?" Sophia asked.

"I went to the library," Atlas said as he took off his gaze from Alia and faced Sophia, causing him not to see how Alia's face turned cold just now.

"Can I go with you next time?" Sophia asked enthusiastically like an excited child going to the sea. Alia's countenance turns grim after hearing this question of Sophia.

"Of course!" Atlas said while laughing, he can't bring himself to decline this simple request of Sophia after seeing stars in her eyes imagining the library. This is also what he felt when he was still a child and was dreaming of entering this university.

Alia who heard this was surprised, he didn't know that Atlas would really agree. She couldn't help but feel jealous all of a sudden after hearing him laugh with Sophia. Every time they would be together Atlas won't talk to her like how he talked with Sophia just now. He talked with happiness and fondness while when he talks to her he's not like that.

The cold face she had just now turn into sadness, she felt alone all of a sudden. Ever since Beatrice and Flint left earlier nobody dared to talk to her aside from Sophia.

Sophia tried to talk to her, but she didn't answer, all she did was pretend that she was sleeping. When Atlas arrived earlier, she felt happy because finally someone she knows came, but it seems like Atlas won't talk to her either.