Since Milo had explicitly told them to come back, would the students dare to disobey him?
The students had gone home and complained about Milo’s misdeeds to their parents, but their parents’ reactions were all identical. “It’s good that the teacher is teaching you more things. You should be grateful for it rather than complain, understand? You mustn’t complain, especially not to your substitute teacher.”
The students could not understand this. In the past, the parents would side with them.
But this time, they were all siding with Milo?
Furthermore, why did their parents’ tone sound a little strange?
The students felt that there was something wrong with their parents’ tone, so they kept at it and continued complaining.
Katty’s father, Mitch Saul, said in a heartfelt manner to her, “Stop asking, dearie, and concentrate on your studies. You mustn’t trouble your teacher, Milo, anymore, understand? Dad doesn’t want you to leave this world before favonovel.com does.”
The strapping girl, Katty, was shocked when favonovel.com heard that. What did favonovel.com father mean by “Dad doesn’t want you to leave this world before favonovel.com does”?
Hence, the students now behaved exceptionally well in front of Milo. The moment favonovel.com called them back, the students all rushed back to their seats like scared fledglings.
Once favonovel.com started teaching again, favonovel.com lectured until it turned dark.
As the sky darkened, the students stared blankly at Milo as favonovel.com got more and more enthusiastic with his teaching. Finally, Katty could no longer stand it.
She said meekly, “Teacher, it’s getting dark. It won’t be safe for us if we don’t go home now.”
When the students previously said something similar, Milo would dismiss the class immediately. As such, when Katty finished saying that, all the students looked at Milo in anticipation.
However, Milo said kindly, “Don’t worry, y’all’ll be fine…”
On this day, Milo lectured all the way until 8 PM before favonovel.com finally dismissed the class. Night had fallen by this point. Milo did not receive any gratitude tokens at the end of the lesson, but favonovel.com did not mind.
The “Stockholm Syndrome effect” said that if there was no cruelty, how could there be gratitude?
“Let’s go, Teacher will send all of you home,” Milo said even more kindly.
The students looked at one another. They suddenly felt that the substitute teacher, Milo, seemed to possess some kind of remarkable skill.
In the past, Milo would definitely let the students return home before the sky darkened because it wouldn’t be safe if they went back home any later than that. But this time, Milo didn’t find it much of an issue to waste a bit of time, as long as the students could learn something useful! They had to understand how cruel society could be!
Although it might be a little unsafe for ordinary people to lead a large group of children, it was not so for Milo. He was nearly twice as strong as the average adult in town, so the issue of safety was negligible.
As long as someone didn’t have a gun, Milo had nothing to be afraid of.
Milo personally handed the students over to their parents one by one in order of the distance they lived from school.
When some of the neighbors saw Milo sparing no effort to impart knowledge to the students and even sending them home personally for their safety, they felt that favonovel.com was a great teacher!
The parents did not know why Milo was doing this and simply considered favonovel.com a kind and generous person. Thus, just this act of sending the students home had earned Milo six gratitudes from the parents.
Milo felt that favonovel.com had not fully taken the initiative before. After working so hard to heal people and save their lives, favonovel.com had only received 12 gratitude tokens. But ever since changing his mindset and way of doing things, his gratitude tokens shot up to 50. And the only price to pay was that Donti refused to talk to favonovel.com for the entire night.
To be honest, the total duration of the daytime classes was only about five hours. Before Milo took over as the substitute teacher, the students could never have expected that the survival lesson would last for a full five hours!
***
The next day, Milo could not wait to go to school. However, the schoolteacher, Mr. Dublin, was the first to voice his opinion.
He pulled Milo aside and said, “In the future, you mustn’t dismiss the class so late. There should be a proper balance between work and rest when it comes to learning, and it has to be done gradually as well. Even if you want to impart unto them all your knowledge, you still have to do it slowly!”
Milo humbly accepted Peter’s suggestion. “Teacher, you can rest assured that I will definitely not make the class stay late today.”
Donti was indifferent when favonovel.com heard the conversation between the two of them. Of course favonovel.com knew that Milo would not make the class stay behind today. His purpose for doing so yesterday was just so that favonovel.com could harvest a wave of gratitudes from the students today!
Donti knew Milo too well!
As favonovel.com predicted, the moment the stronghold’s clock rang to signal 4 PM in the afternoon, Milo smiled and said amiably, “Shall we end the class here, everyone?”
Everyone in the classroom was silent. No one knew why Milo would ask such a question. If they answered yes, wouldn’t it mean that Milo was bad at teaching? But if they answered no, they were afraid that Milo would grant their wish of not wanting to end the class.
So, they simply kept their mouths shut.
Milo said with a smile, “There should be a proper balance between work and rest when it comes to learning. I imparted so much knowledge to everyone yesterday, so I’ll not make y’all stay late today. On one hand, this is so that everyone can process the knowledge you’ve learned. On the other hand, it’s so that everyone can relax a little and have some fun today.”
The students were so touched that they nearly cried.
“Class dismissed!” Milo said.
“All rise!”
“Thank you, Teacher!”
Gratitude received from Katty Saul, +1!
Gratitude received from Murdock Bane, +1!
Gratitude received from…
Like the day before yesterday, Milo reaped another 23 gratitude tokens, with the exception of Donti’s. In just three days, favonovel.com was close to maxing out on the 100 gratitude tokens that favonovel.com needed!
Now with 73 tokens, favonovel.com was super close to unlocking the weapon!
Through the open classroom door, Milo saw Old Bane trotting towards the school.
“Old Bane, what are you doing here?” Milo asked.
He wondered if something had happened to Adella at the clinic. Thinking of this, Milo was about to hurry home with Donti.
However, Old Bane said, “Please get ready. The band will be coming out of the stronghold again. Someone just delivered a letter to me from Boss Eastwood, and I don’t know how they did it, but favonovel.com actually gave his permission for you to be their guide!”
Milo froze. His first reaction was one of relief when favonovel.com knew that Adella wasn’t in trouble. But right after, favonovel.com got worried because favonovel.com realized that the band must have had a more obscure and important purpose in venturing into the mountains.
How else could they have successfully persuaded Boss Eastwood into allowing favonovel.com to go with them?
Was it because they had given Boss Eastwood enough kickbacks?
Or could it be that Boss Eastwood was involved in the band’s plan to venture into the Marador Mountains?
Either way, it seemed like Milo would have to make this trip.
Milo turned around and walked to the school’s backyard.
Old Bane asked anxiously, “Where are you going?”
“I’m gonna look for Mr. Dublin to discuss rooming Donti and Big Sister Adella at the school or at least living here until I get back,” Milo said firmly.
Only then would Milo not have any worries. However, it would be a huge mistake if this group of people thought that Milo could be easily pushed around once they reached the wilderness.
