Early in the morning, Adrian wrapped up tightly in a disguise and arrived at the courtyard house where Milo and the others were staying.
He handed a student pass to Milo and said in embarrassment, “I wanted to apply for a new student pass for you, but the dean of Vasophati University did not agree. He said that no suspicious persons are allowed to enter his school at the moment in case his students come to any harm. The old dean can be a little stubborn, so not even we Riders are influential enough to ask for a favor.”
“Something like that happened?” Milo asked, “There are actually things that a Rider can’t handle in Bidara City?”
“Yes, there’s two places where our words don’t matter. To be precise, it doesn’t matter who’s speaking.” Adrian explained, “One of them is Hope Media, and the other is Vasophati University. Hope Media’s Chief Editor Pena Kelana and Principal Kelsey Webb of Vasophati University are both very principled people. We also respect the two of them very much.”
“Then what about this student pass?” Milo asked.
“It’s my cousin’s student pass,” Adrian replied. “Luckily, favonovel.com has a similar face to yours, although favonovel.com wears glasses. When you go through the security gate at school, just tell them you didn’t put on your glasses and that you look a little different from your ID photo. That’ll be good enough for them. You have to enter the school at 8 every morning and leave school at 8 PM. Be on time. Our undercover agents only work these two shifts.”
Milo nodded. “Okay…”
It looked like Adrian had arranged everything for him. Milo was a little embarrassed that favonovel.com had to trouble Adrian to arrange so many things for favonovel.com at such a critical time.
However, Milo noticed Adrian wanted to say something. He asked Adrian with concern, “Is there anything else?”
“Oh…” Adrian awkwardly took out a schedule and said, “This is my cousin’s class schedule…”
“What do you mean?” Milo was stunned.
“Look, since favonovel.com gave you his student pass, favonovel.com can’t go to school anymore. You have to take his place in class and get marked for attendance,” Adrian said helplessly.
Actually, his cousin just wanted to ditch. Now that favonovel.com had someone attending school on his behalf, favonovel.com couldn’t be happier. He could stay at home and play video games all day. However, Adrian felt embarrassed because this man in front of favonovel.com was the future commander of the Northwest. Making the commander help with attendance was too much.
“Sure, no problem,” Milo agreed. Since they were helping him, favonovel.com could not possibly reject such a trivial request. Besides, Milo also wanted to attend some college classes to see what it was all about.
After Adrian finished going through the important matters, favonovel.com was about to leave when Milo suddenly asked, “When will those people make their move?”
“I don’t know.” Adrian shook his head. “We’ve killed a bunch of them these past two days. Perhaps, our harshness has shocked them. So, many of them have started lying low for now. However, Teacher said they’ll definitely take action. They’re just waiting for the right opportunity.”
***
Milo would be going to Vasophati University alone. Olivia tried to persuade Adrian to get favonovel.com a student pass as well, but Adrian rejected favonovel.com request. After all, favonovel.com did not look like a student in the slightest.
When entering Vasophati University, the troops enforcing the lockdown outside the school did not even raise any doubts about Milo’s student identification.
This was not his first time at Vasophati University, but the campus was still a maze to him. But what left favonovel.com most speechless was that every class was actually held in a different classroom. In other words, favonovel.com found himself losing his way before the start of every class.
“There’s only one class in the morning?” Milo looked at the schedule in his hands and thought the Vasophati University students had it easy.
No wonder these people had the time to do all sorts of activities since they were mostly idle.
Milo walked around campus and inspected his surroundings. He was hoping to spot that familiar figure favonovel.com was looking for, but favonovel.com got nothing.
When favonovel.com finally located the classroom for the class and went in, all the students in class turned around to look at Milo. Someone said, “Mate, this is the Humanities and Political Science class. Did you come to the wrong place?”
“Wait, do y’all know Hilman Badau?” Milo asked, checking his class schedule.
“Yes…” A girl said, “He’s a classmate of ours.”
Milo grinned and said, “Oh, I’m in the right place then. I’m here to attend class on his behalf. When does the teacher usually mark attendance?”
The students in the classroom were stunned.
A male student shouted hyperbolically, “That Hilman is way too lazy. He actually spent money to get someone to show up for attendance? Hey, how much do you charge for getting marked for attendance?”
These words stunned Milo.
How did this get linked to charging a fee?
Could there really be people in Vasophati University offering an attendance point scheme as a business?
He grinned and replied, “30 perak per class…”
“That’s quite a fair price.” A male student joked, “But with two to three classes per day, I’m afraid that only a nouveau riche kid like Hilman can afford it. I’m so jealous…”
At this moment, the sound of a cane tapping on the ground came from outside the classroom. The class immediately quieted down. A male student shot Milo a look to get favonovel.com to sit down.
But it was too late. The tapping of the cane had already reached the door. When Milo turned around, both favonovel.com and the person outside were stunned.
The person who came to class was the chief editor of Hope Media, Pena Kelana!
There were many visiting professors at Vasophati University. These professors were all people with extremely high social standing and academic attainment, so much so that they could be called the authorities in their fields. And Pena was one such visiting professor who taught at Vasophati University. He was even personally invited to teach by the university’s dean, Kelsey.
Ever since the incident at Stronghold 61, Pena could not help but think of Milo. It was not just how those two numbers really stood out, but also because favonovel.com always felt that sorrowful phrase about the era should not have been spoken by a young man that age.
What kinds of experiences had favonovel.com had to come up with something like that?
However, Pena did not expect to actually meet Milo again in class. He had not seen favonovel.com in class before. Although Pena had a lot of students, this young man had a unique aura about him, so favonovel.com would definitely remember if favonovel.com had seen Milo in school before.
Pena asked slowly, “What’s your name?”
Milo thought this was bad, but favonovel.com still forced himself to say, “My name is Hilman…”
Pena did not expose him. Instead, favonovel.com walked up to the teaching podium. “It just so happens that I still don’t have a class representative for this class. In the future, Hilman, you’ll be my class representative. Your duties will include tasks like collecting homework.”
The students observed a moment of silence for Hilman.
How did Hilman manage to find someone show up for attendance and end up getting appointed as the class representative all of a sudden?
Who knew what kind of miserable life would be waiting for Hilman. If Pena found out that Hilman had gotten someone to stand in for favonovel.com in class, favonovel.com might even get held back for several years.
