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"AS YOUR HOMEROOM TEACHER I think it is only natural that I advise you to forget about what the press said. They're an aggressive bunch, and they want you to mess up so they can have a worthy headline. So don't think too much about it, especially when you answered their questions well," Sir Barron tells Max who's sitting beside him inside J.S High's personal car.
Sir Barron looks at him, but Max doesn't say anything as if he wasn't even listening, so sir Barron sighs and calls out for him. "Hey, are you okay?"
Max takes a deep breath and adjusts his white peak cap before looking out of the window. "I'd be an actual monster if I said I don't feel tired and that I'm excited to go back, but the truth is something about what happened earlier made me feel..."
"Empty? Confused?"
"Angry," Max answers before finally looking back at sir Barron. "I've always thought that J.S High is this unbreakable school that every other student dreams to be in, but in fact, we're easily stepped upon."
"Didn't you only care about your own image? You've always been acting upon things that will benefit you and no one else. What made you change your views all of a sudden? The press? I feel like I'm not talking to the same boy I met on the first day," sir Barron explains.
Max takes a deep breath and goes back to everything that he's seen throughout his days in J.S High.
He remembers everything that he went through. Brotherhoods and white uniforms have to go through different types of things inside their own houses. Everyone is excellent in their own way, struggling in their own way, and surviving in their own way, yet others see them as this school of - as Kingston phrased it - savages.
"For some reason, I suddenly have this desire to prove everyone wrong. As much as I don't want to admit it, Kingston Creed was right. With what we are now, nothing about our houses are really admirable even if I try to make it sound pretty. Their admiration is not out of respect but envy and greed. We're the food that they consume when they're hungry for something exciting. Even the students inside our house are divided and yet we claim to be the greatest," Max suddenly explains, surprising sir Barron.
"And how did you conclude that?"
"The question earlier during the press conference. I might have given the reporters an answer, but it still made me question everything. I then remembered the incident with Jokers. People don't respect me even after what I did. They see me as something that's a different version of them that they despise. It's like how J.S High is looked down upon by other schools. That's why I want to climb the ranks and prove them wrong. And once I get to the top," Max pauses and directly looks at his homeroom teacher's eyes. "I'll fix this goddamn system that my uncle couldn't polish and make everyone realize why we're the House of Kings."
The car becomes silent, and sir Barron couldn't believe that he heard such strong declarations from someone like Max. But as he stares at Max's determined expression, sir Barron sneers and nods his head in understanding.
"Does winning Mr. Brain & Brawn make you wise?" sir Barron manages to say, but when Max didn't laugh, he looks back at him seriously and tells him, "Do it then, but let me warn you as the advisor of the Elites, the current student council is practically unbreakable, especially the secretary, the vice, and the president. Those are the holy three...to be able to pass through them, you have to make a miracle."
"So winning this stupid pageant won't be enough for such a miracle?"
"If you think the pageant is stupid then you're a fool to have given it your all," sir Barron then tells him, almost making Max looked flustered.
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Action[Contains Volume 1-3] There are different types of kids. There are kids who play around, kids who bury themselves in books, and then there are kids who have no other role but to make sure they don't ruin their family's name. Heirs are expected to su...
