Modern Earth, day of 20XX, Summer.

A young student could be seen walking down a road filled with people. It was morning yet different yells could be heard as he went past them, it was bustling with activity. It was the market.

"Hey kid! Here to buy some fresh fish? How many kilos do you want?"

A yell sounded beside him. It was a fish merchant.

He smiled and shaked his head then he walked past the fish merchant and continued along.

A yell with almost the same message could be heard but this time from a beef merchant.

'Sigh! I'm not really here to buy anything.' He said in his mind.

As he walked about a hundred meters from the market. He asked someone for directions "Do you know where this school is located?"

That person pointed in a direction. He nodded and said his thanks, then continued walking.

After walking for 10 minutes, he arrived in an area enclosed by high walls. It was his school. Although he was enrolled here, it was his first time coming here. The one who enrolled him was his father. Who only paid the first month for his tuition.

'Sigh!' He sighed. Life was really unfair, wealthy people could send their kids here, and some chose to fool around and waste the money.

He walked for a bit and arrived at a gate. There were many students that went inside the gate, but most of them went in by riding vehicles.

At the gate, a guard was standing there. When the guard saw him, the guard asked "Where's your Identification card?"

The guard asked for his identification card because he wasn't wearing one.

"I just got enrolled on this school and I still haven't received my Identification card." He said. He was not yet able to get his identification card from the school.

"Have you paid it already? Let me see the receipt!" The guard said.

The student shaked his head.

The guard looked at him and asked "What's your name?"

"Yong Min!" Yong Min said.

"Yong Min, go inside and go to the guidance office and sign up for a scholarship. I can see that you're from poor family like me!. Once you become a scholar, you can have the identification card for free and depending on your performance, even your tuition could be free." The guard said. He said this based on his observations. Yong Min was, although wearing a uniform, it was kind of tattered. It was only patched up again to be usable. The guard also came from a poor family  that's why he said this.

"Thank you!" Yong Min bowed to the guard and said his thanks.

'He is a good person! I will repay him in the future if all goes well in my studies.' Yong Min thought.

Yong Min was from a poor family that farms in a mountain area far away from here. His parents worked hard to send him to school. They pinned all their fortune to Yong Min, that one day he would be able to bring them out of poverty.

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As he went inside, he followed the guards instruction and went inside a building. It was the guidance office. There was only a single person inside, a female student.

"Welcome and Good morning!" The female student greeted.

"Good morning!" Yong Min greeted back.

"I'm the working student assigned here. What are you here for? Are you here to take a scholarship exam?" The female student said. She already knew what Yong Min was here for, as she saw Yong Min's attire.

"Yes!" Yong Min nodded as he thought 'So she's also s scholar.'

"I'm sorry but class already started and we won't be entertaining scholarship examinees right now. The schedule for the exams already ended." The female student pointed to a poster pasted in a wall.

Yong Min looked over and read the poster:

"Scholarship Exam hosted by Rooster Academy! Exam date: December 1, 20XX - June 15, 20XX"

Yong Min sighed, he was really unlucky. Today was June 16, 20XX.

"Thank you!" Yong Min bowed and thanked the female student, then turned around to leave.

As he neared the door, an old woman went inside the building, she was already in her 50's. As she saw Yong Min, the female student wanted to greet her but she waved her hand, she smiled and said to Yong Min "Are you here to take the exam? But it has already ended."

Yong Min looked at her and bowed "Greetings Madam! I'm Yong Min! I came from Catmon Mountain and enrolled at this school, and then found out about this scholarship exam just now. It's a pity that I came a day late." Yong Min said. He was respectful as he felt that this old woman was an elder of this school. Although he wasn't able to take the exam, he is still a student at this school.

"Li Juan! Go and get a test paper." The old woman said to the female student.

"Yes! Right away!" Li Juan went to a table and opened a drawer, taking out a test paper inside.

"Madam Ping, this is the last test paper we have." Li Juan said as she handed the test paper to Madam Ping.

"Come and sit there." Madam Ping beckoned Yong Min with her hand as she pointed at a table.

Yong Min received the test paper and sat on the table.

As he was answering the test paper, Li Juan looked thoughtfully at Yong Min and smiled.

"What a lucky guy to be given special treatment by Madam Ping."

Although Yong Min was poor and was wearing tattered uniform, Li Juan didn't mind it, as she believed that a person's worth would be seen through his effort and not his origins.

Madam Ping was the Principal of Rooster Academy. Although she was the principal she didn't want to stay in the principal's office as it boring there. Here in the guidance office, she could still reprimand those student's that was sent to her office.

Hours quickly passed, the test paper contained 500 questions to be answered inside 8 hours. Although it was to be answered that long, Yong Min finished it exactly at noon.

Madam Ping received Yong Min's test paper and saw his expression. Although Yong Min was smiling, his smile was weird, it was close to laughing.

"Go quickly, you're already absent for half a day at school's first day!" Madam Ping interrupted Yong Min's happy mood.

"Yes, Madam Ping! Thank you so much for giving me this chance!" Yong Min bowed, he was thanking Madam Ping for her generosity.

"It's not confirmed that you're gonna become a scholar yet. I still have to see your result! Go now!" Madam Ping said as she smiled. He found Yong Min funny. Madam Ping didn't have any children and he liked Yong Min's attitude.

Yong Ming thanked Madam Ping again and turned around to greet Li Juan farewell when he didn't see her, he turned around and exited the building. He then went inside another building by asking a student for directions. He arrived at a room.

Room B-201, The B from the room came from Bunzel, the building's name, and 201 came from its floor level and number of room, second floor, room one.

The moment he went inside, students were already sitting and eating. He remembered it was already lunch. He then exited the room as he found it tempting to stay inside. Everyone was eating, and he don't even have money to buy his lunch. He was currently living in a mountain, at the back of the market, where a lake was luckily situated, there, he takes his bath daily. For his food, he forages for it in the mountain.

Once lunch ended, lessons started. He listened attentively and after school he went home to his little home in the mountain.