Chapter 10: Fuck Luck!
The examiner was irritated. He was playing games peacefully but a guy came and ruined everything. He was at such a good place. He could only sigh. Now that he was disturbed, suffering from a foul mood he decided to vent it on the students.
How? Obviously, the famous examiner's pressure.
There's two types of pressure techniques an examiner can use in the exam hall. The first one is, not to speak at all and just grimly stand at the podium and sweep your glances at every student. This creates an impression on the students that the exam hall is completely under his control and even the slightest movement made by students will fall into his eyes. This makes students more nervous then they should be. This is called 'collective pressuring technique of the examiner'.
The other technique is 'individual pressure technique of the examiner'. This one is more ruthless. Unlike the first one which is a crowd control technique, this one focuses on individual. To apply this, the examiner walks to a student and just stands beside his desk. The examiner does not need to do anything else. Just standing there, the student will feel like he is being inspected inside out and will break out sweats in buckets.
The examiner old man (old man according to Black Nevan) decided to use the second technique. Especially because there were certain kids who he found an eyesore. There was no doubt. This was extremely personal behavior which is certainly against the ethics of academies. But 'interests first ethics later' was a motto he abided by very strictly. This could be understood from how he was playing games in the exam hall instead of supervising.
There were 5 targeted kids. Blame their attitudes. There was nothing the examiner could do. Their behavior was the famous 'disrespecting the elderly'. And it was his noble duty to teach them a lesson.
He walked up to a girl. The girl had pinkish hair that went only upto her shoulder, a regal attire indicating a very high background. She must be from a very sophisticated family.
What's annoying about this girl is she was the standard example of 'spoiled little princess'. She always had an 'I am above you plebeians' expression written on her face.
The examiner came up to her desk and stopped. He did nothing else just stood there silently. Even though this little girl was a good for nothing princess, he noticed that this girl was actually able to fluently solve the problems. But it didn't matter. Soon, the pressure will break her down.
As he was being smug about breaking the confidence and arrogance of this little high class girl, she suddenly looked up, up at him.
He was a little unprepared as what should have happened was the girl having a nervous breakdown. If he was only a little surprised at her action, the next words she said completely just shocked him to his core.
She looked up at him, straight eye to eye and uttered two words. "Get lost". She then turned her eyes to her papers, starting to solve. Her attitude was the same as one would take when looking at an insect or maybe below an insect.
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The examiner was utterly stupefied, rooted in his feet. He was simply unable to believe what the hell happened. Get lost? No one ever dared to say such words to him. He had never heard this two words directed at him in his entire life. Now a little girl of 14, who didn't even see 'w' of world actually told him to get lost.
He was still in his stunned world, not moving. The little girl got annoyed and fiercely looked at him. Under the fierce reaction, he suddenly got scared and actually stepped back.
He was stunned at his own behavior.
The girl was satisfied by his actions and also by her own behavior.
The examiner hurriedly looked around. Seeing that everyone was busy writing their paper, he heaved a sigh of relief. At least he hadn't lost his face as the great examiner.
He looked at the girl hatefully and remembered her by heart, he vowed to teach her a lesson on one glorious day.
He moved to his second target. It was another girl. Unlike the first girl who had upper class behavior and clothes, this girl was rather inferior. Inferior in all aspects whether beauty, outfit or aura. In fact, this girl was really ugly, a total eyesore. Though there was that idiotic radical movement of "all humans are beautiful", it was just the weak and defensive move of the inferior, ugly looking people. Just look at this girl. Who will say this girl is beautiful? He would rather die than admit that this girl even had one iota of beauty.
But did this ugliness irritate him? Certainly not. Normally Ugliness created an inferiority complex which resulted in self-loathing, zero confidence and blah blah other stuff. But this girl. This girl was eccentric beyond compare. Her pride exceeded that of that rich upper class girl.
He went to her desk and stood still. Creating a bleak and severe atmosphere. He wanted to break this ugly girls self confidence and pride. But he certainly didn't expect what happened next.
The girl looked up at him. She didn't do anything except give a smile to him. That smile wasn't ugly, nor was it beautiful. It was a hideous smile of contempt. It was as if she was looking at something that wasn't even worthy of her gaze. It was pure and utter disdain.
It was as if he was beneath her feet and he isn't even worthy to look up at her. This was a psychological blow. An extreme one. And this was bigger than that beautiful girl's 'get lost'.
One whole minute passed and then finally the examiner returned to his senses. He looked at the girl in pure horror. The girl was solving the problems. She didn't even give him a glance after showing her contempt.
He dejectedly turned around and then tried to redeem his lost self-esteem by targeting the next one.
It was a boy, a really tall one. Even at the age of 14 or 15, the boy was taller than him. When the boy came to him for the paper, it gave him the impression that the boy was looking down at him which obviously made him displeased.
Remembering that incident, the examiner fired up and was ready to strike again, cough, ready to stand quietly and perform the 'appropriate duty' of an examiner.
And so with that blazing passion he finally got to that tall kid's desk. Now before he could stand there grimly and put the pressure technique on him, that kid's voice sounded, "Get lost and Ugly smile" And so he froze for the third time.
What terrifying thing did he hear? He was shocked. His head slowly moved to that kid's face. The kid wasn't handsome. Just ordinary looking, but the tall and slender build along with that violet hair gave him the good-looking attribute.
Currently that guy had a huge cheerful smile on him. As if he never told the examiner the two specific things. The examiner was astonished. That cheerful smile seemed to say lot more than what was said on surface.
In the examiner's mind the smile translator started working and translated the smile of this guy. The smile said,
"Don't come to disturb me, otherwise the whole 'get lost and insulting smile' will go viral in the world, you will lose your respect and your job. Now, shoo shoo, let me give my exam peacefully."
The examiner was shell-shocked. How did this violet-haired boy know of the incidents so clearly? The boy should be focusing on solving problems and even if he was not, it wasn't possible to know of the incident so clearly. Unless-
A terrifying notion came to his mind and as if to confirm his thought he heard the tall boy say, "I am a seer." with a huge happy smile.
The examiner's expression turned ugly. He cursed 21 ancestral generations and 21 predecessor generations of luck. His luck was dogshit today.
He met a arrogant little princess who did not give him an iota of respect, then there's that ugly girl who let alone respect instead insulted him and then there was this seer guy who saw everything that had transpired.
Fuck Luck!
And why is the member of the Seer clan taking an exam? They have quotas in every academy, so when a member of the Seer clan is of appropriate age they can into any academy they want.
Is this guy from Seer Clan a masochist? Torturing himself with exams instead of directly entering the academy?