Mari opened his mouth, a bit shocked.

"Class A and B shouldn't revolve around competition between teachers, but between students." he looked at the two. "The students are similar, but without a sense of rivalry, they won't advance with their Singularities. In your case... you two need to cooperate, in order to show your students what they should do. No more yelling at each other, no more arguing just..." he kept doing something on the paper. "Unity!" he smiled, closing his eyes.

"Alright." Mari stood up. "I get it. You can't win in something without experience." he started walking towards the door.

"Besides... aren't you two in the middle of class?" his eyes shrunk. Fabio and Mari looked at each other for a moment, before sprinting out of the office, terrified.

"Huh... such hard work." Milagro rubbed the sweat off his forehead. "But I'm finally done." he looked at the paper. "Could've done a bit better on the chimney, though..."

Lievpad was walking through the halls, slowly making his way to the dorms, after a visit to the cafeteria.

He looked out the window and saw a student, still trying to use the Emboard, but failing each time.

"Huh?" Rico stopped, looking out too. "Isn't that Nivel? Oh yeah, he got a 1 out of 5 on this Emboard training."

"I didn't know that the teachers would allow students to do this without their supervision," Lievpad added.

"The mattresses are still there, so he'll be fine. Besides, some people are already training for that Emboard game in July," he explained, stepping. "Well, Nivel's kind of a mystery still. Not much of a talkative guy, is he? I'm off to the library." Rico disappeared around the corner.

Lievpad stood still for some while, before going on with his other tasks of the day.

"Today, we'll be doing a one-kilometre run." Jagon Borr, the P.E. teacher informed. He scratched his hair, looking at a paper in his hands. "It's nice outside, so let's do exactly that."

"Ugh." Paula covered her eyes.

"Come on! Come on!" Marta jumped around. "It's gonna be so much fun!"

"Heh." Jagon smiled. "I admire that attitude of yours. But if you ever were to visit the school I used to teach P.E. at..." he thought, smirking. "It'd be hell."

"You seemed nicer at first!" Juablo yelled.

"Don't worry. I don't care as much about your physical workout as I would in a normal school, since I'm sure you're getting plenty of it as it is. Singularities are fun things, huh?" he crossed his arms. "I wish I actually did have one." he looked away for a moment. "Alright, Class A-1! On three, start running!"

"At least there's plenty of room for all of us to eventually trip and start crying," Leira added.

"Don't cry, Leira! You're gonna be fine! I believe in you!" Marta shook her around.

"Yeah... believing is gonna solve every problem!" she raised her hand, bored.

"It is?" Marta's eyes lit up.

"One, two, three..!" Jagon yelled, as the students started running.

Everyone was struggling to keep up, while Ben and Marta casually talked during the race.

Results:
1st place - Marta Moreau
2nd place - Benjamin Silva
3rd place - Che Moyo Godoy
4th place - Lievpad Peninta
5th place - Rejire Ponpeu
Stopped running to drink water, didn't start running again - Rico Kirchner
Made an excuse that he shouldn't be running after eating - Juan Pablo Roldán
Didn't even attempt - Leira Boedo
Started crying - Paula Poppington
Went to the toilet - Nivel Laurenzoe

In Mari's classroom.

"I'm sure that you're aware of what lesson we're currently having," Mari said, putting his hands on the desk. 

No one responded.

"Ben?" Mari quickly turned his head.

"The timetable suggests... personal training!" he pointed with his finger. "That sounds cool!"

"Alright, let's go," Mari stated, as the class walked out of his classroom, and using the small gate entrance nearby, quickly found themselves on the open grassy field, near one of the gym halls and a running field.

He stopped, looking around for a moment. "Okay, Fabio isn't here." he thought, breathing out. "Learning something is hard work, and hard work by itself is achieved through a scheduled repetition. Be honest with me, have any of you ever gone on a diet and actually didn't give up after a few days? Raise your hand, unless your name starts with B."

No one did.

"Exactly. If you're essentially forced to participate in a certain lesson, you'll do certain stuff either way. That's why there are 4 hours, split into two sessions of personal training from now on. You'll use this time to grow your Singularity, especially in the first tier. Who knows? Maybe you'll even be able to achieve another one?"

"Can't we use candles again?" Leira raised her hand.

"Do we have an infinite amount of wax, Leira?" Mari asked. "Besides, through thorough testing, these candles can only stimulate your Singularity in a way that would unlock only one-tier. Using these again would increase your chances, but 95% of the work is up to you." Mari put his hands together. "Now, scatter around the schoolyard, but please don't train in the actual buildings. I will walk around and see your progress, so don't slack either way!" he wagged his finger.

"Huh?" Rico looked around. "Rejire is gone already." he thought, closing one eye.

"Rico! Wanna train together?" Ben put his hands on his shoulders.

"And how would that work?" Rico was a bit confused.

"I'm sure magnets and electricity have something in common!" Ben smiled. "It'll be cool, I promise!"

"Well, there's definitely electromagnetism, and uh..." he stated, as he looked at Leira, who smirked, waving at him, before heading towards the forest. "Don't just leave me here!" he thought.

"Okay, let's go!" Ben raised his hand, as he and Rico walked off.

Juablo and Chogi went towards the forest. Unbeknownst to Chogi, Paula has been following him. Nivel walked off in a different direction. Marta had quickly disappeared.

Lievpad wasn't that far away. He kept charging the normal orb, before letting go, as it bounced off the ground and flew off.

"Nice work getting the hang of this, Lievpad." Mari walked by.

"No, I'm still having some trouble. This angle, even though I know is the right one, is very hard to hit. It's like a target, that keeps moving."

"Practice makes perfection, but if you're not hurting yourself, then you're already doing well enough in my eyes," Mari said. "But, I think that you should try using your tier one ability, eh?"

"Well, sure." Lievpad stuck his hand out, as a handball appeared in his palm. He turned over to Mari, ready to throw it.

"Don't even think about it," Mari said, raising his finger.

"What am I supposed to do with a normal handball?"

"Definitely not hitting people, but every Singularity has some sort of usage." Mari walked up to him. "Maybe, it's not really about the handball, Lievpad? Maybe there's something else you could create? Think of, for example, a basketball. The case could've been that you every time you used your Singularity, you were thinking of a handball rolling down your forearm."

Lievpad nodded, sticking his hand out again, breathing in loudly. "Basketball..." he muttered to himself. "Basketball..." he repeated. "Hm!" he drew his arm back, as a basketball appeared at the tip of his fingers, falling down to the ground.

"Alright, you did it!" Mari walked up to him, smiling. "But... it doesn't really look like a basketball, does it?"

The ball had weird patterns on it. "It smells foul too." Mari covered his nose. "What the hell, Lievpad?" the two quickly strutted away. "I don't want to make assumptions, but I think this ability is about creating spherical things with different properties. Just know, it had a really weird scent to it?"

Lievpad looked at his hand.

"I think the key here is creating as many different balls as you can, but please make sure they're accurate. I don't want to smell that again, ever," added Mari, as his eyes widened. "I can get you some of these from the gym if you want."

"Don't worry, I'll get them myself," Lievpad added. "It's my training, not yours," he added coldly.

"Well, I'm your teacher after all. I need to focus on my students." continued Mari, as Lievpad started walking next to him. "Teaching isn't just relaying information from one brain to another, it's also about connection and help."

Lievpad nodded.

"Remember, Lievpad." Mari smiled. "I'm not just some teacher, but I'm also a friend." he closed one eye, as Lievpad raised his hand, before running towards the gym.

"Huh." Mari stepped back. "My last year back in school was a total mess. Even though it's only been three months, I feel like I'm already connecting with all of them on a different level." thought Mari. "At the same time... I wonder what kind of person they see me as?" he looked up, smiling a bit.

Mari stood in the doorway, peeking his head out.

"Remember, it's always okay to cry. Life isn't easy." a teacher said, putting his hand on a student's head, as they kept sobbing.

"You're the only person I could ever talk to... no one else would listen. Am I... am I pushing myself onto you?" the kid asked.

"Heh." the teacher smiled. "You're my student after all. Students to me aren't just people. They're friends, that should be treated with the most respect since they want to learn something from one another."

"Dad..." Mari ground his teeth. "I know I still have a long way to go to become a teacher like you, but I'll try my best." he thought. "Students aren't just people. They're friends."

He looked forwards. Mari squinted his eyes. "Oh no, it's Fabio." he quickly turned around, running.

Juablo was sitting in the forest, petting Calm's head and scratching the tree next to him. Then he took off his hat, looking at it.

"Damn it. It wasn't even that big of a deal, phi." Juablo stood up. "I should've gotten it back by myself, though. Once Lievpad is focused on something, he won't stop until he achieves that goal. But this time I wasn't able to follow him in trying to get something that belonged to me back." he walked down a small, natural elevation, before seeing a lake through the trees before him. He squinted his eyes for a moment.

"Juan~!" his mother said, through the phone. "You know how hard it was for us to get you enrolled in that school. Singularities aren't something that can be played with for free! Once you get back home on winter break, give that hat back!"

"Alright, alright, I'm sorry."

"Even now, I'm slacking and not doing anything with my Singularity. Well, maybe I'm just not in the mood." he put his hat back on his head. "If I won't prove myself useful to my family, I'll feel guilty, won't I? I don't want them to spend money on a failure like me." his lip shook, as he kept marching forwards, before finding himself in front of the lake.

All of a sudden, Rejire's head popped out from the water.

"Huh?" Rejire exclaimed.

"Huh?" Juablo too was a bit confused.