VR Mastery Class.

"Yo." Marvin got seated on a cleaned-from-snow bench, where his friends were already gathered amid slight laughter.

"Hello." They greeted back, and the laughter died as the discussion turned from jokes to talking.

"Sigh… Should we just skip the school?" Lionel suggested, and the only reason he was currently in the school sulking was that his mother forced him to leave the house.

"Nah, I have a hunch that this day might not be as boring as we first thought." Marvin said with a slight upward grin, "Did you guys bring the helmets?"

"Yeah." Lionel, Niko, Ins, and Derek nodded. A few of them demonstrated their open bags, which contained a VR Helmet buried among a sea of books.

Marvin grinned.

When the school bell rang, the students still on their way to the school building accelerated their pace.