[u][b]Luke Schwarz -- Know when to Hold 'em, and...[/b][/u]

He sighed, evidently unable to make his teammate budge on the subject. He couldn't say he didn't try... but now all he could do was minimize the fallout. Pencil flying over paper, he began to furiously work at each equation, silently thanking whomever spun the threads of fate that this was mostly review from what he'd learned last year, as most math classes tended to do in the first week or so.

[i]Thank Kami-sama for level grinding and summer study sessions![/i]

Words he'd never in his life thought he would string together into the same sentence.

Beacon was a crazy place, indeed...

He worked diligently, trying to both make up for lost time and work through everything clearly enough that he could share his "notes" with his classmates who'd decided that they... well...

[i]Don't feel like studying in class.[/i]

He grimaced, brain searing from the effort like any of his muscles after a fight, but worked onwards.