After that, Houlder Bode took out a roll book and said, "Roll call begins now."
The students immediately focused.
No one knew whether answering too slowly would earn them the same punishment Victor and Robert had received.
If they were put through that once, they would be utterly humiliated.
Houlder Bode's roll call differed from that of ordinary professors.
Whenever he called a student's name, he had them stand up, then wrote a line of notes beside their name in the roll book.
By the time he had called every student from all four academies, quite some time had passed.
During that time, although Victor and Robert had not been let down, they regained the ability to speak.
Once Professor Bode had finished the roll call, he began the lesson without any unnecessary preamble.
Contrary to his exceptionally gloomy appearance, he said nothing superfluous during class, but called on students to answer questions with remarkable frequency.
The moment he discovered that someone was giving an irrelevant answer, or spacing out, he would hang them up like Victor and Robert.
Professor Bode allowed them to keep listening with their textbooks in hand. But attending class from the ceiling was naturally different from attending it from a seat.
The few students who were later hung in the air all turned red with embarrassment.
The students who had escaped disaster became silent as cicadas, listening more attentively than ever before.
After all, not everyone had as much experience being punished as Victor and Robert.
However, Professor Bode's strictness posed no threat to students who were already serious and diligent.
What truly troubled them was that Professor Bode seemed to believe from the bottom of his heart that everyone should immediately understand and master new knowledge after reading through it once.
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