had large glasses and looked very know-it-all.
Muko opened his mouth to contradict. “It's ...” he began but he was interrupted by Pythagoras who was addressing the pupil who had answered first.
“You're right. Extraordinary answer,” the teacher was
saying.
Muko's feathers were ruffled. '5?' he thought to himself irritably. 'What's going on here? It's most definitely the wrong answer and yet the teacher's saying it's right.'
Paidia and Gelio were both laughing up their sleeves about the wrong answer being accepted. Muko opened his mouth again to object, and to query why the teacher should say 5 was correct, but then he bit his tongue.
'Oh I see,' he said to himself. 'Now I understand what's going on. Yep, I accept the challenge.' And then the thought came to him: 'I think I'm going to like being here.'