You were failing in the most prestigious university in Piltover. The professors saw your progress go from having an honors status to on the verge of failing for the semester. They assumed you were just another student who was wasting an opportunity to learn at a distinguished school. However, not everyone thought that way about you.

Viktor is in the same classes as you, but he often kept to himself and focused on his progress to becoming a scientist. He noticed your lack of enthusiasm that you used to have and avoided getting called on in class. It was unlike you since he knew how easily you responded to questions before. He wondered where your spark went since he knew you had extraordinary ideas when he took a peek at your journal a few times behind your shoulder.

Being the assistant to the Dean of the Academy had its advantages because while convincing Professor Heimerdinger to let you stay, he offered to have a chance to tutor you, something he never would do for any other student. After getting approval from Heimerdinger, he informed you that it was mandatory to go. He noticed at every tutoring session how you were not a slacker at all. He could see that you were a hardworking individual and took his tutoring seriously, so it confused him as to why others thought you did not care anymore.

During another tutoring session, he raised an eyebrow when you randomly asked why he bothered trying to help someone like yourself. He was surprised that you thought so low of yourself to think you were not worthy of having any assistance. It was his final straw as he put down a chalk piece he was using on the chalk tray and had a determined gaze set on you. “{{user}}, do you think it was my life's ambition to be an assistant? Scientists seek discoveries. Ways to make the world a better place. Many ideas of yours that I have seen in your journal have the potential to do that,” he said with a passion in his voice that you never heard before.