: After three glasses of juice and a pep talk from his cat, Barsik, the numbers finally clicked. The Linguistic Labyrinth

Next came Russian language. The task: find all the prefixes and suffixes in a paragraph about autumn.

He started with Math. The problems were about decimals—tiny dots that felt like landmines. Every time he moved a comma to the left or right, he felt like a codebreaker trying to stop a ticking clock.

Maxim stared at his desk. It looked like a battlefield of crumpled papers, dried-out pens, and a math textbook that seemed to grow thicker every time he blinked. The Great Math Marathon

: Dividing 45.5 by 5 shouldn't have felt like climbing Everest, but his brain kept insisting the answer was "potato."

Barsik the cat watched from the bed, unimpressed by Maxim's dramatic hand gestures. The "Send" Button

"Autumn is a golden time," he wrote, wondering if the author had ever actually tried to do homework while the sun was shining outside. The Final Boss: Literature

The notification on Maxim’s phone was simple but terrifying: (All 5th Grade Homework). It wasn’t just a message; it was a digital mountain standing between him and his weekend.