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He dropped off of the trash tower. "Soh Cah Toa. You actually showed up."

"Well, you did say to meet at this time?"

And students were supposed to listen to their professors, right? Or, at least, Link thought those were the rules.

"I did. Alright then, you said you've spent zero time in class before this place?"

Link stopped his attempts to fix the chair for a moment.

"Yeah. I was raised by eternal twelve-year-olds and a Tree spirit. My friend Saria taught me how to read and to write my name, and counting and adding basic stuff."

He gave a slight shrug. "Then, when I was still younger than Saria, the whole Ganondorf thing happened and I got sealed away for a seven year nap, had to fight a bunch of evil, but before I could fight Ganondorf himself--I ended up here."

Another shrug and Link rubbed the back of his neck. "So, yeah, no time for school, and before that, it didn't exist."

Yes, even though you two look the same age, this guy is eleven at most.

He nodded, taking that all in stride. "Alright then, add this to your schedule. On hour a day here. You and me. We'll multiply what you already know and catch you up to the rest of the zeroes in no time. Starting with the basics." He grabbed a can of spray paint, shook it up, then tossed it to him. "Find your beauty."

Link caught the can, but, had no idea what it was for.

"Er, sorry...what?"

He grinned and picked up his own can, hot pink, and shook it up. He sprayed 1 + 1 on the wall, then an = sign.

"Can you fill in the blanks?" he asked, stepping out of the way with a smirk.

Oh. It was paint.

Link was slightly wary around this particular professor, given his weird moods and rantings during PE and Math, but, he still went ahead and made a "2" with the spray-paint.

He nodded. "Not half bad. Let's see this then." He spray painted a 45 + 72 = and then stepped back. "Let's see it."

Link tilted his head for a few seconds before spraying a careful "117".

"So, seems like you can add well enough, not bad for someone with negative schooling. Let's try this."

He swapped colours and sprayed 110 - 75 = and then stepped back again.

Math had real world applications, even in the Forest.

Link thought and then wrote "35".

"Not half bad. Speaking of half..."

His next painting, in a third colour was 46 ÷ 2 =.

Once again he stepped back.

Dividing rations for the winter, was the first thing that came to Link's mind. Although, dividing that many of anything between just two people would have been unheard of.

So far the most challenging part of this was getting the spray-paint to cooperate.

Link wrote a careful "23".

He actually seemed proud as he nodded and grabbed a fourth color. "25 X 4 =" he asked as he wrote it, dancing back after. This kid never got to school before? What a factorial waste.

If things had been slightly different, and his parents hadn't died in the Hyrule's Civil War, Link likely would have had a tutor at the very least.

(Saria hadn't done too bad, truth be told, despite his less than stellar spelling and reading skills. But, there were real world applications for math, even in a society of Fairy Children, while books were not something that they had access to. )

He studied the problem for a moment and mentally pictured the problem in groups of Deku seeds. Then, he wrote "100" with a little more confidence.

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He smirked. "Well Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. Ready for something a little harder?"

"Oh, uh...sure? I'm not sure I'll know it, but, I'll try?"

Sho nodded and started moving with multiple cans, using the same colour for each function as he used before, until there was a brightly written equation on the wall.

1 + (14÷7) =

And then he stepped back. "If you need a hint, you already got one."

And now Link was puzzled. Fourteen divided by seven he could understand, but the addition of the plus one and parenthesis threw him.

He studied the colors for a moment, trying to work it out. One plus fourteen would make fifteen, but, you couldn't divide that seven ways equally. Someone would be short-changed.

He knew that you couldn't divide fourteen eight ways evenly, either.

Maybe since it was all enclosed it was supposed to be separate? Then...that would be two. And then....one plus two?

Link scrunched his nose briefly, but, wrote a three with some considerable hesitation.

He nodded and clapped him on the back. "Please excuse my dear aunt sally," he said, grinning. "Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. Aunt Sally can always help you figure out the order to do an example of this kind!"

Oh, so that had been right. Link gave a small smile, pleased he hadn't completely messed it up.

And now he understood at least one of Sho's expressions.

"Let's see if you can FOIL this one," he said with a smirk, throwing a new equation onto the wall.

(87+13)(100÷5+12) =

He hadn't shown Link this form of multiplication yet, would the kid catch on? Time to find out.

"Once again you've had your clue, let's see if you can multiply your success." Fine, one more clue.

Link stared for a full minute.

Above the first set of parentheses he wrote a "100" with some certainty. Above the second set he wrote a somewhat less certain "32".

He frowned to himself and wrote "132" as his answer.

"Nah. Find your beauty. Watch. touched parens multiply. Try to FOIL it knowing that."

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