Mr. Erratum

Chapter Eighty-Three

(*Edited*)

The months continued to pass by quickly, and soon it became summer, The July heat affecting them all. On one specific day, a day that was hotter than most, Nightmare stood in his classroom, planning to go over a subject again with his students.

Nightmare sighed, looking down at his fidgety students. He grabbed a whiteboard pen, and neatly wrote the words, 'Weimar republic' on the board. He circled it, and turned back to the class. "Okay, before we start, Give me five things you all remember about the Weimar republic- Snowdrake" Nightmare pointed the pen at the duck monster.  

Snowdrake jumped slightly at being singled out. "uh- uh- uh, It started in 1918?" Snowdrake answered, his tone unsure. Nightmare gave the pale monster a pained look, but nodded nonetheless. "And ended in 1933- remember that" Nightmare ordered them, scribbling the words, '1918-33' on the board.

Nightmare turned to the students again, and as he expected, a few of them had their hands up. They all knew by now that if none of them did, he'd just pick someone to answer instead. He quickly glanced over the room, "Lust" He spoke, looking at the pink clad skeleton with his hand up.

Lust gave a nervous smile, "well... It experienced hyperinflation" Lust offered, his nervous smile turning into a nervous grimace as he realized he couldn't remember as much as he thought he did. Nightmare mentally frowned at that, it seemed he would have to go over the earlier years again.

"Good enough" He told the skeleton, turning back to the board and writing, 'Hyperinflation and the Reichsmark' on the spider diagram.  He looked at his group of students, "Alphys" He pointed at the yellow dinosaur. Alphys squeaked, "There w-was the Dawes plan in- in 1924 that uh, reduced the reparation p-payments each year" Alphys stuttered out.

Nightmare nodded, "who was behind it?" He asked them. Chara raised their hand, "Stresemann and Charles Dawes" They responded, their brown eyes confident. Nightmare turned back to the board, pleased with the students answers. He quickly wrote down the words, 'Stresemann' and 'The Dawes plan' on two separate lines in the diagram.

Nightmare walked across to the other side of the board, "Okay, one more thing" Nightmare looked around and saw a small, pale blue bunny monster, who was called Pascal Caramelo, with his hand up. "Pascal" He gave the bunny monster a look.

The blue-furred monster started to speak. "uh, they got this, other money? after the hyperinflation" His voice was quiet. Nightmare gave the student an unimpressed look, "Called...?" He questioned, crossing his arms. Pascal looked around the room nervously, "oh, uhm, Ret- Ritenmark? no, Rentenmark" The monster said correctly.

Nightmare stared at the bunny monster, happy that he at least got the name right. "Correct, When was it issued?" Nightmare asked the class, turning to the board. "uh, 1923" He heard the voice of Chara speak up, their voice somewhat hesitant, but otherwise sounding normal. Nightmare wrote the word, 'Rentenmark' on the board, "Yes, well done" He praised, placing the whiteboard pen on the desk.

He walked over to the other side of the classroom, where a stack of textbooks sat. Nightmare picked up all of them, and started to hand them out to each student. "Okay, I want you to head to page 3, we're ignoring the first two pages" He told them. The sound of pages being flipped was heard just as he gave the last textbook to Lust, and then suddenly, there was a knock at the door.

Nightmare glared at the door. Everyone knew he preferred to teach in peace, and to only interrupt a lesson if it was important. "One moment" He told the students, walking up to the door. He opened, perhaps a little to aggressively, and his angry glare turned into a confused frown as he saw who was at the door.