Why is everyone talking in exclamation points! It can actually get quite obnoxious to read after a while! Also, this entire bet sequence seems pointless. It’s like if your teacher thinks you’d be a good engineer and you act insulted making a bet with them so that they have to say you’d be a good writer. Like what does it matter? Put your head down and work to be a writer. Getting the approval from a literal rando is irrelevant (maybe it’s revealed he’s someone important later but we, and by extension the mc, don’t know that yet). I could see a child acting like this but we’ve been told many, many times that he should be mentally mature. And I don’t believe for a second that this is all him trying to act like a kid to hide his actual age.

Why does there need to be a bet? If Alphonse says he should be a scholar is that it? Are they gonna lock him in a library for the rest of his life? Can’t he just continue trying to be a mage?

The constant wisecracks from the mc between every single sentence the tutor speaks are getting real old real fast. We know you were a scholar, you don’t need to remind us every other paragraph.