Ugh, I don't want to go to school today!

…Maybe I could not go to school today!

Yeah, that was a good idea!

So! Didzi Didziķi, where were you yesterday? You missed the math test.

Oh, I was sick.

Where's your doctor's note?

Oh, I…I wasn't, like, SICK sick!

I was…so sad I felt sick!

My great-great-grandfather passed away.

…Your great-great-grandfather Dāvis Didziķis?

…uhhhhh did you know him?

…We once sailed together on the Danube.

We were so young back then…

…Sooooo, yeah.

Did your great-great-grandfather have an affair with Kājgurķe?

Ewwww, no! I didn't even really know him..

Oh, okay. Are you ready for that big presentation tomorrow?

Oh, I wasn't at school, because...

both my legs stopped working for a couple of hours.

Yesterday my door burned down and I couldn't get out.

I had to help my parents fight evil spirits out of our home.

My cat was sooooo sick that I had to feed it with a teaspoon

and it took forever and so yeah...

I might not make it to school tomorrow either.

Didzis, I'm so sorry to hear about your kitty cat!

My mom is a vet, cats are her specialty actually, maybe she can help!

Oh…no…well, I don't actually have cat…

I have a blue-haired African gecko named Cat.

Really? I've never heard of that before…

can you show me a picture?

Yeah, but later, I don't have one now.

Didzis…can you please take these to Dāvītis' grave?

Why aren't you at school?!

Aaaa!…Why…aren't you at work?

I asked you first!

We don't have classes today…

The teachers went on strike. They go on strike pretty often actually.

How unprofessional, they didn't even inform the parents!

I'll call the school and find out what's going on here.

What's the point? No one will answer, everyone’s on strike.

It's better not to talk to them at all for a while.

We need to support teachers' rights and so on, right?!

Hmm, you’re right...

Every time I see Kājgurķe, I worry about her more and more.

Dāvis, is that you?

Howdy there, sunshine!

...is this about what happened on the Danube?

Ugh, leave me alone, my gecko is sick.

"We don't accept parent's notes anymore... We need a doctor's note..."

Awe man...

What seem to be your symptoms?

Everything hurts.

Everything hurts?

Ugh, I don't know...

my stomach hurts, my ears hurt, I see purple spots, I coughed up green blood yesterday...

I just need a doctor's note!

Interesting...

Let's do a couple of tests.

I'm starting to worry about Didzis, he misses class so often, it's not normal.

I've read the absence notes his mother sends, absolutely terrible homelife!

Someone is always dying, getting sick or getting burned down! They don't answer calls either.

Things like that don't happen without a reason.

As members of the academic personnel, it's our sworn duty to help this poor boy!

Hi, Didzis, haven’t seen you in a long time!

Why are you in a plastic bag?

The doctor said I'm a genetic miracle, but he won’t give me absence notes anymore.

I can only leave the house like this and I'm not allowed to eat dairy products.

Oh Didzis, I'm so glad you're at school!

Don't worry, you'll have a new, safe home soon.

But I already have a safe home!…

What's going on…?

Didzis, what's going on?

~It’s the Child Protective Services~

We have received a very worrying tip from the school about his household situation

we are here to take Didzis to a safer place.

From the school? The same school that has been on strike for months and hasn’t been teaching anything??

Madam, please,

we can resolve everything without aggression.

I am not aggressive! That school has gone completely downhill!

His math teacher has been standing at our fence crying for over a week now.

I wish his ghost would come back to me…

Didzis! I think your Cat wandered into my garden!

Well at least no one found out I was skipping class!

Honestly, it got pretty boring staying at home all day and missing school...

I'll never do that again-

Looks like you won't be able to attend school for a while.