Chapter 228: Closing In (1)

Back at the arena, Aisha didn’t stop her onslaught against Jayden. All the frustration she had kept bottled up while watching her classmates get beaten by the underhanded tricks Jayden had used finally came pouring out.

At that moment, only one thought occupied her mind.Shatter their heads into a pulp!

But unfortunately, she couldn’t unleash her viciousness and ruthlessness in front of everyone just yet.

As the seconds dragged by, seeming to stretch on forever, the time allotted for this round finally ran out.

Aisha released her grip on Jayden and stepped back several paces, leaving him in his sorry state on the arena floor.

"We... We have a winner!" the announcer exclaimed excitedly as he grabbed the microphone floating in front of him. "Aisha Novalis from Class 7-D has won against Jayden from Class 3!"

The instant his words reached everyone’s ears, the entire arena fell silent, as though it had become a tomb. Not a single sound could be heard, apart from the sharp intakes of breath as the spectators struggled to process what they had just witnessed.

Under their gazes, Aisha calmly rotated her wrist and rolled her neck, making the joints pop.

Somehow, beating Jayden into a bloody pulp made her feel slightly better. But it wasn’t enough! She wanted to beat the last two members of the opposing team and make it clear that she and her three classmates weren’t people anyone could mess with!

"You... What do you think you’re doing?!" Corwin shot to his feet from the bench and pointed an accusing finger at her. His eyes blazed with anger as he shouted, "You went against the rules!"

When he had learned that Aisha would replace Kane, his smile had widened until he could barely contain his laughter. Like everyone else, he had underestimated Aisha and expected her to grovel in front of everyone, begging them to stop the match and let her surrender.

However, reality had turned out to be completely different from what he had imagined! It wasn’t just him whose expectations had been shattered. Everyone had been proven wrong because Aisha had refused to play along with their expectations of her.

Hearing Corwin’s roar, Aisha calmly raised her gaze toward him. "What do you mean?"

Corwin gritted his teeth. "This round was supposed to be about the two of you subduing the beast and seeing how long you could keep it down!"

When everyone heard this, they nodded in agreement. They had also assumed there would be no need to watch the students fight one another. Instead, they had been excited to learn that this round would have a different theme.

Especially since the two students belonged to completely different classes, they hadn’t expected anything else.

More importantly, there were lessons to be learned from watching the match. If a Sentinel student successfully took down the beast, the Sentinels watching would learn how to do the same. The same applied to the Guides observing the match.

Of course, nothing could beat the exhilarating feeling of watching a beast go berserk and attack aggressively before blood was finally spilled.

That was why no one had expected Aisha to attack Jayden before the beast had even emerged!

To make matters even more baffling, the round had already ended before the beast could fully rise from the platform beneath the arena.

Thud!

The platform finally finished ascending, closing the gap in the ground as it reached the surface.

The moment the beast appeared, trapped inside its cage, Aisha glanced at it briefly before turning back to Corwin. She raised an eyebrow and asked, "Was it? But according to the rules... there is no reason the students can’t attack each other. It wasn’t written anywhere, nor was it stated verbally. So, as far as I understand it... I haven’t broken any rules."

Her words made complete sense. To account for the imbalance between Sentinels and Guides, the rules only stated that they had to subdue a beast and keep it down for a certain length of time. However, they had never specified whether the students could or couldn’t attack each other.

That was only because no one had ever expected a Guide to attack a Sentinel so boldly and ferociously!

As a result, everyone had overlooked that possibility. Only Aisha had noticed the loophole and used it against their opponent—and the dean.

Since they wouldn’t hesitate to bend the rules, they had better not regret it when she used those same rules against them!

"Or are those new rules you haven’t introduced yet?"

After saying this, she shifted her gaze toward the professors’ section, where the dean was watching. She was daring him to do something. If he dared to change the rules once again, she wouldn’t hesitate to use them against him. And if he dared to resort to underhanded tricks again...

Aisha’s eyes turned icy as she sneered.

In all the years she had lived in her previous, chaotic world, what trick hadn’t she seen? Even after falling into countless traps, hadn’t she always been the one who survived in the end?

In this world, she might not understand the people or many of the things around her, but they didn’t know her, either. They had no idea what kind of hell she had come from or what she had crawled out of. They had never seen the world she had lived in, nor had they experienced the years of suffering she had endured while they lived peacefully, pampered in their parents’ arms.

What she hated most was that even though the students in this world already had everything they could want, they were still unsatisfied and always wanted more—even if it meant ruining someone else’s life.

They could come after her all they wanted; she wouldn’t care. Ignoring them like the bugs buzzing around her was easy enough.

But they had crossed her bottom line. They had endangered Vesper’s life and even bent the rules in their favor.

And so... they had better be prepared to pay the price for their own actions!