Reader Mage-Stubbing August 10! Chapter 159: 159-It’ll All Be Over Soon

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Plan D was a rather simple plan. Nora had assumed that whichever students their path of ambush led them to would also split up their manpower. She was not sure for what exact reason as there were more than just a couple in the grand scheme of things, so she had employed the reasoning of her teammates and they had all thought about the various possible scenarios they could meet. One was that the students were planning the exact same thing as they were, which was simply engaging the professor assigned to them while they proceeded to ambush another team. However, Nora and the team had not met anyone during their approach, so they had discarded that thought process as quickly as it had come. And when the message of Crown Academy taking their castle arrived, they equally discarded the other assumed scenarios, stemming from considering Crown Academy being a threat. Which left them with only three other possible scenarios. Nikita Academy’s students couldn’t get past Dr. Elias Namgoong. Or they had succeeded and headed to take the castle and defend it from any incoming ambush. And lastly, they had split their strength in two, with one remaining behind to intercept any ambush, while the other went ahead to ensure their victory. The last of the scenarios was the one playing out. Only different in that only one single person had gone ahead to ensure their victory. Nora had been assuming that they would have sent more. But they were smart. She could see that. Splitting their strength too much would be stupid, and since their greater force was right here, they could hold back any advances from the opposition. They were mistaken, though. The students of Prestige Academy had no intention of proceeding together. They only needed one or two to slip through the cracks. And since only one individual from Nikita Academy had gone ahead, then perhaps only one person slipping through would be the best course of action. “You!” the girl with platinum blonde braided hair screamed, pointing at Chima, her eyes burning with red hot flames. “Fight me! Alone!” Her teammates glanced at her and she snorted. “There’s seven of them and nine of us. I’ll take out the guy alone, you guys do what you need to do to the rest of them.” Nora tilted her head. “That sounds preposterously smug.” “Mind your business, large forehead,” the girl sneered. “My team can take care of ourselves.” Oh Jihye snorted, suppressing a laugh. Nora’s eyes twitched. It was one thing for her geek of a brother to insult her outstanding features, it was another thing for a stranger to, and further grant her obnoxious roommate the chance to have a laugh. Heated, Nora stepped forward, the wind blowing erratically in a spin around her body. But before she could take even one more step, a sturdy hand stretched out to halt her. “I’ll accept your challenge,” said Chima. “Head on and win this thing for us, Nora.” Nora’s nose wrung up. She glanced at Oh Jihye, and still witnessing that her crooked face plastered with bright, overzealous make up made her even more annoyed. She was about to argue about her being the one to head to the castle as they had agreed and ask that someone else did it just so she could beat the Russian girl into the ground when Lee Jaehyun grabbed her shivering arm. “Calm down,” he said. Nora turned around to see the ferocious glint in his eyes. “We’ll do the beating for you.” Now that she was looking straight at him, it was the first time she was seeing so much resilience in his eyes. After their abysmal first encounter, she had studied him to figure out if he was just pretending not to be an asshole like almost every other silver spoon, and she had noticed that he was a laid back individual. Now, however, he was giving off a different vibe. She wouldn’t lie, besides just the thrill of coming out on top, she wasn’t particularly motivated to do too much to win. But this tournament meant something to Lee Jaehyun—to all her teammates—and most especially to Merlin. He had something