Chapter 38 Contradiction Dissipation
“It’s time. Teacher Liya, you should get up.”
“Wha… what time is it? Huh, isn’t the sky still dark?”
Liya groggily opened her eyes, only to realize she had fallen asleep. The quality of the past ten-odd minutes of sleep far surpassed several days’ worth of rest.
She was leaning on Will’s shoulder—she had lent her shoulder just now, but now Will was the one being leaned on?!
“Simply put…” Will took off her magic robe and draped it over her head. “That door should open now.”
“The door should open… now?”
As soon as he finished speaking, the door creaked open, and moonlight shone through the gap.
From outside the door, voices could be heard in conversation.
“I didn’t expect you to come up with such a plan. I’m warning you, if nothing goes wrong, no one will pursue it. But if he gets hurt, it will definitely lead back to us.”
A cold voice came from outside, sounding like a calm criticism.
“What did you just call me? Hmph, see? This method has successfully lured him in! Give him a little more of a lesson, and he’ll know we’re not to be trifled with!”
And a voice similar to the one who led the bullying that morning.
“Alright, hurry up and go in. It’s been an hour already, he should be…”
However, before the only female voice could finish speaking, her raised wrist was grabbed. The palm that grabbed it was unusually ice-cold.
—As if it had been frozen in this cold storage for an hour.
“Hmm? What are you talking about? He should have… been what by now?”
Felix, with blond hair.
Bell, with red hair.
Hunter, with blue hair.
One’s mouth hung open, one’s eyes widened, and one took a step back.
The primary color bullying trio, seeing Will standing as if unharmed in the pitch-black cold storage, looked as if they had seen a ghost.
“Or perhaps, I… should have been what by now?”
Will, like a villainous BOSS who had long awaited this moment, stood against the moonlight, smiling eerily.
Liya did not follow. She secretly hid in the cold storage to observe.
Partly because it was inconvenient for her to go out at this time—it would look as if she and Will were having a secret rendezvous!
On the other hand…
She looked at Will’s slender back and his right hand, still bandaged, and wondered why he was so confident facing three strong individuals?
She had always been very curious about the extraordinary things this student, Will, did.
“You you you you you you— What’s wrong with you?! You’ve been locked in an extremely cold storage for nearly an hour, how can you still be fine?!”
Felix broke first, his words immediately revealing their intentions.
“Tch…” Hunter stepped in front of Bell and pushed Will’s hand away. “We were just… just ordered by the warehouse manager to inspect the warehouse. How did you get here? Were you trying to steal something?”
“Yes… yes! Today… today it’s our turn to inspect…”
Bell quickly followed Hunter’s lead.
Will pushed up his glasses.
He thought…
This is a worthy opponent!
He hadn’t expected one of the bullying trio to be sharp enough to realize that even though they had made the mistake of looking back at the scene, as long as they denied it, they wouldn’t be caught.
Hearing this, Liya clenched her fist. She had also been locked in here. If she came forward to corroborate their story, and considering she was their homeroom teacher, none of them could escape.
However…
Will walked directly up to Hunter.
“You’re Hunter, right? A child of the Thompson family. Your father was the captain of the Adventuring Team ‘Raging Tide’ ten years ago. You grew up around it, know a lot about Dungeons, and your abilities are good enough to be here.”
“Why are you suddenly saying this… what do you want?”
“Bell, daughter of the Edwards family. Your father was the second-in-command of the Raging Tide. You and he are childhood sweethearts, a match made in heaven. Both of you have been interested in Dungeons since childhood and set the grand goal of forming a team together in the future to come here…”
Upon hearing this, Bell took a step back.
—This wasn’t private information; it could be found out with a little effort.
“Huh? You two are actually like that? No wonder Bell recommended you to me back then.”
Felix seemed completely unaware.
“But, Hunter… guess what…”
Will narrowed his eyes, his deep blue irises seeming to draw them in.
“Last weekend, after Bell rejected your invitation to go shopping in the Capital… who was she seen with at the accessory shop on First Avenue, and who bought her the earrings she’s wearing now…?”
“!”
Bell’s expression froze, and Hunter’s eyes widened.
—While not private information, a little speculation and a few informants stationed around the city could easily uncover it.
Hmph, Hunter could indeed be considered a worthy opponent.
However…
Will had led these three here not to immediately convict them, but to dismantle their fragile alliance starting from the core trio.
In truth, bullying alliances in schools were often quite fragile, especially combinations of two males and one female.
Felix, a rich Young Master of Noble descent, was eager to form factions at school.
Bell, who kept chiming in after Felix, yet maintained a stance of supporting Hunter.
Hunter, a smart person, who seemingly wouldn’t join such a foolish alliance.
Wow, this was clearly a scenario of a manipulative woman controlling two men.
After all, they were typical Cannon Fodder from stories.
“Bell, you…” Hunter turned to Bell, reached out, and pushed aside her right hair. The brand-new earring reflected the glittering moonlight, clearly expensive. “…Who did you go out with on the weekend?!”
“I… I went by myself…”
“Huh? It’s just an earring. She asked me for a gift last week, so I took her.”
Felix, tilting his head, blurted out, barging headlong into this love triangle.
—Completely unaware that he might have stolen someone else’s woman.
“Pfft…”
Seeing this, Will almost burst out laughing. Indeed, in this world, the young masters of wealthy families often acted foolishly in similar ways.
He inserted himself between the two childhood sweethearts from a “third party” perspective.
“Besides, isn’t Bell my woman?”
He even put his hands on his hips proudly.
“Felix!!!”
Hunter was so enraged he tackled Felix to the ground, his fist already swinging, but Felix, endowed with the evasion skills of a Cannon Fodder villain, dodged it.
“What?! Are you crazy?! Didn’t Bell tell me she liked me when she first arrived? Didn’t you know?”
“Say that one more time, you bastard!?”
“Hunter, don’t get excited. It’s really nothing between him and me…”
“Huh? That’s not what you said when you went to the hotel with me last night.”
“You explain yourself—”
“I… I… I don’t know how…”
“So, after you started attending school, you meticulously dressed up and put on so much powder to cover your freckles… all for him!?”
“I didn’t!”
“You… you dragged me and him here to play your school bullying drama game, all for him!?”
“How could I…”
“Coming to Entak First Academy with me was also… using me as a tool!?”
…
“This gossip is delicious.”
Will watched from the sidelines with his arms crossed, nodding frequently.
