Chapter 106 Joe Rodney

Half an hour ago, auditorium.

The principal was probably still feeling guilty about Edith's choice. When he heard her request, his first reaction was to stand up and accuse her: "Who doubted you?!"

The boy standing behind lowered his head in embarrassment.

"I asked for it on my own initiative," Edith said sincerely. "Everyone is right. We can't use privileges to make up for being a victim of unfair competition. I should have more realistic results."

Edith's words were too positive, and the principal couldn't find any point to refute. He could only look around for help. Fortunately, the teachers in the auditorium were still there. He grabbed a life-saving straw and waved to call the Dean of Pharmacy and Shelly over.

After hearing the whole story, both of them fell into subtle silence.

Dean of Pharmacy: "......"

The purpose of humiliating Scott was not achieved. Now that he came to his senses, he still had a lot of resistance to Edith becoming a pharmacy assistant.

But he had already agreed to go out, and going back on his word would have a bad impact, so he held his nose and prepared to accept it.

He didn't expect that the student would take the initiative to give him the opportunity to regret.

"I have no problem with that." He answered quickly, shrugging his shoulders nonchalantly. "It's a fair procedure, what can I not allow?"

After that, he turned to look at Shelly and smiled: "You think so too, right?"

For some reason, the expression on Scott's face was hard to describe.

Shelly: "...I agree."

What exactly happened in these few minutes?

The two teachers directly involved in this incident did not say anything, and the principal was not sure what to say either, so he hastily agreed to Edith's request: "The specific details still need to be discussed. If everything goes well, your name will appear on the third grade exam list within this week."

Edith agreed readily.

During the whole process, she never looked at the boy next to her. After finishing her business, she left the auditorium with ease.

"Are you angry?" Bertram suddenly appeared, put his hand on Shelly's shoulder, and said with a sigh and a complaint, "I have been holding you back from assigning you an assistant. Now that an unexpected student has come, you are inexplicably asked to 'take an assessment'."

"It's just that you have a good temper. If it were me, I would have cursed you a long time ago."

Shelly remained silent.

"Do you think the dean is targeting me?" he suddenly asked.

Bertram: "? Isn't it?"

"He wants to drive away your only assistant."

In front of him, his friend suddenly grinned for no apparent reason, as if he was laughing.

"If you think so, then so be it." He did not comment.

......

Girls dormitory.

"I know you're good at Potions..." Bell still looked a little worried, "but it's a third-year exam after all."

Being able to make medicine and being able to take exams are two different things.

"It's okay. I'll only take the assessment for Potions, a major course. Compared to the first year, there's less to learn and it's more focused." Edith didn't care.

As for public courses like History of Magic, she had read quite a lot of books in her previous life, so she could pass the exams painlessly with a little review.

She was afraid of endless questions, so she raised her hand and made a quiet gesture, forcibly ending the topic: "I finally got back to the dormitory, let's talk about more important things."

Heda said weakly: "To be precise, you spend much more time in the dormitory than outside, and the things you do outside are more 'difficult'."

"You are restricted from leaving the dormitory?" Mu Lin asked in surprise, "I thought you didn't come before because you were simply busy."

At this point, Edith simply skipped the part of asking about her physical condition and went straight to the point: "Of course, I killed Celeste. No one knows whether Count Eddie will send someone to retaliate. For safety reasons, President Walker restricted me from leaving the dormitory - today is a special case."

"Did you have any problems with your memory during the time I killed Celeste?"

Bell and Hedda both frowned for a moment.

In the morning, everyone was distracted by what happened last night and had no time to discuss Mu Lin's problem.

"Edith guessed that you had a memory problem, so she asked me to remind you not to say anything." Bell explained, "You were discharged from the hospital so soon, so you should announce to the public that you were just in a coma, right?"

When talking about that period, Mu Lin's face turned pale: "...Yes, that's how I announced it to the public."

"But I'm not totally lying when I say this - I really can't remember much."

Edith keenly grasped the meaning behind her words: "You know what you went through, but your memory is vague, right?"

Mulin nodded.

She explained her memory in a few words - from the darkness at the beginning, to the vague feeling that she was still alive but unable to move. During this period, she could hear noisy sounds and feel strange lights. She didn't know how long this lasted. Suddenly, she felt that she was pierced by a sharp object, and a feeling of suffocation surged through her body.

"It was like I was dead." She was still terrified. "At first, I couldn't move, but at least I could still feel myself lying down. But after that, I completely lost control of my body. Only my brain had a faint consciousness."

"I could hear...someone wailing, but I don't remember anything else. Not long after that, I came to."

The three people in the dormitory fell into silence.

"Is it really not a dream?" Bell couldn't help but ask, "It's so vague and I can't remember anything. Isn't this the manifestation of a dream?"

"It's not a dream." Mu Lin didn't know why he was so determined. "I can distinguish between dreams and reality."

Heda took a deep breath and said, "Could it be death foreknowledge? The body sensed that it might die in advance and actively sent out a distress signal--"

The guesses are getting more and more outrageous.

Edith quickly interrupted Hedda to prevent the discussion from going in a weirder direction. She turned to look at Mulin and began a simple analysis of the existing information: "You first felt that you were dying, and then you woke up not long after... and you woke up on the night I finished the competition, which means that the sense of death appeared around the afternoon."

Mulin nodded.

"In the afternoon, I felt like I was pierced by a sharp object... Why does it feel so much like the game I played against Celeste?" Edith's mind quickly flashed back to the scene at that time.

At the end of the match, she stabbed Celeste's chest with her rusty sword. The opponent wailed and gradually lost his breath.

It was the first time that Mu Lin heard the details of the game, and he looked a little surprised: "What a coincidence."

She did feel the burning pain at that moment.

"There are too many variables, so let's not talk about it for now. Tell us more about the environment around you when you were 'able to sense the world but unable to move.'" Edith changed the subject. "As far as I know, there was only a doctor maintaining your vital signs in your ward, and no noisy sounds."

That scene doesn't sound like it takes place in an academy.

Mu Lin hesitated for a while, then slowly opened his mouth: "No need for details."

"I feel like that place is the cave we went to during the promotion match."

…

The next day, practice field.

After discussing the night before, they decided to take some time to go to the cave. Going there was quite dangerous, so Edith told Tuttle, Amy and Lynch about it before watching the game the next day, with the idea of ​​using all her fighting power rationally.

The few of them had heard from Hedda some time ago about Edith's shocking act of running out in the middle of the night. Except for Amy, who wanted to join in because it was exciting, the other two felt cold in their hands and feet just by listening to it.

Edith is really desperate!

Therefore, even though they had not yet understood the full picture of Mulin's memory, they still accepted the invitation. Even Amy, who always only wanted excitement and fun, couldn't help but say a few words to Edith: "You can definitely ask us to go with you to dangerous places!"

Tuttle glanced at him and said, "...if you want to go out and play, just say so."

Before they could say a few more words, Bell soon arrived at the competition venue.

"Oh, Bell's opponent is her." Edith sighed, "That's a bit difficult to beat."

"Do you know her?" Lynch turned his head.

He came to the capital from a small town that was completely controlled by his father, and he obviously felt out of place. Apart from the small team that Edith had led and integrated into, he had almost no other friends.

Edith had just arrived in the capital like him, but somehow she got to know a lot of people and established connections with various events in a very short time.

...She's different from Edith in Oliver City.

Edith from the capital nodded and said, "Rose Valen, I played against her in the preliminary round. Although I won in the end, it doesn't mean that she is not strong enough."

"He's a tough opponent."

But fortunately, the opponent is a good person. He plays the game fairly, does not cheat, and does not like to torture players or kill people. Even if Bell loses, there won't be too many accidents.

......To be honest, after experiencing four rather strange games, she has deeply realized the importance of character in improving the feeling of the game.

Sure enough, ten minutes after she said it was "difficult to beat", Bell took the initiative to admit defeat and gave the last chance to get into the top seven to the opponent.

From then on, Edith was the only first-year contestant left.

"Fighting further will only consume my energy. At worst, I can just work harder and try to get into the top ten in the loser bracket qualifying round." Bell gulped down a bottle of water and shrugged indifferently. "At worst, there are still third graders."

Edith patted her on the shoulder and said, "Leaving the competition without getting hurt is the best outcome."

She handed over another bottle of water, saw that the time was almost up, said a few words to everyone, and turned to walk towards the contestants' stands.

This place was already crowded from the beginning, but now only seven people are left.

The surroundings are more spacious, but the audience's attention is more focused.

"Edith Griffin versus Joe Rodney."

As the voice of judgment fell, Edith stood up and raised her hand to show that she had no objection.

In the end, there were only seven people left, and it was reasonable for anyone to be drawn, but she was still stunned for two seconds because of Qiao's name.

......She hasn't yet taken revenge for the trip she made during the promotion match.

But it was such a coincidence that she was planning to go back to the cave to investigate, and the goddess just happened to send Joe, who seemed to know a lot about the ruins, to her.