"Hulim~! That's great~!"
Fran hugged Hulim excitedly.
"We're now in the same group~!"
"Um... well, yes."
Hulim struggled to push aside Fran's cheek, which was trying desperately to get closer.
"We're lucky."
In the end, Fran was unable to persuade the teachers to change their minds. After all, this was not a method thought up by the teachers in Mentor Town, but a unified method formulated by all preparatory schools. It was impossible to change it just because of a little girl's words.
Being grouped with Fran now is purely the result of the draw.
"Haha~! Great, Hulim! When the assessment comes, we'll show off our skills and eliminate all those stupid guys~!"
"Ah, you're here, Hulim-san, Fran-san. Thank you for your guidance from now on!"
Just as Fran was happily imagining the future, a boy suddenly came over and interrupted.
Upon hearing that voice, Fran, who was originally smiling, suddenly lost her smile and turned into a look of disgust.
“Tsk—!”
She smacked her mouth hard.
"Whoever wants to teach you, disappear and don't show up in front of me."
“Eh——?”
Ender's smile froze instantly, revealing a somewhat confused expression.
"I'm sorry, Fran, have I offended you in any way?"
"I don't know! Who cares about you! And don't talk to me! I'm annoyed just by seeing you! Humph!"
Fran snorted coldly, shook her hair, and left directly, as if she didn't want to stay with the other person.
“… …”
Ender looked at Fran's departing back in confusion, then turned to look at Hulim.
"Um, Hulim-san... I don't know when I offended Fran-san. Could you tell me the whole story so I can apologize?"
"Um... no, you didn't do anything wrong. Just think of her as being in a bad mood lately, like everyone else."
"Is that so?"
Ander was obviously a little unconvinced, but he didn't want to continue asking.
"...Since Fran has left for now, let's discuss forming a team. How about we go get the remaining two members?"
"no problem."
The combat team for the practical course was composed of five people. I don't know if Fran was cursed or what, although she was assigned to the same group as herself as she wished, but... the other person she least wanted to be assigned to was also assigned to the same group.
Although the lottery method was chosen for the sake of fairness, the fact that the three strongest people were assigned to the same group was really hard to laugh at, and the other students strongly protested against it.
"What's the difference between this and the first place?!"
"There must be something fishy going on. Draw lots again!"
However, the reality is that this kind of thing will happen, so it is the cold reality.
Qunun dismissed those objections without hesitation.
Because he and several teachers did the drawing of lots together, there was absolutely no possibility of cheating. And protesting just because the result was not in his favor is clearly a sign of weakness. If you want to blame someone, blame it on bad luck!
In his opinion, this situation is even more ideal, because the strength of the Himlier Alliance and the Demon King's Army has always been so unequal, which is just right for these naive students to feel the overwhelming gap in strength in advance.
In short, the combat team was determined.
At the same time as the combat team was determined, Kunon also stopped the high-intensity physical training and began teaching marching knowledge and combat common sense.
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... ...
"Hulim, what's going on?"
Fran looked up from the bushes under the tree and asked.
Hidden in the shadows of the treetops, Hulim was still observing her surroundings.
"Wait a moment."
A few more minutes passed.
whoosh!
A figure nimbly fell from the tree to the ground, making almost no sound. Such agile skills made the other teammates admire him.
"Mr. Hulim, how is the situation?"
Ender asked as soon as he landed on the ground.
Glancing around at his four teammates to make sure no one was missing, Hulim replied:
"The situation isn't good. If I'm not mistaken, at least four teams have joined forces and are probably targeting us."
"What!? That's too bad!"
A boy who was lucky enough to be assigned to this team immediately shouted in dissatisfaction.
Because the team consists of five people, in addition to Hulim, Fran, and Ander, there are two other people in the team, a boy named Klein and a girl named Nia.
The one who was dissatisfied just now was Klein.
Nia, who was standing aside, was a bit introverted and timid, and was a bit nervous at the moment.
"What...what should we do? We won't lose, right?"
They originally thought that they had secured their place in this group and that their performance in the practical course was already secured, but they did not expect that others would even be able to join forces with them.
"Calm down and don't panic."
Ender spoke to comfort her, then calmly analyzed,
"When you know you have an overwhelming opponent, you inevitably have to unite with more weaker opponents and win by numbers."
"Is that so? Then what should we do now? Do we have to fight against several times more people?"
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