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Chapter 126
“If you’d just behaved after I broke your hand, I might’ve let you off the hook and spared you a trip to the president’s office after school,” Raven said, her tone calm but sharp enough to cut steel. “But since you’re so eager–well, it would be rude of me not to accept your request, wouldn’t it?”
She looked Harvey dead in the eye. “After school. I’ll be waiting for you outside the president’s hall.”
But before her words had fully faded, Harvey’s voice rang out, furious and commanding. “We’re going now.”
Raven shot him a glance, her expression completely unbothered. “I’m busy.”
She turned and walked away without looking back.
“Stop right there!” Harvey barked, eyes blazing.
She didn’t even flinch.
Harvey shouted, “I said stop!”
But Raven didn’t listen.
Harvey’s face turned red with rage, his body trembling as if he might cough up blood at any moment.
Just as he opened his mouth, about to hurl an insult in desperation, a cool, warning voice cut in beside him.
“I wouldn’t shout if I were you,” said the voice. “Push her too far, and you’ll be lucky if a broken hand is all you lose.”
Harvey spun around–and froze when he saw Caleb standing there, calm and casual.
Caleb walked up beside him and added softly, “I’ll say this just once–out of respect for the fact that your father helped the Valor family in the past–don’t mess with her. If she really gets serious, no one will be able to save you.”
Harvey’s gaze locked on Caleb’s for a long second, then he turned away. Cradling his injured arm, he staggered to his feet and forced himself upright.
His face twisted with cold fury as he shouted after Raven’s retreating figure, “Fine. After school. Outside the president’s hall -I’ll be waiting!”
Without waiting to see if she heard him, he stormed toward the academy gates. His hand needed immediate treatment- without it, there was a real chance it would never heal properly.
Caleb watched him leave, shook his head, and muttered under his breath, “Some people really don’t know when to quit.”
Around them, the students from other classes were watching Raven with puzzled expressions. Why had Caleb told Harvey not to provoke her? Did this woman actually have some kind of backing?
No one noticed that Brianna, Caleb’s assistant instructor, had silently recorded everything. Her fingers clenched around the miniature recording device in her palm.
Raven had just assaulted a high–ranking academy official in public.
That was a direct challenge to Regalhold University’s rules.
As long as she was still considered a student, not even Kurt could protect her.
And if Raven’s actions went unpunished, then the academy’s regulations would become meaningless–its authority
shattered.
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The consequences of that would be catastrophic.
She glanced at Caleb, then at Raven, her expression dark. In the end, her eyes dropped to the device in her hand, and a cruel smile curled her lips.
These two? The arrogant little couple? Neither of them would walk away unscathed.
Not if she had anything to say about it.
Meanwhile, Jonah caught Caleb’s gaze and gave him a subtle look that clearly said, “Good luck.” Then he turned and walked off in the opposite direction from Raven.
Looks like unless something truly urgent came up, he wouldn’t be showing his face on the training grounds again. After yelling at a general once, he figured his poor heart couldn’t survive doing it twice.
Two hours later, Leopard finally finished his sixteen laps and staggered over to where Raven stood. He was drenched in sweat and gasping for air.
Meanwhile, the rest of the students–except for two who had managed seven laps and five who’d done six–looked as if they’d barely broken a sweat.
Raven glanced at the hundred or so students standing in front of her, her gaze ice–cold. “Line up.”
At her command, the students finally began shuffling into formation. Most wore expressions of indifference, their eyes resting on Raven with a mix of boredom and faint mockery. Some even looked at her like she was just another clown putting on a show.
So what if she’d been appointed class leader by Leopard?
She wasn’t even an instructor. Just another student.
What could she really do?
Once everyone was in place, Raven spoke again–voice still calm, but carrying a sharp edge. “Those of you who ran five laps or fewer, step forward.”
More than seventy students shuffled out from the group.
The looks they gave her made their message clear: “Yeah, we’re out here. What are you gonna do about it?”
Leopard glanced at them and sighed in silence. Poor bastards.
Then he remembered the eighty–four laps he still owed and felt a powerful urge to just lie down and die.
In fact, death might be less painful than whatever punishment Raven had in mind…
Raven, however, didn’t look surprised or even remotely angry.
She simply raised her hand–and revealed what she was holding.
The moment her hand opened, the expressions on every student who stepped forward changed instantly.
Their smugness shattered.
Their confidence crumbled.
Their faces went pale because in her hand was the very thing they’d all hoped to avoid seeing.
And they knew, in that moment, they had made a terrible mistake.
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