Tap.
“Great shoot from our Queen!” The narrator says “First question is about… mathematics!”
Alright, let’s see what you got.
Personally for myself, this question's difficulty is medium-high.
Not a big deal I guess that is why I can easily answer the first question.
Question by question, it got more difficult than the first one.
The other classes also answer the question really quickly and get it right.
I didn’t expect that I’m struggling answering these questions..
At the end of the quizzes, I finally have a chance to answer the correct one.
“Two points A class got from the Queen Valter!” The narrator says.
Everyone starts cheering louder than before.
Two more questions left.. And there are two people who haven't given any answers yet.. One of them is..
“You’re such a loser Sneg!”
“Shame on you!”
Those shouts are coming from his classmates. Class B.
Mr. Sneg didn’t give any responses to those shouts.
He just looks up at the stage, waiting for the next question.
Someone touches my hand and Mana’s, it’s Mari.
“Poor Sneg isn’t it?” She says with a worried tone of voice.
When Mari says that, a flashback comes through my head.
A moment in that dinner party before with his father.
That slight moment when his father said “He just wanted to be his own self. There’s nothing wrong with it.”
“He already chose it like that. He must know the risks of it.” respond coldly to the twins.
After a moment I said that, I finally realized that I shouldn’t answer them like that.
The twins give me their confused faces.
“Ah sorry I didn’t mean it like that guys.. I’m sorry.” giving an apology immediately to them.
“It’s okay, Vil. It’s just that umm..” Mana stops her reply and looks at Mari.
She seems like sending help signals to Mari from that look.
“Straangee..?” Mari continues with a doubtful voice.
“Well not that kind of strange Vil..” Mana cuts off Mari's answers and glaring at her only sending Mari to shiver.
“I mean it's kinda rare to hear your response like that..?” Mana tries her best to at least make it sound not offended to me.
She looks at Mari once again.
“Yea.. that’s why I'm kinda curious that something might be happening between you guys?” Mari asks.
Chuckles
That’s coming from me from seeing their reactions.
“Why are you guys so cute when time like this happens?” Ignoring their question for a moment.
“Well, we don’t want you to feel uncomfortable around us, Vil!” Mari replies with a childish tone.
“Aha..” Mana lets out an awkward chuckle after seeing her twin reaction “I just realized that it’s really rare to hear you respond like that Vil.”
“That’s why Mana tries to ask you but also doesn't want you to feel offended by the question!” Mari continues.
“Ahh.. thank you guys. But it’s okay, you guys didn’t get wrong at all. I will tell you guys sometime later, okay?” giving a reply to them.
“Alrighty queen!”
Back to the previous case before, the other one is already known as the delinquent student.
It’s Carl Jefferson, Class D.
No one even wants to shout or protest at him or they will get beat up.
They are already expecting this huh? Referring to his classmates.
Even though he’s already in this kind of position, he still can laugh with his teammates.
Shaking my head and trying to stay focused on these 2 questions left.
“We are almost at the end of this board game!” The Narrator says “For the current situation, the highest score is still on Class A hand with four correct answers!”
With that, everyone in the room starts the cheer once again.
“Class B, C, and D are still in the same position with two correct answers!” He continues to tell the current score for each class.
But the second line, the students only react by giving claps for it.
Go to the next question.
“Yes! Class C please answer the question!” The Narrator says.
“It should be E, sir.” a familiar voice. It’s coming from Leger.
“That’s correct!” The Narrator responds.
One more question, that means one of them will not answer any of it.
The room starts to make a loud voice once again.
“Get lost Sneg!” one of his classmates says that then everyone starts to shout the same words to him.
There’s so much pressure on him right now.. But he still..
Take a quick glance over at him.
Mr. Sneg did not even put on worried or scared faces.
He still put on that face, personally I think that kinda arrogant face.
His chin is still up, not even slightest down from before.
“Everyone! Please calm down.. We need to end this board game and continue to the next agenda we’re already planning for today.” The narrator says to calm the students.
He waits until everyone stops shouting then he finally speaks up.
“All right! Last question! Class D please throw the dart to the spinning board!”
Tap.
“Last question of the day would be about mathematics again!” The narrator says.
Based from the last quiz of math, I don’t think Mr. Sneg is good at this subject.
The question shows then everyone starts the discussion to solve the quiz.
Ah, found it!
At the moment I want to push the bell, the other class already pushed it.
“Class B please! What is the answer?!” The narrator says.
“A, sir.” a cold male tone coming from class B.
Finally that annoying voice comes out again, Mr. Sneg.
“That’s correct!” The narrator says.
All of the students start to fill the room with cheering again.
I think they didn’t expect that Mr. Sneg would answer it.
Take a quick glance over him once again, he still has that look on his face.
He didn’t even look at his classmates that were just shouting and mocking him.
Quinne beside him looks very proud.
She has a big smile on her face and small claps with her hands.
Never seen her with that kind of face before.
“All right everyone. That’s the end of this board game. I’ll announce the places now!” The narrator says.
“First place, it’s already obvious.” He uses a small tone for the end of it “Class A!”
Cheering and clapping once again become louder than before.
My head rings a little bit because of their voices.
Agh.. they’re too loud..
“Now. Surprisingly we got two classes with the same three scores! There are Class B and C!” The narrator announces.
Everyone starts murmuring about the places for each class.
“In that case, we are already preparing for this! We will decide it with one more match!” He continues his announcement.
The staff are in the way of giving them another dart but someone interrupts them.
He doesn't raise his hand, just speaks spontaneously.
“My deepest apologies ladies and gentlemen. But if it going to solve with another stupid question match, I would be a shame to win second place with it.”
Yes.. It’s coming from that male annoying voice.. Mr. Sneg.
“I beg your pardon, Mr. Sneg?” The Narrator replies with a very confused tone “I mean we’re already set up a plan for it. There would be nothing wrong with that right?”
The other students from the audience seats start shouting at him once again.
Mocking him that he’s scared to fight on quizzes again.
At this time, he finally looks back to their seat.
“You guys forgot about this school huh?” Mr. Sneg responds coldly to them.
With that sentence from him, the room becomes so quiet.
Seeing their reaction, he let out a small laugh arrogantly.
“I have only been here not even two months but all of you already forgot about this school achievements? Shame on you guys.” He says arrogantly again.
Ah.. I can feel the anger from the others..
“What are you..” The narrator wants to ask something about it but already got cut off from Mr. Sneg once again.
“This school is very known for their achievement. Those achievements have two types, academic and non academic.” He looks back at the Narrator.
“In my case, if you want to decide who deserves to get second place, you should make it a non academic match, sir.” He continues.
“Well.. you can say that Mr. Sneg. But unfortunately we..” The narrator got cut off again.
He doesn’t even have a chance to finish his sentence.
“Equipment? Coach? Why do you need to ask something that we already have? You are all standing in this school. We have everything in this school. Don’t act like a poor man can we?” Mr. Sneg says sarcastically.
His last sentence makes everyone in the room let out a loud gasp.
Pitching the bridge of my nose after he said those words.
Does he know if he acts like this it would affect me as well? Should I stop him now?
Just about to open my mouth and try to speak, one of the embassies stands up from her seat.
That’s Quinne’s mother.
Quinne’s mother is one of the most important embassies for education.
She’s also the one who always strictly observed this school.
Don’t forget that she's the mother of Quinne.
Her personality won’t be that much different from Quinne itself and obviously her colour is black.
“Everything he said is understandable for us. We’re terribly sorry that we almost forgot about that tradition. Thank you, young man.” She says while giving a sharp glance to my seat.
The Narrator comes closer to her then whispers to her.
“Mam, you don’t have to follow what he’s saying.”
But he was completely ignored by Quinne’s Mother.
The only response he gets is her death stare and she slowly takes the microphone from his hand.
Because of that, he slowly walks back to his previous place.
The situation in the room starts getting chilly from her appearance.
No one even dared to whisper to each other.
“Ladies and gentlemen. I’m so sorry that we forgot about those achievements from this school. Thank you to this wise young man who just reminded us of it.” She points out Mr. Sneg who still sits on his seat.
After she points out Mr. Sneg, she moves her hand to my seat.
“Yet our queen didn’t say anything about this.. What a shame that our queen almost forgets about this, right?” She says sarcastically.
From where I sit, I can clearly hear Quinne and her friend's chuckles.
At the same time, I can feel the anger of the two people right besides me, the twins.
That’s why I need to calm them down by holding their hand under the table.
Quinne's mother still gives me that cold stare and I reply her with my own death stare.
“To accept my apologies,” She looks back at Mr. Sneg “You’re free to choose which non academic you want to match up with Class C.”
Mr. Sneg lays his back on his seat, looks up a little bit and crosses his hands.
“Hmm… I think I would like to choose..” He glances over to Colombain seat. “Boxing. Shall we settle this down, Mr. Colombain?”
Colombain only looks back at him, clenching his fist.
“Very well, young man. Boxing it is then. Please everyone prepare for the boxing match in this place.” As she says that, she gives back the microphone and heads back to her seat.
The Narrator goes back to his senses and quickly takes over the stage again.
“And with that settle. For Class B and C participants please proceed to the back of the stage for the match preparations."
After that announcement, Mr. Sneg, Quinne and her friend Mrs. Görder stand up first and go straight to the back of the stage.
Quinne and her friend, Görder, didn't give me any reaction.
For Mr. Sneg, he gives me a smirk on his face and a sign that he will defeat Colombain.
Roll my eyes then take a look at the Class C seats.
The three of them, Colombain, Brugière, and Léger, are discussing this match.
Suddenly Mari hits my arm lightly.
“Vil?” Mari asks me because I didn’t give any responses to them.
Shaking my head lightly after Mari gave me that worried expression.
Now I just realize that I’m too focused looking at them and didn’t hear anything from the twins.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t hear you guys. What are you guys talking about just now?”
“We’re talking about if we ever heard about boxing matches from Sneg or Colombain, Vil.” Mana replies.
“Have you heard of these matches, Vil?” Mari asks.
Just open up my mouth to speak up but my focus gets distracted again from them.
All of them stand up from their seats and proceed to the back of the stage.
They just smile at us and give a small wave.
For Colombain, he shows his fist as a sign that he’s going to win this match.
As a response, I just reply to them with a smile.
Mari and Mana raise their fist to give courage to them.
“Okay. Umm.. for your question Mari, I don’t think I ever heard any of them have boxing matches before.”
“I hope they’re doing fine with it.” Mana says.
Something heavy in my chest and I don’t know what it is.
Am I worried about him? Why?
Mari, who's already close to them, feels like she is fidgeting beside me.
Is she worried too?
“Are you worried about them, Mari?” I ask her whisperly.
“Of course, Vil. They are my friends and I don’t want them to get hurt. The one thing that makes me worried is from Sneg's last sentence.” Mari replies.
As a response, I look at her with a confused face.
“What do you mean?” I ask her.
“Remember their fight in the cafeteria? He said that he need to settle something with Colombain. That’s why I was thinking that he might use this match as revenge from that time.” She explains.
That’s not what I’m expecting. I didn’t even pay that much attention to them about this.
My eyes open a little wider than before.
Mana stoops her body to get closer so that she can whisper to us.
“Just coming through my thoughts, I think Sneg just wants to beat him up. You know.. just want to makes Colombain has injuries or something?” Mana says.
From what Mana just said, my chest is getting heavier than before.
Why am I like this?
The only thought in my head right now is I need to get there, behind the stage.
Then all of sudden, my body moves by itself.
“I need to check it.” while standing up from my seat.
“What? No Vil. You don’t have to do that.” Mari says.
My body ignores Mari words and just moves forward to the behind of the stage.
Before getting into the back of the stage, there’s an embassy guard.
“Sorry miss. You can’t get behind the stage if you don’t have any permission.” The guard blocks my way.
“I’m Vilheimina Valter, The Queen of this school. It is my right to make sure everything is already prepared for this match, especially the safety of it.” Answering the guard firmly.
“I’m so sorry for being rude just now. You may get in Queen Valter.” He replies and bows down slightly to me.
“Thank you.” With that I finally pass the guard and get behind the stage.
Right after I enter the room, there’s one staff member that comes to me.
“Hello there Queen Valter. What can I help you?” He asks.
“Hi nice to meet you, Mr…'' see his nametag from his suit “Rolland. May I know where all of the participants are?”
“Oh they are right in that room to prepare for the boxing match.” He points out two small rooms.
“Alright. I want to ask is everything alright? All of our equipment for the match. I need to make sure that no one is going to get hurt from this.” replying to him.
“Will do Queen Valter. I will tell them that you come here, okay.” As he says that, he walks away and goes to their room.
But before that happens, I pull his shoulder to stop him.
“Oh do you need anything else, Queen Valter?” He asks me politely.
“Umm.. I’m sorry I don’t want to be rude but the reason why I came here is that I want to make sure all of the equipment is in good condition.” try to give excuses so he can leave.
“Oh yeah right! I’m really sorry Queen Valter. I’ll let you know after checking if all of the staff, okay.” With that he changes his direction to the equipment room.
Making sure no one is looking, I sneak into the Class C preparation room.
Take a deep breath.
Knock, knock.
“Yes, wait a sec.” Brugière’s voice.
She opens up the door and finds me standing in front of the room.
“Hi Valter. Can I help you?” She asks.
“Hi guys. I came here just to make sure everything is alright.” I say. Don’t want to make it too obvious that I was worried before.
“Everything is under control, Valter! I know you’re a queen but you need to relax too!” Brugière’s replies.
“That’s good to hear.”
From where I standing right now, I take a peek at Colombain seat.
He seems didn’t prepared for this.
“Is it okay if I talk with you guys for a minute?” I ask them.
“Sure! We’re friends after all!” Brugière invites me in.
Step inside the room, Colombain still didn’t face this way.
Léger who’s beside him greets me with a small bow.
Remember for not being too close, Vil.
“Colombain?” I greet him with a very soft voice.
Even if it is just that, he still seems startled from it.
“Oh! Hello, Valter. Why are you here?” Colombain asks.
“She’s the queen, Colombain. Of course she wants to make sure everything is alright.” Brugière answers him from behind me.
“Oh.. yeah.. umm.. Everything is alright Valter. You don’t have to worry too much.” He replies.
“That’s good to hear then.” That’s my answer.
From that answer, the room fills with silence.
Okay.. now this is awkward..
Time running almost half of a minute, I take a deep breath once again.
Something that I need to ask that maybe at least could make him less nervous.
“You can do it Colombain. I know we just met for one month but somehow I get the feeling that you got this.” try to cheer him up.
From what I say to him, his eyes open a little bit wider.
“Yeah, thanks a lot Valter. It’s okay. I know the basics of it and I've been in boxing matches before.” He replies with a little smile on his face and shows his confident face.
As he responds like that, the weight in my chest becomes lighter than before.
“Break a leg, Colombain.” giving him a fist then he accepts it.
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