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"This is unpleasant! Truly, utterly unpleasant!"
In the student cafeteria, Charlotte roughly cut the toast on her plate while venting her frustration with an indignant expression.
"Why did someone who's been at the academy for less than ten days not only become a 'Gauntlet Holder,' but also one of the 'Rounds'?!"
"Calm down, Char..." Standing on the dining table and enjoying a plate of chicken, Sigmund held a small piece of chicken in his tiny dragon claws as he suddenly spoke.
"What you're unhappy about isn't Wu Yan becoming a 'Gauntlet Holder,' nor is it him becoming one of the 'Rounds.' It's that his rank is higher than yours, right?..."
"Ahh! That's exactly it!" Charlotte choked up, then simply shouted as though throwing caution to the wind.
"Why is someone whose theoretical results were so terrible he handed in a blank paper ranked higher than me?!"
At Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart, Charlotte was ranked sixth among the hundred participants in the Night Party.
Charlotte had spent more than an entire year improving her Automaton Thaumaturgy while studying diligently, only obtaining that rank after achieving outstanding results.
Compared to that, Wu Yan had only been a student at the academy for less than ten days. He had handed in a blank paper for his theoretical exam, originally holding a firm last place among 1,237 students, yet he had directly climbed to fourth place. How could Charlotte not be dissatisfied?...
"That may be true..." Sigmund continued eating his chicken and replied casually.
"But you know that the selection method for the Night Party's hundred participants is different, right?..."
Hearing