After shouting that, Anthony and the others swarmed to stand in front of the sliding door.
"Anthony, why did you shut the door so tightly!" It took Michael a great deal of effort before he finally managed to pull the sliding door open.
Anthony and the others filed out of the compartment, then returned to their seats with textbooks and scrolls of parchment in hand.
"Chris, weren't you going to Mykonos... or was it Sicily for a vacation?" Michael looked at Chris and questioned him. "You even said you'd wait until then to do your homework. What are you doing now?"
"Mr. Michael Troll, what about you?" Chris shot back mercilessly. "Didn't you say the same thing before?"
"Next school year is going to be hard, so I should relax properly this summer vacation, and I can just do my homework on the day we go back to school."
"I..." Michael hunched his neck and looked at Anthony, who had already spread out his parchment beside him. "Isn't Anthony the same?"
"He was the one who brought it up this morning, saying we should enjoy this summer vacation properly... and just now he was also the one who started it, admitting he was a Crabclaw, so I admitted I was a Troll!"
"Then why aren't you talking about Terry?" Anthony pointed at Terry, who had already started writing. "He was the one who started it. He shouted that he was a Blast-Ended Skrewt."
Terry's tone was perfectly frank. "Anyway, I'm not as confident as you lot, so I just surrendered straight away and admitted I was a Blast-Ended Skrewt."
"Did you make a bet this morning?" Vizet asked curiously. "Over whose O.W.L. Exam results would be better?"
"Yeah!" Michael nodded in reply. "And Anthony was the one who started it..."