Sensing the mood growing worse and worse, Ludo Bagman looked nervously at Old Barty Crouch. "Old Barty... should we do something?"
"No need for the moment." Old Barty Crouch shook his head, his gaze fixed on the Goblet of Fire.
"Look... the Goblet of Fire hasn't gone out yet. That means the selection of Champions isn't finished. Let's wait a little longer!"
Hearing Old Barty Crouch's composed voice, Ludo Bagman nodded.
"Right!" He looked less nervous than before. "Maybe... the Goblet of Fire hasn't been used in too long, so it's only normal for some little problem to crop up..."
"Mr. Bagman..." Old Barty Crouch raised an eyebrow. "I hope that, in a moment... you absolutely don't say something like that out loud."
Ludo Bagman looked toward Karkaroff and Seraphina Piqueri, then hurriedly covered his mouth and nodded. "Understood! Understood!"
Just as Karkaroff and Seraphina Piqueri were arguing, the flames inside the Goblet of Fire turned vivid red once more, and a third slip of paper came into Dumbledore's hand.
"Another Champion from Uagadou... Zuri Nkrumah!" His tone did not change in the slightest, as if he had already expected this. Calmly, he read out the name of the third Uagadou Champion.
"Three Champions?" Madame Maxime, Karkaroff, and Seraphina Piqueri raised their eyebrows at the same time, then turned their gazes to Kamba Headmaster at once.
"What can I say?" Feeling the three headmasters' eyes on him, Kamba Headmaster also gave a composed shrug. "I didn't even go near the Goblet of Fire..."
He stroked his long beard and said, "But as far as I know, when certain headmasters were organizing their students to enter, their distance from the Goblet of Fire seemed... rather ambiguous?"
At those words, Karkaroff's and Seraphina Piqueri's expressions changed, and neither of them actually