When Huang Jin came looking, Zhuri was chasing the Apprentice around and hitting her.
She had intended to talk them down, only to notice Dawn Cicada standing not far away, watching Elf and the Apprentice tussle with a very strange look. How to describe it... it was like the look she herself wore whenever she saw the cubs roughhousing in Moonlight Wetland.
Huang Jin stopped in her tracks and decided not to meddle in a scuffle between minors...
Fortunately, when Elf finally caught the Apprentice, she could not bring herself to actually hit her. They were in a competition, after all, and every point of HP was precious. She merely grabbed the Apprentice by the back of her collar, carried her back, and set her down in front of Huang Jin. "Your Apprentice. Keep an eye on her!"
Huang Jin stood with her hands behind her back, looking elegant and composed. One glance at the Apprentice meekly admitting defeat told her that the Apprentice must have started this mess. Otherwise, this person would never have been so docile; at the very least, she would have fiercely condemned the other party with her eyes.
She glanced at Zhuri, who was folding her arms and sneering at the Apprentice... She had only thought Elf had a foul temper before, but why did she look more and more like a rebellious adolescent now?
Her companion's fond gaze was far too strange. Zhuri keenly looked over, her brows tightly furrowed, and demanded, "There's something strange about the way you're looking at me."
Huang Jin turned into a Moon Bear and scratched the back of her head with an honest, simple look. "No, there isn't."
Zhuri: ...Something was definitely up.
When the thirty minutes of Game Time ended, only 163 players remained on their Shattered