One day was enough for all the competing apprentices to learn about the time-stop video. Ten silver coins per copy—buy it and you wouldn't be cheated, buy it and you wouldn't regret it.
Yu Xunge didn't go out the next day. Her reason was that she needed to prepare for the match.
Mist Blade didn't go out either. Her reason was the same.
Maple Syrup went out. Apparently, she told everyone she met that she couldn't hear very well.
Yu Xunge: "..."
Fate was right. She was this annoying—what else could she be but an Arch-Nemesis?!
Her future self and Maple Syrup definitely had a terrible relationship!
Yu Xunge didn't go out until the day the second match began. She used Absolute Freedom to head straight to the venue, then stood in Moonlight Wetland's game waiting area with her arms crossed and a cold expression.
She had gone dark. She was planning to isolate herself from the world.
Mist Blade, seven or eight meters away from her, was the same. Her hands were in her pockets, her face blank.
Fat Goose and Motorcycle passed in front of her, then backed up together and returned.
Fat Goose raised his sleeve to wipe his eyes and choked out, "Junior, are you okay?"
Motorcycle, who had backed up with him, sniffled twice. "Do you need a handkerchief?"
Yu Xunge pulled out her dagger without changing expression.
Fat Goose and Motorcycle jogged away. Waving their arms, they ran toward Mist Blade while muttering nonsense like, "Mist Blade abandoned her after starting something."
Yu Xunge: "..."
Mist Blade: "..."
In the waiting area for problem apprentices who had nowhere to study, Maple Syrup's smile hadn't faded since the moment Xunge and Mist Blade appeared. Her gaze kept darting back and forth between them.
Every now