It was more than mere "unhappiness." From Bai Lan's body language and expression, Chabashira could even see an obvious sense of "resistance."
What was he resisting?
Was he dissatisfied with this result?
Chabashira thought, How strange. A few words had been enough to raise Class D two levels straight to Class B. Wasn't that something to be extremely proud of?
One had to know that this was something that had never happened since Advanced Nurturing High School was founded!
In all its decades of existence, there had never been a case of Class D advancing within its very first month.
And this time, they had even advanced two classes at once.
They had skipped Class C entirely, rising directly from Class D to Class B!
It was simply unbelievable!
If I had managed something like this at his age, then no matter how hard I tried to act composed, I probably wouldn't have been able to stop the corners of my mouth from rising. What could he possibly be dissatisfied with?
Could it be that he still wasn't satisfied, and thought anything short of Class A was unacceptable?
Hmm? No, that wasn't right!
I seem to have forgotten something.
Ah, right. I never told them any of this. Bai Lan didn't know that he had broken the record and made history. All he knew was that he hadn't come in first. He was probably feeling depressed because of that.
If so...
Could he have come to think, Class D is full of useless teammates. We couldn't even get close to a perfect score on an open-book test. They're impossible to carry and don't deserve to win, and then lost interest in the class competition?
Of course, Bai Lan might also have been thinking, *Failure, huh? And these useless teammates are