"Yuri?"
Seeing Yuri shout out, Chloe was not the only one taken aback. Kanata and Flonne were surprised as well.
As for Luo Zhen, he merely turned his head toward Yuri with a calm expression, as though he had already anticipated this happening.
However, Yuri could no longer see the calm on Luo Zhen's face, nor could she see the surprise on the others' faces.
At that moment, Yuri's heart was already filled with rage.
Yes.
Rage.
Why had things turned out this way?
Yuri did not know.
She only knew that when she learned Luo Zhen had become an instructor for another squad and had even shown them that kind of expectant, gentle smile, an uncontrollable negative emotion had surged up inside her, turning into a raging fire that could no longer be extinguished.
Driven by that emotion, Yuri spoke up loudly.
"There's already a major issue that could affect whether 'Mistgun' even exists, yet you're planning to set it aside just because of the funding problem for an E-rank squad? Is that why you're here...!?"
Yuri spoke as though she were furious beyond restraint.
And she was not entirely unreasonable.
If Luo Zhen had not known about the matter, that would have been one thing. But he had clearly heard about it and still ignored it, interrupting the discussion to argue with the head of the Aerial Combat Mage Department over the funding of an E-rank squad. That was simply reckless.
However, Yuri had forgotten one thing.
"Your discussion had already reached a conclusion, hadn't it?" Luo Zhen said calmly. "I deliberately waited for the right moment before coming in. It can't really be called an interruption, can it?"
That was indeed the case.
Before Luo Zhen entered, Flonne's instructions had essentially been dealt with. Yuri had only