"What happened?"
When Kudo Mitsunobu arrived at the tent, he found that quite a few students were already seated in the spacious meeting room.
The atmosphere in the room was unusually heavy, nothing like yesterday, when everyone had been laughing and smiling during Kudo Mitsunobu's visit.
Everyone present wore grim expressions. Jumonji Katsuto's face was especially dark, as if water might drip from it.
"Mitsunobu, you're here. We can start the meeting now!"
After Kudo Mitsunobu came in, Saegusa Mayumi picked up the remote from the table and pressed a button, bringing up an image on the large screen on the wall.
The screen showed a male student in a First High uniform, lying on a stretcher.
His clothes were tattered, and his face and hands were smeared with a mixture of blood and dust.
But the worst part was his right lower leg, which was a mangled mess of flesh. In places, white bone was even visible.
Several female students couldn't take the sight and turned away to vomit.
Kudo Mitsunobu's eyes narrowed. He remembered the student quite well. He was one of Morisaki Shun's two lackeys, and one of the participants in this Monolith Code event.
Since Kudo Mitsunobu had chosen not to take part in the Monolith Code, and they expected Ichijo Masaki from Third High to participate, they had decided to enter these students instead. The event had been all but conceded from the start.
"Mayumi, what happened? How did he get hurt so badly?"
The Nine Schools Competition was just a competition between students, not a fight to the death. The Monolith Code also had strict limits on magic, and physical contact and weapons were forbidden. How could things have ended so horrifically?
"Fourth High's competitors used Battering Ram on a load-bearing pillar inside the