One day during the Easter holidays, Skylar received a duel challenge delivered by owl.
When he first received the challenge, Skylar was completely baffled. Only after making inquiries from several sources did he finally understand the intricacies of the power struggle within Slytherin. So there were actually undercurrents like this in Slytherin. None of this was ever mentioned in the original story. School life is starting to seem pretty interesting.
Faced with a development outside his original plans, Skylar smiled in delight, as though he had come across something that made him very happy.
There were two challengers—one was Terence Higgs, a third-year and the former Slytherin Seeker who had been replaced by Draco through a financial maneuver. Terence was dissatisfied with losing his Seeker position through underhanded dealings, so he wanted to challenge Skylar to a duel. If Skylar lost, he hoped Draco would return the Seeker position to him.
The other challenger was Gallup Lestrange, a fourth-year. He regarded House of Malfoy's decision to protect itself first after Voldemort's downfall as a betrayal of the pure-blood families, and therefore could not allow a Malfoy descendant to easily build popularity and prestige within Slytherin.
After cautiously having Daphne investigate the two challengers' abilities through her family, Skylar decided to accept the challenge. He had already intended to build a faction loyal to himself within Slytherin, and this challenge was the perfect opportunity to establish his authority.
Skylar had no intention of becoming like those pedantic pure-bloods, shackled by narrow-minded pure-blood ideology. He wanted his faction to value people according to their character and abilities—compared to bloodline, Skylar cared more about a person's character, temperament, strength, and talent. Before dealing with those outside, one had to first settle matters within. Only after subduing all of Slytherin could he comfortably recruit