The day after the committee members left, Kurono Shinguuji issued a new announcement within Hagun Academy.
The main representative challenge matches would end at the end of this month. After the deadline, no teachers or students would be permitted to raise objections to the selection results.
The announcement did not cause much of a stir among the students.
The top students confident in their abilities had long since tried challenging the main representatives, only to suffer defeat.
The remaining ordinary students also knew their own limits and would not make fools of themselves.
Yet just when everyone believed the battle for the main representative positions had been settled, Nagi Arisuin was defeated in the challenge match on the final day of the month.
His opponent was the student council treasurer, Kanata Totokubara, a B-rank Knight known as the Crimson Lady.
As a combat-oriented fighter who had been specially recruited onto the battlefield while still a student, her strength was beyond doubt.
Thus, the students were not surprised that she had defeated D-rank Nagi Arisuin.
That night.
Nagi Arisuin sat quietly by the dormitory window, gazing blankly at the flawless, radiant moon hanging in the sky.
Shizuku Kurogane, who shared the dormitory with him, pushed open the door and asked softly.
"Are you all right, Alice?"
Nagi Arisuin turned around, the same gentle smile still on his face as he explained.
"Sorry for making you worry. I'm fine."
Seeing that her friend appeared normal, Shizuku Kurogane spoke with a hint of regret.
"That's good. But it's such a shame. We were only one step away from being able to compete together."
Nagi Arisuin hurriedly waved his hands, a bitter smile on his face and lingering fear in his eyes.
"There was nothing I could do. She's a B-rank combat specialist. I