While Mo Bai and Losera were still in the Auditorium.
"I want you to buy the Academy a little time when that Black Shores inspector arrives tomorrow."
Losera made the request to Mo Bai beside her.
Mo Bai neither agreed nor refused.
"..."
He merely fell silent, as though considering something.
"That's a little too easy a request for me, Principal."
Mo Bai replied in a light, joking tone.
Seeing that he seemed to have guessed her real purpose, Losera smiled.
"Oh? How so?" she asked with a smile.
"The Rover warned me not to get directly involved in the Academy's affairs. But my friends are here."
Rather than answer directly, Mo Bai took a roundabout approach.
Someone as sharp as Losera could hear what he was implying.
In short, Mo Bai would heed the Rover's warning.
But he would do exactly what Losera had asked: buy everyone at the Academy a little time.
As far as Mo Bai was concerned, buying time hardly counted as getting directly involved.
"It seems our Academy has produced another student who cares deeply about his friends."
Having gotten the answer she wanted, Losera felt her eyelids grow heavy.
One more worry had lifted from her mind. Now that she could relax, her body, which had gone days without sleep, finally felt the exhaustion.
"I was expelled before I could graduate. As far as Solaris is concerned, I've only got a preschool education..."
Even Mo Bai found it absurd to hear Losera call him a product of Star Torch Academy.
The renowned Star Torch Academy had produced a man who only knew how to fight and whose official education stopped at preschool?
"Ahem... Well... Once this is over, I'll find a way to clear your name," Losera said awkwardly.
It was bad enough that