"..."
The smile on Greg's face froze instantly, and the corner of his mouth seemed to twitch ever so slightly.
He raised a hand to his forehead and let out a long sigh.
"Ah... now I really understand. Prejudice really is a mountain that's hard to move..."
Apparently, unless he produced some even more irrefutable evidence, his suspicious mentor with her bizarre way of thinking would never believe him.
Greg wiped the expression from his face and grew a little more serious.
"All right, I'm not joking. Seriously, I really have been chosen as a representative ahead of time. It was because of the Undead Incident that caused such a stir a while back. You've heard about that, haven't you?"
Alice nodded instinctively, a flicker of understanding crossing her icy purple eyes.
The incident had sparked some discussion within the Academy, too. After all, High-Rank Undead had appeared near the city and caused considerable panic.
She remembered that a student had apparently resolved the incident single-handedly, but as for who... she had been so busy with her research and avoiding Greg that she hadn't paid any particular attention.
"The person who resolved that incident alone was me." Greg casually pointed a thumb at himself.
"You...?!"
Alice's eyes went perfectly round, and her small mouth fell slightly open in shock, revealing a glimpse of white teeth.
She stared blankly at Greg, as though she were seeing him for the first time.
The student who defeated the Death Knight alone was Greg Sass?
This guy standing in front of her, who had spent the past year making her ghostwrite even the most basic papers on stable Magic Power configurations?
Although she still found it hard to believe, Alice felt that Greg couldn't possibly lie about this. If he hadn't been the one