"Hey, look! Seems like they couldn't work things out over there. They look ready to fight-they've even raised a barrier!"
A sharp-eyed boy pointed toward a corner of the training room, his voice brimming with the excitement of someone who loved watching trouble unfold.
Everyone nearby turned to look. Sure enough, a pale blue barrier had risen around Greg and Juno.
"No way. Sure, Greg got full marks in the Second Defense, but that doesn't mean he's a match for Juno in combat, right? So I doubt they'll actually fight."
A girl wearing round glasses sounded a little worried.
"Who cares? Why pass up some juicy drama?"
Another boy rubbed his hands together, anticipation written all over his face:
"Besides, wouldn't it be even more fun to see a record-breaking academic genius get flattened? C'mon, let's go watch!"
The crowd surged toward the barrier. Even the people gathered around Vivian cleared out completely.
Vivian stood where she was, listening to their chatter, but her eyes, which had grown dull, slowly began to brighten again.
She didn't care in the slightest about their claims that "Greg would get flattened," because that simply couldn't happen.
After coming out of the Dungeon, she had known Greg was even stronger than she was. There was no way he could lose to Juno.
What mattered to her was something else-they had said Greg and Juno hadn't reached an agreement.
That meant she still had a chance to win Greg back and stop him from leaving with that Dragonfolk airhead!
"Hey, didn't we agree to fight at the Five-Academy Competition?"
Greg felt rather helpless as he watched the Little Dragon Girl before him activate the barrier without so much as hearing him out.
He had only wanted someone to make an introduction. How had this