No one who became a Champion was stupid.
Even Krum, who was not particularly quick-witted among them, had an IQ well above average. The Champions from the other schools were all exceptionally shrewd.
Once they saw Krum emerge from the water, then noticed the chest in his arms, what was there left to misunderstand?
"The chest is underwater?" the two from Nagudinnaf said incredulously.
Rowing took nothing more than brute strength. Corvinus was even more muscular than Lei Kaiming and could do the work of two people at the oars. But when it came to going underwater, he felt somewhat less confident.
Meng Yuchen, beside him, remained composed.
"Obviously." Seeing that Krum had climbed out, Julianne Sirtute casually cast Scourgify and a Warming Charm on him and nodded. Then she urged him to hurry up, get dressed, and leave.
Krum was actually already getting dressed as fast as he could.
He found Gardner's and Shen Yalan's gazes rather difficult to handle.
Besides, Beauxbatons' little boat was already faintly visible in the distance. After the two beautiful French girls learned that they could propel their boat with magic, they first inwardly cursed the others ahead of them up and down, then silently berated themselves for being idiots who had failed to think of even that.
Then they decisively joined the ranks of those propelling their boats with magic.
However, although there were rivers and lakes around Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, there were no particularly large bodies of water. The Seine was clearly unsuitable for practicing magical rowing.
Even Harry and Ron from Hogwarts, which stood beside the Black Lake, knew no spells specifically for rowing, so naturally, neither did the two girls. Fortunately, they had a fairly solid grounding in basic magic.
Although they were not as fast as Nagudinnaf or