'How did he do it?'
'There is no way they could've collected 6,000 credits to start a trial and have the principal act as their witness.'
Their faces scrunched when they heard her next words.
"Team Astra and Team Tempest will be disqualified."
"What!?"
"Why!? There is no proof we did anything!"
The members of Team Tempest, Zoe's team, spoke up.
"No proof?"
Charlotte's aura hit their shoulders with a crushing force.
"You dare use those words in front of me?"
The students fell to their knees.
"W-we apologize for our rude words."
"Mhm."
Charlotte let them suffer under her aura and turned to Lucas and Zoe.
"As I've said, both of your teams will be disqualified.
"Team Umbra, which should've received a slot had you not intervened, and another team will get a slot in your places."
Listening to her made Lucas frown.
He thought hard.
Suddenly, his brows jumped.
"Principal, it is true we had won the slot, no?"
"Yes?"
"Then can we cancel the disqualification if we pay enough credits?"
"…"
Charlotte looked at Lucas with surprise.
She hadn't expected this.
'This year's brats have a good head on their shoulder.'
She smiled.
Her gaze met Neo's gaze.
He didn't want Lucas's disqualification to be revoked.
His frown made Charlotte's smile grow wide.
"500 credits to cancel disqualification for one team," she said.
"Thank you," Lucas replied.
He looked at his teammates.
They understood his intentions and sent him their credits.
190 credits.
Lucas' team was short of 310 credits.
"Zoe, tell your team to transfer us their credits."
"But—"
"Zoe, give me the credits. Hurry."
Lucas smiled.
It made Zoe shudder.
She lowered her head and nodded.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she collected credits from her teammates and sent them to Lucas.
410 credits.
90 credits remaining.
Lucas turned to Felix.
"Felix, as you can see, we are in a pinch here. Can you help us?"
Lucas was not stupid.
He saw Neo came to the principal with them and Felix was there already.
Clearly, Felix was the one who had enough credits to demand a trial.
"Why should I do that?"
"Because we are friends and I don't want to harm my friends, or my friend's friends."
In short, Lucas knew Felix borrowed credits from other students.
He would go after those who helped Felix if he did not listen to his demand.
Felix bit his lips.
He turned to the principal.
'It doesn't look like she plans to stop Lucas from threatening other students in front of her.'
'Seems like she hates us for forcing her to move.'
Felix smiled bitterly.
In the end, he shook his head.
"I don't have any credits left. I used them all for the trial."
"Is that so? That's quite bad."
Lucas backed off easily.
"Principal, can I make some calls? I need to arrange the credits."
"Go ahead."
He took out his device.
A few minutes later, he transferred 500 credits to the principal.
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