Chapter 87: Misunderstanding
Riven got up. He didn’t say anything for a few seconds, simply looking at Sally.
She looked at him with cold eyes for a few seconds and then broke into a smile. "Come on now, tell me, Rank One, what happened?" she asked. Her voice seemed filled with joy, but there was a strange pressure behind it.
Riven took in a deep breath and then spoke. "It was a misunderstanding. I was talking to someone who was his friend, and he felt I was pressuring or bullying them.
He came in to intervene, but then he got violent without asking what was happening. Out of instinct, I reacted and accidentally knocked him out," Riven said.
"Is that so?" she asked.
"Yes," Riven replied. She poked around and saw that all the nobles had a straight face; they didn’t allow any emotion to show for her to know what they were thinking.
But as her eyes landed on the three commoners left in the class—two boys and a girl—they immediately looked away, avoiding her gaze.
She immediately knew that there was more to this story, but she couldn’t interrogate those three, because if they snitched, this class would turn on them, and no matter how the academy tried to avoid it, they couldn’t stop it.
"Riven Von Grave, that’s your name, right?" she asked, and Riven nodded.
"You are the number one student of the first year, and the person that was dragged out was Rank 43, one of the last ten in the class.
I’m sure that your strength and ability are far, far above his own, and so that means you could have handled the situation much better, like restricting him, isn’t it?" she asked.