The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

426: Oleen’s Death

Xi was about to say something but Annika came back down with an odd, somewhat thoughtful expression.
Xi took two steps forward and took Annika’s hand.

“How’d it go? Did you ask what’s going on?”

A distracted, but clearly worried Annika replied with, “Jasmine didn’t tell me anything, but she seemed strange, like something was on her mind.”

“Don’t worry.
She’s on good terms with Zi Cheng and Yifu.
Even if she does have something she’s worried about, I’m sure they’ll help her.” Xi said offhandedly.

If it had anything to do with Feng Wu, then it was high odds it was something bad.

“Is that so. . . ” Annika was still worried, but she didn’t say anything else.

“Forget about her.
Let’s talk about the competition coming up.
For the new semester this year, everyone in the Sword division has to participate in the largescale Extreme Survival challenge.
All the grades are jumbled together in the same arena, so our class is at a disadvantage.
I don’t understand what the school is thinking; it’s such an unfair way to conduct it.” Xi snorted.

“All of you from the Sword division have to participate?” Annika had also heard about the competition, but participation for those in the Magic division was voluntary.
It was the first she heard about mandatory participation for Sword division students.

“Yeah, second years and onward have to participate.
It’s so unfair.
We just passed freshman year, and we haven’t even started our sophomore year officially yet, but they’re already making us compete against the upper classes.”

“There’s another competition?” Feng Wu asked from behind Xi.

“Yeah.
You don’t know because you just got back, but this time the school organized a special competition.
I heard the top ten are going to be sent on a special extra dangerous mission.”

Special mission? Feng Wu couldn’t guess what the mission could be so she didn’t bother speculating about it.

The three girls sat on the sofa and talked about the competition.

“I heard the mission is very dangerous and if you want to survive, you’ll need more than just strength.
You have to have luck and the ability to survive.
They made the competition just to select people for the mission, but no one knows what the mission is.
All we know is the benefits are extraordinary – if selected.
I heard it’s the chance to join Star Marshall hall.” Annika looked wistful when she talked about Star Marshall hall.

“Why don’t you go to seminary? Those guys either become government officials or saints after they graduate.
Some of the really lucky ones get to directly work at Star Marshall hall even.” Xi said.

To which Annika replied angrily.
“You don’t think I’ve tried?! I went back when they were recruiting, but the teacher there said I had no divinity and that I couldn’t communicate with the gods, so he couldn’t accept me.”

Speaking of this, Annika was unwilling to concede.
She had wanted to join the Star Marshall hall ever since she was a little girl and had worked hard to be a saint to further that goal.
But in the end, she was rejected because she lacked divinity.
Though she did apply for Xingguang Holy academy and got accepted into the Magician department, she was still bitter about the entire thing.

“Are you going to participate in the Extreme Survival challenge then?”

“Of course! I have to grab this opportunity! It might be the only one I’ll ever get to join Star Marshall hall!” Annika fisted her hands in front of her stomach in determination.

Star Marshall hall? Feng Wu felt like she had a friend there.
Was Star Marshall hall that amazing? Why did Annika want to go there so much?

Feng Wu, who wasn’t a native of the world, didn’t understand why people worshiped and yearned to join the hall so much.

…

News of the challenge spread all over school, so by the time classes resumed a few days later, all the students were looking forward to the event.

In was in this expectant atmosphere that the school issued a notice of punishment to several students: Zi Cheng, Feng Yanran, Milty, and Oleen.
All four were given major demerits for disobeying their captain’s orders while traveling abroad, for acting without their captain’s explicit approval and for personally releasing a demon.

Yanran and the other two weren’t so bad.
There had always been students who didn’t listen to their captain’s orders, but they generally behaved once they were reprimanded.

But what the hell was “personally releasing a demon” all about? Who would do that?! It was a miracle they didn’t get expelled.

“Say, why do you think Zi Cheng would purposefully release a demon?”

“Who would have thought? She always looked so sweet and gentle.
Just goes to show, appearances can be deceiving,” said a chubby girl with freckles.

A group of boys heckled from the side.

Zi Cheng’s face was pale as she walked past the group.
Ming Xi had reported her upon returning to campus.

Fortunately, because of the good relationship she had with the teachers, it was easy to convince them she didn’t know the sword was suppressing a demon when she pulled it out.

The school couldn’t prove she knew the sword was suppressing a demon general, so her punishment was just a major demerit.
Had they been able to prove it, she would have been expelled immediately.

Yifu wanted to rush up and tear into the people giving her friend a hard time and talking nonsense.
But Zi Cheng didn’t want a public display, so she pulled at Yifu and they quickly walked away from the area.

The hoopla over Zi Cheng releasing a general demon hadn’t faded when another unexpected event happened.

A student on campus was murdered, and both the victim and murderer were on the recent demerit list: Milty had killed Oleen.

It only took a day to create a huge stir on campus.
Both Milty and Oleen were relatively well known around school.
Though both were nobles, Oleen’s family was on the decline.
If Milty hadn’t fallen in love with him and asked her family to help, it was unlikely Oleen’s family could have regained their influence.

Any man would have envied the kind of love Milty had for Oleen: a woman willing to do anything to help elevate her man and his family.
She was a guy’s dream.

However, because Oleen had such a lukewarm attitude towards her, many of the girls felt Milty wasn’t worth it.

Milty didn’t have many friends and she alienated the few friends she had after she met Oleen because she suspected them of being interested in him.