A little over a month had passed since the end of the tournament. Nothing of note had happened, it was currently a few days past the middle of June, and we'd just finished our mid-year exams.
As always, I aced the Elemental Magic and hand-to-hand combat exams, but also as always, I just barely scraped by on the written exam. Apparently, Kalbowdi Payse had already made the test before the whole attempted revenge thing, so the written exam didn't get delayed or anything. Lamasa failed and dropped out, as did a couple of others.
Speaking of Payse...she was still alive.
The headmaster had taken her to Erhtaph Ragiu, where they had offered to spare her life and cover up the attempted murder so long as she agreed to keep her mouth shut about the covert operations and not try to kill me anymore. If she agreed to that, they'd even let her stay with her kids.
