To say Alexander was proud of Xiao was an understatement. He was squealing in joy internally when she won.
The match started off pretty grim at first, with Harvey pulling his usual mana restriction spell and wage war on the young witch, but Xiao somehow found a "loop hole" as the Abbot put it, and she managed to toss the fucker in the air and give him the Blake treatment.
There's one tiny little problem that bugged the once-king.
In his previous life, Xiao didn't pull the mana-grab-and-throw stunt until half way through her third year. Alexander remembered that Xiao didn't get first place, so Harvey graduated with a first rank to his name. In his previous life, Alexander didn't surrender to Xiao, he wasn't in the top ten until he reached his fifth year where he got a solid grasp on his shadow magic.