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Once I had put enough distance from Abien to avoid the attention he was attracting, someone suddenly threw their arm around me from behind, making me jump slightly in surprise.
"Hey hey! I've been looking for you! Good thing it looks like you just finished your exam!..So, what took you so long? Was your mission that difficult?"
I turned to see who it was—it was none other than Anne Craft. She was grinning at me, acting as if we were best friends with how casually her arm was draped over my shoulder.
"The mission I got was to kill 20 goblins. It was a pretty simple task, so I finished quickly. Good thing I've been trained to fight using my fists. I couldn't even find a weapon because everyone was rushing to grab them, blah blah..." Anne Craft rambled on.
