As Anna watched the knight's scolding of the other students from the carriage window, something caught her attention.
'Huh...? Let me see… one, two… five, ten…'
Among the lined-up, embarrassed children, neither Leo nor Margaret was present.
'Did I count wrong?'
Anna frowned, scanning the row of children receiving the lecture again, but she couldn't find them.
'Where could they be?' Anna wondered, puzzled.
Before she could delve deeper into her thoughts, the knight, having finished her reprimand, gave the children instructions.
"Return to the carriages just as you're grouped now," she ordered.
"Huh? But this isn't my group…"
"Do we really have to go back like this?"
"You're not in my group."
"You're not with us."
When the knight saw several children start complaining, murmuring among themselves about being regrouped differently, she responded:
