The entire hall erupted into a loud commotion following a brief silence.
Everyone wore astonished expressions on their faces as they struggled to come to terms with what they were hearing.
"Fitch lost!"
"That little girl had the right answer?!"
"The little girl only took half a minute to get her answer, but Fitch took over half an hour to get the same answer? How is that possible?!"
None of the conservatives were willing to accept such a crushing loss. To think that the most prodigious young talent among them, Fitch, had lost to a little half-elf girl who was only four years old!
"Does that mean we won?"
"That means that little girl calculated the right answer! She really calculated the correct answer to a two-digit multiplication problem in half a minute!"
"That's… absolutely incredible! Long live the decimal system!"
