Chapter 31: Perfect Plan

“….” (x10)

“So one of us, you’ll have to fail won’t you?”

At that moment, we were in a cave slowly waiting for the end of this, with somber faces.

The passion and warmth from before had been extinguished, and only a coldness remained, drenching the atmosphere.

Certainly, we were able to find another group which, with a big push, we eliminated, allowing us to find three flags, but they had no more. We continued searching, but found no more groups.

Now the device was activated every five minutes for the last half hour, but there was no one around.

It is obvious that those who got all the flags would hide and move away, and only those who did not have enough flags would be left.

to our bad luck, since the beginning we have always found groups with their original flags, and none of them had more than three flags, even though we are near the end, I don’t even know who has more bad luck.

Besides, this place is very big, so we decided to give up our search, as there were only a few minutes left . Now it was up to us to decide who was left out.

“I vote for it to be Mike. He’s nothing but dead weight.”

Ban said, proposing Mike’s sacrifice.

’Hmm, certainly not a bad idea, but…’

“What did you say, you bastard? In the last fight, I beat two guys.”

As usual, Mike’s hot head responded, starting a fight.

“It was a combination of you and the rest of the mages. Besides, since we started, you’ve done nothing but get in the way.”

’He’s right.’ I was totally and completely with Ban, but I already had my plans.

Ban and Mike escalated their fight. At that point, two people raised their hands and gave their opinions.

“We think Silvia should be left out. She lost three of our flags.”

’Oh!, so mob one and three make their presence known by giving their harsh opinion eh.’

Well, they words were logical. The conversation was getting a bit derailed, but it was necessary.

Besides, I know that faithful William would not let the conversation sit at that point for long.

As for me, I was thinking about something else. I wanted to put on a face like I was having the worst crisis of my life so I started using my imagination.

Certainly, I was imagining Elena rejecting me and asking me to never see her again. Worst of all, she was doing it while looking at me with warmth instead of coldness, which made the scene even more heartbreaking for me.

I would try to reach out and stop her, but she would just politely turn me away while saying that she liked someone else….

“uaghh!!…”

’I think that was too much, I exaggerated. I literally received real damage. I underestimated the power of imagination and received internal injuries’ ,

I swallowed the blood that was running up my throat when my own imagination caused me real physical damage and decided not to be so extreme with my imagination.

I changed the scenario a bit and simply imagined myself asking my father to buy me a life-size doll of Elena along with all her accessories and over a hundred dresses and it even came with the ability to say the phrase “you can be anything you want to be – scum”,

but the condition was that I had to say ’daddy’ to her while kissing one cheek.

’ Uuuuhh Certainly, a difficult decision.’

A difficult decision face formed on my face, But that was what I wanted to achieve , I turned my attention back to the conversation.

The moment the mob said their point a dead silence formed in the area, even Mike and Ban were silent and their gazes were directed at Silvia, who was starting to slouch due to the silent pressure of all the stares.

At that moment, William stood in front of her and defended her.

’That’s my boy. Go ahead and defend her like a gentleman.’

“You can’t point fingers at Silvia. She has contributed a lot to the team and stood up for us. Without her, some of you might have been eliminated.”

’Yes, that’s right, show them who’s boss. Score points with her.’

There were only a few minutes left and we had to decide quickly, even though it was already set in stone what I would do.

“Anyway, we have to eliminate someone, will you take his place?” The other warrior, mob 2, spoke up saying to take his place .

’Oohh, how will our protagonist counter his words?’

I was into watching the discussion continue, but without changing my face from ’I’m making a difficult decision’ .

’Well that as a good protagonist he will try to sacrifice himself for her…’ .

“This…”

’Hey, wait, what are you doing, why are you standing mute and hesitating, don’t just stand there you bastard! Defend her to the end and score points with her unintentionally, like the good dense protagonist, that you are’.

“Ahhem!…, everyone, calm down a bit. Did you forget that I’m the leader? I have the final decision.”

Seeing that the conversation was going down a bad path and William was not following the script correctly, I decided to intervene.

In fact, when I realized that we couldn’t find any more and that we only had nine flags, I knew what I had to do.

In fact, it wasn’t done on purpose, but it was an excellent and convenient scenario that I would definitely use to impress a future member of my harem.

As the leader, I have the last word and, keeping the ’difficult decision’ face, I looked at Silvia.

“Silvia…”

“I-I understand…” ( ╯_╰ )

“Wait, Chris, that’s too much.”

’Wait, let me finish saying what I was going to say pair of lovebirds ’

As soon as I said Silvia’s name, she misunderstood and William intervened which I thought was a good move on his part, but it was unnecessary.

“Calm down, let me talk. As I said, Silvia is not to blame. In fact, I as the leader gave her the flags and she is not to blame. That’s why the person who won’t have a flag will be me without objection.”

I said, making a cool and splendid sacrifice.

“…”

At that moment, everyone was silent. They didn’t know what to say. Even William didn’t say anything.

Silvia wanted to say something, but I conveyed to her with my intentions that it was something I would not take back, so her words never came out of her mouth.

No one wanted to be left out, and since I volunteered myself, there was no more discussion after that.

..

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Ding-dong-Ding-dong

ignoring the fact that the sand timer in the center sounded like another type of clock, Time passed and every member, except me, had a flag.

Then, suddenly, the wristbands started flashing blue and, after a few minutes, a flying boat came overhead and we went up some stairs.

“Team E, nine flags, one person disqualified, Christian Leonhearth, disqualified.”

The thunderous voice of the muscular supervisor pronounced the verdict without even controlling us.

I simply closed my eyes and waited for it all to be over.

..

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“This concludes the examination. The results will be displayed in three days on the academy board.”

“What do you mean, we don’t pass those of us who have the flag now?”

“No, remember what I told you. The examinations for strength and talent have already been done. So in this examination it will be based on teamwork as well as the decisions you made.”

“”????”””

Well, I knew that this examination really didn’t matter if they had the flag or not. What mattered was how they reacted to the situation.

After analyzing it for a while I realized that they were watching us through clairvoyant magic, so they were not only listening but also observing everything we do, it was easy, since they were especially focused on my team, well it is not strange considering who is in it,

That’s why I made sure to be a good leader and act well all the time to earn more points.

I wanted to win the favor of the supervisors who will be our teachers in the future.

This was the last examination and the supervisors will decide the rest. I had no problem, I knew how this worked, so my position is 100% secure and even with extra merits for being a leader who sacrificed for his team.

In fact, I wanted to curry favor with one specific supervisor who, although I don’t know her in this life, I know her from memories of my alternate self and she is a potential member of my harem and having a good first impression of me is important to my plans.

’self-sacrifice what is that? ’

if they were really disqualifying for not having flags I would have left Mike out without a doubt, in fact the idiot was lucky it wasn’t that kind of test.

The moment the muscular supervisor said that, I saw some people’s faces change. Some, happy turned pale and others who were downcast became hopeful again.

There were some who seemed to expect it, like me, so they were calm. At that moment, William turned to me with a happy face and said:

“That’s great, isn’t it, Chris? With that, you’re in for sure.”

’Hey, stop being so happy for me. I don’t like it at all, you bastard you were second choice after Mike.’

The rest of the team joined William, as they are sure that with my actions I would be in and they are absolutely right. So after a chat, we all split up.

I watched as Silvia left with William and wished them well. In fact, as long as William reciprocates to Silvia, she won’t become a yandere dangerous, so I think she’ll be fine as long as I make her realize it.

But there are a lot of problems for that to happen and the main one is Silvia’s current shyness. And me… yes, I’m a obstacle, even if I don’t want to be.

But I’ll do my best to bring them together.

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