Chapter 145
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Kurt smiled as he spoke, his voice calm and steady, yet laced with something unmistakably final. “I believe most of you already know–I’ll be retiring soon. Today, I can officially announce that the acting president who will be taking my place has already arrived. She’s spent time embedded among you, observing and evaluating the state of this academy firsthand.”
He paused for a beat, then turned toward Raven with a smile that made more than a few stomachs tighten.
“Allow me to introduce her formally,” he said. “This is Miss Valor–your next acting president.”
The words fell like a hammer.
For a long, breathless moment, the crowd was absolutely silent.
Everyone stood there, stunned into stillness, as if their minds simply refused to accept what they’d just heard.
They thought, ‘Wait–what? Raven? That girl who supposedly came from some backwater town? The scholarship case? The one they’d all whispered was using her looks to climb her way up? She… she was going to be the acting president of Regalhold University? No. That couldn’t be right.
Someone stepping into Kurt’s position should’ve been a seasoned figure in their thirties, at least–someone from the military’s top brass, with years of experience and an air of authority.
Not a girl who, quite frankly, looked younger than most of the students standing around her.
Surely, Kurt was joking. Right?
But before anyone could find their footing in this collapsing sense of reality, Raven’s cool, unbothered voice rang out again as she glanced toward the instructors restraining the five troublemakers.
“Throw them out.”
The instructors didn’t hesitate. Almost in unison, they replied, “Yes, ma’am.”
In the very next instant, the grip on the girls‘ wrists tightened. All five of them gasped in pain, their bodies jolting under the
pressure.
Brianna, already pale from having multiple ribs broken by Raven earlier, looked like she was on the edge of blacking out. But the hatred in her eyes burned hotter than ever. If anything, the pain had made her more lucid.
She glared at Raven, voice trembling but sharp with venom. “Someone like you… how the hell did you become acting president? Let me go! I’ll report this to the military myself!”
Raven frowned slightly, then flicked her fingers.
A thin silver needle flashed through the air and embedded itself cleanly into a pressure point on Brianna’s neck.
And then came her voice–calm, detached, terrifyingly cold. “If you can’t speak properly, then you won’t be speaking at all.”
Brianna’s eyes flew wide open in horror. She opened her mouth to scream something, anything–but all that came out were muffled, choked whimpers.
“Mm–mm–mm!”
Her voice was gone.
Millie and the others flinched. The sound of Brianna’s broken, voiceless groans and the realization of what Raven had done sent a chill straight to their bones. One look at Raven’s face–and they knew.
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She’d made Brianna mute.
And she could do the same to them. In fact, she might already be considering it.
None of them dared say another word.
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As they were dragged toward the academy gates, all five of them were consumed by one overwhelming emotion–regret. Waves of it crashed through their minds.
If they had simply kept their heads down, if they hadn’t picked a fight with her, they could have safely graduated from Regalhold, gone on to live lives of privilege and power.
But now? It was over.
Their reputations were destroyed. Their futures obliterated. And the punishment waiting for them back home, once their families learned what they’d done… they didn’t even dare imagine it.
Back in the courtyard, the rest of the students stood frozen, watching the five of them disappear.
Then their eyes shifted–back to Raven.
For a long moment, no one said a word.
She looked too young to be who Kurt said she was, too composed, too calm, too brutal.
But somehow… it was real.
She wasn’t just powerful. She was power.
Off to the side, Steve, who had been the one pushing Kurt’s wheelchair, stood like a statue–completely stiff, pale, barely breathing.
He looked at Raven as if he’d just witnessed a ghost rise from the earth.
And then–her eyes found him.
She didn’t raise her voice. She didn’t even smile. She just looked at him and said, with the kind of softness that could freeze blood in your veins.
“Walk out of the academy yourself… or would you like me to have someone help you?”
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