"Eek!" Tarak was instantly scared out of his wits, letting out a scream comparable to a banshee's wail. He scrambled out of the room, running wildly down the street with a crying voice: "Chloe! Help! Gorutos is angry! I don't want to be eaten, wuwuwu…"
As for Serie's main body in the Control Bureau.
Just as Claudia was grabbing Yuji's collar and scolding her: "You're always like this! Just now we clearly agreed to trick her together, to make her confess without us having to force it…" and the bespectacled man was futilely trying to mediate—
Crack.
Serie, who had been dazing in the corner, suddenly fell forward stiffly onto the floor, like a piece of wood that had lost power.
Her forehead made an intimate, unbuffered contact with the hard ground.
Crimson blood rapidly spread across the floor from her temple.
"Do you understand what strategic deception is?" Claudia's roar abruptly stopped.
Not because she noticed Serie's abnormality, but because at the end of the corridor, Jared was rushing over, panting, with an anxious look like a hero making an entrance, shouting from a distance:
"Stop! What are you doing! Don't bully Miss Serie!"
His appearance was like pressing a pause button.
Claudia, the grabbed Yuji, and the mediating bespectacled man all turned their heads in unison to look at Jared.
Claudia and Jared, with their identical black hair and green eyes, now reflected the same bewildered and stunned expression.
Jared was dumbfounded.
Didn't they agree on a "hero saving the beauty" scenario?
Why was Claudia beating Yuji? And the bespectacled man was breaking up the fight?
Most importantly…
Where was Serie?
That's right, where was Serie?
"Where's Serie?!" Jared asked, losing his voice.
That shout was like a thunderclap. Claudia suddenly remembered what she was here for and quickly turned to look at where Serie had been standing.
It was fine if she didn't look, but when she did, it scared her into a shiver:
"Holy—shit!!!"
How did Serie end up on the ground?
And bleeding so much?
Is she trying to scam us?
Even worse, that scream was like an alarm, instantly attracting a team of guards who happened to be patrolling nearby.
The guards' sharp gazes swept across the scene—the victim bleeding on the ground, the menacing-looking suspect standing in the center, and another victim whose collar was being grabbed by the suspect, about to be assaulted…
Hmm, the crime scene was clear at a glance.
"Misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding!"
Claudia let go of Yuji as if electrocuted, frantically waving her hands.
But the captain of the guards had already pressed his communicator expressionlessly: "Living Area 1F, B-6 Sector, employee violent conflict, one person with head injury collapsed, serious injury! Request medical support! Involved personnel include…"
"First-year student Claudia Cole, second-year student Ethan Brooke…"
Jared also stepped forward to explain: "Wait, don't…"
But when the guard saw Jared, he added: "And Jared Cole. Notify Dr. Lynette, immediately!"
At these words, the two men and one woman, except for Yuji, instantly turned pale.
It's over…
Now everything was truly over!
Amidst the pale faces, only Yuji, whose name hadn't been called, blinked her big eyes, her face full of the innocent confusion of "Who am I? Where am I? What happened?"
She looked left and right at the three people whose minds were exploding, then at the serious-faced guards, and hesitantly pointed to herself, asking in a small voice:
"Um… am I not involved?"
The guard captain's tone softened slightly, even with a hint of concern: "Are you alright, colleague? Are you injured?"
"Huh? No!" Yuji immediately shook her head, her ponytail swaying along, looking especially relaxed.
"Alright then, please return to your post or the lounge for now," the guard captain said professionally. "If we need to understand the situation later, we will notify you to cooperate with a statement."
"Okay! Got it~" A cloudless smile instantly bloomed on Yuji's face.
She even waved cheerfully at the three people frozen in place, mouthing a silent "Bye-bye~".
Then, with light steps, practically like a bird just released from its cage, she hummed an off-key tune and trotted off, disappearing around the corridor corner.
Crunch!
Claudia's fist was clenched tightly, her knuckles cracking, and a vein throbbed on her temple!
A rush of blood went straight to her head, making her want to rush over and drag that heartless, naive airhead back for a good beating!
Jared and Ethan had to use all their strength to hold back the rampaging Claudia, cold sweat breaking out on both their faces.
Ancestors! If she fought again, it would truly be impossible to explain!
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