Everyone standing below remained frozen, still trying to process the bizarre interaction that had just unfolded between Adlet and Frederick.
Even among the Second and Third Years, there was a visible struggle to make sense of what they had witnessed.
Setting aside the part where he joked about killing someone—because that alone had been chilling—the real weight of the scene settled on everything that followed.
A First Year had not only stared down Frederick, the Frederick, but had somehow convinced him to place trap magic personally on his room gate as a form of compensation.
And then, without so much as lifting a finger in apology, he claimed the monthly credits of a Third Year, who still lay unconscious on the ground with his limbs bent at wrong angles.
And just when everyone thought the absurdity had peaked, came the final twist—Merit Points.
That was what made even Frederick shocked.
