"I quit! I'm done! It's over—o-ver!! This is stupid! Hmph, damn it all! Magic-users were never cut out for this kind of thing from the start. Even if I am a great magician, I only took it because they forced me, and look what happened. Heh, I blew it~~!! Doing this was a complete waste!"
Division Head Hütter raised both hands and poured out complaints. Knight Commander Lothar, the chief referee, walked over. He looked Hütter in the face, then grinned with open pleasure.
"That settles it. Ambassador Marie's victory."
He took my right hand and raised it high. At last—at last I had won.
A great cheer for my victory… did not rise. Instead, voices of resentment rose from all around.
"This is wrooong—"
"We looost—"
"Why did they lose?"
"Losing to that—what were they doing~"
"Isn't this fixed?"
