After playing until halftime, with the sophomores leading 31–30, shocking the crowd greatly, who were expecting a beatdown, the players were in the locker rooms.
The rhythmic tapping of heels against the tiles fell into the ears of the juniors, who turned as the woman walked into their midst.
It was the school nurse. She looked at Jon with a puzzled face. "You called me."
Jon nodded. "It's for him." He gestured at Edric, who stood with a bare torso. His skin, up to his face, had become a dark shade of gray. His long claws were made of hard ice, and before Julia's eyes, and that of his classmates, he sliced himself open.
Edric's face contorted, but he endured, opening more claw wounds.
"Why are you doing that?!" Julia screamed, horrified at the sight. But a deep grunt made her snap back to Jon, or rather, to the Asian boy beside him.
Yuan's body grew larger; his irises became crimson while his sclera turned pitch black. A ferocious aura burst out of him.
