Due to time constraints, Evan didn't specifically prepare breakfast himself. Instead, he bought a ready-made meal from the cafeteria. After comforting Kiana and helping her adjust her mood, he escorted her to the exam hall.
Previously, when Raiden Mei called him specifically, Evan thought there was some major problem with Kiana's condition. But when faced with the breakfast he brought, the girl didn't refuse and finished it all. Either Raiden Mei had exaggerated the situation, or Kiana's attitude toward him was... hehe, I'm feeling a little proud.
At this moment, Evan was sitting on a bench outside the teaching building. Behind him was the exam hall where Kiana was taking her test. Although St. Freya Academy currently only had a few dozen students, Kiana was certainly not the only one who failed the history exam. Through the window, Evan could see three other people accompanying her in the classroom, and the proctor was none other than Teacher Welt.
Sensing Evan's gaze, Teacher Welt nodded with a smile, acknowledging him.
The makeup exam only lasted for a short hour. Evan didn't plan to use this opportunity to do anything else. Leaning back on the bench, breathing the fresh air of St. Freya Academy, and feeling the temperature of the winter sun was quite a pleasant experience.
An hour later, the exam ended.
"Alright, time's up. Considering there are only four of you taking the makeup exam this time, meaning only four papers, I can grade them quickly. You'll know your scores very soon."
Following the prior agreement with Evan, Teacher Welt said this and signaled that everyone could leave the exam area, while he began grading the papers right there at the podium.
Under such circumstances, naturally, no one would leave peacefully. The four students taking the makeup exam gathered at the classroom door and began to whisper, comparing their answers.
"What did you choose for the last multiple-choice question?"
One person asked. Although they would know the result in a few minutes given Teacher Welt's grading speed, everyone still seemed impatient.
"I chose A."
"Huh? Shouldn't it be B?"
"Yeah, yeah. I chose B too."
The three speaking all revealed nervous expressions, then turned to look at the fourth person—Kiana.
The student who chose A hoped Kiana's answer would be the same as theirs, and the other two harbored similar thoughts.
Feeling her classmates' gazes, Kiana blinked and scratched her head in distress.
"I chose C."
"..."
Fine. Let's just stop comparing answers. It's simply asking for trouble.
The group fell into silence, waiting for the final result from Teacher Welt. Evan also walked into the teaching building at this time. He didn't ask Kiana about the situation, only admiring the girl's pretty face, which hid her nervousness, with great interest.
Teacher Welt didn't keep everyone waiting long. He finished grading the papers quickly.
"Congratulations. You have all passed the history makeup exam."
"Yay!!!"
Cheers filled with joy erupted.
Watching Kiana jumping up and down with the three female classmates—whom she wasn't actually very familiar with, just companions in misery—Evan also smiled. He approached Teacher Welt and asked in a low voice.
"Did Kiana score high on the extra credit question you set, or did she actually pass on her own?"
Hearing Evan's words, Teacher Welt, who was smiling while announcing the results, suddenly looked a bit awkward.
His original intention was to determine Kiana's character through the extra credit question, but Kiana's performance completely dashed that idea.
Teacher Welt glanced at Kiana, who was cheering not far away.
"That girl didn't do the extra credit question at all. It seems she thought the difficulty was too high, so she put all her energy into the previous questions."
A full fifty points for the extra credit question, and Kiana just gave up on it directly. This was something Teacher Welt had never expected. If not for the fact that the extra credit question only added points and didn't deduct them—being independent of the exam's main score—the moment Kiana made such a decision, she would have been destined to fail the makeup exam.
Rather than believing Kiana saw through the deep meaning implied in the extra credit question and wanted to avoid it, Teacher Welt was more willing to believe that this girl simply didn't pay much attention to the point value and took it for granted to give up on the hardest question on the paper in the normal sense.
"So Kiana indeed passed by relying on her history knowledge. Hard work truly pays off. It's gratifying."
"Haha, indeed."
Although he failed to determine Kiana's character, this simplicity was quite reassuring. Hmm... let's call it simplicity rather than stupidity for now.
The question was set up for Kiana, yet the beneficiaries turned out to be the other three students who also took the makeup exam.
Looking at the other three papers in his hand—which were still a bit short of sixty points and only passed after adding the extra credit score—Teacher Welt shook his head, laughing and crying at the same time.
When Evan and Teacher Welt finished their conversation and returned, the elated Kiana pounced directly into Evan's arms. In her excitement, the girl seemed to have lost many of her reservations.
"Did you hear that? Evan, I passed the makeup exam!"
"Mhm. You worked hard during this time."
Naturally, Evan wouldn't refuse a beautiful girl throwing herself into his arms. He praised her in a very gentle tone, then took the girl's hand.
"Then let's go. Tell Mei and the others, and we'll all go have a meal together."
Watching the figures of Evan and Kiana leaving hand in hand, Teacher Welt gradually furrowed his brows.
He suddenly felt a bit worried.
In Evan's heart, is protecting the world and all of humanity more important, or are those few people he is intimate with more important?
If one day, one of those intimate people becomes a Herrscher and wants to destroy the world, would Evan place righteousness above family?
Teacher Welt knew about Evan's performance in turning the tide during the 3rd Eruption, relying on those few Titans controlled by Cocolia but actually hiding other monitoring means not under Cocolia's control.
In reality, Teacher Welt wasn't clear about what happened after the Titans were destroyed by Evan.
He originally thought the 3rd Herrscher, Raiden Mei, was forcibly brought back and put under surveillance after being defeated by the joint efforts of Evan and St. Freya Academy. But now, various signs indicated that the facts seemed somewhat different from what he had thought?
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