"Did the instructors corner you?" The kind woman who helped Coco asked, eyebrows furrowed in concern.
"No, not really." Coco answered, feeling slightly relaxed in the woman's presence despite not knowing her two hours ago, "They just didn't like the fact that I didn't wear any hunting gear."
"Now that you mentioned it.." The woman mumbled, her eyes darting away from Coco's face down to her clothes, "Why aren't you wearing your gear?"
Once again, just like what she did to the instructors, she stayed quiet and stared ahead of her.
It has been approximately two hours since the match outside started, and only four examinees had passed— the first one managed to kill the monsters after forty minutes, the second one got heavily injured, but managed to pass after thirty minutes, the third and fourth one tied on twenty five minutes.
So far, they are the only ones who have passed and are now allowed to sit by the other side of the arena to watch the rest of the examinees.
