Alma stood still, her knees shaking under the heavy air and due to tiredness.
She stared toward where the gorilla was, the two golden dots she had seen fading.
She didn't know how to feel–happy that her plan was going well or annoyed that her hard work was thwarted.
What she had done on the day of the Warrior's Orientation was so she could trigger a growth within Jules.
Unlike other people, he was more covetous and seemed harder for her to influence directly.
That's why she used a direct approach of humiliation, just like how she made herself the mark for her peers to surpass to be considered 'strong.'
For her goal to escape the organization that placed her here, she needed strong people to go against them—to protect her eventually.
'He is doing well,' Alma thought.
Aside from not wanting to feel like she lost, Alma wanted to fight Jules to gauge his strength since he was the hardest to gauge just by perception in their level.
