Vrrrrr.
And with that, the exams are officially over. At least for the practicals.
If there's one thing I've established during this extremely long exam, it's that the girl called Maria is a lunatic I MUST avoid at all costs.
After she and that Larson guy caught me, the rest of the exams went on with her showing just how much of a sadistic bitch she really was and why that fool Larson was acting the way he was. As it turned out, I was actually right to run away. She was extremely powerful, to the point where I couldn't do shit about it. The moment she grabbed me, it was a lost cause. I tried to fight back, but it was useless. In fact, she seemed to actually WANT that because she just kept laughing and rendering all my attempts to overwhelm or outsmart her completely worthless.
It was probably what she had done to Larson. Breaking his will until he just gave up and became... THAT. A foolish idiot who followed her around like a loyal dog.
But unlike that idiot who just let her walk all over him, I didn't stand for it. I knew I would lose, but I never stopped fighting back.
And yeah, I suffered a lot for that.
She literally had me tied up in an underground building where they had supposedly captured and strung up all the students who had pissed her off to a point she didn't even want to kill them anymore. Instead, she just tortured them continuously for her own sadistic amusement. It seems Larson had a taste of the torture himself. I'm not sure about that though, just a feeling.
It was right then and there that I finally realized why she had chosen to team up with us weaklings in the first place.
The truth of the matter is that she's just a power-hungry lunatic and a sadistic psycho who loves to dominate people. I won't lie, I almost caved in with all the torment she put me through. But for some reason, Lady Luck went senile and actually smiled on me, giving me a slight moment of opportunity. A mistake on her part which I capitalized on, and I was able to land a serious blow that should have killed her instantly.
SHOULD HAVE.
But it didn't.
The bitch was just too strong for cheap tricks. So I forgot about trying to get revenge and used that chance to escape. Throughout the rest of the exams, I just kept running since she could still track me through the team locator on the graphto watch.
"I made it! Fuck you, bitch!" I let out a laugh of relief. You have no idea what I had to endure in there, coupled with the fact that this damned system was actually HAPPY about my suffering. It wasn't even trying to help in the slightest. In fact, it was a slimy bastard that kept mocking me until the moment I escaped.
I hate this thing so much. I just wish there was a way to delete the system's consciousness since it's not even helpful in the first place.
Anyway, as I said, I just kept running for the rest of the exams because I had a feeling if she caught me, I was dead meat. Last time I hadn't even done anything to her and only ran away, yet she tortured me that much. I didn't even want to imagine what she would do now that I ACTUALLY harmed her.
But that ship has sailed now. The exams are over and she can't do anything to me.
But that doesn't mean I won't do anything either.
Oh, not even a chance. Just like that lunatic who kept killing me for just touching the protagonist by MISTAKE, I will make her pay dearly for what she did. She had literally tried to cut off my little bro. That's unforgivable. It doesn't matter if this body isn't originally mine—trying to cut off something so precious and irreplaceable like that is a sin worse than murder.
Oh, what I will do to her.
But that won't be anytime soon anyway. I'm still too weak to even think about it. If I try to get revenge now for what she did to me, I would just be handing my head to her on a platter since there's no way in this world I'll be able to beat her right now.
And that brings me to my main objective now: get stronger.
And I know just the thing to do.
"Huh?" Just as I sat up, someone grabbed hold of my wrist. I frowned and quickly turned to see who it was.
*Fuck.*
I don't get it at this point. Why is it one thing after another with me?
"Come with me," she said. I stared at her for a long while, taking in the situation, weighing my options, trying to figure out what fresh hell this was going to be.
"Fuck no."