When the students lifted their heads, their eyes became transfixed, and what they saw immediately got them engaged in an enthusiastic discussion.
“It's the goddess of our school! Arielle came in first!”
“Oh my gosh, it's really her! So pretty and talented, she's almost too blessed!”
“Nothing to do with that. She must have also worked very hard! If I had her looks, I'd forget about the university admissions and join the entertainment industry for the big money instead.”
“Hang on!” Someone who had noticed the grades pointed up to the scoring on the bulletin board. “Did all of you not see that? Full marks! She scored full marks for four of the papers!”
“What?”
The others who previously only had their
sights on the names in the top five and neglected to check the grades appended and turned their attention there immediately upon the mention by that one student.
Arielle had maximum points for all the other subjects under her name, save Chanaean, for which she scored an astonishing zero.
“Frigging hell!” the observing student blurted out an expletive. “Managing to finish ahead despite scoring zero for one subject is just ridiculous. But come to think of it, could her Chanaean be so bad as to score zero? That seems a little farfetched, to say the least.”
“Oh, I have a friend from the preparatory class who told me that Arielle was absent the first morning of the exams. As such, it wasn't a question of her linguistic skills. She simply did not show up to sit for the paper.
“I see... She has to be a genius to come in thirty points ahead of the second-placed Wendy even while skipping one of the
papers.
“Damn! That Wendy who's been besmirching my goddess on live stream is in second place?”
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