Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 1045

The Hope Initiative was serving as a brutal warning to everyone else.

The other students were relying on this tournament to secure their futures and launch their careers.

No one was going to risk their own neck for someone else right now.

"Stop."

A cold, crystalline voice cut through the tension.

The tone was smooth, unhurried, but carried an absolute authority.

It froze Graves in his tracks.

It also stopped Caleb, who had been bending down to pick up the key.

Graves slowly turned around, his eyes locking onto Serena's stunning, icy features. He let out a condescending scoff. "You got a problem, competitor?"

"Pick it up," Serena said, her voice completely flat, her dark, abyssal eyes fixed dead on him.

Graves stared at her, genuinely shocked that she dared to speak to him like that.

He thought he had misheard her. "What did you just say?"

Serena held his gaze, enunciating every single word. "I said, pick up the key."

Her tone was already bleeding impatience.

The remaining competitors froze in place.

They all stared at Serena in absolute shock.

Over the course of the tournament, they had witnessed exactly how dominant and ruthlessly efficient the captain of The Hope Initiative was.

But they never expected this...

She was actually confronting the Chief Arbiter?

Was she not terrified that he would completely sabotage her research for the rest of the week?

Graves's face darkened, contorting into a mask of ugly rage. He let out a harsh bark of laughter. "Who the hell do you think you are, giving me orders?"

He marched aggressively toward her, stopping right in front of the key. Instead of picking it up, he slammed his heavy boot down on it. "Listen to me, little girl. This is my island. I tell you where to sleep, and you sleep there. I threw your key in the dirt. What are you going to do about it? If you've got a problem, quit."

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