"That's her, that's her. The only zero who was able to enter the academy."
"I wonder how did she survive her last 2 years here."
"No, the question is, how will she graduate?"
"Oh yeah, that's right. It was a group competition wherein the individual score will be tested base on ability and physical strength.
And another is the group score but who will take in their group someone without ability and would just drag the whole team down. The group won't graduate if they are from the lowest places."
She could only sigh. That is indeed her problem right now. No one would accept her into their group. She asked a lot of groups already and they flatly rejected her. They didn't even try her if she could synchronise with their team or if she is capable enough.
This academy is the beginning for all the aspiring knights. But most of those knights or to be precise all of the knights, that graduated, have abilities. Those with weaker abilities or those without could only be palace guards.
"Miss Eureka."
Just as she's about to hold the knob to open the office door, she heard someone calling he from behind.
"See I told you she'd be here," she looked at her companion with her brown eyes shinning brightly as if waiting to be complimented.
"Yes yes Karen, you were indeed right."
"You called?" Eureka impatiently called for their attention, after all, she still has a problem to solve in order to graduate.
Why of all times do these people have to interrupt her today, when she's resolved to fight with the headmaster in order to graduate.
"Ah yeah sorry, I'm Feena though I suppose you do know that already. Anyway, you know that the graduation competition is just around the corner. And you know that it is a group of six right?" she slowly explained to Eureka as if implying something.
"Please be direct to the point."
"Uhmm you see, we really are looking for someone to complete our group..." seeing Eureka becoming irritated, Karen went al with the explanation.
I can hear a but," Eureka faced them with a frown.
"Yes, we also know you are Eureka and that uhmmm I mean your ability."
"I don't have any ability so why did you talk to me when your group is not yet complete?"
Eureka already knows and understands what they are implying, she could be on their group but with her non-ability self also known to others as zero, they can't just accept her instantly.
"Fight with us," Feena seeing how short tempered she was, just went and asked her for what they really wanted from her.
"Fight with you or have a duel with you?"
"Oh yes, we want to have a duel with you, in a kind it's a test for us to see if we really could take you in our group," Feena replied with uncertainty.
This was tasked by their captain after all, despite not knowing why, the two of them could just comply.
"Okay," accepting it instantly startled both Feena and Karen.
"You're not going to think about it?" Karen wondered.
"I mean we literally told you that you're zero and that you have to prove to us that you can keep up with our group before accepting you," she added.
"If the strongest group asked someone to duel them in order to join their group, I don't think no one would think about it. Plus I AM a ZERO. When?"
She was asking for the time and place of their duel.
