255 Responsibility (1/2)

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The ten minute timer had begun, the classroom was extremely silent as they pondered about the scenario that Raven gave them.

Raven himself sat down and continued to read a book while the let the students ponder about his question.

Without a doubt, each student was stumped by his question. The scenario was dire and nobody wants to die, but the sense of duty and their inner compassion to help was making it hard for them to pick a choice.

Of course, it would be easier to just turn around and leave. But it's not hard to imagine the bloody end that will befall towards the client and his men should they decide to leave them to their own devices.

Even though Raven wasn't actively looking at them, he could see that some of his students are pulling their hairs out already, most probably due to inner conflict.

”Excuse me, Instructor.” One of the students raise his hand to get his attention, Raven nodded to him then he asked a question. ”Would are answers have any kind of implications on our profiles.”

”Of course.” Raven nodded, the students became even more stressed when they heard that. Fortunately, Raven explained by saying: ”But you won't be judged academically according to your answers. If anything, I would just use this as a basis to see what kind of 'Leader' you guys will grow up to.”

In a sense, some students didn't know whether that was a good thing or not. But the boy who asked this question sighed in relief and then said: ”I already have my answer, Instructor.”

”Oh?” Raven raised a brow, it didn't took him that long to decide, not even five minutes had passed. ”Let's hear it then.” He then closed his book and gave his attention to this student.

”I would retreat with my team.” The boy answered in a straight forward manner which shocked most of his classmates.

Raven remained unperturbed, instead he asked: ”So, you would abandon the mission?” The boy nodded, thus he asked: ”Why?”

”Because I believe that continuing further would be unwise. We will most likely be outnumbered, so even though we could take down some of the assassins who are terrorizing our client and his people, we would just end up as another casualty. I wouldn't want myself nor my team to have a meaningless deaths.”

After the boy said his piece, there was a moment of silence inside the room. Raven nodded softly and looked at the rest of the students, asking: ”Do anyone else feel the same as her? Raise your hand if you do.”

Out of the 29 students, 9 raised their hands. Meaning that in this class, 10 people would most likely going to do what the boy said if that situation occurred to them.

Raven nodded and looked back to the boy, he then said: ”Your reason to call for a retreat is alright.”

The boy sighed in relief but unfortunately she didn't know that Raven isn't done yet.

”This means, that if you came across in a situation like this, you will choose to save six people at the cost of how many people there is on that place. Right?”

The boy staggered ever so slightly when Raven said this, he wanted to refute his words but what he said was basically the summarization of what he decided upon.

”I wonder how many people are in there. 10? 20? 50? 100? Who knows right? And aside from the client, none of you knows how many women are in there, are some of them pregnant? How many kids and elderly are in there? Well, you won't know since you retreated and they will most likely die the moment you leave.”

The Raven talked, the more horrified his students get. But Raven is still not done.

”When you come back, you will undoubtedly be interrogated by your supervisors about what happened. As a Leader, it is your task to relay the truth. What do you think you supervisors would think about how you handled this mission? Would they punish you or understand your decision?”