Chapter 390: Skip (2/2)

This was all to say that… These three were nowhere near equipped to deal with something like this.

Take a potential Heir of the Morales family as a new recruit? Was that a joke? Did they have a death wish?

The longer the female remained silent, the more those around seemed to hang on her every word. None dared to look away for fear that they might miss something important.

”Hello?” Leonel finally asked.

It was a shame he hadn't been paying much attention before, or else maybe he would have been able to read the results himself. That said, he might have been overthinking things. It might not be so easy to read in the first place.

The female snapped out from her thoughts and almost couldn't refrain from glaring at Leonel and gnashing her teeth.

Was he having fun putting her in such a situation? You know well what kind of family you come from, yet you came here to cause trouble. What for exactly? To chase women?

The female thought back to how Leonel treated Aina as though nothing else mattered in the world. But, she couldn't bring herself to be too enraged. After all, the current Aina wasn't exactly considered a beauty. It would be much easier to believe that Leonel was just chasing skirts if this wasn't the case.

”You…” The female choked on her words before clearing her throat. ”… Aina Brazinger and Leonel Morales will skip the preliminary rounds. The rest of you new ones, prepare yourselves.”

A shocked murmur spread over the crowd.

She didn't read out Leonel's Grades, but she also said that Leonel could skip the preliminaries. According to what she said before, that meant that Leonel had at least one Grade Five affinity. But, if that was the case, why not read them aloud?

Leonel raised an eyebrow but didn't say much more. Didn't skipping the preliminaries mean that he could chat idly with Aina for a while? As long as he got to do that, nothing else really mattered.

Leonel stepped down from the platform to find Aina looking back at him with a hint of curiosity. It seems that she too wondered why it was that the female hadn't read his Grades aloud like she had done with everyone else.

”They say curiosity is the first sign of falling in love.” Leonel said to no one in particular.

However, when Aina registered his words her heart skipped a beat and her face went red. It was just a shame that much of it was marred by her inflamed scars.

Leonel grinned. ”Let's go to the side and –.”

Leonel's words paused. His gaze shifted to find Syl's elder brother, Anared, standing before him with a cold expression.