Chapter 306: RIP
[Chapter 305 Comments.]
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"Do you have any last words?" Victoria's asked with a cold tone.
"W-Wait! You have promised that you wouldn't do anything for everything that happened during the match!" Oliver almost had a heart attack when he sensed the increasing pressure.
Victoria's eyebrows twitched. Now that she thought about it, they were rather specific during the negotiation.
It turned out they had been planning to steal everything from her room. In addition, all this stuff was related to the schoolwork.
If he lost all of them, she wouldn't be able to work. In other words, they had been planning to negotiate with her from the very start.
They had predicted that she wouldn't let them win.
Victoria finally understood that the biggest improvement the students had wasn't their strength but their way of thinking. Even she didn't expect that she would be toyed with by the students.
If this was a real life, she could probably kill them or force Oliver to release everything. At the same time, Oliver would probably hide to the end of the world after stealing all this stuff.
The fact that he remained here must mean he wanted to settle everything right here.
"You dare to do all this just for the test's information?" Victoria squinted her eyes.
"No matter what, we have to get it. The reward is simply too great."
Victoria couldn't deny it. If they had grown this much just from a normal lesson, how strong would they become once they got an individual lesson from Theo?
Their fate might truly be altered.
"In exchange for returning everything to normal, I hope that Principal Victoria is willing to give us the information."
Victoria bit her lips. "You are the first one that dares to threaten me like this."
"I don't dare threatening you, the Absolute Empress, whom everyone feared. It's just a business deal." Oliver had been shaking the whole time. He just wanted to finish this deal as quickly as possible and ran away.
Victoria looked unwilling, but it seemed that she had no other choice. "In the second self on the right, between the green book and blue book. There is a small envelope. It contains the letter from Teacher Theo regarding the test. If you can take everything out one by one except for that letter, I won't report what you've done to your parents."
*Gulp!* Oliver's heart just stopped beating for a second.
On the one hand, this was a perfect chance to obtain Victoria's forgiveness. It might be her grace as an educator. On the other hand, he didn't have confidence that he could pull it off.
No, Victoria might have realized that and chose to punish him this way.
"I will…" Oliver bit his lips. He had no choice. While extending his hand, he started channeling his essence.
First, he pointed his palm at the table as a computer popped out perfectly above the table.
"Ha… Ha…" Oliver panted a few times.
His Inventory allowed him to store items, but it wasn't a magical inventory that would sort the items. Instead, it was similar to the Space Ring. They were floating in the void at the exact same position as they were before getting stored.
Of course, unlike the Space Ring, he could store other things like momentum.
Still, he stored those items easily because he considered them a small chunk. He just stored everything in that chunk into his Inventory. But Victoria wanted him to return it one by one, which meant that he had to envelop all the items with his essence one at a time. It required not only good control but concentration.
That was why as Oliver returned one item after another, he began sweating. It started taking a toll on his mind.
His head was ringing like crazy after returning 60% of everything he had stolen.
"Kh…" Oliver gritted his teeth. He persisted. If Victoria reported this incident to his parents, there was a high chance that his parents wouldn't buy things for him anymore, which significantly reduced his abilities. At the moment, he didn't make enough money for himself, so this setback would screw him up.
After returning 70% of the items, Oliver started clutching his chest. His essence was barely keeping up.
Victoria kept glaring at him as if she didn't care about his condition. It was just exhaustion after all.
Once the progress reached 80%, Oliver fell to his knees. He had a hard time supporting his body. His head felt like it was about to be split apart.
But when he was about to reach 90%, his condition worsened even further. Blood started coming out of his nose as he started gasping for air.
"Ha… A bit more." Oliver endured all the pain. This wasn't the time he received such a setback. He couldn't afford to have his power reduced and got left behind by his classmates.
Whether it was because of fear or his own strong willpower, Oliver managed to return everything one by one. His essence was exhausted as he simply fell down to the floor. He was breathing, albeit weakly.
However, he succeeded.
With a coarse voice, he said, "I've… done it."
Victoria closed her eyes. "Fine. Since you've proven yourself, I'll also fulfill my promise. I will overlook everything and not tell your parents anything about it."
"Hooray…Ha… Ha…" Oliver didn't have time to move his finger anymore.
And that was when Victoria dropped a bomb. "By the way, it has been decided since a few months ago that for the final test, all the students in your class are to spar with the representatives of your world.
"In other words, Li Wei will be fighting his aunt, the twins will be facing a great spirit. Since you have lost the battle against me, you can't escape punishment, right?"
"Don't tell me…" Oliver's face turned pale.
"Yeah." Victoria smiled. "As a punishment, I'll tell the representatives to not hold back during the sparring. And of course, the representative for the Modern Realm is none other than me. You better be prepared since I'll be beating the crap out of you."
Oliver's face became white as his soul was leaving his body. It was at this moment that he knew he fucked up.