Infirmary

"But how is this fair? There is no way you can find any two students worth working with that have a combined score of 9", Carl slammed the table, noticeably angry from the method of examinations that were clearly unfair to Aldrich.

"Do you think it could be due to what happened with Andre?", Aria looked down, hoping that Aldrich wouldn't have to suffer for her sake.

"No, even the Croms don't have enough power to sway the headmaster, its his own doing.", Aldrich paced around the room. "But I don't know what he wants to achieve with this", he muttered. He knew that the headmaster had a clear favorability towards the emperor's children, but he never expected to single out Aldrich.

"Could any of the princes have made a move? No, it's too early", he thought. He massaged his temples, before realizing that thinking about it would make no change. 

"There Is a bigger problem at hand."