Familiar Faces
Sam prepared for the group test.
The top ten rankers of the Gambler's Academy all gathered. The same happened with the other academies. They needed to discuss the strategy for the group test.
When Sam arrived at the already-gathered group, they did not seem very welcome.
They started discussing the strategy before he arrived and they didn't feel the need to include him in the plans. They openly discussed the whole game plan and Sam was nowhere involved. One of them looked at him and said.
"Your role is to simply stay back and ride on the coattails."
Sam is a bit surprised by that confidence.
After all, not one of them dared to fight him until then. But now they are confident enough to tell him off. Then he recalled something about Gambler's Academy.
They never had good track record with the Inter Academy tournaments, freshmen or otherwise.