In the end, 21 days passed by calmly.
Well... relatively calmly.
For the denizens of the Eternal Universe, it had been quite troublesome as the entire thing with the public opinion manipulation as well as Beatrice's brutal response happened during this time while on the other side, the students were ashen-faced when they realized how little their chance against Dante was.
Today was the day they were to come out and enter the Black Land for another 7 days, but one could tell that their hearts were not in it. When the 27 of them saw Dante appear with them in the Black Land's staging area, they flinched and gave him a wide berth, something which made Dante amused.
The teachers' faces darkened when they saw this, but Xue Bing simply smiled brilliantly. During this time, her Xue Clan had been under pressure just like the Portinari Clan, though her clan faced much less in this regard.