Realizing that he wasn''t going to get any more information from the principal, Kazuki waved before heading back to his seat.


    Yet, as he stared at the jumbotron, his mind began racing with the possible scenarios.


    For those three students to have escaped both the main cast and the visions of the drones... they couldn''t just be normal.


    Maybe they could be professional hiders or campers... but they weren''t normal, to say the least.


    Also...those three students had to have heard the top ten announcements.


    No doubt, it should have been the three student''s goal to reach the top ten.


    So... why hadn''t they eliminated themselves yet?


    If they had achieved their goal and were happy with the current situation, there would be no reason for them to stay.


    If they had hidden in the first ce, they would most definitely know that they had no chance of fighting and beating other students.


    The fact that they were still participating meant one thing...


    They were nning to win or, at least, die, trying.


    It was also possible that they were trying to be eliminated in a "noble" way to impress recruiters... but they had also hidden, showing they had no nobility inside them.


    Shaking his head, Kazuki began intently watching as the border slowly closed, making the magic space smaller and smaller with every fleeting second.


    ...


    ...


    ...


    At this point, the hype surrounding the recruiters in the main cast had transformed into pure boredom as they stared at the magic area, which was now less than 7% of its original area due to the closing boundaries.


    The magic space consisted of a small forest surrounded by an area that waspletely t and in.


    Exactly where the very center of the map was arge statue that could be seen, depicting the founder of the celestial academy, who was not the same person as the current principal.


    The statue stretched far above the trees nearby with a cloaking hanging from his shoulders that cast a long shadow all the way from the in center to the surrounding forest.


    In the wand''s right hand was a wand that was glowing a light yellow.


    While this wand may have seemed like a useless decoration, it actually helped the main cast keep a lookout as the small orb on top of the wand, colored a light yellow, illuminated the center area.


    On one screen, the seven members of the main cast could be seen simply walking around the statue with their weapons out and ready for use.


    Since the center of the magic had already been looted and used by the alliance at the start, it seems almost barren.


    Countless chests were left open with various useless items left inside, and there were asional footsteps indicating human activity.


    However, since the student alliance of over four hundred students had been here recently, the footsteps were still fairly new.


    This meant that the main cast could not distinguish the new footstep marks from the old ones, leaving them anxious every time they passed by a set of footsteps.


    And the other televisions?


    Either empty, disying the battlefield from the year, which was now closed off by the boundaries, or simply showing the same view as the jumbotron.


    While some people still believed that the main cast were still deciding who the winner would be... some of the more popr knight order recruiters wereing to a simr conclusion as Kazuki.


    "Where are thest three students...?"


    "Can they just end this already!? We know who the winner is."


    Thus, every so often, a recruiter would walk up to the principal and ask the same questions as Kazuki and Kaneki did earlier.


    The constant disruption of people getting up and walking to the principal,bined with the fact that basically nothing was going on in the battle royale, started to anger Kaneki.


    Staring at therge screen, Kaneki angrily said.


    "Can we just end this already? Is this school dragging it or something? I know they need funding... but they can''t be this desperate."


    Kazuki, now considering the possibility that the missing three students were just a bunch of dumbasses and not some genius who were biding their time, sighed as well.


    "Let''s just wait, alright? It''s not like we have anything better to do."


    "Speak for yourself."


    "...? Don''t you want to see if your favorite prospect wins?"


    Shaking his head, Kaneki replied.


    "It doesn''t make a difference at this point...after my father sees the recording from earlier, I''m sure he''ll attempt to recruit Liam."


    Turning away from each other, the two shifted their gazes, tapping their hands on the wood of their chair as they passively stared at the jumbotron screen.


    However, on a screen at the very edge of the recruiter''s room, a peculiar scene suddenly urred.


    Yet, because every recruiter gathered in front of the center jumbotron because of the fight earlier, there were no audience members.


    On the peculiar screen, the ground... could be seen rising?


    However... this wasn''t just any patch of ground.


    The small area of ground right under the gigantic statue seemed to be rising.


    This also lifted the statue up, yet as the statue was already so tall, no one could tell its height was actually change.


    And for less than a frame, a small head with ck hair could be seen peaking out of the ground, with his head touching the bottom of the statue.


    But the next frame, the small hole was covered up by a patch if dirt, hiding the head from the drone.


    Oblivious to this change, Seraphina nced back at the school administrators, but they shrugged their shoulders, signifying they had no new intel on the location of the three missing students.


    Then, the barrier finally closed, blocking off the surrounding forest.


    The magic space, once as big as the ind Celestial Academy was on... was now asrge as a ssroom.


    *RUMBLE*


    At that moment, the entire ground suddenly shook, making it seems like an earthquake was uring.