QT: Against My Will

Within one of the empty classrooms, Silvia sweetly talked to one of the alphas from the A-class, charming him with her newly enhanced features, “Big brother Liam, I heard there is still an empty spot in your team.” Her dainty fingers teased his chest, leaning against him like a fragile flower, “Is it okay for me to join you?”

It seemed like she gained back her freedom as the childish voice in her head no longer forced her to do what it wanted.

Liam, a sturdy 6-foot tall male, held Silvia’s hand against his chest, showing a domineering scoff, “I’m among the best in the class, and will protect you when the time comes. With me by your side, nothing will hurt you!” His eyes suddenly darted towards the youth, who was passing by the schoolyard.

A single sight of Riley was enough for Liam to forget about the girl in his arms. Silvia’s beauty would have passed as an angel’s, but the gold jewellery excessively adoring her skin and the white designer dress she was wearing, made her look snobbish instead. She simply lacked in comparison to her twin.

Silvia clenched her fists in anger. It was that Riley again! It has always been like this! If she did nothing, everything would fall into her twin’s hands again! She tilted her head, her fingers touching his lush lips, “Brother Liam, don’t you want me?”

“E-eh? Of...of course,” Liam looked away from Riley and back to Silvia. Her tempting advances increased the heat in his body, erasing his thoughts of Riley momentarily.

Riley smirked as his expression showed mockery. Silvia wouldn’t be satisfied until she collected every strong man for her harem. It was as if she carried a bewitching effect around her; because somehow, all the men continued to stick to her and help her despite her illicit affairs.

For example, as soon as Silvia heard that Nathaniel Hauxley came back to school, she immediately ran to him in tears and asked him to restore her lost beauty, then guess what? The stupid male lead agreed to her request and even reprimanded Riley for bullying his sister! Not only was Nathaniel blind, but this female lead’s plot armour was also a no brainer!

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Did Nathaniel think Riley couldn’t deal with him because he was the heaven’s beloved child? Forget it. What Riley loved the most was playing around with the annoying male and female leads.

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A lonely Nathaniel roamed around the school together with a little boy on his shoulders. In the hope to get someone to join their team, Baby Shiro and XiaoPu successfully bribed and blackmailed a few students from the F class. It was still far from the required amount to join the tournament.

Baby Shiro: [XiaoPu, what if we promise to hold back during the tournament, so everyone in my team could also get some exposure?]

The emotionless Nathaniel Hauxley would never step as low as begging someone to join his team, but maybe if he offered his assistance, someone might agree.

XiaoPu thought about Xuan Mu’s ways of doing things. Making a promise sounded too desperate for someone, who always skipped school. [If dad really wanted the first place, he wouldn’t have let you do it. Did he mention any punishment if you don’t fulfil the mission?]

Baby Shiro saw nothing wrong with XiaoPu’s reasoning: [He didn’t mention any punishment.]

XiaoPu: [I knew it! It must be a test for you to stay in character during every situation!]

Kuro, the ‘obedient’ system immediately interfered with its own advice: [An order is an order. Baby Shiro, you can either obey or disobey.]

Baby Shiro got confused by all the advice. Why did it even bother to discuss it with those two systems? It quickly contacted Xuan Mu and asked him what he thought about its idea.

Ziek didn’t cut all connections with the outside world and even shared some inspirational speeches with Baby Shiro. As long as he didn’t have to take action personally, then he didn’t mind being an occasional guide, “Try not to contact me for another hour.”

“Roger that,” Baby Shiro set its timer for an hour, then went to execute its plan.

Bing Shi giggled at the perfectionist system that didn’t interrupt Xuan Mu every five minutes like before, “No wonder you were able to avoid becoming a male lead in every world.” It was because he would always let his babies take over his identities. Seeing their system’s growth gave her and her husband the same joy as Stinky Bun remembering a new thing.

Shortly after, Baby Shiro immediately used its powers to broadcast Nathaniel’s voice far and wide, “If you attack me during the ordeal to slow me down, I promise you will have enough exposure to pass into the A-class.”

Logically, it should be viewed as a leader training its underlings, shouldn’t it? Baby Shiro combined all the advice it received and calculated the best possible route for Nathaniel Hauxley.

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Baby Shiro showed a lost expression at a notice, which contained Nathaniel Hauxley’s results. The judges sent the letter to him when the time limit for signing a team was up.

And this went a story about how Nathaniel Hauxley was disqualified from the tournament and ended up at the bottom of the rankings for initiating war within the school grounds. Everyone suddenly wanted to be in his team no matter what!

Now, he would have to switch his comfortable black outfit into an attire, which looked similar to a blue navy uniform with gold embroidery. He would also have to attend classes daily like most students until a chance to get back into an elite class appeared.

The ordeal would be very difficult to finish with F-rank students in the team as those students would usually hold the team back. But look at it now! Most students from the Elite class came from the A and F class!