翁公和媛媛在厨房里猛烈进出

Currently, "Ren" wasn\'t a threat... he was just standing there, doing nothing.

He had even dropped both of his daggers to the ground, showing that he was not a threat.

Seeing "Ren" stay silent without any intentions of answering her question, Irene sighed before raising her once again.

"This was just a big waste of time."

And just as Irene was about to shoot the fire phoenix spell at "Ren," his voice suddenly stopped her.

"Was it?"

"...?"

Silently staring at the grin on "Ren\'s" face, Irene sighed once again before letting the fire phoenix soar out of her wand.

The next second, a phoenix made of pure fire appeared before rapidly flying at "Ren," who still hadn\'t moved.

Faced with the scorching hot phoenix, Ren didn\'t seem to move, at least that\'s how it seemed to Irene.

And, back in the recruiter\'s room, outrage was starting to grow as the phoenix soared towards the unmoving "Ren."

"IF HE WAS GOING TO DO THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHY DIDN\'T HE JUST ELIMATE HIMSELF!?"

"WE WAITED AN EXTRA THIRTY MINUTES FOR THIS SHIT!?"

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME? HE JUST WASTED ALL OF OUR TIME TO DO THIS!"

When the arrows shotten from Han\'s crossbow appeared, and the statue began to fall, the excitement amongst the recruiters was at an all-time high.

They had assumed there was going to be a big, thought-out plan as the three students had been missing for the entire battle royale.

Surely, they could have come with something in the three hours they were hidden from the sight of the drones.

Yet... as they stared at the statue, which was beginning to stabilize as Kevin and Liam found the equilibrium, and "Ren," who was basically forfeiting and allowing himself to be hit by Irene\'s phoenix spell, that excitement rapidly transformed.

They had gotten their hopes up for nothing.

"SO, WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY DOING ALL THIS TIME!?"

"DID THEY TAKE A NAP OR SOMETHING!?"

"THE BATTLE ROYALE SHOULD HAVE ENDED AFTER THE BERTUS AND LIAM FIGHT!"

However, the recruiters were oblivious to one thing.

They were two Rens.

On the jumbotron, only the "Ren" facing Irene was visible, so they had no idea that another Ren was currently with Ruby.

In fact, no one, not even the principal, noticed there were two Rens.

Only Lily, Ruby, Irene, and Ren himself knew that there were currently two of him on the battlefield.

Ren hadn\'t been doing nothing while Han and Jin began clearing out the secret tunnel, transforming it into a large and wide cave that encapsulated everything under the statue.

He had been looking for a blind spot.

There were currently only five drones in the magic space, as the other ninety-five had been removed.

The magic space was only size of a classroom, so having a hundred drones would cause the drones to constantly bump into each as there wasn\'t enough space in the air.

Ren, noticing this, immediately looked for the drone\'s blind spot.

However, this wasn\'t done so that Ren could conceal his powers.

It was so... he could call in a favor.

With Ruby in a complete blind spot where no one except Lily, who was too far away to hear anything, could see them, Ren chuckled.

"So...are you in?"

Standing in front of Ren, with her wand still up and shining so that Lily could see it, Ruby sighed and replied.

"You know... you really gain nothing from doing this, right?"

Shaking his head, Ren hesitated before replying.

"Do I have to gain something? Can\'t I just do something because I want to do it?"

Smiling, Ruby glanced at Ren\'s face.

True freedom... a beam of light.

That was what Ren was to Ruby.

They were opposites... at least, the old Ruby was the opposite of Ren.

One followed their commander\'s words out of pure fear and showed complete obedience, while the other did whatever he wanted, no matter the consequences or obstacles in the way.

Someone who was truly free from all constraints.

There was nothing stopping him from doing what he wanted, even if it meant outsmarting the six smartest students in the academy.

The other, a drone, obeying all their orders without a single complaint.

Maybe... that was why they got along so well at the start.

They do say opposites attract.

Raising her hand and lifting one finger up, Ruby responded.

"One condition."

Not waiting a moment, Ren eagerly replied.

"What is it?"

"Let me join this as well.

"...?"

Confused, Ren stared at Ruby for a second before asking.

"...but your team...the main cast? You\'d be going against them... why w-"

Shrugging her shoulders and turning around, Ruby replied.

"As a hero and villain... and rumored creep once said, \'Can\'t I just do something because I want to do it?\' "

"...really had to add the last title on, did you? The school rumors just got over that one."

As Ren chuckled, staying in the blind spot, Ruby fired her spell.... at the ground, causing a bout of fire to burn the grass in the area.

Seeing Ren nod, Ruby turned around before reentering the vision of the drones with a smirk on her face.

Back on the jumbotron screen, Kazuki and Kaneki stared at the screen, which displayed Ren, who was standing completely still despite being about to be hit by a phoenix spell that would definitely eliminate him.

Feeling the glances on him from the other recruiters, Kaneki sighed before saying.

"See, what I mean? It\'s not even the fact that he\'s weak that angers me. It\'s just his eccentricity. There was absolutely no need for him to do all of this."

Ignoring Kaneki, Kazuki watched Ren\'s figure closely before replying.

"What if there\'s a secret plan behind all of this that leads him to win, despite all odds?"