Friends.

"None taken…"

Although it hurt a bit because she was in the same category as the nobles, it was useless taking offense over what was the truth.

"Well, my team performed poorly because of a whole different reason and that is lack of trust. We had two members struggling for the team leader position, so we had a vote and one was elected. The problem was that the loser didn't like the result, so he began sabotaging the team to eliminate the three of us that voted against him.

"Long story short, the team got divided into two, but there was a lot of pressure because we were trying to survive from both our team and magical beasts." Brian shook his head in disappointment when he recounted how frustrating his survival exercise was.

"Why didn't you three silence them?" Blake's question caused both Tessie and Castiel to look at him with surprised expressions.