Chapter 41

"STOP!" I stepped back when Vic shouted that, and within a second after he said it, the surroundings around us started to move. Everything stuck to me so that I wouldn’t be hit by the shifting metal of the Maze.

Another opening appeared beside us, so we started to run. But we came to a halt when we saw what lay ahead: five students from Section E.

And if we were unlucky, these were the same guys who had been mocking us earlier. They turned toward us and grinned when they realized who we were. I looked down at their arms, and I saw that they each had eight bandanas.

"Woah! I’m sure we’ll get a lot of bandanas from them. We’re definitely going to win," one of them said, and his friends agreed with him.

"They’re easy to kill since they’re weak here in the Academy," another one added.

"Yeah. I don’t even understand why they’re in the Academy. They’re just— argh!" Before he could finish, I moved swiftly, and in a second, I was behind him and choked him.