Duncan probably had never run away in his life; for him, a one-in-thirty chance of death was just military statistics. However, she herself would prefer the opposite outcome, as long as Nira was the only one guaranteed to survive.
Returning to her room, the girl sat on the bed for a long time, wondering whether she should go home right now or wait a while. She didn’t want to leave the academy during such an interesting moment, but even less did she want to leave this world with her head chopped off. In the end, the girl decided to wait until the end of the weekend, just in case the madman was caught by the guards. Nira herself, however, didn’t really believe in that, just as she didn’t believe in the safety of the students, and she didn’t even doubt that the killer had infiltrated the walls of the educational institution – because without all these factors, the story would be boring and depressing.