It's mine! 😎
It's mine! 😎
New here? I'm Roha — want a quick tour?
— What are we going to do with the demon, Fortis? — Gideon asked his neighbor when Michaella left. — This petition won't work until he does something. Just killing him isn't an option either. We need to somehow make him reveal his true nature.
While the student was considering the question, Gideon glanced suspiciously at the door that had closed behind Michaella, and then at the window.
— Listen, remember I told you about that Nith, Sisnemis? Michaella will definitely go to him with her paper. And he complained to me that non-humans are being driven out everywhere, and people are throwing stones at them; it seems to be a sensitive topic for him. We're doing the same thing with Alidum with this petition. What if the crazy Nith gets angry and decides to go and cut up the people on the list in revenge? In general, it's worth doing something for the safety of this room, just in case.
Gideon leaned over his bag and rummaged at the bottom, finding a coil of wire, a hammer, a box of nails, some bolts, and gears. He didn't remember what these parts were for or why he had taken them. But now they are needed for a special purpose. Standing on a stool, he hammered a nail above the window and hung a twisted piece of wire on it, to which he attached these parts. He tried to open the window—and the improvised alarm, disturbed by the movement, clattered loudly. Not very high-tech, but it will do.
— Here, remember the sound—this is the alarm. If the furry one suddenly decides to attack us in our sleep and shows up in the middle of the night in his usual style, we'll know about it before we get hit and we can grab the bastard.
There are 10000 reiks in the chest.
-- How many of us are there...
No instructions were given on how the participants were supposed to divide this reward. Apparently, they were supposed to figure it out themselves. While Leila was pondering and calculating, Fortis had already expressed his thoughts, followed by Alidum.
— Even if we are guided by self-interest, the option proposed by Fortis seems more logical. The current competition depended on the efforts of each participant, and the top ten, however impressive their results may be, would not have achieved Mr. Chaber's goal on their own and would have been further away from it than the participants who joined forces. The assistance of the other students was necessary for our collective success. Let's say we distribute the rewards according to the points earned. In that case, everyone who is not in the top ten will lose. And those of them who are most interested in the financial aspect of this event may not want to spend their time and energy on it in the future, without any guarantees. If there are enough such people, we simply won't complete the next challenge. No one will benefit from this. Therefore, in this situation, the pursuit of short-term gain does not seem like the best solution to me. Today you will get two hundred extra rewards, and tomorrow you will lose twice as much.