The sight of the group strutting into the control room made the security guy inside jump up from his seat.

“W–What‘s going on, Mr. Brown?”

Why would so many lecturers be here if it wasn‘t something major?

The thought of that had him all tensed up.

“Relax. It‘s not that big of a deal. We just want to review the security footage to ascertain some facts, that‘s all.”

“The security footage…” answered the security guard between stutters. “But the school‘s surveillance system underwent an upgrading these past few days. I’m afraid a review won‘t be possible as we don‘t have the footage from last week anymore.”

“What? A systems upgrade?” Donovan‘s inflection raised a notch.

also slipped Marcus‘ mind until he had been

we‘ve hit a dead–end,” Marcus said. “In that case, you can all have her

with a good memory, it would not be difficult for her to ace the papers again. I‘d say that

for the surveillance system during this period and had thus taken the opportunity to cheat, so why don’t you just expel her

off. “There‘s no way that I’d expel any student on a whim, especially given the lack of proof. What

as he concurred. “In my esteem, Arielle was not guilty of cheating, to begin with. Didn’t you also help with the invigilation yourself during the exams back then, Mr. Brown? With two lecturers supervising the examination proceedings, even cheating just a little

reminded me of something. Didn‘t you say that the paper for advanced mathematics was exceedingly difficult? I didn’t get the sense that Arielle felt that

proved that she did cheat. For something that challenging, even I could not have scored maximum points in my first attempt. Unless you mean to suggest that a student

taut frown from Marcus. “Then, what do you suggest

and I cannot approve

up slightly. “At the charity event tonight, I shall issue an apology to Arielle for the two prior incidents. However, we

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