Sylvia's POV:

In the end, Jerome still punished Flora. It just so happened that this morning's training program was to throw grenades. Of course, we didn't really throw actual grenades-we just threw balls. And Flora was made to pick up all the balls we threw.

Our training ground was located in a vast wilderness. A long line of sandbags piled on top of each other formed a defensive wall, while on the other side of the line was a pit of "grenades" or balls, in this case. Now, what we were tasked to do was throw the balls into the pit.

After Jerome finished briefing us, he left us alone to train freely. He was to check up on us later after we had grown familiar with the process.

As for Flora, she not only needed to practice throwing balls, but she also needed to pick them up when we ran out.

I wanted to help her pick up the balls, but Jerome didn't allow anyone to assist her.

"He's stricter than Blair," Harry couldn't help but complain.

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All of us were wound up to a certain degree. After all, we needed to be alert at all times; we couldn't afford to make any mistakes.

of training freely, Jerome went over

the weakest thrower was to treat

who was exhausted from running around picking up balls, perked up when she heard this and volunteered to throw first. After throwing ten balls, only one landed

hand and tried

buried her face in her hands

wanting to damage her self-esteem, I deliberately lowered my strength

saw what I was up to, but he was too angry to speak, so he

only three balls out of

he left in an angry huff, leaving the five of

Jerome had said that our team would go on an official mission after a week of

words earlier, he still

Leonard for an exclusive

with questions, begging me to share whatever I learned

to be happy, but in truth, my heart was full of bitterness. Thinking about how difficult Leonard was to get along with, I couldn't help but dread meeting him. That afternoon, I headed to our designated

door, took a deep breath, and

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