The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 145

Chapter 145

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Kurt smiled as he spoke, his voice calm and steady, yet laced with something unmistakably final. "I believe most of you already know-I'll be retiring soon. Today, I can officially announce that the acting president who will be taking my place has already arrived. She's spent time embedded among you, observing and evaluating the state of this academy firsthand."

He paused for a beat, then turned toward Raven with a smile that made more than a few stomachs tighten.

"Allow me to introduce her formally," he said. "This is Miss Valor-your next acting president."

The words fell like a hammer.

For a long, breathless moment, the crowd was absolutely silent.

Everyone stood there, stunned into stillness, as if their minds simply refused to accept what they'd just heard.

They thought, 'Wait-what? Raven? That girl who supposedly came from some backwater town? The scholarship case? The one they'd all whispered was using her looks to climb her way up? She... she was going to be the acting president of Regalhold University? No. That couldn't be right.

Someone stepping into Kurt's position should've been a seasoned figure in their thirties, at least-someone from the military's top brass, with years of experience and an air of authority.

Not a girl who, quite frankly, looked younger than most of the students standing around her.

Surely, Kurt was joking. Right?

But before anyone could find their footing in this collapsing sense of reality, Raven's cool, unbothered voice rang out again as she glanced toward the instructors restraining the five troublemakers.

"Throw them out."

hesitate. Almost in unison, they

very next instant, the grip on the girls' wrists tightened. All five

pressure.

she was on the edge of blacking out. But the hatred in her

venom. "Someone like you... how the hell did you become acting president? Let me

then flicked her

silver needle flashed through the air and embedded itself cleanly

voice-calm, detached, terrifyingly cold. "If you can't speak properly, then you won't be speaking

mouth to scream something, anything-but all that

"Mm-mm-mm!"

Her voice was gone.

of Brianna's broken, voiceless groans and the realization of what Raven had done sent a chill straight to their bones. One look

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She'd made Brianna mute.

do the same to them. In fact, she might already be considering it. None of them

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the academy gates, all five of them were consumed by one overwhelming emotion-regret. Waves of it

picked a fight with her, they could have safely graduated from Regalhold, gone on to live lives of

now? It

waiting for them back home, once their

courtyard, the rest of the students stood frozen,