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."

in

the very next instant, the grip on the girls' wrists tightened. All five of them gasped in pain, their bodies jolting

pressure.

ribs broken by Raven earlier, looked like she was on the edge of blacking out. But the hatred

the hell did you become acting president? Let

then

thin silver needle flashed through the air and embedded itself

her voice-calm, detached, terrifyingly cold. "If you can't speak

to scream something, anything-but all that came out were muffled,

"Mm-mm-mm!"

Her voice was gone.

what Raven had done sent

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She'd made Brianna mute.

fact, she might already be considering

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

heads down, if they hadn't picked a fight with her, they could have safely graduated from Regalhold, gone

It

obliterated. And the punishment waiting for them back home, once their families learned what they'd done... they didn't even dare imagine

courtyard, the rest of the students stood frozen,