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“None of you are getting reassigned, even if you try poisoning each other with your magic.”

My gaze drifted back to Joelle.

Did she and Stasia have similar abilities?

Then my attention shifted to the unfamiliar girl standing beside the professors.

She looked...

Harmless.

Too harmless.

Big eyes.

Freckled cheeks.

Straight red hair.

A softer, curvier build.

If she was supposed to be my roommate...

Then what kind of magic did she have?

Lightning?

What else could possibly coexist with my fire?

“And no,” Eugene said calmly, “you won’t be poisoning each other.”

He was terrifyingly composed.

He snapped his fingers.

Thick silver bracelets appeared around the girls’ wrists.

And around mine.

What the hell were these?

“You have no right!” Joelle snapped immediately.

“Oh, we have plenty of reasons,” Eugene replied coldly.

“And you wouldn’t like a single one of them.”

Chapter 26

This bracelet looked far too much like a pair of shackles.

Even with the elegant engraved swirls decorating it.

What was it even supposed to mean?

The moment that thought crossed my mind, the spirits appeared in the room.

Luis stared at my bracelet, somehow looking even paler than before.