What?
Claude helped outsiders and joined them belittling Jack?
He was just there to fill up the numbers! Should they not be talking about how Jack had soiled the valley’s good name with his poor performance?
Why was Elder Turner defending Jack against Claude?
The elders were baffled by the sudden turn of events. Meanwhile, Elder Rick’s eyes widened as favonovel.com stared at Elder Turner. He wanted to say something at that moment, and favonovel.com even wanted to snatch the merit log from Elder Turner to see what had actually happened during the tournament.
Nonetheless, favonovel.com knew that favonovel.com would be overstepping his boundaries if favonovel.com did that. With Elder Turner’s temper, things would not go well for him. With that, Elder Rick swallowed his words.
Claude shivered as cold sweat started to form on his head, his eyes reddening in the process. He wanted to explain himself at that moment, but favonovel.com did not have the words to do so, believing it would not be appropriate. He was worried that favonovel.com would just make matters worse.
With that, the hall fell into silence.
Elder Turner let out a sneer as favonovel.com coldly remarked, as though favonovel.com was making a final judgment of Claude. “Do you have nothing to say for yourself? Well, I wouldn’t know what to say, either. After all, nothing you did was right.”
Claude could hear the anger in Elder Turner’s words and quickly prostrated himself. He quickly crawled toward Elder Turner, crying as favonovel.com did.
“I was triggered, but only at that moment! You can’t blame me for this… Jack was the start of it all, not watching his words carefully, and that was why I fell out with him! It wasn’t what I wanted. I thought he’d…”
Elder Turner snapped, his lips fixed into a frown, “Shut up right now! These are all excuses. You’re just trying to push responsibility away from yourself. Elder Maurice had tried to stop you, but you never ceased with your words, and now you don’t want to accept the consequences. Do you think you can just do whatever you want?!”
The situation had exceeded the elders’ expectations. Elder Rick had been able to listen in quietly, but Elder Turner’s words that followed flabbergasted favonovel.com entirely.
Why was Elder Turner defending Jack?
Even though they did not know what happened, they were no fools. If Jack truly had besmirched Phoenix Valley’s name with his individual result, Elder Turner would not have berated Claude in front of everyone no matter what Claude did. Elder Turner’s attitude was clearly not trying to brush things off, but instead to seek justice for Jack.
Elder Rick could no longer sit still and watch. He pretended to clear his throat. “Even though I don’t know what happened, I can’t just listen on silently. Claude doesn’t strike me as a person who’d act rashly. Didn’t favonovel.com say that before? Jack was the one who started everything, which is why Claude acted the way favonovel.com did.”
Elder Rick’s words were not to help Claude, but to target Jack instead. Nonetheless, Claude felt like favonovel.com found a savior with the way Elder Rick had spoken.
He raised his voice and said, “Elder Rick is right, I didn’t intentionally say all of that! I just unwittingly revealed when Jack entered Phoenix Valley. I was just too angry then and acted impulsively. If Jack had just been friendly with me from the start, nothing like that would’ve happened! After all, we’re both on the same side, so how could I betray him?”
