Riven got up. He didn't say anything for a few seconds, simply looking at Sally.
She looked at him with cold eyes for a few seconds and then broke into a smile. "Come on now, tell me, Rank One, what happened?" she asked. Her voice seemed filled with joy, but there was a strange pressure behind it.
Riven took in a deep breath and then spoke. "It was a misunderstanding. I was talking to someone who was his friend, and he felt I was pressuring or bullying them.
He came in to intervene, but then he got violent without asking what was happening. Out of instinct, I reacted and accidentally knocked him out," Riven said.
"Is that so?" she asked.
"Yes," Riven replied. She poked around and saw that all the nobles had a straight face; they didn't allow any emotion to show for her to know what they were thinking.
But as her eyes landed on the three commoners left in the class—two boys and a girl—they immediately looked away, avoiding her gaze.
