BXBX NOVEL Chapter 408 In Trouble (3)
Thud!
"We lied, counselor…. Great juries! We did not see student Raya tampering with the violin!"
"He is right, all throughout the event, all Raya did was hold the violin carefully under our watch!"
"We're sorry, we are just enticed by their offer to become part of their orchestra in the composer's matches to get some bonus points!"
"We lied!"
Instantly, the three false witnesses fell to their knees to confess their wrongdoings.
Eli knew that the students were already dealt with but she still maintained her scrutinizing gaze.
"You!" The student-teacher duo could not believe that the students would sell them out.
But she still did not want to end it like this and so she pointed at the three students and declared aggrievedly,
"You kids, how could you bear false witness! Now we looked like we framed up the student! If not for you saying that student Raya tampered with my student's violin I would not have accused her!"
With a self-righteous tone and demeaning she looked at everyone as if she and her students were the greatest victims.
"Listen, young lady and respective juries, since we have no valid witness now, we can only bite our loss and retract our complaint. We're sorry for the commotion we caused." She then quickly apologized to the jury and turned to walk away.
"You! Get back here, the matter is not yet finished!" Athena was immediately infuriated by how the old woman threw away the matter just like that, she didn't even properly apologize to Raya who was humiliated and bullied earlier!
"Are you sure that you are innocent? From what I could see you are dead set to pin everything down to my student, if not for Counselor Eli revealing the top technology of our institute, my dear student has to suffer a dark future by your framing!" She angrily declared.
Seeing the turn of tables, the onlookers could not help but crave some snacks as the situation turned exciting!
Even the juries could no longer keep up with the sudden change!
Eli looked at Athena and personally applauded her for being able to maintain the momentum back on their side. But since Raya was still not reacting very well, she thought that they had to settle the matter immediately.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that there is also one of these installed on the storeroom door of the south wing?" She asked.
"Based on historical data, there are LOTS of things happening on that side, and so the headmaster ensured that the place must have a surveillance camera installed!"
"Oh, get me the tablet, and let us watch the footage there!" Eli reached her hands and was about to take the tablet and control it.
Upon hearing Eli's words, the duo finally surrendered.
"We are wrong! Great Juries, Student Raya! We are wrong!"
"We are just blinded by the coaxing of others, that is we did this!"
"We apologize to student Raya! She did not do a thing, it is us who deliberately set her up!"
"Please have mercy on us and do not report us to the Emperor!"
"We will gladly exit the tournament… just please be merciful to us!"
With crying faces, they all confessed their sins and declared that someone had coaxed them to do something like this.
Athena, Lainie, and especially Raya were shocked by the entire scene. The situation was hopeless earlier, but with just a few words and a demonstration from Eli, the truth suddenly came to light!
Athena looked at everyone, all of them were set to condemn the team who framed up Raya. Even the judges reprimanded them harshly and revoked their decision earlier.
As they profusely apologize to her and Raya, she felt a little dazed. These people had been utterly convinced by Eli without even realizing that she turned the tables to her side without even presenting single solid evidence!
Realizing this, Athena buried the excitement in her heart and maintained a dignified demeanor outside. She had to maintain this facade until the matter died down, or else one will notice!
She can just gloat with Eli afterward!
With that, the matter was settled accordingly and the jury also personally apologized to Eli's party.
After that, the people swarmed to get closer to Eli so that they could take a closer look at her invention. But the organizers are quick to react, giving Eli time to properly announce the invention.
Convincing everyone that the invention is still in the works and that even if it was already functioning, there were still a lot of areas to improve, Eli successfully managed to make them more excited about the surveillance camera.
In their minds, Eli's prototype was already incredible, and she is saying that it could still be improved?!
The people who heard about it immediately gave Eli some space and respected her decision because they looked forward to how it will be better than the prototype they have just witnessed by now.
Finally escaping the excited crowd, Eli brought the bunch to the Head Master's office immediately to make Raya calm down and report what happened to Grandpa Ben and Uncle Bramwell.
"Eli, you are quick to think of a solution! Thank you very much! As Dean Athena has said, I would be equally helpless too!" Uncle Bramwell looked at Eli with praise.
Raya and Lainie were also sitting in the headmaster's office in a daze. Raya was still silent all throughout the conversation. But she looked better than before.
"Well, a little lie was enough to expose them. But we are still lucky enough that I had this in my space pouch or else, we really had to resolve it in a manner that involved the higher authorities." Eli commented.
Upon hearing that the surveillance camera was being installed backstage was a lie Raya and Lainie finally reacted. They didn't know that Eli was really bluffing earlier because they were also convinced by her invention!
"The way you executed it really got me too! If not for the hints you dropped earlier, I would have believed that you really have the footage of the backstage! Oh but I'm curious, why did the old woman surrender upon the mention of the storage room in the south wing? What's in it?" Dean Athena could not help but curiously ask.
"I had my earth sprites inform me that the student-teacher tandem tampered with the violin in that place… so in order for them to confess, I used it as one final push for them. In the end, it was effective." Eli explained very well.
"Wahahaha! My Granddaughter is so cunning! So cunning! Hahahaha!" Grandpa Ben could not help but heartily laugh upon hearing Eli's explanation.
In the eyes of everyone in the room, Eli's way of handling the situation is impeccable and only she could pull a stunt like that in a blink of an eye.
On the other hand, Eli was actually helpless, in the end, she bluffed to expose the other party's lie. And so she was no different from the other party.
It seems like she had to apologize to her Dear Great Father, the Great One later on.
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The incident has caused Eli's name to become famous again.
In a blink of an eye, everyone was now curious about her, and so the first people they approached were the students under her wing.
Lainie and Eli were taken aback because many musicians suddenly approached them. They knew that they finally agreed to join Lainie's team because they liked to become acquainted with her mentor, Eli.
"Although I want you to have many musicians joining your group, we should be warier. Raya's incident earlier proved that there were people out there that targeted our school. There is a high possibility that they will take advantage of the people's interest, and infiltrate your team." Eli carefully warned Lainie.
"I understand my mentor… I will be careful to choose who I will recruit to join our musicians. Besides… Sir Randel talked to me earlier and handed me this list…" Lainie respectfully nodded and gave Eli a neat piece of paper with a series of names printed nicely.
"According to Sir Randel, they were part of the offsprings of the employees working within the Forgeworn Merchant Group outside the Empire. He listed out these students and believed that they would be of help to us. There aren't many but I think they could be trusted." Lainie explained.
Eli was surprised that Randel would come up with this idea, in fact, she had forgotten that Forgeworn Group was not only prominent in Seirende but outside too. Randel has given her a great clue!
"This is a great development then! We can start by gathering these people in the Forgeworn Estate so that they will be informed that this is a favor I am asking as a member of the Forgeworn Clan!"
"Erhm… mentor… is it alright to use your identity like this?" Lainie reluctantly asked.
Eli could only chuckle and winked playfully as she replied, "Believe me, I have too little opportunity to use both my identities and this is one of them, so don't mind about it!"