翁公和媛媛在厨房里猛烈进出

Stopping for a second, Ruby helped the clone up before staring at it for a couple of seconds.

"You haven\'t made a replica of me ever... have you?"

"..."

Almost immediately, the clone of Liam began furiously shaking its head, oddly resembling the griffin from earlier.

Chuckling at the clone\'s antics, Ruby gave it one last wave before pointing to its smartphone.

"Contact me if you need anything! But there will be a price...paid in snowballs!"

Then, Ruby turned around and dashed towards Irene, who hadn\'t noticed her absence yet.

As Ruby\'s figure disappeared and moved closer to the courtyard, the clone simply stared at its hands for a second, seemingly pondering something.

Then, the next second, the clone furiously started shaking its head again as if trying to forcibly remove a thought from its head.

Within a couple of seconds, the clone simply disintegrated, leaving no trace of it behind for the other students to see.

Back on the field, the main cast rushed towards their assigned spot, where somehow Professor Zia already stood, despite being way behind them.

Dismissing it, the three boys and four girls stopped in front of Professor Zia, waiting to check in.

They had to check in and then immediately leave for the vault.

The djinn infiltrators would only start their heist on the vault when the djinns outside began attacking, so they still had time before anything happened.

Professor Zia, after staring at them for a moment, checked some things off on her clipboard before slowly shifting her head to Liam.

"*ahem* Liam... you have already been checked off."

"..."

While Liam furiously ran towards the group of his classmates behind Professor Zia, Lily simply raised her hand before saying.

"...he came here, then came back to get us."

The group of students who had already been checked in with Professor Zia stood in a circle... which was odd considering the fact that they were at each others throats just a day before during the battle royale.

Liam, carefully maneuvering his way through the other groups of students, arrived at the circle.

"...that bastard has to be here! He\'s probably trying to make a fool out of me to the rest of the class with that damned clone!"

Using his height, Liam peered over the circle of students, expecting to find an exact replica of himself in the middle.

However, to his shock and disappointment, there was nothing.

The students simply circled up and talked like normal.

Seeing Liam, one of the students hesitated before curiously asking.

"Liam, do you need something?"

Shaking his head, Liam continued to examine the circle of students, making sure that no spot was unchecked.

"No...it\'s nothing."

*FLAP*

*FLAP*

Interrupting Liam\'s search and drawing the attention of all of the students, a loud sound emerged from above them.

In unison, Liam and the circle of checked-in students looked upwards in shock.

Right above Liam, a gigantic griffin floated, easily flapping its wings to stay afloat in the air.

"Oh, right...she said it was mine for the day."

Recalling a conversation between Lily and the principal about the griffin, Liam suddenly came up with an idea.

Ren\'s cloning of Liam had been enough alone to reveal to the main cast that he was planning something.

But, it wouldn\'t be enough evidence to convince the academy security.

Who would believe them if they said Ren had the power to create replicas and clones of random people?

And that he, for no reason whatsoever, made a clone of Liam...just to piss him the hell off!

Seriously, why did he choose to clone Liam when there were six other options!?

Although the principal trusted the main cast, she would still need sufficient evidence before allowing them to detain Ren prior to the heist.

Again, that was the whole reason why the griffin was brought out, as it would serve as evidence.

The clone of Liam had to be here...and as discussed earlier by Lily and the principal, clones did not fool the griffin.

All Liam had to do was look for himself, and then the griffin would identify Ren\'s intentions as evil, giving them evidence to detain and pre-emptively stop him.

"huh?"

Feeling a tap on his back, Liam turned around slowly...

Could it be Ren...the replica of himself?

Had this idiot come to him?

"... never mind."

Seeing Lily and the rest of the main cast behind him, Lily sighed before pointing upward at the griffin.

"Well, we have two choices. Look for Ren and his clone of me with the griffin, or just head to the vault right now."

Seeing the main cast begin to ponder, Lily reminded.

"Remember...once we enter the vault area, we cannot leave it until the entire heist and djinn attack is over."

Irene, taking less than a second to reply, confidently replied.

"Let\'s just head to the vault. We already know he has something planned; who cares if we capture him now or later."

Nodding his head in approval, Kevin said.

"We made specific counters for his abilities... if we manage to lose to him in the cave, then I think we should just give up and try something else. Maybe... sewing? Or, even scie-"

Still pointing upwards at the sky, Liam then asked.

"Well, what do we do with the griffin?"

"Why don\'t we just ride it off into the sunset like a bunch of true main characters!"

"..."

Slowly turning around upon hearing the different voice behind him, Liam cleaned his fist.

Before Liam could even say anything, Zach interrupted.

"Hm...that sounds like a plan! After we save the vault and stop the attack, though, of course."

Ignoring Zach, Liam stared at the shitty replica of himself with an eerily calm expression.

"You\'re down in the vault already, aren\'t you? That\'s why you keep sending these clones as distractions."