The Mocked Miss’s Hidden Crowns novel Chapter 600

The long march kicked off. Normally, new recruits had to cover fifty kilometers, but since everyone here was a student and not exactly in top shape, it got knocked down to thirty.

Charlotte, thanks to her height, ended up near the back of the group. Cotton kept glancing her way, watching as she moved at what looked like a snail’s pace. He couldn’t help but smirk. With stamina like that, she still acted tough at school? Kids fresh out of the classroom really had no idea.

By the time they finished, the sun was already setting. Students dropped wherever they could, massaging their aching ankles and complaining nonstop about how brutal the training was. Most of them just weren’t built for this.

Cotton scanned the crowd until he spotted Charlotte. She was already sitting, legs bent, gulping down water and chatting with the girl next to her, who was dripping with sweat. Cotton had to do a double take. Everyone else looked flushed and out of breath, but Charlotte looked perfectly normal, like running thirty kilometers was no big deal.

She wasn’t crying? Cotton’s mind tripped over itself. Maybe she was tougher than he thought.

On the third day, the group got handed a new challenge: the obstacle sprint. Charlotte’s team, Team 1, had to share the training grounds with Team 4. The event split everyone into boys and girls, then put them through elimination rounds in small groups.

At the end, the top boy’s group and top girl’s group from each team would face off, and those results would count toward the “best team” awards later.

In the boys group, Andrew was naturally athletic and took first place, so he’d go up against Team 4’s best guy. The girls… well, Team 1 had already run several heats, and the results were embarrassing. They either barely managed a tie or got left in the dust by Team 4, sometimes by as much as thirty or forty seconds.

“Cotton, your team’s really not looking great,” called out Leland, Team 4’s instructor and a member of The White Whale special forces. His tone was loaded with teasing. “Last place in the march yesterday, and now this obstacle course…”

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