They Called Me a Coward, My New Master Asked for Lessons novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Name They Had Erased
Before the judge could finish reading the marks, Shen asked whether recognition came with a chair.
The terrace had been quiet enough to hear the river.
The judge lowered her list.
"It comes with a standing place at every demonstration," she said.
"Is the place a chair?" Shen asked.
"It is a bench on the shared terrace," the judge replied.
"Does the bench have a back?"
"No," said the judge, with the patience of a woman who had been asked about benches before.
"I will take it anyway," Shen said, and sat down on the ground to wait.
There had been three marks to win.
The academy held one, from the first round, and Low Step held two.
The judge read the numbers once, in a plain voice, and did not repeat them.
Tang stood at the rail with his gray hair in its formal knot and his stiffened hem.
He had run the festival for eleven years, and he had never before had to stand and hear it settle against him.
Ji kept her eyes on the board.
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