Brandon fought two opponents who felt they could try their luck, but it was all the same as he won effortlessly. However, he later had to step down since no one was confident enough to challenge him. Agnes could only grit her teeth in anger as she could not think of any reason to make Brandon so strong a few days after living with Alec. "Surely, it had something to do with Alec," Knight said from beside her, almost sure of what she was thinking. "Hmmm," Agnes responded, trying to play innocent. "Oh, don't act dumb. I see how you keep looking at them, and I think I should tell you, don't you realize that even when we fought beside Alec, we seemed to be getting better ? he was just good at instructing us on which spell to use." Knight explained his theory to Agnes. "Hmmm, still, he s