"You really haven't prepared at all to 'fit in' at this school, Sunset Shimmer."
Trixie gave Sunset Shimmer a pitiful look, then tossed her hair and stood up, walking toward the teaching building.
Halfway there, she noticed that Sunset Shimmer hadn't followed, so she turned around, put her hands on her hips, and complained.
"At a time like this, you should have consciously followed along to look for answers, instead of just standing there blankly and letting The Great and Omnipotent Cui Ke Xi waste precious time waiting for you."
Trixie was only kindly taking her to get familiar with the campus because Sunset Shimmer truly knew nothing; she couldn't believe how slow Sunset Shimmer's reactions were.
Sunset Shimmer raised an eyebrow, then efficiently packed up the leftover food wrappers and quickly followed.
Although she hadn't yet agreed to become Trixie's magician assistant, following a senior student to get to know the environment was definitely easier than wandering around blindly on her own.
Then, Trixie brought Sunset Shimmer to the school Library.
"I was already planning to come here on my own after lunch."
Sunset Shimmer protested.
She had assumed Trixie would be a thoughtful guide, taking her to tour various parts of the school and explaining the Friendship Games along the way.
As it turned out, she just brought her to the Library.
She really doesn't look like the type who enjoys reading, does she?
Trixie searched back and forth through the rows of bookshelves, found a book with a blue cover, and handed it to Sunset Shimmer.
This was the Friendship Games yearbook belonging to Canterlot High School, though very few Canterlot High School students would ever browse this memoir recording their disastrous defeats; Sunset Shimmer felt dust stick to her hand the moment she touched the book.
"Can't you just tell me about it directly?"
"You should trust me; pictures and text are definitely more vivid than me reading it out loud to you. Otherwise, how could I make you understand how big of a blow the Friendship Games are to us?"
Sunset Shimmer thought what Trixie said made sense, so she patted the dust off the book and started flipping through it.
The opening introduced the Friendship Games as an inter-school competition co-hosted by Canterlot High School and Crystal Prep Academy, with the goal of fostering friendship between the teachers and students of both schools through the competitive events.
'Although from the actual situation, the Friendship Games seem to have only had the opposite effect.'
Sunset Shimmer muttered to herself in her heart, then continued flipping forward.
The rest was basically full of records from past Friendship Games, and without exception, they were all disastrous defeats for Canterlot High School.
To be honest, this was a bit too pitiful. Even Sunset Shimmer, a new student who didn't have much sense of belonging to Canterlot High School yet, found it hard to keep watching, let alone the old alumni.
What the heck kind of "friendship" is this Friendship Games? If it's a competition aimed at building relationships, why bother with winning and losing? Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?
Now, even the senior student who wasn't good at friendship was confused by the rules of the Friendship Games.
"Oh, I remember now. Actually, we did win one event in last year's Friendship Games."
Thinking of one of the few highlights for Canterlot High School, Trixie reminded Sunset Shimmer to flip to a more recent page.
"The newly appointed soccer team captain, Rainbow Dash, led our school's soccer team to win against Crystal Prep Academy. Unfortunately, the overall score was still higher for Crystal Prep Academy, so we lost in the end."
The photo in the yearbook captured the moment Rainbow Dash kicked the ball. She looked like a short girl with rainbow-colored hair; who would have thought her athletic skills were so good, and that she was even the team captain?
But on the other side of this page of glory, there was another moment of disastrous defeat for Canterlot High School.
The content of the match was chess, and there was no doubt that Canterlot High School had lost. It always felt like Canterlot High School had never won in any event that required a lot of brainpower.
Also, one really had to admire the photographer in charge; they always managed to capture the most brilliant frame, even though it was all content that the Canterlot High School students couldn't be happy about.
"Who is this girl...?"
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