Twist: The school is testing students' problem-solving skills, and detention is part of an experiment. Or maybe the principal is an AI that's malfunctioning. Maybe Vertin's hacking was an attempt to find the truth, leading to detention as a form of control.
Vertin’s mind raced. He’d bypassed the school’s mainframe to expose favoritism in grading—a publicity stunt. But Lira? She’d gone straight for a hidden server. “Why’d they let us access the system?”
“Who are you?” Vertin frowned.
Vertin smirked. “I corrected it.”