Alice felt so worried when she found out that Isaac was the substitute taking Noelle's place in the combat test because his strength had already defeated Victor. There was not a single student in the academy who could beat Isaac after he managed to defeat Grey and Victor. Therefore, Alice, as the head of the academy, could not do anything about the plan that Noelle was trying to carry out to manipulate the academy exams.
Replacing Isaac as Noelle's representative was enough for the academy to punish Noelle for daring to break the rules it had enforced for thousands of years. This was the first time since the academy was first established that a student had dared to find a first-year student to serve as her substitute in the combat exam.
