“Should we move to the nearby café to talk?”
Kai’s voice broke the tension.
After receiving an affirmative answer from everyone, the group began walking towards the café that they had left behind.
The second group followed along.
Kai and the boy who was speaking to him before were walking side by side, leading the group from the front.
The grey-haired teenager was walking behind them.
Side by side wouldn’t be right to describe the situation.
Rather, there was a 5-meter distance between them.
While the grey-haired boy followed them from behind, together they were almost like a triangle.
If it weren’t for Elvan standing beside him, unlike Kai and the leading boy, the grey-haired student and Elvan were walking side by side at a respectable distance.
The teenager glanced at Elvan, but as if sensing his mood, he didn’t start up a conversation.
Elvan noticed.
Looks like this kid wants to talk.
Elvan offered a smile to him but didn’t say anything.
In front, while walking,
Kai asked the boy beside him.
“…Previously, you seemed shocked seeing Elvan.”
“There aren’t any adults here.”
“Does the guard’s disappearance relate to it?”
“Perhaps,” the boy answered.
“…Besides, we aren’t even sure whether the thing we’re experiencing is a ceremony or something else.”
The youth glanced towards Kai.
He kept a polite expression, but his eyes, fixed on Kai, shifted from indifference to pity.
“…Seems like they do hide a lot of stuff from commoners.”
“Well, it’s understandable.
After all, people don’t expect chickens to fly.”
Kai didn’t say anything.
Instead, he pressed on.
“What something else?”
“…You know Vestige Holders aren’t only at academies.”
“You mean there are other Vestige Holders in other places besides Orun?”
“Exactly.”
“What I want to say is, we could be under the illusion of some other higher-level Vestige Holder.”
Sigh~
Kai let out a sigh.
“So, for the current situation, what we could do is survive and try to locate the Vestige Holder.”
“…You seem quite smart for a commoner.”
Kai didn’t indulge him.
He simply lifted his left hand and showed a universal peace sign.
“!!”
The noble’s face darkened, but he didn’t say anything.
Instead, both turned their attention back towards the road.
The blue-haired girl stared sideways towards Ren from the corner of her eye, as did the white-haired girl walking beside her.
“…You two are the commoner admissions of this year, right?”
“Hm…”
Ren answered.
After receiving an affirmative answer, the blue-haired female shifted her attention away from Ren.
Between them, the white-haired girl silently continued moving.
“Moving this way is inconvenient.”
This time, Ren was the one who broke the silence.
“It…
indeed is?” The white-haired girl nodded along.
“But being alone isn’t good either,” the blue-haired girl answered.
She paused, as if realizing something.
“Wait…”
“Actually, we can make it convenient.”
“We could split up and focus on different methods for escaping this ceremony.”
“You should present this idea to the others,” the white-haired girl said.
“It’s good Ren showed his approval too.”
“After all, you’re the student council president.”
“Wait…”
“How do you know?”
“Your badge,” Ren pointed towards the badge on her coat.