Chapter 935: Lively School
Sitting in the classroom, El-Elf watched the boy standing at the front with his hands behind his back as he introduced himself, and lightly shook his head. He simply could not understand why Mithril had arranged for someone like this—a person with an obvious military style, rigid and stubborn, with not the slightest experience of ordinary life—to enter the school and protect Chidori.
El-Elf naturally knew that Chidori was a Whispered, so he completely accepted Xiao Ran's claim that the other party had been sent by Mithril to protect her. During his time in this world, El-Elf had also learned some information about the Whispered from various documents and from Xiao Ran.
The Whispered were humans who possessed supernatural knowledge—black technology, in other words. It seemed they received this knowledge before birth and stored it deep within their minds. It could be said that every Whispered was someone blessed by the gods. In fact, even El-Elf had personally witnessed their differences. While monitoring Chidori, he had seen her mutter in her sleep about all sorts of technical data. Even he found that information somewhat profound.
Things like electronic muscle bundles and simulated neural links. He had recorded every bit of her muttering.
A Whispered, especially one capable of putting that knowledge to use, was extremely important to any faction. Whether Mithril or Amalgam, much of their current technology was built around the Whispered. It was only natural for Mithril to send someone to protect a known Whispered.
In other words, Mithril's reason for sending someone to protect Chidori was equally obvious: they had determined that she was in danger, or that if someone else obtained her, she would pose a threat to Mithril. That was why they had dispatched their own personnel to protect her. Put