Elsewhere,
the man in gold-rimmed glasses had just finished issuing his orders when he suddenly stopped inside the office by her classroom door.
The latest model of Spiritual Energy detector sat in his suit pocket.
At that moment, it was emitting a mournful buzzing wail.
Through the transparent mist of Spiritual Energy simulation blanketing the academy, the man's gaze precisely locked onto that trembling back—after all, the girl's Spiritual Energy Fluctuation now resembled a firefly in the dark night.
So bright, so enticing.
It was a faint light capable of drawing in divine aberrations, and a medium that could help those abominations stabilize their Gene Collapse.
From another perspective,
Natsume Chie truly was an exceptionally high-quality "specimen."
"I never expected this. Why hadn't I noticed before
that there was such fine material within this school?"
A cold smile crept onto the man's lips as ripples of mental suggestion spread outward from him.
The invisible force transformed into countless transparent hands, reaching toward the nerve endings Chie had drawn.
But just as those tendrils were about to invade the girl's consciousness,
a golden-green streak burst from the gap in her backpack. Accompanied by a feline hiss, the sound waves sliced through the frozen air like blades.
In an instant,
he seemed to see the phantom of an enormous nekomata surge into his eyes.
Indeed,
after only a momentary clash,
a deep wound appeared around the man's eye socket. Blood trickled directly from the corner of his eye, forcing him to lower his head and cover his injured eye with a grim expression.
Because they were both at the second stage of ascension, and only one minor rank apart, the Cat Demon Chie had named "Night" had struck with an absolute killing move!
In other words,
the bespectacled man known as Professor