Compared to Natsume Chie's feelings,
the many ordinary students in the class merely felt that the air had grown somewhat heavier.
But because Sakuragaoka Academy's Security Department had already begun carrying out its plan to restore order, and Su Wen had lifted the influence of the Abyss Array Text, many people no longer dared to keep causing trouble.
They did not even know what the two teachers in the office next door had actually done.
Yet in Natsume Chie's spiritual vision, the space that had been pierced through by countless Pale Purple puppeteer's threads was being rewritten in golden ink by some existence.
Even
those tough purple tendrils, the instant they touched the blades of light, were like icicles splashed with hot oil.
Amid a piercing sizzle, they turned into wisps of green smoke.
Then,
the girl seemed to see a world wholly enwreathed in the faint light of dawn, yet brighter still.
Unlike Professor Todo, whom the judgment had deemed guilty, when she looked directly at that light, she saw only Su Wen's figure.
Then,
all the shackles entwining the girl finally crumbled into stardust, countless tiny motes of light passing through her fingers and casting Sanskrit-like remnants of talismans upon the floor.
Having witnessed a true clash between extraordinary beings, Natsume Chie could no longer say anything.
She did not know how to describe the sight before her.
She only felt that:
It was so beautiful.
After enduring countless pains, the girl finally felt the warmth of being protected.
And at this moment,
perhaps she was not the only one who felt that way. Even Caroline, who was monitoring everything, felt something similar.
So she leaned against the side of her bed, hugging a body pillow with one hand while lightly knocking on the wall with the other.