In Academy City, there were no fewer than ten Dark Departments similar to "School."
Whether they were direct forces under the General Council or private forces cultivated for unknown purposes, the Meaning of Existence of these Dark Departments was to operate in the shadows and do things that utterly denied humanity and the human heart.
Rather than beings covered in filth, they were better described as murk that could never bask in sunlight, much less appear before the public eye.
Among such Dark Departments, the one known as "School" was also of the highest rank.
It had only four members.
Yet those four members alone possessed the power to influence all of Academy City.
Now, those people had gathered in one room of a hotel.
Naturally, the person who served as the leader of "School" was present as well.
"Is everyone here?"
Kakine Teitoku sat on a luxurious sofa with one leg crossed over the other, sweeping his gaze across the space before him.
There were three people there.
One was a beautiful girl in a Western-style dress.
One was a mercenary carrying a large bag on his back.
The last was a strange boy wearing a Saturn-like ring on his head, bristling with countless transmission cables.
Those three were the Dark Department members who belonged to "School" alongside Kakine Teitoku.
The three members were currently focused on Kakine Teitoku.
The girl in the dress looked somewhat lethargic.
The mercenary sat expressionlessly in a corner.
The strange boy stared in this direction as though his pupils had been enlarged.
Each of them was quite distinctive.
Ordinary people probably would not even want to approach them.
At the very least, judging by the atmosphere they gave off, anyone who willingly approached them had to be tired of living.
Yet Kakine Teitoku