Ghost

Tokyo Butei High School, Assault Department building.

On the rooftop of the building, which had a helicopter landing pad, Jeanne stood in armor with a holy sword in hand. Her silver hair streamed in the wind, yet her expression was exceptionally grave as she kept her eyes fixed on the bomber circling above Gakuen Island.

Besides Jeanne, there was one other person here.

It was Leiji, silently standing to one side with a Sniper Rifle in her arms.

"Bang—!"

With a loud crash, the rooftop door of the Assault Department building was violently thrown open.

Fang Li and Aria immediately entered through it, one strolling in leisurely while the other radiated fury.

"You're here?"

Jeanne turned around and looked at them.

Leiji raised her head as well, looking toward Fang Li and Aria.

Seeing Leiji, Aria spoke in some surprise.

"Why are you here too?"

That was actually a rather foolish question.

After all, Leiji was also a member of the division and represented the entire Urus Tribe in the Far East Campaign. It was only natural that she would be here.

Of course, that was not the only reason Leiji was here.

"Leiji was the first to discover that bomber," Jeanne said. "If not for Leiji's extraordinary eyesight and senses, we might not even have known when we were bombed into oblivion."

At that, Leiji spoke.

"The wind told me."

Leiji watched Fang Li and said one thing.

"A 'ghost' is approaching."

—"Ghost."

Leiji's words made Fang Li's eyes flicker slightly, and he fell silent.

"Ghost?" Aria blanked for a moment, then said after some hesitation, "Could this be the work of vampires other than Vlad and Hilda?"

The moment she said that, a voice immediately rang out from Fang Li's shadow.

"Of course not!"

The sudden voice seemed