"Ahhhhhhh!!!"
Everyone froze when they heard the screams coming from afar.
Generally speaking, few people screamed during battles involving Star Crests. Since Star Crests were weapons created from the soul, most of their damage targeted the soul itself. Of course, if the wielder truly intended to kill, they could also make a soul weapon inflict physical harm to a certain extent. That was what Fang Zheng had done when dealing with those thugs earlier.
Easy to say, difficult to do. Truly filling oneself with the intent to kill and taking someone's life was not something these students could manage. Even if they were furious and enraged, it was hard for them to combine that killing intent with their soul weapons and actually injure a human body.
When Fang Zheng had pierced Hotaka Gya's body earlier, that alone should have been enough to leave her in unbearable agony. Yet Hotaka Gya had merely collapsed unconscious. So such a shrill scream was clearly rather unusual.
"I'll go see what happened over there."
Fang Zheng rested his sword on his shoulder and headed toward the source of the screams. At that moment, Tachibana Tomoe gritted her teeth and forced herself to stand.
"W-Wait, I'm coming too!"
"You should take care of your partner. She seems to be in trouble, and you don't want her getting dragged into anything else, do you?"
"..."
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Tachibana Tomoe hesitated and said nothing more. Fang Zheng quickly left the corridor with Julie and headed toward the screams.
Before long, they reached the third floor of the school building. At the corner of the stairwell, Fang Zheng found two uniformed girls lying on the ground. One was already unconscious, while the other had suffered severe injuries—the blood pooling beneath them was proof enough.
"What happened?"