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"Screech—!"
In the pitch-black moonlit night, a bolt of lightning accompanied by a faint rumble of thunder flashed through the air like a meteor, abruptly tearing through the darkness with a piercing whistle as it shot straight toward one of the windows in the Mole Class dormitory.
However, just as the lightning hurtling toward one of the Mole Class dormitory windows was about to strike into the room, before it could even reach the window, a flash of cold light shot out from within as though intending to meet the incoming bolt head-on.
Looking closely, that flash of cold light was nothing more than an ordinary Knight Sword.
"Bang—!"
With an explosive crash, the Knight Sword shot from the room collided heavily with the incoming lightning, unleashing a blast of violent wind.
Immediately afterward, the lightning that had struck the Knight Sword vanished, while the sword itself was shattered by the lightning into a cloud of dust that scattered from the air.
Witnessing this scene firsthand, a black figure darted out from the bushes in the courtyard beneath the quiet moonlit night. With the tip of a foot lightly touching a tree branch, the figure gracefully swept onto the statue in the center of the fountain before the Mole Class dormitory, raising their eyes slightly to stare directly at that room.
"You're pretty capable. It wouldn't be any fun otherwise."
The instant the black figure finished speaking, another shadow shot out of the room targeted by the sudden lightning strike like a bolt itself. After several leaps, it landed steadily atop a tree not far from the fountain in front of