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"Everyone! Return to your classrooms!"
"Don't run around in the hallways!"
"Don't panic! Get back to your classrooms!"
Inside Kuoh Academy's school building, a group of teachers, as though they had received someone's instructions, soothed the students who had arrived at Kuoh Academy only to panic because of the explosion near the student council. They methodically arranged everything.
As the situation gradually stabilized, Noah, Rias, Akeno Himejima, Koneko, and Asia ignored the teachers' instructions around them, rushed into the school building, and sprinted toward the student council.
Before long, a room whose door had been blown away came into Noah's group's view.
Inside, it looked as though a fire had swept through it. Not only were shards of glass and broken equipment scattered everywhere, but the surrounding walls were stained with patches of black scorch marks.
"Sona!"
Rias was the first to rush into the student council office, and then she saw it.
Across the student council office floor, blackened figures lay sprawled in every direction.
Every one of them was a member of the student council.
Just as everyone in the Occult Research Club was Rias's servant, every member of the student council was also Sona's servant.
In other words, every person lying on the floor was a devil.
If it had merely been an ordinary explosion, it could never have severely injured devils and knocked all of them unconscious.
In other words, this explosion was definitely far from ordinary.
In fact, Noah could indeed sense traces of residual power lingering in the air.
It was the power of light originating from Angels and Fallen Angels.
"Sona!"
Rias looked around anxiously, yet she could not find Sona anywhere.
"Asia!"