Constantly Lowering Everyone's Opinion of Him

(Heartfelt thanks to Bai Yue op, Yan Ai Ai, Lei Xiang, Yèhuǒ zhī Sēn, and Yi Zhong for their tips!)

Originally, Noah had planned to leave Homurahara Academy together with Rin Tohsaka after she came out.

After all, Rin Tohsaka was the one who had brought Noah to this academy. If he left by himself, she would probably nag him to death.

But with Sakura Matou showing some strange signs, Noah truly did not know whether he should mention it to Rin Tohsaka.

If he did not mention it, it seemed a little inappropriate given their cooperative relationship.

But if he did mention it, given Rin Tohsaka's complicated feelings toward Sakura Matou, it would probably only make that girl—usually calm and composed, yet exceptionally impulsive at critical moments—dig herself into a corner, wouldn't it?

Under such circumstances, Noah simply left. When students began leaving Homurahara Academy, he slipped out through the school gates ahead of them, heading toward his apartment while thinking over his own matters.

The sky gradually darkened.

Yet the farther Noah walked, the farther he seemed to get from his apartment, as though deliberately avoiding it while wandering the streets of Fuyuki City.

Only after night had completely fallen did Noah arrive at a park and stop.

"Shouldn't you come out by now?"

In the empty park, Noah let out a long sigh.

"With tracking skills that clumsy, if you still don't come out, it'll be utterly embarrassing."

Ever since Noah had left Homurahara Academy, someone had followed him from the academy gates all the way until now.

Noah was not deliberately provoking the other person when he called their tracking skills clumsy. That was simply the truth.

He did not need the aid of his sensing ability.

He did not even need to notice their presence.