The voice coming from within the morning glory echoed across the Ritual Viewing Platform.
It was not only Angel and the Giant City Spirit who heard it. Yifuda heard it too.
A moment ago, she had been weeping tears of joy over her teacher's resurrection. The next, her expression froze, as though someone had pressed the pause button on time.
"M-My teacher... has disappeared?" It was only after a long while that Yifuda blankly repeated the words.
Panic suddenly welled up in Yifuda's heart, and all manner of terrifying scenes flashed through her mind.
But when the corner of her eye caught sight of Angel, her heart abruptly steadied.
Angel was still here.
Angel was one of the founders of the Dream Mirror Organization, and the most important one at that.
He should know what was going on!
Thinking of this, Yifuda said with a nervous tremor, "Mr. Angel, my teacher, he..."
Angel knew what she wanted to ask and gently interrupted her. "I do not know much about the situation inside either. We will know what happened once we go in and take a look."
"I shall lead the way." The Giant City Spirit spoke at just the right moment. She pulled Yifuda over, murmured a word of comfort into her ear, then led her down from the Ritual Viewing Platform.
Along the way, so as not to arouse the surrounding crowd's suspicions, the Giant City Spirit kept smiling and acknowledging the cheering masses.
Even Yifuda had regained her usual expression, smiling as she greeted the others. Yet the slight tremble of her hands revealed that her heart was far from calm.
Angel, on the other hand, turned a deaf ear to it all and merely followed silently behind the Giant City Spirit. Yet the reaction his appearance stirred