Ye Kalen walked down a street veiled in fine rain.
Even though half an hour had already passed and his excitement had somewhat subsided, he still felt dazed, as though everything before his eyes was unreal.
Because—
He, he... he had actually seen Mr. Angel!
And the principal of Fool's Academy City was actually Mr. Angel!
Whenever he thought of Angel, Ye Kalen felt the excitement he had barely suppressed surge up again. It was as though a blazing ball of fire had been tucked inside his chest, making even his fingertips tremble.
As for why he was so excited, that went back to Ye Kalen's identity.
Ye Kalen was human, but he had never felt much identification with humanity.
From the beginning of his memories, he had studied, lived, and grown up in All Things House. Humans were not a mainstream presence there, and in the Day Mirror Domain where All Things House was located, humans were rarely seen as well.
Having never grown up among human communities, he naturally had little tangible sense of the label "human."
All Things House was a place with a rigid hierarchy of authority.
When he had still been an ordinary employee, he had known nothing about anything, only completing his daily work step by step. Later, he had polished his skills with all his strength and endured countless days and nights before finally becoming a Hollow Man instructor. Only then had he gained a little authority to touch the "truth."
The moment he obtained that authority, he impatiently looked into his own origins.
Only then did he learn that he had once been a Hollow Man too.
He had been "cargo" salvaged from the Empty Mirror Sea by the Ancient Tooth Fairies, then sold onward to All Things House.
Although Ye Kalen