Heavenly Mandate's armed helicopter flew toward Changkong City like a pitch-black bird, its rotor's roar tearing through the silence of the sky.
"I hope nothing goes wrong."
Watching the black speck gradually disappear into the sky, Headmaster Theresa thought this before taking a manga bearing a Homu illustration out of her desk drawer, from behind the towering pile of documents.
On this winter morning, the headmaster of St. Freya Academy began her habitual slacking off.
On the helicopter.
Su Qing'an opened the long metal box Longguang had given him.
Inside was a newly reforged scabbard, black from end to end.
The hilt had not changed much. His fingertips brushed over the three engraved characters. They were the last tenderness she had shown the old man.
[Calming the Tempest] was the name of a poetic tune. He remembered that poems using this tune were always related to love. Just what feelings had the old woman held when she gave this sword to Teacher Chen Junxuan?
There was no way to investigate what she had felt at the time, but he imagined it must have been a beautiful wish.
There were many beautiful things like this in the world.
If he could protect some of them with this sword, then he would not be unworthy of it.
He did not immediately draw the sword to examine how it had changed after being reforged. Instead, he picked up the weapon manual placed beside it.
After reading it once, he roughly understood that Longguang had not added many flashy designs, because her resistance to Honkai Energy was insufficient to let her indulge herself.
Well, if it were even more outrageous than the weapon from the last test, I really wouldn't be able to withstand it.
When reforging the sword, Longguang had focused on only