What Did You Take Them For?

Kageno Island's southern district, Saih‍agakuen Academy.

Because it was winter vacation and today was the first day of the New Year, Saihagakuen Academy was completely deserted.

But upon closer inspection, a girl with glasses was standing on the rooftop of one of Saihagakuen Academy's buildings, holding a book and gazing into the distance as the wind blew around her.

The girl with glasses was, naturally, Yugiri Asagi.

"Whew..."

At one point, Yugiri Asagi suddenly sighed, as if saying, So it's finally here, then turned around and looked behind her.

There, space was silently maintained in a state of distortion, and two figures slowly emerged from within.

The visitors were none other than Luo Zhen and Yukina.

"Long time no see, upperclassman."

Luo Zhen smiled at Yugiri Asagi and greeted her warmly.

"Long time no see, Your Highness the Demigod."

Yugiri Asagi bowed to Luo Zhen with an expression as calm and emotionless as still water, just as she had when they first met.

However, upon seeing Yugiri Asagi like this, Yukina tensed up, becoming unusually nervous.

There was nothing she could do about it.

The girl before her, wearing the high school uniform of Saihagakuen Academy, holding a book and wearing glasses, looked like an inconspicuous intellectual student at school. But her true identity was the foremost of the Lion King Organization's "Three Saints"—the "Silence Breaker."

In other words, the highest leader of the Lion King Organization was this girl standing before them.

If Yukina, an apprentice Sword-Miko, was merely a low-ranking member of the Lion King Organization, then Yugiri Asagi stood at its very summit.

She was one of humanity's strongest Demon Slayers, and Yukina's direct superior in every sense.

Yukina had never imagined that the foremost of the Lion King Organization's "Three Saints," one of humanity's strongest Demon