The Girl They Missed
The conversation in the side hall ended there.
Afterward, Anbaina and Akira Hisano seemed to want to discuss the details, so they first let the two girls guarding the door leave.
The pure-looking girl carrying a silver greatsword and the heroic girl holding a Western-style longbow immediately nodded in agreement, then withdrew from the side hall.
"Phew..."
As soon as they left the side hall, the two girls let out a simultaneous sigh of relief.
They looked at each other, then both smiled wryly.
"That topic was way above our level, Shio."
The pure-looking girl spoke with considerable distress.
"Yeah. The leader of the Three Saints, the 'Silence Breaker,' has been suppressed, and the Child who sealed the Fourth True Ancestor is coming here. Neither of those things is something we can handle."
The heroic girl also responded with a sigh.
The two girls were both Demon Slayers of the Lion King Organization, but they had only graduated recently.
The pure-looking girl carrying the silver greatsword was named Habari Yui. She was a Sword-Miko of the Lion King Organization. Like Yukina, she had mastered anti-demon curses and Spiritual Vision. Her grades were outstanding among the Lion King Organization's new generation, and she was hardly inferior even to the top student of her year.
The heroic girl holding the Western-style longbow was named Hikaru Shio. She was a Maihime of the Lion King Organization. Like Kousaka Sayaka, she excelled in curses and assassination techniques, and her grades in cursecraft were even higher than Habari Yui's. She and Habari Yui were classmates and teammates. They had often acted together since making their debuts and were practically inseparable.
Like Yukina and Sayaka, both of them had come from the Lion King Organization's Demon Slayer training institution. Though they looked