The Discipline's Weighing and the Senior's Tacit Understanding

Having stamped her foot, Gold Ship's eyes rolled again. Seeing that Supernatural Steed seemed a little hesitant, she hurriedly struck while the iron was hot. "How about this? Come with us and supervise on-site. Use your professional judgment and the disciplinary regulations to decide whether this counts as eavesdropping, or information gathering and crisis warning under special circumstances."

"If they fail to reach an agreement and a verbal conflict—or something even more extreme—really breaks out, then as a Disciplinary Committee Member, you'll be there to stop it in time and prevent things from escalating, right?"

"This is what it truly means to fulfill your duties, Committee Member Steed!"

Emotionally, Supernatural Steed felt that Gold Ship's whole roundabout argument was nothing but "twisted logic."

But rationally, she somehow felt that it... actually made a little sense?

Her brows knitted tightly, her lips pressed into a serious line. Her brain seemed like a CPU running at high speed, buzzing as it struggled to process the strange chain of logic and the boundaries of responsibility between "illegal eavesdropping" and "preventing conflict, safeguarding the academy's honor, and caring for students' mental health."

Subconsciously, she glanced at Kitasan Black again.

The black-haired junior was nervously wringing her hands before her. Her scarlet eyes, usually so full of energy, were fixed unblinkingly on Supernatural Steed, brimming with anxiety, earnestness, and a deep concern for her Trainer that she could not ignore.

Then she thought of Gold Ship's mention of "the academy's honor" and "race performance"—what if, just what if, Kitasan Black's condition was really affected by this and it impacted her performance in the important Tenno Sho Spring—

The scales in Supernatural Steed's inner heart, which treated disciplinary regulations as their absolute standard, began to sway uncontrollably from side to side, emitting faint, unsettling creaks.

Just