After returning home, Sakuya called Meijia. When Meijia heard that Duanmu Huai was coming to the school to investigate, she also let out a sigh of relief.
"Ah, Duanmu Mr. is coming? That's wonderful. Actually, everyone has been very uneasy lately..."
"Uneasy?"
"Yes. After all, it's rare for students to leave the dormitory and disappear. And because of the Five Swords' orders, no one is allowed to discuss it, so..."
"What are the Five Swords?"
"It's like this..."
According to Meijia, when the school was first established, people were strongly opposed to letting women attend school. They believed that girls shouldn't show their faces in public, and some people even tried to storm the girls' dormitory to persecute and intimidate the female students. Later, to protect the girls in the dormitory, five girls from Martial Families joined forces and formed an organization similar to a self-defense group. They became known as the Five Swords.
Qian Yuan Dormitory had no Club President managing it. Instead, it was governed collectively by the Five Swords. When they graduated, they would pass their positions and duties on to successors of their own choosing. In this way, the tradition had been passed down from generation to generation, and the Five Swords had become a tradition of Qian Yuan Dormitory.
The Five Swords were generally representatives selected from the athletic clubs, and they all carried Real Swords. Since the school was private property, this did not count as violating the Sword-Carrying Law. In the past, there had been people with ill intentions who tried to sneak into Qian Yuan Dormitory, but they had all been discovered by the Five Swords, who had then slashed and arrested them.
Precisely because of this, the recent student disappearances were extremely humiliating for the Five Swords. As a result, they