"But in the end, you still couldn't find the bodies of those two girls?"
After pouring Duanmu Huai a cup of tea, Sakuya asked uneasily.
"No. Their bodies were eaten completely by that monster, without even a bone left behind. After that, I went back to the air-raid shelter and searched around again, but I didn't find anything else. That phone was probably preserved through sheer luck. Everything else was either eaten or destroyed."
Duanmu Huai shook his head. Through the phone, he had seen the final fate of those two girls, so he didn't have much to say about it. To be honest, the athletic girl had truly been unlucky. She had only been dragged into this because of her friend's foolish actions. But the literary girl had brought her death upon herself, and Duanmu Huai didn't feel the slightest bit of sympathy for her.
"How pitiful... If there had been a body, at least they could have held a memorial service."
"If there wasn't one, then at least their families could cling to the thought that they were still alive somewhere. That isn't necessarily a bad thing."
Duanmu Huai shrugged, picked up his teacup, and took a sip. The monster's body had completely melted away and disappeared, so naturally, no evidence could have remained. Duanmu Huai had merely told the principal that the monster that had intruded on the school had been driven away. Of course, the principal was only half-convinced. So...
"Are you leaving, big brother?"
"The principal said I have to substitute-teach for at least one semester."
Duanmu Huai sighed silently, but it didn't matter. The other party was paying his salary, after all.
Besides, Duanmu Huai had no intention of leaving. Strictly speaking, this matter wasn't over yet.
Or rather, in Duanmu Huai's eyes, it