"Hey, what are you planning to do afterward? Leave this place?"
Sitting atop a raised platform, Jiu Ming watched the brilliant fireworks continuously blooming across the sky. After several days of preparation, it would be no problem for these fireworks to last until dawn... without repeating a single pattern!
In any case, the students who came here would definitely get their fill of excitement.
"Leave? I'll stay here for now. After all, so much time has passed that there aren't many people left who remember me. Mm-hm, that seems to have its advantages too—I won't have to constantly worry about being hunted down."
Evangeline folded her arms, crossed one leg over the other, and gave a snorting laugh. "But are you really that confident you'll succeed?"
"Of course. I'm a man with trump cards—how could I fail?" Jiu Ming curled his lips into a smile and snapped his fingers...
Then the already sparse lights throughout Mahora Academy vanished completely!
Evangeline's body trembled slightly. "You cut off the electricity again? But after what happened last time, won't the power be restored especially quickly this time?"
"It's fine. I just need a little time."
As Jiu Ming spoke, he raised his hand. Under Evangeline's gaze, a vast area where students had gathered near the World Tree suddenly gained a layer of light film invisible to ordinary people. The film completely isolated it from the outside world. "A barrier? What are you making that for?"
"Mm, it's a form of isolation. After all, this is going to be a major undertaking. You don't want the students to turn into popsicles by tomorrow morning, do you?"
"...What about me?" Evangeline's mouth twitched. He really had thought of quite a lot.
"You don't need one, do you?" Though he said that, Jiu Ming still took