"Chief Archbishop Caleb Norris was in one of those three carriages?"
"Why did they arrive so early?"
"And they specifically chose the pre-dawn hours, when hardly anyone was awake, to enter." "Was it so they could get a head start on probing the academy's true state without being watched?"
Dark's doubts gradually mounted, making him even more curious about Holy Rite Academy's purpose in coming here.
"Meow—"
Sylveon extended one of its ribbons and lightly brushed his face.
Dark could not help but smile. He lifted it out of the covers, pressed it to his face, and breathed in its fluffy scent.
A moment later, though only lightly, he finally fell asleep.
He slept until seven in the morning, only opening his eyes at the faint sound of movement.
He sat up cross-legged and meditated for five minutes, clearing the lingering fatigue from his eyes. Only then did he read the newspaper while eating the breakfast DemiDevimon had brought him.
The Great Sage Daily had already published extensive coverage of the exchange study program between the two academies yesterday. Unexpectedly, today's theme was still the very same matter.
The difference from yesterday, however, was that today's paper contained a great many commentaries on the matter from various prominent figures.
With nothing better to do, Dark read through them one by one and gleaned quite a bit of information. The experts capable of publishing their views in the Great Sage Daily did have some substance to them, and several of their ideas were quite interesting.
One expert who styled himself as the royal family's mouthpiece had vehemently criticized Saint Marian Academy and Holy Rite Academy for "forming factions for private gain," almost hysterically declaring that "royal authority is supreme."
His extreme rhetoric was bound to provoke some resentment among the public.