Chapter 164

Amagiri Ayato was surprised to see the words above the room.

"The Dean's Office...?"

Luo Mio tapped her finger on the door.

A very old-sounding voice suddenly rang out from inside the room.

"Please come in."

The door slid open to one side, and Luo Mio walked in, with Amagiri Ayato Luo Mio behind her.

Upon entering, Amagiri Ayato discovered that the room was unusually small.

And in this room, there stood a person.

A strange old man dressed in a white robe, with almost no hair on his head, but with a full white beard around his mouth.

Upon seeing him, Luo Mio introduced him to Amagiri Ayato, saying, "His name is Yang Kobel, and he is the highest-ranking person in charge of the Treatment Institute."

Amagiri Ayato gave a slight bow.

After Luo Mio finished her introduction, she said directly, "Dean Yang, thank you for your help."

Yang Kobel glanced at Amagiri Ayato, then looked at Luo Mio.

After glancing at the two, Yang Kobel faced the wall at the back of the room, which opened silently.

A passageway appeared behind the wall, but its wide passageway did not look like a typical hidden room; rather, it resembled a very large facility.

Amagiri Ayato walked down the snow-white corridor, looking around.

Luo Mio explained to him from the front, "This is Special Zone. Apart from Dean Yang and a very small number of staff, no one else knows about this place."

Is that so...?

After hearing Luo Mio's explanation, Dean Yang, who was leading the way, said coldly, "It seems you know a lot."

Luo Mio smiled gently and looked at Yang Kober's figure, saying, "After all, the teacher would occasionally tell me about Asterisk."

"Hmph..." Yang Kobel snorted coldly, then said, "That sir..."

That sir...

Amagiri Ayato was walking at the very back, was also puzzled when he heard their conversation.

He knew that the teacher Luo Mio was referring to was Senior Fu Hua, but judging from Yang Kobel's address of Senior Fu Hua as "that person"...

However, after a few moments of doubt, Amagiri Ayato put it out of his mind, because Yang Kobel in front of him stopped.

Amagiri Ayato glanced at the wall and saw numbers that looked like room numbers above it.

Yang Kobel summoned the Optical Keyboard, and after operating it for a while, the wall instantly became transparent, revealing a room in front of everyone.

The room had a transparent glass enclosure, like a dome, surrounded by several large machines. What caught Amagiri Ayato's eye was a bed in the center, upon which lay a sleeping figure...

"Elder sister!"

Upon seeing the person sleeping on the bed, Amagiri Ayato instantly pressed his face against the glass, his hands pressed tightly against the glass, his pale purple eyes fixed on the figure's face.

Luo Mio was also watching Amagiri Ayato's older sister from the side.

The Amagiri Haruka.

She has long hair of the same color as Amagiri Ayato, but it is a little lighter than Amagiri Ayato's.

Her beautiful appearance made her seem like Sleeping Beauty from a fairy tale.

"When did my sister...?"

Yang Kobel glanced at Amagiri Ayato and then said, "About five years ago, Danilo asked me to restore her consciousness."

"Danilo... I remember him as..."

"Former Chairman of the Operations Committee."

A cold female voice rang out behind Luo Mio and Amagiri Ayato.

Amagiri Ayato looked back and saw a very beautiful woman appear behind them.

"Who are you..."

Looking at the beautiful woman, Luo Mio introduced her to Amagiri Ayato: "Helga Lindova, the 'Time-Law Witch,' the founder and current captain of the Star Hunter Security Force..."

Amagiri Ayato was startled; he had heard about Helga's deeds.

Claimed to be the strongest witch in Asterisk history, she is an extremely powerful force who won the "King Dragon Star Martial Festival" twice in a row half a century ago.

"Hello, Captain Lindova."

Luo Mio smiled and greeted Helga.

Helga looked at Luo Mio, nodded slightly, and said, "Please give my regards to Senior Fu Hua when you have time."

"OK."

Amagiri Ayato asked Helga, "Is my sister's slumber related to the former chairman?"

"Corrosion Martial Festival".

"Huh?"

Luo Mio explained from the side, "The 'Corrosion Martial Festival' is not used for the illegal underground competitions of the 'Star Martial Festival'."

"Illegal underground competition..."

"That was a competition organized by a bunch of scum who were extremely dissatisfied with the 'Star Martial Festival's' process of starting and ending with formalities."

"The qualification for the 'Corrosion Martial Festival' is the same as that for the 'Star Martial Festival': participants must be Asterisk's students. There are no rules or concepts of forfeit or surrender; the only way to win is to injure or knock out the enemy, or even kill them."

"At the time, it was favored by most wealthy people and had a considerable reputation in the underworld."

"Life..." Amagiri Ayato murmured, her eyes twitching.

"Of course..." Luo Mio glanced at Helga beside her and continued, "Later, she attracted the attention of Captain Lindova, and then single-handedly destroyed the 'Corrosion Martial Festival.'"

After speaking, Luo Mio looked at Amagiri Ayato and said to him, "Amagiri, according to the information I've gathered, your sister... Amagiri Haruka, once participated in the 'Corrosion Martial Festival'."

"!"

Upon hearing this, Amagiri Ayato's pupils instantly contracted, and then he looked at Amagiri Haruka, who was lying on the bed like a sleeping beauty.

"So that means... the reason my sister is sleeping here... is because of her... defeat at the 'Corrosion Martial Festival'..."

Amagiri Ayato bit her lip and asked Hiyori Korbel, "So... what's your condition right now, sister...?"

"It's neither good nor bad. It hasn't changed since it was sent here five years ago."

"Her body is now very close to Quasi-death state, and I suspect that the cause is the effect of an ability similar to Captain Lindova's time manipulation."

Helga Lindova is known as the "Time-Law Witch" because her power is the manipulation of time.

Upon hearing this, Amagiri Ayato shook his head and explained, "I think this might be my sister's own power."

"Oh?" Yang Kobel looked at Amagiri Ayato and asked, "What does this mean?"

"My sister's ability is the Prison Power that seals all things. I think she must have applied this power to herself."

"I see..."

——

After watching Amagiri Haruka for a while, Luo Mio, Amagiri Ayato, and the others returned to the small room they had started with.

"Thank you so much for your treatment over the past five years."

Amagiri Ayato expressed his gratitude to Yang Kobel.

"It's just fulfilling a contract," Yang Kobel waved his hand.

"Then, we shall say goodbye here..."

Amagiri Ayato said.

"Etc!"

At this moment, Luo Mio interrupted Amagiri Ayato's words.

"Luo Mio?"

Amagiri Ayato looked at Luo Mio with a puzzled expression.

Luo Mio smiled gently at him, then looked at Yang Kobel and said.

"Dean Yang..."

"... I want to take Amagiri Haruka away!"

Chapter 85: The Real Home

"What's the meaning?!"

Upon hearing this, Yang Kobel narrowed his eyes and looked at Luo Mio.

Amagiri Ayato to the side, also stared at Luo Mio in astonishment.

"Luo Mio..."

After hearing Luo Mio's words, Helga's beautiful eyes also turned to Luo Mio.

Luo Mio chuckled and said, "It means exactly what it says."

"I want to take Amagiri Haruka away!"

Yang Kobel looked quietly at Luo Mio and then said, "You want to take her away because you have a way to make Amagiri Haruka wake up, right?"

Luo Mio glanced at Yang Kobel in surprise, then nodded and said, "I do have a way to wake Amagiri Haruka up."

"One hundred percent?" Yang Kobel asked Luo Mio.

Luo Mio nodded without hesitation.

"Hundred percent."

Then Yang Kobel said, "In that case, you can take Amagiri Haruka away."

Luo Mio glanced at Yang Kobel in surprise and said, "I didn't expect you to agree so readily."

Yang Kobel said, "It's better to have someone with 100% certainty to wake up Amagiri Haruka than to have someone who has no chance of success and has been treated for five years without any improvement."

Amagiri Ayato asked Luo Mio, "Luo Mio, can you really make my sister wake up?"

"Um."

Helga listened to the conversation between the three, and then said to Amagiri Ayato, "If Amagiri Haruka wakes up, remember to let me know as soon as possible. I have some questions to ask her."

After saying that, Helga left first.

"Then, let's not delay..."

Luo Mio looked at the wall at the back of the room.

——

In a room on the top floor of a building in the central district of Asterisk.

Matthias looked at the message sent in the Space Window in front of him.

A woman stepped out from beside him and said.

"Is everything alright? This girl is..."

Matthias glanced at the Space Window, then got up and walked to the window.

"It's alright. Now that Yao has regained consciousness, that's all the better."

"I applied memory interference to that girl, but I'm afraid the memory interference might also be erased..."

After hearing the woman's worried voice, Matthias shook his head and said...

"Even if Yao regains consciousness, the plan will not be terminated."

"The 'acceleration' has begun..."

Matthias's eyes were very calm, but one could detect a certain emotion in them.

It is neither madness nor hatred; it looks like anger, but it is different from anger.