The Remnant Star Society's Plot

"Oh, right. There's something I've been meaning to ask Mo Bai."

As Mo Hei spoke, he formed a hand sign and summoned Nue again, sending it circling high overhead to watch Dania and Siglica.

"Hmm?"

Mo Bai nodded to show he was listening.

"Why am I the one watching Dania and Siglica?" Mo Hei asked, puzzled.

This hardly seemed like a job for a freshman who had only just enrolled.

"Ah, that... Dania and I have a bit of history."

Mo Bai's gaze shifted guiltily as he answered.

"Huh?"

Mo Hei didn't understand.

She had only spent half a day with Dania and Siglica, but she could already tell they were good people.

Faced with Mo Hei's innocent look, Mo Bai found it even harder to answer.

He couldn't exactly say, "Oh, I fought my own Shikigami for ages, then showed up to meet that peach of a girl covered in blood and missing an eyeball," could he?

He would sound like some kind of lunatic...

Though to Dania at the time, he had probably looked far more terrifying than an ordinary lunatic.

"Ahem. It was nothing serious. From now on, I'll leave watching them to... Huh?"

Whoosh.

Mo Bai was about to hand the surveillance job to Mo Hei when he noticed that she had stood up.

"I don't think Siglica or Dania are bad people."

Seeing how determined she was, Mo Bai smiled helplessly, though he felt reassured.

Mo Hei was becoming more and more capable of making up her own mind.

"So you want to get to know them yourself? Instead of watching through Nue, you want to see them with your own eyes?"

Mo Bai asked from where he sat crouched on the ground.

"Mm!"

"Then go ahead."

With Mo Hei so set on it, he