Bzz—
"Is this the place?"
Following Dania's earlier instructions, Mo Hei found the special pillow in his dorm room and lay down. He arrived in a place called the Academy's Dark Side.
"Looks like she isn't in this area."
After making a circuit without finding any sign of Siglica, Mo Hei set off to search farther ahead.
This Sonoro, known as the Academy's Dark Side, changed the surroundings of anyone who entered it in response to their state of mind.
But Mo Hei had heard that the spaces occupied by different students within this Sonoro were still connected.
"The Darkness of the Human Heart..."
Mo Hei muttered the words, thinking again of Siglica.
Whenever he spent time with that sunny upperclassman, he could see a faint trace of black, negative energy around her.
Mo Bai had already explained the nature of Cursed Energy to him, so he was no longer a novice Jujutsu Sorcerer who knew nothing about it.
He could see that energy because he was a Jujutsu Sorcerer who carried Cursed Energy and a Cursed Technique.
So the black energy he had first seen around her hadn't been an illusion. It was the result of the pressure she had bottled up.
"If even Siglica has that much negative emotion..."
Mo Hei thought as he walked, then stopped.
"What about me?"
Would he see his own dark side in this place that forced people to face what lay within?
Mo Hei looked around.
"Nothing?"
He was puzzled.
He didn't consider himself some saint incapable of negative emotions. By all rights, the area around him shouldn't have been so quiet.
Was it because he had lost his memories? Was that why this Sonoro couldn't reflect the darkness in his heart?
"I don't get it..."
But he couldn't forget why he