Rustle—
In a vast, pitch-black room with no one in sight, the shadows stirred. Mo Bai emerged from them.
"Just as I thought. This is still the best place to pass the time."
With that, Mo Bai switched on the lights in the Auditorium.
He had come down from the rooftop to the Auditorium where he used to watch movies.
Watching Rover, Gabriella, and Losera inspect the Academy would surely be far more entertaining than any scripted movie.
But that was tomorrow.
For now, he could simply enjoy some time to himself in the empty Auditorium.
As for the surveillance cameras...
Unfortunately, Light Extinction was in Mo Hei's hands, so he had to use another Cursed Tool Mahoraga had made to temporarily block the cameras.
The whole Academy was in turmoil anyway. No one was likely to scrutinize the camera feed from one little Auditorium.
"All right, let's see if any good movies have come out lately."
Whirr—
Mo Bai had just turned on the big screen and begun looking for a movie when the doors behind him suddenly opened.
The visitor didn't put him on guard. He knew her.
But from the look of her, she hadn't come here simply to unwind as he had.
"Phew. I've been exhausted for days. Why's the screen still on? Did those kids forget to turn it off when they left? Mo Bai?"
Massaging her head and muttering to herself, Losera headed toward her usual seat for watching movies.
Only when she reached it did she realize Mo Bai was there too.
"You..."
Losera had a great deal she wanted to say to her former student.
She wanted to ask why he hadn't gone somewhere outside the Academy to lie low. She also wanted to apologize.
After all, if she hadn't asked him