Buzz—
In the early morning, glaring sunlight streamed into the dorm room where Mo Bai used to live.
But the room had already been cleaned from top to bottom. It looked as though no one had ever lived there.
After hearing Rover mention Jinzhou in passing the night before, Mo Bai had gotten up early.
She had said she would soon have to go there on important business.
So Mo Bai had to tidy the place ahead of time, of course, rather than hold her up.
Then he slipped away through the shadows, leaving behind the room where he had rested and made so many warm memories.
It was here that his own Shikigami, the Divine Dogs, had silently urged him to take his first brave step for a friend.
Here, he and Mo Hei had huddled together like family through countless nights, letting the day's exhaustion and worries fall away.
And during his special training, Gabriella had woken him from outside the window every single day.
Looking back, everything that had happened here was a precious memory to Mo Bai.
I wonder if I'll ever have a chance to come back...
That was Mo Bai's final thought before he left his old home.
Whoosh—
When Mo Bai emerged from the shadows, he found that he was the first to reach their meeting place.
Though calling him the first wasn't quite accurate.
They were the first pair.
Someone else could travel through the shadows just as he could and get here in a flash.
That someone was Mo Hei.
"Huh? You didn't prepare a graduation gift for Rover?"
Mo Hei looked surprised to see Mo Bai empty-handed.
While accompanying Siglica around the day before, he had noticed that nearly everyone connected to Rover had prepared some kind of gift