Caesar suddenly remembered that before the fight, Mai Sakatoku had openly admitted that their goal was Dragon King Norton's remains.
It seemed she had not been joking then. That thing really did seem to be in the college, except something had apparently gone wrong, and Norton's remains had become a living Norton.
"Damn it, you woke Norton?" Caesar's expression turned extremely grim.
"I told you, it wasn't us! He can testify!" Mai Sakatoku pointed at Amon.
Caesar looked suspiciously at Amon. He had recognized earlier that the person who had called her was Amon, and afterward, the two of them had emerged from the passageway at the same time—there seemed to be some unclear connection between them.
"You're not in league with them, are you?"
"How could I be? I secretly followed them into the passageway. I was planning to outsmart them, but then I found NOMA had opened the gate for them—I thought they were college personnel too." Amon shifted all the blame onto NOMA.
"Now isn't the time to talk about that. Have you figured out how to deal with this thing?"
Constantine paid no attention whatsoever to the dozens of guns trained on him. Step by step, he walked toward the main entrance.
"There's no need to hold back against this thing, right? Should we switch to live ammunition?" one of Mai Sakatoku's subordinates suggested.
"I think so." Caesar nodded.
Mai Sakatoku's people all switched to live rounds. So did the Student Union members.
When the Logistics Department had delivered the weapons, they had also equipped the students with live ammunition. Frigg Bullets were useful, but they ultimately had their limitations. Their lack of killing power meant they could not even penetrate certain umbrella canopies made of high-grade materials.
It would have been ridiculous if a group