Reunion [C89]

Later in the night, in a soundproof room, seated around an enormous table there are over a hundred teachers and the headmaster.

Right now, one teacher is talking, one of those that fought against Shu Himo in the Illusion Realm.

"…Shu Himo then said, 'Hydrogen Bomb', and hid inside a weird metallic sphere, while we suddenly saw falling from the sky an enormous object. That object continued falling toward us, and having the feeling that we would have no chance at all against it, all of us immediately created more possible defenses, until that object finally reached about the same altitude as us…"

Pausing for a moment and remembering what happened, the teacher shivered but still continued talking, "Suddenly, that object exploded, but it was not a normal explosion, it felt to be in front of the end of the world, every defense we created was useless against it, being destroyed as if it was merely a speck of dust in front of it… afterward, we passed out and we found ourselves back in the room."

Once the teacher ended his report about what happened, every teacher and even the headmaster stood in shock, everything that Shu Himo did in the Illusion Realm is inconceivable, forcing the lava to solidify, slowing the speed of a meteor created by fifty teachers, modifying weirdly the air… and then even creating an enormous bomb capable of destroying the world.

Just where did he got all that knowledge?

A moment later, the headmaster recalled Shu Himo' weird reaction when he saw Met-3 and had a bad feeling, perhaps Shu Himo already knew what Met-3 is and was just surprised to see it there?

Now with a grim look, the headmaster looked toward the teachers and commanded decisively, "From now on, at least three teachers will have to supervise Shu Himo at all the times, but stay hidden and don't let him notice you. Try to see if he will do any suspicious movements but don't do anything without being certain, if we are wrong and we do something to him we would be sinners of wasting such a talent!"

Nodding, the teachers expressed their understanding of the directive from the headmaster.

Seeing that they accepted, the headmaster then continued, "About Aura Azusa, there are two problems about her, the first is that she possesses some magic spells from outside the academy, and the second is how she acted against Met-3."

A teacher, puzzled could not help but ask, "Headmaster, for what reasons are those two things a problem?"

Sighing, the headmaster started explaining, "Normally the fact that she possesses magic spells from outside the academy would be a good thing instead of a bad one, but her reaction in the fight against Met-3 gave me a bad feeling, the moment Met-3 was about to say from which race she is, she got extremely angry and stopped it from saying her race."

Realizing what the headmaster just said, the teachers are shocked, "Does this mean that she may be from an enemy race?"

With a grim look, the headmaster replied, "I originally found her during a mission and took her because her talents seemed good, but I thought that she was at most at the level of a C class student. About her real race, I also have no idea, at least on the surface, she seems to be a human."

Knowing her strength, some teachers' face immediately paled "This is bad! With her strength, once she reaches the Nascent Soul Realm even we teachers will have no way to fight her, what if she is really of an enemy race?"

Knowing that the teachers never experienced high-level magic fights, the headmaster explained, "She is not as strong as you think, she just has a vast amount of usable spells, giving her an absolute advantage against who do not possess the needed counterspells, like for example, the students. In her fight against Met-3 this was clearly seen, if the fight had continued for a bit more, she would eventually not possess a magic spell capable to defend herself, leading to her defeat. Said this, even if she were at Longevity Realm, there would still be a way to defeat her if needed."

Hearing the headmaster, the teachers nodded in understanding, and one of them asked, "What will we do about her? Will we be supervising her like with Shu Himo?"

Nodding, the headmaster commanded once again, "From now on, five teachers will supervise Aura Azusa, but beware of not getting closer to her and observe from afar, she could know some detecting spells. Remember to report everything she does, and if you find out that she is from an enemy race you are permitted to act and capture her."

Seeing that the teachers accepted once again the command, the headmaster continued, "This reunion is now dismissed, you can restart doing your own assignments."

Immediately, eight teachers rushed outside, going toward the outside of the rooms of both Shu Himo and Aura Azusa, three for the former, and five for the latter, ready to start their surveillance mission, all of them are completely serious about it, and are not daring to lower their guard.

Meanwhile, after seeing every other teacher walking away, the headmaster fell in thought, 'If she is really from an enemy race, why would she show off that much?' This is something that he really can't understand no matter how many times he thinks about it.