Volume VII - Chapter 5: Internship in the Middle of a Forest

Rector Melany was right.

"Do you have any idea what kind of trouble you've gotten yourself into, Adrian...?"

I... really got myself into trouble.

...

How do I know?

Because, at first, I thought I was going back to the library where I met Chris Laergas.

Not that I was going to be sent into a forest where I couldn't see the slightest trace of a city anywhere.

I had no idea what I was going to do.

~beep!

~beep!

But then my watch started beeping.

"...?"

When I raised my arm and saw a number on my watch that I hadn't registered before... a strange expression inevitably appeared on my face.

I answered the call.

"Hello?"

"Keep heading into the woods, Adrian."

"Huh?"

I paused, focused on the voice coming from the call, and... I realized.

It was a voice I recognized.

It was Chris Laergas talking to me.

"Okay...?"