​"Everything that I am is a gift as well as a curse."

Rumors about an infamous Mage-sprout - Azalea "The Bewitched"- had been circling around the Hunter's Council. Such rumors tend to attract the attention of various organizations. It's easy to tell with the uncanny similarities the men enquiring often possess. These malicious gossips had produced troublesome situations for Azalea's demon hunting job. Most hunters are afraid to team-up with her and some people are reluctant to make a hunting request with her involved.

During her solo hunt in Dimatagpuan Region, four students from the renowned school, AB Academy, appeared before her with an odd offer. This academy's Headmaster had grown a sudden interest in her skills as a Mage and he wants her to enroll as one of his scholars. It is the most unexpected offer which might as well bring the greatest change in her current lifestyle. Is she prepared to leave behind her normal daily life of hunting and fighting, to turn it around into an unusual daily life of socializing and schooling? How will she respond to her new environment as she learns more about who she really is?

Defiant

Seventeen minutes after three o’clock in the afternoon 


On the other side of the green dorm area 


Daisuke is running at full speed. Some telepaths are probably inside the dorms. They are providing support by surveying the surrounding area with their power and then communicate with those in the frontlines. On his way, Daisuke encounters some wounded students who are starting to get up though they look a little dazzled. Some of them are murmuring with others as they monitor the metaghosts that are passing by without reacting to them. As of the moment, nobody dares to approach the scattered metaghost around. Perhaps, they are still afraid that the previous explosions may again strike them. 


“Hey, red-zone guy, what are you doing running around like that?!” The girl with tribal tattoos calls at him as he approaches the dorm. 


“You’re… Miss Tattoo,” Daisuke fixes his eyes on the tattoos. 


“It’s Robin Yilgrim,” she replies with a stern look. 


Counter 32: Enchanted Parhelion I