Black Market

"Haah…" I sighed, exhaling slowly as I peeked through the slightly ajar door.

The hallway stretched out before me, silent and empty.

'Should be safe,' I thought, exasperated, as I slipped out and carefully locked the door behind me.

Retrieving Rizel from the private training room had been more trouble than I'd anticipated. If most students weren't still stuck in class, I would have been screwed the moment I set foot in the hallway.

All's well that ends well, I guess.

The room I had just snuck out of wasn't random—it was actually the one I used to stay in before moving in with Shelly. Taking Rizel back to my current dorm was out of the question. Nelia would probably kill her on sight, no matter how much I tried to intervene. But for some reason, this old room was still registered to my meta-watch. That made it, ironically, the safest place in this entire facility.

If either Ariana or Selena found out about Rizel…