Arc 5: Prologue

Prologue

It's mid-July.

Maybe because summer vacation is drawing near, the mood at school is a little giddy.

Even the third-years, who have entrance exams coming up, are noisier than usual now that it's their last summer of high school.

I could tell because I was secretly eating lunch in a corner of the floor where the third-years had their classrooms.

"Thank you for the meal."

I pressed my hands together toward the empty lunchbox, then put it away in my lunch bag.

After taking a sip of tea from my thermos and settling down, I took out my phone. Just then, I noticed footsteps approaching.

They were small footsteps. And whoever it was had a lot of mana. Which meant...

"Hello, Torimari-san."...