The returning trip to Tokyo is uneventful.

' Which is most likely directly related to Shiki 's recent actions in the Kyoto school. Going by how no one even attempts to obstruct their departure, it seems that the higher ups have conceded to her this time.

For now.

Of the four Tokyo students who 'd attended the exchange event, Kirara is the one who comes out with the most injuries. Not from the event itself, but instead from his determined attempt to defend Kinji at the time when the higher ups had given the order for Kinji to be taken into custody. Ichinose and Aikawa had hesitated; Kirara had not.

Shiki is aware of why the upperclassmen would 've wavered to act.

Shock,

for one. A Domain Expansion wasn 't something that a sorcerer saw every day, and a first year student without even a solid foundation in jujutsu being the one to achieve such a feat? Was completely unprecedented. It 's not hard to surmise that between

shock

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