Lancet looked back at her, keeping a calm expression. 'She really is a cold bitch, isn't she? Despite everything she just heard, this was what she had chosen to focus on? Whether or not I had used the front gate?'
King Romsgard looked at Danistasia. "Perhaps that is not the most important matter before us."
"Of course it is important," Danistasia replied.
Ordenance sighed silently beside her.
"I am the Headmistress of Awakener Supreme," she went on. "Students cannot be allowed to leave the Academy illegally. That is a serious violation, regardless of what he achieved afterward."
Lancet looked toward the King.
Romsgard rubbed one hand over his beard. He did not appear surprised. If anything, he looked like he had seen Danistasia do something like this a hundred times before.
They had worked together for years. He knew her well enough to know she wasn't going to let this go.
"Very well," Romsgard said. "Charge him."
Lancet's head turned. 'What? He's just letting her?'
