As Yu Xian strode towards the cafe's exit, a thought suddenly occurred to him.
" Senior Sawako… Why did she use the elevator?"
East Imperial Academy's Dawn Cafe was located in one of the nine story buildings located near the school's entrance.
But the fact remains that the Cafe itself was only on the first floor.
' She didn't go out through the exit like me and instead went into the elevator, which means that was still some place she wanted to go to within this building.'
" Could she be shopping? I heard there were school supply stores in the floors above here, although I'm not really sure if they're also being subsidized like the cafe… no, wait."
Yu Xian paused, his thoughts settling into an answer.
' Her club president, the one Senior Sawako planned on bringing food for. They're probably here within the building.'
" But if they were inside the building, it doesn't make sense for them to not stay inside the cafe." he thought out loud " I imagine it would be pretty hard to find a place to eat in a shop for school supplies, unless…"
Yu Xian hurried himself out of the Cafe, walking a certain distance away from it.
He stopped at a point far enough so that he could see the entire building from where he was standing, but close enough to see certain details clearly.
With a certain level of confidence in his visual abilities, Yu Xian first made sure to check whether that mysteriously dangerous senior was anywhere near of the building's windows.
Unable to find her there, the previously self-proclaimed Heavenly Demon's gaze finally shifted over to where he had guessed them to be.
' the rooftop'
And almost as if to confirm his suspicions, he spotted Senior Sawako, sitting at the edge of the rooftop, right next to a guy with strange dichromatic hair.
' He's wearing a second-year uniform, so he's probably a second-year student of this academy, just like her. Though I have to say.. they're both quite the daredevils to be having a conversation on top a ledge like that.' he smiled wryly
Yet Yu Xian was unable to keep smiling.
The young man with peculiar black and white hair had somehow turned towards him.
A chill went down his spine as Yu Xian immediately recognized that it wasn't a coincidence that the man looked towards his direction.
He had noticed him,
he was looking at him.
Once their gazes had met, their intuition did not let them hesitate for even a second.
Yu Xian immediately switched to battle mode, his focus and awareness maximized in an instant.
But ironically, it was that very same heightened focus and awareness that led to his defeat.
Because in that moment, Yu Xian witnessed something unbelievable
A sight that rendered him completely unable to fight as every other thought had unified into a single word;
' how?'
The boy who had opened the ' door' called Martial Arts and became renowned as a prodigy fell to his knees,
And although he did not know it at the time, a new ' door' had been shown to him
A ' door' that he would eventually open
A ' door' called Cultivation.