A minute or two passed. Hal finally moved his face away and beamed at Eli like a boasting toddler.
"We're like super heroes, you know!" he proudly declared, both hands on his hips.
"Huh?"
"We're in a mission to protect peace and order in this academy. You see, supernatural occurrences had been occurring here lately. I don't know about ghosts, but in reality, they were caused by different magical entities that are not from this universe. Said entities were actually fictional characters like us. They've been wreaking havoc for a while now, which made them the baddies. On the other hand, we, the good guys, were tasked to keep everyone safe from them."
"Magical... entities? Baddies? You mean to say, there are more Venuses out there?!"
"If you mean villains and villainesses, yes, there are tons of them lurking in the shadows. Anyways, have you noticed why the Book of Metis was titled as it was?"
