"Unforgivable…" Dora whispered.
"What is this?! Are you all stupid?!" yelled the dean. "How can you think like that, how can you be so stupid at such times?!"
She placed herself between Dora and Thomas, facing the young man with glasses or perhaps protecting him from a greater danger.
"I trained you all, I knew you had these resentments, but to think it could be this bad... Are you saying you'd let her die for your stupid ego?!"
Thomas closed his eyes and watched the battle as Iris dodged a spiral of fire emanating from the monster's tail.
"This is how those who do not have power fight. You will never be able to understand our world.
"You id-"
"Candace." Dora's voice, a true death call according to everyone's instinct, imposed silence.
Candace slowly turned towards him, her gaze filled with fear.
Dora pointed his wrist under her nose.
"Take them out."
"... What?"
