Stepping into the hallway, I immediately noticed that every window was shattered.
The glass had been intact before I entered the reception room, so it must have been the monsters' doing, probably when the Theater Troupe Actor called them into the school.
I carefully led Nina-chan away from the broken shards scattered on the floor. Just as we started to head back toward the classroom, a sharp, stinging smell filled the air, stinging my nose.
"Ugh, that's a terrible smell," Nina commented.
"Yeah… but what is it?" I replied tersely. It was a strange smell, a hint of something burning.
No, not just burning—something was scorched.
"Could it be a fire?"
"If it were, someone should have pulled one of those red things," I replied, referring to the fire alarms. They had a switch you could press to make the entire school echo with a loud alarm.
