"What is happening...?" Trise sharply inhaled, her voice sounding like a high pitched, raspy squeal.
-Thud.
She felt the blunt touch and rough texture of the wall against her back and tensed her whole body as her eyes warily darted around.
Her knuckle turned white as her fingers strongly wrapped around the hilt of her rapier and cold sweat trickled down the sides of her face and forehead.
-Thud!
In front of her, the figure of a young man fell unconscious to her feet against the ground. He was donned in the same academy uniform of Aegis, a fellow cadet just like her.
But he had also just tried to kill her.
"Are you okay?" Alex appeared in front of her, his blue eyes were ghostly and deep as they stared at her seriously.
He had the pummel of his long sword raised, which he had used to incapacitate the male cadet lying unconscious against the ground.
