“From what I heard, the Class F students are attending classes seriously these days.”

“For real?”

“Ah. I heard about that too. I also heard that no one approaches Class F these days because it’s a scary experience.”

“What’s going on?”

The students of Shakuntala Academy’s middle school division spent most of their time taking lessons in their own classrooms. Of course, even though they were all competing against one another, there was no reason for them to stop getting along with their peers.

Simply put, the cafeteria had become a place where the students engaged in small talk and exchanged information with each other.

Due to that reason, news of the incident that had happened in this very same cafeteria had spread far and wide among the middle school students of Shakuntala Academy. It was precisely because of that incident that the Class F students had become a hot topic of conversation.

There were even rumors about ghosts in Class F’s classroom that were circulating fast and wide in the academy.

“Come to think of it… None of the students of Class F have come to the cafeteria since that incident, right?”

“I’m also a bit reluctant to approach their classroom. I heard rumors that there are strange and unknown screams ringing through the gaps of the doors of Class F’s classroom.”

“S… Scream?”

Suddenly, a strange sense of tension hung in the entire cafeteria as the students gathered together to discuss the rumors in more detail.

“Me too, I heard that too. I actually heard someone scratching the doors and sobbing, asking someone to kill them.”

The rumors had been exaggerated after being spread from one person to another. They had now become a completely bizarre story.

“Let’s be honest here. Don’t you think the temporary instructor assigned to Class F is a bit strange and mysterious?”

“You’re right. I heard that he displayed the symbol of a Swordmaster during the incident back then. But who would become a Swordmaster at our age?”

“I know, right? The Pallan Empire’s teenage princess, the one being hailed as the genius of the sword, is still at the Expert level.”

“Maybe that instructor… Maybe...