Good. She was tired. So he wasn't keeping the company of a Saint after all. Wait, no, that was actually a bad thing. If Marzia was a Saint, everything about this mission would be so much easier. They could just brute force through the whole thing. Watching as she let Subject A back onto the ground and rolling his eyes when she asked what was next, Zeal replied, hand on the knob, [b]“Well, obviously, we're going to go get out of Academy City now. Unless you'd like to enroll into their elementary schools after breaking out one of their valued prisoners, Maria?”[/b]

Seemed that being indoors for so long had made their target, Maki, a little more than just crazy though. As he opened the door, Zeal said, waving off her concerns, [b]“We're not aliens, Maki. We're magicians...at least, m-”[/b]

In that moment, as the door to the first floor opened fully, a bullet from a coil was fired from five hundred meters away, piercing the glass window of the building and subsequently drilling through Zeal's torso, before burying itself in the wall behind him.