A soft sigh of relief escaped Kylie’s lips when she noticed the sunlight beginning to flood through the windows again. Whatever had caused the darkness—she was still not aware of the actual eclipses—was gone for the time being. The various hideous creatures began to disappear into the seals where they had spawned from.

Finally, safe at last.

Ammiel sheathed his sword and approached Kylie.

“Thank you,” she whispered, her eyes to the floor. Her voice was shaky and her head was spinning. Ammiel bowed and disappeared with a flash of brilliant light. Kylie took a deep breath and ran outside the room, not wanting to look back at the mess that was left inside.

Thankfully it was warm outside and the sun was shining. Kylie covered her eyes and look up at the sky. She saw that the floating island in the sky was just grazing the corona the sun. Had then been what caused the darkness? It seemed to be slowly hovering away from the sun, so it must’ve been eclipsing the light before.

Suddenly, Kylie felt weak and she staggered to her knees, feeling out of breath.

“Agh, what’s… what’s wrong with me?” she grumbled to herself, not able to keep her head raised. She remained there on the sidewalk for at least a minute, gathering herself and unknowingly recovering from all the energy she had expended earlier on summoning Ammiel and having him fight. Soon, however, she began to feel a little better and she managed to get on her feet again.

“I’m never going to class again,” she decided.