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The Hag’s speech about nobility was lost on Houki; honestly, who cared? It was evident this school clearly didn’t play by the rules so it would be hard-pressed for them to expect Houki to start caring now. Case in point, the girl smirked internally as she heard the teacher cry in pain from her attack. Hopefully that would be enough of a distraction for Kaito and Hikari to cycle for a counter-attack. Unaware if that was the case or not, Houki only had a few seconds to react before the Hag was upon her.

And honestly, the option was clear in her mind. If it wasn’t broken, then why bother fixing it? That was the logic running through Houki’s head as she furrowed her brows and blasted another red hot barrage of beams in the Hag’s direction. It wasn’t like the teacher was doing much efforts to conceal herself, not when she broke down to gloat and monologue for every five minutes. 

She didn’t know it, but Houki felt herself agreeing with Hiraki’s own sentiments. This teacher talked too much and too long; but that wasn’t the skin of Houki’s problems. Instead, she focused on aiming her beams point-blank at the Hag. If the teacher simply tanked the attack, then there would be a problem. But Houki was banking on the luck this Hag wouldn’t take so kindly to laser beams shot at a point-blank range.

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