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Well this was anti-climatic. With the test called out so rapidly, Houki had been left shooting her beams straight at the Hag. Whether or not the pseudo-villain would react to that was beyond her caring right now. Houki then stood up to dust herself off and readjust her glasses. No doubt the others would be heading back to Zone 2 right about now, so she didn’t concern herself with finding Kaito or Hikari. Instead, she let her feet carry her back to the bus area.

Or, what should have been the bus area. Upon entering Zone 2, Houki looked around. Why did the bus look run-down? Why were people just standing around and…arguing? She almost asked someone if she was in the right place before noticing a deflated Minami nearby. The ghost of a smile creased upon her lips and she closed the distance between herself and the cat girl. As she did so, she noticed the grown pile of dummies shared between them.

[color=ba2259]“Four dummies each. That’s not bad,”[/color] she commented to Minami, standing beside the collapsed cat girl and their dummy pile. [color=ba2259]“Were you just rescuing for the entire test? That sounds lackluster.”[/color] Whether it was or not didn’t matter, not when it had possibly given them both the advantage in points. She ignored the commotion going on nearby, hearing a student angry enough to bully his way to passing the test. If he wanted to try his hand on their pile…well, Houki was still itching to blast a hole into someone.
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