After midnight, the school's faculty building gave off an eerie atmosphere.
The kind you'd expect to see in a horror film—dark, too quiet, and too still, as if something was lurking just out of sight.
And inside one of those buildings, Ethan was holding his first private lesson.
…Maybe his last, too.
"Students your age need to learn something different for a change," Ethan said casually, pacing in front of the chalkboard. "I know my job as a professor is to teach you about monsters, beasts, curses, and all that… and we do that every day in class, don't we?"
He smiled gently. His tone was calm—too calm.
"But tonight, we're going to talk about something else. Something more important. Something that will shape your future far more than any monster ever could."
His voice echoed strangely in the cramped room.
No one responded.
They couldn't.
