"This is going to end right now!" the school principal roared as he rested his hands on the surface of his desk.

Felix straightened and turned away from Viktor, his sapphire gaze as cold as a winter night.

"Why are you defending this bastard?" the Inquisitor asked in a voice as hard and cutting as an Adamantite sword. "Is it perhaps an indication of your own guilt?"

"This interrogation is a sham!" Theodria bellowed. "I would lend the same support to any member of the School in the face of such blatant lies and fraudulent accusations as these."

"Unless he was shown to be a servant of the dark powers, of course."

"Which young Viktor Drichey is not!"

"That has yet to be proven."

"How can this boy be the 'Tomb Raider'? He arrived in Genbofen in the early spring, and the disappearances started much earlier, in the last month of winter as far a