The training ground was in ruins. Stone tiles cracked. Dust still hung in the air. No one dared move.Leo stood at the center, his body still faintly glowing, holding Elaine close. Her breath had returned—barely—but she was unconscious, limp in his arms.The black energy that had once surrounded him had vanished, but the fear it left behind still lingered in every heart watching him. Not a whisper. Not a sound. Just stunned silence and wide, disbelieving eyes.Ethan was the first to move—just a step back.His legs trembled.That wasn’t the same Leo Carter. This was something else… something monstrous.SSS rank? That wasn’t supposed to be real. Not for someone like Leo. And yet, everyone had seen it ….felt it. The power. The rage. The earthquake. The scream.Leo looked down at Elaine’s face. Her skin was pale, her heartbeat faint beneath his fingers.“She’s alive,” he whispered to himself, a breath of relief escaping him.Then, his expression shifted rage melting into guilt. He hadn't

The remand room was nothing like the rest of Avalon Academy. Hidden deep beneath the institution’s sprawling campus, it was more prison than dormitory. The air was cold, heavy with silence…….the kind that weighed on your chest and made it hard to breathe. Thick walls of reinforced steel, lined with rune markings, suppressed any ability usage, draining energy and hope alike. There were no windows, no clocks. Only a single, flickering overhead light and a steel door with no handle on the inside.Leo Carter sat in the far corner of the room, knees drawn up to his chest, head resting on his arms. He’d stopped keeping track of time hours ago… or maybe days. Down here, it was impossible to know. The silence bit at him worse than the cold.His mind was a storm. Everything that had happened since the incident on the training grounds played in a loop behind his eyes……. Elaine’s blood, the scream, the knife, and the burst of power that had erupted from inside him like a beast finally unchained