The Awakening Of The Last Knight.

Chapter 219, Engagement Dinner.

Malik was sitting in the teachers' lounge at school, nursing a cup of coffee while stacks of ungraded papers and untouched files lay abandoned beside him. His colleagues glanced his way with surprise and concern; it was unlike him to neglect his duties and let his work pile up so unusually.

He looked exhausted, his eyes heavy and unfocused, because he had spent the entire previous night searching for a ghoul at a rubber factory. Then, at six that morning, every news channel had begun reporting the army’s success in repelling a serious ghoul attack in the industrial area—how they had eliminated an entire ghoul cell in record time while the knights were notably absent and arrived too late to help.

But Malik had been there alone. He had combed the entire area himself and found nothing—no army, no ghouls, no signs of battle. Now he sat silently, turning the events over in his mind. He wondered whether it had all been another staged performance, a show put on in some other location or eve