"W- What? What did you just say...? He... is dead?"
Professor Ulka was looking at me with his usual cold expression... as if he was waiting for me to say something. As if what he was saying was something very normal.
Ah... Waiting for me to say something?
Something's wrong with this.
If Aiden's dead... Why didn't he tell me that in the first place?
I frowned, then asked, trying to keep my composure.
"Why did you lie?"
"It wasn't a lie, at least not in the hidden records."
Ulka put his hand in the pocket of his white coat.
"I'm only saying this because you're going to work with me and Aiden. Aiden was registered as dead about a month and a half ago, but the rector denied and concealed those records. There are no more than ten people who know that Aiden should have been registered dead."
"Why did the rector deny the records?"
"Probably because she, like me, has a mana contract with Aiden and, like me, she is aware that nothing has changed in that mana contract."
