Ishiki shook his head and focused on what was important right now. And that was assuming that that the demon had gone out through the manhole behind the school building, there was a high chance that it might have even entered the school building.
'I have to get Nina to safety. Every children in there... But how do i take action according to that?' His brows furrowed.
He did not move immediately and instead thought deeply about it.
'If I go up now and pull her out of school — if I send the evacuation order and empty the building — what am I working from? A leaf near a manhole? Damnit, what do I tell them, that a demon has entered the school during day?'
'And if I do it and the demon is already gone? I've showed my hand. I've told it that I know where it's been. And I've told anyone watching that Nina's school is a place I respond to with a full evacuation response. Which is its own kind of information.'
'But if I don't and it goes up—'
