Chapter 153: 153 - Shiori
Right now, Nexus was busy thinking about one thing, which was how he should make his appearance. Making a grand entrance that shocked everyone would be fine, but what was so fun about scaring a bunch of children?
Yesterday he had already scared a bunch of big shots around the world. Now going to scare a bunch of children seemed like lowering himself.
"This time, can we quietly blend into the crowd below? Doing it like yesterday doesn't feel fun anymore."
Lailah blinked as she looked toward Nexus. She was a little surprised that he would actually suggest something this unpretentious.
"Wouldn't that be great? Have I ever liked seeing you scare other people?" Saying that, she tightly hugged the slime plush with one hand while linking her arm with Nexus's with the other.
If his current strength wasn't limited, Nexus would have teleported her down to the ground already. An ordinary Nascent Soul realm cultivator had no way to open a spatial rift to teleport, but Nexus was different.
But there was one problem with spatial rifts: once opened, they couldn't be hidden. So Nexus could only take Lailah down with him by flying, just like they were going on a trip.
Among the thousands of people heading toward the academy, the appearance of a young man and woman didn't attract too much attention. It wasn't because the two of them weren't attractive, but because everyone was more focused on the opening ceremony than anything else right now.
Ordinary people had to enter through the gate and then have their admission notices checked, while Nexus and Lailah simply flew into the school grounds and then strolled around.
The cameras, both hidden and visible, scattered all over the place, were pointed toward them. Inside the security room of the American Hunter Academy, a long red-haired woman with her hair neatly tied back was biting her nails, her eyebrows tightly furrowed as she stared at the screen.
Her silver-gray eyes with special patterns stared intently, giving people the feeling that she could easily see right through them. These were definitely also a pair of strange eyes similar to White's.
She wore a black suit with the academy's insignia on her chest, and two pistols with special bullets at her waist. At first glance, her style looked rather cold and strict.
This is Shiori, the head of security at the American Hunter Academy. Her ability is Panoptic Vision. Like Emily, she's not good at fighting, so she only carries a pistol for show. Her mission during dungeon raids is to gather information.
Shiori can see through any creature or device capable of recording images within a five-kilometer radius (does not apply to S-rank existences or above). After each time she switches her viewpoint, the new observation source becomes the center of the next five-kilometer radius. She can only observe and cannot interfere with the observation source.
The five-kilometer limit only applies to the distance between each viewpoint switch and does not apply to the distance the observation source can travel. Once Shiori has connected to a source, she can continue observing through it even if the source moves far outside the five-kilometer range.
"How the hell did those two appear on the academy grounds?"
Shiori tightly pursed her lips as she looked through every screen she could, but couldn't find any clues at all. The radar system and the other systems didn't have any information either.
She had gone to bed late last night, so she had seen Nexus's impressive introduction. On her desk now, there were only three files related to Nexus, Lailah, and Mark. She didn't care about the other students.
Nexus's invisibility wasn't just a matter of appearance. Forget radar, even if someone stood only fifty centimeters away from him, they still wouldn't be able to sense anything.
Although Shiori was the head of security, there was rarely anyone else in this security room besides her. So while the title sounded important, in reality she didn't have any subordinates at all.
Because she had no subordinates, the security room was her own territory, so she didn't need to maintain an image and could do whatever she wanted.
The security room was usually pretty boring because no idiot dared to cause trouble on the academy grounds, so Shiori's usual job was to 'peek' around everywhere.
Calling it 'peeking' is a little unfair to Shiori because she only looked at places where she was allowed to look. Of course, once in a while she would accidentally look into a bathroom or accidentally read some confidential file.
"Why isn't there any useful information at all?"
Shiori's cold and strict demeanor completely disappeared the moment she pouted and buried her head on her desk.
She was a very responsible person when it came to her job, and there had never been any problems until today. This was very hard for her to accept.
While feeling helpless, a genius plan suddenly flashed through her mind, making her perk up, stand up, and clap for herself.
"I can't observe them from far away, but surely I can from up close, right? I don't believe I can follow the two of them closely and still get fooled by them."
Following students wasn't part of the head of security's job, but Shiori was very free right now, so she could do it.
No one in this academy dared to reprimand her either because she had a very powerful background. Calling her the academy's 'little princess' wouldn't be wrong. No matter who the highest-ranking figures in the academy were, she was very close to all of them.
A seemingly easygoing position like this wasn't something an A-rank hunter who was only thirty years old could hold for many years without a strong background.
The moment she had the idea, she immediately closed the security room and drove straight to where the students were gathering.
"As expected, my overwhelming aura doesn't need me to do anything for people to stare at me on their own. Besides, only mortals with a little knowledge can understand my greatness."
Nexus muttered as he walked. This self-praising way of talking was no different from the system.
What he said was so obvious that Lailah didn't need more than three seconds to realize that the two of them were being watched.