Ophelia had spent a good majority of the day after her shower in her room, insisting to her nurses repeatedly that she was resting. In reality, she had done anything but. The entire day had been spent practicing, honing her reflexes and letting the long butcher's knife become intimately familiar in her hands. She had even managed to ignore the fact that Yukari Yakumo, the youkai she had met early on in her week at the institute, had become her new roommate. There simply hadn't been time to chit-chat with her. If Ophelia was going to take down her prey and get back her blade, she was going to have to be completely optimized when night came. There would be no room for even a single mistake.

At last, the lights went out, and the doors unlocked. Ophelia smiled her venomous smile as she tread out into the shadows, quickly making her way to the end of the hall.