"We are returning to the Academy."
The Professor summoned a large canvas and carved a single brush stroke upon it. The stroke opened a portal back to the Academy. He stepped through, carrying Rey's body, the other professor following close behind.
The children, along with their contracted Soul Beasts, followed. They stepped through the portal, leaving the strange, unsettling calm of the forest behind.
The portal slowly closed and disappeared from existence, leaving only rustling leaves and the faint scent of death.
Once the portal closed, the brush stroke also disappeared from the canvas, which fell to the ground like the most ordinary object imaginable.
After twenty minutes of their departure, the rustling of the wings became louder, and a person fell from the sky, landing in the center of the forest, right where the others were previously standing. However, no one was here to see him.
