The juxtaposition did not go unnoticed by me.
To an outsider, I was a teenage cliché — frozen solid beneath a beautiful girl, trying to pretend the proximity wasn't rendering me completely brain-dead.
On the inside, my thoughts were charting a course across the Sea of Screams, trying to map out the terrifying reality of a world that was actively pulling its own pins out.
It was a lot to process, and all in the span of a single day at that.
An SS-rank counterspy, an untamed Death Zone where the Faceless King was on a casual venture… and the fact that the Apex Academy was a Trojan horse.
The very institution meant to breed humanity's shield was already infested with termites.
At first, I thought I'd just kill Selene.
And since she was supposed to be the handler, the Syndicate would have to appoint a new one from the active moles present in the Academy.
I had a plan ready to flush out the new handler.
