A few minutes before Philippa met Benjamin in the infirmary.
Shock rippled through the SDC room as Allen emerged from the interrogation room alongside Vioriel, with his hands covered in blood.
"I got the necessary information," Allen announced, his voice steady despite the gravity of the moment, as he cleansed his hands with the handkerchief tendered by Vioriel.
Speculation brewed among the onlookers, their minds awash with conjecture about what Allen was doing in the interrogation room, and who knew what he was doing inside.
"Looks like the prisoner is dead," Dema Pandita remarked, a sentiment echoed by everyone present. They all knew too well, for just before Allen emerged, a brilliant light had shone from beneath the door—a clear sign that a student had flowed out or died in the academy only to respawn on the first floor thereafter.