Raoul rushed over when he saw what Rumi was doing.

  But Rumi was pletely fie having grabbed the gsses-wearing girl's rain-soaked hand.

  Raoul's eyes wide the sight.

  "Heeheeheehee!"

  Meanwhile, hyenas like ghosts began approag the girl as if they'd spotted an injured zebra.

  Raoul immediately pulled out a Y-shaped cross and held it high.

  "Evil spirits shall remember their sin of betrayal upon seeing God's form. Begone!"

  In the meantime, Rumi helped the gsses-wearing girl up and ran toward the school entrance.

  "Eeeek!"

  "Raoul, hurry up!"

  Raoul followed while keeping the ghosts at bay with his Y-shaped cross.

  The students following behind stopped in shock when they saw the flying ghosts.

  Having reached the school lobby, Rumi and the girl shook off the bck rainwater from their hands and removed their raincoats.

  Raoul, arriving at the lobby right after, immediately approached Rumi and looked meaningfully at her hand as he asked.

  "Is your hand okay?"

  "Um..."

  Rumi hadn't felt anything.

  To Rumi, the bck rain was just dirty water.

  Just then, the gsses-wearing girl hugged Rumi intensely.

  "You're my lifesaver!"

  "I'm so touched that you grabbed my rain-soaked hand without hesitation."

  The girl spoke with her face buried in Rumi's chest.

  "Uh..."

  Rumi leaned her face slightly backward.

  "I'm Medina. Grand daughter of the noble Mora family. To think you have such a kind personality. Actually, I wao talk to you as soon as I got on the bus, but your face looked so scary..."

  Medina lifted her head and thrust her somewhat overwhelming face forward.

  Rumi immediately regretted helping the talkative girl.

  "Ugh... just go your hand."

  Rumi forcibly detached Medina.

  "Are you all alright?"

  Just then, a blonde proached with a worried expression.

  Judging by her clothes, she seemed to be aeacher, but uhe gloomy-looking Professor Myers from earlier, she was a young and pretty teacher with a kind face.

  "How's your hand? Are you badly hurt?"

  "Yes, I thought my hand was melting."

  Medina exaggerated.

  "Let me see your hand."

  "I'm not cursed on my first day, am I? I 't be cursed. I'm from the great Mora family..."

  And she tialking without pause.

  Rumi quietly watched the situation.

  Meanwhile, Raoul, standing beside Rumi and still watg her hand, lowered his head to whisper to her.

  "Rumi, you're that curse-immune person, aren't you?"

  Hearing Raoul's whispered question, Rumi felt like she'd been caught bragging about something she'd been announg everywhere she went.

  "Um... yes?"

  "You should try not to let people know you're immuo curses."

  "...?"

  Raoul finished speaking and immediately lifted his head as if nothing had happened.

  "Teacher, she got bck water on her hand too."

  Just then, Medina ointing at Rumi.

  The bloeacher looked at Rumi and asked.

  "How's your hand? Are you okay?"

  "Um... well... no... it's a bit tingly."

  Rumi appropriately raised her hand and preteo be in pain.

  After hearing Raoul's words, Rumi residered whether it was bad that she'd been telling people she was immuo curses.

  Rumi had naturally thought being curse-immune was good and had been subtly bragging about it wherever she went, but it seemed there might be some hidden story.

  The bloeacher poured holy water on Rumi's hand too.

  "Your hand looks fihat's good."

  The teacher examined Rumi's hand for injuries while massaging it.

  "Ah... I guess it's okay because I ed it right away."

  Shortly after, all the students gathered at the school entrah Professor Myers.

  Rumi finally got a ce to look around the school interior.

  The school interior was a bizarre mix of medieval and modern school building styles that created an uling atmosphere.

  In other words, it clearly looked haunted inside and out.

  There, the female teacher let her long blonde hair fall as she began speaking calmly.

  "Children, wele. I'm Nurse Cria.

  Leave all ygage here at the entrand ght to the cathedral for the entrance ceremony.

  The cathedral is currently the most sacred p North America, so from now on, erase all ive thoughts."

  Nurse Cria finished speaking and guided the children to the cathedral entran the left.

  The cathedral entraself looked like aremely old and important stone buildirance.

  And at the cathedral doors, students eared to be uppercssmen were distributing small books to the first-years and having each make the Y-shaped sign of the cross.

  "Freshmen, make the sign of the Y before entering."

  Meanwhile, it was ridiculous to see Mediering the cathedral still carrying her huge bag despite being told to leave luggage at the entrance.

  But as soon as Rumi ehe cathedral, her attention was immediately diverted elsewhere.

  It was because of the cathedral's interior appearance.

  The inside of the cathedral was the plete opposite of its exterior, presenting a truly cssid magnifit appearance.

  It probably looked like the most beautiful building iire town.

  With its cathedral pilrs, statues pced throughout, high ceiling, and even the colors, it truly looked like a sacred pce.

  And in the numerous chairs id out inside, uppercssmen and peared to be first-years who had arrived earlier were sitting and praying.

  Finding a seat amid the solemn and sacred atmosphere, Rumi preteo pray with her head bowed like the others.

  Although Rumi was dissatisfied with how pathologically bound tious rituals everyone in this world seemed to be, for the first time she actually sidered seriously participating in a mass ceremony...

  That was until Medina squeezed in beside her before prayer.

  "Thank you, Saint Angelica, for letti with my lifesaver. I'm about to ask my lifesaver's name, which I still don't know. How should I ask..."

  Medina's thin, irritating voice came from the seat.

  "Sigh... my name is Rumi."

  Rumi finally gave in to Medina's ad revealed her name.

  "Thank you Saint Angelica for letting my lifesaver's name be heard by my ears just now. To think you would answer my prayer so immediately... am I truly your most precious child above all others?

  My lifesaver's name is Rumi. I shall pray for her..."

  "Ah..."

  Just then, a man stood up at the cathedral podium and made a sound.

  The cathedral, which had been filled with only prayer sounds, fell silent.

  "Everyone, hello. A new semester has dawned. I am Principal Pierre, the head of this school."

  Rumi could immediately reize Principal Pierre whom he had seen at the towrance when she first arrived.

  He was a middle-aged man with u permed hair, pale skin, and slightly unfocused eyes.

  o him sat President Valentina. Valentina in a wheelchair, whom she had also seen then.

  Though President Valentina had seemed like the higher-ranking persohey talked then, apparently she wasn't the school principal.

  But at that moment, the principal's eyes from far away met exactly with Rumi's.

  Rumi was slightly flustered and avoided his gaze.

  "Now that all the first-years have gathered, we will begin the new semester orative mass.

  Saint angelicus' School is located where Angelicus Town, now the most prosperous in North America, began after the 6 witches nearly destroyed the world 360 years ago.

  Frht here, the early exorcists were trained and spread out to create the most sacred and safe town in North America.

  Please feel the weight of that history as you strive to bee excellent exorcists and tribute to creating a world where humans prain.

  Now, after this greeting, I will expin the most important school rules to the udents.

  First, I am well aware of the malicious rumors that have been cirg within the school retly.

  The nonsensical false rumor that a witch lives in this school.

  If a witch truly lived in the school, all students would have already died long ago.

  Even so, Saint angelicus' School's holy power is strong enough to block a witch, so please don't worry needlessly.

  However, please refrain from unnecessarily mentioning witches and inviting curses."

  "What...? So does that mean we are safe? or not?"

  Medina muttered to herself while listening to Principal Pierre's expnation.

  Listening to it, Rumi also found it hard to uand what the principal was saying.

  "Now udents, let's all open to the first page of the booklet you received wheering the cathedral aogether the most important Level 1 rules."

  'The school is fually a safe pce. Therefore, even if you see unfamiliar students, hear scratg sounds, or objects falling by themselves, don't worry about it. Most cases are just the school's resident spirits pying pranks.

  *The cathedral is the safest p the school. If anything happens, evacuate to the cathedral without thinking. (Don't fet to make the sign of the Y wheering the cathedral.)

  *The abandoned school in the west, the Devil's Tower in the east, and the northern forest are all forbidden areas. Never ehem.

  *Do not go outside after su. A bell will ring 10 minutes before su. If you are outside, enter a building immediately when the bell rings.

  *Refrain from spirit rituals after su. And the Spiritualism is off-limits after su.

  *The cafeteria is off-limits after 7 PM.

  *No matter what food is served in the cafeteria, do not pin to rs. Mabel. All school food is safe to eat.

  *First-years must er the school stadium.

  *The school provides 11 bottles of holy water daily. Drink as needed and before bed, alray and drink otle of silver holy water befoing to sleep.

  *ay awake between 2 AM and 4 AM.

  *If someone es to your dormitory room in the early m, never open the door.

  *If a headless ghost appears at school and asks where Room Zero is, never answer. Pretend you 't see or hear it. And if you survive, report to the exorcism teacher immediately.

  If you have already reacted to the headless ghost in any way, lead it to the northern forest while answering and die quietly.

  *If a student appears looking for a student named Lucy, ahat Lucy is already dead. Most will retreat then. There is no student named Lucy at our school.

  *If you see a student pletely ed in bareat them sincerely as a student. They're actually just like regur students so they're not particurly dangerous, but don't create unnecessary trouble.

  *If during the day you hear pleasant humming musiing from an unknown location, immediately cover your ears, sound the school arm, and evacuate to the cathedral. Then wait for death.

  *If one day you suddenly feel heavy shoulders and thoughts of death, visit the nurse for a special exorcism ritual.

  *If there's a fire at school, you don't o do anything.

  *If while reading in the library you find a book with ied text et a nosebleed while reading, immediately stop reading a to the exorcism teacher.

  *Bathing in Men's Bath #4 is strictly prohibited. If you don't want to lose your physical body forever by drowning, do er that tub.

  *Do not ask Ghost Professor Himmelburg of Astronomy about the past. If he remembers the past, we will have to close the school.

  *Red water ing from toilets or showers is an everyday occurreherefore, no a o be taken.

  *... ...'

  Rumi felt like she was losing her mind reading these seemingly endless rules.

  She had heard strange rules wheering the town and at Mr. Fellman's house, but this haunted school's rules were truly overwhelming.

  Nearly three pages were densely packed with Level 1 rules.

  And the back of the rulebook tained Level 2 and 3 rules along with illustrated fables. At least the Level 2 and 3 rules could be sidered expnations of what to do iain situations.

  Beyond that, it detailed how to deal with different types of ghosts and monsters, what emergency prayers were avaible, what to do when a friend dies, and even what to do after being a ghost.

  In other words, this ehick booklet was dedicated to rules.

  Rumi was somewhat shocked that these things actually happe the school.

  Indeed, no matter how she looked at it, except for this cathedral, the rest of the school buildings appeared to be the most cursed p Angelicus Town.

  "...About 10 students die and bee ghosts every year. This happens because they don't properly follow these rules and drive themselves or their friends to death.

  Ignorance is scarier thah. So I hope you all thhly learn these rules.

  Especially udents, you must memorize all Level 1 rules and basic prayers before leaving the cathedral today.

  Students who emorize both rules and prayers will never be allowed to leave the cathedral as ht now."

  "...?"