Due to this sudden anomaly, the filth had also managed to escape without being consumed by the █e.
Causing several other problems as well.
'Can this get any worse?'
The filth that had escaped from their graveyard would not cause any problems to Gardenia as a whole.
They would just dissipate into the air without a trace.
Passing on peacefully.
But that also meant that Gardenia could not make use of the energy that it could supply itself with by consuming and recycling the garbage.
Which made Iye slightly angry but let go of it since she felt she should at least allow them that right.
While the extra power was not needed, it could still be used to increase the quality of the practical exams, obviously such a blunder was grave beyond a shadow of doubt.
Someone like Iye though did not care so much as other teachers would if they knew something like this happened.
"..."
Scrolling through the contents of the paper.
Iye's hardened and froze on the spot.
[Insight: ???]
The insight couldn't be recorded.
This however did not mean Cale had some sort of special ability, if it were special then he wouldn't even be colorless in the first place.
She walked towards, more impatiently than ever, hurrying her steps as much as she could.
'Is it some kind of minor probability manipulation?'
She shot any plausible idea in her brain, educated guesses were thrown into the tray and kept being swapped with other guesses.
It was essential for her to know everything about a situation as bizarre as this, after all, in the end. This was her job.
'For there to be no information on his ability at all could mean only one thing'
"But could it? there have been instances like that in the past but almost all of them died in the trial"
However none have ever passed and survived till the first practical exam.
Turning a corner, she raised her head from the document and stared ahead.
"..."
At the end of the corridor stood a hard and solid old metal door.
Immediately her steps quickened towards it, her heart beating rhythmically and softly to the sound of her steps.
The wooden floor beneath her high heels did not creak under her weight, she was light on her feet after all.
But a certain pressure, the unknown pressed in on her from every side.
Her steps became more mentally heavy each time she drew nearer to the door.
'The trials track everything you do in there constantly'
It observes and makes a description of one's ability before they could even use it.
'It was a creation of our lord himself after all'
Something like this was only possible because of a genius like him, the one who was the cause of the creation of Gardenia.
'By studying the soul, you can find many things, my creation here lays it bare for you to see it with your own naked eyes which otherwise could never even fathom what something like this could even look like'
Things like this were said as it were normal.
"It can't make a mistake"
Iye reached the metal door and glossed her wooly glove over it.
Click!
As if the door itself had recognized Iye, It opened itself for her.
Creakkk
The door creaked open, scraping against the wooden floor, the sound bleeding to her ears.
'For your ability to still be unknown even though the trials could figure out how your ability works before you could even tell you had one…. can not mean anything else but that'
She stepped inside, ready to juice out any knowledge that Cale had on the off chance it was wrong, an idea she entertained just in case.
"..."
Silence permeated and pushed onto the chilly room.
'To have your ability unknown means that you are'
Powerless is what you were, you could not have any sort of power accept you fully and settle within you.
Everyone in the world is born with at least one insight, but there are cases of people having powers that do not suit their bodies.
That, was borrowed power, power that couldn't grow and remained in a stationery state, power that couldn't become unique to the individual no matter what.
Power that could only be loaned from a God.
'The power itself is also niche and barely usable in a practical sense'
Furthermore solidifying that such talentless trash was not fit to be even considered to be the top of Gardenia, even if given the chance Cale would surely die in the first practical exam.
'There must be something more'
That is of course unless Cale were just that incredible, after all, an ordinary person wouldn't be able to pass the trial, highlighting Cale's case even more in the spotlight.
But Iye was wrong, moronically so.
The room betrayed all of her thoughts.
"What….Is this?"
A disturbing scene painted in her vision.
The blood stained window filtered the light, taking on a bright red hue that only highlighted the unease she felt.
She was not scared, however chills kept shooting down her spine.
The walls were covered in blood, blood filled with pain.
An entire puddle of despair was vomited on the floor.
On the frames and on the pane of the blood stained window were hand prints, broken pieces of teeth littered the floor, with some fragments of the skull also being there.
All blood and fragments of bone pointed to one collapsed sinister pained and grinning figure whose body pointed at the window, as if seeking the twisted and distorted light that streamed and pierced through the window.
The light, though twisted, was the only source of light in the room.
How could one stop themselves from reaching out to it?
Was it not simple human nature to grasp and stare at the light that filled one's world?
But such a twisted light should never be grasped.
For that was greed.
And while greed allows us humans to achieve something purely with our ambition.
Sometimes, it becomes our downfall, a despairing slope with no return.
Corrupting our very own pure being.
That…Was the start of endless cycle of madness.