The student's face went pale when he saw that it was Noah standing there. His eyes widened, and for a moment, he froze in the doorway.
"T- The Reaper," he stammered.
Noah raised an eyebrow. "Are you Jon?"
The student swallowed, his Adam's apple bobbing.
"Y- yeah," he said, voice small now. "I'm Jon. You're… you're that guy from the hero summoning, right? The one they call the—"
"I'm just here to ask you a few questions," Noah cut him off evenly. "About your friend. Clark."
Jon blinked, his confusion giving way to unease. "Clark?"
"The one who went missing," Noah clarified.
Jon hesitated, hand tightening on the doorknob. His suspicion was clear. "Why do you want to know?"
"I think I speak for both of us when I say we all want to know what happened to him," Noah said calmly. "You were the one who discovered he was gone, weren't you?"
Jon hesitated again, but finally nodded. "Yeah. I… I was the one who noticed."
