The concrete underneath their feet hummed with power; a couple of windows nearby rattled in their frame. Kaito, his patience nearly spent, turned to face Mayumi.

"Forget subtle. Look, Yamashiro-sensei. Izumi's little sister, Ren's sister, and my parents have been taken. We know for a fact my parents were taken by bonafide monsters. Now, I'm not a veteran superhero, but I'm no bystander, either. So I'm getting my friends together to help me. We're gonna track down the thing or things which did this. We're going to get our family members out safely. And then?"

His eyes glittered with a dark intensity.

"We're going to make the monsters afraid of us."

He all but glared at the teacher.

"So get out of the way, or help. But we're not coming back to school until they're safe."