"Oh ho. In other words, School was nothing more than the stepping stone to finding what it was that you needed in order to become even more powerful?" Yeah, she could easily see how that could happen. Most of these academies she ever heard were so restrictive, though admittedly she was too free in her own methods.

"Well it didn't help that they were what she thought a protector was supposed to be. Not a pet, but someone to fight the monsters. It made them more like spirits than actual cats. I doubt he really understood that. The inspector seemed... unaware of many things." To put it mildly.