"Haah…" sighed a young man with dark black hair and green eyes, manifesting a huge sword as he pulled it out of its scabbard and began walking.
'I need to find Janika, but before that…' he thought, already planning his next move.
According to the future he had seen—or at least fragments of it—this was the moment he first made connections with a certain girl he would later claim as his own. Well, at least until that idiot destroyed his life.
'I have to find and save Lyla, just like before,' he thought, already creating a mental map of all he needed to do before the exams reached their conclusion.
'But while I'm at it… I have to find and kill that bastard, Amael.'
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In a spacious chamber, roughly twenty instructors and teachers were seated. A long, imposing table dominated the center of the room, around which they all gathered, creating an atmosphere that resembled a corporate board meeting. All eyes were fixed on the headmistress at the far end of the table.
