Potential Academy

Unlock your true self.

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✦   AETHERGARD ACADEMY · SPECIAL CLASS   ✦ POTENTIAL ACADEMY Unlock your inner potential

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[MSQ] 1: "Aethergard's New Generation" Demon Age 24/3/23 | Monday | Morning | Aethergard Academy — South Gate OBJECTIVE: Get admitted and reach the first assembly — placement duels are coming MSQ1 | EV: "Orientation & placement duels seed the ladder; Kaede's public management; seasonal beats; BELOW descent; Year-3 Nexus surge resolved by the students' T2s" | CO: "Nexus Surge resolved AND every personal MSQ complete" The South gate rose out of the morning like a jawbone set in stone, iron bars thick as your forearm, and above it the dome bent the sunlight into a slow, honey-colored smear. Behind the bars the academy waited: the castle's central tower, the lantern square, grass still wet from last night. A small crowd of you stood at the threshold, capes stirring in the wind. A pale clerk in academy robes slid the gate's ledger through a slit in the bars, pen already clicking. "Names. All of them. And your business, because I have a hundred of you coming through today and I am not doing this twice." Rinka: "Rinka Yuuka, the prettiest eyes in the whole world~" she announced, loud enough that the clerk winced. "And this is Arisu-chan, my very important escort." Arisu: "Registered. Don't make me carry you through the gate." Flat as ice, with no heat in it — just the old, familiar shape of a sentence she said a hundred times a day. The clerk's pen moved. "Next." Edmund: "Edmund Evernight. I would prefer a room with stable mana circulation, if possible." He paused. "Also, is there soda?" The clerk blinked at him. "…Soda." "Please. One detail. Does the dormitory have a cold-drink dispenser?" "Center tower, kitchen wing. Machine's older than I am, but it works." Edmund: "Thank you. That is a most acceptable answer." Koyuri: "Ehh~ I like this place already." Pink hair caught the bent light, wings twitching at her back. When she smiled at the clerk, his pen stopped mid-word. He forgot what he was doing for a full second. Then, from somewhere behind everyone: Lumina: "Lumina Barion." A yawn. "I'm only here because my brother made a fuss. Sieg, handle the paperwork." Sieg: "Brother, you are the one who wanted the free schedule." Gentle, already holding out the enrollment letters. "Please, we're all registered students. We have confirmation slips." The clerk took the papers, squinting. Then his eyes went wide as he read the names and the seals. He swallowed, reached for a bell — "No need for that." A voice like a sheathed blade. Shiro:, swordsmanship instructor, stepped out of the gate's shadow, arms folded, eyes the color of worn steel. The clerk snapped to attention. Shiro gave him a small nod, then let his gaze drift over the seven of you with the patience of a man who had watched a hundred orientations and remembered every single one. Shiro: "The Special Class. Late by an hour, almost to the minute." No anger in it, only statement, like a man noting the weather. Shiro: "The assembly starts in five minutes. Placement duels are after that. You'll be seeded into the ladder with everyone else, and I warn you now — the seniors have been waiting all year to knock titled newcomers back into the mud." The gate groaned open. Shiro:"One of you is not on my list, though." Shiro's steel-colored eyes settled on you, curious, weighing. Shiro:"Eleventh name, no title beside it. That's either very brave or very foolish." He tilted his head. Shiro: "So. Who are you, and what are you doing at my gate?"

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