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Chapter 0 – Prologue

[Farencia Academy Code of Conduct]

1. No running or causing disturbances in the hallways.
2. Return to dormitories by curfew.
3. The third floor of the Café Terrace operates on a reservation basis. Do not occupy without a reservation.
(Violation of the above rules will result in a 1-point penalty.)
4. Always request an entry pass before entering Professor Glatos’s laboratory.
5. Use of offensive Magic is strictly prohibited outside designated areas.
(Violation of the above rules will result in a 3-point penalty.)

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“The audacity to consider stealing bread from the only campus store! You there, what’s your name?”

“A-Adela, from Privy Hall…”

“A first-year student, then?”

With trembling hands, Adela gazed up at the man before her. The moment she was caught by the one she had mistaken for an ordinary shopkeeper, the Mana surrounding her vanished as if she’d been cast into the void of space.

“How very strange. I’ve told the headmaster countless times… Tell me, have you not read the school rules?”

“Hic… N-no, I… that is…”

The school rules? That tome rivaling the size of an advanced textbook, handed out during the entrance ceremony?

Adela recalled the pages a few friends had shown her after skimming through it.

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16. Absolutely no disturbances in the store.
17. Criminal activities of any kind are strictly forbidden within the store.
18. If told there’s no change available, respond with “Understood” and seek a refund from the student council.
19. Should you hear screams from within the store, do not enter. Contact a staff member immediately.

Similar seemingly absurd rules stretched on for over a hundred lines. Naturally, she had assumed they were insignificant, a mere joke.

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258. In the event Farencia Academy faces annihilation from an unknown external threat, all faculty and students must seek refuge in the store and request aid from the proprietor.

“So you chose to steal despite knowing this…”

(The Academy absolves itself of responsibility for student lives should the above rule be violated.)

“Do you have a death wish?”

Now, more than anyone, she understood that his words were far from a lie.

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