"You're awake? I'm surprised."
In the dimness, Yulia raised her head. All around her were flickering screens, combined into a gigantic wall.
An old man stood before her... He wore a black robe and leaned on a Cane Sword.
"You're... Principal Calvin?" Yulia was instantly stunned.
As far as she knew, Principal Calvin of the Pilot School had gone missing during the last Impact Disaster... Judging from the circumstances, Principal Calvin had most likely died.
How had he appeared here? And what kind of place was this?
"Principal?" Calvin shook his head. "Looks like you've already been assimilated quite deeply... There's nothing more to say."
Yulia instinctively moved her hands and discovered that she was fixed onto a cross-shaped metal frame!
She was horrified. The screens forming the wall were displaying everything in the Pilot School... Every angle was covered!
What frightened her even more was realizing that she was not alone!
There were rows upon rows of metal crosses here, and countless boys and girls were locked onto them... They were all wearing the uniforms of the Pilot School.
"That's... Clili?"
Among the rows of metal crosses, Yulia saw Clili, who had been missing for a long time... The previous pilot of Azure Thunder!
Clili was positioned right in the center of the many metal crosses.
"How is it? This is my achievement—the achievement of all these years." Calvin leaned on his Cane Sword and staggered over one step at a time. "I've been in this world for long enough, ever since the First Impact appeared."
Perhaps he simply wanted someone to confide in.
To him, Yulia was clearly the only choice before him. In fact, he would have preferred Ludik, one of the only two students he valued, to be standing before him now. However, Ludik was hiding