Miss Danist raised a hand, and the teacup floated toward her:
"The unclear ownership of the Academy's assets and management rights is certainly strange, but not many people know about it, and it does not affect the Academy's normal operations.
The ancient Academy rules are Saint Byrens Comprehensive College's most fundamental regulations.
Normally, even without the visit from the two headmasters this time, you would learn about the management rights and ownership after inheriting my position in the future. And it is not just us—Zaras Academy of Literature and Serkses Higher Medical Academy also have substantial shares of management rights and ownership whose status has remained unclear for a long time."
Shade frowned.
"May I ask when this situation began? The Fifth Epoch, or the Sixth Epoch?"
"Shade, I have no way to answer that question. The Academy's successive headmasters have all investigated it, but we have to admit that too much information has been lost."
Shade's intuition told him that this was definitely abnormal, but what concerned Miss Danist was not what Shade was pondering:
"Since you happen to be here, let me explain. Although, according to Academy regulations, most of the wealth accumulated from your ownership over the past several thousand years has been invested in the Academy's expansion and various construction projects, aside from fixed assets that cannot currently be liquidated, you still have a large amount of liquid capital at the Academy that can be mobilized at any time.
Of course, I would not recommend withdrawing all of it."
She told Shade a number. It was enough to build another Moon Bay Bridge.
"Do you have any plans for this property? Your ownership of it is written into Saint Byron's most fundamental underlying regulations, so there is no need to worry that the Academy will conceal