The old application in the first applicant's hand was still unopened during the second reading period after the second line's confirmation.
The sheet was pressed beside the history column of the internal form, its creases deepening.
Hirata first checked the application's source and date.
"This was a preparatory application from before the official notice."
"Yes," the first applicant replied.
"Will you still use it today?"
She did not answer immediately, looking first at the public form.
It read:
`The official notice has arrived; personal fields must be checked within the individual's own scope`
The second line's internal review had already been left in her own record column.
The first line had not copied that action onto her own application.
"If I keep using the old application, people will think I've already confirmed the new scope."
"You can confirm it again," Gu Heng said.
"Or you can abandon the old application first."
She looked up. "If I abandon it, does the preparation I did before still count?"
"The record remains," Hirata replied.
"But it will no longer be used in the current schedule."
Those words weighed more heavily than simply tearing up the application.
The first applicant moved the application page from the current schedule column to the history column.
She neither tore it up nor handed the paper to Class C.
"I withdraw my use of the old order for today."
Hirata recorded on the internal form:
`First line: the old application will no longer serve as the basis for the current schedule`
After confirming, the third line applicant added:
`This does not mean the school deducts points, nor does it mean the official project has failed`
"This stays internal only," she said.
"The public form cannot explain her loss for her."
Horikita stood before the public boundary and did