While the two youths from New Team Plasma were still wracking their brains over how to get acquainted with Orre's new generation,
Rosa had already passively completed the task of making twenty friends.
The students of Pyrite Town were exceptionally warm toward her. Not only would they take the initiative to greet her when they ran into her, they would occasionally invite Rosa to join them.
Unfortunately, she turned them down every time.
That was because it did not quite align with Rosa's habitually low-key way of dealing with people.
The students of Pyrite Town were not bothered by this. Their past experiences had certainly made them accustomed to huddling together for warmth, but they did not reject anyone who chose to remain independent.
After all, wasn't Baimu exactly like that?
He seemed closely connected to the residents of Azure Iridium Street, yet he still maintained an independent life.
As someone the people of Pyrite Town deeply admired, his presence made the town's younger generation unconsciously strive to learn from and imitate him.
This also made Pyrite Town the city in Orre closest in atmosphere to the mainstream regions.
The others, even if they were not Silicon Beryllium City, retained at least some influence from the previous generation.
At present, New Team Plasma's second generation and Orre's new generation had been separated by regional factors into two clearly distinct groups, neither interfering with the other.
The overall situation seemed stable, but if left unchecked, it would sooner or later brew into a massive storm.
Sticking together was not itself a major problem. The key was that the two groups were divided far too distinctly.
Baimu finally understood why Naranja Academy recruited students from every corner of the world.
Compared to his worries, however, Alder believed that the students needed to