Compared to the Senior Professor puppets from before, this Vice Dean was clearly a cut above in everything from his title to his room and coffin.
Even someone as slow on the uptake as Lilia knew this thing had to be much stronger than those earlier puppets.
But the Doll Girl, with her ability to resurrect endlessly, had never known fear. She immediately entered this different room in excitement.
As Lilia entered, the doors around the room sealed automatically, the lid of the metal coffin in the center slid open on its own, and a glittering golden puppet stood up.
"So this is Vice Dean Jinpika?"
Lin Yuan observed through Lilia's eyes and unexpectedly discovered that he remembered this Vice Dean.
He was one of the people who had lived the longest among that group of survivors.
In Little Black's memories, most of the survivors had failed to last ten years after the academy's catastrophe.
Only five people had survived beyond that point, and Jinpika was among them.
Of those five survivors, three, including Jinpika, had died one after another after thirty years.
One had lived for a hundred years.
The last was the designer of the "Ark" series. Alone, he had held on for who knew how many more years, walking the final stretch of his life in solitude.
Lin Yuan had not thought much of this before, but now that he had seen Jinpika, he noticed a problem.
Thinking back, all the Senior Professors he had encountered earlier had died within the first decade.
Jinpika was a Vice Dean, a cut above in strength, so he had lasted thirty years.
By that reasoning, the other two who had died around the same time as Jinpika were most likely also at the Vice Dean level.
The one who had