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Lecture Hall
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Let's see, who else could we hit up...? |
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Why, hello there! Is that Roi de sa Chambre I see? |
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Eep...! S-s-sorry to like, be in the same space as you... |
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Wow, you're actually here in person. That's rare. Where's Orthy? |
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Oh, um, uhh... My brother, he, ah... |
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Now that he's officially enrolled as a freshman, he can't come to class with me unless it's a special joint lesson. |
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Oh yeah. I know the freshmen in my dorm were pretty surprised when a humanoid popped up in their class. |
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Uh-huh... So, what does the Heartslabyul-Pomefiore extrovert squad want with me? |
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We were curious what our famed technomantic engineering savant would be doing for an internship. I'm guessing you would apply to a research institute related to engineering? |
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Ugh... So you're just gonna casually pry into my very personal future plans, huh? I can't even with you guys... |
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Relax, no need to get defensive. We're not forcing you to share anything. |
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Then maybe don't talk to me in the first place. There's no point in me being at this orientation anyway. It's a complete waste of time. The headmage was all like... Just because you've already received an informal internship offer doesn't mean I'll give you a special exception. Seriously now... |
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Wait, you got an OFFER?! |
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I thought Leona was fast, but you've got him beat. |
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I got a few internship offers after my research presentation at the culture fair, actually. I was gonna turn them all down... But one of them was a Night Raven College affiliate, so I just picked that one for my internship. |
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If you've already been in contact with them, then that explains how you got an offer so fast. So, who did you go with? Let me guess—Styx, with your parents? |
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Nope. In fact, my parents told me not to come back home for a while. The whole incident I caused was resolved internally in the Island of Woe... But unsurprisingly, a lot of places have been hounding them to take responsibility for things. ...And by them, I mean the director—my dad. |
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Makes sense. Footage of Styx busting into Night Raven College has been making the rounds on Magicam. |
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One tiny fraction of what Styx does leaked. That doesn't make Styx any less mysterious for most people. So that's why the press has gone into a feeding frenzy and is trying to unearth all its secrets. Some call it "a heroic organization that protects the world from the shadows"... While others claim it's "a sinister syndicate that endangers peace with diabolical experiments." Pfft, they just make up whatever they want. Like, don't they have anything better to do? Couldn't they cover some REAL stories? |
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When something's a secret, people wanna know about it. That's just human nature, unfortunately. |
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Anyway, this campus is on a remote island and only opens to outsiders on special occasions... ...Which means it's the perfect place for the "mastermind" of the incident to lie low for a while. Or at least, that's the diplomatic way to say they're off-loading a nuisance. |
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Heh heh. I can sense the deep affection your parents must hold for you. |
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I dunno about that. They came down ultra-hard on me when they got back after everything was over. I don't think they've yelled at me that bad since I was eight. See, I took a robotic vacuum cleaner... ...And tricked it out into a drone with a technomantic beam cannon that followed me around. It totally wrecked the living room. I mean, I'm grateful they helped get Ortho enrolled here, but man... |
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Haha! Wow, so even you've gotten scolded by your parents, huh? |
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Wut. What are you implying? It happens pretty regularly, tbh. They've also done things like take away my power cables when I've been gaming too much... |
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For real? Oh man, that's classic. Your family is much more relatable than I thought, y'know? |
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Uh... No, I don't know. Considering where they're from, I'm p. sure their relatability stat's a flat zero... |
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Nonetheless, your parents were supportive of Ortho enrolling here and of your own internship plans, were they not? |
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I GUESS... I mean, at least they advised me not to go into the service industry. Said I'd be a bad fit. |
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And that's advice they gave to you personally, regardless of the current circumstances. ...So, where ARE you going? |
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...Olympos Inc. |
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Olympos, as in, the search engine company with the most popular OS in the world?! |
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The number one hardest company to get a job at?! |
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Uh, yeah. I'll be working as a software engineer at their head office in the Kingdom of Heroes. |
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YO! That is SICK! Olympos' head office has that ultra-chic cafe, right? Oh, I am the JELLIEST! |
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I dunno much about that. I haven't visited there yet...and I could never go to a cafe anyway. |
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Wow... You guys are all so incredible. I actually feel kinda small in comparison. |
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