The Academy's library wasn't just a place for books.
Beneath its marble floors lay archives older than the kingdom itself.
Yukino, curious about her pendant's reaction the previous night,
snuck inside after curfew with Ren and Iris.
Ren muttered, "If we get caught, we're dead."
"Then don't get caught," Iris replied coldly.
As they descended the spiral staircase, faint runes began glowing along the walls.
At the very bottom, a sealed steel door pulsed with a strange symbol—
the same one on Yukino's pendant.
She reached out. The metal shimmered, then melted away like water.
Inside—
a single file rested on a pedestal.
Its label read:
> PROJECT BLOOM – SUBJECT 02
And there, clipped to the page,
was a photograph of the golden-eyed boy.