Sakuramoria

The day continued to get better and better. Not only was there an assassination attempt, but nine troublemakers decided to quietly slip away from the academy, while the others seemed to be covering for them. Soon, it will probably turn out that Ladia is not Ladia at all, but a thousand-year-old Lilyan sorceress who enrolled here just to alleviate her boredom and is only pretending to be a dim-witted, cowardly slacker. That's why she didn't sign up for the Tournaments – so as not to accidentally reveal her phenomenal magical power. In fact, given the madness happening at NAILS, the runaways could be understood... assuming they actually ran away and weren't captured by yet another member of the insane royal family. It felt like Levisia was the only mentally healthy person in this family, or was very good at pretending to be a healthy person. Apparently, she was lucky with her genetics. Or maybe she isn't the biological daughter of her official father, which is why she avoided the fate of other Starling blood relatives. Or perhaps almost every well-known Leile Starling has lost their mind because the events happening at NAILS are something normal for them. Under such circumstances, losing one's sanity would not be surprising. One way or another, it was clear in the current situation that nothing was clear. There was some kind of lead from Dinorsis, but without additional information, it was of little use. It was clearly not enough to disprove the obvious – the disappearance of the students and the assassination attempt on Futabu did not happen by chance and followed one another. And here is the disciplinary committee – they missed the attack first, and then the disappearance of their comrades. The retired General Mandragore should shed a meager soldier's tear – it was his school, there's no other way to put it. And Varvara also ran off somewhere, presumably to personally report the lack of findings to Futabu. She was probably proud of her imaginary position as the king's confidante.