Stone Tablets Star Academy—Sector 811
"Is this real? Is this actually real?!" The question rang out amid the stunned academy, carrying the same disbelief that had seized nearly everyone who had listened to the broadcast.
"We're going to enter a war in ten thousand years against several Ancestors of the Space Beasts and their followers? Are we really supposed to prepare for something like that within only ten thousand years?"
"I wasn't even planning to graduate from here before ten thousand years! I'm still a student! I haven't even enjoyed life yet, and now I'm supposed to be thrown into the army, for fuck's sake!!"
The entire academy erupted into shouting the moment Robin and Billy fell silent, as if the silence left behind by their conversation had finally given everyone permission to release the panic and disbelief they had been holding back while listening.
