After half a century— year 650 After Coronation.
Young Sector 99—
Inside a vast, empty chamber that contained nothing except a massive desk piled high with stacks upon stacks of books and tablets—so many that the room, by sheer size alone, could have easily housed an entire palace. The lighting was gentle, neither harsh nor dim, creating a calm, steady atmosphere. Behind that mountain of documents sat a young woman, barely visible from between the towers of paper.
A brown-haired girl wearing glasses, her hair tied neatly in a ponytail—this was Emily, the Lady of the Headquarters. In the middle of that overwhelming stillness, she stared deeply at the thick book in front of her, eyes narrowed in total concentration.
"…Aaah~ It's impossible!"
After hours of flipping through page after page, she finally let her head fall onto the book with a dull thud. "No matter what I try, I can't balance the budget at all!!"
