Yukino's hands trembled as she held the photo.
Ren frowned. "Wait, that's Kael, right? The Headmaster's top student?"
Iris's eyes narrowed. "No… this file's over fifty years old."
Fifty years.
But the boy in the picture hadn't aged a day.
> "What are you?" Yukino whispered.
Suddenly, the file disintegrated into dust—erased by a spell.
A voice echoed through the archive.
> "Unauthorized access detected. Security mages dispatched."
They barely escaped before the wards sealed the entrance.
That night, Yukino couldn't sleep.
Every time she closed her eyes, she saw Kael's face—
and the haunting feeling that she'd already known him,
somewhere, sometime before.