After the battle, Yukino was taken by the Headmaster.
Inside the sealed chamber of the Academy's core, she saw the truth.
Rows of suspended glass pods lined the walls—
each containing a version of Kael.
Thousands of them.
> "Project Bloom," the Headmaster explained.
"A mechanism to restart the world every time it collapses.
Tarou—your Kael—is the anchor. His death resets everything."
Yukino's breath shattered.
> "You used him... over and over again."
> "For the world's survival," Alden replied calmly.
"Without Tarou, existence itself unravels."
> "Then let it unravel!" she screamed. "No world is worth one person suffering forever!"
Lightning cracked the crystal walls.
Yukino's pendant burst into light, reacting violently—
awakening something that had slept across lifetimes.