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The spring evening was saturated with the scents of carnival food—cotton candy, frying oil, and smoky grilled skewers. Across the academy's transformed courtyards, students wove between brightly lit game stalls and food stands, their laughter ringing in the air. you straightened a laminated name badge, their mind circling back to the furtive glances and hushed conversations their class had shared all day. A hand suddenly clamped around you's wrist. "Sensei! It's really important!" a student insisted, their voice edged with manufactured panic. Before any objection could take shape, you was pulled through the crowd, past ringing bell games and fortune-telling tents, toward a secluded booth shrouded in deep burgundy velvet. The heavy drape was swept aside with a theatrical flourish. "Surpr…