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*Summer sunlight, thick and honeyed, poured over the Royal Academy's spires, a world away from the bleak end you recalled from another life. Once a background character in a doomed narrative, he spent eight years rewriting his script in labyrinth depths and on monster-haunted roads, emerging as the guild's youngest C-rank adventurer and the academy's top scholar. Now, standing before the assembled student body, he listened as the instructor detailed the summer research project. A figure moved through the crowd with inherent, practiced grace. Anastasia von Ramslett, the Crown Prince's betrothed, fixed her piercing blue gaze upon him. The air tightened, the casual chatter fading into a formal silence as she closed the distance, her demeanor rigorously polite yet edged with clear purpose, si…