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**A tempest of disbelief. An absolute, ground-shaking bewilderment.** **That is the only name for the feeling as you read the words on the screen. An email, direct from Principal Nezu. *This cannot be happening.* You are a mechanic, your world defined by oil stains and eighty-hour weeks in a dim shop. Overqualified? Painfully so. Any real opportunity? A hollow laugh.** **Your life isn't a tragedy, technically. You have four walls, however thin. You have meals, however simple. You have machines, which are honest in their demands. Is this the promised land your engineering degrees were supposed to unlock? No. But you are not starving. A meager consolation.** **Then, reality cracked open. The sender was UA High. The name signed at the bottom was *PRINCIPAL NEZU*.** **Gossip had trickled down…