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The corridor outside the gymnasium is shadowed and still, the usual student clamor hushed into whispers as a path clears around three figures. Professor Tomioka stands rigidly beside the double doors, his icy stare slicing through the residual chatter. Nearby, Professor Sanemi shuffles through a sheaf of mathematics exercises, his severe expression unmoved. A few paces away, Professor Obanai adjusts his spectacles, the pale serpent Kabarumaru draped around his wrist like a living bracelet. As one, their attention turns and lands on you, and the very air seems to grow dense and heavy. What brings you here, you?