The last remaining students of Shiroichi, against all odds, were trying to return to some semblance of the [Perfectly Normal] lives they'd enjoyed before the Flying Monkey attack. If only because they still needed merit points to fill the ever-growing voids in their stomachs. Even whilst many were still grieving the tragic loss of their schoolmates.
As CITA was being dragged along by Akari, she observed them: dragging their feet through the halls, looking lost and forlorn as they went through the same, tired old motions they were accustomed to.
These were regular acquaintances with whom she'd lived among, while undercover, ever since all this business first started. Ever since she'd learned that all of what once was the Ivory Quarter had been mysteriously wiped out; replaced by a High School, the former city's inhabitants gone forever.
