"It's this building, Adrian."
Benjamin and I walked up the stairs through a dormitory building that we had entered. In the process, I reviewed everything I had heard from him.
In short, after the incident, when the nobles started pulling their children out of the academy, the 'powerful' bullies lost many of their members. As a result, the commoners who had stayed at the academy were suddenly emboldened and formed a group, and since the other students who had the power to stop them, like Julian and Lucia, were with their families, the academy was left to... this group.
The group was primarily a benevolent one, a group whose purpose was to support others, but with the change of a few people who could be called the head of this group, this purpose slowly began to change.