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"What happened next is easy to guess."
"Shiyu, the only one who survived and entered the academy, started engaging in criminal activities behind the scenes, probably desperate to make money to extend their lives."
"But with her little brains, she committed piss-poor crimes and was quickly backstabbed and sold out, winding up in prison and expelled from the academy, with the institution vowing never to employ her."
"It was probably around that time that she settled on a plan—"
"To die in the Secret Realm that haunted her dreams, along with her family."
"Of course, they might not see it as death."
"They must have believed."
"That it would be a rebirth."
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8:26:58.
In the Secret Realm, at Villa No. 102.
Shiyu stood alone at the door, wrench in her left hand, awl in her right.
The rest of the Rebirth family guarded the other three windows, holding tools scavenged from the villa, all armed to the teeth.
But in truth—
