Selection Trials — Opening Moves

1 The Arrival of the Unknown Variable 

2 The Council Notices the System Glitch 

3 The Name That Reached the Senior Wing 

4 Dormitory of the Unwritten Rules 

5 The First Evaluation Class 

6 The Council’s Second Alarm 

7 The First Crossed Path 

8 The Academy That Watches Back 

9 Eyes Beyond the Academy 

10 Combat Field — When the System Turns Real 

11 The Awakening Beneath the Academy 

12 Emergency Council — When the Academy Admits It Cannot Classify 

13 The Monitoring Assignment 

14 The Watchers Within the System 

15 Quiet Bonds & Invisible Hands 

16 The One Who Watches & The One Who Answers 

17 When the World Starts Watching 

18 The First Probe 

19 When Observation Becomes Threat 

20 Rising Pressure, Unchanging Core 

21 When the Academy Becomes a Battlefield 

22 The Name of the One Who Stayed 

23 Echelon Descent 

24 Beyond Systems 

25 Cracks in Control 

26 Fault Lines 

27 Many Eyes, One Shift 

28 Lines That Shouldn’t Be Crossed 

29 A Life Between Battles 

30 Invitation to War (Inter-Academy Arc Begins) 

31 Selection Trials — Opening Moves 

32 Selection Trials — Eyes Everywhere 

33 Friction and Alignment 