Professors Are Proud Creatures

A few days before the first-year students’ department-selection briefing, in the professors’ conference room.

Professors rarely gathered together, but things were different today.

The scramble for prospective slaves… No, researchers.

Isabel looked around the conference room.

‘Wow, these people. They have no intention of backing down at all.’

Of course, invitations weren’t sent to every student.

Professors only slipped their invitations into the booklets of top-ranking students who showed exceptional promise.

That was why these meetings usually didn’t last very long.

‘Until last year, they never lasted more than three hours.’

Karnarof, Isabel, and Vern. Those three department heads had taken the best cards...