Mistaken for a Suspicious Professor (2)

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Eshenwald Academy, the Garden of Stars.

Centuries ago, this garden of learning, founded by the emperor in his own name, had embraced the fleeting youth of countless heroes.

Great thinkers, successive captains of the Imperial Knights, tower lords of the Magic Tower, even cardinals.

Children blessed with the talents of stars passed through this academy,

and here, they would often kindle their own starlight.

Of course, not everyone possessed the talent of a star, and not all of them came here with such noble intentions.

There were many who, though they could never become stars themselves, nevertheless forced their way in here just to build connections with those stars.

— ‘Eshenwald Academy alumnus.’

No wonder there was a joke that if you could fill the first line of a tombstone with that one line, the rest of the epitaph would write itself...