The Paradox of Freedom (1)

Arien Academy stood in a neutral zone.

The neutral zone was where the talents who would lead the three nations of the southern continent gathered. It should have been a place of the utmost freedom, yet paradoxically, those who came there grew narrow-minded.

Unable to rely on their family names or the customs they knew, they made up for it by gathering with people who shared their culture. In doing so, they naturally became part of a familiar order.

In the end,

rather than bringing about diverse changes through exchanges between the three nations, groups that followed those nations’ power structures sprang up even within the neutral zone.

Paradoxically,

because that was the safest way.

So each department was naturally influenced by the countries its cadets came from. Everything was, including the faculty.

“...”

‘No matter how the Sun God guaranteed the neutral zone’s authority, the cadets and faculty would eventually return to their own homelands...’...