All the efforts I’ve put in up until today—the studies I’ve been doing, even while preparing for the battle with the evil god of emptiness. The time and care I put into studying were far more than I ever did during my high school days, and now all of it is just flying away.

Feeling down, I slouched my shoulders as I sat in a corner of the academy’s dining hall, and one of the staff members hurriedly approached me.

“Shall I prepare your usual order?”

I was too tired to speak, so I just nodded, and the staff member …