Steel steam and flame

The sound was so small that it was completely lost before it could reach the small closed room. Thinking of the whirring sound of gas burning in the kitchen, Kara began to cook some unpalatable food for her empty stomach.

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It has been many days since life returned to its previous three o'clock and one line. As the dance time gradually approaches, no matter how intense the training is, Cassia still cannot concentrate. This was an ordinary meeting, just like the farewell to my mother and sister when I left the small town, but there was something in my heart that I couldn't let go of.

Turning off the hot water switch, Cassia wiped the water off her body with a towel. In the mirror was a slightly chubby face. The weight and fat lost during the mission have been completely replenished in the past few days since returning to the military school. Many of the angular lines have disappeared, and the youthfulness is fading away from his face. My skin isn't rough, but it's not good either. I don't have much of a beard. I follow the rule of getting my hair styled once a month. It's very short.

After putting on her clothes and shoes, Cassia took the bank card and password card on the table, as well as a letter with a detailed address, and left the dormitory room.

I quickly walked down to the seventh-floor dormitory. It was now around 9:30 in the evening. The sky was very dark. It was the thick clouds that shrouded Manoma. It was probably going to rain.

Three more days have passed since the three agreements were signed, and the dance is four nights later. Yesterday, Ye Jielin and Atuohuan summoned people from the alliance to come over and hold a small meeting, partly to see how many people survived, and partly to promise to bring these people into their alliance.

It is destined that a small half of them will never be able to wait for the day when the benefits promised by Ye Jielin are redeemed. The specific data of this mission has been roughly calculated. The attrition rate of Samsung College is neither high nor low, just half. The two-star academy is slightly higher, reaching about 60%. The number of students dropped sharply, and just when the tasks of the two-star and three-star colleges ended, the practical tasks of the one-star college also began. Faced with the same first-class and second-class military tasks, how many of them could come back alive? The military school passed the previous data from the second- and third-class colleges, and roughly estimated their corresponding attrition rate.

Come to the Golden Bank again, where you can go through mailing procedures. Because of the money distributed by Ye Jielin, Kasia can send back more money so that her mother and sister can live a better life. Although there is still no ability for them to move out of the small city in the rear of the empire to the nearest city.

It took a lot of time to do this, and Cassia went to the school store to buy a bottle of black ink and a lot of white paper. After thinking about something and seeing that there were no current arrangements, I went to the library of the military school.

After coming to the military school for so long, this is the first time Cassia has come here.

Although the building with a circular structure cannot escape the steel frame, the outer body of the building has circles of laminated wooden boards, like a withered old tree stump.

There was no one around, and the management staff on the side did not look at Cassia from the beginning to the end. They were all focused on the book in front of him. Inside are rows of bookshelves, with a table on the side, and the various areas divided into the library are listed on it.

After finding the book where the steam machinery and weapons were located, Cassia wrote down the route and walked there.

An hour later, he came out disappointed. He didn't find the answer he wanted first. The pneumatic weapon in Nolida's hand was not recorded in it, or his current identity and authority were still not enough. When he wanted to enter the second floor of the library, he was stopped.

She wanted to go back and ask Ye Jielin, but Cassia gave up after thinking about it. The pneumatic battle ax was in Kara's hand, and he didn't want to get involved in Kara's affairs because of his curiosity.

"There are still four days." On the way back, Cassia said alone.

The next day, it was the same high-intensity training life. It's just that something else is added to this regular life, which is the learning and practice of ballroom dancing. The dance is not far away, and ballroom dancing is an essential part of the dance. Cassia wanted to sneak away quietly at the dance, and this time was the best opportunity. But in order to prevent accidents, a little common sense in ballroom dancing is also needed.

Most students in military schools come from noble families, and in two- and three-star colleges, the proportion is even higher. They learned all these things when they were children, along with the basic qualities of aristocrats. The current exercises are all reviewing previous knowledge.

Of course, the person in charge of Cassia's ballroom dance learning and practice is Ye Jielin. Maybe only Ye Jielin is in the mood to be Cassia's ballroom dance teacher.

It took most of the day to hum the dance music with her mouth. With her excellent control skills and dexterous body, Cassia completely memorized the not-so-complex dance steps in her mind.

The dress was the one prepared by the Military School long before Cassia entered the school. Cassia declined Ye Jielin's proposal to make a new ball gown for him. Ye Jielin didn't force it and didn't say anything else.

All that remains is to wait.

The first is to wait for the detailed notice about the dance issued by the military school. It is said that there will be such a dance after every mission, which is intended to enhance the connection and feelings between students of every college in the school. Because most tasks are randomly assigned to candidates based on their strength, and as the number of tasks increases, the number of people who can survive each task will become smaller and smaller. Everyone may get to know each other in future missions. The purpose of the military school's dance is to slightly advance the process of getting to know each other.

The second is also waiting, but it turns into waiting for the time to come and the opportunity to slip away at the dance. Ye Jielin will cover for herself at the dance, and as long as she is careful, there shouldn't be any problems.

On the afternoon of the third day, the metal wall cracked as everyone expected, and a piece of printing paper was spat out. The general meaning of the words written on it with hot ink is easy to understand.

The dance started at 5 p.m. in the lobby on the top floor of the Empire Victory Building, and was picked up and dropped off by a special bus from the Military School. The ban on going out was still not lifted after the mission ended. Management also requires everyone to wear formal evening attire and learn social dance steps in advance, as well as a host of standard etiquette rules.

At the end of this narrative text, there is a line of text introducing who participated in the dance. All the two- and three-star colleges in this phase of the military school are on it. But in addition to these, there is another school's name, and the ink that writes its name is still warm - Saint Dorag Theological Seminary.