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@Libri-Liberorum said in Mercedes and the Waning Moon Vol. 4 Discussion!:
While the empire had promised to keep the academy's doors open, Beatrix had apprently planned to remove the female students and use the school as an isolation facility. Mercedes had confirmed this with Beatrix herself.
I am utterly perplexed by this paragraph. I can't connect anything in it to the context of the rest of the story. The empire doesn't run the academy, why are they promising to keep its doors open? They don't send students, so how can the female students be removed? How does removing them turn it into an isolation facility? Who is being isolated?