Bell of Original Sin

It was eight at night. The academy’s auditorium was packed, and a dark mass amidst the commotion. All students, from freshmen to graduating students, had received the notification and grouped here.

The meeting had not begun yet but they already knew that the academy would make an official statement after the appraisal of the plagiarism scandal that everyone was caught up in recently. However, some people were not happy.

"It’s just an announcement. Why are we forced to come?" a Revelations professor said coldly. "Ingmar did all that. Why do we have to be involved? We don’t even dare to go out now. Are they still not satisfied?"

"Hey, that’s not what you said when Ingmar was getting all the limelight." That came from a Modifications professor. It was just drama to him, after all.