The order was clear. The moment the 47 surviving students were declared stable, they were thrown back into hell — not the kind with fire and screams, but cold steel, bare fists, and relentless drills. The message was obvious:
If you survived death once, be ready to face it again. Stronger. Smarter.
Valgrave Academy's instructors, once composed and proud, now stood shaken. These weren’t students anymore. These were creatures reborn from ash and blood.
“They’re not students anymore… they’re monsters molded by death,” whispered an instructor, eyeing Dorm 17 from afar.
The academy’s elite program — “Shadow Recon: Black-Class” — was launched specifically for the Shadows. Ruthless. Quiet. Deadly. The name itself became a warning.
Interval Break – Luce & Lev
Luce sat under the shadow of an old tree, eyes half-closed, his body aching but his mind oddly quiet. Lev walked over, hesitating slightly.
“Hey… Luce,” Lev said, a little sheepishly.
“Hmm?” Luce peeked with one eye open. “You look like you swallowed a grenade. What’s up?”
“Can I ask you something?” Lev sat beside him, fiddling with the grass.
“Shoot.”
“How… do you know my mom?”
Luce froze.
“She raised me,” he said softly.
“What?” Lev blinked, stunned.
“For seven years. Natalia Dragunov — your mom. She’s the strongest woman I’ve ever known… and someone I… loved more than my own life. But don’t ask me anything more than that.”
Lev didn’t push. He looked at the ground, then at Luce, and gave a small nod.
“Guess that makes us siblings, huh?”
Luce smirked. “I always wanted a younger brother who nags. Great.”
From that day on, Luce and Lev became like siblings — not by blood, but by shared love and grief.
Dorm 17 – The Infamous
Every hallway, every classroom, every damn inch of Valgrave… people either avoided Dorm 17 like a haunted plague or stared like they were watching gods descend.
They were legends. Survivors. Slightly feral.
Inside Dorm 17’s lounge, chaos was the usual.
Dev was holding a protein bar like it was a microphone. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today’s TED Talk: Why I’m still hotter than all of you despite surviving a warzone!”
Veer threw a sock at him. “Bro, your face still looks like a war crime.”
“That's because I was born in fire, baby,” Dev replied, winking at Saira — who rolled her eyes so hard they almost left orbit.
Ishaan sat cross-legged on the floor, hair half-tied, sipping tea like an old man. “Back in my day, we didn’t need protein bars to survive. Just trauma and sarcasm.”
“Shut up, Gandalf,” Erik shot back. “You screamed when that training dummy moved.”
“I THOUGHT IT WAS ALIVE,” Ishaan defended himself. “You weren't there!”
“I was there, I was the dummy,” Erik deadpanned.
Rai and Eri were arm-wrestling in the corner — again.
“Why do you guys keep doing this?” Veer asked.
“Masculine tension,” said Rai.
“Foreplay,” Eri added at the same time.
Everyone gagged.
“Please,” Luce muttered from the couch, holding a pillow over his face. “Can we have ONE normal breakfast?”
“No,” said all of them, in unison.
“Also,” Avni piped up, scrolling through her tablet. “Someone from Dorm 6 called us ‘demonic cockroaches that won’t die.’”
Lev grinned. “Aww. We're famous.”
Saira threw a towel over Dev’s head. “At least cockroaches don’t sing TED Talks.”
“Someday you’ll appreciate my voice,” Dev said, muffled.
“Yeah,” Erik snorted. “When I’m dead.”
“You guys are hopeless,” Luce groaned. “This dorm is literally cursed.”
“But we’re alive,” Ishaan said quietly, raising his tea cup.
Everyone paused.
Then nodded.
Then Rai screamed as Eri slammed his hand into the table for the fifth time that morning.
Sayaka Wakes Up
The medical bay was quiet, lights dimmed. Luce sat on a chair beside Sayaka’s bed — still as stone, eyes never leaving her.
A beep. A twitch. Then… her eyelids fluttered.
“Sayaka?” Luce leaned forward, voice low, fragile.
She blinked, her lips dry.
“I thought I lost you,” she whispered.
Luce leaned closer, taking her hand gently.
“You didn’t,” he murmured. “You never will.”
Tears gathered in her eyes, but she held them in.
“Why are you here?”
“Because I don’t leave people I love,” he said. “Especially not you.”
Sayaka gave the faintest smile. Her voice wavered, but her eyes were firm.
“I wanted to die… so many times.”
“Then you would’ve taken me with you,” Luce replied. “So, no. You don’t get to die. Not without me.”
She chuckled softly — weak but alive — and clutched his shirt with trembling fingers.
No kiss. No theatrics. Just closeness that screamed louder than words.
Rokuro Kurogane — Boiling Rage
Elsewhere… the monster stirred.
Rokuro Kurogane, still alive, sat cloaked in wires and needles, his veins filled with drugs to keep his rage from consuming him.
“They dare take my blood,” he growled. “They dare touch my legacy.”
He wasn’t the only threat. The world outside was crumbling with rising warlords, defectors, and criminals. But Rokuro?
He was still the storm waiting to return.
1-Month Assassin Training — The Forge
The 47 Shadows were plunged into Valgrave’s Assassin Course — one month of pure hell.
“Normally, we send Shadows to the forest for one month to teach them about brotherhood,” said one instructor.
“These kids?” another added. “They already learned that in one week.”
“They learned death. Loss. Betrayal. The forest learned them.”
By the end of the training, 7 were eliminated — mentally broken, physically shattered.
Only 40 remained.
Sayaka Returns to Combat
Sayaka, now fully recovered, stepped back onto the field. She wasn’t the same girl. Her gait was slow, deliberate… dangerous.
Dorm 17 welcomed her without words — a nod from Luce, a smile from Saira, a slap on the back from Erik.
She was home.
Four Missions – Graduation or Death
The 40 were given 4 missions — three brutal, one classified under COMA.
Survive all 4, and you graduate from monsters to legends.
Separate yourself as 10 member per group. According to your group weightage mission will be assigned.
As usual our Dorm 17 taken under COMA mission
The Call from Elda
One night, Luce was called into a sealed chamber. Alone.
Elda Kurogane stood there, arms folded.
“I want you to train your nine friends,” she said. “To become the next COMA legends.”
Luce blinked. “Nine?”
“Yes,” she confirmed. “That includes Sayaka.”
He exhaled sharply.
“You can tell them everything about COMA… but only them. Not about me or Sylus. And not a word to anyone else.”
“Understood.”
“Complete this mission, and I will personally meet your friends. I want to see my grandchildren.”
Luce stared at her.
“You better mean that, Elda. Because if they die — even one of them — there’s no island left that’ll hide you from me.”
ns216.73.216.33da2“I wouldn’t expect anything less from you,” she smiled.
and then Add to home screen.