If we are to be called romantics, incurable idealists,
if all we ever think about are impossible things—
then, for the thousand and first time, we will answer: “Yes. That is exactly who we are.”

In an era when the old order is being replaced by new ideas,
a school known as “Hakoniwa Academy”
has transformed from a once-closed sanctuary into the freest garden of thought.
Here, young girls study science and the arts;
they are allowed to pursue reason and explore the self,
as though the world has finally welcomed a dawn that belongs to humanity.

Yet—dawn does not necessarily mean light.
When the scepter of faith is replaced by freedom, people learn to judge one another.
In the name of reason, they raise new altars,
and in the language of freedom, they forge even deeper shackles.

The world today no longer has need of God,
yet still longs for a reason to be judged.
People fear freedom and flee from it,
and so they create new laws, new morals, new iron cages.

And within this academy,
there are still those who cradle old dreams in their hearts,
searching for that forgotten question—
“After freedom, where do we go?”