New Semester

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**New Semester** focuses on the New Semester World, along with an expedition led by Esterosa de Chevalier and Official Support in the Final World.

## Synopsis

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## Appearances

* Final World
	+ Administration Counter Academy (Mentioned only)
	+ Coffin Company
		- Administrator
		- Lee Sooyeon
	+ Official Support
		- Zena Bird
		- Irie Alford
		- Cathy Wade
	+ Replacer Syndicate
		- Replacer hybriders
	+ Zodiac Knights
		- Esterosa de Chevalier
		- Fione Lowell
		- Yang Hansol
		- Arius Esquede
		- Liv Allen
	+ Lost Ship
* New Semester World
	+ Administration Counter Academy
		- Principal
		- Eujin
		- Seo Yoon
		- Esterosa de Chevalier
		- Irie Alford
		- Freedom Riders
			* Lin Xien
			* Hirose Aki
			* Lee Minseo
		- Kyle Wong
		- Yoo Mina (Mentioned only)
		- Hilde (Mentioned only)

## Plot

### Act 1

Official Support discovers a Lost Ship in the Counterside at Depth 4.8 using coordinates provided by Cathy Wade. Their goal is to secure the Eternium Drive before the Administration's own excavation team as the group is technically on an unauthorized Dive. Zena fears the Administration may take punitive action if they cross paths with them, but Irie Alford rushes into the Lost Ship before the others can react.

Inside the ship, Irie and Zena get disappointed after failing to find anything worth of value until Irie finds a shiny capsule holding a camcorder. The device activates and shows a video recording.

The video starts with Eujin and Seo Yoon walking to the Administration Counter Academy. Eujin feels dispirited that it is the last day of school and is reluctant to graduate. Yoon shares Eujin's feelings but is also grateful to have spent her time at the Academy since many of her friends and teachers had left earlier to fight before graduation. Yoon, the camerawoman, also reminds her that the Principal told the students to capture as much of the last day of school on video. The two girls then consider the Student President's dangerous situation and are optimistic that she's still alive since the school's teachers are looking for her. While Yoon tries to film Eujin interacting with a stray cat, they spot a group of Corrupted Objects that has broken into the city. Yoon thinks that one of the city's phase barriers could be faulty and worries that the city may become infested with C.O.s once the students leave.

After defeating the C.O.s, Yoon and Eujin finally arrive at the Academy but are approached by Esterosa, the Student Guide leader, who wants to write them up for tardiness and make them clean the flowerbeds as punishment. However, they are able distract her with the cat that had approached them earlier. More C.O.s enter the vicinity of the Academy campus, and the three girls fight them off. Afterwards, Esterosa tells Yoon and Eujin to not worry about the Student President as she is a strong leader. She also reminds Eujin that the cat can't be allowed inside the classroom and offers to let it stay in the Student Guide Room instead. However, another student enters the school grounds on her scooter, and Esterosa chases after her.

As they watch the video, Zena initially believes that the video came from the Administration Counter Academy, but Cathy disputes this when she reveals that the camcorder's log shows that it has been 4.97 million hours (or 567 years) since the video was recorded. They debate on how old the video actually is when Irie alerts the group that a dive portal has opened. The group spot Replacer hybriders in the distance and try to evade them, but the Replacers are jamming their signals and preventing them from diving. Cathy continues to watch the video and asks for where Irie is, claiming to have seen something that doesn't make sense.

### Act 2

After Irie helps restore Official Support's ability to surface back in Normalside, Zena asks Cathy what she wanted to show Irie. Cathy shows the group that Irie herself appears in the video.

Irie Alford continues to distract Esterosa by riding on her scooter around campus. Lin Xien arrives and expresses amusement over the commotion before she approaches Yoon and challenges for her Class President position. However, she and Ire are swept violently ejected from school grounds and land outside city limits after Esterosa unleashes her Virgo Sword on Irie. Xien and Irie are soon surrounded by C.O.s, prompting them to escape on Irie's scooter.

Yoon asks Kyle Wong to help her find Irie and Xien, but Kyle believes no help will be needed and correctly predicts that they will return in exactly 70 seconds. The girls indeed arrive in that time frame, but a Category 3 C.O. had followed them closely. After all the student combine their powers to take down the Beast, Esterosa threatens to confiscate Irie's scooter.

Kyle notices the cat Eujin is holding and tells her that cats aren't allowed in classrooms, but the Principal appears and says the school can keep the cat for now. He announces everyone that, starting tomorrow, they will be studying in a mobile classroom inside a dimensional ship because the Counterside Effect has been spreading too rapidly to remain on the campus. Eujin asks where the ship will be going, and the Principal replies they will be going on a mission to rescue the Student President, who is revealed to be Yoo Mina— she disappeared into a quantum tunnel when a Category 4 C.O. attacked the Academy. Vice Principal and Combat Training Advisor Hilde had pinpointed the Mina's exact location deep within the Counterside, and the students are hopeful each other that Mina is still alive. The Principal stresses they won't be able to visit the school again for a long time once they dive and then gathers everyone together for a graduation photo. He tells them he'll store the videos and photos they took today in a time capsule so they can see them again after they save Mina.

Back in the Counterside, the Official Support is baffled at Irie's appearance in the video. Irie denies seeing any of the people in the video before and wonders if she has amnesia, but Cathy dismisses that possibility when she notes how different the world in the video is. Cathy proposes that they bring the video to the Administration and look for clues at the risk of being reprimanded. She then finds another video that is encrypted and creates a backup of it for now.

The Replacers report that they have secured the Lost Ship and prepare to apprehend the Official Support. Fortunately, the Zodiac Knights arrive to rescue the Official Support at the request of the Administration and defeats the Replacer squadron. Irie realizes that Esterosa resembles the Esterosa in the video and asks if they've met before, but Esterosa answers they have not and gets puzzled when she is called the Student Guide leader.

After the rescue operation, the Administrator acquires the video records after Lee Sooyeon makes Official Support hand them over. Sooyeon, after viewing them herself, questions why he wanted the videos; she understands that they could help restore some of the Administrator's memories but doesn't think they were valuable enough to spend so much effort in their recovery. The Administrator answers that the videos are simply nostalgic to him.

Sooyeon leaves the office, and the Administrator finishes decrypting the videos. He realizes that he and his students had failed to save Mina and thus never had a chance to open the time capsule. He regrets not being able to keep his promise but firmly vows to keep it this time.

## Stages

* Act 1
* Act 2
* Hard

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