Her eyebrow lifts again. Six months? Yulia tried, training almost nonstop for years, and only landed the top 2% of the world-- that was as far as she could go, as a deadwalker, someone who had no supernatural ability, and even then that was already impressive. Still. She had to wait another year and a half just to be promoted to Fifth Circle to enter Zangyaku.

"Straighforward for those who can't die," she said, sizing up this girl who seemed to think getting into Zangyaku was easy. How annoying.

At the back of her head, though, there's a laugh that never seemed to go away.