Sagiri must have sunk into darkness again after Kaka's performance, and when he came to again, he could feel the wounds on his chest on the last legs of closing up. He was no longer in agony, but somehow he was still trapped in the same place, in the same position. He was merged with the archive, and he pushed it out with his senses.
The exam was still going on outside, but he could tell that time had passed, and he could tell they were on the last patches, and the judges looked bored but happy as they awarded marks by lifting up their tags. Kaka had gotten all tens from all the judges, and from the looks of it, not many had been able to achieve a perfect result. The current student got a cumulative result of 88. It was still high, but after watching Kaka and a few of the top students of the other school, who could be impressed by an eighty mark.
