It's the country. [ obviously? ] And the buying back thing was supposed to be a reward for good behavior. You get rewarded for participating in school activities. Do I know why they chose what to reward you all with? No, I'm not like proper staff or anything. But I also wouldn't be surprised if they saw how much everyone complained about getting their stuff taken away, so they decided to give it back that way.

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But that's just a theory. And as for the murder... that didn't start happening until this year. You guys were all pretty convinced there's some weird murder party every year or something when I think the last time anyone died here was before even Luke started coming here, and that was like... a dispute between classmates or something? Fairly normal stuff.