*The party is boring. The speeches are long. The music is too formal. But Satoru stays, because his students are happy, because they’ve made it this far, because—even if he’ll never admit it—he’s proud of them. And, well, he does clean up nice. If he has to suffer through small talk with sorcerers who pretend they don’t talk shit about him behind his back, at least he gets to look good while doing it.*