Opening of Frelia Public Academy

The Opening of Frelia Public Academy is both a public-education initiative and a carefully staged declaration of royal policy. Selfia Cordelica presents the academy as the first institution in a national educational program, but the ceremony also binds that ideal to the royal family through the enrollment of her daughter, Celeste Cordelica. The event therefore converts knowledge into a civic promise while making the monarchy itself the visible guarantor of that promise.

Reform Announced in Public

Selfia Cordelica addresses the assembled crowd from a podium in an unusually authoritative posture, presenting the academy as a bastion of education intended to extend across the nation. She acknowledges that the initiative has met pushback and doubt, then invokes the principle that knowledge is power. Her argument is practical rather than ornamental: true strength depends on understanding the world and the threats surrounding the nation, and the country is only as strong as its weakest citizens.

The speech gives education a national-security dimension without reducing it entirely to military preparation. Learning is described as a means by which ordinary people can become capable of confronting danger, making the academy part of a broader attempt to strengthen society from below. Selfia’s language also establishes the institution as the first step in a larger project rather than an isolated school opening.

Celeste as the Reform’s Proof

The ceremony’s decisive turn comes when Selfia announces that her own daughter, Celeste Cordelica, will enroll at the academy in the spring. The crowd erupts before the sentence is even completed, and the announcement transforms an abstract policy into a royal family matter. Celeste waves to the hundreds of cameras and says hello, while Jack pats her head, placing a small familial gesture inside an intensely public scene.

Selfia presents Celeste’s enrollment as evidence of personal commitment. The royal child is not merely a symbol displayed at the event; she is identified as a future student of the institution whose quality and openness the crown is asking the public to trust. That decision also exposes Celeste to public scrutiny, showing how the academy’s legitimacy is built through the family’s willingness to submit its own life to the reform’s visibility.

Access, Curriculum, and Spectacle

Applications are opened through the intranet site, with a billboard displaying the enrollment instructions above the event. The academy accepts applicants while places remain available and offers a broad progression from Early Childhood and Kindergarten through Schuleingangsstufe and Weiterführende Schule, as well as vocational training. The range of programs presents Frelia Public Academy as an institution intended to cover multiple ages, educational stages, and practical futures rather than serving only an elite academic population.

At the same time, access is announced through a spectacle dominated by cameras, applause, tabloid writers, and shouted questions. The crowd photographs Selfia and Celeste while Jack carries his daughter from the venue and leaves beside the queen. Public education is thus introduced through public visibility: the same ceremony that promises wider access also demonstrates how royal authority manages the image through which that promise reaches the population.

Jack’s Managed Royal Presence

The opening occurs within a day of tightly scheduled appearances. Jack reads the instructions on an Intellipad: Selfia will announce the academy, Celeste will be revealed to generate interest, and the royal party will continue to a museum opening, a meeting with investors, and El Negro Gato, the shop his earlier actions helped place on the map. The academy launch is therefore one component of a larger program combining reform, commercial support, cultural presentation, and royal publicity.

Jack’s participation is controlled from the outset. Two weeks after his marriage to Selfia and coronation as king, he remains confined to his luxurious room, unable to leave freely and permitted only limited visitors, including Kamila bringing food, Ada, and scheduled playtime with Leona and Celeste. At the academy, the restriction takes a softer but still unmistakable form: he carries Celeste, walks in step with Selfia, ignores questions, and enters the armored limousine amid continuous photography. Even the use of paper folders elsewhere in his circle, preferred because tablets can be hacked and Intellipads compromised, reflects a political environment organized around security, secrecy, and controlled information.

Departure and Institutional Continuity

After the announcement, Jack and the royal party leave under a barrage of photographs and questions. Later, Madam Hightower greets Jack at the academy and tells him that she is happy to see another of her students survive. Her presence connects the new institution with the educational world damaged by earlier destruction, while her guidance of Celeste gives the departure an immediate personal consequence.

Celeste cries that she will miss her father. Jack answers that he will miss her too and tells her to be good for Madam Hightower. The child then walks up the stairs of the academy with the headmistress, turning the political announcement into an actual separation between parent and daughter. The school’s opening consequently ends not with the applause of the crowd but with Celeste entering the institution that has been presented as the foundation of a stronger nation.

Political Significance

The event joins reformist idealism to royal discipline. Selfia’s appeal to universal strength and understanding gives the academy a vision of collective improvement, yet the opening is inseparable from monarchy, media management, security precautions, and the conversion of Celeste into a public guarantee. The institution’s promise is expansive, but its first public image is produced through hierarchy and ceremony.

That tension is reinforced by Jack’s position. He has recently become king, yet he experiences royal life as confinement, moving through the city with security, a chauffeur, and official schedules rather than personal freedom. By the time he drives toward Yun and Tyrah’s apartment, he possesses status, family, and political power but feels hollow, with guilt and remorse suppressed and a new eagerness taking their place. Against that emotional background, the academy opening reads as a moment when the crown projects confidence and national renewal even while the people inside its ceremony remain constrained by the systems that make the projection possible.