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Noticing that quite a few of the students had perked up when she mentioned the EAT class, Catherine smiled. It was not a gentle smile by any stretch of the imagination. 

"For those of you who become warriors, I cannot stress the importance of soul studies. The study of the soul, or plasmology, is an important tool with which you fight. The harmony between meister and weapons, the detection and battling of witches, the way in which a weapon may become a death scythe, even the way one fights and manipulates their soul in order to make their attack - all of these fall under soul studies. Again, I cannot stress it enough - your knowledge of the soul is just as important in a battle as your ability to shoot a gun or swing a sword - perhaps even more so. 

Given enough training, any brute can master a weapon. Given enough study, any scholar can master plasmology. Only a true Meister and Weapon team can master both. The knowledge you will learn in your three years of soul studies can and will save your life on a battlefield that, if you prove talented enough, you may step on as early as second year. Should you be found lacking, I guarantee you will not be seeing your third."

Whether that would be through expulsion or death, Catherine left unsaid. Those who really understood what it meant to be in the EAT class would understand regardless.

"A mistake in your knowledge of the soul, a misunderstanding, a miscalculation, a failure to identify and understand, can cost you your life in battle. If you cannot remember such knowledge in the calm, comfortable, safe confines of a classroom you will stand no chance attempting to even recall, let alone manipulate such knowledge, in the heat of combat where the enemy will never let you stop and think for a second."

She tapped her parasol on the ground for the final time. 

"Therefore," she concluded, "For those who wish to go onto the EAT program, my only passing grade for the final exam is full marks."