For two expansive volumes, we have been treated to a desolate landscape where the matter of survival has drawn out humanity's tendency for savagery, mistrust, and abandonment of logic and ethics. This has been a story where the horror has emerged both in their external circumstances and within their own selves. The Drifting Classroom, as the title suggests, finds its characters isolated, swept away from their comfortable and familiar present. From their vantage point, they were enticed to look back, witness, and reflect on the trail that has led to where they are now. We find at many points of the narrative, they are at the brink of collapse, Kazuo Umezz has shown that he is not afraid to batter and traumatise these children to awaken humanity from their misplaced contentment and ignorant illusion; their world, our world, our species and its deteriorating state is a result of our doing.