Morning light slanted across the desk. Van's fingers unconsciously twirled the pencil in his hand.
He looked at Ji Xuanyuan, who was rummaging through Fu Hua's desk. The girl's jet-black long hair swayed gently with her movements, and the golden bell at the tip of her hair made a faint tinkling sound.
Ji Xuanyuan suddenly turned around, the golden bell glinting faintly in the sunlight. "You've been secretly peeking at me for a while now, haven't you?"
The pencil in his hand fell with a "pa" onto his exercise book. Only then did he realize he had been staring at her back in a daze.
"Don't be nervous." Ji Xuanyuan leaned on Van's desk with one hand, bent down and said softly, "I won't eat you. I just want to ask you a question… Right… you look kind of familiar, huh?"
Cold sweat broke out on Van's back. A breeze passed through the classroom window, brushing his neck, carrying a slight chill.
Because he clearly saw a glint of golden light flash in Ji Xuanyuan's eyes, an omen of awakening.
At this extremely critical moment…
"Ji Xuanyuan? Why are you here?"
A cool and clear voice exploded at the doorway. The golden light in Ji Xuanyuan's eyes instantly dissipated.
Van watched as the girl who was intimidating a second ago now pounced into Fu Hua's arms like a chick returning to its nest. The bell in her hair jingled happily.
"Fu Hua!"
Ji Xuanyuan rubbed her face against Fu Hua's nonexistent chest, "Did you watch the last update of Honkai? I appeared in it too~ My identity was even the Guardian of Shenzhou!"
"Mm, I saw it. Very impressive, Ji Xuanyuan." Fu Hua smiled and nodded.
After receiving praise from Fu Hua, Ji Xuanyuan was like a kitten who had just been petted on the belly, so happy her eyes squinted shut.
"Of course, in my eyes, Fu Hua is still the most amazing!"
Ji Xuanyuan said with a squinty smile, "I also heard someone say that Fu Hua was being pestered by a guy last night. Who was that guy~?"
Fu Hua's fingers, which were adjusting her glasses, paused. She replied with an awkward expression, "That guy..."
"What! There really was a guy?!"
Ji Xuanyuan suddenly lifted her head. The cute smile had long vanished. A soft metallic clink came from her sleeves.
Van's pupils contracted sharply.
'Hey hey hey! Is St. Freya Academy's security really that poor? They can't even detect this kind of hidden weapon?!'
"Those rumors about the guy are all just nonsense made up by others."
Fu Hua calmly pressed down on Ji Xuanyuan's arm. Her fingertips gently tapped an acupoint, and the sounds from the girl's sleeves stopped abruptly. "More importantly, why do you have free time to come to our class?"
"Of course it's to check whether Hua is being harassed by any weirdos~"
Ji Xuanyuan looked perfectly justified, "Like those guys who pretend to borrow notes but are actually trying to ask you out for milk tea, or those bastards who use 'asking questions' as an excuse just to talk to you..."
Seeing Ji Xuanyuan's gritted teeth, Fu Hua even felt that the girl before her wasn't Ji Xuanyuan, but Dark Ji Xuanyuan instead.
Could it be that the world line after Van's restart has fused the two together?
At this very moment, the class bell rang at the worst possible time.
As the class monitor, Fu Hua naturally had to start maintaining classroom discipline, and Ji Xuanyuan was also persuaded to leave by Fu Hua.
Seeing Ji Xuanyuan's reluctant expression, Fu Hua suddenly said, "Pay attention in class. Tonight when you come home, I'll make your favorite noodles."
"Yay!"
Ji Xuanyuan, who had been downcast a second ago, was instantly revived. "Fu Hua , I'll go to class now!"
Just as Ji Xuanyuan, having received the promise, was about to leave the classroom energetically, she suddenly hit the brakes at the door.
"Right,"
She suddenly grabbed the door frame, stuck half her body back in, and made a throat-cutting motion at Van. "This classmate, if I find out you have any improper thoughts about Fu Hua..."
Before she could finish, hurried footsteps suddenly echoed from the corridor. Ji Xuanyuan's threat stopped abruptly.
Theresa, who was about the same height as Ji Xuanyuan, skipped past the window and stopped at the classroom door.
Seeing Ji Xuanyuan being scared off by her school principal's imposing presence, Theresa nodded with satisfaction and shouted at Ji Xuanyuan's back, "Which class are you from? Don't run in the hallways during class time!"
After entering the classroom, Theresa slapped the textbook onto the lectern and announced her role as the substitute teacher.
"The academy is going to hold an event soon, so your teacher Himeko is in a meeting. I'll be the substitute for this class..."
However, just as Theresa was about to start the lesson, she was shocked to find, no one in the entire class looked up at her. They all kept their heads down, eyes glued to their phones.
Seeing this, Theresa's face turned red with anger. Her cheeks puffed like an adorable balloon.
She stomped her delicate little leather shoes forcefully, making a crisp sound, but the phone-obsessed students didn't react at all.
"Hey hey hey! Still playing on your phones during class? Are you all ignoring me, your substitute teacher?!"
Seeing that the students still didn't care and were still on their phones, Theresa instantly hardened.
Don't misunderstand, that means her fists hardened.
'Heh heh heh! So that's how you want to play? This is clearly treating me, the school principal, like I don't exist!'
'Let me teach you all a lesson today, or I'll be unworthy of being the principal of St. Freya Academy!!!'
Just as Theresa was about to grab a few students to make an example of them, Kiana, sitting in the second-to-last row, suddenly reminded, "Auntie, Honkai 3rd has a new update!"
"What Honkai whatnot, it's class time! Put all your phones away!"
"But Auntie… I heard Himeko say you also watch Honkai in your office every day..."
"Kiana, get out for me!!!"
Kiana, "???"
Watching her aunt blast her out of the classroom, Kiana was completely dumbfounded.
'Why is it these days even telling the truth gets you punished?!'
Perhaps because "killing the chicken to scare the monkey" worked, the rest of the students reluctantly put away their phones.
Then, Theresa nodded in satisfaction and turned on the classroom projector.
"The school rules say you can't play on your phone during class, but they don't say you can't use the projector!"
With that, Theresa projected the latest Honkai 3rd update video onto the big screen.
"Teacher Theresa, you're the best!"
"Teacher Theresa, we love you!"
"Teacher Theresa, you're too cute!"
'Uh... Did something weird sneak in just now?'
Feeling the abnormally enthusiastic atmosphere in the classroom, it was clear just how popular Honkai 3rd was among the students.
However, as the saying goes, the joys and sorrows of people are not connected; I only find them noisy.
Compared to the excited classmates, Van silently shed tears in his heart.
Because, if Ai-chan keeps exposing him like this, one day he's definitely going to get stabbed. Truly stabbed.
On the other side, seeing the happy faces of the students, Theresa felt that it was all worth it. Definitely not because she wanted to watch it too. Definitely not.
And anyway, worst case, this was originally just a self-study period. So what if they watched a video?
Thinking this, Theresa felt like she was a genius.
"Right..."
Looking at the students who were fully focused on the video, Theresa suddenly felt like she had forgotten something.
But following the belief of "if you've forgotten, then it probably wasn't important," Theresa also joined the students in focusing on the video, entering the world of Honkai 3rd.
Unaware that outside the classroom, a certain white-haired bug was still anxiously waiting...
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