"Instead, if you want everything and try to take everything, you end up getting nothing! Children make multiple-choice questions, adults want it all."
"That statement is incorrect, adults make choices far more often than children."
"Only children can have it all, adults must understand how to make sacrifices."
"Taking a big step back today is so that we can take a big step forward in the future. To advance by retreating; only by suffering a small loss can you gain a huge advantage."
"Mr. Siegfried, what do you think?"
Think?! Siegfried suddenly stood up and said, "Do you take me for a fool? Who are you trying to kid!"
"You'd sooner expect Ganesha to climb a tree than make me wear cross-dressing."
"Otto!"
Chapter Fifty: Friends, Kin, and Family
"I heard a new teacher is coming today," Kiana said quite excitedly. "I wonder what they'll be like."
"Chances are it'll be Mother, oh."
The reason Kiana said this was largely because the incoming teacher this time was a Valkyrie instructor, so at least in Kiana's view, this new teacher was very likely to be her mother.
No matter what, she was also an ultra-powerful former Valkyrie, even if she had been defeated by Ganesha in a single move.
Still, she was an ultra-powerful former Valkyrie!
"There's also a chance it could be someone else," Fu Hua said very calmly. "Cecilia doesn't look like she's suited to be an instructor right now."
Fu Hua certainly didn't think it would be Cecilia; she might have once been the strongest, but not necessarily anymore.
"Why?" Kiana waved a hand and said. "Just because of a mistake during the simulation battle? If you're talking about because of that."
"There's basically nothing to it, anyway."
"It was just a single mistake."
That wasn't an ordinary mistake. Fu Hua didn't retort, as she knew such retorts served no purpose. To put it nicely, Kiana's current state was called beauty is in the eye of the beholder; to put it bluntly, you can't wake someone who is pretending to be asleep. Right now, Kiana was completely incapable of calm analysis or careful observation.
Though she couldn't really manage that most of the time anyway.
Yet Kiana simply and stubbornly believed that Cecilia was amazing, and even if she lost, it was just a tiny, minor mistake, amounting to no real problem at all.
If you went to debate with her now, she wouldn't listen to a single word, whether you talked theory or reality.
"I figure we'll find out once we see them in a moment, won't we?" Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit tense, Mei hurriedly stepped in to smooth things over. "Anyway, we'll be seeing the new teacher in a bit, right, Monitor, Kiana?"
Having already been pulled out from the ordinary class to become a reserve Valkyrie.
Right now, there were only three people in this class.
Herself, Kiana, and the parachute-dropped Monitor Fu Hua.
"Speaking of which, it seems someone else is coming today too," Mei suddenly said. "It seems they're a transfer student as well."
"I wonder what kind of person they are."
"Forget it," Kiana said with one hand on her hip, looking a bit defiant. "As long as they don't casually drop another class committee member on us."
"Including this transfer student, a class of only four people gets two committee members."
"This young lady can't stand that kind of restriction."
Today really feels nice, though.
At the academy gates, Li Pu stood holding a large broom and thought with emotion, Days when no one comes to bother you really make a person feel incomparably relaxed.
No need to face Kiana, and no need to face Siegfried. No need to face so many awkward things.
In short, all of this gave one a sense of incomparable freshness.
"It really has been a long time since I felt like this," Li Pu muttered to himself as he swept up the fallen leaves and dust at the school gate. "It truly is not..."
"Eh? What is that..."
"Ghost-fire girl ah!!!"
Ghost-fire girl!
With the buzzing roar of an engine, it was a modified-looking heavy motorcycle. A trail of sparks and lightning, accompanied by a crackling, buzzing roar, came charging straight toward this side.
Judging by how it was rushing toward the school gate, there wasn't the slightest intention of slowing down.
With a swish, the girl merely gave her hand a twitch and the front of the bike a twist, the entire vehicle emitting a squealing sound as it drifted and slid sideways to a halt.
It stopped just short of crashing into Li Pu.
"Are you an employee of St. Freya?" The rider on the heavy motorcycle was a diminutive girl whose appearance completely clashed with the violent, exaggerated, and wild look of the heavy motorcycle itself.
This girl wore no expression, showed no intention of taking off her helmet, and spoke without any emotional fluctuation in her voice. "Please open the gate."
"Thank you."
She said thank you with her mouth, but Li Pu couldn't detect a shred of gratitude in it.
"You are..." Li Pu always felt this girl's voice sounded very familiar.
He didn't have X-ray vision, so of course he couldn't see the girl's appearance through a helmet. Yet looking at the figure and hearing that voice, Li Pu always managed to connect her with someone he knew.
"My name is Bronya Zaychik." The girl took off her helmet, revealing her pretty yet expressionless face.
Along with those twin-tail drill curls that gave off an unscientific vibe just by looking at them...
Ghost-fire girl Bronya...
Li Pu felt as though he had actually guessed this girl's identity long ago, but actually seeing this face still made it a bit hard to accept!
The cute, emotionless girl, the petite, obedient, and sensible little loli Bronya had actually turned into a ghost-fire girl!!!
World! Give me back my pure, cute, obedient, and sensible Bronya!
Still, if you really look closely, ghost-fire girl Bronya doesn't seem half bad either.
Li Pu looked the girl up and down.
"Please do not look at me like that." A trace of anger flashed in Bronya's eyes, and she spoke as if she felt violated. "I am indeed a student of this school."
"I just transferred today."
Bronya pulled a transfer certificate out of her backpack and flashed it in front of Li Pu's eyes.
"Oh, no, it's nothing," Li Pu shook his head and said. "It's just that, classmate, you shouldn't be of legal age yet, right? Can you ride a heavy motorcycle to school?"
"Doesn't that violate our country's road traffic regulations? Besides, do you have a driver's license?"
"This is an electric scooter," Bronya said with absolute, unyielding certainty. "This is not a motor vehicle."
Who are you trying to fool! Can't I tell a motorcycle apart from an electric scooter? Li Pu mentally retorted.
Well... whatever, it didn't matter.
Li Pu shrugged, as he didn't really want to entangle himself with Bronya over this matter either. "Then follow me, I'll take you to see the Principal..."
"Are you going to see the Principal or the head of teaching?"
Whether seeing Otto or Theresa, if Li Pu remembered correctly, Bronya at this time seemed to be a spy from Anti-Entropy.
Yet what did that have to do with him? He, Li Pu, was merely a cleaner.
At the Valkyrie training base.
As Valkyries, academic classes could not be neglected, and combat skills certainly couldn't be lacking either. And now, their combat capability would probably rank first, seeing as they were the ones who would directly face Honkai Beasts in the future.
They were frontline combat personnel; how could they not have strong combat skills?
"A bit slow, huh~" Himeko said with some impatience. "I wonder how well the new teacher is preparing."
It was indeed a bit slow; classes were almost ready to start for the first period and they still hadn't shown up—this really was as slow as it gets.
Clack-swish~
Right at that moment, the classroom door was suddenly pushed open.
A pair of large hands pressed against the doorframe...
And that poor doorframe—
Was squeezed until it cracked...
Chapter Fifty-One: Siegfried Desu Yo
"Ev... everyone... students... ev... everyone... hello..."
"I am tea... teacher Siegfried Kaslana."
Look quickly, Ganesha is dancing ballet on a treetop!
Model worker pig stated: what does Ganesha climbing a tree have to do with me, model worker pig?
In any case, and all in all.
The pig climbed the tree!
"Kiana, your dad..." Mei stared dumbfounded at the coy 'auntie' before her and said, "Does your dad have..."
"No! No, I don't know her!" Kiana insisted firmly. "My dad is currently swimming naked in a big ice lake in the Alps to exercise his body."
"How could he possibly be here?!"
This is clearly your dad. Fu Hua also wore a rare, dumbfounded expression.
Good grief, people who aren't of the same family really don't enter the same house.
Even talking nonsense looks the exact same.
"OT... TO!!!!" Siegfried roared in a low voice, a growl that seemed to come straight from hell. He felt he had been scammed! Between the choices of not being able to become a teacher to get close to Cecilia and making Ganesha climb a tree, Siegfried had chosen to send Ganesha up a tree.
He had thought Otto would arrange some idle post for him and create some opportunities.
Work that could minimize his influence.
Otto had indeed done so.
In theory, as a Valkyrie trainer, he was merely an assistant teacher. He wouldn't run a class, nor would he teach directly, existing as Himeko's assistant. It counted as an idle position.
At the same time, the students he had to face weren't many—roughly Kiana, Mei, and Fu Hua, three people.
Moreover, although the Valkyrie training campus was in the same location as the ordinary campus, they were actually isolated from each other.
His influence was also restricted to a very small group of people.
In theory, Otto's arrangement had no flaws whatsoever.
However, that was merely in theory.
Yet Kiana was his, Siegfried's, daughter! Mei was his daughter's best friend, and that Fu Hua was considered his wife's close friend! This influence was freaking huge!
Otto did this on purpose! Absolutely on purpose!
Siegfried was certain of it.
Otto had definitely done this intentionally!
"Quiet down, everyone!" Himeko finally closed her mouth; she truly hadn't expected it to be Siegfried. She had only heard from Otto and Theresa that an exceptionally outstanding Valkyrie would be coming to guide these students.
As a result, the one who came was Siegfried.
This really was an unexpected turn of events.
"Then we..." Himeko still tried her best to maintain her composure and said. "There's also a new classmate coming today."
"She should have arrived already."
"Swish~"
Just as Himeko's voice trailed off, the door was suddenly pulled open. A male voice was heard saying from the doorway: "We've arrived, this is the Valkyrie training base."
"Why is this door broken... eh?!"
The classroom fell silent once again.
Standing at the doorway were two people: a boy holding a bucket and a mop, and an expressionless girl wearing another school's uniform.
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