"Ah, yes, good morning to you too, Bai Ge."
"Oh, right. Here's your lunchbox. It was really delicious, thanks."
After returning the girl's lunchbox, Bai Ge yawned and went back to his seat to catch up on sleep.
Still excited from having just transmigrated yesterday, Bai Ge had surfed the internet for several hours before finally falling asleep.
In the end, he found that things like Honkai and Herrschers had all been sealed away, with not even a trace of them to be found anywhere.
Everything else was pretty much no different from his previous life.
Gossip headlines, dumb videos, national news that looked impressive at first glance—honestly, Bai Ge could really find a sense of familiarity online.
Bai Ge said, "This is it, this is the feeling. Looking at these idiots online really makes me feel like I'm back home."
He slept through the first two of the morning's four classes. The teachers did not dare say much to these young masters and young ladies from wealthy families, so they simply pretended not to see anything.
If they had been even a little more responsible, Mei would not have suffered such severe bullying at school.
The remaining two classes that morning were PE. As expected of a school in the Far East, swimming was even part of PE class. In any case, Bai Ge swam to his heart's content.
However, when noon arrived—
Just as Bai Ge was thinking up an excuse to see whether he could mooch another lunch off the cooking lady, he realized that Raiden Mei was nowhere to be seen in the classroom.
"Could she have gone to yesterday's rooftop?"
Host, Raiden Mei is not there. Her current location is the women's locker room in the gymnasium.
"Hm? If someone's being excluded, wouldn't they usually eat on the rooftop or in the bathroom? What's with the women's locker room?"
While Bai Ge was still puzzled, several girls who had bullied Mei yesterday strutted into the classroom.
Although the classroom was rather noisy during lunch break, Bai Ge's sharp hearing still caught several awful snippets—take her clothes away, don't let her get out this time, no one will save her, make that scammer's daughter never dare come to school again.
Bai Ge said, "...Damn it!!!"
The next second, he rushed out of the classroom.
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When Raiden Mei's Hero
"...Damn it!!!"
After realizing what those girls had done again, Bai Ge cursed and immediately rushed out of the classroom.
He had not expected that after he had taught those girls a lesson only yesterday, they would do something even worse today.
Bai Ge did not know what those people were doing to Raiden Mei right now, but one thing was certain.
With Kiana yet to appear—
He was the only one in this academy who could help her!
Recalling all those heartbreaking scenes he had seen in the game, where the girl remembered her experiences at school, Bai Ge gritted his teeth and quickened his pace.
At the same time—
"...Why are you treating me like this? What did I do wrong?"
Tears welled up in Mei's eyes.
Wearing only a thin swimsuit, she curled up in the corner of the locker room. After swimming class ended, the girls had suddenly snatched Mei's clothes and locked her inside the locker room.
No matter how she called for help, no one responded.
No matter how she apologized, she received only mockery.
No matter how she begged, she received only laughter.
"I'm so cold. It hurts so much. I don't want to be hurt anymore. I've had enough of this... Someone, anyone, please save me."
At that moment, Mei's pale violet eyes became incomparably bright. Purple arcs of electricity flickered over her body, and the Honkai Energy around her gradually grew denser with her at its center.
A brand-new consciousness emerged without anyone noticing. It whispered, urged, commanded Raiden Mei to destroy everything.
However, just as that consciousness, carrying irresistible omnipotence, was about to grant Mei a new life—
"Mei! Are you in there?!"
Bang—!
With a tremendous crash, the door to the women's locker room was violently kicked open.
A boy rushed inside. He had short hair as white as snow, and obvious anxiety and concern shone in his pale golden eyes.
"Bai Ge..."
Mei stared blankly at the boy who had burst in. In her eyes, he was as dazzling as a prince on a white horse from a fairy tale.
The despair, sorrow, and self-abandonment from moments before came to an abrupt halt, like a drowning person finally grasping the last straw.
Seeing that Mei was unharmed, Bai Ge breathed a small sigh of relief. He hurried over, draped a coat over the girl's delicate shoulders, and reassured her that everything was all right now.
At the same time, he noticed the flickering purple arcs lingering on the ground around them and immediately understood that if he had been any later, the consequences might have been unimaginable.
The concentration of Honkai Energy was certainly not enough for her to become a Herrscher, but the signs had already appeared.
"Ah, Mei, you got bullied again. But it's all right now, so don't worry. Later, I'll give those people a good, hard lesson for you."
Bai Ge raised a hand to wipe the tears from the girl's eyes. Since this was only the second time in his life that he had comforted a crying girl, he seemed a little flustered.
Mei, meanwhile, clutched the corner of Bai Ge's clothes tightly in her small hand, silently begging him not to leave.
After hesitating for a moment—
Bai Ge raised his hand and gently patted her head.
"It's all right now. Don't be afraid."
"Mm, Bai Ge... you came to help me again..."
"Then let Mei's lunchbox be my reward this time too. Uh, unless you're hungry, then forget it."
"Mm, okay. I'll give it to you. Thank you, really, really thank you, Bai Ge."
An indescribable feeling rose in Mei's heart. She could not accurately describe how she felt at that moment.
That feeling of being suddenly saved by someone when she had fallen into despair and was about to give up.
Wanting to preserve the current moment for a little longer, the two of them simply sat together in silence.
The girl lowered her head and leaned against Bai Ge's arm, while Bai Ge looked up at the ceiling, wondering how he should teach those girls a lesson later.
"...Um, what exactly is this outfit?" Mei was the first to speak in the end.
"Oh, I borrowed it from the drama club when I passed by on the way here. Does it fit you, Mei?"
Bai Ge explained.
Thanks to the system's reminder, he remembered that those girls had taken Raiden Mei's clothes.
Otherwise, he would probably have had to make another trip.
"It's... it's fine. Just a little tight."
"..."
As expected of the best-built of The Trio. At such a young age, she already had a giant's chest.
Bai Ge glanced at the girl's chest. The buttons on the outfit were bearing a strain they were never meant to endure, as though they might snap and fly off at any second. (See image)
"Come to think of it, you've been calling me by my given name since earlier, Bai Ge," Mei said softly.
"Huh? Have I? Oh, sorry, it just slipped out. Mei... Raiden Mei, if you don't like it, then I won't."
"No, I don't dislike it!"
"...Is that so? That's good."
Bai Ge immediately smiled at that. He simply could not get used to calling her anything else.
After all, he had always called her Mei in the game. For a time, Bai Ge had even forgotten that this girl had the surname Raiden; when they first met yesterday, he had nearly called her by her given name right away.
For people in the Far East, given names were only used by close friends or family, but for any Captain, they would only be used to calling Raiden Mei by Mei.
"I should be the one thanking you for calling me that, Bai Ge." She smiled as well.
Raiden Mei was truly happy. There was actually someone in the academy willing to call her by her given name.
Rather than calling her things like "the scammer's daughter" or "the criminal's daughter."
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Bai Ge: All Eyes on Me, I Have an Announcement
"If that's the case, then Mei can just call me Bai Ge too. Hehe, I suppose that counts as returning the favor."
"Okay, then... Bai Ge."
As though she were doing something tremendously challenging, Mei carefully said Bai Ge's name. She could clearly feel that it was different from before.
Unlike those people who had only befriended her because they coveted the Raiden family's wealth and Mei's reputation.
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