I've Never Learned to Keep a Low Profile

At 1:30 in the afternoon, inside a special dolphin-shaped fish-car bound for Trillan Junior High in the Nearshore District.

To conceal their identities, Tiandao and the others had been split into two groups, arriving at Trillan Junior High in batches as exchange students.

Without question, Tiandao and Caroline had been assigned to one group, while Chen Kong and Chen Xing had been assigned to the other.

The siblings Chen Kong and Chen Xing had already arrived at Trillan Junior High to register that morning, ahead of them.

"Tiandao, when we get to school, you absolutely must rein yourself in, understand?"

Inside the dolphin fish-car, Caroline looked at Tiandao beside her and reminded him yet again, tirelessly.

Half reclined in his seat, Tiandao answered lazily, "I know, Caroline. You've said that more than ten times since yesterday. Stop repeating yourself."

"Put ten thousand hearts at ease. I definitely won't mess things up."

Though Tiandao said that, Caroline knew there was an eighty or ninety percent chance that it had gone in one ear and out the other, without him taking any of it to heart.

After all, from what she knew of Tiandao, he was good at everything except having a somewhat unreliable temperament.

Getting him to behave himself was even harder than getting him not to eat desserts.

If they were at Ember Base right now, it would have been one thing.

That was their territory, after all. Even if Tiandao acted arrogantly, so what?

But right now, not only were they carrying out an organization-assigned protection mission.

They were also in a brand-new, utterly unfamiliar New Federation metropolis.

If Tiandao continued behaving as flamboyantly as he did within the organization.

He would very likely draw the attention of the Deep Blue Metropolis Branch of the Star Envoy Association, causing the Association's Star Envoys to intervene unexpectedly.

When that happened, an originally ordinary protection mission would not only gain needless variables, but also bring enormous trouble upon them Starborn.

After all, Ember was an "evil organization" officially certified by the Star Envoy Association in the New Federation—one spotted, one exterminated.

But Tiandao, who knew the original story, understood that whether he kept a high profile or a low one.

Those troublesome people in Deep Blue Metropolis would come knocking sooner or later.

After all, Dorian was the richest man in Deep Blue Metropolis. For him to be willing to secretly cooperate with an "evil organization" like Ember, which everyone in the New Federation wanted to see destroyed.

It could only mean that the trouble he faced and the pressure he endured far exceeded what ordinary people could imagine.

And within all of Deep Blue Metropolis, there were only two forces capable of bringing him that kind of trouble.

One was the official force represented by the New Federation—the Deep Blue Security Force.

The other was the Deep Blue Metropolis Branch of the Star Envoy Association.

Having read the original story, Tiandao knew that the reason Dorian was in such enormous trouble now.

Was fundamentally because he wanted to lay hands on the mining rights for Tears of Deep Blue, which the Star Envoy Association valued highly and which were monopolized by one of the Four Great Families—the Frostsound Family.

And to make Dorian abandon that idea of not knowing the height of heaven or the depth of earth.

The Frostsound Family had secretly incited a group of major Skysea Group shareholders, promising them some extremely enticing terms.

In exchange for their pressure on Dorian.

Fortunately, Dorian himself was not without backing. Behind him stood support from the Frostsound Family as well.

Yes, Dorian was no fool. Naturally, he understood what he could touch and what he could not.

For him to openly declare that he wanted to contend for part of the mining rights to Tears of Deep Blue in the Deep Sea District, he naturally had sufficient confidence that he could obtain those rights.

And that confidence came from certain high-ranking members of the Frostsound Family behind him.

Thus, while the spark that ignited Deep Blue Metropolis's storyline appeared to be a dispute between the richest man Dorian and the major shareholders within his group.

It would be more accurate to call it an internal struggle between two factions of the Frostsound Family fighting for greater benefits.

"Miss Caroline, Young Master Tiandao, we've arrived."

As the dolphin fish-car pulled up at the school gates, Tiandao and Caroline quickly stepped out one after the other.

Looking at the unusual building before him, which resembled a gigantic seashell on the ocean floor, Tiandao said in an exaggerated tone, "Caroline, do you think we might find some huge, valuable pearls inside such a big shell?"

Caroline rolled her eyes at Tiandao. "What big shell? That's Trillan Junior High's teaching building. It only looks like a shell on the outside."

"Really?"

"Why would I lie to you? Didn't you read the Deep Blue Metropolis city handbook? It has an introduction to Trillan Junior High in it."

"Oh? That boring handbook? I threw it away ages ago. There was nothing worth reading."

"Besides, compared to some handbook, I'd rather trust my own eyes."

Hearing Tiandao's words, Caroline could not help rolling her eyes at him again. Then, without looking back, she headed alone toward the school entrance, clearly too lazy to say another word.

Reasoning with Tiandao?

She had already proven through one cruel lesson after another that Tiandao had been born incapable of reason.

As he watched Caroline's retreating figure, a strange glint flashed through Tiandao's azure eyes beneath his sunglasses.

Just a teaching building that looks like a shell? I don't think so.

As Tiandao briefly removed his sunglasses, the originally magnificent teaching building instantly took on another appearance in his eyes.

In his field of vision, the enormous shell-like building suddenly came "alive."

Countless pale-blue streams of Star Energy, like blood, flowed through a great many vein-like Star Energy channels, evenly supplying every corner of the entire teaching building.

Tiandao very much wanted to see where this Star Energy originated.

But because of the protection of certain special Star Energy Techniques, as well as other reasons.

He could not truly locate the enormous Star Energy source hidden within the teaching building.

Besides, his main reason for coming here was not to find that sort of thing.

Looking at the clearly extraordinary shell-like building before him, Tiandao put his sunglasses back on.

"In this unfamiliar place, rather than wandering around blindly on my own, I might as well let Kong, who came early, show me around and help me get familiar with the place."

"But before that, I should find out where the cafeteria is. I really am a little hungry."

With that, after entering the campus, Tiandao headed directly away from the teaching building.

As for why he did not first go to the faculty office to register with a teacher?

Please. How could registering compare to adding scenes?

Tiandao remembered clearly that Chen Kong, the protagonist of this Stellaris anime, was having a rather rough time on campus right now.

As an outsider, he had neither displayed any outstanding strengths nor revealed any powerful background.

That made the bad apples of Trillan Junior High, who styled themselves as "noble Nearshore people," immediately treat Chen Kong as some out-of-town beggar who had come to the Nearshore District to mooch off others.

Though it was rather hard not to laugh, Chen Kong really had, in less than half a day.

Successfully been subjected to "regional discrimination" by his classmates.

Honestly, even though Tiandao had known this would happen long ago, he still found it utterly astonishing.

You were the protagonist of an entire anime. Fine, getting discriminated against and bullied in a place like Ember, where monsters gathered like clouds.

But now you had come outside, and the people you faced were just ordinary bratty kids who did not even possess Star Source. Yet you could still get discriminated against and bullied?

Where was your Star Core?

Where was your Star Source?

Where were the combat skills you learned from the organization?

Just because Sister Yun said everyone should try to keep a low profile in the days ahead, you actually kept such a low profile that you did not even dare fight back when ordinary people bullied you, was that it?

Rigid fool!

Under the afternoon sunlight, Tiandao wore Trillan Junior High's blue-and-white uniform and conspicuous black sunglasses as he strode directly toward the school cafeteria.

Keeping a low profile?

Sorry, Tiandao Siming could learn anything, except how to keep a low profile!

I'm adding these scenes no matter what!