Deep Blue Metropolis, outskirts of the Nearshore District
Three Trillan Junior High school buses roared past, heading straight toward the resort hotel in the distance.
Not long after the buses passed, a figure standing silently atop a hill and watching the vehicles took out his phone.
"The targets have arrived."
"Good. Proceed according to plan."
After receiving the reply, Molten Mountain hung up, his expression grave as he watched the convoy disappear into the distance.
Then he turned and vanished into the forest.
Coral Resort Area, Fluorescent Beach.
October in the Nearshore District was scorching hot.
Tiandao lay leisurely on a beach chair, bare-chested in swim trunks, sipping coconut juice through a straw as he enjoyed this rare holiday.
Beside him, fourteen-year-old Caroline wore a relatively conservative one-piece swimsuit.
Yet her future intelligent and seductive figure had already begun to take shape, making passing male students glance her way from time to time.
However, Caroline's icy, keep-out aura, coupled with the very convincing campus legends surrounding her, kept them from approaching.
Though they wanted to strike up a conversation, they all ultimately stopped in their tracks.
Noticing how those people kept their distance from Caroline in fear, Tiandao could not help teasing, "Caroline, look at the sins you've committed. Those guys are scared stiff of you now."
Hearing Tiandao's words, Caroline silently put down the book she had been reading and turned toward him.
Tiandao was holding coconut juice in one hand while lowering the sunglasses on his face with the other.
His azure eyes brimmed with mockery.
Smack!
Caroline closed her book and placed it over her folded knees.
"This has nothing to do with me. I merely let them know what they should be doing at their age."
"So, Caroline, is that why you sent the browser histories