Troublemakers

K City Second High School, while an ordinary school, perhaps due to its proximity to the city's largest aristocratic private school, received a lot of extra attention. As a result, this school also benefited somewhat from being close by. The most obvious point was its large land area.

In terms of campus size alone, Second High School was almost as large as Canglan Private High School. The architectural layout of this school was also quite distinctive. The entire school was divided into four main building areas, distributed in the four directions: east, south, west, and north. Arranged clockwise, they were: the Senior High Department teaching area, the comprehensive office building area, the Junior High Department teaching area, and the dormitory building area. Between these four building areas were also many flower beds, ponds, and other embellishments. From above, it had a sense of layering like a European garden. Stimulated by the magnificent aristocratic school opposite, the designer at the time clearly had the ambition to build this school into a European garden-style campus. Every building on campus bore the mark of the designer's efforts at the time, but unfortunately, the unknown designer's ambition far exceeded their skill. As a result, the completed school buildings, a mix of European Gothic, Eastern, Arabic, Greek, and other styles, became like a theme park, full of fantasy and humorous elements. The most obvious example was in front of the Senior High Department teaching building: two vermilion circular pillars topped with a tall obelisk – this was the result of combining Eastern characteristics with Gothic architecture.

In the center of the entire campus was another style of building. Initially, the designer of the entire renovation project had planned to place a large fountain here, with a group of white marble sculptures in the center of the pool, and small gardens around the pool for students to rest. However, unfortunately, the funding shortage caused by completing a large number of mismatched buildings turned this beautiful idea into empty talk. Thus, the central area of the school was left idle for a time, becoming a wasteland overgrown with weeds, until recent years, when the school's leaders had a flash of inspiration and came up with a brilliant idea—

Four toilets were built on this empty plot...

The architectural layout of this school really made me resentful. The main reason was that the teaching buildings of the Senior High Department and Junior High Department were located at opposite corners of this huge campus. This meant that every time I went to pick up Pandora after school, I had to endure a difficult trek of over ten minutes and cross the school's largest toilet area – it was truly terrible.

"A very foolish architectural layout," Sandora, whom I was holding, commented as we passed the central theme toilet area of the campus.

See? Even an Alien could see the foolishness of this design at a glance.

On the way, Sandora asked me through our mental link, "That little girl is a general-level high-ranking Shilin Apostle, right? Why do you still have to pick her up after school?"

Immediately, I briefly explained to Sandora about Pandora pretending to be my blind sister – at this point, I realized that mental links were really useful. At least in terms of information transmission speed, this high-bandwidth transmission method was much more efficient than talking.

"So that's it... The world of Carbon-Based Lifeforms is really strange, but it sounds quite interesting!"

"...I really don't know how you Shilin Apostles usually live. You don't seem to have any family relationships, do you?"

"How could that be? We also have family-like relationships, it's just different from Carbon-Based Lifeforms. Also – you shouldn't say 'you,' you should say 'we.' Don't forget, although you are a Carbon-Based Lifeform, you are also a high-ranking Shilin Apostle~"

I nodded repeatedly. "Okay, okay, I remember. By the way, I still don't know, what identity are you using to integrate into human society? You're not going to keep it a secret from me, are you?"

"About that... Hehe, I'll tell you a little bit. I'm a big~ noble~ now~~"

Looking at Sandora's bright smile, I felt a chill down my spine: What shocking thing was this seriously off-the-wall guy going to do now?

Just then, a clear female voice suddenly came from ahead: "You're Lily's brother, right? Come quickly! Lily is being bullied!"

I looked up and saw a thin girl with short hair running towards me. I vaguely remembered that she was a classmate of Pandora's, and she had always taken good care of the "blind" and "pitiful" Pandora. Unfortunately, since she wasn't an important character, the author didn't give her a name... Cough cough, just pretend you didn't hear that.

"Huff huff—" The unnamed girl ran up to me, out of breath, and said while panting, "I finally found you. Hurry up, Lily is being bullied by some students from another school!"

"Being bullied?" I asked with a strange expression. "Really? By whom?"

"It seems like a few rich students. I heard they're from Canglan. You guys should go take a look!"

Sandora and I exchanged glances, and a question popped up simultaneously: "What is that girl doing?!"

Although I didn't believe that Pandora, whose combat power was comparable to a heavy armored army group, would be bullied, for the sake of humanity's future, I immediately followed the person who came and ran towards the Junior High Department.

Below the Junior High Department teaching building, we saw a large crowd gathered at a glance.

Sandora and I ran to the edge of the crowd, but found that we couldn't squeeze in at all, so I had to shout, "Lily, are you in there?"

After shouting, I remembered that I could actually contact Pandora through our mental link...

At this moment, Qian Qian's voice suddenly came from inside: "A Jun? You're here!"

It turned out that Qian Qian had already arrived here before me.

After a lot of effort, Sandora and I finally entered the circle and saw the scene inside.

In the center of the circle, there was an empty space of about ten meters. Pandora was standing there expressionlessly, her unfocused gray eyes facing forward. Behind her was a nervous Qian Qian, tightly gripping Pandora's shoulder. Opposite them stood a few young people who looked about our age and were wearing expensive clothes. I seemed to have some impression of the leading young man, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him for a moment.

Our arrival immediately attracted the attention of the people in the circle. Qian Qian's eyes lit up when she saw me and she happily exclaimed, "A Jun, you're here!", then she saw Sandora and frowned, "Sandora, you go..."

I really admire this girl's linguistic talent.

The young people opposite Qian Qian were slightly surprised when they saw us appear, and then their eyes collectively turned to the princess-like beautiful and noble Sandora, letting out a low "Wow—".

"Pandora, what's going on?" I asked the expressionless little Loli through our mental link.

"The leader of those few Carbon-Based Lifeforms claimed to have taken a liking to Sister Qian Qian and tried to take her away. I stopped them."

So that's what happened. I glanced at the few rich kids opposite and already guessed a bit of the truth in my heart. So it wasn't Pandora who was being bullied, but Qian Qian? It really is a cliché plot.

Since the other party dared to target Qian Qian, I couldn't be blamed. I was just thinking of testing the effect of the physical enhancement Sandora had given me, and also getting familiar with the few Shilin Ranged Assistance Attack Abilities I had recently acquired. As long as I was careful, I thought it was possible to leave the other party with half a breath.

Just as I was planning in my mind how to better test my new abilities on the other party, the leading young man took the initiative to speak – he was talking to Qian Qian.

"How about it? Beautiful, have you thought about it? Just come with me. Then you won't have to stay in this broken school with these poor students, and you can live a life you can't even imagine – I will definitely treat you like a princess..."

It seemed that this guy, who was dressed like a walking brand-name clothing rack, was really not very good. He didn't even have any good lines for hitting on girls...

"That blonde beauty over there," the background rich kid opposite suddenly turned his head towards the curious Sandora as he was talking, "Although this Chinese girl is a strong competitor for you, the broad-minded me is willing to give every girl a fair chance to compete. If you are willing, perhaps I can agree..."

...Is this guy an idiot?!

Now it wasn't just me, everyone present, including the little kids who had just started junior high, were looking at the self-satisfied background rich kid in the middle with the eyes of an idiot. To be narcissistic to this extent, he was a divine being in another sense...

Just as I was gradually losing patience and preparing to go up and have a refreshing one-sided slaughter, Sandora beside me suddenly chuckled softly, and then said in a chillingly cold tone, "Heh—it seems something unpleasant is going to happen today..."