Cold, trembling...
When Hei Fengye suddenly jolted awake from her sleep, she found herself in a rather strange place.
It looked somewhat like one of those unfinished model scenes, with nothing but plain white as far as the eye could see.
What was more, quite a few faceless white rubber people had gathered around her, with cylindrical limbs, cylindrical torsos, and spherical heads.
Like her, these rubber people sat at their desks properly, their cylindrical hands placed on the desktop as they stared straight ahead.
She herself was sitting at a desk. A notebook and a book lay on it, with a pencil case placed in front of them.
On the podium stood a rubber person who was clearly two sizes larger than the ordinary rubber people. Wearing a Teacher's Hat and resembling a teacher, it pointed at the blackboard with a pointer in hand.
—The place she was in was unmistakably a classroom.
(...Such cute rubber people. Suddenly, I really want to go up and give them a hard squeeze... Can they be used as erasers...?)
After staring expressionlessly at the rubber person on the podium for a while, Hei Fengye lowered her head and looked at her own hands, then began checking herself over.
But the moment she lowered her head, what entered her sight were cylindrical hands no different from those of the surrounding rubber people.
(Oh... So I'm a rubber person too... Without fingers, I can't squeeze them. What a shame... Hm? How do you pick things up without fingers? Suction?)
Watching her chubby round cylindrical arms somehow take the pencil from the pencil case in front of her, Hei Fengye tilted her head ever so slightly.
Just then, the teacher on the classroom podium forcefully rapped the blackboard with its pointer and spoke in a