Kiana, Get Out!

Sunlight slanted across the desks, and Ye Li's fingers idly spun a pencil.

He watched Jilin rummaging through Fu Hua's desk. The girl's black hair swayed gently with her movements, and the golden bells tied to her hair ends chimed softly.

"Hey—" Jilin suddenly turned, the golden bells glinting in the sunlight. "You've been peeking at me since a while ago, haven't you?"

The pencil in his hand clattered onto his textbook. Only then did Ye Li realize he had been staring blankly at her back.

"Don't be nervous."

Jilin leaned down, propping herself on Ye Li's desk, and spoke softly.

"I'm not going to eat you. I just wanted to ask you a question... Oh, right... classmate, you look kind of familiar?"

Cold sweat instantly broke out on Ye Li's back.

A breeze swept through the classroom window, brushing against his neck with a slight chill.

He had clearly seen a golden glint flash in Jilin's eyes – the precursor to awakening.

At this critical moment...

"Little Lin? What are you doing here?"

The moment a clear, cold voice rang out from the doorway, the golden light in Jilin's eyes vanished.

Ye Li watched as the girl, who had been radiating an imposing aura just a second ago, now pounced into Fu Hua's arms like a fledgling returning to its nest. The bells in her hair jingled merrily.

"Sister Fu Hua!"

Jilin buried her face in Fu Hua's non-existent chest and rubbed against it.

"Did you see the latest update of Honkai Impact 3rd? I appeared in it too~ I'm the guardian of Shenzhou!"

"Yes, I saw. Very impressive, Little Lin," Fu Hua nodded with a smile.

After receiving Fu Hua's praise, Jilin's eyes narrowed happily, like a kitten whose belly had just been stroked.

"Of course, in my eyes, Sister Fu Hua is the most impressive!"

Jilin said with a smile. "I also heard someone say that Sister Fu Hua was bothered by a boy last night. Who was that boy~"

Fu Hua's finger, pushing up her glasses, paused. She replied with an embarrassed expression, "That boy..."

"What! There really was a boy?!"

Jilin's head shot up. Her cute smile had completely vanished, and a faint clinking of metal could be heard from her sleeve.

Ye Li's pupils contracted sharply.

What the heck!

Is the security at Senba Academy really that bad?

They can't even detect this kind of controlled weapon!

"The rumors about the boy are just people spreading gossip,"

Fu Hua calmly pressed Jilin's arm and gently pressed a pressure point with her fingertip. The sound from the girl's sleeve immediately ceased.

"But you, why are you here in our class?"

"Of course, it's to check if Sister Fu Hua is being bothered by strange people~"

Jilin said with a completely matter-of-fact expression.

"Like those guys who pretend to borrow notes but actually want to ask you out for milk tea, or those jerks who use 'asking for help with problems' as an excuse just to talk to you..."

Looking at Jilin's gritted teeth, Fu Hua had the illusion that the person in front of her wasn't Jilin, but a "darker" version of Jilin.

Could it be that in Ye Li's restarted timeline, these two have merged?

The class bell rang at that inopportune moment.

As the class monitor, Fu Hua naturally had to maintain classroom discipline, and Jilin was also persuaded to leave by Fu Hua.

Looking at Jilin, who was reluctant to leave, Fu Hua suddenly said, "Study hard. I'll make your favorite longevity noodles when we get back tonight."

"Yay!"

Jilin, who had been dejected, instantly perked up. "Sister Fu Hua, I'm going to class right now!"

Having received the promise, Jilin was about to storm out of the classroom when she suddenly slammed on the brakes at the doorway.

"Oh, right!"

She suddenly clung to the doorframe, sticking half her body back in, and made a throat-slitting gesture towards Ye Li.

"Classmate, if I ever find out you have any improper thoughts about Sister Fu Hua..."

Before she could finish, the sound of footsteps suddenly echoed from the hallway, and Jilin's threat was cut short.

Theresa, who was about the same height as Jilin, skipped past the window and stopped at the classroom door.

Seeing Jilin 'fleeing in disarray' under her headmaster's imposing presence, Theresa nodded with satisfaction and then shouted after Jilin's retreating figure, "Classmate, which class are you in? Don't run around the hallway during class!"

After entering the classroom, Theresa slammed the textbooks onto the podium and announced her identity as the substitute teacher.

"The academy is holding an event soon, so your teacher Himeko had to attend a meeting. I'll be covering this class..."

However, just as Theresa was about to start the lesson, she was shocked to discover that not a single student in the entire class looked up at her.

They all had their heads bowed, eyes glued to their phones.

Seeing this, Theresa's face turned red with anger, her cheeks puffing out like a cute balloon.

She stomped her delicate little leather shoes forcefully, making a crisp sound, but the students engrossed in their phones didn't react at all.

"Hey, hey, hey! Playing on your phones during class time? Do you not respect me, your substitute teacher!"

Seeing that the students still paid her no mind and continued playing on their phones.

Theresa's fists clenched instantly.

Don't get me wrong, her fists got hard!

Fine, fine, fine!

So that's how you want to play.

This clearly shows you don't respect me, your Headmaster!

If I don't teach you a lesson today, I'll be ashamed to be the Headmaster of Senba Academy!!!

Just as Theresa was about to grab one or two typical students as an example to warn the others, Kiana, sitting in the second to last row, suddenly chimed in:

"Auntie, Honkai Impact 3rd has an update!"

"What Honkai Impact 3rd or whatever, it's class time! Put away your phones!"

"But Auntie... I heard Himeko say that you also watch Honkai... in the office every day..."

"Kiana, you get out!"

Kiana: ???

Seeing her aunt kick her out of the classroom, Kiana was completely stunned.

How can speaking the truth get you punished these days!

It seemed the 'killing the chicken to scare the monkeys' tactic worked, as the students in the classroom reluctantly put away their phones.

Then, Theresa nodded with satisfaction and turned on the projector for the lesson.

"School rules state that playing on phones during class is not allowed, but there's no rule against using the projector during class!"

With that, Theresa projected the latest update video for Honkai Impact 3rd onto the big screen.

"Teacher Theresa, you're the best!"

"Teacher Theresa, we love you!"

"Teacher Theresa, you're so cute!"

Uh...

Did something strange sneak in there.

Feeling the unusually high spirits in the classroom, it was evident how popular Honkai Impact 3rd was among the student body.

However, as the saying goes, People's joys and sorrows are not interconnected; I only find them noisy.

Compared to the excited classmates, Ye Li was silently shedding tears in his heart.

Because...

If Ai-chan keeps exposing him like this, he'll eventually be forced to eat a knife.

A real knife!

Meanwhile, looking at the students' happy faces, Theresa felt it was all worth it.

It's absolutely not because she wanted to watch it too, absolutely not!

And even if you take a step back, this class I'm covering was originally a self-study period, so what's wrong with watching videos?

Thinking this, Theresa felt like a genius!

"Oh, right..."

Looking at the students engrossed in the video, Theresa suddenly felt like she had forgotten something.

But adhering to the principle of 'if I've forgotten it, it must not be important', Theresa also began to watch the video intently with the students, entering the world of Honkai Impact 3rd.

Little did she know, a certain white caterpillar outside the classroom was gazing longingly.

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