Kiana, Get Out!

Morning light slanted across the desks as Ye Li's fingers absently spun the pencil in his hand.

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

"Say—" Jilin suddenly turned around, the golden bells glinting in the sunlight. "You've been sneaking glances at me this whole time, haven't you?"

The pencil in his hand fell onto his workbook with a smack, and only then did he realize he had been staring blankly at her back.

"Don't be so nervous."

Jilin braced one hand on Ye Li's desk and leaned closer, speaking softly.

"I'm not going to eat you. I just want to ask you something... Oh, right... This classmate, you look kind of familiar."

Cold sweat instantly seeped down Ye Li's back.

A breeze drifted through the classroom window and brushed across his neck, carrying a faint chill.

Because he had clearly seen a golden gleam flash through Jilin's eyes—the sign of awakening.

At that critical moment...

"Xiaolin? Why are you here?"

The instant that cool voice rang out from the doorway, the golden light in Jilin's eyes abruptly vanished.

Ye Li watched as the girl who had been so imposing just moments ago threw herself into Fu Hua's arms like a fledgling returning to its nest, the bells in her hair ringing merrily.

"Big Sister Fu Hua!"

Jilin buried her face against Fu Hua's nonexistent chest and rubbed against her.

"Did you see the latest update of Honkai Impact 3rd? I appeared in it too~ My identity was even the guardian of Shenzhou!"

"Yes, I saw it. You were amazing, Xiaolin." Fu Hua smiled and nodded.

After receiving Fu Hua's praise, Jilin looked like a kitten that had just had its belly rubbed, her happy eyes narrowing into crescents.

"Of course! But in my eyes, Big Sister Fu Hua is still the most amazing!"

Jilin said with a grin, "I also heard people saying that Big Sister Fu Hua was pestered by a boy last night. Who was that boy, I wonder~"

Fu Hua's fingers paused as she adjusted her glasses, and she awkwardly said, "That boy..."

"What? There really was a boy?!"

Jilin suddenly looked up. Her cute smile had long vanished, and a faint clink of metal came from inside her sleeve.

Ye Li's pupils shrank.

Hey, hey, hey!

Was Senba Academy's security really this terrible?

They couldn't even detect a controlled blade like that?!

"The rumors about a boy are just nonsense people made up."

Fu Hua calmly pressed down on Jilin's arm, lightly tapping a certain pressure point with her fingertip. The sounds inside the girl's sleeve stopped at once.

"But you, why do you have time to come to our class?"

"Obviously, I came to make sure Big Sister Hua hadn't been tangled up by any weird people~"

Jilin looked utterly justified.

"Like those guys who pretend to borrow notes when they actually want to ask you out for milk tea, or bastards who use 'asking about a problem' as an excuse just to talk to you..."

Seeing the way Jilin gritted her teeth, Fu Hua almost felt as if the person before her was not Jilin, but Dark Jilin.

Could it be that Ye Li's restarted timeline had fused the two together?

Just then, the class bell rang at the most inopportune moment.

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

Looking at Jilin's reluctant expression, Fu Hua suddenly said, "Study hard. When you come back tonight, I'll make your favorite longevity noodles."

"Yay!"

The listless Jilin instantly sprang back to life. "Big Sister Fu Hua, I'm going to class right now!"

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

"Oh, right!"

She suddenly grabbed the doorframe and poked half her body back inside, making a hand-chopping gesture across her throat at Ye Li.

"This classmate, if I find out you have any improper thoughts about Big Sister Fu Hua..."

Before she could finish, quick footsteps suddenly sounded in the hallway, and Jilin's threat came to an abrupt stop.

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

Watching Jilin flee in panic from the majesty of her position as principal,

Theresa nodded in satisfaction, then called after Jilin's retreating figure.

"Which class are you from? Don't run around the hallway during class!"

After entering the classroom, Theresa slapped the teaching materials onto the podium and announced that she would be their substitute teacher.

"The academy is holding an event soon, so your Teacher Himeko has gone to a meeting. I'll be substituting for this class..."

However, just as Theresa was about to begin, she discovered in astonishment that not a single student in the classroom had looked up at her.

They all had their heads lowered, their eyes fixed firmly on the phones in their hands.

Seeing this, Theresa's face turned red with anger, her cheeks puffing up like adorable balloons.

She stomped hard in her delicate little leather shoes, producing a crisp sound, but the students absorbed in their phones did not react at all.

"Hey, hey, hey! You're still playing on your phones during class? Are you seriously not taking me, your substitute teacher, seriously?!"

Seeing that the students still ignored her and kept playing on their phones,

Theresa instantly hardened.

Don't misunderstand, her fists hardened!

Fine, fine, fine!

So this was how they wanted to play it.

They were clearly not taking me, the academy principal, seriously!

If I don't teach you all a proper lesson today, then I don't deserve to be the principal of Senba Academy!!!

Just as Theresa was about to make an example out of one or two students to warn the rest, Kiana, sitting in the second-to-last row, suddenly reminded her.

"Auntie, Honkai Impact 3rd updated!"

"What Honkai Impact or not? It's class time! Put all your phones away!"

"But Auntie... I heard Teacher Himeko say that you watch Honkai in your office every day too..."

"Kiana, get out!"

Kiana: ???

Watching her aunt kick her out of the classroom, Kiana was completely dumbfounded.

Why did telling the truth get her punished these days?

It seemed the example had worked, because every student in the classroom reluctantly put away their phones.

Then Theresa nodded in satisfaction and turned on the projector used for teaching.

"School rules say phones aren't allowed during class, but they don't say we can't use the projector during class!"

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

"Teacher Theresa, you're the best!"

"Teacher Theresa, we love you!"

"Teacher Theresa, you're so cute!"

Uh...

Did something weird get mixed in there?

Judging from the unusually high spirits in the classroom, Honkai Impact 3rd was clearly incredibly popular among the students.

However, as the saying went,

Human joy and sorrow were not shared; I only found them noisy.

Compared to his excited classmates, Ye Li was silently crying inside.

Because...

If Ai-chan kept exposing him like this, sooner or later he would have to eat blades.

Literally eat blades!

Meanwhile, looking at the students' happy smiles, Theresa felt that all of this was worth it.

It definitely wasn't because she wanted to watch it too. Definitely not!

And even taking ten thousand steps back, the class she was substituting for was supposed to be self-study anyway. What was wrong with watching a video?

Thinking that, Theresa felt she was practically a genius!

"Oh, right..."

Watching the students engrossed in the video, Theresa suddenly felt as though she had forgotten something.

But adhering to the principle that if she had forgotten it, then it probably was not important, Theresa began watching the video intently alongside the students and entered the world of Honkai Impact 3rd.

Little did she know that outside the classroom, a certain white-haired Chongchong was waiting with longing eyes.

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