Please Treat Me Like This

After class, Walter called the two who were standing as punishment over and said to them earnestly, "I know that the History of Honkai is a boring subject, so I can turn a blind eye when you two space out in class, but you can't affect other students, right? Let's let this slide, and I don't want to see this happen again next time. You can go now."

Kiana let out a sigh of relief and cheered, preparing to rush out of the classroom. She noticed Sheng Jiu was still standing in place, so she went back and tugged at Sheng Jiu's sleeve. Sheng Jiu gently shook his head at her and turned to Walter, saying, "Teacher, have we met before?"

Walter looked at Sheng Jiu in surprise, scrutinizing him for a long time. "I remember this should be our first meeting. You must be mistaken."

After thinking, Sheng Jiu also responded with a smile, "You're right, I must have been mistaken. Then we'll be going now. Goodbye, teacher."

"Mhm, go ahead."

"Hey, I was wondering, have you met Mr. Walter before?" At the dinner table, Kiana looked at Sheng Jiu beside her suspiciously. Sheng Jiu slowly swallowed his last bite of pasta and said, "I don't know either. I just feel like Teacher Walter has a very familiar aura about him, but I can't quite describe what that feeling is."

Bronya, sitting nearby, stated with certainty, "I understand now! Mr. Walter must also like Alahato, that's why you feel familiar with him!"

"..."

In the afternoon, in the training grounds, everyone stood in neat columns before the instructor. Major Himeko looked at the group of greenhorns before her and said coldly, "A new week has begun, and you will soon face the B-rank Valkyrie assessment. I don't want any of you to be demoted to Support Valkyrie for failing your practical training results. That's a position only for cowards. Do you understand?"

"Understood, Commander!" everyone replied in unison.

"Very good. I'll give you five minutes. Change into your training gear and gather here!" With that, Himeko walked out of the training grounds without looking back.

"Hey, what are we doing now?" Sheng Jiu stopped Kiana, who was about to hug Yae Sakura and act spoiled.

"Don't pull me! Hurry up and change into your training gear, or Auntie Himeko will be really hard to handle when she gets angry!"

Sheng Jiu walked into a very, very small changing room. It was originally prepared for the academy staff. Compared to the spacious women's changing room, this men's changing room was truly meager. Sheng Jiu took out the training gear that Theresa had prepared for him beforehand and put it on.

It was a set of sky-blue lightweight armor that looked like a trench coat covered with armor plates. It fit perfectly when worn, providing excellent comfort and great mobility. The trade-off was a reduction in the armor's defensive capabilities.

After Sheng Jiu changed into the armor and came out, he quickly attracted the attention of many girls. Because Sheng Jiu himself had outstanding looks and his well-fitting attire quickly charmed some of the girls, some strangers even started handing him their phone numbers.

"Yo, I didn't realize you had such good taste. You actually chose armor similar to mine," Kiana said, walking up to Sheng Jiu with a smug look, showing off her outfit.

Kiana was wearing armor that, at first glance, looked about seventy to eighty percent similar to Sheng Jiu's. However, Kiana's armor was mainly khaki-colored, and it had a black cape on the back. The black base layer outlined her near-perfect figure, especially the long legs under her black leather pants...

"What are you looking at? Do you want to wear matching outfits with me?" Kiana saw Sheng Jiu staring at her without saying a word and playfully teased him.

Sheng Jiu finally came to his senses, swallowed, and smiled back with a mischievous grin, "You found me out, Miss Kiana. Actually, I specifically chose the same armor as you. I think we'd look great in matching outfits."

Kiana's face instantly turned as red as a tomato. "You... you pervert! Believe it or not, I'll kick you all the way to the North Pole later!" At that moment, Sheng Jiu blurted out, "Please do that to me!"

Both of them froze. Kiana's face turned red again at a visible rate, and Sheng Jiu didn't know why he had suddenly blurted out such a sentence. He lowered his head awkwardly. Kiana quickly pounced into Yae Sakura's arms behind her. "Wuwuwu, Yae Sakura, look, he's bullying me!" Yae Sakura patted Kiana's back while looking at Sheng Jiu with a mixture of amusement and helplessness.

Sheng Jiu also gave a wry smile. "Do you believe me if I say I didn't mean it just now?" "Bronya is highly skeptical of that."

"..."

The five minutes passed quickly, and the group stood before Himeko in their various armors. Himeko glanced at her watch. "Four minutes and fifty-four seconds. Hmph, you're on time this time." She then took out a box of ping pong balls and said, "There are twenty ping pong balls here. Each of you will come up one by one, pick one, and then engage in practical training with the person whose number matches the one on the ball. The loser has to do 500 push-ups for me!"

Sheng Jiu looked at the ping pong ball in his hand, which was marked with the number 13, and felt lost in the noisy crowd. Just then, he felt a killing intent from behind him. He turned around and saw Kiana looking at him with a sinister smile. "I saw it just now, you're number 13, right?"

"You, what do you want..." Sheng Jiu took two steps back guiltily. Kiana looked at him with a fierce expression and raised her left hand. The ping pong ball in her hand clearly read "13".

"Come on, I'll teach you a good lesson." Himeko, standing outside the crowd, looked at the bickering pair and the corners of her mouth curved slightly. "Kiana, you and the new transfer student, get ready. The first practical exercise will begin shortly."

"I couldn't ask for anything more. Let's go, you pervert!" Sheng Jiu, with a dejected face, was dragged into the armory by Kiana.

In the training grounds, a large open space was cleared. In the center, Sheng Jiu held a training katana about a meter long, while Kiana at the other end held two training handguns. Sheng Jiu said, on the verge of tears, "You're cheating! How can you use guns!"

Kiana giggled, "What's wrong with that? This doesn't violate the training rules. If you can use them, you can have them too. If you were fighting Bronya, that... ('Heavy Trooper Bunny 19C, locked on...') that genius, she could even use her Heavy Trooper Bunny. Alright, shut up, the fight is about to begin. I won't hold back!"

As Himeko gave the command, Kiana's expression instantly changed from relaxed and playful to sharp. She aimed at Sheng Jiu and fired four shots in rapid succession. Four training rounds flew towards Sheng Jiu.

"It's over, the handsome guy is finished! What a shame, I thought he was really something!"

"What's the big deal? He's only in his first class after all. It's not embarrassing to be instantly defeated. Weren't you instantly defeated by Class Monitor Fu Hua in your first class?"

"Shh, keep it down!" A girl named Rin and another named Eno whispered to each other outside the field. In their eyes, Sheng Jiu was about to be hit by the four training rounds and then lie on the ground, GG...

Sheng Jiu nonchalantly brushed the dust off his clothes and shouted to Kiana across from him, "Keep going, why aren't you shooting anymore?"