The Pen Holder and the Dean of Students

[High-energy warning! Jumpscare incoming!]

Gurgle, gurgle...

Kamiya Konan's head rolled across the floor a few times before finally coming to a stop at the feet of the flat-headed ghost.

In his wide-open eyes, there was no disbelief, only...

Acceptance...

Plop.

The headless corpse collapsed into a pool of blood.

The flat-headed ghost, however, acted as if it hadn't seen a thing, its face once again wearing that expectant smile.

Ignoring the corpse and the blood pool at its feet, it sat down contentedly in Kamiya Konan's chair.

Borrowed it~

The flat-headed ghost patted the desk and politely straightened a tie that didn't exist.

"Hey!!"

At that moment, Wang Meng, who was sitting in the second-to-last row, couldn't hold back anymore.

He slammed his hand against the desk and stood up, pointing at Lu Shiyan on the lectern, his eyes blazing with rage.

"Old man! What are you doing!?"

"Couldn't you have let him finish what he was saying?! What if there really is a fourth ghost?!"

Lu Shiyan stood on the lectern, leisurely putting away his scalpel before pulling out another cigarette and lighting it.

"Haha, chubby kid."

He exhaled a smoke ring, his gaze filled with contempt.

"You don't actually believe that guy has some kind of supernatural ability, do you?"

"I've spent much more time with him than you have. I know exactly what kind of person he is."

Lu Shiyan flicked the ash, his tone certain.

"He's nothing more than a cowardly liar who talks nonsense just to survive."

"People like that aren't worth mourning in this apocalypse."

"You're right, aren't you... Jiang..."

Just as he cast his gaze toward the man who had been sleeping in the back row of the classroom with a provocative smirk, his pupils dilated to their absolute limit!

Because the figure that should have been leaning against the chair had vanished!

Whoosh!

A gust of wind rushed toward his face.

Lu Shiyan felt his vision blur for a second.

A cold, handsome face instantly occupied his entire field of vision.

Oh no...

To be precise.

A fist the size of a sandbag was heading straight for his face!

"Fuck! I should have known..."

Lu Shiyan's mental activity hadn't even finished processing the thought.

Bang!!

The sound of an impact echoed throughout the classroom!

Jiangnan's fist had hit the bullseye!

"Ugh!"

Lu Shiyan felt the bridge of his nose shatter instantly.

Before the agony could even reach his brain, his entire body was sent flying by that incomparably tyrannical D+ grade superhuman strength!

His back slammed hard against the blackboard wall behind him.

Cough!

Because his skin was thick and tough, Lu Shiyan didn't pass out on the spot. Instead, he was bounced back by the recoil and tumbled forward.

Blood, saliva, and that half-smoked huazi danced through the air.

But the moment he hit the ground, he didn't lose consciousness.

Instead, relying on his formidable willpower, he stared tightly at the man charging toward him once again!

"You just won't quit..."

Lu Shiyan's eyes were fierce.

Jiangnan had already closed the distance, throwing another punch!

"Stop it!!"

Lu Shiyan forced himself to overcome the dizziness. He tried to grab Jiangnan's wrist with his left hand to initiate a hold, while simultaneously coiling power into his right fist, preparing to counterattack!

However.

Just as his hand was about to touch Jiangnan's wrist.

Jiangnan's originally fierce and unstoppable straight punch shifted with incredible fluidity!

A feint!

The fist he had thrown out transformed into a palm, backhanding to lock onto the forearm Lu Shiyan was using to block!

At the same time, he lunged forward, slamming his shoulder into Lu Shiyan's chest!

Top of heart elbow!

"Oh no..."

Lu Shiyan felt as if his chest had been struck by a high-speed truck; his breathing stopped instantly.

"Is this... Baji Quan?!"

This guy... his melee skills are even stronger than I imagined!!

That was Lu Shiyan's final thought before his consciousness faded.

The next second.

The world spun.

Jiangnan backhanded his arm, unified his waist and stance, and executed a shoulder throw!

BOOM!!

Lu Shiyan's back slammed heavily into the floor, kicking up a cloud of dust.

His eyes rolled back, and he passed out completely.

Jiangnan stood up straight, adjusted his collar, and calmly flexed his wrist.

He hated it when others disturbed his reading, even if it was just a memo paper.

Of course, listening to stories was no different.

Although he wasn't sure if the final words Kamiya Konan wanted to say were true or false.

That was not a reason for Lu Shiyan to force a kill to silence him and interrupt the information.

Besides...

This old fox had been trying to play routines on his little brother and little sister.

"Most importantly..."

Jiangnan looked at the unconscious figure on the ground, his eyes indifferent.

"How dare you act so pretentious in front of me?"

"Don't you know..."

"In cartoons, there can only be one character responsible for being pretentious?"

Swish.

Jiangnan casually tore off a memo, throwing it onto Lu Shiyan's face.

[If there is a next time, you will die.]

For someone who hadn't actively attacked him, this was his greatest mercy.

Others say there is a first and a second, but never a third.

But for Jiangnan, there was no third.

Because anyone who dared to commit a "second" offense against him was already a dead person by that point.

"..."

In the classroom, everyone was stunned.

Especially those cherry blossom country students, whose mouths were open wide enough to fit an egg.

They hadn't expected Jiangnan to be so decisive, so ruthless!

In their eyes, Lu Shiyan had only killed a "liar" who might have been a fraud, after all.

And yet, just because Jiangnan hadn't finished listening to the story, he had been beaten into such a miserable state?

Isn't this too miserable (satisfying)?!

"Big boss is mighty!!"

Wang Meng was the first to react, waving his fists in excitement.

"Well done, boss!!"

Liu Yuqing even raised her hands to cheer, "I've been annoyed by this stinky uncle for a long time! Always acting so deep! Beat the crap out of him!"

As for Lu Shiyan's teammate on paper, Yekaterina remained seated, not even shifting her buttocks.

She simply watched the scene quietly, her eyes devoid of any worry, replaced instead by a hint of amusement.

It seemed...

Their relationship wasn't as solid as one might imagine.

Jiangnan ignored this group of drama queens.

He walked straight to the lectern, arriving in front of Chen Tong, who was still in a state of shock.

Swish.

Another note appeared.

[Teach the class as you normally would.]

[I am here.]

Chen Tong took the note, looking at the handwriting that pressed deep into the paper, and her wildly beating heart instantly calmed down.

Sometimes, people are just like that.

As long as that man says a word, even if one is in hell, it feels like standing in a castle garden.

She looked up, gazing at the back that was turning to leave, and smiled.

"I will."

Ten seconds later.

Jiangnan had just sat back down in the king's seat.

Ding-a-ling-ling!!!

That class bell sound, which had seeped into everyone's marrow and was carved into their DNA, rang out thunderously!

Hum!

Everyone present, even the survivors who had been struggling to survive in the apocalypse for several days!

Hearing that voice, everyone instinctively shuddered!

Even Jiangnan was no exception.

His hand, resting on the desk, gave a visible twitch.

Others had only endured decades of hard study.

But as a transmigrator, between his past life and his present one, he had at least twenty years of ingrained fear of being dominated!

This had damn well become muscle memory!

The class began: English.

The teacher, Chen Tong.

At the lectern.

Chen Tong instantly entered her zone.

As a lecturer at a 985 university like Binhai University, at only 28 years old, her English proficiency had long since reached a native level!

Both her teaching experience and her crowd control abilities were top-tier.

"Ok, kras, nose root!"

Chen Tong picked up a piece of chalk, turned around, and wrote a few words on the blackboard.

Perhaps out of reverence for the rules, or perhaps because Chen Tong was genuinely a good teacher.

For the next half hour, the classroom discipline was surprisingly good.

Even the ghosts sitting in their seats were listening with great interest.

That eyeless female ghost was even doodling on her desk with an umbilical cord.

Except for Jiangnan, who continued to sleep in the back row, everyone else was immersed in this eerie yet harmonious learning atmosphere.

However.

The good times did not last.

When the pointer on the wall clock above the blackboard quietly reached 2:44.

Hum!

On the lectern, right in front of Chen Tong, a black pen holder exuding a cold aura suddenly appeared out of thin air.

Stuck inside the pen holder were three sticks that looked as if they had been carved from human bone.

Three names were engraved on them respectively.

[Sakura Nana]

[Sakuragi Shita]

[Nagano Ryo]

Immediately after, a line of blood-red text appeared on the desktop.

[Questioning Session: The teacher must close his eyes and shake the pen holder to draw a lot within 5 minutes.]

[The student who is drawn must answer a question. Those who answer incorrectly or are not drawn... will receive punishment.]

Seeing this pen holder, Chen Tong turned pale.

Among the students in the audience, those few surviving cherry blossom country students...

Two of them, upon seeing the pen holder, actually let out a long sigh of relief, their expressions showing a sense of release.

"Hmm?"

Sitting in the first row by the door, Yu Shishi, who hadn't been listening to the lecture at all and was planning to zone out, noticed this scene.

She was a bit puzzled, so she lowered her voice and quietly turned around to ask the female student behind her who had just let out that sigh of relief.

"Hey... classmate..."

"Have you attended this class before? What does this pen holder mean?"

The female student behind her wore thick glasses and looked like a model student who only knew how to study by rote.

Her name was Momoka Rika.

Seeing that someone from the Jiangnan team was asking, Momoka Rika didn't dare to hide anything, so she whispered in response.

"Actually... this isn't our first time attending this class."

"We've been dragged in twice before."

"But it was always at 4:44 AM, and each time only a few people were randomly selected to come in, unlike today where it's mandatory for everyone."

"This pen holder... belongs to a lucky draw."

Momoka Rika explained.

"At the 44th minute of every class, a special event will be triggered."

"If it were any other incident, the teacher and the students would most likely all be dead."

"But this pen holder... is already one of the very fortunate items among them!"

"We don't want anyone to die, because after they die, they will all become this school's..."

However.

Momoka Rika had not finished her sentence.

Her expression suddenly turned incredibly terrified; her mouth hung wide open, but she could not make a sound.

Because reflected in her pupils was a face outside the window.

"Wha... what's wrong?"

Yu Shishi felt puzzled. Why had she stopped speaking?

Just then.

A fetid smell drifted in through the gap in the window.

Yu Shishi turned her head to look instinctively.

Hiss!

She saw that outside the second-floor window, at some unknown point in time, a gargantuan face had pressed itself against the glass!

It was a terrifying face, elongated like a horse's, over a meter long, with loose, sagging skin and bulging eyeballs!

Its mouth was split all the way to the ear roots, revealing a mouthful of jagged, yellow teeth.

It was wearing a blue business uniform that had been stretched to the point of bursting, and it was staring tightly at Momoka Rika, who had been whispering!

That was...

The patrolling dean of students, Che Li Zao Miao.

The next moment.

It opened its bloody mouth and let out a hoarse voice, identical to the one on the broadcast.

"Violation!!"

"Classroom discipline... speaking is prohibited!!"

"Punishment is due!!"

The moment the voice fell.

BOOM!!

The window glass shattered instantly!

That enormous horse-face skull lunged in as if it had slammed through!

Crack!

It bit down on Momoka Rika, who was sitting by the window!

"No!!!"

Momoka Rika only had time to let out a single scream.

Splat!

The immense biting force erupted instantly.

She, along with her desk and chair, was crushed to pieces by that massive maw!

Fresh blood sprayed out from between the monster's teeth like a burst blister, splattering across the entire classroom!

"Gulp."

The monster tilted its head back, its Adam's apple bobbing.

It swallowed.

"Hiccup~"

It let out a satisfied burp, and those turbid, giant eyeballs rotated, scanning the terrified students.

Finally, it revealed a satisfied smile.

"Delicious... let's continue the lesson."