My House Is Huge! (Part 2)

Cong Yu and Lantian Zhu, who understood the cruelty of reality well, felt they had every reason to suspect malicious motives—the alien homeroom teacher might have had the same reason.

Yaochuan Guang, Xiao Cui, and Alya, on the other hand, completely trusted the alien homeroom teacher's explanation... because she did not seem to be lying.

(Maybe even she herself did not know that was the reason.)

"Eh? Then where's your bodyguard, alien homeroom teacher?"

As Yaochuan Guang asked that, she obviously looked around everywhere. Failing to spot the bodyguard, she looked down at the other woman's feet. "In your shadow?"

In response to Yaochuan Guang's words...

"How could that be?!"

The alien homeroom teacher shouted, loudly complaining, "Also, what kind of nickname is 'alien homeroom teacher,' hey?!"

Having finally said what she had wanted to complain about all along, the alien homeroom teacher handed the [Rick-5] terminal to Alya.

"Thank you for your patronage. Five thousand Credit Points."

As she watched Alya pay, the alien homeroom teacher said, "I left my bodyguard at home... Well, I'm not here for work this time—"

As she spoke, the homeroom teacher left the Star Alliance terminal shop. "My aunt works here. I came to hang out with her, but she had already gotten off work."

Gotten off work?

At the homeroom teacher's words, Yaochuan Guang and the others could not help looking up at the clearly still-noon sky.

Could it be like Arca Star here, where the sky suddenly turned dark?

That was what everyone thought.

The homeroom teacher naturally understood what they were thinking and said, "The custom on this planet is for people to work either mornings or afternoons."

"And because neutral planets are pretty chaotic, nighttime is not suitable for going out, nor is it suitable for law-abiding citizens to