Chiba Prefecture Senior Apartment.
"Click."
Lin Xiao opened the door, put on his slippers, and skillfully Earth Flow arrived in front of a room at the far end of the corridor on the first floor.
After entering the complex fingerprint and iris password, an extremely thick lead explosion-proof door slowly slid open to both sides.
Behind the door is a downward staircase, and below is a top-notch underground laboratory with a huge space and full of outrageous science fiction atmosphere!
Every centrifuge, electron microscope and supercomputer here is discreetly printed with a black bat logo.
Yes, this is the Gotham City richest man, in order to thank Lin Xiao, and also to have "academic exchanges" with Ai Haibara, the Otherworld genius girl, this is the complete set of scientific research equipment Batcave that was airdropped via Myriad Worlds Chat Group cross-border airdrop!
At this moment, in front of the sterile operating table in the center of the laboratory.
Ai Haibara is wearing a white coat that is obviously one size too big for her, with a small plastic bench under her feet, and is staring intently at a long list of complex genetic recombination codes on the screen in front of her.
"Huh... no, using the microscopic cell aging model provided by the man in black, the antidote derivation of APTX-4869 still lacks the last few key sequences."
Ai sighed lightly and rubbed his sore eyes.
"Have you encountered a bottleneck?"
Lin Xiao was holding a cup of freshly brewed hot milk, and Earth Flow came in slowly. "You can't rush into science. Even those who stay up late like Batman often lose their hair. As a growing little girl, you should pay attention to the balance between work and rest."
"Thank you." Ai picked up the hot milk and took a sip. Then he glanced at Lin Xiao with his iconic half-moon eyes, and his tone was as vicious as ever:
"If some irresponsible guardian didn't throw some "alien spacecraft fragments" and "Kryptonian genetic tissue" into the laboratory every now and then, which are prohibited items that can completely overthrow geophysics, my workload could be reduced by about 80%."
"Ahem, doesn't that let you broaden your scientific horizons?"
Lin Xiao coughed twice, trying to hide his guilty conscience. Then, he leaned on the experimental table, crossed his hands, and dropped a bombshell:
"By the way, Xiaodouya, I have something to tell you."
"You can go to school starting from next semester."
"..."
Ai Haibara's fingers typing on the keyboard suddenly paused.
She turned her head mechanically and looked at Lin Xiao whose face was full of "I'm doing it for your own good", and a question mark slowly formed in her eyes.
"Class?"
Ai took a deep breath, as if he heard some ridiculous international joke, "Lin Xiao, did you hit Monster recently and broke your brain?"
"I, Miyano Shiho, am eighteen years old. Before I was eighteen, I had obtained a PhD in biology from the top university in the United States. I am proficient in multiple languages and molecular pharmacology."
Ai coldly stated his monster-like resume, and then pointed at his current body of a primary school student:
"Now you want me to carry this seven-year-old body and go to school to play "play house" with a bunch of slug-nosed brats who can't even memorize multiplication tables?!"
Faced with this hard-core suppression of academic qualifications, Lin Xiao was completely unmoved, and even nodded with pleasure:
"Oh, you misunderstood."
"How could I possibly let you go to school in the "Death God Elementary Schooler Novice Village" where Teitan Elementary School is always Deadman?"
Lin Xiao smiled and waved his hand, "This morning we Principal just announced that because of our good Feng Shui, Sobu High School received a huge grant from the Education Bureau.
So starting from next semester, the school will not only undergo major renovations, but also merge surrounding campuses and add a junior high school!"
"So, I said hello to teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka thoughtfully and asked her to hand in your identity file. After school starts, you can go directly to our first grade Sobu High School junior high school to report!"
"Look, junior high school students don't have to memorize multiplication tables. Aren't they very mature?" Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows appreciatively.
"..."
Ai Haibara was holding hot milk and staring blankly at the black-haired young man in front of him who was talking about trains.
Is there any difference between a junior high school student and an elementary school student in the eyes of this 18-year-old genius female scientist?!
And it's not a question of where to go to school at all!
Ai looked at the pile of complex experimental materials on the table, then glanced at Lin Xiao's face that deserved a beating, and took a deep breath:
"Lin Xiao..."
"Is there a possibility... that I don't actually want to go to school at all?"
Ai Haibara's eyes revealed three points of coldness, three points of resistance, and four points of extreme disdain for the impact of IQ dimensionality reduction.
Are you kidding me, asking her, a scientist who can conduct academic discussions with Batman, to discuss the troubles of adolescence with a group of junior high school students? That would be more torturous than being assassinated by Black Organization!
Facing Ai's rational and reasonable resistance.
The smile on Lin Xiao's face instantly faded. He stood up straight, put his hands on the experimental table, and looked down at Ai Haibara who was standing on the small bench.
The feeling of oppression was precisely targeted at this talented lolita at this moment.
"No."
Ai's half-moon eyes suddenly collapsed. "Why?! You are a dictatorial feudal paternalist!"
"Don't blame me. You hide in the basement all day long without seeing the sun. You only watch the microscope and drink coffee. What kind of childhood is this?"
Lin Xiao stretched out his hand domineeringly, pinched Ai's white and tender cheeks, and pulled them to both sides:
"Now that I'm younger, let me enjoy the youth that a normal girl should have! Go make two idiot friends, go to the playground and show off your Sun, even if you just go to class and sleep!"
"The most important thing is..."
Lin Xiao let go of his hand and looked at her seriously. "Sobu High School I'm watching. Only if you stay under my nose can I ensure that no Ushi-oni snake god can hurt you."
Hearing this overbearing, even somewhat straight-male chauvinistic "declaration of asylum".
Ai Haibara rubbed his red cheeks, and suddenly he could not utter a word out of the dozens of venomous retorts he had prepared.
She looked at Lin Xiao's firm eyes, and her heart felt as if a warm current had forcibly broken through her defenses in an extremely unreasonable manner.
"... a domineering bastard."
Ai turned his head and arrogantly avoided Lin Xiao's sight:
"I understand. But let me declare first that I will never participate in those childish club activities, let alone play detective games with those brats!"
"No problem! After class, you can come directly to [All-Heavens Rescue Club]'s high school activity room. Eriri and Yukino will play with you." Lin Xiao snapped his fingers with satisfaction, "Then it's been decided happily!"
"Since it's officially summer vacation today, to celebrate you are about to start a miserable... ah no, wonderful junior high school life."
Lin Xiao waved his hand and took out the Black Card sponsored by Batman from his pocket. "Let's go! Little Douya, change clothes! I'll take you to Chiba Prefecture's most expensive luxury sushi buffet! By the way, I'll buy you some clothes for the start of school!"
"Don't call me little bean sprout!"