You Actually Bribed a Teacher

Sobu High School, club activity room.

Bang! A brush dripping with black ink was slammed heavily onto the table.

"Why?! Why does the ace of the art club, a future top-tier artist like me, have to write such an embarrassing club sign for you?!"

Sawamura Eriri grabbed her golden twin tails with both hands and stared at the freshly written wooden plaque on the table, her whole face so red with embarrassment it looked ready to bleed.

On the antique-looking wooden plaque were five wildly written characters brimming with chuunibyou energy—[All-Heavens Rescue Club].

"Don't say that, Eriri. Your semi-cursive script is beautiful. The moment you wrote those five characters, the whole thing felt at least a level more impressive." Lin Xiao stood beside her, looking at the plaque with satisfaction as he gave her a thumbs-up.

"Besides, something this meaningful should obviously be made by ourselves. Anything someone else made definitely wouldn't be as good as yours."

"Hmph! Stop... stop flattering me!"

Eriri turned her head away. Though her words were full of resistance, upon hearing Lin Xiao's praise, her signature twin tails still could not help swaying smugly in the air twice.

By the window, Yukino Yukinoshita elegantly lifted her teacup and took a small sip, her cool gaze falling on the plaque.

"If we hang a sign that makes us look like some underground pyramid scheme outside the door, I can already foresee the student council coming to shut us down tomorrow."

"Yukinoshita, broaden your horizons a little. How can saving all the heavens be called a pyramid scheme? This is great humanitarian relief."

Lin Xiao spouted nonsense with a perfectly serious expression, then picked up the wooden plaque and walked outside the activity room. Under the watchful eyes of the three girls, he firmly hung it above the doorway.

"It feels like even the air here has become fresher." Miko immediately clasped her hands together devoutly and bowed to the sign. "As expected of Lord Lin Xiao's barrier! This place is practically the safest sacred refuge in the entire universe!"

Seeing Miko's fanatical expression, as though she were worshipping the chief deity of a shrine, Yukino and Eriri both rubbed their foreheads and sighed.

"It's over. There's really a brainwashed fanatic here," Eriri commented despairingly.

"Yo! It's the first day of the new club. Is everyone getting along well?" Their homeroom teacher, Shizuka Hiratsuka, strode in.

However, the instant Shizuka Hiratsuka entered the activity room, all three girls froze.

Though Shizuka Hiratsuka was still wearing her ever-present white coat today, her entire state of mind had undergone an astonishing change.

The fatigue and faint dark circles caused by her frequent late nights had vanished completely! Her already exquisite mature features now glowed with rosy, healthy skin, radiating an astonishing beauty!

"M-Ms. Hiratsuka?" Eriri's eyes widened in surprise. "Did you get some kind of top-tier beauty spa treatment today? Your skin is in unbelievably good condition!"

"Haha, is it really that obvious?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka subconsciously touched her smooth cheek, delighted. Then she turned and patted Lin Ye's shoulder with great approval. "Lin Xiao, that 'special-effect skincare product' you gave me yesterday was incredible! I only used a little last night, but when I woke up this morning, all my fatigue was gone, and my skin had improved too. I knew I hadn't misjudged you."

"As long as it worked. As a student, it's only right to care about a teacher's health." Lin Xiao smiled, quietly hiding his contribution.

Yet this seemingly ordinary exchange between teacher and student instantly completed a terrifying "logical chain" in Yukino and Eriri's minds.

Special-effect skincare? Something that could make a teacher glow overnight? And even make her approve a ridiculous name like [All-Heavens Rescue Club] without hesitation?

"Using some unknown, highly suspicious anti-aging drug to bribe a school teacher in exchange for permission to establish this illegal delusional club..."

Yukino silently pulled out her phone and skillfully dialed the police. "As expected, I should not have held any expectations of your moral character as a human being. To prevent you from using this unknown 'potion' to deceive innocent girls in the future, please allow me to escort you to the police station immediately."

"Wait! Calling the police is way too extreme! It's just an ordinary skincare product imported from Greece!" Lin Xiao broke out in a cold sweat.

"You pervert! Scumbag! Underground quack doctor!"

Eriri was so furious that she directly crumpled up some scrap paper from the table and hurled it at Lin Ye. Her golden twin tails danced wildly through the air. "I thought you were just a chuunibyou! But for your goals, you've already fallen so low that you're a smuggler stuffing prohibited drugs to teachers! No wonder you used a sleazy word like 'service'! Drop dead, you huge pervert!"

"No, listen to my explanation! It really isn't a prohibited drug!"

Watching Lin Xiao get furiously denounced by the twin-tailed girl while desperately trying to snatch Yukino's phone away.

Shizuka Hiratsuka paused for a moment, then shook her head with a helpless smile. As their teacher, she naturally knew these students were just fooling around.

As she watched Lin Xiao's flustered appearance, a trace of a teacher's gentleness and relief flashed in her eyes.

This boy, who had always kept to himself and remained calm about everything, had finally found companions he could laugh and quarrel with.

"Ahem... All right, don't take it too far."

Shizuka Hiratsuka lightly tapped the doorframe and adopted a teacher's authority. "The club has only just been established, so remember to submit your recent activity plan to my office tomorrow. I still need to grade some quiz papers, so I won't disturb your 'saving all the heavens.'"

"Ms. Hiratsuka, don't leave! Testify for me that the medicine isn't poisonous!" Lin Xiao desperately stretched out a hand toward her.

"You young people really get along well." Shizuka Hiratsuka waved with a smile and left the activity room in high heels, her mood cheerful.

In the corner, Miko Yotsuya avoided the battlefield while gazing at the besieged Lin Ye with intense admiration.

As expected of Lord God... He can casually produce an immortal pill that completely transforms someone. Even if I die someday, Lord Lin Ye will be able to pull me back from the Sanzu River, right?! Miko's fanaticism deepened once more.