I'm Just an Ordinary Student

Hearing Lin Xiao's roundabout admission, Miko's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

It really was him!

No wonder there wasn't a single powerful evil spirit around here.

Because a living Ultraman was attending school here!!! Even if those evil spirits merely glanced at him from ten kilometers away, they would probably be directly laid to rest by that light!

"Y-you really are...?" Miko's voice trembled with excitement.

"Shh!"

Quick as lightning, Lin Xiao covered Miko's mouth. After checking that no one nearby was paying attention, he lowered his voice and said through gritted teeth:

"Classmate, you can see those strange things, right? The so-called Yin-Yang Eyes?"

Miko nodded desperately.

"Listen, this is absolutely confidential. If you dare tell anyone..."

Lin Xiao had originally intended to say something harsh to scare the girl who had unboxed his identity.

But before he could finish his threat—

Miko Yotsuya suddenly stretched out both hands and clung tightly to Lin Ye's arm. An unprecedentedly fanatical gleam erupted from her tear-filled eyes!

"I won't tell! I absolutely won't tell! Not even if you beat me to death!"

Miko clung to Lin Xiao's arm like an accessory, her voice cracking with excitement.

"Lord Gaia! Please take me in! Can I eat lunch with you from now on? I can run errands and buy you drinks! I can copy homework for you! Just let me stay within five meters... no, ten meters of you!!"

What a joke!

This was a walking humanoid exorcism machine! This was a Light Giant who could beat the hell out of sixty-meter monsters!

As long as she held onto this thigh, forget evil spirits—even if Sadako crawled out of a television, she would probably get blasted into ashes by a single beam from him!

Lin Xiao looked down at the girl who had seemed ready to die just moments ago, but was now clinging to him like a crazed believer. All he felt was a pounding headache.

He finally understood Batman's helplessness at having his intelligence exposed.

"Fine, fine, let go first. Everyone's staring!"

Lin Xiao sighed helplessly. "If you want to come along at lunch from now on, go ahead. But let's be clear: at school, I'm just an ordinary second-year student. Understand?"

"Understood! Ordinary classmate Lin Xiao!"

Holding her red bean soup, Miko immediately stood at attention and even gave him a solemn salute.

Watching Miko recover to full health on the spot, Lin Ye rubbed his temples.

Good grief. He had pretended not to know Yukino Yukinoshita over there, only to get physically unboxed by Miko Yotsuya over here.

The walk from the vending machine to the rooftop took less than three minutes, yet he had somehow managed to experience the feeling of an old man taking care of a child.

Because behind him, Miko Yotsuya held that can of red bean soup and followed him with tiny steps, rigidly maintaining an extremely precise "safe social distance."

"I'm saying, Yotsuya, you don't actually need to follow so closely. As long as we're at school, those things generally won't dare come near me." Lin Xiao turned around with a headache.

"Security only feels real when it's within my line of sight! Ordinary classmate Lin Xiao, just treat me like a ghost following behind you and ignore me!"

What the hell was an ordinary ghost following behind him?!

Lin Xiao rolled his eyes. Too lazy to correct the transfer student who had clearly been traumatized, he pushed open the iron door leading to the rooftop.

However, the moment Lin Xiao stepped out, his gaze met another pair of cool, clear eyes.

On a bench in the shaded part of the rooftop, Yukino Yukinoshita sat with her legs elegantly crossed, a novel in her hands. The breeze lifted her ink-black hair, making her look like a tranquil painting.

"Yo, landlady—cough, Yukinoshita. What a coincidence."

Lin Xiao greeted her naturally, swallowing the teasing remark that had almost slipped out.

Yukino closed her book. Her gaze lingered on Lin Ye's face for a second before naturally falling on Miko Yotsuya, who was peeking out from behind him like a startled rabbit.

The air suddenly became strangely quiet.

Yukino's gaze swept between Lin Ye and Miko twice. A subtle fluctuation flashed through her normally placid eyes, one she herself did not notice.

What was going on?

In Yukino's understanding, Lin Xiao was, besides being a student, also the Light Giant who existed in the group chat.

That made her feel that, in this ordinary school, only Yukino Yukinoshita knew his true identity.

That unique bond, as though they stood on the other side of the world together, gave the always-proud girl an inexplicable sense of peace.

But now—

Why had this invincible person suddenly grown a little tail behind him? And the way that girl looked at Lin Xiao—fanatical, dependent?

"Lin Xiao."

Yukino stood up, her cool voice ringing across the rooftop.

"Although I have heard that some boys develop a peculiar psychological inflation after surviving a crisis.

I never expected that, on the transfer student's very first day at school, you would bring her to the rooftop in such an... almost 'kidnapping' manner. May I ask, is this some new form of school bullying?"

"With which eye did you see me bullying her?"

Speechless, Lin Xiao pointed behind him. "She insisted on following me, okay?"

Hearing Yukino's icy voice, Miko shuddered.

Such a powerful presence!

Though it was not as terrifying as the monsters she saw with her Yin-Yang Eyes, the oppressive aura of "keep strangers away" radiating from this black-haired beauty made her scalp tingle even more than evil spirits did!

"N-no!"

Terrified that the thigh she had just latched onto would be misunderstood, Miko hurriedly jumped out from behind Lin Xiao and bowed ninety degrees. "I chose to follow Lin Xiao myself! Because... because only when I'm by his side can I feel safe!"

The instant those words came out, Yukino's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

Safe?

Yukino seized on that word with extreme sensitivity.

She looked at Miko's unmistakable dark circles and the expression of someone clutching at a lifeline in utter desperation. A thought suddenly crossed her mind.

"Could it be... this girl has also encountered some supernatural danger that science cannot explain?"

"And Lin Xiao, just as he did when he saved Shinobu Kocho, reached out a hand to her?"

Of course.

Someone who shone like him, even if he wanted to hide in an ordinary daily life, would always inevitably attract, like a magnet, those in darkness who longed for salvation.

It was just... looking at the transfer student sticking to Lin Xiao like chewing gum, Yukino did not know why, but the proud cat inside her could not help wanting to extend its claws and give a scratch.

"I see. It seems I misunderstood."

Yukino sat back down on the bench and opened her book.

"Since Yotsuya feels so safe beside Lin Xiao, then please continue."

"However, as the 'landlady,' I still feel it necessary to offer a reminder."

Yukino slightly raised her head, her beautiful eyes fixed on Lin Xiao with a faint smile. "If spreading goodwill at school is not enough and you intend to take someone home, I will not hesitate to call the police, Mr. Lin Xiao."

Hearing the words "landlady" and "take someone home," Miko was thoroughly confused, but instinctively sensed a trace of killing intent.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao was left disheveled in the wind.

No, Yukinoshita, you were clearly a poised and elegant young lady in the group chat. Why did your sharp-tongued passive skill automatically lock on in real life?!

And why did that sound strangely like she was checking up on him?!

Lin Xiao rubbed his temples and sighed. "Don't worry, Yukinoshita. I guarantee that I'm just an ordinary second-year student and will absolutely obey the law."

The wind swept across the rooftop again.

Yukino looked at the boy smiling helplessly beneath the sunlight, and at the girl tugging at the corner of his clothes.

Though the peace of everyday life had been disrupted, the corner of Yukino Yukinoshita's lips, despite her usual dislike of noise, lifted in an almost imperceptible arc.

"An ordinary student, huh..."