Chapter 9

"Careful!"

Seeing the cheetah open its mouth, Jilan Jiyu put down their luggage and quickly grabbed the cheetah by the collar, pulling it behind them!

"Ugh, ptooey!"

The above are just onomatopoeia. Jilan looked at the cheetah's actions with some disbelief. The cheetah actually opened its mouth, made a disgusted spitting motion, coughed a few times, and then walked to the pool and washed its face with water.

So, does that mean the cheetah never intended to attack the woman?

"Thank you for earlier," an employee behind Jilan suddenly said.

Jilan turned around and shook her head. "I should be the one apologizing. If I hadn't said anything, you probably wouldn't have panicked. Besides, the cheetah wasn't planning on attacking you in the first place; I just made an unnecessary movement."

The girl with short black hair paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "You're right, but you only did what you thought was the right thing to do, so I still want to thank you."

After saying that, she continued, "Excuse me, are you a tourist? I'm a zookeeper, Aoi Hana."

Jilan shook her head. "I'm not a tourist. Do you know the Pro Hero Mad Rabbit? I'm here to find him."

"Mad Rabbit, you mean the zoo director?" Aoi Hana, somewhat surprised. "Very few people come looking for the director..."

After yesterday's misunderstanding, Jilan now carries her identification with her at all times. She took out her student ID from her pocket and handed it to Aoi Hana: "I'm Jilan Jiyu from the Hero Course at U.A. High School. I'm here for Work-Study Program."

"Is that U.A. High School in Tokyo?!" Aoi Hana exclaimed in surprise. "That principal went to Tokyo once and actually tricked U.A. High School.'s top students into coming to a place like this! What is he thinking?!"

With her head down, Aoi Hana suddenly appeared behind Jilan, took off her plastic gloves, placed her hands on his back, and pushed him towards the door, saying, "Hurry up, while the principal is still asleep. This isn't a good place; there's no such thing as a workplace here!"

Jilan, bewildered, was being pushed by Aoi Hana while pulling her luggage all the way to the zoo entrance. Along the way, several animals peered out curiously at the scene.

As they passed by an iron cage, the gorilla inside saw Aoi Hana, let out an excited cry, and pounded its chest.

"Kong, stop yelling, the zookeeper will find out!" Aoi Hana made a shushing gesture. The gorilla tilted its head and paused for a second, but quickly started howling again.

"Awooo!" The howls of wolves echoed through the park, seemingly welcoming the crisp morning.

Next, several animals cried out together, as if in a grand chorus or as if giving someone an alarm.

"Um..." Jilan didn't use much force, and walked in the direction that Aoi Hana was pushing him, wanting to say something but was quickly interrupted.

"Forget about them, you should leave!" Seeing that she couldn't stop them, Aoi Hana sighed and anxiously pushed Jilan towards the door. "Hurry up and leave before the headmaster wakes up!"

The arched zoo sign was now almost in sight, Aoi Hana smiled excitedly, however—

"Stop right there!" The park's loudspeaker suddenly blared, "Aoi Hana doesn't stop, I will take it as a provocation and I will punish you!"

"Who cares about you? I don't want anyone else to suffer!" Aoi Hana shouted as she turned her head and continued pushing Jilan forward.

"Hehehe, interesting. You want to race me? Even if you started a hundred years earlier than me, you slow tortoise wouldn't be as fast as me!"

On the roof of a bungalow, the headmaster stretched and warmed up while coldly watching Aoi Hana approach the gate. He took a running start on the roof and then leaped into the air!

"Fleeing Rabbit--Hop!"

Like a dazzling shooting star, a black shadow crashed to the ground, blocking the only way to the zoo entrance!

"Director..." Aoi Hana stopped in her tracks and swallowed hard.

Jilan narrowed her eyes as she watched the figure emerge from the smoke. To leap over two hundred meters with just a short running start, and clearly still have energy to spare—is this the Mad Rabbit's true strength...?

A rabbit head, a red scarf, and a black tracksuit—that's the principal's true form. With a smile on his rabbit face, he stylishly points a finger at Aoi Hana: "You've already lost. No matter what, you tortoises can never beat a rabbit!"

"I'm sorry, I can't save you..." Aoi Hana removed her hand from behind Jilan's back, sighed helplessly, and turned to walk into the garden.

"Hey, zookeeper, stop right there! Aren't you going to explain yourself to me?!" The rabbit zookeeper said angrily, seeing that she was completely ignoring him.

"Ah, hehe." Aoi Hana turned her head, revealing a tired yet mocking smile, and then left without saying anything.

"When there are no rabbits in the mountains, the zookeeper becomes king. I must find a chance to teach this guy a lesson..." the rabbit muttered, turning to look at Jilan, its eyes shining. "You're the guy who performed at the concert, aren't you? You're really interesting..."

"What's so interesting? Are you the Pro Hero Mad Rabbit? You really live up to your name..." Jilan said calmly, "Now, can you get off my head?"

"That kind of thing doesn't matter!" The rabbit had somehow jumped onto Jilan's back, excitedly patting him all over.

"Should I call you Mad Rabbit or Headmaster?" Jilan asked. "What should I do now? Where did I put my luggage?"

The rabbit jumped off Jilan, a smile spreading across its face. "I don't know how to answer all these questions. Just call me Director, and for everything else, ask the zookeeper!"

"Was it that zookeeper from earlier...?" Jilan hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Director, when I came here, Principal Nezu said you seemed to have the ability to revert your Quirk, right?"

"Quirk restoration? Who told you that? I didn't." The rabbit blinked, looking completely unaware.

He took the initiative to walk up to Jilan, picked up his suitcase, pulled on the handle and pushed hard, jumping onto the suitcase as if riding a bumper car and heading straight into the park.

"That's not important. Now come with me to where you'll be settled!"

Jilan's combat suitcase was also in his suitcase. Now he was empty-handed and could only follow the headmaster.

Upon arriving at a room, the headmaster placed the suitcase at the door and gestured for it to be placed there. "This is your room. Unpack it yourself; I won't interfere."

"I can do it myself." Jilan walked to his side and nodded.

The house looked like a single dormitory room, with all the necessary amenities, but it seemed no one had ever lived there; the room was covered in dust.

"Director, putting everything else aside, can you tell me what I need to do?"

The headmaster paused for a moment, stroking his hairy chin as he paced back and forth. "That's right, I was only thinking about bringing you here and didn't think about this... Hmm, I've got it!"

He turned to the rabbit and a big smile appeared on its face, "You can help take care of the animals, and let's work together to achieve our goal of making our zoo the best in the country!"