Vol 1 Chapter 8 (1/2)

Ijima Meiko, Takahas.h.i.+’s Hostility, and the Earth Dog

After cla.s.s had ended, Meiko-sensei smiled at me, picked up her books and left the cla.s.sroom.

I have to say, ice queen beauty Meiko-sensei, it’s fine if you don’t smile, but once you smile, that’s going to cause a lot of trouble.

The looks the guys shot at me made me uncomfortable; and I’m also not sure why Satsuki was upset as well, so I’ve decided buy some snacks to coax her.

After buying a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of Satsuki’s favourite yogurt, I returned back to the cla.s.sroom.

“Where did you go? Went to look for Meiko-sensei?” Satsuki unhappily asked.

“What’s this?”

I placed the bottle of yogurt in front of her and she immediately smiled: “Ah~~~ my favorite. Lin Xiang, how did you know that this is my favorite drink?”

“I know everything about what Risa-chan likes.”

“Idiot.” Satsuki face reddened as she raised her voice and s.n.a.t.c.hed the yogurt and orange juice from my hand.

“Hey hey, that orange juice is mine.”

“Idiots don’t get to drink.” As she said this, she opened the bottle of orange juice. Her mouth latched onto the bottle, gulped it down in a few seconds and then followed up with a *hmph~*.

“You…. I’m thirsty.”

“I’ve already drank from it before, you still dare to drink it?” Satsuki placed the bottle in front of me.

Come on, why wouldn’t I dare? You might not know but in the previous world, you often drink drinks that I’ve drank before, and I often drink yours as well okay?

I picked up the bottle and drank a mouthful. Afterwards, I held the bottle in my hand: “Ku~~~ even though I haven’t drink it for some time now, it still tastes so good.”

It’s been about a month since I drank this sort of orange juice. Now that I’ve drank it, it still tastes as good.

“Stupid.” Satsuki face became very red, and came rus.h.i.+ng over, wanting to s.n.a.t.c.h the bottle from my hand: “Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid Lin Xiang. You….”

“Hey hey hey, what is it?” I was baffled.

Satsuki s.n.a.t.c.hed the orange juice from my hand: “I told you to drink it, and you actually drank it.”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“But…. but…. isn’t that an indirect kiss? This’s common sense.” Satsuki, with her reddish face, said in a low voice.

Indirect kiss ! ? I never thought of that before. In the previous world, you didn’t care about it at all. Could it be that the you from the previous world lacked common sense?

“S…. sorry.”

“Humph~~~” Satsuki snorted; looked at the bottle in my hand, and then back at me: “Forget it, since we’re kind of like sisters.” Afterwards, her small mouth once again latched onto the bottle opening, and drank a few sips.

After she finish drinking, her face became even redder, but she seemed happy.

She secretly peeked at me, and said: “Idiot, next time…. don’t do this again.”

“I definitely won’t.” How will there be a next time? Satsuki-san. What happened just now was seen by Takahas.h.i.+. Even though the teacher isn’t here yet, the cla.s.sroom is slightly noisy, slightly chaotic, and we are sitting quite far back, but did you know that you’re one of the most popular and prettiest girls in our year? How many lessons are there when guys wouldn’t look at you? Don’t you realize that what you did just now was seen by some of the guys? Did you now know that there’s a high chance that those guys will come and kill me?

“Why are you so serious….. actually you can…..”

“What’d you just said?” I couldn’t hear what Satsuki was saying earlier.

“Nothing.” While speaking, Satsuki gave me her favourite yogurt and continued to drink that orange juice.

——————————Lunch Break

“Cla.s.s 1-C’s Lin Xiang-san, please come to the staff room.” The announcement rang throughout the school.

Just as I took out my lunchbox, the announcement came. I helplessly stood up: “Hey, the croquettes are inside, help yourself. Remember to leave some side dishes for me.”

After informing her, I left the cla.s.sroom.

What did they call for me for?

Two months since the start of school, not once have I been called to the staff room before.

— Staff Room

Pillar Nofu Academy’s staff room was pretty impressive. The teachers’ staff room was pretty much like a big companies’, where the employees have their own office.

Who was it that called for me?

“Little Xiang~~~” At this moment, Meiko-sensei’s very attractive voice rang.

The white blouse that she was wearing completely revealed her seductive figure. Together with that short black skirt and black stockings, it was practically an undisguised temptation.

“This way, Little Xiang.” Meiko stood in front of her office door, signalling me to go in.

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“Excuse me, is there something wrong?”

“You still have the nerve to ask, didn’t I ask you to come and find me after cla.s.s?” Meiko poured two cups of tea, and gestured for me to sit.

After I sat down on the sofa, she came and sat beside me and stuck her body close to me: “Hey, Little Xiang….”

“Sensei, you’re too close.” I immediately stood up.

Today’s Meiko-sensei is so strange, did something happened?

She stood up, and charmingly said: “The day before yesterday, after school, I happened to go to that Mountain Spring Bookstore.”

Mountain Spring Bookstore? Wasn’t that where Satsuki and I went to buy our books? We were attacked by Yamada on the way there. Don’t tell me….

“So? Why are you looking so surprised? Did you feel like something was exposed?” Meiko’s expression became serious.

“I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

“The Lin Xiang I know, is someone who’s very timid, and has no fighting skills.” The corner of Meiko-sensei’s mouth slightly moved, into a strange smile.

“Tell me, who are you? Where did the real Lin Xiang go?”

Meiko’s cold words were like needles as they p.r.i.c.ked my heart with every word. Did she discover something?

‘Freed, Freed’ I tried to call for Freed, however, there wasn’t any reply.

‘Yalide?’ Yalide also didn’t answer.

Dammit, did we talk too much during the spirit explanation cla.s.s and exceeded the time limit?

“Sensei? What are you talking about? I’m really Lin Xiang.” I tried to play the fool.

“Perhaps you’re able to deceive others, but you won’t be able to deceive me. I can clearly detect the small change in the spiritual power in your body

“I really don’t understand what you’re….” Before I can finish, Meiko’s hand conjured up spiritual power. I knew this was called spiritual knife — it’s melee attack power was not small.

Her speed was fast, as her right hand swiftly did a cut diagonally. Shocked, I immediately dodged her attack, and pulled away from her.

“Sensei, I’m really Lin Xiang.” There truly is a reason why I can’t talk about it. Oh Meiko, don’t tell me, you want me to say that I came from another world? Yalide has repeatedly stressed that I must keep this and the fact that they are currently living in my body, a secret from others; even from my uncle.

“If you’re really Lin Xiang, then you shouldn’t be able to dodge that attack just now.” Meiko’s word may not meant much to her, but it meant a lot to me. Her words, severely hurt my pride, no, nerdy Lin Xiang’s pride.

I can’t believe, that in her eyes, nerdy Lin Xiang was a person with the weakest of the weakest ability. What a pity~~~ and here I thought that she was an amiable sensei.

Meiko initiated another attack at me. This time, I noticed her attack was faster than before. It seemed like her attack style appears to be Sanda?

(TL: Sanda is a freestyle martial art)

Her legs came kicking towards me and I immediately blocked her kick. During the time that she attacked me, her hands were not idle. Her left hand came punching towards my head, and her right, aimed for my chest. How was I supposed to block that?

I lightly kicked her legs, and she immediately lost her balance, and fell backwards. Well~~~ after all, her center of gravity was focused on her upper body.

I swiftly held onto her waist. At this moment, her original white face, blushed and became red. This was my first time seeing her face redden; her cheeks became very red, like a girl who had just put on makeup, which became even more charming.

She repeatedly slapped against me: “Let go, let go, quickly let go.”

I quickly helped her up.

At that moment, a deep and powerful voice came out from the storage closet in Meiko’s office: “Good.”

“Worthy to be Grandmaster Battle Technician Lin Fan’s son.” From the storage closet, an elder with white hair and a youthful complexion emerged. The elder wore an ancient kimono, and the kimono was draped with a gray cloak; the feeling was quite like some great elder from some anime called “Bleach”, that I watched in the past.

“Grandfather.” When Meiko saw the elder come out, she went to walk behind the elder.

“Hoho, Little Xiang, I didn’t scare you, right?” The elder kindly asked.

“No, no.” Was he the headmaster, Ijima Michita?

“Hoho, that’s good. First off, I must apologize to you. Come and sit down, I’ll tell you what happened.” The headmaster sat on the sofa.

The headmaster’s body did not let out any spiritual energy, as if he was just like an ordinary old man.

Although his body didn’t emit any spiritual energy, I could still feel that he was actually a very formidable person, whose spiritual energy achieved the rank of Battle Elder and is at its fifth or so level. No, as long as he continues to train, he should be able to reach Battle Saint in a short time.

I couldn’t help but sigh in regret; at how frightening this person was, and how fearful his lineage was. The headmaster was at most 70, but yet, his spiritual power was this high; this was truly incredible. No wonder Meiko, only at the age of 20, was able able to reach the magus cla.s.s; it was all inherited from her grandfather’s spiritual power.

He patted my shoulder as I sat beside him, and he kindly smiled: “I’m really sorry that I could never find the time to visit you.”

“…..” I didn’t say anything as I listened to him while Meiko was at the side pouring tea.

“Your father, Lin Fan, was my apprentice and my best friend.” Headmaster drank a sip of tea, and sighed: “He was my one and only apprentice, as well as the only one who can be counted as my most intimate friend.”

“As you know, your parents pa.s.sed away when you were very young. They fought against the demons and died an honorable death; all of it was to protect you, and protect the Human World that’s full of life.”

I already knew of this; nerdy Lin Xiang’s parents were incredible people with very strong abilities. The only thing is, regarding the son they gave birth to — nerdy Lin Xiang, his ability was so bad that it was a complete mess.

“Just now, the reason why Meiko attacked you, was because she said that you had changed a lot and even saw you defeating 5 Junior Magicians and 2 Battle Masters by yourself. Due to this, she had a hunch that you might not be a real person, that you might be a demon in disguise, so she called me over to check whether or not you have demon magic in you while she fought against you.

“So it was like this.” I finally understood why Meiko attacked me. It’s because she suspected that I was a demon in disguise. However, it’s not surprise that she suspected me. After all, my change was really significant, furthermore, I even became bolder.

“Sorry Little Xiang.” Meiko smiled at me: “Truthfully speaking, when I saw you get beaten by those two Battle Master bullies, I wanted to step in immediately. However, I didn’t expect that not only were you not knocked out by their fists filled with spiritual power, you even turned the tables that quickly, which really shocked me.”

“Is that so.”

“Yes. Furthermore, during cla.s.s, the things I did and said to you, were to test you. I wanted to see, when in front of so many people, what would your reaction be like. Who knew that you would be unexpectedly calm. At that point, I increasingly became more suspicious of you.” Meiko thought for a moment before asking: “Hey, can you tell me, where did you learn those boxing skills?”

“Even if you ask me, I also….” Don’t tell me you want me to say, I learned them when I was in the boxing club in Junior High? This world didn’t have any boxing clubs, and at most, boxing was only used in compet.i.tive sports. Let me ask you, where would you be able to find an idiot who uses their fists when fighting demons?

Eh?….. Seems like there was an idiot who did that, and that’s me. Lin Xiang.

“Meiko.” Headmaster glanced at Meiko and said: “There are things that shouldn’t be asked.”