Chapter 0: She said that she wanted to be friends with me (1/2)

Translator: Night Fury

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Li Nai was not my friend. No, not even an acquaintance.

She had been calling me little transparent-kun all the while. I bet she didn't even know my real name.

I should say that my formal contact with her started from this day. Not that I didn't know her before. Her seat was adjacent to mine, and she was quite famous in school, so naturally some of her great deeds would find their way into my ears.

Li Nai was a celebrity known to every single soul in school. So did Lian Bing and Xue Qing. Yet they three were popular for different reasons. Lian Bing and Xue Qing were liked for their personal charm and temperament while Li Nai's popularity lied in her great number of friends.

She seemed to be able to get along with everyone. I just couldn't help but marvel at her ability of communication. Well, truth was, I admired her for that. My friends were too few while hers were too many to be counted.

It was said that she had over 300 friends, that was nearly one third of the students in school. And she could even get on well with her friends' friends…even students from other schools were her friends. What a complicated network of friends, just like spider webs.

It must be a super power to be able to simultaneously talk with four or five students, to turn someone from white (unacquainted) to green (friendly) in just a few minutes conversation and to make new friends with deep impression left.

Probably that was why Li Nai could be the head of Class Two, Grade Two that was crowded with weirdos and freaks...and monsters.

However, we didn't have any sort of contact as we two were poles apart in personality.

The reason Lianbing and I became friends was she actually was interested in my body, while Xueqing shared a similar personality with me and was also interested in my body. Lan Hua and Yu Hui just were confusingly obsessed with me, which we could put aside for now.

How Li Nai and I became friends was beyond imagination.

We were like two parallel lines that would never meet.

Would a short-tempered hare take the initiative to befriend a slowcoach?

Clearly not. This wasn't something like that in the story The Race Between Hare and Tortoise. And there can't be such a stupid hare.

Conclusion: I and Li Nai would never be friends.

However, that was the impermanence of life. What you deemed impossible would always happen. That was what I felt after what had happened between us.

So getting back to this morning on May 8th.

After being discharged from the hospital, I rode a lady's bike on my way to school on Monday.

”What…?” With a violent tremble, I stopped the bike by the road. A flat tire was confirmed after my examination, not the issue of the chain as I had expected.

But it would have been better should it be the chain as I myself could fix it temporarily. A flat tire was beyond what I could do.

”This can't be! Am I that heavy?”

This bike belonged to Bi Ran who usually would carry Ke Ling with her, while I usually walked to school. I only borrowed it because I was about to be late. And Bi Ran and Ke Ling left home earlier because it was their turns for duty.

I didn't expect a flat tire.

”Oh, that's too bad.” With nowhere to repair the bike, should I manually push it to school? That way I would surely be late.

I only borrowed the bike to avoid being late…and now this flat tire just rendered me right in the middle between my home and school, an embarrassing and annoying position.

So that left me no choice but to take a shortcut 'there'…Honestly, the ghost murdering incident left a terrible impression on me and I didn't really like taking that way. I just got the sinking feeling that something bad would happen every time I got through there.

Whatever! I'd better not be late for my first school day after getting out of the hospital.

I took out my phone and tapped an app with an all-black icon. There appeared on my screen the map of the whole city.

That red dot was me…and the blue circle nearest me was…the entrance to Black Street. Ah there it was! Not far.

The entrance to the street would change weekly, so it was really a matter of luck.

Turning my phone on the GPS mode, I pushed my bike and walked to the marked point without any delay.

Soon I found the place, a dead alley.

It was set that the entrance to Black Street would usually appear at places frequented by few.

Though invisible to the eye, one would experience some dizziness after getting through the marked point, which was the sign of entering Black Street.

However, the group of ”Crowd Actors” before my eyes were the best proof that I was in Black Street.

Last time I was here I felt these Crowd Actors mysterious, now they looked quite ordinary. They lived on this street and were members of 'troupes” who would usually appear in some common TV dramas but mostly they played the role of 'passerby' under certain special occasions.

They stayed in Black Street when off-duty for safety issue and to avoid being targeted by people with evil intentions.

That being said, I completely had no idea as to whether they were acting or not.

Their adept skills in acting was so amazing to the point of clouding the false with the genuine. All these members of ”Crowd Actors” could be superstars if they got out.

Well…it was also possible that they would just portray themselves in movies or TV dramas.

”Hey, good morning, Freshman-kun. Are you on your way to school?”

”Morning! Yes, I'm a bit late, so I'm taking a shortcut here.”

The one talked to me was Uncle Zhang, owner of a flower shop who at the moment was moving a plotted flower to get sunshine.

Seeing that I was pushing my bike, Uncle Zhang massaged his waist and offered, ”A flat tire? Let me fix it for you.”

”Can you?”

”Of course, I can ask a new tire from Lao Liu next door. You can get it after school.”

”Thanks!”

I then left after handing the bike to him and expressing my gratitude.

Like this, people in Black Street would greet me and even offer me help.

They only ignored me last time because they took me as ”Intruder” now they began to accept me after confirming my identity.

Speaking of why I could get into Black Street…

”Oh my!!! I'm getting late! I'm late!”

Familiar voice. Familiar beginning. Just like Mr. White Rabbit who would always shouting 'I'm getting late', some hurried steps approached me from behind.

All passerby retreated in a hurry to avoid any contact with this girl, clearly aware of how annoying the girl was.

So did I.

Having imagined what would happen next, I immediately moved away to the side. Then she should be able to get past me safely. That was what I had hoped.

However…

Peng!

A collision!

But this was not like last collision when she aimed straight at me.

This time, she fell and rolled together with me on the ground.

Luckily, I hadn't had breakfast, or I would have already thrown anything out after being hit by a human cannon.

”Ouch! That hurts!”

”What the hell are you doing?”