The next day.
Furina slowly woke up from her bed, the sky outside was already bright. She rubbed her eyes, still feeling a faint excitement recalling what she had done last night.
She walked to the window and pulled open the curtains; a ray of sunlight hit her face, making her already hazy eyes even more dazed. On the distant street, traffic flowed endlessly, most people had already woken up and started their new day.
She looked at the sky outside, then at the alarm clock on the wall showing 8:30, and instantly relaxed.
"If it were seven o'clock now, I'd probably rush to school, but now I'm completely late, so being a little more late doesn't matter."
At the same time, at the entrance of Cangnan Second High School.
Wu Xiangnan looked at his phone and mumbled, "It's already 8:30. She probably won't come today. I'll go to the sewers to find Ghost Mask King first. Only Zhao Kongcheng is silly enough to wait at the entrance all day."
With that, he got up and headed towards the suburbs to rendezvous with the rest of Team 136... At exactly 9:00 AM, at the entrance of Cangnan Second High School.
"Oh, it's you again." The security guard in the guard booth at the entrance said, looking at the frequent latecomer.
Furina, who was trying to sneak in through the electric bike lane, scratched her head sheepishly, "Hehe, old man, how about you... make an exception?"
"An exception my ass, how many times has it been this month?" The security guard lectured Furina, shaking his thermos with goji berries, "Besides, you didn't even come yesterday, so forget about an exception."
Furina's big eyes were full of confusion, "Old man, how did you know I didn't come yesterday? Is your memory that good?"
The security guard slowly took a sip of water before saying, "If my memory were that good, how could I still be sitting here?"
"Then how did you know I didn't come yesterday?"
"I didn't see anyone with white hair enter the school yesterday."
"..."
Furina dejectedly touched her white hair. Oh no, even the security guard recognizes her now. It will be inconvenient to skip classes in the future.
"Then, old man..."
Seeing Furina about to speak, the security guard instantly guessed what she was going to say and interrupted, "Alright, you don't need to say anything. As soon as I saw you, I notified your homeroom teacher. She should be here soon."
As if to confirm the old man's words, a voice carried by the wind reached Furina, who was still arguing with the security guard: "Fu! Ri! Na! Get over here!"
The voice arrived before the person, making Furina shiver involuntarily.
The pressure from the homeroom teacher was terrifying!
Encountered a homeroom teacher realm expert, tried her best but couldn't win... "That's how it went, Furina was dragged to the office by the homeroom teacher." Li Yifei excitedly shared everything he had seen when he went to the restroom earlier. The expressions of the surrounding listeners were quite varied.
"Li Yifei, I think you have the potential to write novels."
"Ah? What do you mean?"
"You mean Furina and the homeroom teacher fought eighty-one rounds in the air, shattering the sky, this world was destroyed, and then the security guard at the entrance intervened to restore everything before they stopped fighting, right?"
"That's natural, but you all forgot, it's a good thing I was there, otherwise you still wouldn't know what happened."
Surrounding classmates: ...You're quite proud.
Almost everyone looked at Li Yifei with the eyes of an idiot; the scene became awkward, and no one spoke first.
And Li Yifei was still immersed in the grand battle he had just narrated, unable to extricate himself.
After a long while, Lin Qiye, who was behind Li Yifei, asked, "Does she come this late every day?"
"Ah, ah? Qiye, who are you talking about?" Li Yifei, just emerging from his fantasy, scratched his head. It was clear he wasn't fully awake.
"Furina."
"Oh, oh. Her? Not really. She's only late about twenty-something days a month. You can't say she's late every day."
Lin Qiye: ... There are only about twenty-something school days in a month, right?
Just then, the classroom door was pushed open, and a white-haired figure walked in.
Li Yifei's eyes lit up when he saw the newcomer. He immediately pushed through the crowd and went up to Furina, asking, "Furina, tell me, did you fight eighty-one rounds with the homeroom teacher and unfortunately lose?"
"Ah? What are you talking about, Li Yifei?" Furina looked at the "monkey" who suddenly appeared in front of her and asked confusedly, "Do you also have some kind of mental illness?"
Li Yifei: ... She then continued to add insult to injury: "Why don't you go see Qiye, he has experience."
Lin Qiye: ... The dismissal bell quickly rang, and Furina walked out of the school gate, looking around, but didn't find anyone from Team 136.
"This... I thought I had already exposed myself when I went to deliver the letter last night. I didn't expect them not to notice.
Never mind, it's good if they don't come. I don't want to participate in that new recruit training camp at all."
Last night, after Furina delivered the letter, she realized she hadn't made any disguise. On the way back, she kept wondering how she would explain if the people from Team 136 came looking for her. But now it seemed she had overthought things; Zhao Kongcheng was so focused on Lin Qiye that he didn't pay any attention to her.
But that's good, it saved her a lot of trouble.
The once clear sky was now covered with a large amount of dark clouds.
Furina brushed the hair from her forehead and looked up at the sky, muttering to herself, "It's going to rain soon. Tonight should be the day Ghost Mask King appears in the Old City District, and also the day Zhao Kongcheng sacrifices himself in the original story.
The Old City District is all self-built houses. I don't have any property there, so I can only wait outside."
With that, she walked towards the Old City District.
After a while, Wu Xiangnan returned to the entrance of Cangnan Second High School, looking at the students coming and going but not seeing the white-haired girl. He then opened his earpiece and said:
"Zhao Kongcheng, are you messing with me? I only see a bunch of students, no Furina."
Zhao Kongcheng, who was in Lin Qiye's room, also looked at Lin Qiye suspiciously: "Didn't you say Furina went to school today? Vice Captain went and said he couldn't find her."
At this moment, Lin Qiye was still immersed in the shock that the student sitting behind him also possessed supernatural abilities. He only came back to his senses when he heard Zhao Kongcheng's voice: "Yes, she went to school today."
"Then why did Vice Captain say he didn't catch her in the morning, and still didn't catch her in the evening?"
Zhao Kongcheng seriously suspected this kid was messing with him, perhaps the two of them were colluding to play a trick on them. After all, this wasn't unprecedented.
"She only came after nine in the morning today, and ran off very fast after school. You can't stake her out during normal school hours."
Lin Qiye glanced at Zhao Kongcheng in front of him and thought: Are they really an official organization? Why can they only stake people out?
When Lin Qiye's voice appeared in everyone's earpieces, the team channel fell silent for a rare moment.
They didn't seem very good at staking people out.