Side Story 01 - After School Murder
Senagad College is a strange school.
Located in the suburbs, it is a full-time school that encourages the free development of students and the shaping of their personal talents. It has excellent material conditions and an outgoing and extroverted school spirit. However, for some reason, the students' overall academic performance is among the best in the entire city of Feinheim. Therefore, entering this school has become the dream of many children entering the exam period.
──But unfortunately, the student admission standards of this school are very strange and stubborn. Anyone who does not meet the standards will be turned away. Sometimes, even if the child's parents are powerful and have a lot of money, they cannot buy a place in the school. There are rumors that the principal himself is a big shot and doesn't care about these things at all.
Therefore, although the school is large, it still has a small number of students and is well-known for producing weirdos.
The student union there, in particular, was given the strange title of "Lovers of Disaster".
Let’s start from somewhere to explain what’s going on.
It was a bright, sunny morning. During the noisy morning meeting before class, Yaye, the head teacher (and chemistry teacher) of Class 1, Grade 2, kicked open the door and threw the handouts on the table.
"All you little bastards, sit up straight! Morning meeting is about to begin!"
Hearing that thunderous roar, the students who were originally whispering to each other immediately quieted down and sat down in their seats obediently. However, the expression on most people's faces when they looked at Yaye was not fear - but an expression of subtle fondness and intimacy.
Yaye seemed very satisfied with the students' obedience, so he narrowed his eyes.
"Well, good. Have you finished the homework assigned yesterday?"
The classroom was filled with voices of "Done" and "Yes--" one after another, but there was an exception - two boys who looked exactly the same and were sitting in the back row of the classroom raised their hands at the same time.
“Teacher Yaye, we didn’t do—”
Yaye's eyes flashed red, and he picked up two pieces of chalk and threw them at the two boys at the same time. The two boys caught the chalks with exaggerated gestures and saluted to the students who were watching the excitement.
"Teacher, please don't be like this. We are delinquents. How can delinquents do their homework?"
"That's right, I can still make the top ten in the exam. How can I be worthy of my 'Adenzi' if I start writing?"
Yaye stood on the podium with his arms folded across his chest:
"Bad guys are just deputy positions, right? Aren't you Xiang Beichen's bodyguards and thugs? And don't give your tattoos ambiguous names."
At this point, a petite girl sitting in the row in front of them finally couldn't ignore it anymore and turned her head away helplessly.
"Black Disaster, Su Jie...don't deliberately make Teacher Yaye angry. Make up for it before noon today."
“Eh—”
“How could this happen!”
At this moment, a blond boy who looked quite honest next to the girl turned his head:
"Two big brothers, I'd like to lend you my homework. Please don't embarrass Miss Beichen."
"Xiang Ying, don't violate the rules openly in front of the teacher!"
"Uh! Sorry... Next time I'll borrow it when the teacher isn't looking..."
The blond boy took back his homework book with an apologetic look, while Yaye on the podium threw a piece of chalk at Xiang Ying's head with a slightly helpless look.
This student, Xiang Beichen, although a daughter of a wealthy family, was not at all arrogant. She was a good student with excellent character and academic performance. After becoming the class monitor, she had always handled the class affairs well. However, the problem lay with the three bodyguards who were forced by her adoptive father to accompany her classmates to study.
Xiang Ying is relatively honest, hardworking and good-tempered, but he is extremely protective of his own people and only has eyes for his daughter and his two brothers.
The twin brothers Heihuo and Sujie are two notorious bad boys. They are obviously very smart but they choose to be rebellious and imitate bad boys. As a result, they imitate them in a weird way, so that even real bad boys dare not approach them. What's more hateful is that although they are very noisy, their grades are still pretty good.
Yaye snorted:
"It's okay to skip homework for other subjects (?), but you dare not do well on this fun and cute chemistry homework taught by Mr. Ben! Do you believe I will force you to drink aqua regia?"
"...If the other teachers hear them, they will cry, Teacher Yaye."
"You are murdering Teacher Yaye."
"Besides, chemistry isn't interesting or cute at all—"
There were a lot of complaints from the audience below the podium, and veins popped out of Yaye's head:
"The students originally scheduled for duty can go play right after class. The complaining little bastard and Black Plague Su Jie will be on sanitation duty today!"
Black Disaster screamed: "Wow, Teacher Yaye is seeking revenge!"
"Speaking of which, Mr. Yaye, the duty schedule in our class is almost never carried out as usual. It's almost always taken up by troublemakers every day—"
Beichen couldn't help but interrupt:
"This is great. It reduces the incidence of class violations, and it also saves everyone from the hardship of doing duty. Teacher Yaye has good intentions."
"Teacher-student love!!"
"Teacher Yaye is an old cow eating young grass!!"
"Beichen squad leader is an uncle control!"
What was originally meant to calm things down ended up making the complaints even worse, causing Beichen to twitch his lips. "I'm not obsessed with older men! Besides, I'm already a sophomore in high school, so how can I be considered a 'young hunk'?! Those who called me a 'young hunk', go write a letter of apology saying they're suspected of being a 'lolicon'!"
Yaye also looked unhappy: "Who is the uncle? Is there an uncle as handsome as me? I am obviously a charming mature man with vampire temperament!"
It is true that Yaye has a vampire temperament, because he has a pair of dark red eyes and his teeth look a bit scary. Occasionally, when he intimidates students, you can see his sharp fangs from his evil smile.
"Yeah, yeah, it really is a vampire vibe, but aren't you tired of cosplaying like this every day, teacher?"
"Su Jie, be more self-disciplined. Stand at the back of the classroom with five books on your head and a bucket in your mouth."
Like every morning meeting, today's pre-class speech was also spent in a noisy atmosphere.
After spending nineteen minutes arguing with the students, Yaye was quite competent enough to explain the matters concerning the regular test that was about to begin and the fifty-fifth anniversary celebration that was about to begin in the last minute. So when the bell rang to end the morning assembly, as if it was precisely calculated, Yaye said the last sentence, "Hei Huo and Su Jie, don't forget to bleed and stay for duty," then picked up the lecture notes and left without looking back.
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After Yaye left, a tall figure came in from outside the door.
──The first class was Chinese, and the Chinese teacher was Gu Yinyue.
Although he is called a Chinese teacher, Gu Yinyue looks more like a physical education teacher - tall and strong, with muscles wrapped awkwardly in clothes that look like Zhongshan suits, short black hair that sticks back, and light gray eyes that look like the eyes of a wild animal at first glance - if it weren't for his silent and well-behaved personality, anyone who saw him would think he was a gangster instead of a liberal arts teacher at the school.
As soon as Gu Yinyue entered the classroom, the relaxed, lively and playful atmosphere disappeared completely, and the air suddenly became cold and full of pressure - it seemed that these students were indeed afraid of this teacher.
The wolf-eyed Chinese teacher glanced at the students who were huddled in their seats and nodded slightly. Beichen immediately shouted:
"Stand up—salute—sit down!"
After the neat pre-class greetings, Gu Yinyue opened the book on the podium:
"First, as usual, there will be a one-minute impromptu speech. Today, it's the turn of—"
He said as he glanced at the seating chart in his hand.
"Xiang Beichen, Xiang Ying, it's your turn today. The topic is 'Back View'. You still have five minutes to prepare. The rest of you, take out your notebooks. I'll check them."
So Beichen and Xiangying began to prepare the topic nervously, while the others quietly took out their notebooks and spread them out on the table - Gu Yinyue began to walk between the desks, sweeping his sharp eyes over the notebooks, occasionally picking up a few books, glancing at them, and making a few brief comments.
Walking to the table of Hei Huo and Su Jie, Gu Yinyue was silent for a few seconds, picked up Hei Huo's notebook, glanced at it, frowned for a moment, and then nodded expressionlessly:
"I don't object to you writing a fantasy novel as an essay, but if you're going to write it, you have to keep writing it until the end. Digging holes without filling them is a taboo for me."
The corner of Black Fire's mouth twitched - the problem was that he had only started it on a whim!
Then Gu Yinyue picked up Su Jie's notebook again: "It looks like a good prose poem, but I hope you can remove the obscene words and phrases in it. As a student, it's too early to be thinking about these things now."
"No, no, it's not that you're too conservative, Mr. Yinyue, I heard that you're still a virgin──"
Gu Yinyue's face immediately turned red suspiciously, then he pressed Su Jie's notebook back on the table and walked to another row of seats - but Su Jie's face turned green, he pinched the corner of his notebook with his index finger and middle finger and lifted it lightly, and he saw a notebook-shaped groove on the table.
──Teacher, you're definitely a martial artist, right? Actually, you're some martial arts master who came to teach at this school to escape your enemies, right?!
Five minutes have passed, and it's time for the impromptu speech.
Xiang Ying stood up first, glanced at Beichen awkwardly, and coughed lightly:
"Miss Beichen's back is petite but very charming. The bow on the back of her school uniform suits her very well. Every day, the bow has a different shape and looks unique. No, I should say that this school uniform is tailor-made for Miss Beichen. Speaking of which, Miss Beichen's school badge seems to be missing. I plan to look for it after class today...."
"Sit down," Gu Yinyue interrupted Xiang Ying. "Every time you speak freely, your target is Xiang Beichen. It's boring. Also, even though you're her bodyguard, this level of observation can be considered perverted harassment."
Gu Yinyue complained! ! Devil Gu Yinyue complained about Xiang Ying's problem!
Black Disaster muttered quietly, "And this is seriously off topic. If we're talking about his back, we should focus on Xiao Beichen's butt or something..."
Before he could finish his words, Heihuo was silenced by Gu Yinyue's glare.
Xiang Ying sat down somewhat depressed, as if she was unwilling to finish praising Beichen. Beichen on the side, as if he had long been accustomed to this, sighed loudly and stood up:
"Speaking of silhouettes, I saw a suspicious figure near the storage room this morning. He was wearing a thick windbreaker, even though it was summer, and a large, wide-brimmed hat. He looked tall and broad-shouldered, and at first glance, he looked like a cowboy. But then I thought about it and wondered why he'd be in a school like that... But a silhouette like that does give people a lot of ideas. For example, he's a mysterious killer hired to kill a teacher hiding in the school... Or maybe he's a school worker who's secretly in love with a school beauty but doesn't dare to confess, so he can only hide in disguise and observe the person he likes..."
"sit down."
As Gu Yinyue spoke, he gently pressed down Beichen who was talking too much, and reached out his big hand to pat Beichen on the head.
"You've been reading too many detective novels and girls' comics lately."
"Uh-huh."
Beichen laughed guiltily.
"But since you're so enthusiastic about this kind of thing, I'd like to trouble you with something."
"Yeah? Teacher, please speak."
"My ruler is missing. I kept it in a drawer in my office. I found it had been moved when I came to work this morning."
"oh!"
Beichen's sense of justice and detective spirit immediately burned brightly, and he seemed to have no idea that there was anything wrong with discussing detective topics with his Chinese teacher in class.
"Okay, teacher! Leave it to me! Uh, but if you don't have a ruler, what are we going to do in class today? I can't punish anyone with corporal punishment."
In fact, class monitor, you don’t need to specifically remind this devil teacher that he uses corporal punishment—the whole class was crying and complaining in their hearts.
"It doesn't matter."
Gu Yinyue picked up a piece of chalk from the podium behind him and threw it towards Su Jie who was chatting with Hei Huo. Su Jie quickly shrank his head, and with a "puff" sound, the chalk sank directly into the wall behind him.
“…It’s possible to discipline some monkeys without a ruler.”
"I'm not a monkey!"
"That's right, brother, even if I'm a monkey, I'm still the Monkey King!"
Bang bang bang!
The three chalk bullets fired in quick succession made the twins dare not complain, while Gu Yinyue picked up the Chinese textbook as if nothing had happened:
"Okay, let's start the class. Please turn to page 192..."
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So another day passed.
After school, Heihuo and Sujie were originally clamoring for Beichen to accompany them to a nearby coffee shop to eat the newly released desserts, but the good class monitor Beichen remembered what Yaye had instructed early in the morning, so he detained his three bodyguards and started to do the cleaning work honestly. Although the three Heihuo always caused strange things, they would never complain about what Beichen decided, so the four of them worked while chatting until the sun set.
"So, if you don't want to do these hard tasks in the future, just complete Teacher Yaye's homework."
"But it's so funny when Mr. Yaye's eyes are narrowed and glowing red. I deliberately didn't do it to make him angry. ...Right, bro!"
"That's right, who told him to eat young grass?"
Hearing what the twins said, Xiang Ying on the side was not happy: "Two big brothers, whatever others say is fine, but how can you say that Miss Beichen is a young grass! Even if Miss Beichen is a plant, she must be the king among plants! For example..."
"…Pitcher plant?"
"Very Queen Flower?"
"You are all ghosts!!"
Beichen stuffed the mop in his hand into Xiangying's hand with a helpless look:
"Hurry up and align the tables and chairs! I still have to investigate the disappearance of Teacher Gu Yinyue's ruler!"
"But the master should first look for the missing school badge—"
"Then let's look for it together! I'll go empty the water in the bucket, so hurry up!"
Beichen said this as she walked out of the classroom carrying a bucket of dirty water and headed towards the toilet - but after a few steps, when she reached a staircase leading to the upper and lower floors, she was stunned.
A dark red pool of blood lay at the front of the hallway, seemingly extending from the staircase leading upstairs. Following the trail of blood toward the stairs... Against the strong light of the setting sun, many details of the interior were blurred, but one could still make out a figure, twisted and dangling from the railing at the corner of the staircase in a strange position. Their white, rolled-back eyes were fixed on Beichen, and blood was dripping down their face.
“Wa ...
After the bloodletting, girls' screams were heard in the corridor of the teaching building.
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