Fragnts
"Why do you all look so surprised? Is it really that strange for to have a wife?"
Liushu retorted.
"No, no, no, it's more than strange! In my mory, teacher Liushu has always been a super deadbeat, so how could you possibly have a wife? Who would be interested in you? And what trick did you use to fool soone into marrying you?"
Mo Ying was the first to express disbelief.
"Teacher Liushu, your wife... does she actually exist? A wife in your phone doesn't count..."
Even Xiya didn't believe him.
"Non-human doesn't count either!"
Shuang Yun added.
"Teacher Liushu! You must have read too many online novels and started believing so beautiful girl would fall into your lap for free. It's impossible. You need to wake up."
Mo Ying said.
"What are you all talking about... My lover is real."
Liushu lit a cigarette.
Liushu's expression, for once, beca a bit more serious. He didn't look like he was just spouting nonsense.
"....."
The three students glanced at each other, faces blank with shock.
"Then how co we've never seen her?"
Mo Ying asked.
"She's far away, but she'll co back soday, I'm sure of it."
Liushu smiled.
That was the first ti the students saw a hint of happiness in Liushu's smile.
It seed to be true!
"I can't accept this!"
Mo Ying began rolling on the grass in frustration.
"Even Teacher Liushu has a wife now, and I haven't even been in a relationship! I want to have a passionate romance with a man just like my father! I'm already nineteen!"
"Please, just lower your voice a little. If this keeps up, the whole world will know you're a daddy's girl."
Liushu covered his face.
"Ahhh! I can't accept it, I can't accept it!!"
Mo Ying flailed her legs and then curled up, rolling around on the grass.
Do people really act like this when they're extrely unwilling to accept sothing...?
"Teacher Liushu... class is over..."
Teacher Zhi Ying walked over and quietly reminded them.
"Class is over?"
Liushu glanced at his phone; it was about ti.
"I'm begging you, could you at least teach for one more minute, even if it's half-heartedly?"
Teacher Zhi Ying seed exasperated.
"All right, all right, class dismissed. It's so late already. Mo Ying, stop rolling. Let's go eat."
Liushu picked up Mo Ying, who was now covered in grass, and headed for the cafeteria.
What? You're wondering why Liushu took Mo Ying to the cafeteria?
That's because there's a discount for student al sets, but not for teachers. Liushu could have Mo Ying buy two sets.
"Teacher Zhi Ying, have you ever heard about Teacher Liushu's wife?"
Xiya was cleaning up the trash left on the ground.
"Teacher Liushu's wife? Huh, is this so new kind of cold joke?"
Zhi Ying's first reaction was that it was a prank.
It seed even Teacher Zhi Ying hadn't heard anything about Liushu having a wife.
"I don't think Teacher Liushu was lying, because... that smile was truly a happy one,"
Shuang Yun said.
"I know..."
Xiya tossed her trash into the bin.
"If Liushu really does have a wife, that's reasonable, I suppose. With you three beauties on his team, yet he still acts utterly listless and never tries to show off."
"It would make sense if he's been married all along."
"Still, I'm really shocked that soone could actually fall for Teacher Liushu..."
Zhi Ying comnted.
No wonder, really, because Teacher Liushu's entire deanor was that of a super slovenly uncle, his dress was ordinary, he didn't look rich, and there was nothing about him that girls would find attractive at all.
"I'll ask him about it myself another day. For now, I need to plan where I can have a rare drink this weekend, whoop!"
Teacher Zhi Ying started planning her weekend and walked away.
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It was Saturday. The school was on holiday and there were no classes.
As ti passed, it beca late afternoon.
Mo Ying lay in bed, covered with her blanket, holding her phone and scrolling through today's news.
One look at her and you could tell she'd pulled an all-nighter gaming.
Reaching under her pillow, Mo Ying took out a prism-shaped shard.
There was a clock hand on the shard, slowly rotating.
This was a gift from soone nad Yinhua.
It was also this gift that brought her and Xiya to Yggdonia.
"I'm giving this to you. When you reach the future, return it to ."
"Goodbye, Mo Ying... we'll et again in the future."
Those were the words spoken to her by the girl nad Yinhua.
This thing couldn't be stored in her space, so Mo Ying could only keep it under her pillow.
She hadn't told anyone about the shard, not even Teacher Liushu or her roommate Xiya.
Because this fragnt possessed an incredibly terrifying power.
Mo Ying gently moved the dial on the shard.
"....."
She saw the future.
Soon, Xiya would open the dorm room door and bring her dinner.
... This shard allowed Mo Ying to see the future.
"*Click*."
The sound of a key turning ca from the dorm door.
Mo Ying quickly put away the fragnt.
Xiya ca in, carrying her dinner for the night.
Just as Mo Ying had seen monts earlier.
"Still sleeping?"
Xiya put dinner on Mo Ying's desk.
"I just woke up."
Mo Ying stretched, yawned, and sat up.
"You played gas way too late last night."
Xiya remarked.
"Well, it's my day off today—nothing scheduled."
Mo Ying headed to the bathroom, quickly tidied her ssy hair, and threw on so clothes.
After getting ready, Mo Ying sat down at her computer, pulled up a video, and began to dig in.
☆☆☆
"Good evening, ailu. Business is great as always,"
Liushu stepped into a tavern called Seat of Dawn.
Ailu was the proprietress here.
"Good evening, Liushu,"
Ailu greeted him warmly.
"It's a rare holiday tonight, so bring three beers—chilled, thanks."
Liushu said to her.
"All right, coming right up."
The tavern was busy and Ailu was a bit overwheld.
Liushu wasn't in a rush and found himself a seat.
"Your beer."
A petite silver-haired girl brought Liushu three bottles of liquor labeled 96°.
"Tina, it's not vodka I asked for—just regular beer,"
Liushu said to Tina.
The girl, Tina, was clearly not human—her eyes flickered with data. She was a Tianke: a machine.
"Um..."
Tina seed to realize her mistake, took the vodka away...
"Your beer."
Then she returned with six bottles of vodka.
"That's not what I asked for either..."
"Tina, don't co to the front counter if your systems are malfunctioning."
Another girl with long gray hair ca out from behind Tina. Her na was Lilica, and like Tina, she worked part-ti in the tavern.
It was normal for machines to malfunction occasionally, but Tina's glitches had lasted a long ti, and still hadn't been fixed.
Lilica finally set down three bottles of beer for Liushu.
"You two don't have it easy here,"
Liushu sighed, cracking open a beer.
"It's not too bad. Work like this isn't exhausting—I don't get tired,"
Lilica replied. She wasn't human either, but a doll.
Both dolls and Tianke were rare races, but here they appeared together in this tavern.
"I'll get back to work. Call if you need anything more."
Lilica wheeled Tina away.
Liushu didn't say anything. He simply drank beer all the way until deep into the night, when almost all the custors had left.
Lilica ca back over to his table.
"Don't get too into your waitress role. You two aren't here just for the job, are you?"
Liushu lit another cigarette.
"We've been working on the hunting ground investigation too. We even spent a lot of money buying intel from Hunters, but it's all been useless."
"Hunting grounds just appear out of nowhere, no warning at all."
"I've fought my way to the deepest part of the hunting ground, and there was nothing, just a bunch of sickening monsters. I killed so many my hand nearly broke,"
Lilica said, pulling off her left hand with her right as easily as removing a doll's part.
"See? It's even cracking. I'll need to get it fixed again."
Lilica reattached her hand.
"How many monsters did you kill...?"
"Hundreds of thousands?"
Lilica replied vaguely.
"You literally hacked your way through the hunting ground..."
Liushu said, sweating.
"I've tried collecting information both inside and outside the hunting grounds, but there's really nothing useful. What do you expect— to sit down and interview the monsters?"
Lilica spread her hands, clearly exasperated.
"You and the others found nothing either?"
"Not a thing! If I had, would I still be asking you?"
Liushu flicked his finished cigarette into the bin.
"Every day at a certain special ti, the hunting ground resets, and the monsters are revived. So, going on a killing spree inside doesn't accomplish anything. We have to figure out why the hunting grounds appear in the first place."
Lilica explained.
"Honestly, it's a crap job,"
Liushu sighed.
"I agree—the main reason is Luna doesn't care at all. If she'd make a move for once, we wouldn't be working this hard,"
Lilica sighed too.
"You're better off looking at the sky than expecting anything from her."
"Why?"
"Maybe soone will just fall from the sky and answer all your questions."
Liushu lit another cigarette.
He wasn't kidding, because their boss really was that unreliable.
"I also think that's more likely."
Lilica let out another sigh.
Such misery.
-------------= Clacky's Corner -------------=
Hmmm, they're investigating sothing...
Also, is Yinhua the forgotten girl?
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