Starting as a Magical Girl, I Alone Shall Rule for Eternity

No. 4 High School's Saturday make-up classes for sophomores were actually against regulations.

In previous years, there had been reports filed with the Education Bureau, but the principal had enough influence and connections higher up. Although reporters had specifically come to film on Saturdays back then, even nearly making it on television.

This matter was ultimately suppressed, and to this day, the school's tradition of Saturday make-up classes continued.

Actually, from various perspectives, Saturday make-up classes weren't really a bad thing. Students studied an extra day and could test better, teachers received extra pay, and the school achieved higher college admission rates - a triple win situation.

But for students, having only one day off per week was ultimately quite difficult to endure.

Silver Lotus herself didn't attend Saturday make-up classes. As a Magical Girl from the Disaster Control Bureau, whenever Disaster Beasts appeared, the bureau would directly arrange leave for her. Of course, only the principal knew about this.

Moreover, the Disaster Control Bureau had the ability to predict Disaster Beast appearances, so they would request leave in advance. Generally, Magical Girls wouldn't only deploy when Disaster Beasts appeared, but would already be on site when the beasts emerged, minimizing damage.

This also prevented people from guessing who the Magical Girls were based on who took leave during Disaster Beast incidents.

Of course, even if someone guessed correctly, it didn't matter. The Disaster Control Bureau had a final solution - directly erasing memories with magic power.

As long as Magical Girls didn't want to expose themselves, the bureau had plenty of methods to help conceal their identities.

Unless they were Magical Girls like Hyacinth who voluntarily revealed their identities, ordinary people wouldn't know who the Magical Girls were.

Of course, there were exceptions.

Like Silver Lotus, who due to special circumstances was forced to transform in front of acquaintances...

Silver Lotus had originally planned to rest properly this Saturday. After all, the battle with the Fire Bird Disaster Beast, followed by being forcibly knocked out of transformation state by Shion, clearly caused significant damage to her body. The Disaster Control Bureau doctor advised her to rest well.

But Silver Lotus felt like she barely felt injured today. Unable to sit still at home, she came to school anyway.

Actually, sitting in the classroom listening to lessons wasn't particularly tiring for her...

After the first class ended, she saw Jiang Si being scolded by a teacher outside through the window.

Being an entire class period late - no wonder the teacher was going crazy...

Keke's brother had rather delicate features. If he wore glasses, he'd look like an elegant bookworm type.

However, his eyes contrasted sharply with his appearance.

Calling them icy wasn't quite right - occasionally when his pupils moved, there was some warmth. Calling them empty wasn't accurate either - it wasn't the dullness of someone who wasn't thinking.

"Indifferent disregard" might be an appropriate description, but actually Jiang Si didn't have that superior, condescending attitude.

It was more like he simply didn't care, indifferent to surrounding events, focused only on his own matters.

Silver Lotus sometimes thought of her older sister. Although Yin Luo wasn't that extreme, when she focused on her own matters, she became quite similar.

Very mature, very cool.

For Silver Lotus, she had always admired such a state, because she herself was super easily distracted, struggled to focus on herself, always involuntarily concerned about her surroundings, constantly giving feedback to everything around her.

It was precisely because of this similarity between her sister and Jiang Si that Silver Lotus had felt from the beginning that Keke had probably misunderstood her brother.

Because they weren't truly cold or indifferent to surroundings - they just had matters they needed to attend to, hence displaying such attitudes. Once their tasks were complete, they'd return to normal.

She had previously clashed with her sister over this, but after her sister finished her own matters, she would become gentle and reliable again, actively coming to apologize.

She hoped Keke and her brother could resolve their misunderstandings soon and get along well.

"Li Yi, the teacher wants you."

A classmate called from outside, so Silver Lotus responded "Got it" and stood up to leave.

"Jiang Si! Get your ass to the office with me!"

Meanwhile, Jiang Si's teacher apparently hadn't scolded him enough, or hadn't vented sufficiently in the hallway, so he roared for Jiang Si to go to the office.

Silver Lotus actually knew this kind of teacher didn't genuinely have good intentions for educating students.

There weren't that many good teachers.

This kind of teacher was actually furious because students challenged their authority, especially someone like Jiang Si who easily appeared dismissive - he was practically dancing in this authority-obsessed teacher's danger zone.

So every time he got scolded, the teacher would definitely drag him to the office, because physical contact was possible there.

She had seen the teacher hit Jiang Si with books - it was really excessive.

"Be careful, Li Yi."

When she left the classroom, a classmate whispered nearby, "Stay away from that Jiang Si troublemaker. Don't get implicated. When Teacher Zhang gets worked up scolding people, he'll yell at anyone nearby. He's really fierce. Jiang Si really shouldn't provoke him..."

Silver Lotus smiled, "That should be the teacher's problem, not Jiang Si's fault."

"That's easy to say..."

"Don't worry, the teacher won't dare scold me."

Because she had excellent grades - top three in her year - plus her leave requests were personally approved by the principal.

These teachers all knew Silver Lotus had strong family connections.

She even intentionally walked beside Jiang Si when leaving the classroom. Teacher Zhang, who had been planning to scold them along the way, saw Silver Lotus and immediately swallowed his words, muttering, "What are you doing here?"

Silver Lotus just politely smiled, "Teacher Fang called me to the office, Teacher Zhang."

"Don't walk with Jiang Si."

"Teacher, the hallway is so narrow, and there's more space on Jiang Si's side."

When Teacher Zhang stopped talking, she lowered her voice and whispered, "Don't be afraid. With me beside you, he won't dare scold you."

Jiang Si glanced at this young girl.

Because of his troublemaking presence, Teacher Zhang basically never got bonuses, and excellence evaluations were completely impossible, so he easily lost his temper at Jiang Si.

This Teacher Zhang had been picking on him for ages, and he was long used to it. The half-hearted scolding, occasional physical contact that felt like light scratching - Jiang Si couldn't be bothered to care.

No matter how angry the teacher got, once the next class bell rang, he wouldn't dare keep students detained in the office.

Jiang Si didn't spend much time at school anyway, got caught even less frequently, so being nagged at was no big deal.

Silver Lotus meddling like this just accumulated the teacher's anger.

Sure enough, when they reached the office, the teacher grabbed him, closed the door, then pushed Jiang Si, "Go squat over there! What kind of student like you even deserves to attend classes?"

Silver Lotus, who had been heading toward Teacher Fang's desk, immediately stepped in front of Jiang Si, pretty face filled with anger, "How dare you push him! This is too much! How can No. 4 High School have a teacher like you!"

"What's it to you if I push him?" Teacher Zhang clearly had lost his temper, glaring at her, "What do you kids know? Get lost!"

"He was just late, and you keep losing your temper! How can you call yourself a good teacher acting like this!"

"Whether I'm a good teacher or not isn't for some kid to decide..."

Teacher Fang, who had been drinking tea at his desk, immediately put down his cup and stood up, jogging over to pull Silver Lotus away, "Hey hey, Li Yi come here, why are you arguing with the teacher? And you, Old Zhang, what are you doing, glaring at my student? I'm warning you, this is my class's student, don't use your methods for your own students on mine."

Silver Lotus immediately shook off her teacher's hand, angrily walked to Jiang Si's side, and squatted down beside him, "If Jiang Si doesn't leave, I'm not leaving either."

Teacher Fang looked exasperated, "I asked you to come get the homework assignments to bring back, and now you're camping out here? Old Zhang."

"If she wants to squat, let her squat." Teacher Zhang picked up his water bottle, gritting his teeth, "She can go back when class starts."

"Fine, fine."

Teacher Fang pointed at him, then at his student, returned to his desk and picked up the homework assignments, "I'll deliver them myself, alright?"

"Hmph, Teacher Fang is a coward, always afraid of trouble."

Squatting beside Jiang Si, Silver Lotus whispered, "But he's not bad, treats me well because I have good grades."

They were colleagues who saw each other constantly - tearing into each other would make work inconvenient. They were adults - who would cause work troubles over minor matters?

The seasoned veteran had both protected his student and avoided provoking the hot-tempered Teacher Zhang - probably the best approach.

And even though Teacher Zhang was still angry, he took the offered way out, saying to let them return when class started.

But explaining this to a pure Magical Girl probably meant nothing.

What people called immaturity was an assessment given when abilities were insufficient to overturn the world. When someone had outstanding abilities like Magical Girls, they received different evaluations - unconventional, eccentric.

So as long as abilities were sufficient, people didn't need to change to adapt to society - society had to change to adapt to them.

The so-called independent path in cultivation worked the same way.

The great path follows me, not me following the great path.

"Sorry."

"Even if you hadn't stepped in, Teacher Zhang would have the same attitude."

Silver Lotus paused, then quietly giggled. After all, Teacher Zhang was still angry nearby - if she laughed out loud, there would definitely be more trouble, "No, not that. I mean before, when I said I wasn't a Magical Girl and lied to you - I'm sorry."

Jiang Si had almost forgotten - Silver Lotus had initially concealed her identity from him.

She only exposed herself when forced to transform after encountering the Disaster Beast at the Disaster Control Bureau.

Since he knew from the beginning that Silver Lotus was a Magical Girl, he hadn't remembered that she had previously lied to him.

"It's fine. Magical Girls need to conceal their identities anyway." After thinking, Jiang Si asked, "Do you need to erase my memory? Silver Lotus."

"Huh? No no, it's only troublesome when strangers find out, so we erase their memories." Silver Lotus said matter-of-factly, "Jiang Si isn't a stranger, you're Keke's brother, basically family of a comrade. My family members didn't have their memories erased either - they all know I'm a Magical Girl. As long as you don't spread it around, it's fine."

"Oh."

Actually, even if it spread, they could use memory-erasing magic as backup, so it ultimately didn't matter.

"Also, my name is Li Yi. Silver Lotus is my Magical Girl codename..."

"Isn't your sister named Yin Luo?"

"We chose our codenames together. Back then my sister wanted to become a Magical Girl with me, but she didn't succeed... uh, I'm getting off track, sorry."

Silver Lotus returned to the topic.

"I actually wanted to apologize that day, but when I went to chase the Fire Bird later, I encountered a very powerful enemy."

The girl said somewhat dejectedly, "I couldn't beat her. After losing, I fell unconscious and only woke up much later, so I couldn't come find you."

As the culprit, Jiang Si comforted, "It's not a big deal anyway."

"It's great that you don't mind."

Silver Lotus sighed in relief. She was most afraid of being disliked for lying, "By the way, after your sister returned home, did she secretly transform?"

"Yes, suddenly transformed late at night, messing with barbells, broke the floor at home." Jiang Si didn't hide it.

The girl immediately covered her mouth giggling, "Hehe, I was similar when I first learned to transform. Hid under blankets secretly transforming, really curious about my own strength. The next day I was still sleepy, and when getting up I was still in transformed state... accidentally tore our home's door right off..."

Jiang Si felt relieved that his little sister wasn't that stupid.

But being able to sleep peacefully through the night during her first transformation showed truly outstanding talent. When first transforming, everything felt unfamiliar, and maintaining the form wouldn't last long.

It all required time to adapt and practice.

"If you argue with your sister, you can call me. I'll protect you from being bullied by her."

Looking at Silver Lotus clenching her fist and flexing her muscles, Jiang Si felt speechless.

"But I won't help you bully her either..."

While they were still chattering, Teacher Zhang at the desk grading homework coughed and slammed his cup on the table, "Class is starting soon! Why are you two still squatting there? Hurry to class! Don't waste time here!"

Silver Lotus immediately pulled Jiang Si out of the office. Before leaving, she stuck her tongue out at Teacher Zhang.

"Hmph, he just takes his emotions out on students. Jiang Si, don't be discouraged. Teachers like this are rare at No. 4 High School. You could transfer to another class later..."

"We'll see."

Transferring classes was too troublesome. Other classes didn't want to take in a problem student like him either. Teacher Zhang had tried several times to transfer him, but other teachers were unwilling.

Only when they reached near the classroom did Silver Lotus wave her hand, "Anyway, I'll help you! Don't worry."

Too enthusiastic - could she suspect he was involved with the Azure Cloud Sect?

Then Jiang Si dismissed this thought - the possibility was too low.

Maybe because of that incident where he almost fell from the cloud layer, she had become suspicious of him and wanted to investigate.

Or possibly she wanted to take care of Keke, so was starting with him first.

There were many possibilities. He'd ask Bingtang about internal Disaster Control Bureau information later to make inferences.

Bingtang didn't come to school today - she usually didn't attend Saturdays because she had private family tutors. She didn't even need to come to school, yet she attended more diligently than Jiang Si.

But they didn't meet often at school because Jiang Si avoided encountering Bingtang there.

Being noticed was too troublesome. Bingtang's appearance, personality, and family background attracted surprisingly many pursuers, and there were always brainless people looking for trouble.

He couldn't possibly fight students at school - if he really fought, even the principal couldn't protect him. At school, he could only pretend not to see those looking for trouble, and outside school those cowards ran faster than anyone.

So at school he tried to avoid Bingtang too.

When returning to his classroom seat, he accidentally noticed that the student in the third row on the left looked familiar.

He later remembered it was the student blocked by the Cripple's trio that morning.

What a coincidence - they were classmates? He had no impression at all.

Thinking this, while sitting at his desk searching his backpack for books, he noticed that kid kept looking out the window, seemingly terrified, though it was unclear what he was looking at.

Following his gaze, Jiang Si spotted a figure loitering back and forth near the school gate.

The Cripple, seemingly looking for someone.

Probably looking for him.

Truly the boldest gangster around.

Finding his book, stuffing his backpack into the desk, propping his chin with one hand, yawning, just as he was about to look away, the Cripple seemed to spot him too.

So he looked over, the two making eye contact. The distance wasn't far, and he could see the Cripple wearing an arrogant smile, mouth open, making gestures at him.

The lip reading was very easy to understand.

"Fuck you, come on! Kill me!"