As for Dubian Che, he had what people called the protagonist's exclusive seat.

Right in front of Kiyono Lin, and directly in front of Jiutiao Meijie!

Such an arrangement made Dubian imagine a scene with "two beautiful girls in police uniforms, guarding him as the criminal."

"I'm in hell," by: Uchiha Madara.

"It's really interesting," Kiyono Lin's cute face bore an uncute smile.

"Don't you think I'm quite pitiful?" Dubian sighed.

"Not at all."

"Only people close to you would say something like that."

Kiyono Lin was about to say something when a figure rushed through the back door.

"Kiyono! Mr. Dubian! We are in the same class!"

"Ichiki, good morning," Kiyono Lin greeted coldly yet politely.

To Dubian, this was her way of telling Ichiki Aoi that even though they were in the same class, she had no plans of befriending her.

"Good morning! Kiyono!" Ichiki Aoi greeted cheerfully.

It seems she wasn't a follower of the 'Goddess Kiyono,' failing to discern the divine intention.

Besides her, the classroom was filled with many familiar faces, Kunii Shuichi, Saito Keisuke, the class president who finally changed his glasses, and many members of the Wind Instrument Club.

Dubian roughly counted about ten members from the Wind Instrument Club.

In a class of forty, Kiyono Lin could command ten—definitely more, almost ruling Class Four, right?

Human Observation Department, truly scary.

After staying in class for a bit, they immediately moved to the gymnasium for the opening ceremony.

Jiutiao Meijie wasn't there today, but it wouldn't be like last year when she only came to school a month after school started.

In the gymnasium, the lively yet cautious first-years observed the second and third years.

Dubian and Saito Keisuke walked towards the second-year formation while chatting, and suddenly someone from the first year shouted his name.

"Senior! Dubian Senior!" A petite girl with short hair dashed over energetically.

Dubian and the others watched her.

"Senior! Dubian Senior!" the young girl excitedly looked at Dubian, "I passed the exam, and fulfilled the promise I made with you, Senior!"

"Sorry, but who are you?" Dubian said, clearly puzzled.

"Geng Gui desu!" After saying this, the girl gave eerie yet adorable giggles.

Is she... trying to imitate Geng Gui?

"I'm sorry, I prefer the Iron Clad Beetle."

"You don't like Shanado anymore?"

"Who exactly are you? How do you know my ex-girlfriend was Shanado?"

"In that case…" The girl spread her legs and stretched her right hand forward, mimicking a gesture to twist off a bottle cap, "Celebrate! The King of Time is born, the Masked Rider Time King, who possesses all knights' powers, transcends time and space, and knows the past and the future, transform!"

The girl's transformation pose was quite standard, and because she was a girl, it seemed particularly adorable.

"Ah—" Dubian finally realized, "I remember now, you're Geng Gui?"

"Masked Rider Time King desu!" the girl paused slightly, "and also Geng Gui desu!"

As the leaders had taken their seats on stage, Dubian told the girl, "Horikita Mai, let's talk in the Wind Instrument Club later."

"Okay, Senpai!"

After the girl left, the other three pressed Dubian about who she was.

"Was she a junior from your middle school?" guessed Kunii Shuichi.

"How could that be?" denied Saito Keisuke, "Dubian is from Iwate Prefecture."

"Could she be a little sister you met online?" the class president suggested, pushing his glasses.

Even with the right glasses, he seemed unable to kick the habit of pushing them.

"She admired me after seeing me at the Wind Instrument Club competition, a junior who looks up to me," Dubian explained clearly, to avoid any misunderstandings.

"I even made it to Koshien, why doesn't anyone admire me?" Kunii Shuichi asked, feeling indignant.

"You only made it to Koshien," said the class president nonchalantly.

"Don't underestimate Koshien! Do you guys even realize, many girls started liking someone just because the baseball team made it to the regional finals last year?!"

"Right, right, right."

No one cared whether the baseball team had made it to the regional finals.

The opening ceremony proceeded routinely.

"Next is the school anthem, please stand."

The Wind Instrument Club played a melody tingling with a sense of the era.

"Shibuya Hills, the school where crows pass by, our alma mater, Goda."

Unlike many schools that don't care about the school anthem, everyone from Goda took pride in singing the school anthem at competitions.

That's because Goda was the most prestigious private high school, a school where not getting into Imperial University was considered a failure.

The most typical example was the graduated president of the Wind Instrument Club, Komatsu Misaki.

In national competitions, even if it was Goda's first entry, she didn't allow the Wind Instrument Club to lose to those traditional wind instrument schools.

They were either very hardworking or incredibly intelligent, the rest were both—Goda was that kind of nauseating school.

After singing the school anthem, it was time for the freshman representative's speech.

To Dubian's surprise, the freshman representative's name was Asuka, Mayi's half-sister.

She inherited good genes from her parents, looked adorable, and read the welcome speech with slight nervousness.

After the opening ceremony, everyone returned to their respective classes.

"Everyone, please go back to your seats," Xiaoquan Aonai came in with a roll call sheet.

"Oooh," cheered the boys from the original class four.

The girls were equally excited.

"Quiet." Xiaoquan Aonai deliberately put on a stern face.

Dubian guessed she must have learned this tactic from Akiko.

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