The sunny boy from Cardcaptor Sakura

So Xia Yu quite enjoyed his primary school life.

After arriving at the school, he waited a while until all the students had arrived before the teacher organized them to board the bus together and head to the zoo.

Their teacher was naturally their homeroom teacher, Yoshiyuki Terada. When they arrived at the zoo, the homeroom teacher gathered them together and began to explain the precautions and tasks.

For students, hiking is not just a simple trip for fun; they also have the task of studying.

We need to write observation reports for this hike. We will work in groups of five, each group will observe the animals they are responsible for, and the reports will be due next Monday.

"Observation report..."

Hearing his homeroom teacher utter that familiar word, Xia Yu felt a headache coming on. Back in his school days, writing reports was what he hated most.

He dislikes writing reports after any activity, whether it's a hike or anything else.

However, he still had to write because he was a student.

It was all just to complete the teacher's assignment.

"Alright, now the team leader can get the camera."

After explaining the task, Terada Yoshiyuki opened the bag beside him, which was filled with cameras. These were the cameras assigned to the team, specifically for observation operations.

After the group leader took the camera, Terada Yoshiyuki announced that the group would be dismissed on the spot and would meet again at 2 p.m. If anyone was hungry, they could find a place to have lunch on their own.

After the group was dismissed, each group went straight to the animal they were responsible for.

Xia Yu teamed up with the squinty-eyed conman Yamazaki Takashi, Li Xiaolang, and two random classmates. The five of them were responsible for the sloth, with Yamazaki Takashi as the team leader.

Despite Yamazaki Takashi's tendency to talk nonsense, he is actually the class monitor and quite responsible in his duties.

The five-person team followed the map for a while and quickly found the sloth area.

The sloth area is a small forest surrounded by barbed wire, where several sloths hang motionless.

"found it."

Upon seeing the sign in front of the sloth area, Takashi Yamazaki quickly walked forward and pointed to a sloth hanging in a tree.

"Where is where?"

Two students passing by heard this and hurried over, but unfortunately the small forest was too dense with foliage for them to see the sloth.

Takashi Yamazaki squinted and pointed in a direction, reminding him, "It's in that spot."

Following the direction Takashi Yamazaki pointed, everyone saw a lazy sloth.

The sloth hung motionless on the tree, its brown fur clinging tightly to its body, its face displaying an expression of detachment from worldly affairs. It was hard to tell whether it possessed a detached, Buddhist-like quality or was simply bewildered by its current situation.

As Xia Yu walked over, he glanced at Takashi Yamazaki beside him and couldn't help but admire him. Despite having squinty eyes, he had surprisingly good eyesight.

"That's a sloth." Li Xiaolang's eyes lit up as he looked at the sloth hanging in the tree.

Because he was raised to be the head of the Li family, his childhood was spent in training, so he had never been to a zoo, let alone observed animals in nature.

So Li Xiaolang was very happy to see the sloth for the first time, and he also showed a rare side that was in line with his child age.

Seeing that his group members had already started observing the sloth, Takashi Yamazaki said, "Our job is to observe it, so let's all observe it carefully together, okay?"

"it is good!"

Two students passing by cheered excitedly in unison. Then, the group piled their backpacks together and put them aside. These backpacks were the ones designated by Youzhi Elementary School, and all of them were the same style.

Then some people took photos, while others took notes.

However, when Xia Yu took out his notebook, he suddenly realized that he didn't know where to start. The sloth was not moving at all. What should he write?

Just as Xia Yu was pondering whether to write an observation report using nonsensical literature, Li Xiaolang, who was taking pictures nearby, asked him with some doubt.

Are sloths as inactive as their name suggests?

Upon hearing this, Takashi Yamazaki, who was taking notes, suddenly leaned over with a beaming smile.

Clearly, this conman is about to start fooling people again.

"Actually, no, Li."

Takashi Yamazaki said with a smile, then looked at the sloth with a very serious expression: "Actually, sloths are very agile. Although they usually seem to hang on the tree without much strength, they can run very fast when they muster up their energy."

When Yamazaki suddenly started explaining about sloths, Li Xiaolang listened with a serious expression.

"It is said that its speed, based on actual measurements, exceeds 100 kilometers per hour."

When Takashi Yamazaki said this, he was very serious, and you couldn't tell from his squinted eyes whether he was lying or not.

Xia Yu, who was listening nearby, twitched the corner of his mouth, not knowing how to retort. 100 kilometers per hour, which is about 27.8 meters per second, is almost as fast as a cheetah. They really dare to say that.

Cheetahs are naturally sized for running, but sloths are much smaller... they'd be considered fast if they could run a meter per second.

As far as he knew, sloths couldn't even run 0.2 meters per second. Compared to sloths, turtles were considered incredibly fast animals.

I don't know why there are such oddballs like sloths in nature.

In the dog-eat-dog world of nature, while other animals strive to evolve more powerful survival skills, sloths seem to live in another dimension, leading a listless life of hanging from trees and eating leaves.

It is said that the most dangerous thing a sloth does in its life is to climb down the tree to defecate on the ground.

After listening to Takashi Yamazaki's extremely absurd explanation, Li Xiaolang not only didn't realize he had been fooled, but looked at the sloth with admiration.

"It's so fast."

Xia Yu: "..."

It's unbelievable that some people actually believe such a lie that no ordinary person would fall for.

Master Li, are you a child?

Wait a minute, it really does seem to be a little kid.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu suddenly walked to Li Xiaolang's side, nodded and said, "Yamazaki is right. Don't be fooled by the name sloth, which is related to laziness. This animal actually has another nickname."

"nickname?"

Seeing that Xia Yu seemed to be about to give a science lesson, Li Xiaolang looked over curiously.

Xia Yu pointed to the sloth hanging in the tree with a serious expression and said, "Lightning. Only sloths with speed comparable to lightning can get this nickname."

"The sloth that got this nickname is also known as Lightning the Sloth, and it's an extremely rare species."

"Wow, that's amazing!"

Upon hearing that sloths are not only extremely fast, but also include a special breed known as the "Sloth Lightning," Li Xiaolang's brown eyes lit up, and he raised his camera with anticipation.

"Okay, we must try to capture the moment the sloth starts running!"

Looking at Li Xiaolang's expectant and earnest expression, Xia Yu suddenly felt a pang of guilt. Li Daozhang was so naive, yet he had actually fooled him.

I've decided. I'll go buy Li a bag of sunflower seeds later as an apology.

"Xia, I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable."

After listening to Xia Yu's equally absurd explanation, Takashi Yamazaki patted Xia Yu on the shoulder, smiled with narrowed eyes. It was just an ordinary smile, but Xia Yu somehow sensed a hint of pleasure in it.

As expected, Yamazaki, you're a tax evasion monster too!

"Of course, I know it perfectly, okay?"

Xia Yu patted his chest, smiled smugly, and then gave Yamazaki a thumbs up: "Although I understand, I'm not as good as you, Yamazaki-kun. You're the real deal!"

"Not at all, Xia is very capable too."

"Each each other."

Li Xiaolang, the honest kid who was still waiting for the sloth to run, listened to the conversation between the two and thought they were talking about science. Only the two passersby on the other side twitched their lips, both of them a little helpless.

Unexpectedly, besides Yamazaki, Natsu is also a big con artist, but only Kinomoto and Lee would fall for it.

Time passed slowly, and the group continued writing their observation reports.

Xia Yu also successfully filled out a page of observation report with nonsense. At first glance, the report seemed very substantial, and upon closer inspection, it was indeed very substantial. If it had been written in a more substantial way, it would have been even more substantial.

As expected of him!

"It moved! It moved!"

Li Xiaolang, who had been holding the camera, suddenly exclaimed and quickly pressed the shutter. The sloth hanging in the tree suddenly moved its front limb.

"At 11:46, it moved slightly."

One of the students passing by took notes of the observation, while another student said somewhat dejectedly, "It only moved three times in an hour. Is that a lot or a little?"

"Ah, it moved again," Li Xiaolang reported excitedly.

"Yes, yes, it moved again at 11:47."

"It moved twice in less than two minutes."

Takashi Yamazaki looked at the sloth with a smile: "Maybe it'll be very motivated today."

"Oh, so is it today...?"

Just as Li Xiaolang was about to excitedly ask the sloth if it was possible for it to run today, a huge tremor suddenly came from afar, and they could even feel the tremor here.

"earthquake?"

Xia Yu felt the sudden tremor and looked towards the source of the sound with some confusion.

Li Xiaolang and Yamazaki Takashi, who were standing nearby, also looked over. Yamazaki Takashi, in particular, opened his eyes, which was extremely rare for him. It was unclear whether he was surprised or frightened.