……

Yu Mu's gaze lingered on the pure white mask with great interest.

It's funny how, in any world, adolescent males always seem to be keen on using the most primal methods to vent their cheap and fragile self-esteem.

At the heart of the conflict are two young people with very different styles.

On one side was Eugene "Lightning" Thompson, the well-known star quarterback of Imperial State University's football team. He was a burly man with bulging muscles, and his face was flushed red, like a bull whose territory had been invaded.

Opposite him stood a handsome young man with a tall, well-tailored suit and short, flaxen hair. Even in the midst of their confrontation, he maintained an innate aristocratic elegance, though his slightly furrowed brows and tightly pursed lips betrayed his inner displeasure and arrogance.

Yu Mu didn't even need to use any of his abilities to guess the cause of this farce.

Hey.

Humanity's oldest and most boring original sin.

The young man's name was Brian Braddock, an exchange student from the British Empire.

He was handsome, wealthy, witty, and had the air of an Old World aristocrat. From the first day he stepped onto campus, he became the focus of countless girls' attention.

Once a person gets used to the spotlight, they cannot tolerate others taking away their light.

Lightning Thompson, the "king" of the school, felt his throne being challenged. Especially when the cheerleading girls he liked started swooning over this "Japanese guy," his jealousy fermented into anger.

After all, the most beautiful flowers around us have been taken by outsiders; who can stand that?

Lightning's heart roared; he felt his authority had been trampled upon.

To him, the onlookers' spectator gazes turned into silent mockery.

He firmly believes that only his fists can defend his dignity.

He didn't know that the louder a dog barks, the more fear it often harbors.

Brian Braddock, on the other hand, felt deeply insulted.

Born into a noble family and receiving an elite education from a young age, he viewed athletes like Lightning Thompson, who were simple-minded, as nothing more than barbarians who only knew how to think with their muscles.

Arguing with this kind of person is beneath you.

However, the other party's language became increasingly vulgar, and even began to escalate to attacks on nationality, which crossed his bottom line as a member of the Braddock family.

A lion never bows its head to a barking wild dog.

A physical altercation was about to break out.

Gwen frowned her beautiful brows.

As a member of the student union's discipline department, she had a responsibility to stop such behavior that disrupted the dance atmosphere.

More importantly, she didn't want this childish farce to bother the man beside her.

She couldn't imagine how bored and disappointed Yu Mu must feel when he looked at this group of peers, who were like dogs fighting over a bone, with that all-knowing, amused gaze.

She didn't want her world to become so unbearable in his eyes.

"Stop it, all of you!"

Gwen's cool yet powerful voice rang out as she walked through the crowd and stood between the two.

"This is a welcome dance, not a boxing ring. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Braddock, if you have any personal grudges, please settle them outside and don't disturb others."

Gwen had a strong presence; her composure and confidence were something she had never had before.

When Lightning saw that it was Gwen, his arrogance immediately subsided by a third.

Gwen Stacy is a goddess-like figure at school, and also a student council member he dares not easily offend.

"Gwen, this guy bumped into me first and didn't even apologize!" Lightning accused him first.

"You're deliberately picking a fight!" Brian retorted coldly.

Just then, Yu Mu, who had been following Gwen, stepped forward leisurely.

When he heard Gwen call out that name, his eyes flickered for the first time.

Brian Braddock.

It was him.

Psylocke, Becky Braddock's younger brother. The future Captain Britain, and the heir to the family that guards the portal between Britain and another dimension.

Yu Mu's gaze fell on this proud young Englishman.

He looked to be in his early twenties, tall and well-proportioned, not as explosive as lightning, but possessing a harmonious beauty.

Beneath the well-tailored suit are the smooth, muscular lines of a cheetah.

What was most striking about him were his eyes, a pair of deep blue eyes, like the purest lake in the Scottish Highlands, now turbulent with anger.

Yu Mu could sense a faint yet incredibly pure energy fluctuation from the depths of his soul.

Those are traces of magic, imprints of bloodline.

A brand new and fun toy just came to me.

Unexpectedly, I met Brian Braddock in this very setting.

With Gwen's reasoned and well-founded mediation, the farce finally came to an anticlimactic end.

Lightning Thompson uttered a few harsh words and, with his friends pulling him away, slunk away.

The matter is resolved.

Brian straightened his slightly wrinkled collar, politely thanked Gwen, and prepared to turn and leave.

"Mr. Brian Braddock, please wait a moment."

Yu Mu spoke, his voice possessing an irresistible, magnetic quality.

Brian stopped and turned around in confusion to look at the white-masked man who had remained utterly mysterious from beginning to end.

Yu Mu walked up to him, extended his hand, and wore his usual innocent and harmless smile.

"Let's get acquainted, this is Yu Mu."

He paused, then continued.

"I'm your sister, Becky Braddock's colleague."

Brian's composure and vigilance vanished instantly, replaced by undisguised shock!

He stared wide-eyed at the man in front of him.

My sister's... colleague?

The man with the Asian face, with his otherworldly aura, seemed to perfectly overlap with the bizarre and fantastical world his sister occasionally mentioned during their phone call.

He instinctively grasped Yu Mu's hand and nodded, saying, "Hello... hello!"

Immediately afterwards, as if he had found an outlet, he couldn't help but start complaining.

"That irresponsible woman! She hasn't messaged me for almost a month! I thought she'd gone off to some remote corner on some dangerous mission and gotten herself lost!"

Brian's tone was full of complaints, but Yu Mu could hear the deep worry and concern hidden beneath those complaints.

This proud young nobleman seems to only reveal such genuine emotions when talking about his troublesome older sister.

"She's always like this, valuing other people's problems more than her own, and she'll never learn to take care of herself."

Brian sighed, sounding somewhat helpless.

He felt that he, as the younger brother, was even more worried than the older sister.

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