Teacher Xia Lai is also teaching in Kivotos today

"……Um."

After hesitating for a moment, Zi nodded slightly and sat next to Lin En.

The evening breeze blew through the gauze curtains, and moonlight shone into the room through the window, illuminating the white wallpaper and making the night clear and light.

"I always feel like... when I'm with my teacher, I can calm down."

Although there was no expression on Zi's face as she said this, her eyes, which usually seemed a little sharp, became gentle as water. It must be said that Zi was really pure and lovely when she looked like this.

The long white hair draped behind her swayed gently, and her slender legs also emitted a bright light, as if a clear light elf was dancing beside her.

"Really? I don't feel that way myself...but it seems like a lot of people are saying that."

Looking at Lin En who was laughing softly, Zi pouted her lips in dissatisfaction. But then she sighed helplessly.

"Really... If the teacher is always so defenseless, someone might knock him out and take him away one day, right?"

"Because I believe that you are not the kind of people who would do such a thing. After all, you are all students that I am proud of."

Hearing this, Zi couldn't help biting her lip as she looked out the window and smiled at Lin En.

Her heart is now full of confusion.

Beneath her seemingly calm appearance, sin, past, friendship, nothingness, and some inexplicable thoughts cling to her heart like devouring vines.

In the cool breeze from the night, Zi looked at Lin En's profile and spoke involuntarily.

"But if this trust leads to your betrayal one day in the future... does that mean it doesn't matter?"

However, in response to Zi's somewhat "sharp" question, Lin En smiled and touched her head.

"Even if something like that really happened, I believe that person must have a reason for doing so, and I also want to know what that reason is. Because... I am everyone's teacher, right? If something like that really happens in the future, then I will pay more attention to the reason why she did it. After all, guiding her is my duty as a teacher, isn't it?"

As he said this, Lin En stretched himself and opened his arms towards the night sky outside the window with a smile.

"Just like now. I like everyone in the cram school. I am very happy when I get along with everyone, impart knowledge to everyone, and play with everyone. So, I will also try my best to help you pass the exam successfully."

"..."

Just as Lin En was confused by the sudden silence, he felt a pair of arms around his waist.

At the same time, he felt the girl bury her head in his back and her arms tightening around him.

"Teacher...please let me hold you like this for a while, just for a while."

Hearing the girl's words, although Lin En didn't turn around, he still smiled and nodded.

"It's no problem, you can hold me for as long as you want."

Under the moonlight, the girl, who seemed to be escaping from something, hugged Lin En from behind, who was looking up at the night sky with a smile on his face. This scene was definitely worthy of being painted.

Unfortunately, apart from Zi and Lin En, the parties involved, there is no one else here.

Chapter 53: Action is worse than words

"Woo..."

Looking at the rain outside the window, Hifumi, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, shook her legs slightly with some dissatisfaction.

Unlike the sunny days before, it rained non-stop today, and the rustling sound was a bit annoying.

"Hoo-hoo... Good morning, Hifumi-chan."

When Hanako came out of the bathroom and greeted her, Hifumi smiled reluctantly and nodded.

"Well, good morning, Hanako-chan."

"Hmm...it seems like it's raining particularly hard today."

After turning her head and looking out the window, Hanako couldn't help but sigh.

"Um……"

Hifumi nodded slightly in response, then turned to look at the bed next to her as if she remembered something.

"Come to think of it... Azusa-chan hasn't woken up yet..."

"I remember that Zizi usually seems to be the first one to wake up. What happened today?"

Hearing Koharu's slightly puzzled inquiry, Hanako replied with a chuckle.

"Maybe it's because she's been forcing herself so much, so let her sleep a little longer..."

Hearing this, the three of them smiled at each other. It seemed that Zi was usually a little too nervous.

Just then, Azusa hugged the Momofriends pillow she got from Hifumi tightly.

"Hum... so soft..."

Zi, who was talking like this in his sleep, was sleeping soundly in a very sweet posture.

"Haha, it looks like you're having a very comfortable dream."

Seeing Azusa like this, Hanako couldn't help but smile and looked at Hifumi and Koharu as if she remembered something.

"By the way, have you seen the teacher?"

"Ms. Lin En?"

Hifumi blinked in surprise at first, then shook her head.

"No, I just knocked on the teacher's door to ask if I should go to the classroom, but the teacher didn't seem to respond to me. And I just sent a Momotalk message to the teacher, but the teacher didn't reply to me either..."

"Hmm, I see... The reason why Hifumi-chan looked unhappy when she was looking at the rain outside the window just now was because the teacher didn't reply to her text message, right?"

"Huh?! No, no! I just feel that this rain is making me feel a little depressed!"

"Hehe, that's what Hifumi-chan said... So what do you think, Koharu-chan?"

Unexpectedly, Hanako would suddenly turn her fire on herself, and Koharu could not help but be stunned. However, after opening her mouth slightly and hesitating for a moment, Koharu chose to shrink directly into the bed and hide herself under the quilt like an ostrich.

“Oh my god… this is really…”

Just as Hanako shook her head with a meaningful smile, a bolt of thunder suddenly exploded in the sky.

"?!"

Before the others could react, Zi, who had just woken up from his dream, grabbed his beloved gun that was placed beside the bed. He rolled over and hid beside the bed, alert to his surroundings.

"Um... Azusa-chan?"

Facing Hifumi who looked puzzled, Azusa blinked and asked her seriously.

"Hifumi, was that an enemy attack just now?"

"Well... I think... it was just thunder just now, right?"

As Xiaochun answered with a little doubt, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came into their ears from far away.

"No...it can't be right?"

Although her tone was still somewhat unbelievable, Hifumi couldn't help but reach out and pick up her beloved gun.

"Ala……"

Hearing the noise outside the door, Hanako couldn't help but frown slightly.

Although Xiaochun didn't say anything, the gun barrel sticking out from the quilt already showed her current state.

Almost the next moment when everyone was ready, the footsteps arrived in front of their room.

Then, the door was suddenly opened by someone outside.

"Wait! Don't shoot!"

Just before everyone was about to pull the trigger, Hanako suddenly realized something and spoke up to stop them.

"Eh?"

When Fumie and others were stunned by Hanako's sudden words that day, the "enemy" outside the door also revealed its true face.

"Ms. Lin...Ms. Lin En?"

Seeing Lin En opening the door roughly, Hifumi, who was holding a gun, was stunned.

Of course, the reason why she was surprised was not only because the other party opened their door in this unprecedented way, but also because Lin En had a lot of wet clothes in her arms at this time.

"You guys, you even forgot to collect the clothes you hung out... What are you doing?"

Lin En, who was about to scold everyone in the cram school, looked up and saw three black gun muzzles pointing at him.

"Ahahaha...it's just...just a small misunderstanding."

Hifumi, feeling somewhat embarrassed, quickly put away the gun with a wry smile, while Azusa and Koharu also put the guns back in place.

"Yeah... Because just now, I suddenly remembered that we forgot to take back the laundry that everyone had washed this morning and hung it on the roof. And although the footsteps were hurried, there was obviously only one person, and they came from upstairs toward our floor."

As Asahi Fumi and the others said this, Hanako smiled and shook her finger.

"So, the answer is pretty obvious, isn't it?"

"Ah ha ha……"

Looking at the exchange between the people in front of him, Lin En, who put the clothes in his hand on the chair next to him, understood what had just happened. But even so, he sighed helplessly.

"Hanako... Rather than analyzing this here, I think it's more important to quickly collect your clothes..."

After hearing what Lin En said, Hanako was stunned at first, but then she seemed to finally react and rushed away from Lin En, while Hifumi and Koharu followed closely behind.

Zi watched the others rushing out, and although he felt a little confused, he quickly followed them.

But unlike the others, when she passed by Lynn, she first looked at Lynn briefly, and then followed the others to run towards the stairs leading to the top of the building.

"Ah... it really makes me worry..."

After tidying up her wet hair, Lin En smiled bitterly and shook her head.

However, even though Lin En had helped them rescue some clothes in advance, the rain was too heavy and came too fast, so even though Hifumi and the others took back their clothes, their entire bodies were soaked along with the clothes.

To make matters worse, because they had previously proposed to do the laundry together, they now had no other clean clothes to change into.

"No...if you're talking about clean clothes that can be changed into now, don't we still have one?"

"...?"

Hanako smiled and replied as Hifumi and the others looked at her in confusion.

"That is……"

Chapter 54: As a teacher, you can't run away at this time

"So... now the situation is that everyone is wearing swimsuits in the gym, uh... playing?"

Lin En crossed his arms and looked at the people in the cram school who were sitting in a circle, and sighed helplessly.

"No... Teacher Lin En, this is not a game, this is a swimsuit party!"

"This isn't some swimsuit party!"

After being the first to respond to Hanako's somewhat nonsense words, Koharu grumbled in dissatisfaction.

"Really? Why did it become like this?..."

However, before she could finish her words, a bolt of lightning suddenly exploded.

Along with the thunder, the lights in the gymnasium went out instantly.

"Whoa?!"

Almost at the moment when darkness fell, Xiaochun subconsciously hugged in the familiar direction.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid..."

Looking at Xiaochun who rushed towards him in an instant and buried his head in his arms, Lin En could only smile bitterly and hug him gently, while reaching out and patting his head.

“You’re not scared!? I’m an elite, I won’t—”

Before Xiaochun could finish her boastful words, another sudden thunderclap not only interrupted the rest of her sentence, but also made her scream involuntarily.