Teacher Xia Lai is also teaching in Kivotos today

Hearing Utahara's instruction, Xiang nodded slightly.

"Well, I'll go right away."

After everything was ready, Alice conducted several combat tests in accordance with the instructions of Song Yuan and others. Although all the abandoned drones were destroyed, the three people in the engineering department also obtained satisfactory data.

"I didn't expect Alice to be able to use it so well... Come here, Alice, I'll tell you how to use it..."

When Xiang came to Alice and explained the information about the Sword of Light to her, Lin En came to Utahara's side.

"Teacher... you should know this, right?"

"……Yes."

Hearing Ge Yuan's somewhat incoherent words, Lin En nodded without any surprise.

"But I didn't expect that you, Utahara, could have discovered this in such a short contact... Could it be that you became suspicious because Alice could lift the sword of light?"

"No... I noticed it when Alice walked into the studio. But I wasn't sure at that time. After all, even if our engineering department was given enough budget and materials, we couldn't make such a thing..."

Looking at Alice who was chatting with the others with a smile on her face, Utahara couldn't help but sigh.

Just as Lynn was thinking about how to explain it to her, Ge Yuan continued.

"I didn't expect that the teacher has mastered such powerful technology. He is worthy of being the one who gave our engineering department many new design ideas and ways of thinking... No, he is the master."

"...???"

Realizing that Ge Yuan seemed to have misunderstood something, Lin En was about to explain something, but then gave up the idea.

On the contrary, if we let Utahara misunderstand us, perhaps we could avoid a lot of trouble.

While Lin En was thinking this, Ge Yuan continued to narrate his thoughts.

"If someone else had created a being as brilliant and terrifying as Alice, I would have thought that they had created her just for the purpose of "fighting"... But if it was you, teacher..."

After considering his words for a moment, Utahara finally spoke.

"Could it be that the teacher feels lonely because of the empty Xialai?"

"Hmm... I guess you can understand it that way."

Hearing Lin En's answer, Ge Yuan nodded at first, and then continued with a little surprise.

"But I didn't expect the teacher's strike zone to be this type..."

"……what?"

"Is not it?"

Facing Lin En's puzzled look, Ge Yuan asked out of curiosity.

"Isn't it because the teacher couldn't sleep because he was lonely, so he created Alice to keep him company?"

"...I don't know why, but I always feel that what you said seems to be somewhat specious."

"Maybe that's the case...but it's not really that strange."

Utahara said this while pointing at Hibiki, who was attaching the strap to the sword of light while saying something to Alice with a smile.

"In the past, Xiang always slept with her mortar in her arms. In her words, 'It makes me feel more at ease this way.' But recently, she changed her mortar into a pillow with heat preservation function, and on the pillow is..."

"Okay, there's no need to talk about it anymore."

Although Lin En was very curious about whether the pattern on Xiang's pillow was cat food or dog food, his subconscious told him that the pattern was definitely not something that simple.

Not only that, he could also feel that when he learned the actual situation, he would probably have to face some serious situation.

Seeing Lin En say this, Ge Yuan shrugged, stopped talking, and changed the subject.

"But since Alice is the teacher's creation, I think there shouldn't be any problems. And even if there are any problems, the teacher will definitely be able to solve them."

“…Of course.”

Looking at Alice, who was circling around the sword of light with shining eyes, Lynn chuckled.

"After all, Alice is also my student."

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"Great! Alice-chan finally got a weapon! Now, we just have to wait for Lord Yuuka to come check it out this afternoon!"

As soon as she walked out of the engineering department's studio, Tao Jing, with an excited look on her face, made an action that was like opening champagne at halftime.

"Let's go back to the activity room and play some games, Alice!"

"Yeah! Alice, I want to play games!"

After agreeing with Tao Jing's words, Alice seemed to remember something and turned to look at Lin En.

Facing Alice's clear eyes that were like those of a little animal with a hint of desire, Lin En chuckled and touched her head.

"Go back and play games with them first, Alice. I'll come find you later."

He then turned to Momoi and Midori who were also looking at him.

"I still have some things to deal with at the Millennium Institute of Technology, so I'll leave Alice's qualification review to you."

"Teacher, don't worry! Alice is now a member of our game development department!"

When Momoi answered without hesitation, Midoriya nodded seriously.

"I can rest assured that."

After gently patting the smiling Alice's head, Lynn looked at Momoi.

"Momoi, can you tell me where the Ministry of Truth is?"

Chapter 22: Is this Ministry of Truth really reliable?

In a building at Millennium Science and Technology Academy that looked like an ordinary club activity building, a ray of light appeared from one of the windows on a high floor.

That was not the light of fire, but the light emitted by modern scientific machines.

Inside this room, the colored indicator lights on the numerous servers are flickering, and dazzling data is flowing rapidly across the screens placed nearby.

However, at this moment, a sound of footsteps approaching from afar suddenly rang out in this originally quiet place.

"Huh? The door isn't locked?"

Accompanied by a somewhat surprised voice, a figure opened the door and appeared in this space.

"Good afternoon, everyone at the Ministry of Truth. Since you didn't lock your doors, and since you are all high-level hackers, I'm afraid you already know that I'm coming soon?"

However, after seeing Lin En open the door, the red-haired girl who was sitting on the ground next to her tinkering with spray paint was stunned.

Then, the girl spoke to the girl who was sitting at the computer desk with her back to them.

"Oh no, Senior Xiaoyu, your attempt to unlock the teacher's phone has really been discovered!"

Almost at the moment of hearing these words, the girl wearing glasses turned around abruptly and spoke "righteously" to the red-haired girl in front of Lin En's shocked gaze.

"Impossible! My actions were clearly concealed perfectly-ah..."

It was not until then that the girl finally noticed Lin En, who was standing at the door and was stunned.

In an instant, the whole room was filled with an awkward atmosphere.

But soon, a white-haired girl with a high ponytail sighed, stood up from the computer desk next to her, walked to Lin En with an expressionless face, and handed him the bottle in her hand.

"Teacher, you look a little tired, would you like some energy drink?"

"Ah... um, thank you."

After mechanically taking the drink from the girl's mouth and drinking it, Lin En, who was refreshed, thought for a short time and decided to just pretend that he had heard nothing just now.

"Thanks for the drink."

"You're welcome, it's just a little effort."

After taking the empty can from Lynn's hand and throwing it into the recycling basket nearby, the girl then introduced herself with a smile.

"It's nice to meet you, Ms. Lin En. I'm Xiao Gouqing, an engineer at the Ministry of Truth."

Hearing this, the other two girls finally seemed to come back to their senses.

"Hey, teacher! I'm Maki Ume! If you like graffiti, maybe we can become good friends!"

Unlike the red-haired girl who was smiling and making a V-sign towards him, who looked completely unrelated to the word hacker, the girl who seemed to have tried to unlock Lin En's phone slightly adjusted her glasses on the bridge of her nose and answered somewhat stiffly.

"Millennium Institute of Technology, Otonose Tama."

"Well... that's right... I came to the Ministry of Truth mainly because I have a commission to ask you for help."

"Eh? So the teacher is here for this?"

After seeing Lin En nod, everyone was very tactful and did not mention what Maki and Xiaoyu had accidentally let slip just now.

Then, Lynn told them that he was planning to set up a multi-functional coffee shop in Xialai and that he needed a reliable terminal that was not easily invaded or hacked.

"I see... In other words, the teacher is here to reinforce the security system?"

In response to Maki's question, Lynn nodded slightly.

"Well, you can understand it that way."

After hearing Lin En's answer, Xiaoyu thought for a moment, and then spoke as if she realized something.

"Although I am mainly responsible for intrusion, if I want to improve the security of the system..."

Before Xiaoyu could finish her words, Qing interrupted her as if she had seen through her plan.

"Our deputy director Qianxun is very good at this kind of thing, and she is also committed to using hacking technology to protect important information, so the teacher can rest assured."

Hearing this, Xiaoyu was silent for a moment, and then spoke with some reluctance.

"It's just that she doesn't seem to be in the Ministry very often, otherwise we should..."

However, before Xiaoyu finished her words, the sound of footsteps approaching from afar reached everyone's ears.

"I'm back...Eh? What happened?"

Accompanied by a somewhat cold voice, a girl with short blue hair who looked extremely capable pushed open the door.

After opening the door, the girl was a little surprised at the dull or awkward atmosphere in the activity room, but she soon noticed Lin En sitting on the sofa next to her.

"You are... Teacher Lin En?"

The moment she saw Lin En, the girl frowned slightly as if she remembered something. She first glanced at Xiaoyu and others, and then looked at Lin En again.

"Could it be that my children have done something bad again?"

Under the different looks of the people in the Ministry of Truth, Lin En shook his head without hesitation and said to her with a smile.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Chihiro."

Chihiro's face turned slightly red, as if she had not expected that Lin En's target would be herself.

But Chihiro soon figured something out, coughed lightly, and spoke to Lin En seriously.

"Um... Teacher, don't say that. If there's anything you need my help with, just tell me and I'll help."

"Ah, that's great."

Seeing this, Lin En told Qianxun about his plan.

Just as Lin En and Chihiro were communicating, Maki suddenly noticed that Xiaoyu had left the computer at some point and was squatting in the corner of the activity room, seemingly with her head down, muttering something to herself.

After getting a little closer, Maki finally heard what Xiaoyu was saying.

"...If it's Vice Minister Qianxun, after helping the teacher design the terminal, he will definitely help the teacher strengthen Xia Lai's defense. By then, hacking into the teacher's phone will probably become a very difficult task..."

"Why are you always thinking about hacking into the teacher's phone?"