I'm not Yingjie

"Oh!"

The last time the wooden swords collided, the wooden swords in the hands of the two men broke into two pieces. Lin's hand holding the broken sword trembled slightly, but the girl still did not show any abnormality.

"...Let's end it." Lin put away his fighting stance.

There's no point in fighting any further.

"Hmm... is this the end?" The girl hadn't even recovered from the aftertaste of the battle. She shook her head in confusion, "Why don't I feel like this is a marriage?"

"..."

"Then let's have dinner together."

Lin shook his head and dialed Mebius's communication.

"I have to cook for others today, so you have to take care of the lunch by yourself."

"Wait, what should I eat?"

"Instant noodles."

Lin hung up the phone. As he watched the girl enthusiastically trying out fitness equipment everywhere, he thought too much about why he didn't feel like getting married.

He and Kevin slept in the same bed.

Exercise is a must-do for him and Kevin.

When it comes to eating, both Kevin and Lin often choose to eat with each other.

"..."

Is this considered... friendship?

Chapter 40: How to Become a Human Being

"I have a question for you."

Lin put down his chopsticks and asked the girl who was eating voraciously.

"It tastes great. Your cooking skills are better than most humans. I like it very much." The girl maintained the pace of finishing the food and was still able to narrate in an orderly manner. She chewed the shredded meat a few times and swallowed it, pointing to the food on the table with an awkward smile.

This was the first time Lin had seen a woman eating in such a... ferocious manner.

Moreover, her praise was so straightforward that Lin didn't know how to comment on it.

"Why are you smiling so strangely?" Lin actually wanted to ask her this question for a long time. Her smile was too deliberate. It felt like she was pulling the muscles on her face to make her skin form an expression similar to a smile. But from the outside, she looked like an exquisite doll with an extremely strange expression.

“…Is it strange?”

After hearing what Lin said, the girl's smile disappeared from her face and she returned to her silly and cute look.

"So what is a normal smile? Can you show me how to do it?"

"..."

A normal smile...

Lin has seen many smiles, especially Alicia's. She may be the person who loves to smile the most that Lin has ever seen, and every smile of hers never makes Lin feel that she may be hypocritical or artificial.

But he couldn't laugh from the bottom of his heart.

Seeing that Lin did not respond, the girl tilted her head 20 degrees and said, "You and I are alike."

Perhaps this was a kind of inexplicable fate. From the first time Lin saw the girl, he indeed felt an inexplicable connection between them. This connection made Lin not have much aversion to her. Even though he didn't even know her name, they quickly established an unspoken understanding.

Do two similar souls really exist in this world?

"I have a question for you, too." The girl didn't seem to want the atmosphere to return to silence. She supported herself on the table with one hand, and moved closer to Lin with her slender figure. Her expressionless face was pressed against his viewing window. "How do you think you can become a human?"

"..."

Lin was stunned.

It’s so quiet in my ears.

……

"Hmm... it's too boring to just make a knife. How about making it into a lipstick? Just twist the tail and it will fire..."

"Master Dr. Velvet."

"Oh, okay, okay, I know, I won't do anything rash...but I think lipstick..."

Weiwei was drawing designs out of boredom. Just like her style, she loved classics to a certain extent. Writing and drawing on paper was the most interesting thing in her job.

Prometheus was watching her from the side, preventing her from messing around with the design of the Key of God and adding a little of her own...understanding.

"Vilvi."

"Wow——"

Lin appeared behind her quietly and silently, scaring her so much that she almost dropped her pen. She leaned on the table in confusion, holding onto her top hat.

"Lin? When did you get here?"

"Lin arrived at the Spiral Workshop in one minute and fifty seconds." Prometheus reminded.

"Well, why didn't you say anything?"

"You are immersed in your own Lipstick Key Project."

"Okay, Chuhao, next time someone comes, you must tell me." Wei Erwei adjusted her hat, coughed and asked, "What's the matter, Lin? If it's about finding a partner, then maybe soon..."

"Do you still have the video from yesterday?"

Lin spread his hands and asked.

"Video? Oh, the video recording the matchmaking process. It's here. I haven't had time to watch it yet..."

"Give me."

Lin snatched the video recorder from Wei Erwei without hesitation and turned away before Wei Erwei could react.

"Hey, wait, what are you recording? I still want to watch it!"

"..." Lin paused for a few seconds, as if thinking about something, and said coldly without turning his head, "Alicia and Ying don't want others to see this video."

"Oh...even Alicia cares so much about what happened yesterday?"

Lin didn't answer, and he left before Wei Liwei could ask any questions.

……

"Clap."

Lin raised his hand and put it down again, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

"what happened?"

The voice of the girl through the helmet sounded like there was a wall between them.

But with two helmets between them, it no longer sounds like distortion.

Lin looked at the girl with complicated eyes. She was wearing the same helmet as him. She looked up at him as if nothing had happened. It was the first time that he saw the viewing window from this perspective.

"…Why are you wearing the same helmet as me?"

"If we're a couple, we should have the same style, right?" The girl explained her understanding in a logical manner. "And since we can't smile, it would be better to cover up our expressions with a helmet and let others imagine what kind of expressions we should have."

"I only wear a helmet because... No, you're right."

Lin originally wanted to say that he wore the helmet only for fighting, but when he thought about it carefully, he wore it to conceal his appearance, so the girl was not wrong.

She does think in a similar direction to me.

"What should we do next?" the girl asked Lin.

"...You probably aren't familiar with the headquarters yet. Let me take you around and introduce you to the people I know." Lin quickly gave the answer.

The girl nodded and followed Lin in small steps. The two people wearing identical helmets walked towards Mebius' laboratory.

For some reason, the girl who was quite quiet the day before seemed to be restless today. She asked Lin reservedly but curiously, "Aren't you going to ask me where I got this helmet?"

"The R&D department got it," Lin said coldly, "It's not a secret technology."

The girl was silent for three seconds before nodding: "Well, yes."

"Where are your previous clothes?"

"..."

"Did you lose it by accident?"

"um, yes."

"Do you know where your room is?"

"I……"

"Let's live together for now."

"Ah."

Lin talked more, and the girl responded stiffly.

"You asked me how to become a human, didn't you? You should be talking about how to become a normal person. We don't belong to the category of 'normal people'." The helmeted man's voice did not contain any sadness or joy. "I think that to become a human, you must first understand human emotions."

"Feelings..." The girl seemed to remember something, and she muttered the word in a low voice.

"The most complicated thing about human beings is the emotions they have for each other: love, hate, joy, sorrow, respect, jealousy... It's hard to generalize what emotions are, but emotions are often what affect humans."

"Living things are firewood, emotions are matches, and the bright fireworks after being lit are what make us human beings."

Special Edition: Love and Girls (Part 1)

"I've decided. I want to start a harem."

The boy who was sleeping with a hood on suddenly stood up and made a heroic declaration to the teacher who was lecturing at the podium.

The originally noisy classroom was filled with awe at his domineering, shameless and righteous expression.

"Um... Student Lin? Is there something wrong?" The teacher wiped the sweat from his forehead and cursed in his heart this guy who always did some inexplicable things.

Lin, known as a trouble maker, once beat up the PE teacher in public at the entrance ceremony, and hung him at the door of the equipment room again during the PE class after the PE teacher was discharged from the hospital. Afterwards, it was found that the PE teacher had sexually harassed female students many times, and was beaten up by Lin because he mistook Lin for a girl...

In the two years since he entered the school, he kept causing troubles every two days and a big one every three days. He cursed at teachers he disliked and used more abstract curse words to greet them after they resisted. If the food in the cafeteria was not tasty and expensive, he would press the chef's head to make him eat the food he cooked. He stuffed students who smoked in the playground into the ground, and he...

Other things include using a homemade blowgun to attack the headmaster's butt who insulted him, using chemicals from the laboratory to make small bombs to blow up the school's underground pipes, posting gossip about the vice-principal on the Internet and blackmailing him when he asked to delete it...

It would be fine if a normal student was expelled, but the headache was that this guy not only had a relationship with the principal, but also had perfect scores in every subject, and had long been ranked first in the country. He had already learned all the high school knowledge before he even entered school. Geniuses like this usually skipped grades to pursue further studies like their principal, and it was really rare to have someone like him stay in high school to bring honor to the school.

Simply put, he has both brought disgrace upon the school and is also the face of the school.

In the past month, he has finally stopped a lot. Some people have witnessed him frequently going to the local sanatorium. He is not as energetic and nervous as before. He often sleeps in class. It seems that he is not well. He has finally calmed down.

But today, he seemed to have started again.

Kevin, who was sitting next to him, reminded him quietly: "Hey, Lin, what are you doing? We are still in class!"

"Class? Humph, some rigid knowledge and boring questions can compare to the most important event in my life?" Lin curled his lips in disdain, causing the teacher on the podium to slap his face. "Teacher, please move aside. I have something to announce."

But before the teacher could say anything, Lin took a few steps forward to the podium, opened his arms and shouted: "I just decided something important! Don't you think I'm... perfect?"

"..."

The students in the audience all had twitching expressions.

Perfect? ​​If God created the word perfect, then he must have created you according to the opposite of perfect!

"Think about it carefully. How come a perfect man like me has never experienced love? Isn't it weird? In terms of appearance, I am already at the top of the world, right? But why can those guys who are more than twice as bad as me be surrounded by girls, while I still don't have any girls confessing their love to me?"

He touched his chin and said puzzledly: "This is really a strange thing."

"If they can do it, why can't I? Someone like me is very suitable for a harem, right? There will definitely be many girls who love me to death." He smiled cheerfully, "Then from now on, I will accept every girl who confesses to me, first come first served."

"Come on! I know many of you must have a crush on me! Now is the time for you to express your love!"

"..."

Kevin covered his face, no longer daring to look at the reactions of other classmates and teachers.

"Huh? No one?" After a long while, there was still silence. Lin put down his hand and thought in confusion, "No, that's not right... that student wearing glasses in the first row, yes, that's you. Let me ask you, am I excellent?"

The bespectacled student who was called turned pale. With trembling lips, he looked to the teacher beside him for help in silence. However, the teacher could only turn away reluctantly.