Kivotos, I was deeply shocked!

"Well, the bad news is—"

Facing his companions' curious gazes, Sand Wolf Baizi took out the flyer he had just received from the staff from his pocket, spread it out, pointed to the price list with the cursive words [12888] on the flyer, and said calmly, "Since we just paid the interest to Caesars Group a few days ago, and there have been a series of battles recently, we have no time to work, and... In short, we can't even afford a ticket."

"So expensive!"

Kuromi Serika widened her eyes in disbelief and quickly snatched the flyer from her senior's hand. After looking through it many times, the girl finally confirmed that it was not her eyes that were mistaken, but that the price was really in the five figures.

“13888?!” The girl’s hands were shaking as she held the flyer, and her voice rose several pitches uncontrollably. “Are they robbing us?!”

"Calm down, Serika."

Sand Wolf Baizi looked around, silently memorizing the patrol routes of the security guards and the locations of the cameras, and began to figure out where to break in without setting off the aquarium's alarm. At the same time, she seriously corrected her juniors' misunderstanding, "This makes money much faster than robbing."

After all, she wasn't here to separate the teacher and Hoshino-senpai, but to join them.

So the girl had to be extra careful.

"Senior Baizi..."

Okumura Ayane laughed awkwardly and looked at the serious Sand Wolf Baizi with an expression that seemed to be at a loss for words. "Now doesn't seem to be the right time to joke, right? We don't know what the second, worse news is yet."

"All right"

The sand wolf looked away with regret. Should we say that this is a large aquarium that charges 13888 for admission? There are no less than ten patrol teams of various sizes. There are more than a hundred cameras that we have seen so far, and the only thing missing is to install one at the door of the toilet.

Even if the girl used her professional experience as a reserve bank robber to judge, it would be difficult to find a route to sneak into the aquarium safely without alerting the security guards.

Although he was puzzled as to why an aquarium had so many security guards, Sand Wolf Baizi still answered Ayane Okumura's question honestly, "The second and worse news is - I can no longer receive the signal from the signal generator."

Sand Wolf Baizi took out his phone and unlocked the screen saver. A large line of words, "Connection with signal generator failed. Do you want to restart the connection?" appeared on the white screen, which was particularly dazzling.

Boom!

Like a thunderclap exploding out of nowhere, Kuromi Serika was stunned, Okumura Ayane was stunned, and Izayoi Nomiya showed an expression of matter-of-factness after a brief surprise.

Well, the teacher found out.

Did the teacher find out?! Or did Senior Hoshino find out?! Or...

Both of them found out?? !!

The flyer in her hand slowly fell into the air, and she gained a brief moment of freedom. Kuromi Serika was stunned by the earth-shaking news. Her whole body stiffened and she stood there like a stone statue. Thoughts in her mind kept popping up one after another, and then were cut off one by one like leeks.

This isn't even a matter of [worse news], Senior Baizi!

Ayane Okumura felt conflicted, wanting to say something but not knowing where to start.

This is clearly a matter of life and death, okay? !

The girl couldn't help but groan in her heart.

Why are you still standing there so calmly, Senior Baizi?! Wasn't it you who came up with the tracking plan?! Shouldn't you be the one who is most worried?!

"It's rare to get out and play, so today I, as a senior, will invite everyone to have a good time~"

Izayoinomiya coughed twice, clenched his right fist, and made a "come on" gesture in front of his chest, "But the issue of the signal generator will require everyone to work together to solve it, come on!"

Then the girl didn't give anyone present a chance to refuse. She turned around and left without hesitation, walking towards the ticket office.

Looking at Izayoino's long light golden hair swaying in the wind and her decisive steps that could not be refused, Kuromi Serika opened her mouth, trying to hold back the words of rejection that were about to burst out of her throat, and secretly made up her mind.

next time……

next time.

next time!

Kuromi Serika pursed her lips. She found that since she solved the troubles of Caesar Group with the help of her teacher, she had unconsciously become much more lazy.

So, the girl decided to take on two more jobs as soon as she got home today to make up for her decadence in the past few days.

Next time, I will be the one who invites everyone out to play!

Kuromi Serika couldn't help but clench her fists and swore silently.

Chapter 3 Si Wang: Do you understand the value of a -cost AOE that also comes with armor-piercing and guaranteed to explode?

"Excuse me, can you pay by credit card here?"

Izayoi Nomiya smiled and took out a golden card from her wallet and pushed it into the window. "If possible, please give me four tickets."

"Of course, miss."

The cashier who was busy operating the computer looked up during a break in work, showing a professional smile with eight teeth, and took the card skillfully. "We accept cash, credit cards, QR code scanning and any other payment methods. Please wait a moment..."

The cashier suddenly paused in the middle of her speech. She stopped the action of swiping the card, looked Izayoi Nomiya up and down, picked up the phone next to the keyboard, and her eyes repeatedly wandered between Izayoi Nomiya and the phone screen, as if she was checking something.

Izayonomiya obviously noticed the gazes from the opposite side. She lowered her head to confirm that her top and skirt were worn neatly, without any cuffs or mess, and asked in confusion, "Excuse me, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Sorry, sorry, I was so rude!"

Izayoi Nomiya's question startled the cashier, who quickly retracted her overly conspicuous gaze and hurriedly bowed to apologize, "I just want to confirm...Excuse me, are you Miss Izayoi Nomiya?"

"what?"

Although she was confused as to why she was asked for her real name when buying a ticket, Izayoi Nomiya still nodded, "Yes, I am Izayoi Nomiya."

"Ah, Miss Nomiya, that's it."

After thinking for a while, the cashier put four tickets that had already been issued under the credit card given by Izayoino, and pushed them out together, explaining, "A gentleman had already bought four tickets in advance and deposited them with us. He said that if the girl in the photo came to buy the tickets, I should give them to her, so I looked at you a few more times."

As if afraid that Izayoi Yonomiya would not believe him, the cashier picked up his phone and pointed the screen at Izayoi Yonomiya, "Look, this is the photo that gentleman sent me."

Sir? Teacher?!

Looking at her student ID photo on the phone screen, Izayoi Nomiya was stunned for a moment and then immediately realized who had taken it.

Hmm...it seems that the teacher must have discovered the signal generator that Shirako-chan secretly put into Hoshino-senpai's bag. I just wonder if Hoshino-senpai also knows about it.

"Well, please."

While imagining the expression that might have appeared on Hoshino-senpai's face when the teacher took out the signal generator from Hoshino-senpai's bag, Izayoi Nomiya smiled and thanked the cashier and took the aquarium ticket.

"Oh, right."

Looking at the girl in front of me with a smile that made me feel comfortable like a spring breeze, the annoyance of getting up at five in the morning to go to work seemed to be blown away by the wind. The cashier couldn't help but remind her, "The gentleman borrowed a pen from me and seemed to have written something on it. It might be for you too. Please pay more attention to it."

"Uh, thanks?"

Does the teacher have any message for me?

Izayoi Nomiya was stunned for a moment. As she walked back, she unconsciously looked through the four neatly stacked tickets.

Sure enough, the girl saw a message written in ballpoint pen by the teacher for her on the front of the last photo.

[Nomiya-san, our Hoshino-san seems to be a little troubled and needs to relax. If possible, let's meet up at the underwater restaurant at 12 o'clock. I'll trouble you to take care of Shirako-san and the others during this time.]

"Teacher, you are really good, really..."

Although the name of the person leaving the message was noted and Si Wang's handwriting was not seen, when Izayoi Yonomiya saw this sentence, the serious look on Si Wang's face when he teased Kuromi Serika unconsciously emerged in her mind.

"I really don't know what to say..."

The girl pursed her lips, and a laugh from the bottom of her heart stole out from her upturned lips. An inaudible sigh also slipped out quietly under the cover of this laugh.

I also want to walk with you alone...

Looking at Kuromi Serika waving at her not far away, Izayoi Nomiya picked out the last ticket and quietly folded up the side with the message on it, intending to keep it as a little secret between herself and Si Wang.

Then, the girl suddenly discovered that there was also a message from Si Wang written on the back.

[As a reward, is there any place you'd like to go, Nomiya-san? A mall? A pedestrian street? Or an amusement park? We'll go as soon as the teacher gets paid! ]

"Pfft!"

After holding back for a long time, Izayoimiya finally couldn't hold back the joy that kept surging in her heart. A smile brighter than Haruhi's bloomed from her raised eyebrows and the corners of her mouth. Her shoulders shook and she burst out laughing.

Ignoring Kuromi Serika whose arms were frozen in mid-air, the girl turned around without hesitation and went back to the ticket office to queue up.

Izayoi Nomiya plans to buy another ticket.

What to do with the extra one?

of course!

Of course I would seal it in plastic and put it in the innermost layer of my wallet for safekeeping. If I use the ticket, what if the teacher says he has no evidence and refuses to acknowledge it?

Well, there's nothing we can do about it. After all, the teacher is a cunning adult who can fool Serika-chan and the Caesar Group. We have to guard against this possibility.

“Please give me a ticket.”

Izayoi Nomiya looked at the cashier who was confused, wondering why she was in line again, took out her credit card, and smiled brightly, "We just got one more person here~"

That's right, that's it!

The girl nodded silently in her heart, firmly agreeing with her own idea.

There is absolutely no meaning of "this is a special gift that the teacher left for me, which belongs to me alone".

Absolutely not!

"Hey, Ayane-chan."

Kuromi Serika quietly took two steps to the side, gently nudged Okumura Ayane's arm with her elbow twice, and lowered her voice, "Have you noticed that Nomiya-senpai has become a little, a little... strange since he bought the tickets?"

"Uh, ah, is there?"

It's not just a little bit strange, it's obviously very strange!

Okumura Ayane's eyes wandered, and she couldn't help but complain loudly in her heart. The usually graceful Nomiya-senpai suddenly seemed to have hysteria, rubbing his wallet with his hands, laughing softly with his hands covering his mouth, and then blushing like he was drunk.

But even so, the girl did not discuss her senior's hobbies behind his back. She could only force a few awkward smiles at the corners of her mouth and try to fool her friends.

"Yeah, there's nothing strange about it."

Sand Wolf Baizi, who was holding a map and frowning as he studied the outflanking route, didn't even raise his head and commented calmly, "The day after Gehenna's Discipline Committee attacked us, Qinxiang also came to school with this silly smile on her face."

[Discipline Committee] The day after the attack?

Come to school with a silly grin on your face?

Wasn’t that the day after the teacher and I sat on the swing together?!

Is it that obvious? !

Kuromi Serika's face suddenly turned red and she couldn't say a word.

Chapter 208: Think about it! Xingye, think about it quickly!

"When the temperature dropped sharply and the world froze, the invertebrates still enjoying the warmth in the sea water went extinct without any resistance."

"When the volcano erupted and acid water flowed back, the fish that had just grown bones and roamed the ocean invincible were killed by the poison."

"When the continents shifted and the sea level dropped, the trilobites, which had lost their living space, struggled hard for millions of years before they raised a stubborn middle finger to the world and died out."

"And the proud ones are like reptiles, and as domineering as dinosaurs. They conceitedly believe that as long as the purity of their muscles is high enough, their fangs are sharp enough, and their heart and lung functions are perfect, they can prove their truth with force, shatter the void, and from then on, they can watch with a smile as the heroes who cower on the edge of the ecology struggle in the cycle of reincarnation."

"But just a few rises and falls in the sea level and a few passing meteorites easily taught these guys who were trying to defy fate what it means to 'my fate is determined by heaven, not by me'."

"Therefore, humans have become the most successful species in evolution, simply because we know that, whether as individuals or as a group, we only have the fate of being chosen, the right to give up, and the room for flexibility."

Standing in front of several seals that were staring at him with big round eyes and great curiosity, Si Wang waved his hand, like a teacher standing on the podium, giving his students earnest instructions, "When we were in the trees, we evolved flexible hands and fingers that could easily shuttle between the complex branches to pick the fruits hidden in the most corners; when we needed to migrate, we evolved the most developed heat dissipation system, becoming the most endurable animal, and then exhausting the fleeing prey to death."

“The same is true in life. No matter how complicated and dangerous the situation is, as long as we are flexible and choose to face it in a different way, the difficult troubles may become as insignificant as a breeze.”

Si Wang sighed. He patted the shoulder of Hoshino Kotori, who was leaning his head to the side and covering his cheek as if he was too ashamed to face people. He patiently advised, "For example, Hoshino, you just mustered up the courage to get closer to your father, but because of your height and appearance, you were praised as a lovely daughter by kind people. You wanted to blow yourself up on the spot to ease the shame that had not yet dissipated. But change your perspective and think of yourself as a daughter who is out to play with her father?"

Then I am not eager to blow myself up right there and then, but I will blow myself up right now in front of you, teacher!

Hoshino Takanari's shoulders trembled, and the red color spread from her cheeks to her neck, and fine beads of sweat appeared on the girl's almost transparent skin.

So the girl tilted her head even further to the side.

"Hoshino-san, think about it. Think about it carefully."

Si Wang seemed to have not noticed that Kotori Yui was so embarrassed that she wanted to bury her head in her non-existent chest. He squatted down, put his hands on Kotori Yui's shoulders, and tried to cheer the girl up.

"As long as you put aside that insignificant sense of shame and embarrassment and really treat yourself as a cute daughter who goes out to play with her dad on the weekend, even though you will lose a little bit of your moral integrity, which is of no use to me, you will gain the right to openly ask for hand holding, hugging, feeding, and even to sit in my arms and act like a spoiled child while eating! This small concession is worth an hour of twists and turns in an idol movie, twelve episodes of fighting between the male and female protagonists in anime, and a quarter of separation and reunion in a TV series. It can't be said to be a huge profit, it is absolutely a huge profit!"

Hoshino Takanashi felt a little dizzy.

Si Wang's voice and the scent of shower gel after bathing, along with the hands pressing on his shoulders, slowly seeped into his blood vessels, and with the increasingly intense heartbeat, flowed through his body and rushed into his brain.

What the teacher said...seems to make some sense?

Hoshino Kotori took a deep breath and held it, trying to use the cool air in the aquarium to cool down his brain that was boiling due to the congestion in his face.

Holding hands, hugging, feeding, strolling in the quiet and empty underwater tunnel, the blue sea and sky hang above the head, flowing around, like a time tunnel between the past and the future, schools of sardines swim around the tunnel like streams of light, whales slowly shake their tail fins, humming melodious songs. The light is dispersed by the sea water, and then adds its own color, turning into a gorgeous interweaving, falling on the face and body of the teacher and me, the two of them look into each other's eyes at the same time as if they have a telepathic connection, and then...