Soon, Shizuka Hiratsuka drove Mr. Su Rui and Yukino Yukinoshita to Sōbu High School.
"Let's go, I'll take you to get registered for work, and then we can talk about job matters. Yukino, you can go to the teaching building by yourself."
Shizuka Hiratsuka nudged Mr. Su Rui with her elbow, then smiled at Yukino Yukinoshita, who had already put on her backpack and was about to say goodbye.
"I understand. Goodbye, Mr. Su Rui, and also Ms. Shizuka."
The black-haired girl nodded to Mr. Su Rui and Shizuka Hiratsuka, then turned and left.
On the way to the teaching building, Mr. Su Rui asked with some curiosity, "Are you very familiar with the school's leadership? You can just recruit people whenever you want?"
"Of course not." Shizuka Hiratsuka shook her head. "My family is one of the school board members."
"No wonder."
Mr. Su Rui didn't have much to say about it. He walked alongside Shizuka Hiratsuka, observing the surroundings.
After completing the onboarding procedures and bringing Mr. Su Rui to her office, Shizuka Hiratsuka sat in her spacious and comfortable chair and patted her thigh:
"Come on, there's plenty of room here. It's no problem for the two of us to sit together."
Mr. Su Rui raised an eyebrow, glanced sideways at Shizuka Hiratsuka, and silently moved to her side, pushing Shizuka Hiratsuka aside a bit. He draped his leg over Shizuka Hiratsuka's leg, then sat sideways on the chair.
Although it didn't quite match her expectations, Shizuka Hiratsuka chuckled when she saw Mr. Su Rui cooperating. She reached out and grabbed Mr. Su Rui's wrist:
"That's it! You can come find me here anytime from now on. This office can be locked, it's my private office, so we have enough space. If you ever want to go 'mountain climbing' with me in the office, you can!"
"Oh really? What if I want to do it in the classroom?"
Mr. Su Rui looked at Shizuka Hiratsuka's smug expression, subconsciously wanting to make things difficult for her.
But Mr. Su Rui's question didn't embarrass Shizuka Hiratsuka. She even genuinely pinched her chin, pondering the matter.
"Do you have a spell that wouldn't be noticed by the students? If so, it's not impossible to consider that kind of play.
Or, we could come at night. The school is pretty empty after classes, and the security guards aren't that diligent with their checks."
...Mr. Su Rui wanted to interrupt Shizuka Hiratsuka's wild thoughts, but he opened his mouth and found he didn't know what to say to refute her.
However, at this moment, Mr. Su Rui's phone rang. It was from... Yotsuya Miko?
Mr. Su Rui was instinctively puzzled. After thinking carefully, he confirmed that Yotsuya Miko was indeed the black-haired, golden-eyed girl he had met and helped before.
Had she encountered danger?
He instinctively answered the call, and Mr. Su Rui immediately heard the girl's terrified cry from the other end: "Help me, Mr. Su Rui! I'm at Shuchiin Academy right now, the entire school has been... by evil spirits..."
Then, before she could finish speaking, the girl's voice was covered by static, clearly due to the presence of evil spirits interfering with the transmission of electromagnetic signals.
Mr. Su Rui casually hung up the phone, lightly jumped off the chair, and prepared to go to Shuchiin Academy to check.
After all, Kaguya Shinomiya and Hayasaka Ai were also at Shuchiin Academy. Even for their sake, Mr. Su Rui had to go and see.
"Do you want me to drive you there?"
Having also heard the girl's plea for help from the phone, Shizuka Hiratsuka also stood up with a serious expression: "Don't worry about me, taking a day off is nothing."
"No, driving is too slow."
Mr. Su Rui glanced at Shizuka Hiratsuka, opened her office window, and, under Shizuka Hiratsuka's somewhat puzzled gaze, surveyed the surroundings of the academy and the people still wandering around inside. Good, they probably wouldn't notice.
"What are you going to do? Su Rui, I know you're worried about her safety, but..."
Before Shizuka Hiratsuka could finish her sentence, Mr. Su Rui turned his head and looked at her. The golden flames flickering from the young man's black eyes made Shizuka Hiratsuka instinctively stop. She could feel that Mr. Su Rui seemed to be planning something.
"Stay here obediently. I can handle these problems."
After a brief instruction to Shizuka Hiratsuka, Mr. Su Rui jumped out of the window. Golden flames spread from his back, turning into jet-like wings that propelled Mr. Su Rui into the sky.
In just three short seconds, Mr. Su Rui's figure, transformed into a golden light, completed its ascent in altitude and accelerated to break the sound barrier.
Shizuka Hiratsuka pressed her hands on the edge of the window, looking at the traces left in the sky by Mr. Su Rui's flight, and couldn't help but gape.
At the same time, a white-haired girl, who was sitting by the classroom window looking outside during class but was not noticed by anyone, watched the traces of Mr. Su Rui flying away, and a smile curved on her lips.
"What a dazzling light. If his radiance could also shine on me, what kind of experience would that be?"
The white-haired girl with twin tails, red eyes, a black hairband, and a black dress sat on the window, talking to Yukino Yukinoshita not far away.
But in reality, no one noticed her, including Yukino Yukinoshita.
Feeling bored, the white-haired girl jumped down from the window, leaned close to Yukino Yukinoshita's neck, sniffed lightly, and showed a look of regret:
"The traces he left on you have faded, or perhaps there wasn't such deep contact to begin with? How useless."
With that, the girl turned and walked out of the classroom:
"I'll go find that female teacher instead. And remember my name, Kagarino Kirieda."
After speaking, without caring whether Yukino Yukinoshita heard her voice, Kagarino Kirieda flicked her long, snow-white twin tails and walked out of the classroom.
And Yukino Yukinoshita, due to Kagarino Kirieda's ability, never noticed this white-haired girl, who was out of place in the current environment, from beginning to end.
Meanwhile, Mr. Su Rui, due to flying at high altitude and breaking the sound barrier, reached Shuchiin Academy in just a few minutes.
Mr. Su Rui was quite familiar with Shuchiin Academy. Although he had never toured the interior, Kaguya Shinomiya, when facing him and trying to make conversation, often used photos provided by Hayasaka Ai to tell him about things that happened on campus.
At this moment, Mr. Su Rui hovered above the academy and found that the entire academy was surrounded by the resentful energy of evil spirits, forming an almost sealed environment.
This was definitely a planned action, but Mr. Su Rui hadn't discovered the existence of any supernatural forces... Could it be that the strength of evil spirits here was far superior to that of humans?
With a hint of doubt, Mr. Su Rui directly fell from high altitude, smashing through the barrier of resentment that enveloped the entire Shuchiin Academy.