Sunlight shone down from between the clouds. The humid spring season was slowly approaching. The morning paths of St. Freya High School were a bit damp from last night's light rain... Even the morning breeze felt a bit chilly because of the rain...
Of course, even at this time, the sound of sweeping could be heard ceaselessly on the academy's stone-paved paths. The D-Rank Valkyries and the newly enrolled first-year students would perform daily cleaning duties for the academy... This was much like Li Xuan's middle school in his previous life.
"Hah~" Feeling a bit cold, Li Xuan raised his hand and blew a gentle breath into his palm. The warm breath quickly warmed his palm... but it became even colder a moment later.
"Why is it so chilly in spring..." Li Xuan complained as he pulled at his collar. Even though the specially made male school uniform was relatively warm, he still felt a bit cold in the breeze...
As someone whose physical fitness far surpassed that of an ordinary person, Li Xuan knew that the so-called cold was mostly psychological... He used to be the most afraid of the cold...
"Hey~ Kiana, good morning," Li Xuan reached out and patted the white-haired furball on the shoulder.
"Alright!... I'm not good at all..." Kiana said unhappily, slapping away the person's hand. "Making me do this kind of thing so early in the morning, Great-Auntie doesn't love me anymore!"
"..." No, if Theresa didn't love you, you'd probably have been expelled by now... Li Xuan scratched his cheek helplessly. The trouble Kiana had caused was enough to get any student sent back home...
"That damn Great-Auntie actually made me do three months of public area cleaning duty!" Kiana stood up and angrily waved the broom in her hand. Unbeknownst to her, a small leaf stuck to the broom floated down and landed on her head.
"If you give me 40,000 Schicksal Coins, I'll do three months for you," Li Xuan sighed, speaking half-seriously and half-jokingly. It would be next month soon... and his halved allowance, which was his scholarship, was not enough to cover the various miscellaneous expenses at home... At this moment, Li Xuan had a deep understanding of the high cost of living that only a head of household could appreciate...
"In your dreams! I need to save money for my gacha games!" Kiana pushed Li Xuan away and said loudly, unwillingly. The money she spent on mobile and online games each month took up most of her allowance.
"Alright... well, good luck then," Li Xuan said casually with a yawn. He had stayed up a bit late playing games with Yaoye last night...
Li Xuan waved his hand and slowly walked towards the classroom. He had once again begun the mundane life in St. Freya High School, as dull as his junior and senior high school days in his past life... Of course... the knowledge they were learning was not ordinary at all...
Every day, the teachers taught various common cultural knowledge and theoretical knowledge about fighting Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies.
"Although Honkai Beasts have a greyish outer shell covering their bodies, this shell also has weak points in some areas... for example, the buttocks of a Honkai Beast..." The teacher on the stage pushed up his glasses and continued speaking with a straight face, "The greyish outer shell on a Honkai Beast's buttocks is relatively more fragile than other parts, so when attacking..."
"..." Li Xuan looked out the window at the somewhat grey sky, bored, his mind beginning to wander... 'By the way... what are Sol and the others doing now?' Li Xuan thought in a daze.
The reason why he, a good student in his past life, would always get distracted in class was because... the curriculum at St. Freya High School was simply too easy for him!
The ordinary language, math, physics, chemistry... and other subjects couldn't compare to the high schools in his previous life, let alone for someone like him who had already finished high school and was among the top students...
After all... St. Freya High School wasn't a place for cultivating scholars... It was just a place for training warriors to fight against the Honkai. And the theoretical knowledge about Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies could be aced just by memorizing the textbook... This was also quite simple for Li Xuan, whose memory was constantly improving.
'It's not that I want to target anyone... I just want to say that everyone here is trash.' This was probably the only thing Li Xuan wanted to say about the incredibly easy schoolwork in this world... The schoolwork in Huaxia... he felt it was a nightmare level compared to St. Freya High School now...
"I wonder... if this month's allowance will be enough?" Li Xuan pretended to be holding a pen and looking down at his book, but he wasn't paying any attention to the Honkai biology textbook in front of him...
"Sigh~ where can I earn some money?" Li Xuan sighed softly. As a rich second-generation kid in his past life, when had he ever been short of money? He would spend thousands on mobile games... Now he was on the verge of not being able to afford food...
Is this what they call 'what goes around comes around'?
"Ring ring!~" The end-of-class bell rang again for the day. The beautiful teacher on the stage, as if completing a mission, picked up her textbook without any delay and was the first to walk out the door, which Li Xuan found to have a rather cool feel...
"If only the teachers in Huaxia were like this, that would be great..." he muttered. But something like that could probably only happen in a dream, right? Anyway, he had studied for over ten years and had never met such a teacher... Teachers in Huaxia were a bit more personable.
"Let's go~ Class is finally over... I'm so hungry, so hungry~" Kiana, who was as fast as the teacher, grabbed her school bag and started shouting. For a slacker like her, these rote memorization classes were truly boring to the extreme...
"Yes, yes... wait a moment, Kiana..." Mei said softly while packing her textbooks, then, as usual, turned her head to Li Xuan, who was also quickly clearing his desk, and said gently, "Li Xuan-kun, let's go back together."
"Mm, okay..." Li Xuan nodded. Since he started school here, he had always gone home with Kiana and the others after school, so it wasn't anything unusual... After all these days, he still hadn't gotten to know the other students well...
"Master! Master!~" Just as Li Xuan stood up, ready to leave, Maid Liv, who should have been at home cooking and waiting for him, suddenly appeared at the classroom door, waving her small hands and shouting.
"What's wrong, Liv... Aren't you at home?" Li Xuan walked up to Liv and asked, a bit puzzled.
"Um... um, Master..." Liv looked at Mei and the others who had gathered around, seeming a bit hesitant. But she still raised her head and said weakly, "Master... we don't have money to buy groceries."
Liv took out two coins from her pocket...
"This is the last two dollars..." The coins in Liv's hand accidentally slipped through her fingers. The golden coins landed on the ground with a crisp sound, rolling slowly towards the corner of the wall before spinning to a stop... Mm, with the patterned side facing up...
"..." Li Xuan, being watched by everyone, started to feel awkward...
(End of Chapter)