Listening to the commotion outside the door, the dorm members inside were also in a flurry, and Kazuma and Keli both heard the chaotic footsteps.
Kazuma frowned and quietly spoke to Keli.
"Something's not right. I haven't smelled anything since I got here. Have we been given false information, or are these guys hiding very well? Do we have any way to make them show a weakness?"
Keli also responded quietly after hearing him.
"Actually, there is a way."
"What?"
"As long as we don't treat these students as human beings and torment them, they will definitely show a weakness," Keli said decisively.
"What? What about the school's reputation?" Kazuma was greatly alarmed.
"Anyway, we're not really teachers here," Keli replied with a righteous expression.
Kazuma originally wanted to say something, as he had strongly disliked such invasions of personal privacy by the school when he identified as a student, but then he thought that since they had already set up a guard post here, there must be a problem, so he nodded.
So after a while, the students in the room came out, standing in a line in the dorm's living room, each looking displeased at Kazuma and Keli. However, Keli also noticed that a few of them seemed to have very uneasy expressions, as if they were nervous.
Keli counted them. There were about ten people in this room alone, and there were still sounds upstairs, so at least this was indeed some kind of gathering.
So Keli knocked on the doorframe and looked at the dorm manager aunt.
"Are all these students from your dorm?"
The dorm manager aunt's eyes darted away slightly.
"No… some are visitors. Our school doesn't prohibit dorm visits, and it's normal for students to chat about cooking together often."
Ignoring whatever the aunt said, Keli directly pointed at someone in the crowd who was clearly a bit nervous.
"You! Come here."
"Me…?" The student who was pointed at looked a bit scared and pointed at himself. After Keli nodded, he walked forward even more nervously.
"Good! You search with us!"
Then Keli and Kazuma entered the room and began rummaging through cabinets.
After Keli and Kazuma entered the room with that student, the group of students and the dorm manager aunt outside looked at each other.
After a while, one of the students picked up a phone and typed a message into it.
Meanwhile, inside the room, Keli closed the door.
"Um… Teacher, why are you closing the door?"
"To prevent students' private belongings from being seen by outsiders."
Keli answered seriously.
The student really wanted to say, aren't you the outsiders? But looking at Kazuma and Keli's serious expressions, he couldn't say anything.
"What are you doing here? Speak honestly, we wouldn't randomly search without a reason."
Kazuma tapped his fingers, interrogating the student with a questioning stance, all while looking down at the cabinet. However, this room's cabinet truly only contained some daily necessities.
"N-Nothing... we were just discussing cooking knowledge with our senior," the student timidly replied.
Thinking that there wouldn't be any evidence here anyway, the student decided to resist to the end.
Then, the student watched as Keli pulled out a knife, cut open a cushion on the floor of the room, and then casually grabbed a handkerchief from the room, pulled out a handful of bullet-like objects from his pocket, and stuffed them into the cushion.
"T-Teacher! What are you doing?!" The student was greatly confused.
"I'm cosplaying as an American police officer," Keli said, nodding.
Then, after he finished speaking, he paused, then feigned a look of great surprise.
"What?! You actually hid such dangerous items in the dormitory cushion! Kazuma, come quick and look!"
Kazuma also pretended to have just seen it, shouting in feigned surprise.
"What's going on? You guys are really good at hiding things! Speak! Why did you bring such dangerous items to school?"
Then, both of them turned to look at the student.
"No, we must strike hard in this situation!"
"Right, give us your parents' contact information. We must talk to them about what you've been doing at school!"
The student was terrified; he had never seen such a display before!
"No! Are you guys not even hiding your slanders anymore?"
Actually, Kazuma and Keli were just casually probing. If the student truly had no reaction, they would have stopped and asked the school to reimburse them for a new cushion.
"What's wrong?!"
The next moment, the dormitory aunt pushed open the door and walked in, looking very anxious.
"Teachers, what did you find?"
However, the moment the dormitory aunt pushed open the door, Keli and Kazuma's expressions changed.
They smelled it. Following the corridor, a fragrance wafted from outside the dormitory.
Keli and Kazuma didn't say a word. Keli quickly put the bullets back into his pocket, and both of them, armed with flashlights, tried to rush out.
However, at this moment, the dormitory aunt suddenly blocked their way.
And those students also suddenly blocked their path.
"Teacher, what's wrong? What did you find?"
"Why is the school like this? Even for Totsuki Academy, this is too much of an invasion of student privacy. We're going to report you to the academic affairs office! Sudden inspections, what if a girl doesn't know and comes out to the hall, and accidentally sees something? Can you take responsibility?"
"Exactly! No matter what, I am the heir of Watanabe Wagashi. Totsuki Academy is too disrespectful to students!"
A noisy crowd blocked their way in a rush.
Seeing the crowd blocking the door, Keli unhesitatingly pulled out his gun, disengaged the safety, and fired a shot at the floor.
"Bang!"
The noisy human voices completely quieted after this sound.
A group of students stared blankly at Keli, who held the gun pointed at them.
Everyone looked at Keli's pistol, then at the bag behind Keli that they had originally thought was a guitar case, and collectively swallowed hard.
"No... this isn't an American school, is it?!"
While the crowd was stunned, Keli and Kazuma rushed straight through.
During this, a few people seemed to react, anxiously trying to stop Keli and the other. However, the difference in strength caused their interception to fail, and Keli and Kazuma quickly rushed out.
The other few looked at each other, extremely anxious.
"What should we do?" One person's face was grim.
"No, if the matter of the divine messenger is exposed, we're all finished! Let's go quickly! Even if they die here..."
However, when that person turned around, he saw several people who were speechless.
He suddenly became anxious.
"What are you thinking? Pretending to be unrelated to this matter?"
The crowd didn't speak, but they also didn't move. He suddenly deflated, hitting his arm.
At this moment, after Keli and Kazuma rushed out of the building, they immediately turned on their flashlights and followed the scent, rushing in one direction.
They arrived at a patch of bushes in a few steps.
Ahead was a pond, and a terrifying shadow appeared under the flashlight's beam.
Its skin was a mottled green, like both fish and frog, with flat, protruding eyes like a fish's moving up and down in their sockets.
PS: Tomorrow, I'm going to start releasing a lot of chapters QAQ. Can those of you who are saving chapters please give me a first subscription?
If there's no first subscription! Watashi!
On-shelf announcement meow!
Tomorrow, it's going on sale. First, I want to thank everyone for reading this far.
Thank you very much, meow!
Unlike my last book, this one truly has many emotions.
Those in the old reader group know that this book wasn't like this at first; it was going to directly ride the coattails of popular trends, and in the two previous versions before this current one, the first contractor was Fengchuan Xiangzi.
And indeed, preparations were made for this, but no matter how I wrote it, I always felt that Xiangzi was too miserable. Would I be scolded for having Keli direct Xiangzi like that? So, I simply changed to someone who could be treated like a newborn without getting scolded.
Of course, both I and everyone else knows that if my first contractor was Xiangzi, as a commercial work, the results would definitely be much better.
And the first arc was also a niche thing like Shiki. To be honest, the original plan for the first arc was a NTR eroge, that village where all the women were to be raped.
At that time, I even found a monster from a horror movie to be the boss, but in the end, I still wanted to write this kind of story.
And I really couldn't find a logical way for Xiangzi to pass without suffering grievances.
So I'm truly grateful that everyone accepted it and read this far.
Then, to answer three of the most frequently asked questions.
First, Fengchuan Xiangzi. Xiangzi will join the team, but she will be more for spiritual body arcs, while brothers will be for physical body arcs.
Then there's the romance question. There will be romance, but I've also said it will be different from the traditional sense.
Everyone knows my romance lines are bad, and I'm afraid of affecting the reading experience. You can rest assured about this; there will be no bad lines, because I know I'm bad at it so I won't touch it, and there won't be those mushy romance scenes or descriptions of Keli falling in love. There will only be monumental, heaven-defying things.
For example, peeping, surveillance, stalking, begging someone not to leave, basements, and so on.
By the way, a spoiler for the next two female characters who might interact besides Teacher Daxiang: Kawakami Tomie, Wife Yuno.
Actually, the original plan was for a divine yandere sugar, but when I asked in the group, everyone said, "Who the hell is that?"
Later, the selection of dungeons might be a bit niche, but there will also be mainstream ones, such as horror movies and Cthulhu. I feel that quite a few people should have seen 'Squeeze X Ward,' but I'm not sure. Actually, many of these hentai backgrounds have many gods, ghosts, and demons.
() Actually, the author is a fervent horror movie enthusiast who watches almost every new horror movie released each year, regardless of whether it's a bad one.
Unconsciously, it's a bit long, but I won't play the victim anymore. There will definitely be intense and exciting plots later.
The brother teammates will not be separated, and I will strictly guard against plot holes.
By the way, QAQ, please give a first subscription, my lords who are saving chapters, so I can have some confidence.
Thank you very much for accompanying me for so long, meow!
Let's leave another suspense: everyone must have guessed that the third arc is related to a residence and a neighborhood association.
But the reason for the fourth event, I've actually written it before, it's just that I don't know if anyone can guess it.
By the way, I'll repeat the burst update plan: 5 chapters for three days, 4 chapters for two days, and then a normal 3 chapters unless I take leave. However, friends who have read my previous book should know that I only took one day off for my last book until the month it ended because I went to the hospital. Other times, even if I took leave, it was just to reduce one chapter to do something busy.
Actually, I originally wanted to wait until MyGO!!! started broadcasting to write Xiangzi's first event, but when I calculated, that would be four or five hundred chapters.
Finally! Ohnegai! If it weren't for everyone! Watashi!
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